Do you go on a vacation after your SO's deployment? He has a month of leave, and as of now he doesn't want to do anything but relax at home I think. This is our first so I dunno!
What do you do??

we do both actually, we travel & chill at home to just hang & do nothing

We do. We normally go a week or two after he comes home.

Well this is my DH's first real deployment and when he comes back we arent really gonna be doing much. Might drive up to San Antonio to go to Sea World but not really a vacation. Then again a couple weeks before he left we went to Hawaii to visit family so I guess we already had our vacation. :giggle I think we will mostly just relax at home. :D

We're taking a week to hang out and then we're going on vacation. :)

He seems exhausted in SO many ways. Maybe we will just explore Sicily. He's only been in our house a couple months the whole past yr we have lived in Sig so I understand him just wanting to sit at home...

We're going on a vacation to a ski resort here ( Big Bear ) and I can't wait :yahoo

We go go Kentucky and visit our family.

We usually go visit family. Now we have 3 children though and our oldest is in school so they will be told they are welcome to come see us a few weeks later. Now I feel our little family getting reaquainted is more important.

We spend the first few weeks ALONE. I actually never tell everyone when he is coming home....so they are not calling all the time.

If we had planned on going home we make it after OUR time.

While I love our families ~ won't share our homecoming with anyone. I have see it too many times where the homecoming dates were told to family members.....and the SO came home to a house full of guests. NO WAY!!!

we usually stay home for a week and go see his family for the other week or they come here.

We usually go somewhere for a short break then spend the rest of the time at home.

We do a little of both. We usually went camping for 3-4 days, and then returned home and relaxed for the rest of his time off. I am up for whatever he wants to do :yes

When Bryan came back from West Pac, back in '03, we took a trip to PA so that I could visit his family. This was before we got married.

we usually take a week vacation and relax at home another week.

I asked J what he wanted to do and where he wanted to go. I was thinking going somewhere nice out of the country but he just want to stay here and go to Disney :P

the very first time dh gets leave we are going on our honeymoon. not sure where yet but probably a cruise :D

For the first depolyment John was sent home around the 4 month mark because his dad had a heart attack, was undergoing a quadruple bypass, and the drs. said if he got any worse there would be nothing they could for him. So for 2 weeks we were in Ohio. About 1 1/2 weeks later he was sent back to the ship. When he got back we didn't go anywhere.

For the second one he was again sent home around the 4 month mark since his mom died. We went to Fort Myers for the funeral and then went to Ohio for close to 2 weeks. That time he was left home.

We didn't go on vacation after his.

Because we're living so close to my family now, we usually spend the first few days alone as a family, and then take a couple days to visit family. Usually post deployment leave is just our time to settle back into regular life.

I talked to Chris finally... he wants to just be at home, and if we can catch a MAC home to see family, fine, but we aren't paying to go see 'em! He told me his last week of leave he has to be around base anyways cause they might leave early for a month long trip. Vacation is hopeless in this field!

We are going on a cruise for 5 days when he comes home. How funny a sailor going on a cruise? LOL

My DH and I are trying to decided what we want to do when he gets home. We want to hang out here at the house but we are also thinking about getting a cabin up in N. Carolina for a long weekend with the baby. Just the 3 of us. :cloud9 We won't be doing that until October if he gets home when he's supposed to (they've changed the dates 3 times now! :vent :mad ). The weekend immediately after he gets home we were thinking of actually letting the bean spend the night with the grandparents and getting a hotel or B&B on the beach. We'll see how that goes.

I think most of his leave time after he gets home will be spent here at the house, I have classes 4 days a week, so I really can't take off too easily anymore.

Heather J