The trick is figuring out who will take care of the animals while we're gone. The cruises I've been looking at are 7-10 days. That's a long, long time to be away, especially since we'll probably spend two additional days flying. If all we has was cats I wouldn't think much of it. We could ask someone to just fill up their bowls and maybe clean out the catboxes once. We'd probably come home to kitty protest puke and unrolled toilet paper everywhere, but hey, they'd forgive us eventually. The dogs and goats and bunnies ... whole 'nother matter.
We may also take the train to Seattle and from there the ferry to downtown Victoria, stay there for about a week or so. Far, far less expensive, but unfortunately the time away from home is the same.
I love our dysfunctional farm, but it would be nice to be able to clean the place up, ask someone to pick up our mail and feed the cats, and go without worrying. Instead there's a good hour or more of work out here between feeding/watering animals if for no other reason that there's a lot of walking around that has to happen plus the dogs will need some attention in the form of catch or just sitting with them and snuggling. Fortunately the time periods we're looking at won't require hours of garden watering. It'll be raining and cool in the Pac NW (which would be a downside to going to Victoria except that we don't do that much that's strictly outdoors there.)
In the Caribbean it'll be warm. Mmm, I close my eyes and remember the tropical skies ... and open them to our local periwinkly-blue and grin, because we live in one of the more beautiful places in the world, and right now it's warm and gorgeous and homey and most of my favorite things are right here.
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