The only holiday I've been to in the past year, is the trip to Europe with my father and sister. It was originally planned as a backpacking trip but my father was too worried that I would get into trouble so he decided to come along and changed the backpack trip into a tour-group trip.
My father is definitely getting old because he was really tired after we touched down in Italy, Rome. Also, he is hard of hearing, making the both of us his hearing aid. My father loves me very much. He was very nice to lend me his undergarment suit to cover me up from the cold in the Swiss Mountains while he suffered the cold silently and only told me that he was cold after we came down from the Mountains.
But he is very stingy with his money. Whenever I want to buy something, he would cheekily tell me to ask my sister to pay for my expenses and I find that really sickening. Sometimes, my elder sister would tell me to ask our father to pay, so you can see where this goes. Back and forth...
Funny thing about my father is that he loves good food but he is not willing to spend more to eat them so sometimes he would keep harping on the price like "Hey, you know how much this cost?". My elder sister, on the other hand, is a little more relaxed about the expenses. Not that she's a spendthrift but how often do you get to come to Europe to enjoy the sights, the food and breathe in all that European? And I think that's reasonable to be spending on things.
However, my father is really a protective person. But I realized as I became older, the protective rein around me got loosen and I was free to wander around unfamiliar places. I guess, my father is starting to trust me and let myself become independent. Even before the Europe trip, he allowed me to go on my own to Australia on a school trip and his protectiveness still shows when he asked one of my friends to take care of me and not let me do crazy stuff while I was in Sydney.
Usually, vacations spent with the parents is a very embarrassing thing because my mother is this performer when she is overseas and she always, without fail, talk to the families in the tour group, resulting the rest of us smiling awkwardly at the other families. Thank God she wasn't here in this Europe trip, so my family was this really quiet one in the whole trip.
Then my sister made some friends with the other couples who were there for their honeymoon. Hmm, there isn't much to elaborate on that...
Besides, it was much more relaxed than the other trips I had because my mother was always this really troublesome person and she always make us seem not to enjoy the trip. I guess you could say that she's the joke menace of the trip.
When we were in France, I really wanted to visit the Lourve museum but it wasn't part of the itinerary. My father didn't really do anything about it but, being the really loving sister she is, she managed to persuade half the group to go to the Lourve museum and it finally ended up on the itinerary. I think the tour guide was a little pissed because his initial plans to go shopping were ruined.
Overall, it a great trip and I thought it would be best if the whole family could go together even though all of us have our shortcomings.
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