Yes it WAS special, and inspite of the dizzy world part of the trip, it was a family being together.
Three years later my folks divorced (Dad left for another woman). My mother, always a law abiding citizen, gradually slipped into a gambling addiction that lasted until she entered the nursing home, because the government of IL legalized it with the lottery.
FR has been my intermittant escape today, from working to close my late mother’s estate (which, thanks to the lotteries, is just paperwork. There are no monies to fret over).
(At least the captioned pic on your post tells me something of you, since your about page is empty.)