The Family Vacation Series day 1

blog one

The pretrip briefing

From the time dad got us a single hotel room for our 5 family members on the mexico-us border in Chula Vista, CA (to save money) to the time mom got stranded on the metro in D.C. and took the rail all the way to Maryland, we certainly know how to travel.

So this Family vacation will be carefully documented via blog.

Here is the outline:

saturday to saturday.

two days in Jacksonville, FL and then the rest in Orlando

one mom

one dad

one me (18 years old)

one Jordy (16 year old brother)

one Liam (11 year old brother)

2 surfboards attached to the top of our saturn view

3 laptops

The plan is to stay two days in Jacksonville for my dad's graduation ceremony for his masters program, and the other 5 in orlando, for the visiting of friends, non oiled beaches, and 2 glorious days of disney world.

day one

at about 5 am we headed out. with a quick and somewhat incoherent breakfast stop at 6 and a solid sleep till 9. the trip itself was somewhat uneventful. we arrived at olive garden to spend some gift cards for lunch, and then crashed in the ONE ROOM hotel room until 6.

Then we headed to the beach! Jordy reattached his surfboard to the top of the car, only he put the board too far forward on the car. Now IF you've ever attached a large flat object to a moving surface, you might be aware that if that flat object hangs a foot over the front of the moving object, the wind resistance that is created at the speed of about 45 mph sounds like someone is buffering the object with a professional bufferer thingy. We made sure to shout extra loud to be heard, as jordy tried to pretend like it was barely noticeable.

The beach was fun, with a distinct dead fish smell. Liam even got up on the board a couple times.

After the beach, Jordy and Liam and I tried to persuade mom and dad the necessity of buying us a weeks worth of Naked Juice, P B and J's and Gummy Worms. (sour, of course)

ended up with the Naked Juice, the P B &J's and some fig newtons. (Much to Liams chagrin, gummy worms aren't the healthiest snack.) and getting ready to attend a 3000 member black baptist church in Jacksonville tomorrow because dad is good friends with the worship pastor. Very, Very excited.

Signing out.

Mal.