Vacation Eve

Tonight is vacation eve and I'm as excited as if it were Christmas Eve.  Maybe even more excited.

There are so many things to look forward to - the road trip down (it's a long drive but it's part of the fun for me), camping at the beach, "Board Meetings" with my dad in the warm Florida sun, and most of all - Sea World!

This will be our first time doing some of the extra (expensive) amenities.  I hope they will be worth the money and make the trip extra special.  I hope the kids are blown away and will be talking about the trip for a long time to come. 

It will be nice undertaking a vacation while financially secure.  When Becky and I went to New Orleans we had enough money to do plenty of fun things but even then we aren't as secure as we are now.  We've come such a long way from when we went to Florida two years ago on a shoe-string budget that left my white-knuckling it all the way there and all the way back.  I'm surprised we even made it there and back that year, to be honest. 

I just hope that nothing goes wrong last minute.  It seems almost too good to be true where we're at right now and I live with this perpetual fear that it will sudden slip away from my grasp.  But I know worrying won't do any good, so I'll just relax and enjoy this moment while I can so I have no regrets later in life.