Vacation

Well, as always, vacation was quite the adventure filled with awkward and strange happenings. It seemed as though every time I saw something that sounded like a great idea to do always turned out to be a bust. I thought it would be great to go take a ferry ride across the local lake. Having never been on a ferry, I was really excited about this. Once we arrived to the ferry we discovered that it only took you about 100 feet across to the other side of the lake. Later, I noticed an ad on our key card that mentioned buy two games of bowling, get one free. Sounded like fun, so again we went exploring. We got past where it should be so we turned around only to discover a really run down, crappy looking building that was not only closed, but was for sale! Someone REALLY needed to update their key cards!! Tony had some good ideas that worked out better than mine...Soo Locks and the dune ride being a couple of them. I think my favorite memory from the trip was the "Pasties" signs we kept seeing. Say that word to yourself for a moment and think about it. If you come up with something that sounds like the word "paste" (as in glue) with an "ies" on the end...then bless you because that is what we thought we were seeing. Little did we know it was pronounced "past (as in not the present) -ies". We decided to stop at a store that had one of these signs and the conversation between Tony and the young man behind the counter went something like this: Man - "Can I help you folks?" Tony - "Yeah, we kept seeing theses signs on the road and had to stop in and see what "pasties" (as in glue pronunciation) are. After a moment of silence and puzzled looks the man begins to giggle. Man- "oh you me pasties (as in not the present pronunciation). I know what they are now, but has anyone else every heard of these things?!?