Trip Report from the SS. Scatterbrained Soon Come!
Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 12:02 pm
Greetings one and ALL!!
Well it could only happen to me -- an eight day adventure turning into a nearly two week absence!
Sorry to have been so absent since my return but I arrived home at 1 am on Thursday only to spend the next two days worshipping the porcelain god (a very special thank you to Chili's Too in Concourse A at ATL for this added magic to my life). Danger Danger people! Avoid the chicken tenders at all costs.
Add to that the DC Snowpocalypse of 2009 and you have a recipe for staying in bed and recuperating.
I have to say that even several days later the ground is still moving beneath my feet (a feature that was the cherry on top of my already challenging re-entry!)
Anyhoo... I am FINALLY back at the office and after having sifted through my roughly 1,436,287 e-mails I can now turn my creative attentions to a trip report.
Sadly my report will be photo-challenged (I have a few but not many). There are three reasons for this:
1) I was too intoxicated to take pictures
2) I was too lazy to take pictures
3) I had the Vickirazzi taking pictures of everything with that newfangled camera of hers and my polaroid with the detachable flash strips just didn't measure up.
Before the trip I actually went out and grabbed a Composition book from the Pueblo, so as to ensure that I could remember all the gory details of this motley crew and our near distasters... ahem.... I mean, amazing adventures!
I may consider opening up an auction for the tome to finance my 2011 campaign. So that some lucky soul can get the unabridged version of events --since some things are not for public consumption (this is after all a family show!)
Highlights of my version of events will include:
-I get to sleep where?
-I have to fit all my stuff where?
-Seriously?
-Who knew that three grocery carts of food and booze would ACTUALLY fit on a 45" boat?
-Green is not a color. It's a state of being.
-Vicki Coffee -- you have to taste it to believe it.
-Why rain is not your friend on a boat but baby wipes are.
-Adventures in mixology - there really is such a thing as "too much" also known as the 'Pink Painkiller.'
-The Bitter End with a hunk of Saba Rock.
-Searching for a blue hat in the middle of a blue ocean and other medical disasters.
-Review of the best lobster joint on Jost.
-Bruises as a fashion accessory.
-Customs, a chicken hat and land: a lethal combination.
-Glass of rum with a splash of coke.
-Four turtles, one day.
-Why Forum people (and Pia in particular) are some of the best people on earth.
Long rambling and (hopefully) amusing Trip Report soon come!
Cheers!
Well it could only happen to me -- an eight day adventure turning into a nearly two week absence!
Sorry to have been so absent since my return but I arrived home at 1 am on Thursday only to spend the next two days worshipping the porcelain god (a very special thank you to Chili's Too in Concourse A at ATL for this added magic to my life). Danger Danger people! Avoid the chicken tenders at all costs.
Add to that the DC Snowpocalypse of 2009 and you have a recipe for staying in bed and recuperating.
I have to say that even several days later the ground is still moving beneath my feet (a feature that was the cherry on top of my already challenging re-entry!)
Anyhoo... I am FINALLY back at the office and after having sifted through my roughly 1,436,287 e-mails I can now turn my creative attentions to a trip report.
Sadly my report will be photo-challenged (I have a few but not many). There are three reasons for this:
1) I was too intoxicated to take pictures
2) I was too lazy to take pictures
3) I had the Vickirazzi taking pictures of everything with that newfangled camera of hers and my polaroid with the detachable flash strips just didn't measure up.
Before the trip I actually went out and grabbed a Composition book from the Pueblo, so as to ensure that I could remember all the gory details of this motley crew and our near distasters... ahem.... I mean, amazing adventures!
I may consider opening up an auction for the tome to finance my 2011 campaign. So that some lucky soul can get the unabridged version of events --since some things are not for public consumption (this is after all a family show!)
Highlights of my version of events will include:
-I get to sleep where?
-I have to fit all my stuff where?
-Seriously?
-Who knew that three grocery carts of food and booze would ACTUALLY fit on a 45" boat?
-Green is not a color. It's a state of being.
-Vicki Coffee -- you have to taste it to believe it.
-Why rain is not your friend on a boat but baby wipes are.
-Adventures in mixology - there really is such a thing as "too much" also known as the 'Pink Painkiller.'
-The Bitter End with a hunk of Saba Rock.
-Searching for a blue hat in the middle of a blue ocean and other medical disasters.
-Review of the best lobster joint on Jost.
-Bruises as a fashion accessory.
-Customs, a chicken hat and land: a lethal combination.
-Glass of rum with a splash of coke.
-Four turtles, one day.
-Why Forum people (and Pia in particular) are some of the best people on earth.
Long rambling and (hopefully) amusing Trip Report soon come!
Cheers!
I wasn't kidding when I warned you about all the toe jamming bits that stick up from a boat! Can't wait to hear it all. Vick promised something by Monday.... so Im just a little anxious 
