A vacation for whom?

We just took a vacation - our first road trip with both boys - to Dutch Wonderland and the Choo Choo Barn. I know that the 3-month-old won't remember a thing, and that's fine. I was wondering whether the 3-year-old will. It's an effort to get us all somewhere for days and are we taking a trip for them or for us, I asked myself when the baby was screaming, the preschooler was whining, and the lunch was spilled all over a picnic area because of a bee. Well, I have a vague recollection of a trip to the Philadelphia Zoo with cousins when my brother was still in a stroller, and somehow I remember that being an important part of my childhood! I don't even know whether there are any photos of it, but I poured over the zoo yearbook for ages afterwards. So, maybe the trip is for the kids just as much as for the adults... It doesn't have to be something amazing to make them very happy!