Our Totally Awesome Summer Vacation

Lisa and I decided that this was the year that we were going to go on a romantic summer vacation WITHOUT the kids. It was going to be awesome and given that we have been married almost 18 years (long long years as Lisa just said to me), it is about time.

Enter the city government. Below is one of our sidewalks. We live on a corner so we have another whole length around the front.

If you click on the photograph to enlarge it you will see pink X's. The city decided this was the year houses on our street got new sidewalks. An X means it has to be replaced. That wouldn't be so bad if they were paying for it, or if we didn't live on a corner. Each X means $92 and we had 19 of them. There is our bloody vacation, all $2000's of it.