Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Trailers, Tornados and Some Other Totally Redneck Vacation Memories
We just got home from our St. Louis Vacation. As most of you know, we decided to "camp-out" for most of the time while visiting some tourist attractions in the area. Yogi Bear Campground was the way to go as we rented a "cottage" with air conditioning and beds, toilets, running water and a coffee maker.
(Just a note: In St. Louis, "cottage" is the redneck term for "trailer". )
We had so much fun. We did lots of the touristy stuff in St. Louis-Six Flags, Grant's Farm, Seen the Budweieser clydesdales, the arch....just lots of fun and lots of memories.
But you know how it goes....the best memories are the ones that you didn't even plan on having in the first place.
Like the heat....above 100 degree temps will be hard to forget. Besides the NEAR bouts with heat exhaustion and our campground "trailer" NEARLY being whisked away in a tornado....the weather didn't have too much of a negative effect on us.
The most memorable moment of our vacation was the night we decided to go to a movie. After three fourths of the way through, the movie came to a screeching halt and everybody was asked to evacuate all of the theaters and wait the TORNADO warnings out in the hallways. Everybody freaking out in the halls was an experience! And go figure....this is THE ONLY time I was without a camara.
On our way back to the campsite, we were taking bets on who thought our trailer would actually be there or if it would be somewhere in kansas.
It was there, with no damage, but there was a totally demolished tent and lots of downed trees and..............horror of all horrors.......no power.
No power meant no air, lights, and running water. And no air, lights and running water meant that we were indeed officially getting the real camping experience. Flashlights, stinky toilets and sweaty gross sleeping conditions. Another memory I did not plan on having.
But I wouldn't trade it in for anything different.
We spent our last night in St. Louis "roughing it" at the Radisson in the downtown area. We could see the arch and a huge huge fireworks display from our window. Only once during our stay here were we mistaken for homeless people.
Seriously. A woman in the elevator asked us if we were one of the "poor homeless families who lost all power during the storm".
We had a little bit of fun with that.
Stay tuned for my next post...."Things I learned on our family vacation".
Unless of course you would rather be showering in the campground public restroom when a voice comes over the loud speakers and says there is a tornado warning and instructs everyone to move into the shower-rooms until it passes.
You might just want to skip that post.
(Just a note: In St. Louis, "cottage" is the redneck term for "trailer". )
We had so much fun. We did lots of the touristy stuff in St. Louis-Six Flags, Grant's Farm, Seen the Budweieser clydesdales, the arch....just lots of fun and lots of memories.
But you know how it goes....the best memories are the ones that you didn't even plan on having in the first place.
Like the heat....above 100 degree temps will be hard to forget. Besides the NEAR bouts with heat exhaustion and our campground "trailer" NEARLY being whisked away in a tornado....the weather didn't have too much of a negative effect on us.
The most memorable moment of our vacation was the night we decided to go to a movie. After three fourths of the way through, the movie came to a screeching halt and everybody was asked to evacuate all of the theaters and wait the TORNADO warnings out in the hallways. Everybody freaking out in the halls was an experience! And go figure....this is THE ONLY time I was without a camara.
On our way back to the campsite, we were taking bets on who thought our trailer would actually be there or if it would be somewhere in kansas.
It was there, with no damage, but there was a totally demolished tent and lots of downed trees and..............horror of all horrors.......no power.
No power meant no air, lights, and running water. And no air, lights and running water meant that we were indeed officially getting the real camping experience. Flashlights, stinky toilets and sweaty gross sleeping conditions. Another memory I did not plan on having.
But I wouldn't trade it in for anything different.
We spent our last night in St. Louis "roughing it" at the Radisson in the downtown area. We could see the arch and a huge huge fireworks display from our window. Only once during our stay here were we mistaken for homeless people.
Seriously. A woman in the elevator asked us if we were one of the "poor homeless families who lost all power during the storm".
We had a little bit of fun with that.
Stay tuned for my next post...."Things I learned on our family vacation".
Unless of course you would rather be showering in the campground public restroom when a voice comes over the loud speakers and says there is a tornado warning and instructs everyone to move into the shower-rooms until it passes.
You might just want to skip that post.
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