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OK, so our family just got back last month from a VI trip, BUT in the spirit of planning the next trip ...
Just got an invite to stay at the Marriott STT for 5 days/4 nites for $399 total (must listen to 90 min spiel on timeshares) AND American flights are running $340/rt (which is also a kick a$$ price from STL). Now, the tough part, HOW DO I PRESENT THIS UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO THE HUBBY AND CONVINCE HIM TO BOOK THE TRIP ??
Understanding that 1) we just put in a pool ($$) and having a big party for 50 people this weekend ($$), 2) we were just there, 3) he will realize just how addicted I am wanting to go back so soon (I say NO, NO, NO to rehab) and 4) he's a bit more "frugal" than I. Working on my side is 1) the price, 2) the opportunity for some "alone" time (no kids 😉 , 3) he does love the VI's ALMOST as much as I do.
Ideas??
Hope you are going to live on that land. If not, why not just keep going to the Marriott?
Anyway, "The Sweet Potato Guide to Men" sounds like something worth reading. What hooked
me was the byline "Every Man I Love is Either Married, Gay or, Dead" !!!
(Some act dead).
Do they suggest cooking the sweet potatos first??
HOLY CRAP! I go on a business trip and a day of vacation for my b-day, and look what you horny toads have suggested?!?!
Well, an update. While at our pool party on Saturday (which was AWESOME), and after we all consumed 5 GALLONS, yes I said, 5 GALLONS of Painkillers.............let's just say we turned the pool lights off for the nighttime skinny dip party. Probably not my best judgment call, but I mentioned to the group there (2 of which are total VI addicts as well) the deal that I had found. And that we should all go. OOPS. After a moderately quick recovery, I nuzzled/swam over to ODH to mention that we could go for our 4th anniversary on 10/25 for some "alone time". Well, one thing led to another, and we got OFF TOPIC ;-). OOPS. I was "under the weather" all day yesterday with the mother of all hangovers, and ODH cleaned up the WHOLE HOUSE while I made alternating trips from the bed to the porcelain God. The point of my story is.......we never got a resolution to the trip (at least that I can remember)!!!! So now what????
Maybe you told him you booked at trip and just don't remember it. That's why he cleaned the whole house - to thank you for doing such a wonderful thing! Well, it could happen.
and wow, that's alot of painkillers! too bad they don't actually kill pain tho, huh?
LLBL, I think you booked the trip. Just remind ODH that you surely did mention the booking to him during the gathering. Sounds like you had fun!
Did he also have the painkillers?
If so, just book it and "remind" him that he said yes when you were in the pool.
Blu - Yes, he did have painkillers -- but not NEARLY as much as everyone else. He remembers all from the evening. I think I'll just bring it up again when he's drinking (and in a good mood). There is definitely some truth in "drunk shopping" - - he's much more amenable to buying things when we're drinking. One way or another, we will get back. Just a matter of when. Maybe I just need to "chill".
LLBL
I KNOW you booked the trip...you invited several of your closest VINOW buddies to tag along gratis 🙂
Don't you remember??
Gotta luv the rum
Well, I hadn't stopped in in a while, but I heard y'all were being naughty. I like it. I need to start lurking again.
Cheers, RickG
...and by the way, ODH and I are darn-near newlyweds (4 yrs for us in October) and let's say "very well compatible in all ways". So the "dentist chair services" et al are a regular thing. So, it can't really be used as "bribery" to get what I want or "forgiveness"- - I just can't do it! PLUS, it really gives us ladies a bad name using the "cookies" to get what we want anyway!! Or maybe you men don't mind 😉 I guess that's why the strip joints make money hand over fist!
Lord, this is going to start a riot now...
That's why I suggested Lasagne. The cookie thing has me baffled, unless of course
you're making the chocolate chip kind.
Okay LLBL,
What kind of solution did you end up with after ODH discovered your SOS???
Inquiring Minds Want To Know!!! And, since we have been reading the covers
of all the tabloids while waiting in line at the check-out of the grocery store, we
haven't read that you've been spirited away to another planet or, not.
Although, I think I heard you might have gotten rabies from Bat Boy.
An update! I found a great sale last week on a trip to Puerto Rico, and some friends of ours expressed an interest. Wyndham Rio Mar. $475/pp for air, 4 nights stay, breakfast included. Well, this weekend we had Pool Party Part 2. Booked the trip for hubby, myself and 2 other couples! I know, I know. I'm a VI traitor. It's not the VI - - but we're close!! The Marriott deal at $299 for 4 nights just couldn't compare in terms of $$ once I included the airfare costs.
I only wish that ferry from Fajardo to STT ran more than once or twice per month! Otherwise I'll just have to look longingly to the east to my precious VI!
