It was "fun" part 1

Vacation is one of those misleading words. The average vacation usually requires extensive planing, endless headaches with the airlines, waiting in long lines, lost reservations, lost luggage, running at full speed trying to make connections in travel, running around even more trying to do all the things you planed and realizing there is not enough time, more time waiting in even longer lines and an endless progression of other unforeseen problems. In the end by the time you get back from "relaxing", you're even more tired and worn out than when you started. So why do we do this to ourselves, because it's "fun". Personally I think all humans are a bunch of sick masochist. Who else would put themselves through that kind of torture. Now there is one redeeming point to all this and it has to do with the way the brain remembers things. The human brain tends over time to romanticize things. It blocks out bad memories and embellish the good ones.
Example:
-What actually happened:
Taking a cruse to the islands and getting stuck in the middle of a class five hurricane huddled in a run down hut all night praying to all mighty God for your salvation.
-What you remember thirty years later:
Staying in this cute rustic cottage that was right on the beach (well before the storm anyway), laying together on the couch all night (it was the only thing that was buoyant), Rapped in each others arms (terrified out of our minds), it was so perfect we thought we were in heaven (The perfect storm was about to send us to heaven), in the morning we went out on the porch (it was all that was left) and watched the most beautiful sunrise we had ever seen (thankful to still be alive).

Just some goodies I picked up in Paris and London

Gunnm Last Order volume 1 in French
Fruits Basket volume 1 in French
Love Hina volume 1 in French
Step Up Love Story volume 18 in french (Author of Psychic Academy)
Moon Boy volume 2 in English
Moon Boy volume 3 in English