When Lulis Leal’s family gets together for Christmas, she is usually sunning herself on a beach surrounded by palm trees and turquoise waters, with not one extended relative in sight.
For more than 10 years, Leal has been spending the holiday season in exotic locales like the Bahamas or Hawaii — anywhere warm, the Cedar Grove, New Jersey, resident said.
She finds it the perfect time to get away with her husband and son.
"It’s like everybody’s home with their family so we’ve got the whole beach to ourselves. It’s like our own little private paradise,"
Leal said, adding that her mother sometimes gently teased her about going away instead of visiting her for the holidays.
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