I really have to stop ignoring Ian and take him to the swim club. He played video games for a couple of hours and I'm going to parenting hell.
I've been enjoying the Drezner-McMegan dialog on BloggingHeads. Check out their discussion about honeymoons. Dan and his wife read a lot of books on their honeymoon. Megan and her new hubby brought video games. We read books on our honeymoon, too, but that was BEFORE I got the iPhone. My children might never have been born, if I had an iPad.
Apt. 11d 
We went to a resort that specialized in honeymoons. Keeping with the theme, there were nothing but low-yield light bulbs (40 watts, maybe?). Good for romantic dinners, or moonlight hot tubbing, but very poor for reading.
So, we go to the front desk and ask for two stronger bulbs for the bedside table lamps. They look like us blankly. No one has ever asked this before. And no, they do not have brighter light bulbs.
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Wow, what intellectuals (or vidiots, in the case of the Sudermans). We went sailing and horseback riding. My wife had morning sickness, though, so it wasn’t our greatest vacation.
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For your honeymoom, you should go to Moominworld:
http://www.muumimaailma.fi/in_english/info/moominworld
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We didn’t have a honeymoon. A year later, we took a trip to San Francisco. I think we stayed with a friend for a few days then stayed in a cheap motel in Monterey overnight so we could bike the 17 mile drive. Well, part of it. Anyway, we call that our honeymoon.
We’re in Salt Lake City now, back from Yellowstone, having seen bears only twice, both times from a distance far enough to ensure safety, but close enough that my husband could get some really good shots. (Camera shots!) We were also surprisingly enthralled by Old Faithful.
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“We didn’t have a honeymoon. A year later, we took a trip to San Francisco.”
Ditto, except we did family visits and some academic stuff in Central Europe. We spent about a week in Bavaria with family, I finished Gorky’s Mother, did a May Marian procession between two Bavarian villages, took the train to Vienna, took an overnight train to Warsaw, saw family there, my husband wrote a paper wit a colleague in Lublin while I read War and Peace, we spent some fun time in Krakow, went to see a grandma in Czestochowa, and eventually retraced our way back to Bavaria. There was also a fair bit of going to different churches and shrines, lugging a huge suitcase around (one of the grandmas tried unsuccessfully to send us back with her crystal collection), souvenir shopping, and figuring out what it is possible to cook in a dormitory using an immersion heater and a mug.
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Wendy must have had her camper or tent painted to look like a “Good ‘n Plenty” box. Even bears know those aren’t worth it.
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Honeymoon consisted of a range of lounging and activities; yes–we read. “Pesto” surprised me with the first season of 40 Rock. We did two weeks in French Polynesia, and by day 10 I said, “Is this what retirement is like? You only have one other person with whom you interact?”
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“Is this what retirement is like? You only have one other person with whom you interact?”
Half the money! Twice the husband!
More seriously, part of the reason it’s like that is that at a certain age, all of your friends start dying off. Happiness surveys or not, that is one good reason to have children.
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I barely see my husband, so we are dreaming of retirement.
MH, apparently, we got out just in time. The Norris Camground at Ystone has been closed to tents because of bear activity there.
http://forums.yellowstone.net/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=7147
and
http://www.nps.gov/yell/parknews/10057.htm
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We didn’t have a honeymoon. 19 year later I could really do with one.
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Just stay away from bear country. The bears are even moving into the built-up areas around Pittsburgh. It’s only a matter of time before the bears figure out that if they coordinate, they can eat pretty much whatever they want.
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“they can eat pretty much whatever they want.”
As long as you can outrun the local freegans, though, you should be ok.
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Speaking of them, I saw that guy again. He was playing folk music with a guitar while sitting on my neighbor’s deck. He said he was staying with my neighbor for a break on his cross-country cycle trip. He’s still gave off kind of a cult-ish vibe. I wish I could smell pot because it would be reassuring to know that he wasn’t actually that mellow.
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