My brother won an educational award for the engineering work he does with high school students and was offered a fully expenses paid trip for two out to the award ceremony in Vegas to receive it. His wife was traveling for business at the time, so he asked my dad to join him. My mom thought it would be fun to tag along too, so they asked me to join, and we made it into a little family vacation.
Our last family vacation was 5 years ago. We thought it would be the last one with just the four of us, with the idea that maybe I would be married before we'd have another one. Well, hearts broke... and, we had had like 3 or 4 of these "last family vacation"s before that one, so they were starting to feel like we should stop calling them that -- but, then, to our delighted surprise, my brother got married.
I didn't think about how our last family vacation might've actually been our last, until this one...which technically was our last one now. ...and, I had no idea how nostalgic it would make me feel.
