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Sunday, October 7, 2007
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
The trip of trips
"Let's take a vacation honey, I mean go somewhere." Those words will forever be etched in our minds. " Well where do you want to go?"
Right there are some more words that will not be forgotten - ever.
The planning began and we decided on Virginia Beach. The excitement set in as we called on our flight tickets, made reservations for a room with a view of the ocean and started planning what we would do. We would tan, eat out, walk the famous boardwalk, watch romantic sunsets, it was going to be huge!
We then called and boarded our dog for the week at doggie camp. We did a bit of shopping for luggage, swimsuits, and cool clothes while our minds raced with visions of me giving surfing lessons as people stood in awe of my form - o.k. my mind raced. We put in for our time at work...we we're unstoppable.
A couple that we we're friends with wanted to join us. They would drive down ahead of us and visit with family. Our dogs were great pals so they could hang out all week! We wanted to get a limo bus to the airport but a friend insisted he would take us and save us the money.
It was all coming together now. The day of departure arrived at last! I took the day off to bring the dog to "camp" and clean up some last minute things. Well - as I was cleaning, breathing became hard. I started to get real dizzy.
Now I'm not one to go to the hospital in fact, I never go, but this time was different - I knew I should go.
"Well Mike, you have pneumonia" That's right. No big deal they gave me some pills and an inhaler I was good. My honey got home early, looked at my meds and smirked. "I'm still gonna surf babe, don't you worry." She wasn't. We called our ride grabbed our bags and... waited. We waited some more, and some more. I was beyond mad as our ride pulls up with a girl that he had to wait for - why was she coming? He wanted to show off his driving skills , that's why! He not only had no idea how to get to the airport, he cut and wove and-oh did I mention, almost killed us?! Finally we get to the airport and start sprinting thru the terminal as I wished my meds were in my pocket, not my travel bag. Streams of jet fuel colored the sky as I watched our plane leave - He's dead, I'm looking thru a dead man!
We go to the ticket counter and they say" you can fly stand-by. We can't guarantee that you'll be together or you can up-grade for $80.00/ticket" My dear wife-to-be and says"honey, honey what do you want to do?" I want to take $160.00 bucks out of his hide and stuff him in a garbage can that's what I want to do. "What's that babe?" Upgrade - on the credit card, save the cash. Now that our tickets were settled, we had a sandwich so I could choke down the fact that I'd already spent money without leaving. We boarded our plane and left all stress behind - relaxation at last... My dearest had never flown. She was handling it well. I shouldn't let 1 bad apple ruin my trip.
We were 3 hours later than we had planned so we would check in and go eat. The pilot comes on and announces we had better buckle in. "We will be experiencing some turbulence due to a hurricane off the coast of Virginia"... WHAAAATTT?!! The entire plane could hear my neck snap as I spun to ask the stewardess if I heard him right."ARE YOU KIDDIN' ME??! Honey did you hear what I just heard? Baby?- Not handling the turbulence thing so well?" We bounced our way into good old soggy Virginia. We got our bags and went to the hotel.
"I'm sorry folks we don't have any record of you." Wait a stinkin' minute here tootsie, we have a reservation, here's the credit card. "Oh here you are. We couldn't hold your room though we had you due in 3 hours ago..." I know what I'll do - I'll jump on a plane, go back home, wake up ride man and beat him - then I'll come back.
"We can still give you a room with a view" We checked into our room and decided we would grab a bite. We headed out into the beautiful whippin' rain and learned to time our forward lean so we didn't get slapped to the ground by the lovely 80 mph summer breeze! Everyone was closed. Bunch of chickens! A bit of rain and you close. I held my composure as we rode the wind back to the hotel. "Let's just order from the hotel restaurant." The door broke on the way to pick up the food - it's true. I thought to myself, "I wonder where I really am."
I brought the food in and we ate. My lovely lady turns and says, "I don't feel so good." I wheezed back at her "whaddya mean?" It's nothing, maybe the food isn't sitting so well. Let's sleep on it. I woke early hoping for good warm weather that will help clear up my pnuemonia. I pulled back the curtains to take in a glamour view of... the pool. Oh, I could see the ocean- thru the fence bars. Our friends arrived and complained to the desk that their room smelled like smoke so they were moved to a room with a perfect view of the ocean. Every morning they looked out as the dolphins jumped and played - I wonder if that was our room, our view... let it go, breathe deep(wheeze,cough,cough). The sun managed to poke out a little and we all went to Busch Gardens... Now we can have some fun!
"Sir- your credit card was denied." WHAAAATTT?!! "I'm sorry it won't work." Give me that thing(wheeze), let's just pay cash. Off we went to play for the day. A while later the ladies decided they would go shopping. They got dressed. They drove away. They got lost - terribly lost. No biggie-what's 3 hours of driving around in a totally foreign state. The phone rings. "You've got to come get your dog." WHAAAATTT!?? "He's gotten loose, had the animal control officers chasing him for 1 hr. and now all the dogs are going wild." I know who I'll call - ride man. Oh yes. " Do you think you could go get the dog and bring him to our regular vet - and pay for it?" Thank you Lord! Now, let's call the credit card company and find out what went wrong. "Our computers have been charging you double and triple on some purchases. Unfortunately we won't be able to reverse those until next week" I calmly ask, "Would you be able to temporarily increase our limit?" "I'm sorry we cannot sir"- I wonder where I really am?
My lady got "home" some time later. " You don't look so good sweetie", I said. She just wanted some soup and rest.
The next day she wasn't so good. We had to drive to the hospital. "She has pneumonia, strep throat, and a touch of the flu." Is he really a doctor or the devil himself? We both wheezed our way to the pharmacy as we gave over nearly all of our cash. "I love you baby"- "Me too."" At least we have each other." " Yeah." "Hey look the sun's coming out." We had 1 day of medicated relaxation. Check out day came. Our flight didn't leave until 4 pm and here it was 11:45 am, 95 degrees, sun beating down on our homeless, broke behinds. They were having a build your own ice cream sundae around the pool. The activity director had pity and let us join in. We didn't know ice cream could be such a welcome breakfast- I added way too many Swedish fish. I was so ill... " I love you baby" -" yeah, I love you too- let's go home."
Right there are some more words that will not be forgotten - ever.
The planning began and we decided on Virginia Beach. The excitement set in as we called on our flight tickets, made reservations for a room with a view of the ocean and started planning what we would do. We would tan, eat out, walk the famous boardwalk, watch romantic sunsets, it was going to be huge!
We then called and boarded our dog for the week at doggie camp. We did a bit of shopping for luggage, swimsuits, and cool clothes while our minds raced with visions of me giving surfing lessons as people stood in awe of my form - o.k. my mind raced. We put in for our time at work...we we're unstoppable.
A couple that we we're friends with wanted to join us. They would drive down ahead of us and visit with family. Our dogs were great pals so they could hang out all week! We wanted to get a limo bus to the airport but a friend insisted he would take us and save us the money.
It was all coming together now. The day of departure arrived at last! I took the day off to bring the dog to "camp" and clean up some last minute things. Well - as I was cleaning, breathing became hard. I started to get real dizzy.
Now I'm not one to go to the hospital in fact, I never go, but this time was different - I knew I should go.
"Well Mike, you have pneumonia" That's right. No big deal they gave me some pills and an inhaler I was good. My honey got home early, looked at my meds and smirked. "I'm still gonna surf babe, don't you worry." She wasn't. We called our ride grabbed our bags and... waited. We waited some more, and some more. I was beyond mad as our ride pulls up with a girl that he had to wait for - why was she coming? He wanted to show off his driving skills , that's why! He not only had no idea how to get to the airport, he cut and wove and-oh did I mention, almost killed us?! Finally we get to the airport and start sprinting thru the terminal as I wished my meds were in my pocket, not my travel bag. Streams of jet fuel colored the sky as I watched our plane leave - He's dead, I'm looking thru a dead man!
We go to the ticket counter and they say" you can fly stand-by. We can't guarantee that you'll be together or you can up-grade for $80.00/ticket" My dear wife-to-be and says"honey, honey what do you want to do?" I want to take $160.00 bucks out of his hide and stuff him in a garbage can that's what I want to do. "What's that babe?" Upgrade - on the credit card, save the cash. Now that our tickets were settled, we had a sandwich so I could choke down the fact that I'd already spent money without leaving. We boarded our plane and left all stress behind - relaxation at last... My dearest had never flown. She was handling it well. I shouldn't let 1 bad apple ruin my trip.
We were 3 hours later than we had planned so we would check in and go eat. The pilot comes on and announces we had better buckle in. "We will be experiencing some turbulence due to a hurricane off the coast of Virginia"... WHAAAATTT?!! The entire plane could hear my neck snap as I spun to ask the stewardess if I heard him right."ARE YOU KIDDIN' ME??! Honey did you hear what I just heard? Baby?- Not handling the turbulence thing so well?" We bounced our way into good old soggy Virginia. We got our bags and went to the hotel.
"I'm sorry folks we don't have any record of you." Wait a stinkin' minute here tootsie, we have a reservation, here's the credit card. "Oh here you are. We couldn't hold your room though we had you due in 3 hours ago..." I know what I'll do - I'll jump on a plane, go back home, wake up ride man and beat him - then I'll come back.
"We can still give you a room with a view" We checked into our room and decided we would grab a bite. We headed out into the beautiful whippin' rain and learned to time our forward lean so we didn't get slapped to the ground by the lovely 80 mph summer breeze! Everyone was closed. Bunch of chickens! A bit of rain and you close. I held my composure as we rode the wind back to the hotel. "Let's just order from the hotel restaurant." The door broke on the way to pick up the food - it's true. I thought to myself, "I wonder where I really am."
I brought the food in and we ate. My lovely lady turns and says, "I don't feel so good." I wheezed back at her "whaddya mean?" It's nothing, maybe the food isn't sitting so well. Let's sleep on it. I woke early hoping for good warm weather that will help clear up my pnuemonia. I pulled back the curtains to take in a glamour view of... the pool. Oh, I could see the ocean- thru the fence bars. Our friends arrived and complained to the desk that their room smelled like smoke so they were moved to a room with a perfect view of the ocean. Every morning they looked out as the dolphins jumped and played - I wonder if that was our room, our view... let it go, breathe deep(wheeze,cough,cough). The sun managed to poke out a little and we all went to Busch Gardens... Now we can have some fun!
"Sir- your credit card was denied." WHAAAATTT?!! "I'm sorry it won't work." Give me that thing(wheeze), let's just pay cash. Off we went to play for the day. A while later the ladies decided they would go shopping. They got dressed. They drove away. They got lost - terribly lost. No biggie-what's 3 hours of driving around in a totally foreign state. The phone rings. "You've got to come get your dog." WHAAAATTT!?? "He's gotten loose, had the animal control officers chasing him for 1 hr. and now all the dogs are going wild." I know who I'll call - ride man. Oh yes. " Do you think you could go get the dog and bring him to our regular vet - and pay for it?" Thank you Lord! Now, let's call the credit card company and find out what went wrong. "Our computers have been charging you double and triple on some purchases. Unfortunately we won't be able to reverse those until next week" I calmly ask, "Would you be able to temporarily increase our limit?" "I'm sorry we cannot sir"- I wonder where I really am?
My lady got "home" some time later. " You don't look so good sweetie", I said. She just wanted some soup and rest.
The next day she wasn't so good. We had to drive to the hospital. "She has pneumonia, strep throat, and a touch of the flu." Is he really a doctor or the devil himself? We both wheezed our way to the pharmacy as we gave over nearly all of our cash. "I love you baby"- "Me too."" At least we have each other." " Yeah." "Hey look the sun's coming out." We had 1 day of medicated relaxation. Check out day came. Our flight didn't leave until 4 pm and here it was 11:45 am, 95 degrees, sun beating down on our homeless, broke behinds. They were having a build your own ice cream sundae around the pool. The activity director had pity and let us join in. We didn't know ice cream could be such a welcome breakfast- I added way too many Swedish fish. I was so ill... " I love you baby" -" yeah, I love you too- let's go home."
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