a.k.a. Your last chance to do anything fun for a very, very long time.
What is a Babymoon you might ask. Well, typically, it is your last chance to do anything fun as a couple before all fun is sucked out of your life for the next several years. Think of it as a pre-baby team building exercise. In all reality, it is just another excuse to go somewhere fun. Sort of like St. Patrick's Day and Cinco de Mayo are really just excuses to go out and drink. But, your little one may not enjoy some of the things you have planned.
My first bit of advice is to do it sooner than later. The best time is when you first find out she is pregnant unless she is hit with serious morning sickness. You might want to take that into consideration. As her pregnancy advances, your chances of fun recede.
We waited too long for ours. Seven moths pregnant and any kind of activity do not go together. Our original plan was to go to the coast and hang out in a beach bungalow. The problem with that was the six hour drive. She will have to pee a lot. You will have to stop at every bathroom in existence. Your six hour drive will become a twelve hour drive.
Additionally, some places will not let you use their restroom unless you buy something. If it is a cafe or something along those lines, they may not allow you to only buy a drink (which only adds to the amount of potty stops you will have to make). Sometimes they will tempt you with a plate of fries or some such nonsense. Remember, she is pregnant. Food is her best friend. So, your budget for travel needs to include a plate of fries for every twenty miles traveled.
Due to budgetary and bladdertary reasons, we went to a town that has been reported as a fun place to go. It was only three hours away (or six hours on the pee/eat plan). I have never had to plan a trip from bathroom to bathroom, let alone had major concerns about whether we can make it through the thirty mile "potty free" zone.
Anyway, upon arriving in fun town, our choices were severely limited by the amount of non-babyfriendly activities. There are three things to do in that town (I am leaving the name out to avoid being attacked by all the whiny babies who can't handle someone not liking a town they like) those things are Beer, Wine, and Cocktails. You may not have ever noticed if you liked to do those things. But, they advertise it on every sign. Applbee's even pushes it at you on kids night. That I can understand. But if your trip to the bathroom includes being bombarded with no less than six large banners advertising the specific cocktails you can only get there, we have an issue. The bathroom is not the place to advertise a giant mudslide.
You know those displays that hold brochures for things to do in the area? Well, all of them we saw were basically maps to wineries, breweries, or popular pub crawl routes. There were other options but who wants to go look at the museum of natural history of turning a milling town into a town of drunks? Well, I do. But I don't want to have to pay to see it.
Now that 90% of our choices were gone, it was now time to figure out what there was to do that did not include walking, sitting, eating, not eating, any physical activity, straying too far from a bathroom, and anything we could do at home. Shopping trips will be less about the stores you go to as how far apart the benches are. And, how many bars will we have to walk past to get to something interesting (We are not apposed to bars. Each one adds more walking distance is all). There are bars in every business so there will be plenty of walking.
We waited too long for ours. Seven moths pregnant and any kind of activity do not go together. Our original plan was to go to the coast and hang out in a beach bungalow. The problem with that was the six hour drive. She will have to pee a lot. You will have to stop at every bathroom in existence. Your six hour drive will become a twelve hour drive.
Additionally, some places will not let you use their restroom unless you buy something. If it is a cafe or something along those lines, they may not allow you to only buy a drink (which only adds to the amount of potty stops you will have to make). Sometimes they will tempt you with a plate of fries or some such nonsense. Remember, she is pregnant. Food is her best friend. So, your budget for travel needs to include a plate of fries for every twenty miles traveled.
Due to budgetary and bladdertary reasons, we went to a town that has been reported as a fun place to go. It was only three hours away (or six hours on the pee/eat plan). I have never had to plan a trip from bathroom to bathroom, let alone had major concerns about whether we can make it through the thirty mile "potty free" zone.
Anyway, upon arriving in fun town, our choices were severely limited by the amount of non-babyfriendly activities. There are three things to do in that town (I am leaving the name out to avoid being attacked by all the whiny babies who can't handle someone not liking a town they like) those things are Beer, Wine, and Cocktails. You may not have ever noticed if you liked to do those things. But, they advertise it on every sign. Applbee's even pushes it at you on kids night. That I can understand. But if your trip to the bathroom includes being bombarded with no less than six large banners advertising the specific cocktails you can only get there, we have an issue. The bathroom is not the place to advertise a giant mudslide.
You know those displays that hold brochures for things to do in the area? Well, all of them we saw were basically maps to wineries, breweries, or popular pub crawl routes. There were other options but who wants to go look at the museum of natural history of turning a milling town into a town of drunks? Well, I do. But I don't want to have to pay to see it.
Now that 90% of our choices were gone, it was now time to figure out what there was to do that did not include walking, sitting, eating, not eating, any physical activity, straying too far from a bathroom, and anything we could do at home. Shopping trips will be less about the stores you go to as how far apart the benches are. And, how many bars will we have to walk past to get to something interesting (We are not apposed to bars. Each one adds more walking distance is all). There are bars in every business so there will be plenty of walking.
There were plenty of outdoor activities for those who enjoy that stuff. However, aside from the obvious, those options were out due to the weather. This is the in between season for outdooring. So, you will need to plan for fun indooring activities.
And you went right to sex with that last option. Shame on you. Many people find it odd that we like to watch TV when we go on vacation. Unlike most, we don't watch TV at home. We do watch TV shows on Netflix. The advantage there is that we don't have to sit through all the horrid commercials and we don't have to be a slave to the 9:00 hour on Thursday night. It is also a chance for us to find new shows to watch as we choose when we return home. So, we did a lot of that. I guess it is a good thing we really enjoy each others company. If you don't, I suggest avoiding the whole idea and continue hiding in your man cave for the next several months.
My Babymoon advice to you is to do it early, do it somewhere pregnant lady fun compatible, and buy a Shenis or Shewee. For those of you who don't know what those are, Amazon sells an apparatus that fulfills every woman's lifelong dream of peeing standing up. This will come in handy for long drives through the country side. Or, it will allow you to bond with your lady at the urinal.
And you went right to sex with that last option. Shame on you. Many people find it odd that we like to watch TV when we go on vacation. Unlike most, we don't watch TV at home. We do watch TV shows on Netflix. The advantage there is that we don't have to sit through all the horrid commercials and we don't have to be a slave to the 9:00 hour on Thursday night. It is also a chance for us to find new shows to watch as we choose when we return home. So, we did a lot of that. I guess it is a good thing we really enjoy each others company. If you don't, I suggest avoiding the whole idea and continue hiding in your man cave for the next several months.
My Babymoon advice to you is to do it early, do it somewhere pregnant lady fun compatible, and buy a Shenis or Shewee. For those of you who don't know what those are, Amazon sells an apparatus that fulfills every woman's lifelong dream of peeing standing up. This will come in handy for long drives through the country side. Or, it will allow you to bond with your lady at the urinal.