Vacation update 2

It looks as though my cousin-in-law actually fell into a good deal. Won't know for sure until we get there, but I've Googled the area map and it looks like a nice, clean gated community. Like someone said, every so often he probably has to get something right! LOL

Anyway, I talked to his wife, my cousin Barb, earlier this week about another matter, and of course we chatted about the upcoming vacation.

But first, let me tell you about Barb. Barb is a wonderful person, whose major problem seems to be her spouse. Now, he does have good points, even though sometimes we feel like we need to "do him in" just because he really does need the s*** shook out of him. I've said before that he has the mentality that women should be barefoot and pregnant, which the opinionated and liberated females in this family take exception to; we get our digs in at every opportunity, in fact.

Barb is not a stupid woman. Not exactly, anyway. But she grew up enough ahead of me that she married in the days when women always "deferred" to the man. (Excuse me while I take a moment to gag for a minute.)

So, if we're talking without him in the room, everything is what I'd consider 'normal'. If he's in the room, she automatically defers to him in subtle ways.

Remember in an earlier post I mentioned that he's a cheap ba*****? This extends to many areas of his/their lives. Including food.

But, he's of the opinion that everything needs to be the cheapest. You don't buy Oreos, but the house brand. Unless of course Oreos are on sale or you can get some kind of deal.

Why go to a sit-dow restaurant if you can go to McDonalds? Yes, I know McDonalds does have its place.

But - we're going on vacation. We're going to the home of real, honest-to-goodness seafood...as in fresh, not shipped across the country and prepared by folks who haven't a clue most times. We're going to the home of key lime pie. And alligator appetizers. And all sorts of other delights we just don't see in this part of the country. Lobster, scallops, grouper sandwiches. Yummy! And that's just naming a few things. (There's also a rib joint down there that has ribs that are to die for, but that's a whole other thing!)

But, poor Barb has lived with Mr. Cheap for so long that she's thrilled to go to McDonald's. That's a treat in her mind.

So, as we were talking, she told me that their friends (who made it possible for us to find the inexpensive lodgings) were currently in FL and on their way back to Iowa.
They apparently called and in all seriousness told Barb that we were all going to have to be extremely careful about the places we ate at while we were there - you see, they'd eaten at a Perkins and a Long John Silver's and both of them were really bad, with terrible food.

And, she carried on for another five minutes about how careful we were going to have to be to make sure we found good food.

And, I was incredulous throughout most of this. I mean...does she really think that we are going to eat at restaurants we can eat at at home? I refuse to eat at Long John Silver's in "normal" life unless I have a high grease need, and Perkins is same same everywhere, so what's the fun in that?

It's going to be a very interesting week.