Ugh...neighbors in our condo building have been mentioning for months that they want to have us up to their beach house on a remote part of the island (accessible only by boat). We've managed to put them off by just not ever mentioning it, but now that they know we're moving back to the US in a little over a month, they've mentioned it again, and I expect they aren't going to let it go this time.

The thing is, they want us to bring our dog and spend the night! We hardly know this couple other than as friendly neighbors and have almost nothing in common with them. They are very well-off (own four homes, including two condos in our complex, this beach house up north, and a home in the US), quite a bit younger than us, and just not our type of people except for the fact that they love dogs.

I have no desire to spend the night up at their place nor deal with trying to ensure that our dogs all get along -- they have a young and very fiesty (though sweet) pit bull, and I can just see our also fiesty Boston Terrier getting into it with him, so it would not be relaxing at all. The only way I'd consider going is if it were just for the day (and we could leave our dog at home), but that would rely on them taking us up and back in their boat on the same day (we don't have a boat). I'm assuming they don't want to make the trip twice in a day, and that's why they want us to stay the night. Neither my DH nor I really have any interest in spending a day with these folks -- after we move, chances are we'll never, ever see them again.

We have no idea why they seem to want us to go up there so much -- they have friends visiting them here all the time, and they know we're leaving to move back to the US, so it's not like they need more friends. I guess they just want to show off their cool island beach house, but frankly, I'm not all that interested.

I just can't imagine having to make conversation with them all day long -- my DH and I are both introverted (they're the opposite) and just don't feel like getting close to them. If there were a bunch of people going, that would be fine, but just the four of us, I'm sure we'll be asked a lot of questions and be put on the spot. I know they're just being friendly, and I wish we weren't so anti-social, but it's not like these people are even our friends, though they make think they are -- they're really just neighbors. We're just very, very different people.

Any thoughts? I wish it weren't so socially unacceptable just to tell people you don't want to do something!