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Last Updated: Jul 2nd, 2008 - 21:15:22 |
(NAPSI)-Each year, Americans spend billions of dollars on leisure travel but vacation memories often fade with the unpacking of suitcases, leaving families with little more than a vague recollection of their trip.
With so much time, effort and money invested in vacation planning, it is important to find creative ways to keep your special vacation memories intact long after the trip ends. Embassy Suites Hotels is providing a few tips to help preserve those precious family vacation memories.
• Create a Travel Journal: While on vacation, take a few minutes at the end of each day to jot down your favorite moments in a notebook. By keeping a daily record, you'll capture the true essence of your trip and won't be left stammering to recall your vacation memories after the return home. Look back on the travel journal to reminisce and share stories with your family for years to come.
• Go digital and take more pictures: Long gone are the days of wasted film and unusable prints. With a digital camera, you can determine immediately if your vacation photos are worth saving. Savor hundreds of vacation photos on a single memory card and after the trip, index and archive the photos on CDs so they're easy to retrieve. Remember to snap away on your vacation; after all, the more photos you take, the more you'll have to choose from when printing your favorite memories.
• Create a Vacation Scrapbook: Record the details and fun memories of your trip in a vacation scrapbook. Include colorful postcards, ticket stubs and a list of places you visited with a corresponding photo collage. Bring your supplies on the trip and work on your pages each night in your hotel room while the vacation details are still fresh in your mind. To make this easy, Embassy Suites Hotels has two-room suites, great for families, that provide plenty of room to spread out and organize. Plus, the hotel brand has teamed up with Kodak for a limited-time offer to guests of complimentary one-time use digital cameras for capturing those once-in-a-lifetime moments for your scrapbook (check out www.embassysuites.com for the latest family-oriented offerings).
• Make a Time Capsule: Create your very own vacation time capsule, using some of the mementos and keepsakes from your trip. Include quirky items like seashells from the beach where your kids played in the ocean or dried leaves from the park where you hosted your family reunion picnic. As silly as it may seem, these souvenirs will trigger memories of specific vacation events long after your trip.
While you're enjoying your next family vacation or weekend getaway, don't forget to savor your memories. Years from now, you will be thankful you did.
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