No More Vacations!

Ever since I can remember, I always went on some sort of trip during the summer. My grandfather died last October, which kind of means those trips will never happen again. My mother is too poor to spend money on a family vacation, and my father, if you can call him that, is more worried about spending his money to go and see his girlfriend in Australia in September. Before anyone asks, my parents got divorced when I was three. My step-father has not had money since before he married his first wife. When he was a kid, he always went on educational vacations. My mother went to Disney World once as a child. My sister and I have been several times, but our baby sister is ten years old and has never been more farther from Mobile, Alabama than Birmingham, Alabama.(And that was because my maternal grandfather passed away!) Her only ever vacation was to Gulf Shores, Alabama, and even so, that was nearly six years ago! Some might say I sound like a spoiled brat, but really, summers in Florida and Tennessee are all I really know. The summer before I started middle school, we, as to say my paternal grandparents, my paternal aunt, my sister, and myself, went to the Mall of America and Chicago. Every time I mention a trip to either of my parents, all I hear is, "We don't have the money for that." or, "I'm saving up to go to Australia! I can't spend money on whatever you want to do!" I know life is not meant to be fair, but is it meant to be this unfair?