Not a very Brady Hawaii
So while the Brady's got bad juju from stealing some island totem, at least they had sunshine! Hopu ka Lewa 2006 was a big mud fest, complete with thunder storms, sewage spills, and bug bites galore. We did win the tourney, which was totally awesome!!!
However my post-tourney plans of lounging in the sun were foiled by a record 40 days of rain on Oahu. The front page of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin on Thurdsay read "Still Nasty"
I'm not bitter ;) And I did manage a bit of a tan thanks to 2 days of sun proir to the tourney. Topic of the day -- vacations gone awry (ala National Lampoons).
Never thought I'd be so happy to see sunshine in Portland! Oh, and happy belated b-day to the birdflag.
However my post-tourney plans of lounging in the sun were foiled by a record 40 days of rain on Oahu. The front page of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin on Thurdsay read "Still Nasty"
I'm not bitter ;) And I did manage a bit of a tan thanks to 2 days of sun proir to the tourney. Topic of the day -- vacations gone awry (ala National Lampoons).
Never thought I'd be so happy to see sunshine in Portland! Oh, and happy belated b-day to the birdflag.
posted by L-Boogie at 9:40 AM
6 Comments:
L-boogie, I sympathize, despite not knowing you. I went to Hawaii for xmas one year (non-disc purposes, for shame) and was met with rain 6 out of 7 days. but the $4 micro pitchers at magoos almost made up for it.
For spring break my senior year of high school, 3 of my friends and I went to our old family cabin in Northern Ohio. Most of our friends went to the beach in Florida, but the 4 of us had parents that weren’t all that interested in an unsupervised trip to the beach. An unsupervised trip to the woods made much more sense.
It ended up raining the entire time we were there, but unlike Hawaii, an Ohio downpour does not make anything pretty. We spent three days doing nothing but hiking, shooting bb guns at all the lightbulbs, eating nothing but steak and cereal, shooting bb guns at the car, and playing Stratego. Eventually we turned on each other in fits of cabin fever. Kevin started insisting that drinking a gallon of milk a day was healthy, Bryan hated milk and so we had a push up contest to scientifically test the theory. Kevin was forced to chug the rest of the milk since he lost.
It ended up being the standard method to dissolve arguments.
After three days, we headed home early, because there was nothing left to do, and there’s only so many times you can question each other’s manhood without ending in fisticuffs. That night after we got home Kevin had an emergency appendectomy. If we had stayed the rest of the week, I can promise that we would have shamed Kevin into not going to the emergency room, and he would have died. So our crummy weekend saved our friend’s life, but stopped us all from getting laid in Florida. It probably wasn’t worth it.
Looking back, Kyle, I would have to say I would have preferred to go to the cabin (I thought your wanna be British fam called it a cottage). What happens at the cabin stays at the cabin. Getting nookie was nice, but way to many people in close proximity who I ended up realizing I hated. This means no privacy and prolonged blue balled timespans. I would have to guess that this would not have been the issue at the cabin...but you never know.
By the way, the cabin/cottage is awesome. A second home in a community of peoples' first homes. I think of these people as the true Lakers.
Didn't we sneak into a nearby lodge to swim without lake things crawling on you?
Now that you mention it, yes, we called it a cottage.
Adam's trip to the cottage was probably his worst vacation ever. My dog bit him the face on his trip there.
But he's right, we snuck into Mohican State Park to swim in the hotel pool. We usually did that once a week. Always remember, your last name is Johnson, you're staying in room 357, and you run after any other questions.
yesterday I had jury duty. My company doesn't pay me for this. My intentions are to use a sick day since I never use them, and although I wasn't sick, it wasn't an option to be at work either. I'm not sure they'll go for this, they might - sometimes they can be reasonable; however, if it comes to me using a vacation day... then yesterday will be the worst vacation ever.
Otherwise it would be a toss up between when the family car burned up on Donner Pass on one of the hottest august days on record [the tow trucks were just making loops up and down the pass] and the events that followed; or the road trip to Vancouver, BC that 2 friends and I made after our freshman year of college... but actually, as I think of each of those trips, neither of them was actually that bad. In fact, because of all the random things that happened they were each pretty good... and definitely memorable.
Otherwise it would be a toss up between when the family car burned up on Donner Pass
I heard about that. You used to have TWO brothers...
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