Home Exchange on Rainy Days
Where I live we’ve been hit very hard over the past couple of months with extremely heavy rain. When I looked out of the windows this morning to see yet more of it falling, it brought to mind one of the major benefits of home exchanging.
When you plan vacations and trips you cannot predict that far ahead exactly what weather you are likely to encounter. For the past two years my area has endured a severe drought, but this year has already seen more rainfall than is normally recorded in a full twelve months.
Image the predicament of a family with young children stranded in a hotel room while the rain poured day in, day out. How on earth do they entertain them?
On the other hand, if they are home swapping with a family that also has young children, their situation immediately becomes entirely different.
The children will have toys and games to play with, books to read, plenty of space to move around in, probably a TV in a separate room to watch or play games or videos on. Mom will have the kitchen where she can prepare snacks and drinks. If they go out and get wet or muddy, clothes can be popped straight into the washer and dryer and won’t be left hanging around as they would in a hotel room.
Having to endure awful weather while on vacation is bad enough, but having to put up with in while cooped up in a hotel room makes it even worse. In an exchange home a family can at least spread out into more than one room.
It’s also very likely that there are neighbors with young children. The exchange family will have probably informed them of your visit to their home and quite possibly all the children can play and entertain themselves together.
The adult neighbors may also visit and provide some good wet weather suggestions for the area. Maybe a bowling alley or skating rink. They may even offer to babysit while the parents go out for a meal. The exchangers could find themselves invited out by the neighbors and all of a sudden the rain doesn’t seem half as bad after all!
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