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| In the year of 2000 my family and I went to texas for the winter break to go viset my family. On the way thier our car broke down in New Mexico during a snow storm. We had to push our car to a motel. My dad went to go get the last room thier , but then a old guy came up and he had no car. So what my dad did was he let the man take the last room. He made all of us leave our car thier and walk a couple miles to the next motel. my dad rented a room for the night. It turns out that the room had orange rusty water, a broken heater. wood floors and no room servase. We made my dad walk down to the closest resteruant to get us dinner at 12:00. Luckely my dad fixed the car that morning and we got on the road again. That vavation we all thanked my dad! - Georgia - |
| WE LIVE IN SO. IL. WHEN OUR KIDS WERE SMALL, WE DECIDED TO TAKE THEM TO SILVER DOLLAR CITY, THE GREAT VACATION SPOT. ARE SO WE HEARD. WE GOT AS FAR AS ROLLA MO. ON THE FOURTH OF JULY. IN A OLD VAN. IT WAS CLOUDY AND A LITTLE RAINY. MY HUSBAND PULLED TO THE SIDE OF THE ROAD TO CHECK OUT A SMELL. OUR SON WAS TOLD TO GET OUT AND CHECK UNDER THE VAN. HE GOT BACK IN AND SAID "IT'S ON FIRE". NEEDLESS TO SAY WE ALL JUMPED OUT. WE WAS ON THE INTERSTATE A FEW MILES FROM ANYWHERE. A OLD MAN CAME BY IN A TRUCK AND GAVE US A RIDE TO TOWN. WE WENT TO BUS STATION. TO SPEND ALL OUR MONEY ON A RIDE HOME. NO BUSES RUNNING THAT DAY. SO MY HUSBAND DECIDED TO CALL A JUNK YARD AND HE GAVE THEM THE VAN. HE THEN RENTED A U-HAUL THE BIG TYPE WITH THE ROLL UP WINDOW. SO WE ALL PILLED IN THE BACK OF THE TRUCK . WE PUT SOMETHING UNDER THE DOOR FOR A LITTLE AIR. WE THEN DROVE BACK TO ST. LOUIS GOT A ROOM RIGHT BY SIX FLAGS. STAYED ALL NIGHT . AND STARTED HOME NEXT DAY WITHOUT GOING TO SILVER DOLLAR OR SIX FLAGS. THE KIDS NEVER LET THEIR DAD LIVE IT DOWN. OH, YES WE WOULD KNOCK ON WALL TO LET THE ONES IN FRONT KNOW THE ONES IN BACK WERE OK. I GUESS THE PEOPLE BEHIND US THAT DAY HAD SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT. ALL THE LITTLE HEADS LOOKING AND WAVING TO PASSER BYES - |
| When I was in grade school I was in a gifted program. Every year we would go on a trip to different state. One year we went to Boston. I had just had a panic attack before we left because I was having trouble breathing. When we got to Boston we went to a couple of historical sited before going to our hotel. when we went to the hotel(finally) we ran to the room to get our bathing suits so we could go in the indoor pool which was awesome. After that it was about midnight and we were all finally getting to sleep. Then the fire alarm went off. We all ran to the lobby but by the time we got down there the fire department was already there. We froze our butts off because we were all in shorts and tank tops. We later found out that there was no fire but that someones room had a sensitive system and when they were taking a shower it went off. Atleast I wasnt them right. Wrong. I started to have another panic attack and I couldn't sleep the whole night. I was never happier to be back home and back in school.-Anonymous - |
| Sept 11, 2001~ Husband and I get up early to catch our flight for our 4th anniversary. Well, like my husband always does... causes us to run late. We have to call a cab to Airport. Of course, stupid cabbies are not on your time preference, still running late. Problems at bag checking place, and security, we miss our flight. My short tempered husband gets pissed off, and we decide to drive the 10 HOUR drive to our destination, later on the radio we find out that the plane we were supposed to be on ends up crashing into a field in Penn. We were supposed to be on Flight 93. The only one of four planes that did not reach there "crash destination". Now that i think back, I'm glad my husband is always running late, and that cabbies dont really care if you get were your going on time as long as they get paid.&nb sp; We are very lucky, and i thank God we are both here today. ~Gail - |
| i was with my family and at the house we rented there was a big huge pond! my cousin and i were inside and my sis was outside. a muunite after that ny sis was sreamng "HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" turns out she fell into the pond ittook about 5 munites to fish her out. - |
| About two years ago I went to Las Vegas for a little fun, My grandparents lived in AZ so they were going to pick me up in Vegas; spend a couple of days there and then we were going to to AZ. That part all happened and we had a blast. A couple days later we went to laughlan, NV and on the way home my grandfather was having a hard time breathing. Well, that night he had a heart attack, and was lifelined back to Vegas. It was some kind of holiday so there were no hotels open. I had to stay in this ghetto place, where the sheets were dirty, and the locks didn't work. My grandfather was doing alright so I flew back to Portland. The next morning my brother told me that he passed away. So, naturally I jumped in the car and started driving back to AZ. That was part 1 of a really bad vacation but it doesn't end there, I spent another week in AZ and on the way home after my grandfathers services there was a fatal car accident, that my brother and I were directly behind. This lady fell asleep behind the wheel and the gaurd rail took off her head, thats right she was decapetated!!!! - |
| Well, my family and I were going to go on a cruise and we were ready to go already paid and everything. This was in 05 so Katrina hit New Orleans and our cruise was cancled to help pick up the victims and I was mad but at least we got a refund for another cruise which was awsome. Well then my siblings decided they would rather go to a homecoming dace at school so i was left with just me and my parents woopy. Alot of ppl i know were going anyways so it didnt matter to much. Well I live in Ky and we had to go down to Fl 15-18 hour drive and i dont sleep very well in cars so it was a long drive. When we got there we decided to come down two days early and stay at a hotel. We got lost trying to find the hotel and when we did it was o.k. and all. So on Moday moring when we were leaving the ship was older so it wasnt as nice and great like the carnival ships say they are but we had fun anyways. Our trip was to go to Key West on Wednesday and The Bahmas on Fri. Well we had alot of fun until we got to Key West and this was the week that hurricane Wilma i think it was hit. So have the shops were closed and boreded up so that sucked and then there was this one lady in this shop who said that a 12 p.m. maditory evacuations started for all none resedents and by this time is was 1 p.m. so we were like a mile away from where the ship was so we ran back and it was gone we hadnt been notified so we had to fly to the Bahamas to get back on the ship it was horrible we barely got to the Bahamas in time we got there at like 10 p.m. and they left at midnight so missed everything there was and we arent planning any cruises any time soon. - |
| When I was like 7, me and my family took a trip to Florida. unfortunately we had to drive there in a junky old station wagon that was overheating so we had to have the heat on the entire time(this was during summer), and to make matters worse, it was a 2-day trip(New York to Florida) and there were 6 people in a five seater car. - |
| OK I GO ON VACATION TO MYRTLE BEACH WITH MY SISTER HER HUSBAND AND MY 3 YR OLD NEPHEW. WE ARE OUT ON THE BEACH FROM LIKE 8 A.M. TO 4 OR SO P.M. AND I PUT SUNTAN LOTION ON IN THE MORNING WHEN I FIRST GET THERE WELL WERE HANGING OUT ACTIN DUMB DOING ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING YOU CAN ON THE BEACH WELL WHEN I WENT THERE THAT MORNING I WAS LIGHT WHEN I CAME HOME THAT NIGHT I WAS SO DARK I WAS ALMOST BLACK IT WAS CRAZY THEN LIKE ALWAYS I STARTED TO PEEL THAT NIGHT SO IM ALL PATCHY WHERE IM PEELING AND THE NEXT DAY WE DO THE SAME WE GO TO THE BEACH BLAH BLAH BUT THIS TIME WE WERE THERE FOR LIKE 3 HOURS AND WHEN I GOT HOME I COULDN'T EVEN TOUCH MY SKIN I WAS SO BURNED AND MY SKIN WAS DIFFERENT AND DARKER SHADED WHERE I PEELED AND DIDN'T PEEL. I COULD BARELY PUT CLOTHES ON IT WAS SO BAD SO THE NEXT DAY I WOKE UP WITH MY SKIN HAVING HUGE LONG BUBBLES AROUND MY NECK AND LITTLE BUBBLES ALL ON MY STOMACH COME TO FIND OUT I HAD 2ND DEGREE SUN BURNS. MAN IT HURT. MY NECK HAD LONG ABOUT 6 INCH SCABS AROUND MY NECK MAN DID I LOOK LIKE A FREAK THEN A YEAR LATER WE GO BACK AND THIS TIME I USED MORE SUN SCREEN THEN EVER SO I DIDN'T GET LIKE THAT AGAIN AND GUESS WHAT THIS TIME I GOT SUN POISONING AND SICK FOR LIKE 2 DAYS FROM IT. I LOVE MYRTLE BEACH. - |
| We set off to france to stay in ma mums mates caravan, we flew to france and picked up the car, first of all we couldnt find the campsite, it was a bit of a laugh because we had to go through the tolls like four or five times before we decided we were going the right way... any way we reached the campsite and we were all exhausted because we didnt sleep much on plane, anyway we went straight to bed and got up next morning, the campsite wa beautiful. We had sum breakfast at the pool bar and set off to beach for the day. This is where it all went terribly wrong!! We had an ace time at the beach and we went to the supermarket on the way back, as we were gettin back in the car we noticed some smoke, not thinking anything about it we headed back to the campsite. We came to the roundabout and were stopped by police as were many other cars, we asked what was happening, at this time all that was said was that there was forest fires. from where we were sat it didnt look like anything major was in the way of it until later on we found out that 3 campsites had been hit by the blaze and our was one of them and 80% of the site was unrecognisable... We had lost everything including passports, money, clothes. We were all moved on to an old aircraft hanger for the night, i couldnt sleep!! The next night we stayed there again the night after we stayed in a hotel and the night after that we were sleeping in the airport!! It was the worst holiday ever!! So that was the end of that holiday! one day i went on a vacation and all i could think bout is this boy jake i really like. well, i would always get nervous at school because i thought he would ask me out. well, he never did but we went to the poconos and he was in the cabin next to us. We didnt know until he came over and asked why it was so loud. turns out my sisters was makin out wit her boy toy i was so embarassed cuz i was in a robe and he thought it was me wit some one else. I tried to tell him it wasnt me but he didnt listen he just ran bac to his cabin and at scool he dosnt o near me ar talk to me and i m so mad cuz he is the love of my life!!!!!!! - |
| i had a vacation in 1999 and we went to hawaii and when we got there, our hotel had just BURNED DOWN!!! the cook made 1 mistake in the kitchen and boom. we had to stat in this cruddy motel. thhen as we were swimming in the ocean my friend she gat stung by this H.U.G.E huge jelly fish. She was in the hospital the rest of our vacation. on the way home the flight was canceled and we had to stay for 3 more weeks. grrrrrr. due to a huge hurricane in fl(live there) -jessie - |
| Years ago, when I was not quite 19, I went to Florida for a vacation because I was having trouble with my sinuses and the doctor's advised it. I rented an apartment. My boyfriend and I had just broken up and I was not to happy. I was definately not ready to start a new relationship. The tenant next to me happened to be an FBI agent and he told me "that there was a criminal who was killing girls who looked like me in the area and he was going to watch me because he felt I would be targeted." Not a good way to start a vacation. I soon met a young man and his brother and sister-in-law who happened to live near my grandmother. I didn't tell them a whole lot about my family since I didn'[t know them but did mention I had a little sister. The young man liked me and asked me out. I told him I was leary, because I didn't know him. We finally agreed to meet at a public resturaunt on the beach later in the day. Unfortunately, the young man followed me back to my apartment later in the day after I took a swim in my bikini and broke in my apartment, threw me around and raped me and threatened to kill me. He continued to rape and threaten me for two more days. Everytime I tried to escape, he would stop me. The FBI agent suspected something was up. He was there with his family and was also occupied with them. He had the manager check on me and they broke the lock and got in but the guy pulled me out the other door. He held me in his room for a couple of more days and I finally convinced him to let me go. He had gotten my home address and phone number off my luggage tag and threatened that he would blow up my family's home if I told anyone and he would kill my little sister. A couple of weeks after I got home, he showed up at my door. He was checking on me. Enough was enough. I decided I needed to start threatening him back. I found out where he lived and went and threatened him back. He tried to run me off a bridge with his car and the highway patrol happened to be there and arrested him. Oh yea! I found out his sister-in law was a narcotics officer, his brother a pusher and she didn't know about it. The guy who raped me was high on heroin at the time. ....anonymous. - |
| Ok i had to go to napa california(wine country).. which is beautiful.. but that didnt make my trip better..i went with my grandpatents and my two cousins.. any ways..we were going to my great aunts 80th birthday.. so we flew in to okland.. which is about 45 minutes from napa.. but my grandpa drove so it ended taking TWO hours.. and i was in the back seat cramped and when we finally got there the room only had 2 beads!.. so we had to ask for a extra one.. which finally came the second night!...and we went to go eat at "in and out" across the street when all of a sudden its starts pouring!.. and we have to sit in there for an HOUR and i had to go to the bath room and when i open the door i hear BLAH GAGABARF BARF... someone is throwing up!..ewwwwww..and then the next day we went to the birthday party (about 20 minutes away) on our way back we got lost and it took us 1 1/2 to get back...and then the next day we went to an amusment par k that 6 flags bought out.. and i dont like roller coasters.. so i didnt go on ANY rides.. and on the plane ride back me and my cousin sat together.. and ended having to sit next to a woman w/ food poising!.. ewww.and it was so smelly!.. and we sat there next to her barfing for and hour.. then finally the flight attendent let me and my cousin go sit w/ the kids that flight by there selves.. for the rest of the flight.. which was fun.. but unfourtanly there was only 20 minutes left-unknown - |
| My stepmom and dad planned a vacation down to Disney world in which we would rent an rv and stay at an rv park in Newport Beach, Ca. So we loaded up the rented RV which of course just getting it home to load was where the problems started. My parents live on 5 acres of forested property in which you drive down several one lane very narrow roads with low hanging trees, and of course on one of the roads here comes another car and this jerk decides he doesn’t want to back up leaving my parents to try to back up. So altogether it is Me ( 17 at the time), my younger brother (10) and my stepsister (14) and of course my parents. So all goes well way most of the way down there, I think we were somewhere near the Californian border when I went into the back bedroom to lay down on the bed since it was extremely hot and we had the windows open blasting air back there. So laying on the bed was not very easy, turns out every pothole we hit and there were many sent me bouncing into the air and of course a combination of bouncing and reading sent me running to the bathroom puking. We had planned to stop a few hours in San Fran and were really looking forward to it but turns out there is absolutely no parking for an RV, anywhere so instead we sat in traffic trying to get back on the highway. We finally get into los angeles and true to the rumor of LA having the worst traffic we were stuck in it, for almost 4 hours. This is where someone had the great idea of initiating the game of smacking each other whenever we see a VW beetle or pt cruiser. I was getting pretty angry and black and blue by this time and shouting at the little snots was not working either. Well we head straight over to Disneyland still shouting, arguing, and of course still play the stupid game. We were in a long line waiting to pay and pull into the parking garage since it was a Saturday and only 2 booths were open. So it came our turn and my dad was driving and aggravated from listening to them arguing for the past 45 minutes in line and the 4 hours in traffic that he wasn’t paying attention when pulling forward past the booth and hit the big cement pole the protects the man standing in the booth and it cracked and buckled the rv door and dented the latch covers on the outside so much we couldn’t open them, and of course he declined the insurance. Have I mentioned my dads temper yet? He was PISSED!!!! So he got out to look at the damage therefore now there was only one available booth to let people in, can you imagine how angry people were getting? He did manage to cool his temper and relax while at Disneyland and once we returned home we decided that maybe they wouldn’t notice how the door just kinda hangs there if we clean it out really well. So my dad pound out the latch doors and repainted them while us kids completely washed out the rv. Turns out they weren’t to mad about the door, lots of parents rented RV’s for there teenagers to use at a rock concert being held in an amphitheater where most people camp out in so you can imagine the state of most of the RV that were being returned. They were just thankful for it being clean and turns out had a spare door to change out and gave my dad a break on the cost of the damage. - Heather - |
| I was going to Disney with my Marching band for school. We met at the school at 8:00AM. When i got there everything was fine. We were told to leave our luggage outside for when the busses arived. We were sitting in the auditorium with our parents i was sitting by my best friend, Jessica, and her Boyfriend. A parent who was outside watcing the luggage came in and said that it started to rain so all our luggage got wet. then the Busses were late comming to load the luggage at the school. We had just stopped for lunch and we got going again and we stopped agian I found out that there was something wrong with the bus i was on, Bus 2. Here the tolit got clogged. We got going agin and we stop at a mall. My teacher, Mr.G, Told us that bus 2 is haveing trouble and we have to wait for another one to come from buttler which was 2 hours away. So we were at a mall in the parking lot for 3 hours after we at dinner. When the bus finally came we had to load all the luggage again. We ended up getting to Disney Like 5 hours late. We weren't allowed to go to the hotel before we went to our first park and Jessica and I didn't have a change of clothes because we were suppoes to go to the hotel first. We felt like crap the whole day.It Sucked. - |
| When we were 18, me and a mate went to London to celebrate our birthdays which were a week apart. it was going great, untill we went shopping i left my friend in topshop chatting to a fit lad when i went to get some food for both of us. when i came back, she had spent our £300 spending money for the 5 day vacation on a coat, shoes and watch for the lad. whats worse the next day the guy left WITH all the stuff, promising to call her the next day. we had nothing to eat for the rest of it so we had to get waitressing jobs (as the money was for tickets home too). my friend never heard from the lad again. I was on vacation in Glasgow.I thought I would be in for a real good holiday and then when I arrived I stepped out of my cab in front of my hotel where a gang of young neds punched the shee-gite out of me it was really scary.then a member of staff came out the hotel to help and then one of the neds shat on my face.it was a terrible experience. - |
| Our church goes to this HUGE christian concert every year called ICHTHUS.By huge i mean like 20,000-30,000 people all gatering to watch concerts and worship.I had been the year before, and had a blast. Its down in KY, and its in the middle of spring during the rainy part. Anyways, we drive down there with no problems at all. The year before it took us like 7 hours to go the last 5 miles to camp. We get to a spot, set up our "tents", and check out some of the shows. Well, these "tents" are actually portable garages. The huge tents you park cars in. Well the next day its beautiful, the shows are fun, and everythings goin good. Later in the day during some of the big shows, they make an announcement in between bands that there is a squall line moving in and they're slightly worried about heavy wind and rain. An hour or so later, they make another announcement saying that its lookin bad but they dont think we'll get hit. Another hour later (you can see this huge grey wall of clouds moving in from the southeast), they say its not lookin good and they'll keep us updated. Well that squall line moved right in, really close. So close that it made half the sky look like day and the other half look like night. Just as they say its gonna get bad, we need to evacuate to our campsites, it starts raining and blowing a little. Well no biggie.....theyre only takin 20,000 people and marching them out of a stage area down one main path. People are running, screaming down this path. Me and my girlfriend are running against rain thats blowing SIDEWAYS along with a bunch of other people. When we get to our bus (thank God we were pretty close to the stage), we sit down and pray that we wont get blown away. Well, we didnt, but some of our tents did. We had TWO of those big carport tents TIED TOGETHER!, get blown into a charter bus. The guys tent, along with ALL of our belongings, blows sideways, rolling around and taking out these little camping tents. ON TOP OF THAT, Andrew, our local giant, reinjured his foot, like a month after he had been back to normal after breaking a few bones in it. Hes not a little person. Hes about 6-8 or more, 250 lbs or so. He stayed in one of our rental vans through the whole storm. After the storm passed over us, (turns out there had been a tornado that touched down just after it went OVER the whole camp site), we gathered our luggage, much of it soaking wet, and threw it into the back of the bus. This is like 10PM in KY. we get back to IN around 2AM and order pizza and sleep in the church. This was one of the coolest trips ive been on, and I'll never forget it. The hand of God was truely over the whole site, which is actually a cow pasture during much of the year. Needless to say, they have since moved the event back a month to avoid storm season. - |
| I was about 7 years old and I went to New Mexico for the summer with my dad, brother, 2 uncles, and Stepmom to stay with my grandparents. On the way there my uncle's wallet was stolen (he was carrying the money for the trip), and then we had to find an ATM machine to get out about $2,000.00 just to get there. once we arrived we found out that my grand parents had moved so we had to go all over looking for the new house. once we had found the house we where all so tired that we could barely stay awake for a couple of hours. The next day we went to the white sand dunes and took a hike. After we where about a mile or 2 away from the car we found out that my dad left the water in the car so we had to wait for him 2 go get it. that night we went out for dinner and our reservations where canceled so we had to wait an hour and a half to eat. A week later after all that and more we headed home. Once we got home we unpacked we found the wallet in the crack of the seat. i like stubbed my toe and i ate a bad orange and i woke up late and uh i was bored and i went to this program thingy majig and my hands losed control and i punched somebody and im so sorry it was a mistake and uhh i dont know what to do or say and im so scared and i was broke and i didnt have a car and i missed my mommy and im 45 and i didnt get any good icecreams,sweet treats and sugr plums and i still live with my mommy. - |
| Well a couple of years ago we were in Mrytle Beach at this hotel called the Camalot. well i got to take my friend Heather with us and we were swimming in the pool. we were doing backflips and frontflips into the pool and heather did a backflip perfectly the 1st time. And the next time she hit her head on the side. well she ended up being okay but she had to get 7 stitches in her head. the wierd thing was that they were blue, and regular stiches are plain black. - |
| My worst vacation was when i was about 13 . I was going down to a resort by a lake ,and the only reasonwe were going somwhere stupid like that is because my dad is obbsessed with fishing and stuff. Well , it was me and my parents and my freinds family and one of her freinds . so about the second day we were their i get as sick ass a dog. So my parents take me to the local hospital ,and they say i have the stomach flu . and they give me a medicine to take for it . well i take it and i get worse except scary worse and my eyes are rolling back in my head and my tongue is so swollen it tont stay in my mouth. And my mom being as protective as she is takes me to the emergency room. and she trows a big fit cuz they dont know whats wrong with me .so she finally takes me home and of course its a eally long drive and me throwing up in a bucket the whole time . so when we get home she takes me to a pediatrician and he says that i was allergis to the medicine that the stupid doctor gave me and that the prescription he gave me was for an adult and said that i could have died . - |
| I was staying in a hotel with my parents and in the middle of the night my mum started screaming and ran into the coridor right in front of my crush and said my daughter fancies you and then colapsed my crush had to carry her back inside it was the worst holiday ever-Sophie, Manchester - |
| My whole family (me, my brother, and parents) go to the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee every year now. Well, we got some kind of deal and we got 2 nights free in this fancy- sounding hotel. Well, when we got their, we were horrified!! There was a blood stain on one of the bed's sheets. Eww!!!! The room looked like it hadn't been cleaned in a while. One of the plastic cups you pour coffee into was already used!! There were used straws on the floor, and it was so nasty! We had to stay at that hell-hole for 2 days!!! - |
| So here goes....my absolute WORST vacation experience! I guess it all started the night before we left. I was 16 at the time and my pet hamster was missing, perfect timing eh? Well anyway, we searched for a long, long time and couldnt find her. Mom said not to worry about it, the lady watching the other pets would find her. So next morning we leave to go camping. Its the place we always go to, and my friend Jill hapened to be there with her family too. Anyway, the campground was having this teen dance. So obviously me and my friend go, it was great until Jill left me to go talk to some guy. I was fine, talking with guys and whatnot, until my little brother came running to the stage and hopped on. Everyone was looking at him totally confused. He stole the mike from the band and was absolutely screaming my name. I was making my way to the bathroom, but of course he had to see me. He then told the world that he found my hamster in one of the coolers. Then he held her up and dropped her. CHAOS! Girls are such babies, honestly its just a hamster! Anyway, girls running in every direction sceaming , guys laughing and trying to round up their dates, my brother yelling to be careful not to step on my hamster, and me and my friend looking for the poor thing. Anyway, I saw her frozen from fear and dove for her. I knocked this really cute guy over in the process. I caught the stupid hamster but the guy fell on me, Which hurt by the way. Anyway, then my brother runs to me and makes the drumset fall over making such a racket. So the band was yelling at me, the cute guy apologizing to me, my friend laughing at me, and my brother telling me the story of him finding my hamster. Then it all somehow worked out. Jill's now dating the lead singer, The cute guy (David) is now my boyfriend, and my brother? Well his allowance is still going to the band to repair their equipment. - Lisa - |
| I went to Panama and my best friend that I hadn’t seen in like about a year ditched me for a rude chick and totally dissed me the rest of the week! Ya w/e! -loser - |
| Me and my family went on a snow skiing trip to Taos New Mexico. I had been skiing all day, and I was exhausted. Our cabin was right on the hill, and I decided I was going to attempt to ski into the entrance. I got up some speed and I was trying to ski in. I almost managed to make it, but I lost my balance and fell into the ski net. No matter how hard I tried, I could not get up. I looked up and saw this incredibly cute guy walking towards me. He flashed the most gorgeous smile at me and I thought that my heart had melted. He was nice enough to help me up out of the net and smiled at me again and just kinda giggled. My embarrassing moment just had to be witnessed by a really hot guy!! OOPS!!!! - Hails My buddy eric came up with a bright idea that we should go on mini vaction to miami beach for a weekend. It was the middle of winter and we are from ohio. Four other friends and I thought it was also a good idea since we were pretty sick of the winter already. We agreed to the trip and let eric plan and book the whole trip. All that we had to do was come up with the money. So we got on our plane and arrived to miami beach to 80 degree of beautiful sunny weather. The first thing i noticed when i arrived was the nice cars and beautiful women in Miami. Of course that is what five single guys went down to Miami Beach. We unpacked in the hotel that was pretty much a rat hole, and then headed out to the street to wonder around. Unfortunately, the second thing I notice was the Homosexual men down in miami. I am not homophobic by any means, i have gay relatives as well as gay friends. I had heard that Miami had a larger homosexual community than other cities, but it seemed like there was a lot more than I had expected. We went back to our hotel and prepared for the night life. We came out dressed up nice and headed to our first bar. The door guy said "you guys cannot come in here" i said "why not". he replied "you do not have girls with you" a little confused i said "there are girls behind us". he then said "they have to be leaving with you." i had never heard of anything like this before, and puzzled.. we moved on. After finishing a night of drinking and partying we headed down to the strip. Again, like the day before, an overwhelming poplulation of homosexual men. Looking at us, and some waving to us, we even walked across a special section of the beach (on accident, and very embarassed). I was so puzzled by the lack of women and the quantiy of homosexuals, that i decided to give my uncle a call (He is gay). When i told him the story, he started laugh hysterically. I asked him what he was laughing about, and he said that we were down in Miami for "White Ball Weekend" or something like that. For those of you that don't know what it is.. it is one of the largest gay conventions in the nation. Needless to say, Eric has not been in charge of a weekend get away since. - |
| I went to Australia for my 25th birthday with some friends last year. I went snorkeling off the Great Barrier reef on my first day there, with my friend Christa. While we were in the water, I felt something sting me on the stomach, but didn't think much of it. Christa and I got back onto the boat, and we headed further out to sea, just to ride around and take in the sun. About 20 minutes later, I started to feel really sick, and when I mentioned it to Christa, she said she was feeling ill, too. My friend Jared, who lives in Australia (it was his boat) thought we were both sea sick, and that's what I thought too. So he stopped the boat. I started to feel worse and worse. Now, Christa was complaining that her arms and legs were cramping up really severe. She was in much more pain than I was, so much pain that she sat down on the floor and started rocking around and shiver ing. But I was catching up to her...Within a few minutes I was vomiting over the side of the boat. Jared asked us if anything stung us while we were in the water, and I said I felt a sting on my stomach. I was still in my bikini, so I showed him this tiny red mark, almost unnoticable, on my stomach. Jared freaked out. He knew right away what it was. He said we were both stung by Irukandji jellyfish. I had no idea what he was talking about, I never heard of irukandji jellyfish before, (although, have since done a lot of reading on those nasty little critters) Jared had vinegar on the boat and poured it over the sting. We checked Christa for marks, who was also still in her bathing suit. She didn't appear to have any marks on her, but checking here was hard, because she was now laying down, and had become incoherent and really restless. I tried to check her legs, but they were moving around too much . Jared eventually spotted a little red welt on the side of her leg. Jared doused her leg in vinegar, and started up the boat and headed towards the shore. Christa, by now, was writhing and thrashing around in absolute agony. I remember feeling horrified watching her, because I've known this girl all my life and to see her like that. I could actually hear her feet slamming into the floor over the sound of her voice, which had gone from groaning to agonized screams. I also remember the way her body would straighten out and stiffen for a second, and then fold up and start thrashing around again. I remember thinking she was going to die, and then started to think that if she was going to die, I probably would too. (they say people who are stung by the Irukandji have overwhelming feelings of doom, and I can say that is absolutely true!) &nbs p; While Christa was way worse for wear than I was (I was still relatively coherent) I was getting worse by the second. I started to realize that Christa's reaction to the venom was not more severe, it just hit her sooner. This made me panic even more. In addition to my nausea, I now started to get this awful stabbing feeling in my lower back, like someone was ramming a knife into it. I also started to get the same horrible cramping in my arms and legs. It felt like someone was tighting my limbs with a vice and it kept getting worse. Withing minutes, I was lying down and writhing in pain, next to Christa, was whose still screaming. By the time we got back to shore, by entire body was racked with indescribable pain. Jared told me, when he turned the boat around that we would drive us to the hospital, but by the time we got back, me and Christa were in so much pain, that we couldn't get up. We both just laid there on the floor of the boat, next to each other, squirming around in like two dying animals! Jared had to call an ambulance and sit there and wait, instead. The pain of the irukandji venom comes in waves. Just before the paramedics came, I got hit with another wave that sent me over the edge. The cramping in my arms and legs was so excruciating, that I couldnt stay still. I also developed a throbbing in my head that felt like someone was splitting my skull open with a crowbar. My kidneys felt like they were being crushed and, I remember my skin felt like it was on fire. All over my body, my skin felt like it was melting off. And that awful pain in my lower back. it felt as if someone was ramming a knife into my back deeper and deeper. I became unaware of anything but the pain. I remember I could hear myself screaming, and that's it. I couldnt even tell you what Christa was doing (or what planet I w as on, for that matter) Jared told me I was flopping around like a fish out of water and that I was far worse than Christa by this point. We were in the hospital a short while later, (Jared told me it was about 5 minutes, but if felt like an hour) They shot us both full of morphine and it barely did a thing. When we were in the hospital, I could hear Christa screaming in the other room, and her voice was cracking and hoarse from yelling so much. It took Christa a week to recover, and me almost 2 weeks. While on the boat, Christa broke her foot from slamming and stomping her feet around because of the pain. I spent two days in the hospital, and another week in bed. When I got back to New York, I was still bed-ridden for a while. The first 12 hours after the sting were the worst. When the waves would hit, all I could do is scream and thrash around, almost in convuls ions from the blinding agony. In between the waves, I would lie there moaning, writhing in pain. I don't think there was ever a time in that first day and night, that I was ever completely still. The pain got so bad, at one point I actually considered jumping out the hospital window, just so the fall would either kill me, or knock me out Either one was fine with me. I begged the doctor to put me out, but he said that Irukandji venom is potentially lethal, and knocking me out is too risky, so I needed to be awake and monitored at all times. I told them I didnt give a crap and I'll take the chance of dying, just please knock me out! (I'm pretty sure I called him an asshole at one point) The doctor later told me that irukandji venom can kill you, and that me and Christa were both lucky because were are both young (in our 20's) and in very good physical condition (Christa is an aerob ics instructor and I'm an avid cyclist) He said that a few people died in the last few years because their blood pressure got so high, and they went into comas and died. He said this is why they don't want to knock you out. It makes it harder to tell if you're taking a turn for the worst. Anyway, ultimately we recovered, but this happened on our FIRST DAY in australia, so needless to say, this vacation was the worst experience of my life. - |
| OK I wouldn't exactly call this a bad vacation, but I wouldn't call it the best vacation either. Last Christmas (2004) I was told by my grandparents that they wanted me to come down to visit them in Florida for two weeks later in the year 2005. So anyway, my mother had been looking everywhere for a round trip airfare that would allow me to have two splendid weeks with my grandparents. After a while on looking (and me nagging and bugging her about it constantly) she finally found me 12 daay vacationing time by taking a round trip flight on JETSTGO. Ya that's right, JETSGO! Anyway, to make things great for me, my vacation was booked for the two weeks before March Break. Wsn't I thrilled, three full weeks without having to look at my school. Anyway, after counting down the days in hours, minutes, even seconds, and of course, after annoying everyone I knew like crazy, the day finally came for me to go. My mother decided the day before my flight to wake me up at 2:00 in the morning to take me to Pearson International Airport, to catch my flight which wasn't suppose to leave till 10:00 later that day. So there I am, sitting in my mom's van, pretty much speeding down the 401 as there's like no one at all on the highway. And of course, while mymom's speeding, I'm panicking as the roads are slippery as it's been snowing for the last 4 hours. So we finally get to the airport and I forget my favourite CD in the van. Now what am I suppose to listen to while down south. Anyway, I finally get my ticket and go to the terminal to wait for my flight. Before I know it, I'm on the plane heading to my destination. As soon as I get down there, I'm practically dying from the heat. It's hot enough for me to wish I was still In Canada. Anyway, I get into the airport and finally find my grandparents. After about a twenty minute drive, we finally arrive at their place, and for once I get my own room while I'm on a vacation. Anyway, I'm so tired that I pretty much fazll asleep as soon as I get unpacked. It's only 4:00 pm too. Anyway, before I even have a chance to say anything, my gradparents tell me the plans and ideas they have for my stay. Everything actually went well for me, I had fun. There were only a few problems. Even though it was the last day of February and first eleven days of March, and even though it was Florida, it was freezing every night. The only way I could sleep was by thinking of the harsh conditions back here in Canada. Also, the ocean was way too cold to swim in, and I think it was jeally fish season as well as I saw many jeally fishes along the entire beach. Also, the day before I was supose to head home is the day JETSGO goes bankrupt. Yep, I had no way of getting home. Anyway, as soon as my mother noticed about the bankruptcy she called my grandparents as well as many different airlines trying to get me a flight. Finaly after about an hour of sleep (as I was way too scared to fall asleep) my grandparents wake me up to tell me I'm leaving in less than an hour. Ok, now I'm rushing, never mind how tired I am. I finally board the plane to come home and of course the whole ride home, there's major turbulance, which scares me nearly to death. I'm safe at home now but I don't know how long I'm going to stay on hard ground before taking another pane again. OH YA, DID I MENTION IT WAS MY FIRST TIME ON A PLANE BY MYSELF? - Anonymous - |
| Here's the thing! We're traveling to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. We're having a dance competion there and I have to car pool six of my friends along with my sister and brother. We have only a mini van plus we have our dance costumes and stuff. We each had about 10 costumes which comes to 70 costumes total, plus our shoes, make- up and our regular beach clothes for the rest of the time we have. We were COMPLETELY crammed. So we're driving through Ohio and we get pulled over because some of us aren't buckled and of course my mom gets really pissed. So we were sitting there for about 1 hour because the police wouldn't let us leave until we were buckled (meaning we had to double buckle which the cop said was fine). They also noticed that my mom's tailight was out. So then, we had to stay even longer until we got a new light. When we finally started to take off, my mom was FLYING through the traffic which we then got into an accident. It was terrible. Nobody was injured- luckly- just a few scratches here and there. Since our car was completely damaged by now, we went to Rent-A-Car where my mom choose the biggest van they had but we were still crammed. After this horrific event, we continued our journey to SC. We finally reached our hotel about 3 hours later. We were staying at the Boardwalk. We got to the lobby got our key and went to the room. We were searching around the room to see what was around. We realized something was sticking out of one of the chairs. I lifted up the cushion to find a bitten pizza crust just sitting there and rotting. EEEEEWWWWWWW! It was so gross. After we got the maids in our room we found something else. Now this was pretty disgusting. There were brown and yellow stains on the wall and bedding. There were crumbs in the bed and who knows what on the carpet! Luckly, we got a new room and a refund considering the room we had was more expensive. After competion was over, we were tired and decided we wanted to take a little night swim. It was right before we jumped in that we noticed the water was a little bit foggy with some green stuff in it. We found out from someone that a kid was in a hospital for 3 days because he swam in that pool. So we decided to swim in the outside pool. The next day, we decided not to swim in the pool, but instead we decided on the ocean. We were having fun wakeboarding, except for the salt water, it tasted gross. While we were out a little ways, the lifeguards call everyone to shore. We weren't that nervous but we decided to ask why we couldn't swim and why we were called out. "Someone had told me that they had felt a sting ray brush against their leg. Early this morning, we got told that the sting rays were praying on the fish but after awhile they went away. But now, we just found out that now the fish are beeing watched by sting rays while the sting rays were being hunted down by sharks." By that time, we were totally freaked out. Luckly, we only had one day left, and that was the dance finals so we didn't really have spare time that day. The bad news is that we didn't even win, that was the SUCKIEST vacation EVER, in the history of vacations!!!- Molly and Shelby (Michigan Dancers!!) - |
| well, me and my family were going to maryland. we got this hotel for the week and there was these very annoying people next to us. my boyfriend had to get up and call the manager, but no one answered. well, we tried to sleep, but the music was blasting. so me and my boyfriend went next door adn it turned out that the manager of the hotel was throwing that party. we left and demanded a refund. they gave it to us. that was the worst vacation ever. - |
| One time me and my faimly went to cancun mexico and it rained the hole time we had to stay up in the hotel room and order room survies and then my lil bro got sick and we had to leave early and it was raining so hard when we got to the ariport but we still had to get on the plain and go home a hole week early and then when we got home (back in tx)and it started raining here and we turned on the weather and it had stoped raining in cancun no that we had left so it stunk now we have to wait till next summer to go back hopefully this time we wount get sick andit wount rain as much well tyvm for reading this huggs* kadie!!!! - |
| When I was 10, my mom rented a van and gathered me, my younger sister, my father, and two maternal grandparents on a trip out west from our little hometown in Illinois. My grandmother is a picky eater, so we ended up eating at every Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant from Kansas to Wyoming. Yellowstone was on fire and most of the park was closed off, so we ended up eating at the only restaurant in the area called Cecil's (much to my grandmother's protests). We waited two hours for our food that never showed - come to find out the restaurant had run out of food because of the onslaught of tourist refugees from the fires. My dad went to the gas station next door and we had doritos and Coke for dinner. We then ended up in this tiny log cabin with ants everywhere and my parents sat up all night thinking we were going to be evacuated at any moment. We left the next day and drove on up into Montana, where my grandma wanted to eat at KFC again. I don't know if it was food poisoning or a bug (or too much fried chicken) but I came down with some of the worst stomach flu of my life. I could barely get out of bed, but since we had to keep moving I had to ride in that van the whole next day. To top it all off I gave the stomach flu to my dad and my grandpa, so we were stopping every 10 minutes at a rest area. While we were driving home there was a horrible wreck in the interstate involving a semitruck, an RV, and a compact car. We waited for 5 hours before it was clear enough to drive through. I was very happy to reach finally reach home - and it was years before I could drive past a KFC without getting queazy. - |
| when i was about 10-11 we all went on a camping trip to yorkshire. we had a tiny little van and me, my 2 brothers and my sister (all younger than me so whined alot) were crammed in the back with our tent etc for about 4-5 hours. arrived campsite early evening, pitched our tent which was a huge frame thing with a million little joints and springs so took about 2 hours (which is along time to hold a pole). luckily, the weather was ok that night and the next day. however late that evening my dad looked out and saw a huge storm over the sea (we were camped on the edge of a cliff- REALLY). that night it was kinda windy so mum slept in the tent with us. apparently it was lucky she did because the gas cannister fell over and started leaking so we could have been gased or incinerated (or not have had hot food for breakfast) but she smelt it. i slept til about 4 am, when the tent poles broke off in the huge gale that was going on. we had to pack up our stuff really quickly while my parents held the tent up. we couldn't even get dressed so had to travel home in pajamas, stopping off in a busy town for breakfast- very fun in lime green pjs i dont think. all in all it was about 24 hours of holiday so that is definately my worst holiday experiance ever - heather, england - |
| So a couple years back on spring break my girlfriend asked me to go with her to panama city. this was actually like 5 years back. anyways, so we stayed in this hotel called 'the summit' super nice. it was the first time i had stayed in a condo-hotel. we were on about the 8th floor and my girlfriend and i were out on the balcony watching all the drunk college people run around down by the pools righht below us. suddenly we heard screaming and a girl flew right by us and landed on the side of the pool. she was drunk and thought she could jump from like the 10th floor from her balcony, which was coincedentally 2 floors right above ours, down to the pool. well..she almost made it. needless to say i was scarred for life, however. and the pool wasnt open again for like a month. - |
| Well, the day we arrived was a nightmare, I get travelsick so it was worse for me than it was for the rest of family. When we finally arrived after 7 hours in the car (going to devon). We decided to park in the main parking area but there was a big lorry there when we wanted to get out. Then we started to hear rumors that a girl about my age had been stung by a wasp and had an allergic reaction but couldnt get to the hospital because of the truck. When we got out of the parking area we went to check out our 2nd class new caravan. It was a disgrace the beds were broken and we were supposed to be the first ones to stay there. Luckily being the only girl of 4 I got the best room! It wasnt that nice once when i was getting changed I saw an earwig and my dad had to come in and get rid of it(when I was changed). Next day we decided to check out the pool but it had been closed due to heater problems. We decided to get an icecream to cheer ourselves up but loads of wasps landed on them so we threw them in the bush. My elder brother had just ben stung by about 60 wasps at school so we were all pretty scared of them. The week finally came to an end but because the place was so bad we went to playschemes nearly every day! - |
| Once i was taking a vacation at camp for a few days. i thought it was supposed to be girls only but i saw my crush there and all his friends too. i got a tent with him just him and me. once he said he had to go to the bathroom so after he had been gone a few seconds i realized i had to go too. so i went to the bathroom (only one person at a time) and i forgot he was in there so i walked in and he was standing there in his tidy whities!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - |
| When my second husband and I got married,we decided to go to the Bahamas on our honeymoon. We got married in February,and it was cold for Florida that year. We drove to Lauderdale,and parked in a parking garage,and went on a cruise ship. Well,it started there. The cruise ship was anciently old,and turns out,was running on only one engine. We left at the same time as the other ships ,but they got to port FOUR hours ahead of us! So,we get there,and the hotel we had booked turned out to be some rinky-dink hole in the wall place,that didn't even have HEAT. Well,I didn't even bring but one pair of long pants with me,and my ex was smoking a cig on the ship in the bathroom,we had alot of rough seas,and he burnt a hole in the rear end of my only pair of pants. We had no warm clothes at all. So,went to try and buy some,but I'm not a small woman,and their idea of large would've fit my five year old,lol. So,it was in the thirties,we only had one thin blanket on the bed,and no heat. When it's cold,you can't do anything in the Bahamas,so,we could only eat and drink,basically. So,after two days of this,we decided to fly home early. ( I had never flown,EVER.) So,we book a flight,and give them the hotel room number off the telephone. We got to the airport which is smaller than a Walmart,and our flight had been delayed several HOURS,and nobody bothered to call us because the number on the phone in the room apparently didn't go with that phone,lol. So,we thought we'd gotten a Delta flight,turns out it was a 20 seater plane,and I almost passed out during the flight. So,we make it home,when we get back,it's a Sunday,at about 6 pm. Our windows in our car had been busted out. Glass everywhere. So,we had to go to a gas station and buy cling wrap and tape,to tape the windows up for our four hour ride home. ( Remember,no jackets either.) We had to stop every 30 minutes and retape and wrap the windows. Sho uld've known how the marraige was going to be!! LOL - |
| i wouldn't really consider this a vacation, but it was a road trip... anyway, i moved from tennessee to new orleans in april of 2005. a few days before hurricane katrina was even predicted, i went back to nashville to visit friends and family. naturally, i was stranded when the hurricane devestated the majority of the state. since my house wasn't in too bad of shape, my dad decided that he, my mother, and myself would drive back to new orleans when allowed to retrieve my car and some of my belongings. we drove his dodge ram with an 18 foot flatbed trailor in tow. within an hour of interstate driving, my dad managed to drive over an entire box of roofing nails. we didn't notice any damage until we were in alabama, and my dad spent four hours prying out the nails and patching the tires because he didn't want to buy four new tires. we stopped a few hours later, in tuscaloosa, at a hotel my parents had already set reservations for. since i was paying for everything, i was irate that they chose a very nice, very expensive hotel instead of some silly motel 8. all i cared about was taking a shower, checking my email on their wifi, and eating a free breakfast. however, the hotel only decided they were going to supply us with one towel - in a double bedroom. after my parents bathed, i had nothing to dry off with. no shower. then the wifi refused to work. the next morning, i was angry to discover the so-called "continential breakfast" was merely a waffle iron (i hate waffles) and some off-brand cereal. i pitched complaints left and right to the manager, and then before we left i asked him if they had a bathroom. i think he was afraid of me, so he let me use the employee bathroom. as soon as i stepped in, i noticed that the waffle batter was actually mixed in a pitcher, sitting by the bathroom sink. right beside it was a mess of cleaning brushes and sponges soaking in bleach. my mom used the bathroom after me, and when s he saw what i saw, she exited with a sick look on her face. good thing i don't eat waffles. anyway, we made it into new orleans within a couple hours and started going through my possesions. i was livid at that point, throwing objects against the walls and yelling about mold. we loaded up my honda civic and a handful of things to the back of the truck, and started driving back to tennessee. almost immediately, we became stuck in the worst traffic i have seen in the south. what should have taken thirty minutes took over five hours - and the entire time, the interstate was lined with 30-foot high piles of garbage and broken-down houses. by the time we got out of traffic and made it to alabama, my mom asked my dad where we were staying. turned out they didn't make hotel reservations for the return trip, and since there was so many contractors in town to rebuild the city, there was no vacancy for at least 450 miles. my dad drove into the wee hours of the morning, eventually stopping at a large parking lot and we slept in the car for a few hours. my mom was crying out of frustration at this point, but i was slightly amused because the truck is extended cab and i had the entire backseat so i could lay down. plus, i saved like a hundred dollars on a hotel room. after a few hours, my dad started driving again and we stopped at an iHOP for breakfast. i brushed my teeth in the bathroom and felt white trash. my mom was embarassed the entire time, commenting that we looked like the white-trash beverly hillbillies with our ride - a dodge ram with a mattress and box spring in the truck bed, towing a flat trailer that carried a busted-up car and dozens of boxes and furniture... including a lime green, polka-dotted dresser. finally, we made it to tennessee... and guess who got stuck unloading everything into the basement? yep. me. - |
| Once I was out of town and I entered a million dollar and bahama vacation lotto and a couple weeks later,I got this phone call and I ignored it.I got the strange number 4 more times and finally I answered it and I won the contest!But it wasn't real!I was only 11 years old! - |
| Well, we were going to Spain to visit my brother. We got up at 4 in the morning drove 2 hours to the airport it was a 9 hour flight plus stopping off at london and switching planes. we sat in the london airport for 8 hours i had the worst stomach ache ever. i slept most of the time in the airport anyway. we got on the plane i had to sit next to some person who kept on talking to me. my tv wouldnt work at first. the food they gave out was hardly anything. a little bag of almonds(which i dont even like) and some bad orange juice. we get to spain. stay in another part first where we had to sleep at a hotel and i hadto sleep on the floor. then we went to my brothers house. almost every night we went out to eat. i didnt like ANY of the spanish food they had a mcdonalds there and even that wasnt so great i couldnt understand anything the people were saying the beach had a whole bunch of dog poop on it everywhere you walked. i had to do hw to while i was there because we went during school and a whole bunch more.. now he lives in germany i wonder what that will be like when we go.. other then the problems i had spain was a pretty nice country -Lauren - |
| Ok One time me and my boyfriend of 3 years traveled to a football game and decided to fib to the parents about where we were going to stay that night since the game was a few hours away. We could have come home but it would have been "too late" lol so we went driving around trying to find a hotel that wasn't already sold out since i guess everyone who went to that game had the same idea. So we finally find this hotel that is still open and my b/f goes in a gets supposedly the last room and of course we're so excited to be this rebellious and all. So we get into the room and it is a basic crap hole. I mean the tv looks like it was the first one made with tape holding the batteries in, the pillows have like drool stains or soemthing on them and we pull back the covers to show more who knows what so we toss the spread back on and there are like cracks all over the walls and the bathroom is disgusting. We go back to the front to try to get our money back and the dude is selling another room out (thought ours was the only one left!!) so he's like ok let me look at the room. We go back and he says he can't give us our money back b/c the bed was unmade (we were there for a whole 5 minutes...what does he think he did??? lol) so my b/f said he would re-make it and the guy said he would have to re-wash the whole thing (but it didn't look like it had EVER been washed!) so anyways I go off and tell him I wouldn't pay 10 dollars to sleep in that filth and he justed smiled and said too bad...we left (and he probably re-sold the room!!)and went home and just crashed and still haven't gotten our money back because somehow everytime we call, the manager isn't there and he never calls us back...BIG waste of money and didn't get to enjoy the rebllious-ness...just had to fight off sleep driving home at 3 in the morning!! I don't know if i'll ever be able to laugh at that terrible "vay-cay"!! - |