25'th Anniversary....and no plans. :(

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It's my wife and I's 25'th Anniversary this coming June.

Originally we'd planned to take off for an Alaska cruise for a week to celebrate, but the whole US thing squashed that.

And since walking away from that idea, we've got nothing firm in mind alternately to celebrate this big milestone, which seems sad honestly.

I was thinking about a resort for a few nights or something, but not sure about options aside from one place we've gone to a few times up in Algonquin. And I'm out of any other ideas.

Help me, GTAM! You're my only hope!
 
PrivatePilot said:
It's my wife and I's 25'th Anniversary this coming June.

Originally we'd planned to take off for an Alaska cruise for a week to celebrate, but the whole US thing squashed that.

And since walking away from that idea, we've got nothing firm in mind alternately to celebrate this big milestone, which seems sad honestly.

I was thinking about a resort for a few nights or something, but not sure about options aside from one place we've gone to a few times up in Algonquin. And I'm out of any other ideas.

Help me, GTAM! You're my only hope!
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Do not let politics ruin your decision making, you do you. If you had an alaska trip planned take it would be my advice
 
Today's my 26th anniversary
I'm at basketball practice with my son
Then we have games for the next 8 weekends
We'll revisit at our 30th LoL

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Budget/time?

Road trip through Iceland
Africa Safari
Beaches of Jamaica
Coastline of Portugal

Plenty of cool potential, depending on the above and what kinda experience you both want to enjoy.

My wife leaves on Saturday for a 2 week Mediterranean cruise.
 
PrivatePilot said:
It's my wife and I's 25'th Anniversary this coming June.

Originally we'd planned to take off for an Alaska cruise for a week to celebrate, but the whole US thing squashed that.

And since walking away from that idea, we've got nothing firm in mind alternately to celebrate this big milestone, which seems sad honestly.

I was thinking about a resort for a few nights or something, but not sure about options aside from one place we've gone to a few times up in Algonquin. And I'm out of any other ideas.

Help me, GTAM! You're my only hope!
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Couples resort in Algonquin? Friends have gone there and liked it.

Suggestions are hard as you already spend a decent amount of time exploring and sleeping away from home. My wife and I would probably pick something adventurey and memorable (hiking, spelunking, etc).

Friends have gone to scandinave spa and liked it.

For my bday, I considered eating at the pine in creemore. By all accounts it's fantastic. Dinner for two would have been 500-700. Nope.
 
ToSlow said:
Do not let politics ruin your decision making, you do you. If you had an alaska trip planned take it would be my advice
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It was to be booked some time ago, but when all this **** hit the fan and there was some question on if it was going to effect my employment, not only did it become an issue from that perspective (you don't book $$$ vacations when you're not sure if you might or might not have a job in the near future), but we'd also just bought a new car unknowing that this was going to blow up like it did.

Long story short, possible job instability (at the time at least, things look OK now), just bought new car not expecting things to blow up like they did (car payments again, job stability questions, yadda yadda), in short - expensive vacation wasn't on the books at that point.

That's changed now so far as the employment situation, but what hasn't changed is that going to Alaska right now is quite possibly going to lead to disappointment because a lot of the parks and tourist attractions may not even be open because of all the staff cuts.

www.usatoday.com

Hammered by staffing cuts, Alaska's national parks brace for millions of visitors

Staffing cuts at Alaska's national parks will save taxpayer dollars. But also likely to limit land management, visitor experience.
www.usatoday.com

There are a lot of people booked on cruises who expect to not be able to do any of the promised excursions as there is virtually an expectation at this point that a lot of the main attractions will not be open.

Long story short, Alaska is going to be another time for all of the above reasons.

That vacation week was subsequently moved to next January where we have something else planned instead.

I can make it a 3-4 (maybe 5) day weekend for whatever we ultimately decide to do, FWIW.
 
5 days eh, including travel days?

I say hit an island south of us then. If you had a week I'd push for iceland..but there's so much cool stuff to see that 3 days doesn't make the trip worth it...even though flights were freakin cheap when I went...less than $700 round trip.
 
Evoex said:
Budget/time?

Road trip through Iceland
Africa Safari
Beaches of Jamaica
Coastline of Portugal

Plenty of cool potential, depending on the above and what kinda experience you both want to enjoy.

My wife leaves on Saturday for a 2 week Mediterranean cruise.
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I just came back a couple of wks ago from an african safari Kruger national park. was well worth the time and money for two days,

If doing this i would say skip Jo-burg and do Kruger and after that fly to Cape Town for a few days as it's one of the most beautiful scenic places I've been to

I would also recommend Amsterdam if you haven't already been
 
There are several destinations that don't say USA. Barbados, Dominican, Spain, Greece, Italy, etc. There are also lots of amazing places to see in Canada. Banff, the Rockies, Ottawa, old Montreal or even whale watching on either coast to name a few.
 
Joe Bass said:
Today's my 26th anniversary
I'm at basketball practice with my son
Then we have games for the next 8 weekends
We'll revisit at our 30th LoL

Sent from my Pixel 7 using Tapatalk
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Congrats.

The 25 milestone just seems too important to not celebrate somehow, at least more so than just a dinner out at the Keg or whatever type thing.
When we got married there was people who thought we wouldn't last 5 years. And reality is, 25 years is pretty uncommon anymore it seems for people married post Y2K.

Evoex said:
Budget/time?

Road trip through Iceland
Africa Safari
Beaches of Jamaica
Coastline of Portugal

Plenty of cool potential, depending on the above and what kinda experience you both want to enjoy.

My wife leaves on Saturday for a 2 week Mediterranean cruise.
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Sorry, should have clarified that. See last response. The original week we'd budgeted is booked elsewhere now so we're talking a long weekend type thing at this point.

GreyGhost said:
Couples resort in Algonquin? Friends have gone there and liked it.

Suggestions are hard as you already spend a decent amount of time exploring and sleeping away from home. My wife and I would probably pick something adventurey and memorable (hiking, spelunking, etc).

Friends have gone to scandinave spa and liked it.

For my bday, I considered eating at the pine in creemore. By all accounts it's fantastic. Dinner for two would have been 500-700. Nope.
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Couples Resort is on the short list. We've been there 5-6 times over the years, going back to when it was called Bear Trails. I'd like to do one of the Chateau's for 2-3 nights, but holy hell....3 nights in June in one of the Chateau's is not a whole lot less than what we'd have been paying for the Alaska cruise...including airfare. My wife is not a super outdoorsy sort, so a lot of the Algonquin type stuff is kind of lost on her, so in the past we've kind of just hung out around the resort for the most part, hence the interest in a Chateau vs one of the normal rooms.

Anyhow, still thinking about it. Maybe there will be some last minute special as they often do. $1500 for a nice fancy weekend away I could handle, but ~$3000 (after taxes and such), not so much.
 
Evoex said:
I say hit an island south of us then.
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Thought about it, but not sure if it'll be relaxing and enjoyable vs stressful jetting off on a Wednesday/Thursday only to come home on the Sunday. Even just going to the Caribbean somewhere involves most of a day on both ends dealing with flights, leaving really only 2-3 days of actual time at point B.

Open to suggestions though.

BKnight said:
There are several destinations that don't say USA. Barbados, Dominican, Spain, Greece, Italy, etc. There are also lots of amazing places to see in Canada. Banff, the Rockies, Ottawa, old Montreal or even whale watching on either coast to name a few.
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We've been pretty much everywhere across the country over the years, and our 2 week vacay this summer is going to be out west in AB/BC, so that's not in the cards. Newfoundland is the only place we haven't been to that's still on our list of places we want to go to, but I'm not sure it's an anniversary getaway type destination, nor is 2-3 days remotely enough to see it all based on what I've been told.
 
Load up the bike with your wife and ride till need to turn and come back for work on time. make no plans and wing it. lots of stuff to stop and see i'm sure you've rode past on a planned trip.
 
ToSlow said:
Load up the bike with your wife and ride till need to turn and come back for work on time. make no plans and wing it. lots of stuff to stop and see i'm sure you've rode past on a planned trip.
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~4 weeks later we're doing exactly that in BC so I have my doubts she'd be into doing that here for our anniv. Good idea though had it not been for the BC plans.

I hate to be that guy shooting down all the ideas being shared (keep em coming), but just providing the reasonings.

Hopping on a plane somewhere is second behind a resort at this point, but yeah, see last reply, not sure if that plan would be relaxing or stressful.
 
PrivatePilot said:
Thought about it, but not sure if it'll be relaxing and enjoyable vs stressful jetting off on a Wednesday/Thursday only to come home on the Sunday. Even just going to the Caribbean somewhere involves most of a day on both ends dealing with flights, leaving really only 2-3 days of actual time at point B.

Open to suggestions though.



We've been pretty much everywhere across the country over the years, and our 2 week vacay this summer is going to be out west in AB/BC, so that's not in the cards. Newfoundland is the only place we haven't been to that's still on our list of places we want to go to, but I'm not sure it's an anniversary getaway type destination, nor is 2-3 days remotely enough to see it all based on what I've been told.
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Do you still have your PPL? Exploring via small plane is fun. Lots of fly-in resorts to change things up a bit.
 
GreyGhost said:
Do you still have your PPL? Exploring via small plane is fun. Lots of fly-in resorts to change things up a bit.
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I haven’t been current in around 10 years. Cost to get current again would be probably $5k plus 2-6 weeks of time. Not even sure I’d be able to get a medical anymore with some of my lingering head injury stuff though honestly. Sadly I think that era is behind me.

Besides, my wife has a policy about not getting in any plane that doesn’t have a bathroom, and preferably lands somewhere warmer than where it took off from. 😉
 
Anyway happy anniversary to you and your partner

Also happy anniversary to Joe bass and his partner
 
Ours came and went without even a word mentioned about it. We're just not like that.
Perhaps something simpler to express your commitment and care for one another?
Perhaps revisit locations when you first met, a hand in hand walk to reflect on the past 25 years together? That sort of thing.
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