Recently, my family I rented a cottage on Cape Cod. It was the last weekend to get off season rates which saved some money, but it wasn't exactly beach weather. There was one really spectacular day where some of my relatives came to visit and we all built sandcastles together. Most of the time it was overcast and a few days it rained. It didn't matter. This was still the best vacation I ever had (even if it has been my only vacation).
I believe you need to make your own sunny days. On the rain days, my dad and I would go to a heated pool nearby. We floated and splashed around until my lips turned blue.
Victor Frankl said, "Everything can be taken from a man but the last of human freedoms, the right to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances--the right to choose one's own way." Stephen Covey said something similar, "Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us." We can't change the weather, but we can change how we react to it. So when you are on vacation and things don't go exactly as you might have hoped, take it easy. Change your ideas about what the vacation needs to be. Take a nap (the weather just might change) or find something to do. It is your vacation to spend as you choose.
I will be post a few other entries related to my vacation in Cape Cod over the next couple of weeks. So check back in a few days for a new post.
See you soon!
Amelie
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