{"id":598,"date":"2020-07-01T10:39:45","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T08:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qvc.co.za\/blog\/?p=598"},"modified":"2020-07-01T10:42:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T08:42:31","slug":"remember-remember-holiday-time-spent-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qvc.co.za\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/07\/01\/remember-remember-holiday-time-spent-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember, Remember&#8230;Holiday Time Spent Together!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Project yourself back to your first holiday memory \u2013 what do you see? Perhaps its begins like this:<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re about 6 years old and the sun has just begun to rise and break through the night sky, birds chirping as they swoop down to find their early-bird-worm-of-champions. You can barely contain your excitement, or remember to us your \u2018inside\u2019 voice, because today is the day that you and your family embark on this thing Mom and Dad call a \u2018vacation.\u2019 Although you\u2019ve heard some of your classmates tell tales of their holidays, during their rendition of \u2018daily news\u2019 on Monday mornings, you\u2019ve never had your own holiday experience \u2013 until now.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-598 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.multidestinationsclub.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Beach.png?resize=655%2C549&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"655\" height=\"549\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rewind the clock to your teenage years, when the world around you was a new kind of confusing. Remember how you dreaded the road trip en route to those family vacations, being stuck in the car with your fidgeting sibling and your dad complaining after every stop your Mom forces him to make \u2013 all because he wants to make \u2018good time.\u2019 As you look back on this exasperating procedure, you recall the moment when everything changed \u2013 the exact moment when you experienced \u2018love\u2019 for the first time, it wasn\u2019t merely a popular movie plot but it could actually happen in real life! And just like that, vacations became a whole different kind of experience.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Do you recall the time in your life you affectionately refer to as your \u2018trying twenties?\u2019 A whole decade dedicated to\u00a0<em>finding<\/em>\u00a0yourself. This period marked with a porous understanding of who you are, your life\u2019s purpose, and the multitude of questions that devoured the majority of your day. The best decision you ever made was to use your savings and head out on an adventure \u2013packed with travel, meeting new people, and broadening your horizons to become acquainted with what was out of your comfort zone, to truly become the person you are today.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-599 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.multidestinationsclub.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/mem.png?resize=676%2C568&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"568\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So you see, none of these experiences would have come to fruition and these memories would never have been made. We must always remember that when we explore the world, when we break out from the four plain walls that surround us every day, there is the possibility for those truly wonderful experience from which memorable moments are formed \u2013 some will remain cushioned in your minds memory box for years to come. Without the travel and get-aways our vacations afford us, we won\u2019t have that rich heritage of exciting stories to pass on to our loved ones, or get to share these precious experiences with them.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-552 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.qvc.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/shutterstock_670636564.jpg?resize=639%2C425&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Family Holiday\" width=\"639\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.qvc.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/shutterstock_670636564.jpg?w=945&amp;ssl=1 945w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.qvc.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/shutterstock_670636564.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.qvc.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/shutterstock_670636564.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s always good to practice restraint, especially during very trying economic times like these &#8211; sometimes it doesn\u2019t hurt to throw caution to the wind in your pursuit of life\u2019s many pleasures. Perhaps now is not the time to be hesitant \u2013 book your holiday and continue to make every moment matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project yourself back to your first holiday memory \u2013 what do you see? Perhaps its begins like this: You\u2019re about 6 years old and the sun has just begun to rise and break through&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[148,193,78,191,194,195,196,192,139],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-family","tag-happiness","tag-holiday","tag-memories","tag-relationships","tag-remember","tag-reminisce","tag-reminisce-fun","tag-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.qvc.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Memories-1.png?fit=940%2C788&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qvc.co.za\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qvc.co.za\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qvc.co.za\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qvc.co.za\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qvc.co.za\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.qvc.co.za\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600,"href":"https:\/\/www.qvc.co.za\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions\/600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qvc.co.za\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qvc.co.za\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qvc.co.za\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qvc.co.za\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}