Post by N4Mazter on Feb 25, 2007 12:50:26 GMT -5
I just copied and pasted my post from my forum.
My Vacation to Florida...
was craptastic. Comically craptastic, but still craptastic. 'Bout 16-hour drive there in a cramped van, which was mostly covered by in-drive movies. You can't go wrong with a classic like "Big Trouble in Little China", or a new classic like "Shaun of the Dead". Down south, the trucks are faster than cars and are even more evil. Note: The entire time I was there, I was mostly at the Gulf-side.
The first place me and my family stayed at was an expensive 3-story rental called "Kiwi Kastle". It is in a gated community, one of those tiny donut-shaped ones with the road around being the dough, whose only street may have been called "Geoff Wilder". It was right next to the beach, which just happened to be right off a three-story cliff complete with rickety old staircase and see-through boards. Cheers.
BTW, by family, I mean me, my bro, my sister, my parents, a couple of uncles, a cousin, an aunt, and my triplet-cousins. We filled up two vans.
Before anyone gets jealous, lemme tell you what happened. The temperature only got above 70 a couple of times, and we only really went swimming once.
Here's where it gets hilarious. We got there and the water was ice cold, with lower 70-s outta the water. I'll repeat that: LOWER 70's WITH ICE-COLD WATER. I almost froze my nuts off before my insane cold-resistance kicked in. You know what I mean, beta.
Well anyway, I was standing there being pelleted with small frozen waves in knee-deep ice-water and one of my uncles spots a jelly-fish. I stare at the water a bit and see it coming for me. Cue dramatic musak. A wave forms under it and it comes after me even faster, and its new altitude puts it into position for a *critical hit* if you know what I mean. So I high-tail it outta there, avoid being hit by it, and escaped with a new, original, and comical phrase: "I was almost sack-tapped by a friggin jelly-fish." If I put that on shirts and sold 'em, I'd be a millionaire.
One day, me and a couple other dudes in my family went fishing off a pier. The total for renting stuff, getting on to the pier, and getting bait (squid bits) was about $60. The air was cold (lower 60's) and the pier was 3 stories high with see-through floor. We saw dolphins, and I caught a cold. Yeah.
This other day we went to this "Gulf World" place. It was your average mini-zoo with animal shows. Their sea lion was slightly amusing though predictable. At their reptile show, they had an albino-King-snake. White Snake, anyone? They had this one chick try on a young constrictor that was about six-feet long. It drooled, and I wouldn't blame it.
After that, me and my immediate family +1 cousin drove off for 5 hours, getting to my grandparents-in-law's place near Disney Land. Guess what? It was in ANOTHER gated community, this one being freakishly huge. The common transport for citizens was a golf-cart, and the houses had their own golf-cart garages! Here too, were strangely named streets, such as "Braveheart blvd."
Yeah, then we went to Disney Land. Took 3 hours to get there. We arrived at the parking lot and took a tram to the monorail docking station AND THEN into the actual place via 3+ story high monorail. Lots of people, merchandise shops, candy shops, general Disney stuff, etc. If you notice, I'm not really excited about it. I won't spoil the "magic" there, but you are screwed to no end if you don't get out before closing time. My family +grandparents and cousin waited half an hour to take a ferry back to the monorail station (don't ask). Then we waited an hour (and got seperated) to take trams back to the parking lot, which turned out to be a short/medium walk away. Magical.
The next morning we drove back to Ohio. Took about 20 hours. More evil truckers. Had Arby's or whatever for breakfast. Saw a sign for "Oaklahumpa Service Center". Was pretty boring after that.
Thats about it. Heres to hoping my next vacation is better.
My Vacation to Florida...
was craptastic. Comically craptastic, but still craptastic. 'Bout 16-hour drive there in a cramped van, which was mostly covered by in-drive movies. You can't go wrong with a classic like "Big Trouble in Little China", or a new classic like "Shaun of the Dead". Down south, the trucks are faster than cars and are even more evil. Note: The entire time I was there, I was mostly at the Gulf-side.
The first place me and my family stayed at was an expensive 3-story rental called "Kiwi Kastle". It is in a gated community, one of those tiny donut-shaped ones with the road around being the dough, whose only street may have been called "Geoff Wilder". It was right next to the beach, which just happened to be right off a three-story cliff complete with rickety old staircase and see-through boards. Cheers.
BTW, by family, I mean me, my bro, my sister, my parents, a couple of uncles, a cousin, an aunt, and my triplet-cousins. We filled up two vans.
Before anyone gets jealous, lemme tell you what happened. The temperature only got above 70 a couple of times, and we only really went swimming once.
Here's where it gets hilarious. We got there and the water was ice cold, with lower 70-s outta the water. I'll repeat that: LOWER 70's WITH ICE-COLD WATER. I almost froze my nuts off before my insane cold-resistance kicked in. You know what I mean, beta.
Well anyway, I was standing there being pelleted with small frozen waves in knee-deep ice-water and one of my uncles spots a jelly-fish. I stare at the water a bit and see it coming for me. Cue dramatic musak. A wave forms under it and it comes after me even faster, and its new altitude puts it into position for a *critical hit* if you know what I mean. So I high-tail it outta there, avoid being hit by it, and escaped with a new, original, and comical phrase: "I was almost sack-tapped by a friggin jelly-fish." If I put that on shirts and sold 'em, I'd be a millionaire.
One day, me and a couple other dudes in my family went fishing off a pier. The total for renting stuff, getting on to the pier, and getting bait (squid bits) was about $60. The air was cold (lower 60's) and the pier was 3 stories high with see-through floor. We saw dolphins, and I caught a cold. Yeah.
This other day we went to this "Gulf World" place. It was your average mini-zoo with animal shows. Their sea lion was slightly amusing though predictable. At their reptile show, they had an albino-King-snake. White Snake, anyone? They had this one chick try on a young constrictor that was about six-feet long. It drooled, and I wouldn't blame it.
After that, me and my immediate family +1 cousin drove off for 5 hours, getting to my grandparents-in-law's place near Disney Land. Guess what? It was in ANOTHER gated community, this one being freakishly huge. The common transport for citizens was a golf-cart, and the houses had their own golf-cart garages! Here too, were strangely named streets, such as "Braveheart blvd."
Yeah, then we went to Disney Land. Took 3 hours to get there. We arrived at the parking lot and took a tram to the monorail docking station AND THEN into the actual place via 3+ story high monorail. Lots of people, merchandise shops, candy shops, general Disney stuff, etc. If you notice, I'm not really excited about it. I won't spoil the "magic" there, but you are screwed to no end if you don't get out before closing time. My family +grandparents and cousin waited half an hour to take a ferry back to the monorail station (don't ask). Then we waited an hour (and got seperated) to take trams back to the parking lot, which turned out to be a short/medium walk away. Magical.
The next morning we drove back to Ohio. Took about 20 hours. More evil truckers. Had Arby's or whatever for breakfast. Saw a sign for "Oaklahumpa Service Center". Was pretty boring after that.
Thats about it. Heres to hoping my next vacation is better.
