Escaping!

In 3 weeks time I will be nervously waiting for Monday morning to arrive as I will be getting on a plane to go on a trip to the States. Alone. No kids and no hubby.

Consolation for my hubby is that I am flying our nanny from Perth over for the 10 days I am away (clarification: she is 18 and hot). The rumour mill is already in overdrive over this, and I already know that my parents, hubby's parents and all our friends (especially the guys) will be here often for a stickybeak!! :P

Since I married so very young (child bride springs to mind), I never got the chance to travel like most of my friends did and then when I finally got enough money to do it, I also had my 3 beautiful ferals which meant that I couldn't.

Then one day hubby and I got talking and he suggested that I just go and do it. Book a trip and go. Do all the things I wanted to do.

The only stipulation was that he rather I go somewhere that wasn't as appealing to him. I have wanted to visit LA since I was a kid. As a teenager I studied acting and wanted like ever other wannabe starlet to see Hollywood. And being a shopaholic and total utter shoe lover, I want to shop!! Easy decision to make. Los Angeles, here I come!

I also threw in a few days in Las Vegas which has horrified hubby as he would love to visit there himself (but I sorta did that without really telling him until after I did it! Ooops! :P )

I'm excited and I'm scared. I've never been overseas, so to be doing my first trip alone is a quite daunting but I know I'm going to have a ball, and the idea of spending hours not being interrupted by a child is awe inspiring.

I'm sure I will miss the kids (and the hubby, of course) but I absolutely cannot wait for this break, as it will be my first holiday since I had Sprat over four years ago. And if I had any doubt over this trip at all, it was alleviated tonight when I read these words in a book I bought today, "The Intelligent Traveller How to plan your perfect trip" by Jenny Herbet (quote is actually from Mark Twain)

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones that you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the tradewind in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.