The Sewing Mom

Spring Break has officially begun! My daughter has no school for the next 10 days! Do we have any plans? Nope, not a single thing planned on our calendar! As busy as we’ve been lately, maybe that’s a good thing, but it might be nice to go somewhere, even if it’s just for a couple of days.

I called my best friend today, I’ve know her for about 30 years. We got to talking about a spring break we spent together after we were out of college and working in California. We decided to take a few days and look for things to do in Las Vegas that were relatively inexpensive. We were both working, but we were pretty new in the work force and didn’t have a lot of money.

I managed to find us a good deal through a travel agent (this was long before the internet) and we were set. We drove (it’s about 3-4 hours from L.A.) and had a nice room at a great hotel just off the strip. To save money and have plenty to use for playing blackjack, we decided to walk everywhere we went. I recall that the first place we headed to that first night, was to McDonald’s for a good, quick, cheap dinner.

When we came out of McD’s, we headed towards the strip, only to find we were blocked by a 4 foot high chain link fence. Now, we had a choice. We could walk all the way to the end of the fence and go around it, or, we could climb over it. We opted to climb over. It was warm, we were in shorts and sneakers, young and somewhat athletic. This appeared to be the best choice. That is, until the back of my shorts got stuck on the top of the chain link fence as I was going over it… I was stuck there, hanging like a duck in a carnival shoot out!

My friend began laughing so hard that she couldn’t help me (yes, she had all ready made the jump and was now on the other side of the fence). People were walking past me as I tried to be non-chalant, after all, it’s not unusual to see someone hanging by their shorts on a fence, is it?

Eventually, she did manage to help me get down and we had to go BACK to McD’s with some safety pins to pin together the big rip in my shorts. I didn’t want to waste any more time by going all the way back to our hotel to change clothes!

It was definitely a fun, memorable trip, but I think maybe now that we’re both married, with families, we’ll look at family vacation ideas that we can all enjoy. Perhaps we could even plan our next big trip to see the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

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