Since 2018, I've been making these Google photo books. It's fun because they're uniformly 7 inches square, fit well on the coffee table, and make for a little conversation piece when people visit. The last few years have been pretty large. In 2024, we went to DC, and vacationed with another family to DCL's new spot in the Bahamas. The year before that was Northern Europe. In 2022, basically everyone we knew visited Orlando, while we opened Steinmetz Hall, the Wish and I met Ken in Cleveland for Cedar Point. Obviously 2021 involved getting back to normal life.
But the 2025 book is pretty slim. We didn't take any big trips outside of the usual cruises, though the Treasure was a new ship. We did our "Coronado crawl" a few times, but we know what that resort looks like, so not a lot of photos. We saw a lot of shows, but at best we just have our pre-show selfie. We didn't really plan it this way, though there were other factors at play. Parenting was extra hard, and so I guess we were weary of taking any big travel swings. Losing Finn in the spring unexpectedly kind of left a cloud over everything. Everything just felt uncertain. So we played it safe.
I suppose the upside is that all the money we didn't spend on travel was saved, which makes this whole unemployment situation a little easier. But now as we're a month and a half into this year, I'm starting to wonder if this year will be any different. There was a time when we planned to visit Iceland for the next full eclipse, but I don't think that's going to happen. We have two cruises that are already paid for. But if you ask me where I'd like to go, with less than six months to plan for it, I just don't know.
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