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vacation rewind
Apr. 21st, 2008 10:18 pmthe first part of our trip..
my uncles crazy sneakers - my uncle is 68ish and in his upper age he's decided he no longer wants to wear fancy shoes to work (at the hospital he owns). no, now he designs his own adidas and converse and other random shoes and most of them are combos of all sorts of neon colors. apparently on surgery day he has matching hats for all the sneakers.
the beach house - bookshelves in library and towel bar - we went to the beach house which is my aunt and uncle's 4th house. its the one that they spend thursday night - sunday in. its gorgeous. huge. has two two car garages. they spent over $9000 on KNOBS for the kitchen cabinets. we wanted to redo our kitchen when we first moved in but wanted to only spend that much on the ENTIRE KITCHEN. crazy. the pictures we took dont do it justice. i was LOOKING for things wrong with the place and the only thing i could even think of was one of the seven (yes SEVEN) bathrooms didn't have a towl bar yet. and also the custom shelves she had built in the library were a little too tall for my liking. like you can only put really tall books on them and that just seemed weird.
ORGANIC! - when we first got to jacksonville my aunt and uncle had just gotten back from a week at Canyon Ranch.. one of those places really rich people go to rejuvenate and learn about how to be healthier and spend like a grand a night whereas normal people read a book and msnbc.com. so my uncle is on a huge organic kick. my aunt went food shopping for stuff to grill up and my uncle went thru all of it and pointed out everything that was organic. she bought all the items, she knew what she bought. but he went thru everything yelling Organic, Ell! ORGANIC!!! He was eating an apple and one point and we're all in the middle of a conversation and he stops us all and just yells ORGANIC!! It's ORGANIC!! Amazing!! he's fucking weird and so amazingly hysterical. we all randomly point to anything and just yell organic at this point.
being pulled over within 30 minutes arriving / Olu - flew into JAX and went to pick up our car. Olu (enterprise guy) talked us into a bigger car of course and he goes to take my dad's luggage and help him put it in the trunk. my dad stops and yells NO! Do you know how much cocaine i have in my bag?? do you REALLY want your fingerprints on them?? Olu laughs and opens the trunk. My dad peers in and goes "great, you can fit like 2-3 bodies back there! Are stains covered under the insurance? " And Olu is laughing, kinda nervously but still laughing. We keep going and going sign all the paperwork then my dad and i get in the backseat and mark gets in the front to drive. We tried convincing Olu to come with us but he still had an hour left of his shift. About 30 minutes later we're driving down the road (not speeding or doing anything wrong) and Mark gets pulled over. First thought in all our minds was that Olu called the cops on us. Apparently the tag light was just out. Next night we went to drop off the car and Olu wasn't there it was a different lady but she called him up and told him the car was dropped off with weird red stains and bullet holes in it. freaking amazing.
hot dog eating contest - we were at a strip of restaurants (they all had window service) and my dad was like you got the best hot dog around?? which the ice cream place claimed. so we bought hot dogs from each of the other vendors and brought them back to the ice cream lady. we all (cashier included) taste tested them. all disgusting but we had to crown the ice cream place as the winner cause she was the only one who would eat them with all of us.
eye testing - i had a bitch checking my eyes out who kept going uh oh and insisted on dilating my eyes. i guess she didn't realize my uncle owns the place? lol. i told her to ask rob if i actually had to be dilated and she was like of cours eyou will. she asked and he's like no shes young and shes my neice i'm sure she's fine. i'll check other ways. i just really hate being dilated. so she kept making me nervous and mentioned glasses and i'm like oh no. Rob came in and looked at my eyes and apparently my right eye is 20/15 and my left is 20/30 so they even each other out and since i'm only 25 i'm absolutely fine. i may need some additional correction down the line but i'm fine now. and i know my left eye is worse it's always been the worse of the two. mark and i then went and picked out some free sunglasses. mark then promptly looked up the price of his online and was shocked at the price (i think like $150 each) and then promptly lost a pair. good job markus.
Willy - when i had my lasik done and mark had his panic attack Willy saw him outside and brought him a can of coke. when mark walked in to the hospital Willy (security guard) was like heeey man!! want some coke?
Obama - i dont remember what i wanted to say about him. probably something about my aunt and uncle being crazy republicans totally against any democrat. who knows
bongoland - they had cement dinosaur replicas in the middle of a garden. amazing.
biscuits n gravy n more - where we went for breakfast. had a toothless waitress. she was amazing. i had never had biscuits and gravy and they were pretty darn good. we ended up taking pics with the waitress and cook. mark bought a tshirt and on the way out my dad apparently left such a great impression that the waitress ran after him and gave him a mug. a used mug that was kind of dirty. freaking amazing!
replica of the plane - it was in the middle of a college campus. nothing spectacular.
fountain of youth - mark had never been so he had to go. he had the same reaction i had the first time i went "this is it? no really, where the hell is it?" then you drink the nasty ass FL sulphur water and almost vomit and thats when you go "no really, i had to pay to drink this disgusting water coming out of a teeny hole in the ground" yup, welcome to the fountain of youth.
so yeah that was our vacation. i made a powerpoint that we played at passover. ahhh passover that's another entry for another time.. i need to update my resume and write up a cover letter now.
my uncles crazy sneakers - my uncle is 68ish and in his upper age he's decided he no longer wants to wear fancy shoes to work (at the hospital he owns). no, now he designs his own adidas and converse and other random shoes and most of them are combos of all sorts of neon colors. apparently on surgery day he has matching hats for all the sneakers.
the beach house - bookshelves in library and towel bar - we went to the beach house which is my aunt and uncle's 4th house. its the one that they spend thursday night - sunday in. its gorgeous. huge. has two two car garages. they spent over $9000 on KNOBS for the kitchen cabinets. we wanted to redo our kitchen when we first moved in but wanted to only spend that much on the ENTIRE KITCHEN. crazy. the pictures we took dont do it justice. i was LOOKING for things wrong with the place and the only thing i could even think of was one of the seven (yes SEVEN) bathrooms didn't have a towl bar yet. and also the custom shelves she had built in the library were a little too tall for my liking. like you can only put really tall books on them and that just seemed weird.
ORGANIC! - when we first got to jacksonville my aunt and uncle had just gotten back from a week at Canyon Ranch.. one of those places really rich people go to rejuvenate and learn about how to be healthier and spend like a grand a night whereas normal people read a book and msnbc.com. so my uncle is on a huge organic kick. my aunt went food shopping for stuff to grill up and my uncle went thru all of it and pointed out everything that was organic. she bought all the items, she knew what she bought. but he went thru everything yelling Organic, Ell! ORGANIC!!! He was eating an apple and one point and we're all in the middle of a conversation and he stops us all and just yells ORGANIC!! It's ORGANIC!! Amazing!! he's fucking weird and so amazingly hysterical. we all randomly point to anything and just yell organic at this point.
being pulled over within 30 minutes arriving / Olu - flew into JAX and went to pick up our car. Olu (enterprise guy) talked us into a bigger car of course and he goes to take my dad's luggage and help him put it in the trunk. my dad stops and yells NO! Do you know how much cocaine i have in my bag?? do you REALLY want your fingerprints on them?? Olu laughs and opens the trunk. My dad peers in and goes "great, you can fit like 2-3 bodies back there! Are stains covered under the insurance? " And Olu is laughing, kinda nervously but still laughing. We keep going and going sign all the paperwork then my dad and i get in the backseat and mark gets in the front to drive. We tried convincing Olu to come with us but he still had an hour left of his shift. About 30 minutes later we're driving down the road (not speeding or doing anything wrong) and Mark gets pulled over. First thought in all our minds was that Olu called the cops on us. Apparently the tag light was just out. Next night we went to drop off the car and Olu wasn't there it was a different lady but she called him up and told him the car was dropped off with weird red stains and bullet holes in it. freaking amazing.
hot dog eating contest - we were at a strip of restaurants (they all had window service) and my dad was like you got the best hot dog around?? which the ice cream place claimed. so we bought hot dogs from each of the other vendors and brought them back to the ice cream lady. we all (cashier included) taste tested them. all disgusting but we had to crown the ice cream place as the winner cause she was the only one who would eat them with all of us.
eye testing - i had a bitch checking my eyes out who kept going uh oh and insisted on dilating my eyes. i guess she didn't realize my uncle owns the place? lol. i told her to ask rob if i actually had to be dilated and she was like of cours eyou will. she asked and he's like no shes young and shes my neice i'm sure she's fine. i'll check other ways. i just really hate being dilated. so she kept making me nervous and mentioned glasses and i'm like oh no. Rob came in and looked at my eyes and apparently my right eye is 20/15 and my left is 20/30 so they even each other out and since i'm only 25 i'm absolutely fine. i may need some additional correction down the line but i'm fine now. and i know my left eye is worse it's always been the worse of the two. mark and i then went and picked out some free sunglasses. mark then promptly looked up the price of his online and was shocked at the price (i think like $150 each) and then promptly lost a pair. good job markus.
Willy - when i had my lasik done and mark had his panic attack Willy saw him outside and brought him a can of coke. when mark walked in to the hospital Willy (security guard) was like heeey man!! want some coke?
Obama - i dont remember what i wanted to say about him. probably something about my aunt and uncle being crazy republicans totally against any democrat. who knows
bongoland - they had cement dinosaur replicas in the middle of a garden. amazing.
biscuits n gravy n more - where we went for breakfast. had a toothless waitress. she was amazing. i had never had biscuits and gravy and they were pretty darn good. we ended up taking pics with the waitress and cook. mark bought a tshirt and on the way out my dad apparently left such a great impression that the waitress ran after him and gave him a mug. a used mug that was kind of dirty. freaking amazing!
replica of the plane - it was in the middle of a college campus. nothing spectacular.
fountain of youth - mark had never been so he had to go. he had the same reaction i had the first time i went "this is it? no really, where the hell is it?" then you drink the nasty ass FL sulphur water and almost vomit and thats when you go "no really, i had to pay to drink this disgusting water coming out of a teeny hole in the ground" yup, welcome to the fountain of youth.
so yeah that was our vacation. i made a powerpoint that we played at passover. ahhh passover that's another entry for another time.. i need to update my resume and write up a cover letter now.
