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seventheSo the last time I went on a vacation I didn't tell a ton of people I was going and I think some people thought I had fallen off the face of the earth because, let's face it, that happens sometimes. But hi, I was gone for the last ten days! I WAS ON A CRUISE BOAT MOTHERFUCKER DON'T YOU EVER FORGET
Here is what happened:
Here is the longer version.
Thursday/Friday
We get approximately 3 hours of sleep between packing (which we of course did not do ahead of time) and having to be up at 2 to leave by 3 to get to the Pittsburgh Airport by 5 for a flight leaving at 7. We had to fly out of Pittsburgh because we had to fly back into Pittsburgh for the reception the next Saturday, so. That was Cranky Travel Day #1. After some frantic airport rushing because we were all of course totes late, we make it onto the planes. We arrive in Miami and get on the cruise boat. It is nice. Jeff and I pass out very early this night and miss karaoke.
Saturday
Wedding day! We are up early in the morning to get our hair done. I am a 27-year-old woman and I have never had my hair done. It was interesting. We spend the rest of the day getting ready and then head down to the beach for a late afternoon ceremony.
It is a beautiful wedding.
I'm not just saying that because I wrote it.
It really was. The people reading the poems did a wonderful job, and Jim and Mary were just beautiful people so totally in love. Ocean, sky, sand, me marrying them in my bare feet and pretty much everyone crying.
We are all happy.
We rush to get back on the cruise boat and proceed directly to the private happy hour at which we get free drinks. We then proceed to become various levels of intoxicated. I spend the rest of the evening and much of the very late night dancing with attractive young men.
Sunday
I spend this morning in bed with a combination hangover and seasickness, as we've been hit with the wind from a nearby tropical storm (KATY DO YOU REMEMBER HOW GLORIOUS THE ON-BOARD SEASICKNESS DRUGS ARE. LET US HAVE A MOMENT OF SILENCE IN THEIR MEMORY BECAUSE I MIGHT HAVE JUST CRAWLED INTO THE SHOWER AND PASSED AWAY WITHOUT THEM). Allow me to clarify: I get motion sickness any time I drive in a car with a manual transmission. Boats and Sev: we are not BFFs.
Because of the wind, the boat is not going to the private island; we instead drift around at sea all day. Eventually the drugs kick in and we spend a fun day on the boat. That night there is more karaoke and general partying. Jim and Mary are adorably ridiculously cutely in love. We serenade their marriage with Ghostbusters.
Monday
The boat docks in Miami. Jeff and I pick up our rental car and drive to Marathon, an island just a bit more than halfway down the Keys. The place we have is very nice and it has a hot tub.
Tuesday-Friday
Mostly screwing around on the beach and at the place. The hot tub is very nice and has a strobe light setting (??? Wtf) which is entertaining. The only thing of note in here is that we meet up with my parents for their 30th wedding anniversary and Mum and I get to swim with dolphins. THAT is a freaking AWESOME and AMAZING thing. Photos later, because there are a bunch of me grinning like a robotard on steroids.
The rest of it is a really great vacation, ie relaxing. I do some homework but not nearly enough. I also read a terrible novel. I don't even remember what it was called, it was so bad. Why am I not a published author?? It was a piece of shit. That is my book review. Nay does this much better than I do.
Saturday
We again get up at the ballsack of dawn to drive back to the Miami airport, then travel a bajillion hours to make it back to Pittsburgh for the reception. We are very late. We are in fact the last people there and I discover they've been waiting for us. We go right there from the airport and I change and do my hair in a bathroom (classy!!!!). Some more lovely young men bring us drinks while we do. Hooray drinks.
The reception is very nice. There is free alcohol. We get drunk again and spend the night dancing away. I do away with any sleep bonus I picked up while in the Keys.
Sunday
A triumphant return home where I find that the kittens have grown a thousand inches while I was away. Both Jeff and I have the flu and we order Chinese food from Panda and watch football while I flail hopelessly at my homework.
Monday
Am back at work. What a downer. Have exam on Wednesday.
And that was the wedding!
There are three things of note here:
Here is what happened:
- I got on a boat
- My brother got married
- I spent some more time in the Florida Keys
- I played with dolphins
- I went to the wedding reception in Pittsburgh
- Now I am sick.
Here is the longer version.
Thursday/Friday
We get approximately 3 hours of sleep between packing (which we of course did not do ahead of time) and having to be up at 2 to leave by 3 to get to the Pittsburgh Airport by 5 for a flight leaving at 7. We had to fly out of Pittsburgh because we had to fly back into Pittsburgh for the reception the next Saturday, so. That was Cranky Travel Day #1. After some frantic airport rushing because we were all of course totes late, we make it onto the planes. We arrive in Miami and get on the cruise boat. It is nice. Jeff and I pass out very early this night and miss karaoke.
Saturday
Wedding day! We are up early in the morning to get our hair done. I am a 27-year-old woman and I have never had my hair done. It was interesting. We spend the rest of the day getting ready and then head down to the beach for a late afternoon ceremony.
It is a beautiful wedding.
I'm not just saying that because I wrote it.
It really was. The people reading the poems did a wonderful job, and Jim and Mary were just beautiful people so totally in love. Ocean, sky, sand, me marrying them in my bare feet and pretty much everyone crying.
We are all happy.
We rush to get back on the cruise boat and proceed directly to the private happy hour at which we get free drinks. We then proceed to become various levels of intoxicated. I spend the rest of the evening and much of the very late night dancing with attractive young men.
Sunday
I spend this morning in bed with a combination hangover and seasickness, as we've been hit with the wind from a nearby tropical storm (KATY DO YOU REMEMBER HOW GLORIOUS THE ON-BOARD SEASICKNESS DRUGS ARE. LET US HAVE A MOMENT OF SILENCE IN THEIR MEMORY BECAUSE I MIGHT HAVE JUST CRAWLED INTO THE SHOWER AND PASSED AWAY WITHOUT THEM). Allow me to clarify: I get motion sickness any time I drive in a car with a manual transmission. Boats and Sev: we are not BFFs.
Because of the wind, the boat is not going to the private island; we instead drift around at sea all day. Eventually the drugs kick in and we spend a fun day on the boat. That night there is more karaoke and general partying. Jim and Mary are adorably ridiculously cutely in love. We serenade their marriage with Ghostbusters.
Monday
The boat docks in Miami. Jeff and I pick up our rental car and drive to Marathon, an island just a bit more than halfway down the Keys. The place we have is very nice and it has a hot tub.
Tuesday-Friday
Mostly screwing around on the beach and at the place. The hot tub is very nice and has a strobe light setting (??? Wtf) which is entertaining. The only thing of note in here is that we meet up with my parents for their 30th wedding anniversary and Mum and I get to swim with dolphins. THAT is a freaking AWESOME and AMAZING thing. Photos later, because there are a bunch of me grinning like a robotard on steroids.
The rest of it is a really great vacation, ie relaxing. I do some homework but not nearly enough. I also read a terrible novel. I don't even remember what it was called, it was so bad. Why am I not a published author?? It was a piece of shit. That is my book review. Nay does this much better than I do.
Saturday
We again get up at the ballsack of dawn to drive back to the Miami airport, then travel a bajillion hours to make it back to Pittsburgh for the reception. We are very late. We are in fact the last people there and I discover they've been waiting for us. We go right there from the airport and I change and do my hair in a bathroom (classy!!!!). Some more lovely young men bring us drinks while we do. Hooray drinks.
The reception is very nice. There is free alcohol. We get drunk again and spend the night dancing away. I do away with any sleep bonus I picked up while in the Keys.
Sunday
A triumphant return home where I find that the kittens have grown a thousand inches while I was away. Both Jeff and I have the flu and we order Chinese food from Panda and watch football while I flail hopelessly at my homework.
Monday
Am back at work. What a downer. Have exam on Wednesday.
And that was the wedding!
There are three things of note here:
- While I was gone, I Skype called my cats. If you have Skype set up on a computer with a webcam and you pick the right settings you can have it automatically pick up with the webcam. So I got to see my kitties playing while I was gone. It was yayful.
- I forget.
- Photos soon!
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Date: 2009-11-17 01:50 am (UTC)