This past week I went on vacation with my family. It was just two of my cousins, my aunt, my mom and I. We didn't go very far only up to Angels Camp, we were only gone for four days. We didn't do much we just stayed inside a lot, we did go swimming a few times.

We had a relaxing week were we all didn't think about work or about stressful things. My mom even left her work phone at home so she wouldn't be tempted to check in. During our week I started a new project; I have been wanting to learn how to cross stitch. I thought that it would be really hard but once I started it everything turned out to be really easy. I am really happy that I spent a few days with my family even though we did nothing we had a wonderful time doing nothing.

We tried a few new dinner recipes on vacation. The first night we made our own pizza. It was funny trying to cook that first night, we didn't nothing were anything was and we even thought of things that we needed but didn't have. But everything turned out great and we had a wonderful first night. The next night we tried gnocchi mac and cheese. When we were making it we searched everywhere for bread crumbs that my cousin swears that she brought with her but no matter how hard we looked we couldn't find it. Finally we just added shredded cheese to the top. I said that we will find the bread crumbs when we are packing up and I was right my cousin put it somewhere and we found it as we were leaving to go home. The last night we had a barbecue with hot dogs and hamburgers. My mom made potato salad and I never realized how much mayo goes into potato salad.

I am so happy that I got to spend this time with my family. My mom just had a horrible week at work last week and I am extremely happy that she could take this time off to relax. I also for some reason had been really stressed so it was wonderful to just sit around and not have a timed schedule we even wanted to go visit Big Trees but we decided not to mainly because we didn't want to and it was going to be close to 100 degrees that day.

One thing that was hilarious about our trip was that Hallmark is having its Christmas in July movie marathon. My aunt likes Hallmark movies so basically we were watching Christmas movies the whole time. It was pretty funny how many Hallmark movies have basically the plot line. I was even predicting the outcome to the movies, it was pretty funny how predictable some movies are.

On the last day after we left we went to Tracy and my mom and cousin both got tattoos. I am really proud of my mom she didn't cry, scream, cuss or anything. Not that I was expecting her to, she was even making jokes when the guy was working. The main joke was that since my mom has been through child birth getting a tattoo should be easy.

This past week has been wonderful! I got to spend a lot of time with my family and did nothing which is so relaxing. Everyone should spend some time with the family this summer with no distractions or work related issues. Maybe even turn off all cell phones so that nothing comes up that can spoil a vacation.