Staycation in August?

So here's an interesting question...  Do you plan trips because they are "educational"?  Do you resist planning trips because you don't want them to seem "educational"?  Isn't cool history important, even if the places seem to come on a tad heavy handed?

So Sturbridge Village is cool, but lots of it we've already covered in two other living history museums.  Should we go anyway?  And just plan to come home that night?

Fort Ticonderoga is another possibility - unifrtunately, the train doesn't go up and back on the same day, and the nearest hotl is booked throughout August.

We still want to plan camping adventures, as well as find bikes.  Hoping to fund a bit of this through a yard sale in August.  Jason doesn't seem ecstatic about our plans, honestly.

If we do stick around home, we could also - as he suggested, so some of the things we've been wanting to do, but needed another adult for - Taconic, the Zoom Flume, the Poughkeepsie Children's Museum, etc... We could drive out and back to Sturbridge - it's only a 2 hour ride on Saturday - leave by 8am and get there by a bit after 10am.  Then either let the babies sleep a little during the day and drive back late - there's a special evening revelry - or drive when they plan a nap.  That would cost us about $75 to get in, and about anothr $100 for food.   If we wanted to stop halfway, pringfield has a great collection of mueum, including the Hasbro gameroom and the Dr. Suess sculpture garden.

The Zoom Flume would cost us about the same, but we could bring a cooler and only plan to stay the afternoon.

Feeling pain free

...for the first time in a long time.  Will still probably be sore in th morning, but for now I am relishing the goodness.

Doing more trip planning, and more planning for a writing business.  Also would like to explore some work out of country - Jason mentioned wanting to winter in Toronto.

Am also rethinking the August 3rd ventiure out to MA to Old Sturbridge Village - thinking that the Renaissance Faire in Sterling might be more up our alley, plus there are amazing beaches in Otswego.  Jason also mentioned the Jersey shore, so I was thinking I might check with Susan about possible places to check out.

Inspiration?

So what is it?  Is the Lyme decreasing brain function, as somone suggested today?  Was my backache from last week some symptom of something els going wrong?  Why am I unable to focus on store things?

Just to recap, I cancelled our health fair, and have no plans of doing any music this summer.  I watched this documetary about Ram Das this morning, and realized that I don't really have any intereest in bettering this community further than my own family.  It's not that I don't lov this place, and these people, it just all seems a bit pointless - like busy work in school.

Planning trips with the kids is so much more fun.  It's so cool that we can get the babies out with us, without too much trouble.  I think we all just wish we could have Jason with us more.

We're hoping to get a week in September, to go to MakerFaire in Manhattan, then to the beach for a few days, then to Boston to follow the Freedom Trail.  All via Amtrak!  I actually have somepics from the city that I should post, too - what a wild time!