Monday, March 28, 2011

Vacate the Premises

My faithful readers will have noticed that I missed blogging all last week. This is because I was on vacation. In California. Let’s go through the highlights of the trip.

  1. Flat tire. We were an hour into the trip when suddenly: POT HOLE. So two hours later, I’m a day park-hopping at Disneyland poorer and we are back on the road with 3 trusty tires and 1 new tire.
  2. 6 to 7 hours of bumper to bumper traffic.
  3. The island we were on flooded.
  4. The power got knocked out.
  5. It rained nearly the whole time.
  6. 11 boys, 5 girls, one bathroom. 
  7. The creepy old black and white photo of a little girl outside of my room.
  8. I forgot my towel.
  9. Sunburned forehead which led to a leprous forehead.
  10. There was sand everywhere in the house.
  11. I paid to NOT eat crab cakes.
  12. Failing massively at boogey boarding.
  13. Tar on the beach.
  14. My car was kidnapped for several hours.
  15. Then I was kidnapped in my car for half an hour.
  16. The boy I have a little crushlette on called me “buddy” which is the worst!
  17. The whale we paid to see fell asleep.
  18. My bangs were driving me INSANE!
  19. When I went for my mani-pedi the little mani-pedi ladies kept tricking me into getting more and more expensive upgrades.
  20. My team lost in the NCAA tournament.
  21. Bottom bunk in California where an earthquake is imminent, which could lead to being smooshed.
  22. Pooped on by a bird. (To be fair “Lindsey” got most of the poop…but I still got a little on me too.)
  23. Parking ticket.
  24. Speeding ticket…an hour away from home.
That’s not to say the trip was all bad. Mostly it was fun. A lot of fun. And I made a bundle of new "buddies." But due to the unexpected expense of the tire and tickets the trip ended up costing me about 3 times more than I thought it would.
However, I did get some shampoo and conditioner that made your head feel minty fresh AND I was introduced to the fun-time that is playing Set. Also there was an olde-timey candy store that supplied me with enough Giant Pixie Stix to keep me happy for a long while yet.

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