7.11.2010

I Need A Vacation After Vacation

  • Can a man walk 100 yards in Jamaica without being offered weed? Sheesh. I would go on a rant that they need to make it illegal there but it is illegal.
  • After Mrs. LL and I tried to relax on the beach, and after being interrupted every five minutes with people trying to sell us crap, she fired off a very loud, "Are you selling some peace and quiet? Because I'D BUY SOME OF THAT!!!"
  • I immediately renewed my two week old vows to her on the spot.
  • And I go away for one week and some guy does a swan dive off the second tier of The Ballpark? Could he have at least waited a few days so I could be all over it? (Video as it happened from broadcasts but I don't anyone has a clip of the actual fall. Which might not be a bad thing.)
  • And when I left Texas was looking as brown at the desert. When I come back it looks like the Garden of Eden. Did it rain here or sumptin'?
  • I learned Mrs. LL can dive. (I mean, absolutely no splash whatsoever.) And I learned she'll jump off of a 40 foot cliff. (See above picture -- the cove to the right -- that's where it happened. Some place called Rick's Cafe.)
  • Girl ain't right.
  • I like all-inclusive resorts but they might want to trick up their food every now and then.
  • I went deep sea fishing for four hours and despite have eight hooks in the water, we got nothing. But I did see dolphins and one whale, so not a bad bit.
  • Funniest unsolicited line from a guy on the fishing cruise: "I spent six years as a Dive Master in the Florida Keys. You think it'd be great? I'll tell you: I was sick of the weather. I was sick of the job. I was sick of my wife. I had to get the heck out of there."
  • I spend a ton of the time at the pool on vacation. And I always bring along a college football preview edition and read almost all of it.
  • Traveling out of the country is a beating. If I told you how many times at the airport I had some security person look at my passport, then at me, and then at the passport, you'd be amazed. And I'm pretty sure the 9/11 terrorists used their real identities, didn't they?
  • My favorite line to drop when I'm getting beat down waiting in a security line is, "Thanks, a lot Bin Laden."
  • I stubbed my toe on the concrete while walking in sandals and almost bled to death. (Slight exaggeration, but not by much. )
  • More later. Still recovering.

7 comments:

RPM said...

Welcome back. Sounds like tings be irie.

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Darrel said...

If weed were legal there those people wouldn't be bothering you.

Anonymous said...

I was in JamaIca last year and your right! The only place where we didn't get asked to buy anything was Grand Camen! Would go back there in a second!! If the locals ask you to buy they get a one way ticket off the island

Anonymous said...

good to have u back, barry.

Anonymous said...

There is a YouTube video of the fall at the BallPark. It went live moments after the fall.

dazed14you said...

Watched the guy fall from two sections away...it was like? Did that just really happen? They all watched the ball bounce and then tried to grab it on the way over the rail. What got me was how the players reacted on the field.