Ops, I over wrote my original post. Thank God it's Friday, still have to go to work.

Wait...you might have oil? That's great! Good luck!

Good luck, Bugs! That's cool. There's an oil well in our family, but my grandmother had ELEVEN siblings, so my mom's share is not too big! A few hundred dollars every few months. Better than nothing, and it's fun saying we own an oil well!

The payout for oil has to be better than just check for oil right? It was 700K just to check for the oil, but ya lots of people involved.

Whoa!! You know a group of runner friends had discussed meeting up for the Jamaica marathon some year, then spending a week.. That group has pretty much fizzled but I could see a BP Jamaica vacation.

Excellent Idea. I bet we'd have more fun together than any of us would in a 'family vacation'. The whole mineral rights deal has turned not fun already. I could handle some time on a beach with at drink at hand. Think we can get the BP guys to go on vacation with us?

lol...only if they bring their wives. "Honey I am going on a trip with some runners I dont really know but they are beautiful people..k?"

A BP vacation with spouses sounds less fun to me, may change the XTing I had planned. I should have known the whole affair would not turn into a nightmare. I have some advice for you folks, TALK to your folks about their estates, and double check their will. I never read it, I didn't want to seem greedy or that I wanted anything. My Dad's will was this, "1 Son gets this land, and the other 5 kids get everything else." The everything else ended up to be much bigger than we imagined. When we were dealing with the estate one sibling asked the brother if he wanted to throw everything all together, divide by six. He said, "No, mine is worth more." Turns out, maybe not. I am very sorry about him leaving everything to the 2nd family. That had to feel like a slap in the face. My Dad was remarried and we went through lawyers to settle the estate. They always kept their money seperate, and had an agreement to have seperate estates when they died. While my Dad was sick she played her cards well, got her name on his checkbook, did not pay the bills, moved things in her name. Ufta, even tried to sell family land that we have had for four generations. You know where that check would have been? Ah, the 'joint' really his checkbook. (Ya, his name wasn't on her checkbook!) She wanted half the estate! Then I found the prenup by luck, us kids never knew about it, that really changed things. There was some money that was my Moms who died 17 years before. My Dad left a letter saying that he never spent the money, he felt in belong to the kids. We ended up giving her the money so we did not have to sell any land. I don't understand this kind of evil and greed. My only resolve is one day I know she'll have to answer to God. We sold some land from the estate, was a really nice check. I remember walking into the bank and the teller's eyes just about popped out. I told her, "You think that a check like this would change your life, well it won't. Whatever you were happy about yesterday will still make you happy, and whatever you were sad about will still make you sad." She didn't believe me, but it's true, very true. So all things considered sponsoring a BP vacation sounds like a very smart idea. Now, how do we ditch the spouses?

We could stick the little ones in the kids' program and then escape to the bar!