The perfect end to a perfect week...... NOT!.

Aww honey that is rubbish! I know how much you were looking forward to your holiday and it is bad enough that it wasn't what you were hoping for but to come home and find your tree uprooted is awful! I am so glad that it did no damage to the house that would have made things so unimaginably awful! I've never had anything like that happen I am glad to say and I hope that this kkind of incident is not catching as there is only 3 weeks til I go away! Good to have you back sweety! xxx

gemini rose sorry your holiday wasnt quite what you wanted. also sorry about your poor tree. can it be saved? I havent been on a holiday for so long I cant remember if it was bad good or inbetween. I remember once I went away years back and left the swamp cooler on in my moms house In tempe and when I got back the motor had burned out on it and I 'had to replace it before my parents returned from South Dakota.arggh. really expensive even back then.

sweetie I am so sorry I know that it must be awful and so disappointing when you where looking forward to it so much I have been trying for half an hour now to send you an Email and it is coming back as delivery Failure I will try again tomorrow just so you know I am not ignoring you Sweetie Hugs xx

Oh dear, how awful for your. First your holiday falls short of being spectacular ~ then your favourite tree bites the dust. I would be so~so about the holiday...coming home is such a good feeling but to find my favourite tree in such a situation would make me very, very upset. I'm so sorry this happened to you. Hugs.

Luckily we have not experience any horror after a holiday and hope will never!LOL, But, I know some people who were on a wonderful vacations and when they got home, lost a lot of things in the house, it is really sad!

Oh Rose you were so looking forward to that holiday too...ive been away many times,but the reason that I always want to get home is simply because I get homesick!..now that sounds pretty sad lol,but its perfectly true...when im away I enjoy the first couple of days but then im ready for home,and I find myself counting the nights that I have to stay out of my own bed!!...I enjoy my own home and my own environment,the last couple of times that I have been away it has been with hubby and Mum...and I find it all too much to handle...but I must say f I go to my daughters then its slightly different...because I have her to natter to...and we are really on the same wavelength...Rose im sorry that the holiday didnt live up to your expectations..you had very poor weather I should imagine...and im sad that you came home to find that your tree had been damaged...

well here in quebec we have saint john the baptist day which is a quebec but not all of canada holiday, we came home that night and there was no electricity in the entire building, i lost all my food in the freezer, all my meats and frozen foods. The landlord had to find an electrician at midnight to come and fix the problem which had to do with the wiring on the roof.

Well that sucks. We have no big trees in our yard as they were all taken out by storms before we moved in. My in laws went on vacation and a storm hit there place and struck their garage. No one could reach them as they were on the road and had no cell phone. So just imagine their surprize when they got home to their garage a charred mess nothing could be saved. Lost a truck and a motercycle and 25 years worth of tolls collected. Plus it wrecked their computer and phone in the house. Thankfully it was a detatched garage and the house was okay.

Most of my holidays are bad. I always make special plans for the perfect event but something always ruins it. something always happens and it makes me want to just give up on ever trying to celebrate them and enjoy them. I still do try but not as hard anymore. I always expect the worst. I live by Murpheys Law, because that is just the way it has always been for 37 years now. Whatever can happen, in my case, bad things, WILL!

Hello dear gemini_rose. I am so sorry that your favorite tree was blown down by heavy storm, which is a big loss to you. But I am thinking whether you could replace the tree in the same place to make sure that it will grow more firmly. Have you ever tried to see how it works, please? I hope that this tree is still in good condition with luck. This year when we were having our winter holiday at home, we had heavy snow in the south of China. A lot of trees in my school were made to fall down by the ice and snow hanging on the tree causing great loss of the trees that we have on campus. Now many of the trees have broken their branches though they are now standing straight with the help of some ropes and tall bamboos to support them. I hope that they will grow as thick as they used to. Thank you so much for your discussion, my dear friend.

Sorry to hear you didn't have such a good time, I know you were looking forward to it. That is awful what happened to your tree, it's a shame it could not have been restored that would have been horrible coming back and seeing that. I am glad that there was no damgage done to your house. I have not been on a holiday in such a long time. But about 3 years ago now, I was pregnant at the time, we went on a school camp (I was the teacher), this camp was at Maroon Dam. It seemed like disaster after disaster there. One night there, we went on a camping trip with my class and one other adult (superviser at the centre there). Anyway it started raining really heavily, so we had to call the bus early to pick us up. While we were waiting, this boy started to get really low on sugar, he was diabetic, I was getting really worried. Luckily there was a ranger there he gave him a peanut butter sandwich. Then another sutdent started to have a panic attack and at the same time another student started having an asthma attack and she did not have a puffer, luckily we found another student there who had a puffer. When the bus did finally arrive, it had flooded quite a bit we had to walk the 30 students across this bridge, where it was knee high depth water in the dark. We hopped on the bus and we got bogged, so we had to wait for help to arrive. It was such a fun trip, not, but the kids will never forget this camping trip.

I am pretty much a homebody and so, most of my holidays and vacations are spent there, relaxing, reading and taking it easy. Though I haven't had any unfortunate occurrences, when it comes time to go back to work, I am more than happy to return.

My i am very sad for you,but this all can pass you not right!Cannot only think toward the bad aspect.IS happy.

don't care about that, the end means the new begining.. and for holiday. you can just enjoy in it , because we aways want to do some thing better...but it is difficult.you konw.may be we should say..."the thing is not too bad~~~"