Vacation Time....

On a mini vacation this weekend.  It's both fun and bittersweet at the same time....  We are at Holiday World in Kentucky - me, my fiance, and his beautiful four year old daughter.  What makes this bittersweet is that we were supposed to be on vacation all week - but due to a court decision back in March, we lost all summer vacation time with my fiance's daughter.  A blow to both of us.... we were so looking forward to going to the beach with her in July.  A wonderful father, my fiance was crushed by this loss of time - nothing means more to him than spending time with his daughter, but the court system does not seem to favor dads in this state, and I say that with an objective eye.  I love him dearly, and to see him with his daughter makes my heart melt.  Anyone who knows us and has seen him with her will tell everyone the same thing - he is a great dad.  She loves him and they are sincerely best friends.  So, when he loses time with her each time he goes back to court, I have to scratch my head in puzzlement and wonder at the fairness of what goes on in there.  Right now he is swimming with her for the hundreth hour today... after an entire day at the water park, she still wanted to swim tonight at our hotel - and despite being dog tired, he happily put on his swim suit and trekked down to the pool with her.  Losing summer vacation just doesn't seem right.....