Whenever the holidays come around, I can’t help but get excited. This is because whenever there is free time, my family would often go on a family vacation. This is something that we have done for years and as far as I can remember. Actually, it is my dad that actually pushes this plan since he believes that we should always have a time to relax and forget all of our stresses—or so he says. But quite frankly, I believe that the real reason is that he just wants to spend time with us like how his dad—my grandpa—used to do.

I know that when they had the time and money for it, my grandfather would often take grandma, my dad and the rest of my uncles for a vacation back when they were young. I am quite sure of this since there are a lot of black and white pictures to prove it. So I think being raised like that, he also wants us to experience that kind of fun with the family. I’m not complaining, quite the contrary, I love going on vacations with the family. We get to go to places that I’ve only seen or heard of on the television. But the most important thing is that I get to enjoy these places with the people I love the most—my family.