Day 1, Saturday March 5, 2011
We started our journey at the Goede household, feasting on the food of their homeland of golden potatoes…and the most delicious mint chocolate chip pie. We learned that all collies do are look for kids in wells and that Irish people (a.k.a. maeve) can’t actually pronounce irish words such as shillelagh.
Day 2, Sunday March 6, 2011
We awoke at 5 am, and Mrs. Goede made us delicious hot chocolate. If only Maeve could be that cool. After a long morning of flying with a layover in Nashville, we officially made it to new Orleans. Woj picked us up with her aunts and mom and off to Alabama we went! As soon as we got to golf shores, Alabama we ran to the beach and frolicked in the water. Devo looked gorgeous in the sunset. Then we passed out 11…that was weird
Day 3, Monday March 7, 2011We awoke to beautiful weather in the 60’s and immediately changed into bathing suits and went out to the beach! As always we had to be careful of Maeve’s precious albino skin, thus she layered.
As we lay in the lovely sun (and on top of a jellyfish graveyard considering they decided to do a mass suicide the week we came), we decided it would be a brilliant idea to jump in the ocean…turns out it was really cold. After about 5 minutes in the water we ran out of the water to go into the hot tubs. As we passed a lady and her daughter in sweaters and pants as where we were from, when we responded Cleveland, her response was ‘oh, that makes sense’. We fit in perfectly in Alabama!So being in the south, the only thing that anyone ever really wants to do is eat Gumbo. That was my goal from the minute we left Cleveland, Ohio. For dinner we went to a seafood restaurant and my destiny was fulfilled. We ended the night with lovely card games and watching the Princess and the Frog in honor of being in the south and going down the bayou.
Day 4, Tuesday March 8, 2011
Woj’s aunts surprised us in the morning with some man catching beignets. We then set out to build the most epic sandcastle of all times, we named it…seahorse chateau.
It was a most epic castle with 2 foot deep moat and 5 tiers with a most epic seashell flag. We then set out to experience Mardi Gras at it’s finest with a parade. Though Maeve wanted to flash the floats to get beads, we told her only tourists do that and she had to stop. After we each got a pound of beads we went off to adventure island, the most wonderful and dangerous mini golf in the south. Though it was tough, and Woj failed epically, the winner won by a long shot (*cough* me). We then grabbed some pizza and had several car honks our way.
Day 5, Wednesday March 9, 2011The storm of the century hit Wednesday morning, lightning flashed all around us, thunder shook the structure of the building where we resided, gale force winds blew furniture and people through the air…but seriously there was a storm and we watched the rain come and had a tornado warning. We had a lazy Wednesday and watched movies. We ended the night playing cards and listening to lil jon and his inspirational go get ‘em words about taking it, because its yours.
Day 6, Thursday March 10, 2011
For the last day of our trip it was the loveliest day yet! It was bright and sunny and warm! We laid out all afternoon, with Alyssa and Maeve reapplying sun tan lotion every hour so as not to burn…they still burned, Maeve specifically in odd places on her arm and as a hickey on neck. We are still mind boggled. In the evening we went to a restaurant complete with trivia in which we won a tshirt and were treated to the amazing pleasure of a magician…who actually looked very sketchy in which we had to make sure everything was still in our wallets. We also had the pleasure of being hit on by a fine southern gentleman…in which we engaged in conversation about how he knew a girl named Adrian that moved to ohio…pure romance.
Day 7, March 11, 2011
We are now flying home to love Cleveland which apparently has a foot of snow awaiting us. We are not happy campers, but we did get the joy of having a flight attendant who liked playing songs over the loudspeaker and talk about musical chairs. Good times, it was a fabulous spring break and I couldn’t think of a better way to spend it J
By,
Kristina Vaci '12
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