It was July 3rd 2009. My family and I were heading down to Hilton Head Island for our annual family vacation. We always went down to Hilton Head every July 4th week for the last four years. It is a beautiful small little island that is very private. To me it is a place to go and relax, and forget about the real world around me.
My family and I left at 5:00 a.m. In the first five minutes of the trip when my father had slipped coffee on his pants, my older brother was complaining because he and I were smashed in the back. My mother, well she was reading her People magazine that she had purchased the night before. I knew in that time that this was going to be a long trip.
In the first hour we had to stop at a gas station so my dad could wash the coffee off from his pants. Evan was pumping the gas into our four runner car. Mom was inside the gas station buying water with me when my dad walked out and looked like he had just gotten out of the shower. "What happened to you?" my mom said. "The water wasn't coming out so I turned it on high and then it shot out all over me." My mom and I could not stop laughing. When we walked out of the gas station my brother asked, "What is so funny?" I looked at dad and then Evan looked at dad and we just started laughing.
We all got in the car to finish up our eleven hour drive when it started to smell. We all looked around and realized it was coming from my dad, because of the water. Finding out later that we think there was a back up in the water and some could have been from the sewage. That was one heck of a drive all the way down to Hilton Head, with a horrible smell right in front of me.
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That is such a funny story. Although that has never happened to me, my family always goes on long trips and weird thing always happen to us, but we always just laugh about it later. When I was little we always either drove our car or our RV places. We never flew. The first time we took our RV out, we were on our way to California. We weren't even out of Indiana out and I got stuck in the bathroom in the RV. We had to pull over for quite some time and fix the door. I was not having fun then, but it is a story that I will always look back on and laugh.
ReplyDeleteThis is really funny. I defanitly could relate to this, as we have all been on family vacations. This sounds like you had a lot of serious family bonding on this trip. Sounds like something you will never forget!
ReplyDeleteSeems like you have a fun family!