Survived a two-week vacation in the UK. [View all]
The first week was easy. It was just my wife and me. We visited Edinburgh, York, and Lincoln. But the second week we rented a house in London and our kids and my daughter's FIL all stayed with us. They're all drinkers and every night ended with them pounding the wine. That was a bit harder to deal with but I excused myself and went to my room and watched movies. The real hard part was going out to two dinners.
It was a retirement party for my wife. One night we went to an Italian restaurant and I was the only one not drinking. Then the next night was the retirement dinner. It was an Argentinian steak house and they kept bringing out various wines and describing them to the whole table. The waitresses asked me several times if I was sure I didn't want to have some wine. By the end of the night, everyone was blasted. It was an excruciating 5 1/2 hours. And I couldn't cut out early, because they were honoring my wife.
But in the end, I prevailed! The thing that kinda bugs me is that no one else really understands what we go through.
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