Back from Vacation

Hey all I am baaaack,

I’ve been on sabbatical for a bit. I took the family down to Universal Studios Orlando. By Car, thats right, you read correctly, roadtrip, Wife, 3 kids, myself and an extended cab pickup truck on a multi state treck down the eastern seaboard to the promised land of bluehaired beehives, ballcap wearing grandpa’s and Disney. I had my reservations on such a massive undertaking. But I am pleased to announce we all made it back, still speaking to eachother and actually more relaxed and refreshed than ever. The kids were AWESOME. There were a few are we there yet’s? and a couple of tantrums (the rest of the family didn’t mind as long as I apologized later for the tantrums LOL) But all in all it was the coolest thing and well needed.

I have realized one thing about my kids on this trip. That is, they love seeing dad get his ass kicked by superheroes and cartoon characters. They all ate it up when Spiderman grabbed me by the collar and was going to spiderweb me to the nearest wall, almost as much as they loved seeing Brutus (Popeye’s nemesis) Pop me right in the kisser. I was also called Brutus by Olive Oil at one point. (Seeing as she brought it up I was going to shamelessly hit on her as Brutus often did) but Popeye and her make an outstanding couple and I didn’t wanna be known as a homewrecker so I kept the Ole Enforcer Charm under control I also got my bald head rubbed for luck by Woody Woodpecker (or he was trying to tell me that my scalp was developing a nasty sunburn, but that’s an entirely different story) And I can’t be sure but I think Scooby Doo was eyeing up my leg for some reason. (I keep telling myself that he must have smelled my dog Xena on me) I was also embarrased by a pelvic thrusting Beetlejuice (which I am sure I would have needed therapy to get over) if not for the seriously hot looking bride of Frankenstein coming to my rescue and clearing him (Beetlejuice) out of my personal space. I swear if he kept it up and she hadn’t interveened it would have been on folks…

I was also hit on by what appeared to be an oversexed 8 foot tall hot looking geenie chick who also had a thing for rubbing my scalp (again I think she was just trying to tell me to put on sunblock. The thing is my wife was going to deal me over to her for 3 camels and a tabouleh recipe, but my kids nixed the trade, ok I’m not sure but I think the geenie really wasn’t 8 ft tall but was was on stilts)

 I also got to hang around with Jake and Elwood and rock out with the Blues Brothers.  I have to say that ALL of the characters were really cool and interactive. I have a bunch of pics and I will be blogging them very soon as an update to this post.

2 day’s before we left we were swimming in the ocean at Vero Beach, 1 day before we left we swam in our pool and we returned home to a snowstorm.

I shoulda stayed there, I’m not ready for reality yet, I wanna go backkkkkkkk