Ten Family Vacation Observations

1. Yes, you can eat cheese and crackers every single day. Yes, there are consequences.
2. Yes, you can indeed burn a magazine. You can ever burn it without tearing out each page, without making sure it's open, and without relighting it. You absolutely can burn a magazine by throwing it into the fire. No matter how much the others insist you cannot.
   
3. When climbing a mountain, it's better to have a Sherpa than not.
4. If you are going to know songs by Miley Cyrus, you really should have a tween.
   
5. It takes about a two days away from the Internet and TV to see the absurdity of Hollywood Fame.
6. In the absence of TV and Internet, entertainment can be found by fighting with family members. Topics include: politics, religion, or accusations of parents loving one sibling more than others. That last one can go on for years and years.
7. After the sixty-sixth time you ask your mate if the animals miss you, you will be slapped. Stay with the evil look at 65.
   
8. Everyone deserves to be messed with. For example, after stating over and over again that he was not going to take any of the extra bread back home, I snuck the last loaf of bread into my father's car. Bwahahhahaaaa.
   
9. We paid more to board our dogs than to board ourselves for 9 days. No wonder they wept as we left the Dog Resort.
   
10. There is nothing more satisfying than beating, no, creaming, your older brother in Trivial Pursuit.