Brothers and Sisters

Fbailey story number 464


Brothers and Sisters


My wife and I were married for two years when my sister married her brother on our anniversary date. We seemed to share everything. Our birthdays were all in March too. Eventually we all had two daughters and all of them were in college.

Now that we were all in our mid forties and we all have several years of service in where we work, we decided to go on vacation together for the whole month of March. We didn’t really want to do anything special, basically we wanted to get away and do nothing.

We all got to submit two places that we wanted to go. I submitted the middle of New Mexico and the middle of Utah. In the end we decided to go to the middle of nowhere up in Canada. If you go a couple of hundred miles past the American boarder there are practically no people up there and the currency exchange is in our favor so that our vacation would actually cost less. The biggest problem was being there in March.

Anyway the decision had been made and arrangements were underway. My wife told me to go to a camping store and get whatever we might need for the two of us.

Well the salesman certainly saw me coming and cost me an arm and a leg to get out of there. The sleeping bags were good to fifty below zero, we had battery operated heated socks, and we had Eskimo parkas to wear along with pants, boots, and gloves. We might look silly but we would stay warm.

The trip to the cabin was a long one and about halfway through we had to pass through customs to enter Canada. They don’t let you in if you can’t get back into the States again. Fortunately we all had Passports.

Along the way we stocked up on liquor, I mean that we bought cases of it. We bought thirty bottles for our thirty-day stay.

Right after dark we checked in at the General Store in town. They gave us a map of how to get to our cabin and highly suggested that we stock up on food because of a big storm headed our way.