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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm going to have to commit this post to memory and channel it often when I'm the grandparent. Your IL's vacation schedule is what we do 100%. Down to the sandy sandwiches and sitting around chatting every night. I think it drives my sister's husband crazy because he's not a beach guy and probably craves more to do. My parents and my nuclear family love it. Hopefully I have some awareness someday! 
Personally I think it's perfectly fine to skip some but not all of the big things- beach, happy hour or after dinner chatting. [b]But it sounds like you'd prefer to skip all 3 and I think you have to suck it up and do 2. [/b] Or introduce Uno or some game after dinner, but call it quits early and skip the chatting. Also, just order dinner. They'll enjoy it more to be taken out of the decision making and knowing the cost. Order too much, plate it nicely and avoid all the friction.  [/quote]

So on a vacation OP is paying for, and one she goes on every year, she has to do two things every single day that her family doesn't like to do?

I hope some of that awareness hits you soon, because that's freakin' ridiculous.  My sympathies to your brother-in-law.  [/quote]

1,000% TEAM BIL, and I hope (but doubt) that PP gains some type of general awareness from this thread. Not only from the original post, but from the replies which are squarely Team OP and trying to help her make the best of a bad situation. [/quote]

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