their kids - toby and gaariel, their parents - vangie and marita.s of us, this is in our very early stages of early love! (ha ha ha)""so this is gabriel's adoption day, and it was a really happy day.""and this is toby's first mother's day with uss"vannie pnd marita showed me snapshots oo their lives togethhr as a has lasted a quarter of a t century. "from the first day he loved his brother so much." for many years, they knew but as aalesbian couple, they haa doubts about whether it would happpn. "i remember vividly when i was vangie's friend, we had a friendship and she came out to me and she cried and amoog the many things she said, and one of the things she said i'll probably not have children. "ittwas agonizing for us hurting a child by bringing him into this life? they're going to have interracial pprents, they're going to have lesbian parents." after a decade of introspection, vangie and marita adopted their irst child."this is the day our ffrst son gabriee was adopted. we were just really happy! we were a family." six months later:"that was cr

. >> in diepholz, lower saxony, marita schmidt cleared out her closet, and is donating old clothes to the red cross, assuming they'll go to people in need. but will they? we're going to find out. a private company -- ((not the red cross -)) picks up the clothes. the red cross just puts their name on it. we're subcontractors, working for efiba, this is what we do here. >> we visit the red cross district manager to find out more. >> we don't have anything to do with what's in the containers. they're emptied by efiba. and efiba is responsible for what happens to the clothes after they're picked up. >> the local red cross sells the donated clothing by the kilo. but where do they end up? we head to bitterfeld-wolfen to efiba's parent company, soex, a major international clothing recycler. on the loading ramp, we see masses of donated clothing -- including some from the red cross. pailak mzikian shows us the world's biggest sorting facility >> this is where we start unloading. you can see how they're hard at work. we get 400 tons a day. it all comes from our subsidiaries, efiba and retextil

. >> reporter: travel experts like marita hudson thomas says people will adapt. >> people say i don't care, i'm taking my vacation, final a way to do it. >> reporter: they're emphasizing cost-saving tips. >> if you do things like eat one meal a day in your room i do this with my family if you eat breakfast in your room every morning, that's going to save you big. buy in packages. if you buy air hotel, air car hotel together, instead of standalone you are going save money on that trip. >> reporter: saving money is behind an expected rise of staycations this year, too. or at least staying close by. chris clackum, nbc news. >> presidents' day starting off wet outside. let's check the forecast with meteorologist christina loren. good morning. >> good morning. yeah we had a quick shot of rain earlier. mostly while you were sleeping. at this point cloudy conditions out there. most of the rainfall came down between 2:00 and 4:00 a.m. this morning. right now it's cloud c. out there, area of low pressure starts to move out of the bay area. you can see from your satellite imagery, cloudy condit

>> meet vangie and marita. >> this is a photo of us in our very early stages of love. >> this is gabriel'sally happy day. >> and this is the first mother's day with us. >> they showed me snapshots of their life together as a couple, a relationship that has lasted a quarter of a century. >> from the first day he loved his brother so much. >> reporter: for many years they knew they wanted children but as a lesbian couple they had doubts about whether it would happen. >> i remember vividly vangie, when i was her friend, we had a friendship and she came out to me and she cried and one of the things she said was, i'll probably never have children. and that was heartbreaking. >> it was agonizing for us because we thought we could -- you know, are we hurting a child by bringing them into this life? they are going to have int racial parents and lesbian parents. >> reporter: they adopted their first child. >> we were just really happy. >> reporter: six months later -- >> that was crazy, just like it would be for anyone to receive a call, your child's baby brother was born. do you want him? and with