Vacations and stuff

Vacations are one universal fun time. They are times where you can actually attempt to rest and have fun for once. Every year during the summer, usually towards the end closer to school time, I go on a vacation with my dad, mom, sister, and brother. However, the destination is set to a different place every year. One year we drove all the way down to the tip of Florida, through Louisiana, and all the way back up to Illinois. That may not seem like too much to some people, but to me that is a very difficult task. Being 6'3" and crammed in the back seat with my brother and sister, there is barely any room to function properly. These things make our family vacations the way they are and always will be though. I have been to approximately 43 of the 50 states and Canada. Although I've never been to Mexico, I've always wanted to and plan to sometime. My favorite vacation would probably have to be the year that we flew up to New Jersey. The beaches along the east coast are amazing, unless you go too high then they get really cold. In New Jersey, we went to Atlantic City and walked along the board walk as well as swam in the ocean. Along the board walk they have so many different stores with all the nooks and crannies you could think of. It was there that we started my dad's sword collection. These swords are part of a kit called the Kit Rae swords. They are extremely cool and fun to play with when other people aren't around. As well as those, we got a set of 3 samurai swords with the engraved handles and everything.
Not to go too far off on a tangent but my family is the kind of family that loves to collect things. I already explained about the sword collection, but in addition to that my dad has a bunch of medieval weapons and the medieval times action figure collection from Target. My mom collects these barbies called Dolls of the World. She has every single one of them and all of them except for one have never been opened. She also has a collection of plates from when we travel. My dad also has a coin collection, in which he has coins dating back to the 1800's. I have 3 collections at home. One is a collection of frog things because I am kind of obsessed with frogs. I also have a collection of knives that I think look really cool. I have probably more than 30 already and just keep on adding. My third collection started when I was really young. It is a collection of Lego things. My favorite is also my most recent, the Taj Mahal. With over 5,000 pieces it took me the longest to make of maybe a day and a half. My brother collects pens and decks of cards from wherever we go on vacation. My sister collects random things and scatters them all across her room so you can hardly walk in there. My whole family has a collection of this really old set of plates and cups and the like. They are really awesome and I think some of them might have crystal in them possibly.
If you have any weird or awesome collections please share. I would be very interested to know what other people collect.
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