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| My mom, my cousin and I were camping. We anticipated rain, so we put the tarp over our large, three-room tent to help shelter us from it. As we laid in our sleeping bags that night, none of us could really sleep because it was POURING. Every two minutes there would be a huge flash of lightning with a deafening crack of thunder following it. Just as I was drifting off to sleep, (by this time I had grown accostomed to the noisy storm) something cold and wet crashed all around us. It was our tent! My mom swore and frantically tried to find her car keys as she yelled at us to find the opening to the tent. My cousin and I silently obeyed, listening to her yelling about how we would never go camping again. We raced to the minivan after grabbing what blankets we could and tried to sleep the rest of the night in the van. This proved difiicult as the van was very warm and moist, and three or four buzzing mosquitos decided to share our shelter, buzzing in and out of our ears the whole night. The next day we picked up everything, threw it in the van, and drove home. To this day, we have not gone camping since this experience. - Stephanie. |
| This is about our terrible vacation from hell. We as in Charlotte, Brooke, Mikey and Julie went to Naples Florida.We went to stay with our cousin. We were to have a great time but of course it never happened that way. The first couple of days we just stayed home and enjoyed my cousins company and had fun at his house. On the third day we went to the beach. We had stayed all day and enjoyed the beautiful sunset. The very next day Mikey woke up with this terrible fever and a severe earache. I tried Motrin but it didn't even help. So I called the insurance company to see where I could take him. I took him to the hospital and the doctor looked at me confused. He said" there is something in his ear." So he pulled out a piece of paper that he had gotten from the ocean. The doctor was so confused it had ocean water behind it and some sand. They gave him some medicine and sent us home. We got his fever to break and his ear to quit hurting. We went back to the beach. Well it got dark real quick so we were only their for about 1 hour. When we were leaving it started to rain. In the paper the next day it said that there was a water spout on the beach we were playing at and it had happened right after we left. We were glad we left when we did. Well we decided to stay away form the beach for a couple of days. Mikey decided to spike another fever.He also had a rash all over him. So I decided to take him back to the hospital again. Well of course I had the same nurse and she told me oh no its not you again. I of course said " Yep its me again." Well wouldn't you know it it was the Chicken Pox. They thought it was sand fleas at first but the doctor decided it was the Pox. He had the shot and so did Brooke but she didn't get them. We took him back to the house and gave him more medicine. The very same day is when it all happened.Cousin Bob came home from work and got his shorts on. We were making dinner and he came in the house from being on the back porch. All of a sudden he said "Im not feeling well." He fell straight to the floor and started to shake. I called 911 and told them to get there soon as possible. They asked me for directions and I told them listen im on vacation. My mom gave him CPR he was dead. She brought him back to life and the ambulance showed up. She was beating on his chest and told him he was dying while she was there. She brought him back to life. They took him by ambulance to the hospital which was my third trip there. My mom had to stay home and take care of the kids because I had to follow the ambulance. I get to the hospital. I was in the waiting room, in comes this girl and she sat down besides the phone and was talking about getting some drugs . I got up and ran over to the other side of the room. I could not believe all of this was happening. The doctor cam out of the ER to talk to me. He told me that Bob had a heart attack and that he needed surgery right away. I need to make some decisions. I told him that he needed to call my mother and talk to her about all of this. I didn't know what to say or do .She told them to do what ever was possible to save him which I did say that too. They came out to get me before he went upstairs for surgery. I went back to see him and they rushed me out because he had another attack. They take him upstairs for surgery. So I had to sit and wait. They told me that he only has a 5% chance of living and that I need to make some decisions. I was like don't even ask me call his Dad in PA and talk to him. He went threw the surgery with flying colors. I was never so glad to get back to his house. On the way home from the hospital for the 3rd time his car overheats and his defrosters quit working and it was raining. I had to stick my head out of the window just to see to get back to his house. We went to see him the next day and everything was good the doctors told us. The kids just wanted to come home by that time, I was really ready to. We decided to go to the beach one last time before it was time to come home.We knew that Mikey was fine and Bob was ok too. Well me, Brooke and Mikey were out in the ocean pretty far and it was very windy that day We were talking about the starfish and all of a sudden we hear this horrible scream " GET OUT OF THE WATER IT IS A SHARK." So I grabbed the kids and ran as fast as i could. All i could see was my mother white as a ghost sitting in her chair yelling at us to get out.Well by the time we got to the beach we found out it was just a huge Manatee floating threw the water. It was the size of a tractor trailer. Boy we were all very scared though. Now it was time to come home I don't know how much more one family could take. We decided not to go back to the beach ever again. We went to visit Bob everyday . They moved him out of the ICU but we just wanted to go home. We started to pack our stuff we were leaving in 2 days. The last day we never even left the house. We were afraid too. My mom decided that she had to stay an extra 2 weeks to help Bob out he lives by himself. Its time to get ready to go to the airport. I just wanted to come home and so did the kids. We get there and sign in and give them our luggage. We go upstairs to get a drink and watch the airplanes take off. I checked our departure time and it kept getting longer and longer. So I went downstairs to talk to the ticket agent. He told me that we would never catch our connecting flight in Charlotte NC. he told me that we could go to Philadelphia and catch a connecting flight from there, but if we leave Fort Myer's airport and miss our connecting flight would someone pick us up there. I said" Are you crazy we live 45 minutes from Pittsburgh no one is going to pick us up in Philadelphia. He told me that was the best he could do. So we got on this plane. We just wanted to go home. We were on this plane for about 5 minutes when they came over the speaker that there was banother delay. The people that were on this plane had already been on there for 2 hours. We got back off of this plane that we were only on for 5 minutes and went to the ticket agent and told him that he better do something for us before i exploded. He told me that we could have first class tickets for the next day. So i had to go back on the plane and get our stuff off of it and call my mom to send someone to pick us up. Bobs friend picks us up and takes us back to Bobs house boy I was glad to see my mother again. We got up the next day and the sun was brightly shining. We grabbed our shower and had breakfast just in time to get ready for the trip back to the airport. We packed up the car and said our goodbyes again and off to the airport we went. We had been through so much we just wanted to go home. We get there a little early so we knew that nothing could happen again. So we check in our luggage and go to walk up to the desk to verify we had a flight that day. I was standing in line when this guy said to me " Your standing on the wrong side of the chains", well I told him" I'd shut the hell up if I were you, were you here for 6 hours yesterday NO but I was." He just turned around and I tought buddy you don't want to mess with me we have been through enough. We get everything taken care of and get to board the plane. We get to sit in first class and they treated us like gold. Mikey could not even sit with me he had to sit beside us in the next row. Everyone was on the plane and the pilot came over the speaker and told us what we had to do then he said " I'm sorry there has been a 45 minute delay." I just couldn't believe it. When we were at the airport they called us The Griswolds. We finally get in the air and are on our way home. We finally land in Pittsburgh and we of course were the first ones off of the plane. My sister-in-law was waiting for us there and I could do nothing but cry. I was never so glad to see anyone in my whole life. Well needless to say we have never been on vacation again and never will. - Julie, Charlotte, Brooke, and Mikey. |
| Hey my name is E'starsha and when i was about 8 years old my family and i went to las vegas & thats about when it all started.As we were on the plane my crazy dad had to go to the bathroom and his walet with $1,000 in it had fell in the toliet and he wouldn't take it out. so i dugged my hand in the toliet and got it out until i realized he had never flushed the toliet.i screamed and shout and turned on the water to wash my hands but i burned my hand in burning hot water.i slipped on a piece of tissue and fell down to the wet floor.as i was getting off the plane i saw a group of kids getting off the plane and they were staring at me.i turned around and thats when i saw that the back of my pants were soak.my family & i went to the hotel it was pretty except that the bath was all rusty but the shower was ok.The sink didn't work so we had to brush our teeth in the shower. my dad went to gamble & my mom went to sleep so my brother & i decided to go to the outside pool but it was raining and the lifegaurd at the inside pool said no kids were allowed in the pool without a adult because she didnt want anyone to drown so my brother said with a smart remark "thats why you get paid,duhh" so we were banned from the pool as long as we were there.. - |
| One time we went up to lake livingston for the weekend we were really excited then we took off in our boat we went up this creek called white rock creek we went all the way up to the end and we were catching alot of fish so it was getting dark so we started to pack up and when we started the boat it would not start so we started paddleing five hours later we finally get to our marina were launched our boat my dad was putting up these fishing luers called "road runners" he some how got one of the hook to go into his finger and come out the other side we had to go to the emrgency room in this one horse town sat there for hours because there was one doctor for 20 patients (no lie) then when we got out of the ER we said forget this and just left for home defeated but not demoralized. - David. |
| Me and my family were going up to Fargo, ND for our usual summer vacation and on this trip we got into the city at like 2 in the morning. We went to bed and my dad was awakened at 6 am by my aunt. The car had had all of its windows smashed out. Every car in like a 15 block radius had their windows smashed out. We were stuck for a few extra days. When we got to International Falls, MN all we had was bad weather for the rest of the trip. We didn't catch any fish and it was just bad. Another time we were headed to Fargo and we got caught in a bad storm. We were eating in a restaraunt in Souix City, IA and we saw a dark clouds outside. My dad asked the waitress how bad the storm would be and she said "Oh it is going to the north of us" Well it didn't. When we started driving out of town it started to hail so we pulled up under a bridge for shelter. I turned and looked at the sky and there were funnel clouds and then one started to drop. Right as we pulled out of town we heard the tornado sirens going off. We were still in bad weather all the way up north and when we got to Souix Falls we saw what looked like a fire burning in a field. Dad pulled over because everyone in front of us was doing the same. He looked out and saw it was dust from the field rising. It was going to hit us broad side so we started to move forward and almost hit the car in front of us because they didn't think they could beat the storm. We stopped then went again this time passing the other vehicle. My brother was taking pictures of the whole thing. We felt safer the farther from that area then anywhere else. My brother wanted to go back and take pictures. We don't know what ever happened to the car in front of us. - Millie. |
| Several years ago, my parents, my sister and brother, and I were getting ready for a trip to Wildwood. I think this was the first time I was going to Wildwood in a long time, since I think the last time I went was like before I started kindergarten. Anyway, the vacation didn't start out great to begin with, as we all had to pile in a van with about a thousand suitcases, pillows, and blankets, and had to endure this for like 2 1/2 hours. Finally, once we reached our destination, I wanted to scream, "Land!" and kiss the sacred ground, but I decided not to get all melodramatic. I thought everything would get better after that, but obviously I was in for a shocker. Well, we lugged all our baggage in our house that we rented, so it felt more like we were moving rather than enjoying a week-long summer trip. So finally a little while after that, my dad decided to take us to drive us to the beach, and the trip wasn't too long since we were pretty close. But once we got there, there were all jellyfish all over the sand and in the water, so we weren't able to enjoy it and decided, in really bad moods, to go back. But once my dad tried to park back in the driveway, the rear-view mirror was too close to the hard wall and it snapped off! So my dad was yelling like crazy and trying to do everything to fix it. So by then, I knew this vacation was going to be more like a trip in hell. And it didn't get much better after that. My dad wanted sugar-free syrup at this restaurant, and he knew they had it, but the waitress kept saying she couldn't get it for him, so he ended up giving her a $1 tip, and then he ended up losing his favorite pair of sunglasses while boogey-boarding at the beach! Sure, it seems like everything happened to him, but it wasn't much fun for us, either, especially when I, who already had a fear of water, decided to try to swim under this wave, but I didn't realize how big it was, so when I went under, it overpowered me and flipped me backward three times, so now I'm even worse of an aquaphobic! You might think we were finally glad to go back home, but the packing up and sitting in a car with all this miscellaneous stuff around me for another 2 1/2 hours wasn't exactly a joy ride. - Jennie. |
| Once i went on vatation with my family when i was about 13 years old. we were going to the beach and we had just gotten out rental car. it wasnt too bad of a car it was a Camrey. so we are driving down this old random dirt road in the middle of nowhere because my fathers too stupid to ask for directions. so were driving along and we hear this strange wound coming from the front of the car and then we see smoke. my dad swirves to the side of the road and pushes us out of the car just incase it blows up. when he finally realized that the car wasnt going to explode he looked under the hood to find a mass of melted metal and rubber, gross. so we call the tow truck to come and pick us up. we sit there in the about a million degree heat for about 3 hours when the tow truck finally comes. it is kind of a rusty red gross color with beat up tires. when we get in the truck we find the driver to be some middle age woman. she was nice and all but EWWW. she looked rather manly with facial hair and pit stains. her trucker muscles peeked out of her old sweat/ coffee stained white wife beater. just our luck, the truck didnt have any air condidioner. it smelled GRREEAT in there. mmm mmm good. BLAH! it was horrible. when we finally get to the hotel after 2 gruesome hours in the tow truck and getting another crappy car we find out that the hotel lost our reservations and we can't stay in the hotel. the hotel people were nice enough to let us sleep in the room where they keep all of the cleaning supplies. we finally find out on the last day of our vacation that they find our room. we get to actually stay in the room for about 12 hours total. now thats a FUN vacation. - Anonymous. |
| Last vacation I went to Bristol, me ,mum and dad. A lovey, sunny,relaxing vacation was expected, but that's not what we got. About half hour in to the journey our tire busted and my father forgot to bring a tire kit so we had to phone for help. Not long after help arrived...thankfully. So we went on, about halfway there we accidentily rode over a sheep that got badly hurt and again had to call for help and wait. I could see my parents were getting stressed and it's not the end yet.driving into Bristol eagerly my father got a call on his mob, it was grandmother my grandfather was ill and had got taken into hospital so we had to turn around and go back home. my grandad did get better and the sheep did survive.What a vacation.About four months later we did go there and it was crap. - Anonymous. |
| OK, so here's my bad vacation story. Last summer my family (except my oldest sister who I get along best with) drove from Hillsboro to Southern California to stay at a resort up at Big Bear. So it was my parents, my older sister, my younger brother, me, and my parents invited my boyfriend. It took forever to finally get there. Things seemed to be going really great. We would be staying at this nice resort for two weeks. Well...about half way into our first week we drive to Knott's Berry Farm. I'm not really into the whole roller coaster things. But I like rides like the Big Foot Water Rapids. I was so excited to go on the rapids I had been talking about it all day. In fact the whole week. But as soon as we get there the whole family goes on one ride and then my parents and my brother go off and do there own thing while my boyfriend and I are hanging out with my older sister. Well after they decide on what rides they was to go on (Of course all the wild ones) I get stuck holding the bags and taking the pictures. As we walk from ride to ride, I start suggesting some rides I wouldn't mind going on, but since they were walking in front of me I guess they couldn't hear me. So after about two or three hours of walking around being the purse holder, picture taker. I decide to call my parents. I'm almost to the point of tears when my dad decides we are going go on the Water Rapids. So I leave my sister and my boyfriend to themselves. Sure the Rapids were fun, but I had really wanted to go on them with my boyfriend. After going on them several times we try and find my sister, but we can't find them. Finally when it is time for us to go we find them on this wild ride where they get absolutely soaking wet. They didn't bring a change of clothes. After only being in California for a couple of days, our Suburban that we drove there breaks down and we have no mode of transportation. My dad being the smart man that he is just settle on buying a Ford Truck down there. Hey at least we had something to get us places. After Knott's Berry Farm we spend a couple more days at the resort and decide to do a little shopping. We go down town to Old Town Big Bear and there are a lot of little stores. They girls break up from the guys and we go do our own things. So my sister and I are in this clothing store and my mom is in the store right next to us. We call my mom on the walkie talky for her to come meet us. My sister wants my mom to buy her something. My mom had already spent about $100 dollars on us each. But she came anyways and looked at what my sister had. My mom told her she could get something but would have to pay my mom back when we got home. My sister went into the dressing room and tried on a few things. Deciding she wasn't going to get anything we went to leave. I walked out first and then my sister followed my my mom. I was out the door when the owner of the store walked in front of my sister and asked if she had anything from that store in her bags. My sister said no. The lady asked to look and when she did she pulled out a shirt from her store. She told one of the other people working to call the police. I was so furious at my sister. Could she be more of an idiot. My mom was so embarrassed and told me to call my dad and have him meet me and then go to the store. Then the owner started accusing me of stealing something too. And then accusing my mom as well. I called my dad and told him what happened he went to the store while I sat in the car with my boyfriend and my brother. Me being furious I didn't want to tell them, I wanted for my sister to have to tell them. How embarrassing was that for my parents and for me, why did she have to do that? I felt ashamed in front of my boyfriend. After waiting in the car my mom came and drove us back to the resort. Then she left again and a couple hours my dad brought her home and went to wait at the police station. Since my sister was 18 she was fully responsible and my parents couldn't do anything. She was at the police station for a while and then came back to the resort. That is the majority of what happened on our vacation. Then we had what seemed like an endless drive home with four of us crammed into the small back seat of a pick up truck. That vacation will defiantly be one I will never forget! - Anonymous. |
| Hi! My name is Sweetart and I think you'll find this terrible. My family and I went on a cruise and we got to the Bahamas and we stopped. We went to a water park there and it started out great. I saw the biggest high dive ever and went for it. Well as I came out the pool my bathing suit had come down and I was humiliated. For the rest of the day everyone kept staring and pointing at me. You don't know how fast news travels in a water park. I couldn't do anything fun for the rest of the 6 days we were there. Now I wear a full piece bathing suit diving off the diving board. I hope this is a lesson to all you girls out there and if this has already happened to you, just remember it happened to me to. I don't think any one could have this bad a vacation, could they? Just a tip - Sweetart . |
| I went away for the weekend with my mum her friend and her kids, we got to our destination 2 and a half hours later and found our hotel that we found on the internet it looked really nice in the pictures but when we got there it was the dodgiest place ever. The rooms were tiny and smelt like a pub, the beds were hard so we jumped on them to get them softer, there were old dirty tea towels and sponges in the sink. The cupboard doors were coming off and the "double bed" was actually 2 single beds pushed together and there was hair on it. We got our money back, they even wanted a $50 dollar bond, they should of been paying us danger money to stay there. We got outta there as soon as we could and found a way nicer hotel, we put all our stuff in the room went for a quick swim then went to the city to go to the zoo. Everything was going fine until we went to leave and something was wrong with the car....we slowly drove back to the hotel by now it was dark and our friends son and his girlfriend came up to stay with us...he found out what was wrong with the car and the part was 200 dollars it had to be brought from a specific car dealer, which wouldnt be open til monday (it was saturday) so in the morning we had icecreams and chips from the vending machine at the hotel while the mums tried to sort out the car. For lunch we had to walk down the street for subway. Eventually someone came up and towed the car back. I didnt even get to go shopping. - anonymous. |
| In summer of 2003, my family and i went to Worlds/Oceans of Fun for 4th of july. well first, i had 2 spend 4 hours in the car w/ a grandma that talks WAY too much,a grandpa and dad that were fighting the WHOLE time, and 2 younger siblings(7 and 9) that begged to stop,eat,drink,get out of the car,etc. i was trying to take pictures of the beautiful scenery but we kept either going over bumps or going to fast to see anything. When we finally got to kansas city, we couldnt find the hotel. so we drove around for another 30 minutes. then we went to Worlds of Fun and my grandma and i went on the Oriental Express and our heads were banging against the shoulder pads. i was scared and i was holding onto the handle so tight that i popped a blood vessel! after we got off,my grandma was dizzy and she fell and hit her head on the railing. then we went to Oceans of Fun and i was playing on all fours in the kiddie pool with my brother. he stepped on my finger and i had to go to first aid and get a splint. so i spent the rest of the time in the wave pool. when we got back home i found out i'd missed a great pancake/sausage/bacon/ toast/omlet breakfast @ church earlier that morning! Is this a bad vacation or what? and we didnt even have any fireworks! - Anonymous. |
| Ok, well, a bunch of our family and we decided to go to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina together. So, we decided to drive down there, right, so we were on our way down there and on the highway we were driving on, this state trooper tried to pull someone over or something, and so, he made a U-turn, and the person in front of us tried to stop, then my uncle, then my dad, all had to stop immediately. We were all ok, but we wrecked the van a little bit, of course, we had just bought it. Anyway, when we got there it was raining, in fact, it rained most of the time that we were there. So, one night we decided to go to this restaurant called Dick's. Anyway, we were there and the waiters and waitresses are supposed to be mean to you. So the waitress was saying the specials or something and my sister said something to my mom and the waitress yelled at my sister saying she shouldn't be talking because she isn't repeating it. She made her cry. And when the waitress came back with straws for our drinks, she practically through them at us. So, the next time she came back, we through them at her. Then she left, and after that we didn't get our food for over a hour, we thought that maybe she had spit in our burgers or something to that effect. Then, one night we were having dinner, the fire alarm started to go off, so all of us had to go down the stairs with the other people in the hotel, and we all were waiting in the parking garage, still was raining outside. It turned out that someone had set a fire in a garbage basket. Anyway, we just thought that it was the worst vacation ever. - Ashley. |
| I was visiting my grandma in florida over spring break. I didn’t know that she lived next to a nude retirement community. she lives in the complex but only certain areas are reserved for the nudist. early one morning I got up to take a swim before it was too warm to be outside, and I walk right onto the pool deck... it took me a good 10 minutes to realize on the other side of the chain link fence, there was a nude yoga lesson going on. I ran out of the centre petrafied and went on with my vacation away from the pool and without making eye contact with any of my gradmas friends. I will never step foot in a swimming pool again. - Chad p.s. my grandmother isn't a nudist. |
| My bad vacation started with me not going in the first place, but of course i had to cause back then i was only 10, i had to go with my mum and her psycho boyfriend, (he was really psycho, he tried to kill me once, and he pushed me down the stairs... but she couldn't see that) it was down to esperance which is about 600 k's away so we stopped off at my mums old friends place for the night, she was really mean, and wouldn't stop insulting my dad, and worst of all she made me eat vegies! anyway, the trip continued, with the boyfriend bad mouthing me in the front seat thinking i was asleep, but how could i sleep? cause the back seat was piled up with stuff to the roof, and i had to sit on it, i could barely see infront of me! anyway, we arrived at esperance, where we were to meet some more of my mums old friends, they had chosen the HORRIBLE motel, with roaches... and had this hyper son, who would not stop running round and hurting himself, when they left, i was left alone with my mum and her boyfriend, that was when the really bad stuff happened, i was in the bedroom, with the light dimmly on, and i saw this small shadow quickley move accross the room, i was really scared so i turned the light on full, and saw that it was a whitetale spider, anyway, i went into the living room and told my mum, her boyfriend heard and sent me back to my room and to deal with it myself, i was really scared but went back in anyway, believe it or not, there were more spiders now, about 5, they were defantly white tails, we had to learn about them before in school, so i went back out and said i was not going back in until they were gone, so the boyfriend, knowing i was allergic to baygon, sprayed it all over the room, i said i couldn't go in cause i was allerigic, but he pushed me in and locked the door! (aaah) i was so freaked, i could barely breath and there were 5 whitetails running everywhere round the room, so i sat up in bed, the covers all around me, crying (i was only 10 remember) and i eventually fell asleep, in the morning i woke up, and i found all these bites on my arm, and a huge rash on my neck (cause of the baygon) i told my mum and she wanted to take me to the doctor but of course the boyfriend 'brain washed' her that they were fake. luckily it turned out that i dont react to white tails, other wise i wouldn't be here now, freaky huh? Believe it or not it's all true, and i'm still freaked bout it, on the good side though, i managed to split them both up, but he was still hanging around, at one stage he was leaving threatning messages on my phone saying our lives were gonna change dramatically by Thursday and all this stuff, soso so freaky. - Anonymous. |
| The sun had been shining and the cruise ship was waiting for us to make our way down the atlantic coast on our family's first tropical cruise vacation. My mother, my father, my sister, and I all carried our luggage up to the main deck where we found my aunt uncle and two cousins waiting for us. My uncle Jose is from Puerto Rico while the rest of us are blatantly american. His kids, however Americanized they are, got their father's dark hair and deeply tanned skin. So while the rest of the family was burning to a crisp in the bright ocean sun, the three of them were simply getting darker and darker. The first night we were the lucky group to have dinner with the captain.We were served a huge 6 course meal in the main dining hall. the first 3 courses were seafood, which I don't eat. Then there was a magnificent chicken dish. I was about to begin eating my chicken when one of my cousins felt something brush her leg (which ended up being my aunt's foot). She jumped out of her seat and took my steaming plate of chicken with her. She was covered in the only thing I could stomach eating in all of the 6 courses, and we had caused a huge scene with the captain looking on. Needless to say our parents were mortified and we left the table, my family in shame and I with an empty stomach. We had hoped our travelling troubles were over when we woke up the next morning. We had planned a day of hiking and snorkeling which neither my mother, nor my aunt was looking forward to. When we got off of the boat and onto the island, we found that there was a significant amount of shopping places so our two women opted to head there instead of join us on wilderness training. My sister and I reluctantly followed our father to the side of the mountain we were going to be hiking. Our cousins scrambled up the mountainside like wild beasts while the two of us straggled behind clutching to every loose branch and root we could find. Once at the top, the view was beautiful but unfortunately my sister dropped out binoculars and not only did they break, but half of them skittered down the steep incline in front of us. Uncle Jose decided it was time to head down for some snorkeling so we began our descent of the mountain. About halfway down, my foot got caught in some brush and both my father and my uncle had to double back and help untangle me. My sister stood by my side trying to contain her laughter as my leg finally came loose with many thorn and bramble scrathes leaving trails of blood through the dirt that had already acquired on my leg. I got the last laugh though because my sister had been standing in poison ivy and was itching for the rest of the trip. Fortunately we got down to the ground in one piece and found my mother standing near the boat looking distressed. It turns out that my aunt had tripped on their way to the marketplace and was now in a native hospital being treated for a broken ankle. The worst part was that we realized we were already half an hour late for our boat's departure. The boat ended up waiting 4 hours for my family to get my injured aunt settled and headed back to the boat. When we got to the boat we began to board when they asked my uncle for his passport and my cousins' passports. His was in his back pocket but unfortunately he had left his children's in the room. When he tried to explain this to the man on the boat, he was accused of trying to kidnap the native children. My cousins were young and very afraid of this man who was threatening to call the police and throw my family off of the ship so when he questioned them they merely whimpered and cried. By this time they were tanned to the tone of the natives and if I hadn't known them, I would have believed they didn't truly belong to my uncle. My aunt was the only one with the room key and in her state she was obviously not able to go to the room to get the passports. My sister had begun her complaining which would be an endless annoyance on the trip and my father selected me to go to the room and get the passports. Luckily, the captain came by and recognized the kids from the scene at dinner the previous night and he gave them passage onto the ship. From that point on our vacation was already ruined but we made the best of the broken ankle, the furious uncle, the sister with poison ivy, the 'native children', and the food poisioning I would eventually come down with, all under the eye of the captain who by now knew us each by name and face. It was a horrible and mortifying experience. - Noelle. |
| A couple of years ago i went to Hawaii with my family on Vacation and it was the first time i had ever been so i was so excited! When we got there, we were staying on the army base in Oahu, and we were staying in these really cool condos where the ocean was pretty much your back yard, it was so awesome! So right when we got there every single one of us (my siblings, parents and I) grabed our swimsuits and headed down to the beach/ our backyard. Everything was going great, the weather was wonderful (cause it was July), my parents were just hanging out on the beach, basking in the sun, my brothers were out boogie-boarding, my sister was just hanging out around the shore, and i was running up and down chasing the waves. All of a sudden this bigger wave came, so i decided to run into it... not a good idea... When all of the water was gone, i could feel something burning me on my leg, i look down to find this huge jellyfish stuck to my leg. I mean this thing may have looked little but that little sucker was long, it reached from my big toe to the beginning of my knee. Thats when i started to freak out, i mean i didnt know what to do, there was this huge jellyfish on my leg and it was really starting to hurt, so i did what anyone else in the predicament i was in would have done, i pealed that evil jellyfish off my leg, threw it into the sand and ran like mad to my parents, crying the whole way there... Thank God they were there, they calmed me down, my dad ran to the nearby store to find some antidote/medicine for the stinging while my step-mom took me inside to lay down. After that i refused to go into the water for the entire trip, which sucked because i missed boogie-boarding and surfing and snorkling and stuff, but im lucky because if it was a bigger jellyfish i probably could have died! So my advice is if your ever in Hawaii, watch out for those jellyfish cause they'll ruin your whole vacation! Michelle - Sacramento, California. |
| We had just been married for a couple of hours and we were on the way to our honeymoon which was only about 3 hours away from where we got married. We had borrowed his mom's car because we figured it would be more reliable than his on a longer trip. So there we were driving to our destination and we were litterly in the middle of nowhere and the car starts making a really weird noise. So we pulled over to the side of the road and the car just died on us. We tried to start it back up but it wouldn't start. So we called AAA and they said it would be an hour and a half until they could get there. So there we sat in the middle of nowhere with no air conditioning in 100 degree weather with the hood popped up, waiting for someone to help us. To make matters worse, we had "Just Married" written all over our windows. So everyone that drove by would honk at us. Finally a tow truck came and we found ourselves riding in a tow truck on our wedding day. He drove us to the nearest town which was at least a half an our away. We couldn't rent a car because we both aren't 21 yet, so he dropped us off in some parking lot with all of our bags and we waited for his parents to come get us. We just sat there in the parking lot for over an hour and finally his parents came and got us. They ended up taking us to our honeymoon destination! The honeymoon itself was great, but then his parents picked us back up a few days later, and dropped us off at our new home! I will never forget that one!. - |
| One of the worst vacations (or should I say scariest) was when we went floating down the Wisconsin River. Most of the vacation at Wisconsin Dells was good like Big Chief and Noah's Ark but it turned bad after the river. When we woke up it was nice and sunny so me and my dad, mom, and sister decided to go with our friends floating on tubes down the river. When we got there it was still sunny, okay so far. After about a half an hour it started getting stormy. It was thundering and lightning right behind us. We couldn't get off the river until we reached the ending point. It was like a race to beat the storm which we really didn't beat. We were lucky that no one got struck by lightning. On top of the storm there were tons of trees in the water and your feet would get caught on them all the time. My feet were bruised and bleeding at the end of the trip. When we finally reached the bridge it was pouring rain so we raced to our cars soaking wet. The next day we found out that three people had been killed on the river and they were in the group floating just behind us. My dad also lost his good pair of sunglasses to the river. - Anonymous. |
| Only part of my vacation was bad, but the part that was bad was bad!!! okay, so me, my mom and dad, and two older brothers are on vacation. we are in the hotel and my dad finds a mini golf course near us (supposedly) on a map. so my parents decide that we will walk there. so, we are walking, and walking, and walking, and, well you get the picture. so finally we get there and my parents said that we walked about 3 miles! i was like "wow it looked more like 3 feet on the map." well, we get to the golf course and it is behind a hotel (it was like part of the hotel or something). we look at the sign for the hotel and it says "golf course closed due to fire" or something like that. well, it turns out that the mini golf course was right next to a forest and there had been a forest fire a day or two ago. my family and i didnt walk all that way to turn around and go back to the hotel without any mini golf, though! we walked in the hotel to see what was going on. there was some special thing going on where firefighters got to golf on the course for free. well, there happened to be some golf clubs and balls just sitting there, unattended, so we all grabbed one for each of us. we went on the course, golfed without a problem, returned our clubs and balls, and went back to the hotel (ON A BUS!!!!) this may not seem so bad to you, but it was to me cuz i was the one that had to walk all that way! - Anonymous . |
| Here
is the condensed plot for our vacation a few years back. The working title
was "A Series of Unfortunate Events" but that Snickett guy stole
it! Sunday, Aug. 6 - Smokey and the Bandit Got my first speeding ticket in more than 10 years. Doing 75 in a 50 zone along 86 in Listowel. Cop was nice enough to knock it down to 64. His name? Constable Mercy. Monday, Aug.
7 - Thumb and Thumber Tuesday,
Aug. 8 - The Sting Tuesday,
Aug. 8 - The Last Auction Hero Wednesday,
Aug. 9 - A Summer Place Thursday,
Aug. 10 - The Gauntlet Thursday,
Aug. 10 - The Rain, Man! Friday, Aug.
11 - Days of Thunder Saturday,
Aug. 12 - The Sting, Part II Sunday, Aug.
13 - Tarzan Monday, Aug.
14 - Car Wash Tuesday,
Aug. 15 - Mendthis Bell Wednesday,
Aug. 16 - Chariots of the Gods? Thursday,
Aug. 17 - Journey to the Center of the Earth Friday, Aug.
18 - The Sting, Part III Monday, Aug.
21 - The Money Pit Monday, Aug.
21 - 9 To 5 - Craig |
| Last August, me and my family went to Marmaris, Turkey. When we got there, we were placed in a hotel which wasn't of very high standards- there were numerous stains covering the carpeted floor and the shower was grotty and didn't work properly. So we, along with another family, made complaints towards the holiday reps, demanding that we had to be moved. Anyway, we got our way, and were moved to another better, cleaner hotel. It seemed nice when we got there, but the hotel owner had very strict rules and treated the place like it was her own home. We weren't even allowed to take drinks upstairs- and we couldn't drink from the taps as the water is not drinking water. Even water wasn't allowed! A few days later, I got an ear infection, and I wasn't allowed to take a bottle of water upstairs to take my tablets. So one day I tried to sneak a bottle of water upstairs, but I was caught, and had to get rid of it or drink it downstairs! To make matters worse, the hotel owner had sacked all her staff. So there was nobody to clean our rooms, towels and bedsheets. We had the same bedsheets and towels for 2 weeks running, which wasn't very hygienic. We even had to empty our own toilet bins! She even started to ration the food at breakfast, so the meals weren't very appetising. The hotel in itself was quite nice, but the woman who owned it was awful- she sometimes tried to search our bags to make sure we weren't taking food upstairs. This was the worst holiday we have ever been on. - Kim from England |
| I went to Disneyland a few years ago and on our way back our car stopped right in the middle of the LA freeway at rush hour. The car behind us gave us a push and then we were towed. We had to spend the night at this Chinese Boarding house with crappy beds and we were awakened in the morning by pigeons outside the window. My dad had to take his BMW to this special shop to repair it and we ended up getting home at 8:00 PM the next day and I missed school. - Laurel |
| Ok my class field trip for the end of the year was that we had to go to Busch Gardens. The thing was...we had to LEAVE from school at 5 AM. So we did and then once everyone was there, we went to the bus and started driving. Of course we stopped to McDonalds for a small breakfast and continued driving on. Anyhow, of course theres a small bathroom in the bus. (I think it was Greyhound or something because i dont remember clearly because it was nearly 2 years ago.) Anyway...this girl, (name witheld) had to go to the bathroom. Unfortunantly she had to go to the bathroom pretty badly.So after she came out, the bathroom was smelling horrible!!! Not to mention all the windows were open and everyone was gagging. She felt bad of course. But the worst part was, that the nasty smell was there for 2 hours even AFTER we continued driving. So pretty much, no one had a good ride to Busch Gardens. Then, once finally there we spent our fun time at Busch Gardens but then after we were waiting for the bus, it was soon around 11 PM. (Not to mention, what sucked the most was that we could only go on certain rides cause of course we all had to meet up at the end of our time in the theme park. Plus, we didnt even stay an entire day there!! All we did was drive up extremely early and then drive alll the way back. It wasnt such a great trip.) So while we were waiting, we noticed our bus didnt come. A bus came but it wasn't ours!!! We finally saw our bus come......at 2 AM in the freaking morning!!!! So finally a few more hours of driving back, it was 6 AM. We were all so disappointed. The trip was horrible, but only some enjoyed the ''fun'' time while in the park. (But for me it was plain boring and stupid. Waste of time!!!) Finally, we all arrived back to the school to get our parents' cars and to go home, but we were all incredibly tired. And so, yep, that was our sucky field trip. I hated it and I would NEVER do it again. Even if it was our last trip for the class. - Anonymous |
| A couple of years ago my parents and I went to Wisconsin and Minnesota. In Wisconsin one of the places we went to was called the House on the Rock. It was really cool and really huge. My parents and I got hungry, so we found a pizza place in the building. My mom had cheese pizza and my dad and I had pepperroni pizza. It tasted good when we were eating it. But ok here comes the bad part. Later that day we went to go see the Wisconsin Dells and I felt like crap. I mean I thought I was gonna die because I felt so bad. On the boat I tried to calm myself down by breathing real hard but that didn't work. We stopped at this place in the Dells and my dad said he felt like crap too. Then me and my mom heard him throw up in the bathroom. I freaked out a little. Then when we got back to the main dock I threw up in the lake a little and my parents took me by the arms and over to the drinking fountain. I threw up alot over by the drinking fountain. Some chinese guy wanted to take our picture but ran away when he saw I just got sick. After I got sick I felt completely fine. But I did feel a little shaky. The next day we went to the Mall of America and I had the greatest time of my life there. I shopped in every store and rode some of the rides in Camp Snoopy. I felt much better when I was at the Mall of America with my parents. - Anonymous |
| I had a really bad vacation once. I went with my dad my friend, my brother and my brother's boy scout group to go white water rafting/camping. So when we drove there (it took like four hours to get there!) it was freezing cold. Well we pitched our tents, as it started to rain. Me and my friend went with the group to get wetsuits. Well, not only were they too big, the wetsuits smelled horrible. But we had no choice, the water was going to be so cold we had to put them on. So we all got on a bus and headed down to the river. We hiked down to where the rafts were and got in groups. I was with my dad, my brother Thomas, my friend Amanda, and my brothers troop leader, and his son. So we got on the water and it started to pour rain. Freezing cold rain. Well, it wasn't so bad once you started paddling, but they made us stop and wait for the rest of the group if we got to far ahead. So the whole time it was stop and go, stop and go. Not to metion the fact that everytime we did stop the other Boy Scouts would pour freezing water on the surrounding rafts (our raft) for a joke. It was so horrible. The air was so cold that the freezing water felt warm until it set in and you realized how cold it really was. My brother's troop leader was obnioxus. He was hitting on our guide, he feel in, dumped water on me (accidently) six times, and kept saying how much he wanted a "smoke". this went on for about two hours. Finally one of the guides told us we would be getting to lunch rock. Well i thought lunch rock would actually have tables and maybe some shelter from the freezing rain. I was wrong though, lunch rock was litteraly a rock. So after we ate soggy sadwitches we got back in. Me and my friend started to freeze. It was so horrible and everytime we asked the guide when we would be getting to the end he kept saying "one more mile". It took three hours to get back to the buses. We eventually survied that living heck and got to the campsite. My friend and I went back to the tent to get our clothes so we could shower and change (maybe warm up!) only to find that our tent had about three inches of water inside since we didn't close the door all the way. Lukkily we had left some clothes in the car and could shower. The showers were so gross. There were a bunch of tiny stalls that you went into. Well, there was like six dead bugs in mine so i quicky rinsed off and left. Dinner was horrible. It tasted like the food had been left out for days and there were bugs all over. My dad finally told me, my brother, and my friend we were leaving and going home. We high-talied it to they car and got out of that living nightmare. That was the worst vacation ever. - morgan, NJ |
| Ok so this one is bad but funny we were out in the middle of no where just my mom dad and brother and dog and the car stops so we camp there but it starts 2 rain and well up know everything is wet and stuff. to make it worst our dog runs away so we look for hours in the rain. we are soaked and my brother slipped and broke his arm and I slipped and broke my leg. but other wise we were fine anyway when we get back my dog is sitting there waiting for us (we searched for 7 hours)!!!! - Anonymous |
| Heres how it went down...this wasnt a vacation it was a trip with my friends and parents...we went to massachusetts and stayed at the carver inn or something...now i had been having panic attacks and breathing problems for about a week (i had just got out of the hospital..like that wasnt bad enough) and my friends and i were really hyper...so our parents finally get us to calm down and i was just falling asleep when...the fire alarm rings..i was so scared..i started to have a panic attack..it was cold outside and i was wearing a tank top and shorts...it was like 12 at night...we later found out that someones room had a sensitive system and was just taking a shower (too much steam..i guess) well my whole trip was ruined cause i was scared the whole time - Anonymous |
| I went on holiday twice to cornwall with my granparents and the first time i was playing in a play area with my baby sister went i tripped and hit my face on the edge of this big box my cheek started pouring with blood and it was really painful i was screaming the place down. My granparents rushed me to hospital were thay examined my cheek and told me i had broken my cheekbone! I had to have my cheek glue together and then i had too have 4 stiches. Then i went back to cornwall 3 years later with my granparents again and we had really bad weather, you proberly heard about the floods in the cornwall area like boscastle well we was three 3miles from boscastle and we had planned to go there that day but we decided to go to this theme park instead. were we stayed in tintagel flooded aswell the roads was flooded about 2 inches deep! It was quite scary! - JD |
| I went on vacation with my family to the four corners. the first day, i got real carsick. at the end of our vacation, we went to the sand dunes. well, my ex boyfriend was there too. we decided to hang out with his brother, and my siblings. well they all took off, and i followed. my ex. decided to dare me to roll down a dune. i figured what could happen? well, i was waering super tight jeans and a sports bra (for a shirt). i ended up at the bottom of the dune and when i stood up, there was sand pouring outta my pants. i laughed with everyone else, because it really was funny. after we all got tired, we went back to the campsite. i went into the cleaning room to clean off some of the sand. well, as im standing there, completly naked, my sister decided to get back at my ex. for me. she dared my ex to go into the womens cleaning room. she didnt know i was in there. so there i was naked, and my ex walked in! he laughed and i turned bright red. but the entire vaction was like that. - Anonymous |
| Ok when my family and i went on vacation with my mom's friend's family. We were in the middle of nowhere. so the parents decied that we would go to a festival. While we load into a car and drove for about any hour until got where it was suppose to be. When we pulled in there was a old guy and we asked him were the festival was. He said "We were 6 monthes early for it". So there we were had not had lunch hungry and nothing to do. So we turned the car around and went back to where we were staying. This might not seen bad but you were not in the car with bunch of of kids that kept on farting and telling immuture jokes. - Anonymous |
| It was summer of 2004 and we went to arizona (Me,my mom and my dad).On the first day we decided to take a jeep tour...it was fun except that I threw up twice that night because the rocks that were on the tour shook me up ALOT. Then i threw up the next 2 nights.But even after i stopped throwing up i was still feeling dizzy and sick for the other days. My dad didn't seem to care. During those days that i was sick we had to take a few hour car ride EACH day. Plus the temperature was 100 degrees or higher every day.One night at about 8 p.m. it was 108 degrees. At one hotel when i was sitting in the hot tub this 11 year old boy came running and jumped into it and splashed me. This was the worst vacation ever and i never want to go back to Arizona. - Anonymous |
| When I was in 7th grade a girl in my class was inviting, like, 10 people to go to her vacation with her. So, she was, like, 'why not have it in a hotel?!?!?!" It was cool, we went to the Holiday Inn Express, which was cool. We went swimming all night, even though the sign said to get out at 11:00, we just kept running from the pool to the hottub and all that. I was pretty wiped out by 4 in the morning when we finally decided to go to sleep, but we woke up at 6:00AM because a fire alarm was going off. Lindsey, the person who was having the party, got all freaked out... She was so scared, she as screaming and crying. She grabbed us all, woke up her mom, and we all ran outside. Then we got locked out! it was embarrasing! - Anonymous |
| Ok so me and my family were on a vacation. We went to Cancun, Mexico. We were having a great time untill we had to get up at 5 in the morning to go see a volcano and go into it and you know what i mean. Well anyway we drove for about 6 hours and finally we got there and we asked the lady at the front where the valcano was and she said we had to walk up this street and it takes about 3 or 4 hours to get up there so we had to leave because for some reason we couldnt drive and it was so horrible because we left at 5 and got back at 11 so we pretty much did nothing all day. Isn't that horrible? - Amber |
| Ok, so me and my family always go to Myrtle Beach in South Carolina for a week every summer. And every summer something goes wrong. But this particular time was very different from past experiences and something only my family would do. So, it started when my grandma came out of the camper we were staying in and closed the door. Now normally this wouldn't have been a problem, but we soon discovered that somehow the door had locked and the keys were inside. And of course, no one was inside to unlock it. So we thought this was pretty bad, but it was only the beginning. My grandpa then went to his car to get something out of the trunk. He unlocked it, opened up the trunk, got out whatever it was he needed, then closed the trunk with the keys inside. Yeah, so now we were locked out of the camper and one of the cars. After this happens, my sister says her cell phone is in her boyfriend's car (he was camping with us) and she's gonna call my dad (who was back at home along with my mom). So she opens the car door, gets the cell phone, locks the door, and then shuts it. Now, this wouldn't have been so bad except for the fact that her boyfriend had left his keys in his glove compartment so he wouldn't lose them while he went swimming. We realized that we had managed to lock ourselves out of not only our camper, but as well as both of our cars. And this was all in the time span of maybe 15 minutes. So anyways, we ended up having to wait for my dad to drive all the way to the beach (about 5 hours) to bring us 3 spare keys. Yep, that's my family for ya. - Che - C |
| My Aunt, my cousin Kenny, My sister, and myself decided to take a trip together to a family reunion. My aunt and cousin Flew from Anchorage, Alaska down to Las Vegas to visit my dad. (parents had divorced, he got re-married). They were going to spend a few weeks with him, then meet up in Salt Lake with my sister and I, and we'd all fly out to the family reunion. Anyway... I got a call from Kenny while he was at my dad's place. "Help! Can I catch a greyhound and go up to your place early? I'm going nuts at your dad's place, just sitting around listening to that old geezer music! Get me outta here!" We said, "Sure!" He came up early, I picked him up, and we had a GREAT TIME! Took him to the Lagoon amusement park, went all over Salt Lake City, and just had a ball. When his mother finally caught up with us, it was all downhill from there! His mother, my aunt, is a health fanatic, can't take much criticism, and is probably about the worst driver I've ever seen. Anyway, we all get on the plane and head to Chicago. We got to Chicago really late at night. Rented a car, and tried to find our hotel, which was supposed to be close to the airport. My aunt Eunice was very nervous driving around at night in a strange city. Kenny, my sister and I were no help at all, because all we did was criticize her driving. We drove all over Chicago that night, into the ghettos, all over the place! We finally found our hotel. My sister and aunt stayed in one room, Kenny and I stayed in another. The desk clerk gave me the key to the wrong room! Oops! Here it was about 1:00 in the morning, I'm trying to open the door to the room, and suddenly we here this guy inside the room yell, "What the HELL??!!?" He was MAD!!!!! We finally got the key to the right room. I felt bad for my sister because she had to room with my aunt. My aunt is all into Yoga, Religion, all sorts of support groups and whatever. My sister later told me that she had to put up with my aunt reciting all these stupid serinity prayers from her various support groups, and she kept trying to get my sister to do Yoga with her. My sister just wanted to get away from that woman! Meanwhile, Kenny and I were having a great time! We ordered pizza in the middle of the night, kept going on vending machine raids and just had a blast! If my aunt ever found out what we were eating, she would have gone bullistic I'm sure. (We never told her!). The next morning, she kept calling our room, making sure we were awake and ready to go. Kenny and I were getting very annoyed by this, and so when we'd answer the phone, we'd answer in these fake accents or whatever, trying to convince her that she had the wrong room! One time Kenny answered the phone and did this perfect impression of Mister T. "I pitty da fool who call me up at 7:00 in da mornin' ! Look lady, I don't know who you are, but when I find out......" She calls back, I answer the phone, "Ayloh? Ahhh what you want? I No Speak English. Awww Nobody Heeeya! You have wrong number, ya!" She really did think she had the wrong room! Anyway we drive all over Chicago, heading to Michigan. Her driving is something else. She gave new meaning to the term, AUNTI-lock-brakes! When she'd try to get on the freeway, she'd go 25 mph up the ramp, get to the end of the ramp and STOP! She'd wait for traffic to clear, then step on it! Nothing, but nothing any of us could say would convince her that that was NOT the way to get on the freeway! I don't know how many times we almost got in a wreck because of that. That was a trip we'll never forget. The following summer, Kenny and I decided to take a trip out to Florida to visit his sister. He would be flying from Anchorage down to Salt Lake, spend a few days there with my family, then he and I would fly out to Florida. About 2 weeks before our trip, he and 2 of his friends were killed in a very bad accident. I ended up having to trade my plane tickets for Florida to go up to Anchorage for his funeral. It was very tragic. My aunt had my sleep in my cousin's room, in his bed, which I thought was very awkward. You just don't have someone sleep in the deceased person's bed. It was weird. I had to go through all his stuff, uncover some of his deep, dark secrets, etc. One of the hardest things I ever had to do. The family wanted me to do the Eulogy. I had never done one of those before, didn't even know what a Eulogy was, nobody told me ahead of time what to really say or what not to say. Afterwards, their bishop came up to me and said, "Well.....it's obvious you've never done a Eulogy before..." Which really hurt. I don't know what it is about our particular religion, but they seem to use such occassions to try to push their beliefs off on other people. Kenny's funeral was no exception. I was ready to puke. Anyway, inspite of the previous, terrible vacation to the family reunion, I'm very greatful that I went, because my cousin and I had such a blast, and it was the last time I ever saw him. - Anonymous |
| There was one occasion, right before taking a vacation, when my friend and I were riding the bus. We noticed when it would shift gears, it would make this horrible "CLUNK!" I said to my friend, "Wow, this old bus sounds like the transmission is going to drop!" I no sooner said that when the bus went "sputter" "clunk!" The transmission broke! We had to wait around for another bus. About a week later, the family loaded up our old Dodge Dart to head down to California to visit our grandparents. Having a family of 6 crammed into a car for 14 hours was bad enough, but the dodge was a large car and we didn't mind too much. We head out, get just a few miles south of Provo when the car started going "clunk!" I said, "Gosh, I hope it's not the transmission." Next thing we know, "CLUNK!" You guessed it! The transmission broke! Guess I'm jinxed, I dunno! Anyway, we got a tow back home. Next morning we transferred everything over to my dad's old, rusty Chevy Vega, which was MUCH smaller than the Dodge Dart! (There's a reason they made those Vegas so small. It's so that you could fit them into a dumpster!). Anyway, imagine a family of 6, my parents, my older brother, Me, My sister, and my little brother, (my dad being the only person smiling), all crammed into that P.O.S., ugly little vega (that kept vapor-locking in the hot Nevada desert, and we'd have to keep pulling over every few hours and wait for it to cool down..), being forced to listen to tapes of Bing Crosby, Lawrence Welk, Big Band Tunes, and all this god-aweful stuff that even your great-great grandparents would probably never listen to, for 14 hours! (Portable cd players/walkmans hadn't been invented yet) My dad was too cheap to stop anywhere and get anything to eat, so my mom would make sandwiches and stick them in the ice chest. They'd get all soggy. Ewwww! - Anonymous |
| This wasn't exactly a vacation, but it was a trip I'll never forget. My family was moving from Stockton, California to Layton, Utah. It was about 1971. We had one of those hideous, old Rambler Station Wagons, fully loaded up with blankets, pillows, boxes, you name it. We had also rented a large U-Haul truck. My dad drove the truck while my mother followed behind in the car, with my two brothers and my sister. It's about a 14-hour drive from Stockton to Salt Lake City. My dad, being the cheapskate that he was, refused to stop at any restaraunts to eat. Instead, he'd just pull off on the side of the road (If he couldn't find a rest stop), drop the tailgate of the stationwagon, and pull out a container of rolled wheat cereal, and mix up some powdered milk. This cereal was about the grossest stuff you can imagine. It was home made. Think of soggy, un-cooked oatmeal, with raisins. It looked like vomit with black bugs in it. It was disgusting. Powdered milk is just sick and WRONG! Yellow, Lumpy, warm! YUCK!!!! We'd be standing there on the side of the road while all these cars would be zooming by, almost hitting us. My dad just didn't care. Then, instead of finding a motel to spend the night, he decided to set up our camping tent at a rest stop. First of all, most rest stops forbid setting up camp/spending the night, but again he didn't care. We got into Ogden really late the next evening, and went to our friends' house. Their son and I decided to sleep in our pajamas in the back of our friend's pickup truck, which had a canopy. Next morning we got a rude awakening. Suddenly we hear the truck start up. Seems my dad and my friend's dad didn't realise we were asleep in the back of the truck. They were going to head out early and go look at houses. We banged on the cab window to get their attention. I don't remember where we all went, but it seems we went all over the place, my friend and I still in our pajamas. It was crazy. - Anonymous |
| Alright here is my story it is kinda funnny, but kinda not at the same time. It was two years ago and i was going to italy with my uncle cousin and aunt. i was so excited and i met them at the airport in tuscon because that is where they live. i was so excited !!! so we go get our bags checked and then they ask for our passports and we all give them to the lady and she said that my uncles passport had expired !!! it was like 5 years over! so she told us we could go to california to get a new passport and it would only take a day, so we did that everything worked out ok and we ended up going to itsly i had alot of fun but now when i look back at that i will never forget it and it is funny ! - Anonymous |
| Okay, when I was in grade school, the graduating 8th graders got to go on a trip as a reward for spending 9 yrs in 1 school.. ok, so i am a total control freak, and i cant stand roller coasters or rides like that.. so of course we go to cedar point!! so we drive there, in a cramped minivan, with my friend and his mom and annoying brain sister and his cut herself girlfriend, and the drive is started at 5 oclock in the morning!! but i had my best friend, but that girl is a total strange o, she was sleepin all the way!! so we get there, and i have to put on spf 65 cause i am like irish and i hate the sun being so much a vamp, and it was so damn HOT!! and all make fun of me cause of the lotion and i still get burnt!! then we get there, and the ppl divvyed up, me and my best friend and 2 guys, one being so frickin fat i didnt think he could ride and the other being the guy i rode in with... mind u, he ditched his girl 2 go w/us... then we go to the back of the park, and they start to get on rides, and i end up sittin there for mosta the time... then i finally go on and FREAK OUT!!! i hate roller coasters, and i was hot & i wanted to go on a water ride... so we go and walk around all day, and im burning more and i keep puttin on lotion... ok, then we go out to the van to eat lunch, and i have to sit on the hot black cement, and then we go back in... we finally are to go on a water ride, but then they all run ahead of me and i was in there just wonderin wat happened to them... they went on the water ride!!! i was so mad, but bein a spineless person, i kept my mouth shut... then when they had finally got off the water rides, i had gotten tired of waitin, so i went in to the little gift shops, and droppes $50 on stuff for my fam cause i had nothin else to do but walk around alone lookin like a loser. OK, then i finally call my mom, and i lie to her and say that i had fun and rode rides... i got good at lying... then we go to the hotel that was a MOTEL and it was supposed to have an indoor pool but was outdoor and i wanted to go swimming... but it was a little too cold.. then stupid tim had to push his girl into the pool... she had her period, and it leaked all over, and she was all dressed. i had to share my tampons with her... then, we go to breakfast the morn, to cracker barrel... that sucked.. not a good coffee place at all. then we went home, where on the way, we watched a movie in the van, i fell alseep... and they took a polaroid of me... now it is on the net, somewhere out there... it sux!! and i got home, had to lie some more and then go to freikin Target where i saw ppl i knew and i was burnt to a point of rawness... that va/ca sucked. - Tabitha |