okay where have you been on vacations well i've been to Europe uh England and France uh specifically i like those oh wow international huh but uh my favorite things to do i think are going skiing in the winter Utah Colorado oh uh-huh uh et cetera oh great so when you went to uh you know to Europe and did you go on was that a one trip or three different trips that was a single about a ten day swing through uh maybe six in England and four in France oh uh-huh how did you like that was that too fast oh was it oh uh-huh it was great yeah because i had my son with me uh my sixteen year old son and so uh it was it was a good experience for him to see some of the things he had studied and so forth boy i'll say uh-huh now was that before um before the two Germanies were when they were separate or no it was a it was well yeah it was as it was happening actually uh-huh was it really oh wow kind of uh it was it was pretty close to that time but you were there right while history was taking place but we weren't over in that part of the world so it wasn't really uh something that we oh got a lot of of input into but uh-huh oh how about yourself where do where do you like to go to vacation well uh we take our vacations we mostly go camping in the mountains we live in a little mountain community and um even when i was growing up though we would go to places like oh Redfish Lake in Idaho and um Island Park in Idaho different places like that i have been to uh my husband and i have been different places like to Disney World and i'm not a real big person for flying i just as soon would would travel you know on the ground um oh okay you get some great camping areas in your we do we do area there close i'm a i'm a Boy Scout leader so i'm out backpacking camping quite a bit too and oh boy i'll say you probably are i've done uh mountains in New Mexico and Colorado but i never have gotten up into Idaho and Wyoming and and those parts of Utah that are so pretty and oh uh-huh oh there there are there're some gorgeous places have you you've never been to the Tetons or no i would like to any of those spots oh it is nice now when you go skiing do you you fly here i imagine no um-hum yeah you either fly into Denver or Salt Lake or somewhere and then rent a car and go the rest of the way um-hum oh and do you enjoy that yes yeah in fact do you come alone or with your usually with uh just whoever uh uh the whole office is going skiing i'm taking my my whole office in uh February to Crested Butte and then uh um-hum oh oh in a week mom and i agreed to chaperon my son's school trip to Vale with about fifty five young people oh oh wow i'm oh boy you will have your your hands full how long is that gonna be for and five adults so i'm in uh that'll be uh five days in March oh huh but uh sometimes i've taken my girl friend and gone last last winter i did that and so uh-huh oh well how fun now when you went abroad did you was it a package plan or did you plan it yourself or planned it myself and uh arranged for a private uh residence in um England through a guy that we knew that had a flat there oh um-hum uh-huh and then uh the travel agent downstairs helped me with uh a lodging place in Paris oh and then we kind of booked some other things on our own that was so it was sort of a piece meal thing uh-huh oh well that did that work out good would you do that again yeah yeah i think so it depend depend on where i was going i had good inside information about where i was headed and so i knew uh kind of what i was getting into but if um-hum oh what if i were to strike out to a part of the world i didn't know anything about i i might not do it all on my own um-hum um-hum did you have places arranged that you wanted to see that you know on your schedule then yeah yeah we kind of had a list going of things and we did some trade-offs and we saw most of what we wanted to see uh uh we had a list of far more than we could possibly see so we kind of had to pick and choose a little bit oh uh-huh had to cut decide what you really wanted to once you got there yeah and uh sometimes you wound up staying longer at one place and than another oh well that's fun i um i can get tickets airline tickets through my brother and uh he's a pilot and so we take a few but weekend type jaunts to Chicago and and different places around and that's fun too that's a good little vacation they say you know just a couple days getting away it makes means a lot it oh sure but if you don't like to fly then i don't but i am getting better used to be i'd i'd almost couldn't you're uh you know bring myself to stay on the plane but but now i'm getting better so huh any other vacations you wanted to talk about or well uh i one place i haven't done is go somewhere like a cruise in in a warm climate or or down into a tropical place for a beach vacation oh