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January 6, 2017
Working for the Dutch company has its perks. I had to take a class to deliver a product. It was a crane rigging class provided in Orlando Florida of all places. Sucks to be there in the dead of winter however. My girlfriend come with and we took some time for ourselves in the pre and post class weekends. Friday night we lay in bed in havelock Nebraska with visions of grandeur to wake early and be relaxed to get to our 7:10 am flight from Omaha with plenty rest time. We were going to leave the house at 5:00am ish. It takes no less than an hour to get from the havelock apartment to Omaha's Eppley field. Parking in long term parking, you need to take a bus to the airport to check in. I was sleeping so soundly that night. No worries at all. Thinking I was going to wake up to an alarm and get on our way; "oh s*** it's 5:51!!!!!" I hear from Nancy. Which sends me into panic mode due to not missing the flight. But having the disappointment from the general manager for having to spend more money to get there. I started to give up, there is no freakin way we can make it. I wasn't even dressed. Nancy said we should at least try. So I started to get ready. Dressed and out the door we go. Taking 2 cars because of the lateness of the return flight. I get in mine she gets in hers and off we go! We speed a little to get to the long term parking. She gets there first and parks and I show a few min later. We wait for the bus to arrive. It's 6:56 when we board the bus, $20 gets the bus moving to the airport and the plan, she will go straight to plane with a phone ap ticket. I was to check the bags and attempt to make it on board. I'm tsa precheck and usually I'm through rather quick. This time...not so much. Old couple telling the tsa agent the life story asking questions and in the wrong line! Read the signs please. As I stood in line waiting for old lady and old guy to figure out life, I hear my name being called to report to gate17. I could see Nancy standing there yelling "hurry". After what seemed to be painfully slow, I make it through the line and off to Orlando we go. Of course we don't get to sit next to each other due to open seating on southwest. And the A statue she accrued isn't worth it or the extra I pay for A statues.
We land in Orlando and now the luggage struggle. Our luggage didn't make the flight but ah, screw it. We are in Florida. Universal studios here we come. I've been to the park before but she has not. So it's time to equal the field. We arrive at the park buy tickets and it's a little cool out. So I think we wanted to get jackets. We finally get them after going into all the stores. I took Nancy on my favourite ET ride. I'm not a big fan of motion rides, they make me belly sick but I rode them because Nancy deserved the whole experience. At least the best I can give to her. I will try to remember all the ride but I think I need to ask her. Let's see: transformers, et, men in black, we viewed a movie and received 25 dollars on a card, disposable me, the Simpson ride and the best was Harry Potter. I can swoon over this enough. It was a little overcast and walking in the Harry Potter area was just perfect. It's a London like area almost perfect replica the overcast looked like fog and it was just amazing to walk around in there. Had dinner in one of the restaurants. I couldn't think of anyone else I would want to see that with.
At the end of the night we watch the water mist movie and fireworks and leave the park. Walking through the city walk we see a Big Bang Theory booth. Had to get a shirt. (Green lantern). Nancy got bazzinga. Lol. We wanted to hang out a little longer but had to get to airport to get luggage. So we got to the airport then to hotel safely.
January 8,
We wake up late damn it. Again. This ain't working out well. Finally get out of the room at about 11ish. Oh this day started this way and no matter how hard we push it...well you be the judge. So today is we are late again. We get up and off we go. We get to Epcot centre and I've never been here before. Oh I can feel excited. We get in the park after standing in line making fun of every person we see. Yep I'm a dick! So we go in and the big golf ball is the first ride, the anticipation is mounting. Unbelievable excitement. I can't wait. We get to the front of the line. Maybe 5 people in front of us and "please turn around and walk down this path this ride is temporarily out of service" WTF Epcot you suck balls! Ha. We were in a ball. Ha. Ok let's see the other things at the beginning. Walked in the aquarium and.... wa wa wa. Sort of not fun in here. f***! Ok Grant said there are all these countries around the big lake. So.. let's salvage this s***. We decide to eat our way around the world. Nope I'm not fat enough so this was the best idea. Lol. Off we go to the lake. We buy a passport and off we go. Mexico first. We get some appetiser and go inside. Today I remember a jacket. Funny it's a poncho style hoodie. Mexican style knit. People kept asking if I bought it there. The ones there were 45$. I got mine for 12. Anyway, next country is bla bla bla. Eat eat eat then all the sudden Germany rolls around and the worst think I could have said comes out of my mouth. Not let's have a brought. Or schnitzel or some sort of chow. Oh no. My big dumb ass says brilliantly, "let's try German beer". Oh this was just my stupidly shining bright and true. Because the next words were, " I'm not hungry any more" "let's drink the rest of the way". This day didn't start good and it hasn't been stellar, what the f*** was I thinking!!! I could have claimed to have invented the question mark and sounded more intelligent. If I said let's murder a duck then it would have made more sense. Ok here we go. Oh we are all up in this b****. Get your drink on woman let's see. You wanted this. Let's poor some booze in our face. Germany France china America Japan drink drink drink. Somewhere in the uk we belly up to a bar. 5,6,7 drinks in there. Getting a couple of military guys drunk af. Canada next and we actually drink our way around the world. Yes we complete the drinking game I think. Maybe one drink low. Mexico I think so we decide that drink will actually be in Mexico. I've had mine. (Later instalment.) so these army d*** were drinking with us and one thinks he can try to kiss Nancy. And I think he did but she turned away when she realised I was standing right there. So I told one I would help him after the military. Get him a job and help. Now. Piss off douch. So many isn't done drinking. I'm rather sober and she wants to keep going. We get to the car and I'm feeling very good about this. She is s*** house though. Lol. And we start to drive. I ask. You want to go to a bar? Sure she says. More of my Ivy League idiocy coming out. So off to coconuts we go! Woohoo. So we drive and drive and drive. About an hour and not there yet. What the hell. We are close when I look at my phone. I didn't want to take toll roads and I want to show Nancy my Florida home. So we go the long way. I finally get to show her and tell her stories about it but I think she is getting sleepy. So she starts to pass out. We only have 33 miles to go. And half way there I here. Beyult, arf arf. I look ove and "are you gonna puke?" Yes I think she says. I pull over and out she goes. But nothing. False alarm. Hahahhaha. I think it's funny. About 5 miles down the road she is passed out, her hand hits her mouth and I say are you gonna and spalgoosh. Spewing goosing streams of vomit spraying out of her hand like how you hold your thumb over a hose end it squirts further, this was like that but it was 10 fold worse. I see silhouette of a Nancy like lady and puke streaming out of her like Chernobyl acid on a frost day. Almost steaming and then the woftining smell creeps over and I almost let loose. All the while I'm standing on the breaks like I'm detaining a criminal. Captain Morgan style standing with nothing but one foot on the floor and out the door I go I open her door and she isn't done. Out she comes and the force of the vomit coming out I'm surprised didn't propel her back into the open car door. Contraction after contraction and no sound. How does she do this. When I'm sick it sounds like my guts are coming out. The noises I creat are unheard of even in the movies. I think Godzilla is the closest rendition of my puking noise there is. Yet she is quiet. And won't tell me when it's coming out so no warning just goooosh!!!!!!!!!! And stink. Ok it's over. She is done. Back in the car she goes but, ha. She has puke all over her. In her pocket on her head how she got it inside her sock I don't know. So I clean her up. She is messed up. Drunk. And the car. Oh my hell. The car is beat down with stink. But I'm helping. And not going to complain. You know why. Some day this woman might be doing the same thing for me. And if she is half as kind then I know I will be well taken care of. So all cleaned up so to speak and off to cocoanuts we go! I'm not stopping. We get to cocoa beach and the bars are all s*** down. Oh s***. What a fitting end of the day. Screw this. "Honey do you want to walk on beach" Mnoofpoom. (Best translation is no I don't). (You go without me). So she is passed out. Ok! I go for a walk on the beach. What an amazing time. I was laughing and giggling. Letting waves chase me. Watching the ocean. Smelling it. The moon dancing on the waves as they crash on the beach. Oh I'm feeling very comfortable now. Almost like sleep. No don't sit down. I better be on my way. So, I get back to the car. Posting some silly poetic crap on Facebook and off we go. All the sudden I see a bar. It's open woo hoo. I pull in and park down by the beach again. And I think. This can't be a normal bar open this late. It's a titty bar. I better not go. But I do get out and walk the beach again. I spend a few hours doing this. By this time it's 2/3 in the morning. I have school the next day. We better go. I get in the car and with no other cars around, why look where I'm backing up. Just get straight and go. Prior to getting straight I hear bang! Nothing really hard hitting the car. Just bang. I look in rear view and nothing. As I pull away I see a green trash can. Oh no. No Nono. This isn't happening. I get out and look. No damage. Oh good for me. And off to the hotel we go. As we drive to the hotel I'm always looking out the side windows and I see a cooler. Ya a cooler I wonder how good it is. I stop the car back up on the freeway and get out to inspect this cooler. It looks great. Ha. We just got a cooler ya! Finally something goes our way! We make it back and I get pukey mcpukerson out of the car and poured into bed where she promptly starts to snore. Lol.
Jan 9.
I get back from class not feeling wonderful but not horrible. I clean the car some more. It was bad. Puke everywhere. Chipotle for dinner because I just don't feel like being in the stink car much and I was tired from that weekend. We eat and watch some Tv and sleep I could tell was my friend. I didn't sleep well at all.
Jan 10,
I get up and still not good sleep I take off for the day and ask if maybe Nancy could help clean up some puke. School was a little tough today. I'm not good at math and this class deals with math a lot. I went with a work colleague and this is where I realise I haven't been agreed with one time the entire year I worked here. So now I see what it is, what is wrong? I still don't know why. I just think some will find a reason to argue. A completely 180 position of handling him comes from this trip. This is travel though. But it keeps happening all week. Not one thing I said was agreed to. I could have wrote down following comments after I made statements. "I disagree" could have wrote it down. If got worse as the week went. I appreciate being open. But before a disagreeing stand takes place maybe a full comprehensive understanding of direction is needed. Ok that's all I'm saying. Daytona beach I say when I get back to the room and we go get in the car. It smells a little less like puke but now I look and see a problem. There is a scratch oh s***. The garbage can left about a 2 inch rub on the taillight area of the car. s*** s*** s***. How the hell! I can't have this. I know policy says it won't be noticed but I can't deal with this. I'm the guy that can't have this happen in this company. So we get in the car and off to Daytona beach. We get to the boardwalk area and... was there a hurricane? This place is tore up! Broken stairs and sand all over the boardwalk. Wow. We walk along the boardwalk going in and out of the tourist trap stores looking for shirts for me. We see this token eating game arcade and decide to go in and play. We screw around and get a few tickets and decide to walk the boardwalk. There are maybe 10 people out on the whole boardwalk. So it was quiet until the cop berated the black kid for riding his bike in the walk. We walk a few blocks and decided to take off. As we get in the car I see this ride park area with a thrill ride in it. So we stop again. Back inside and it's the same damn arcade. So we decide to pick the best machine. Nancy asks what's the best one and the attendant says sponge bob. I didn't believe it. But damn. We wine thousands of tickets. Enough to get a sailboat and a pic drain and more crap. How fun! I display the sailboat on my desk at home now. It was a blast.
Jan. 11
My boss shows up to school. He has very pointed views of our schooling. I believe in this school and all it took was one question and the colleague begins to belittle this free education. A free certification that can be used to teach the very info we need as a company. I'm stumped when a need to have is looked down on. We have lunch with the GM and back to the classroom. The GM leaves and school lets out and back to the room. In Stafford attempting to find alligators and bears and a fish camp called.... jolly something. And we drive around looking at the country and hopefully we see a gator. Not so much tonight. I really wanted to see some wild life. No dice. But during class I hear a guy talking about a German restaurant in Sanford. So as we drive we look it up and go. The area is in a really cool walking area. Kinda like havelock or the hay market. We get there and I see the boot. It's a beer glass and has some story to it. Not bad brats and mash. No beer. I don't think Nancy wants to drink any time soon. Lol
Jan 12
So I decide Black Hammock fish camp is a good place to go tonight. We didn't have any luck finding wildlife yesterday so let's force this. We get there and it's a typical ocean type place. A little run down all over due to salt and I see there are airboat rides yay me. Let's go! But again our bad luck strikes. We miss the last ride by 15 min I think. And it doesn't look like we will get there in time. Damn. Oh well. So we go have dinner in the diner and the waitress took a liking to Nancy and joked around with her a lot. Nancy had gator bites and some shrimp with grits. I forget what I had. After dinner we walk around the grounds a bit. I love the boat docks like I love an airport. I really missed my calling. I should have worked in travel industry. Spiders and webs are all over the place and not knowing the poisonous ones I'm a little skeevy about having them around me. There were some good size gators in cages so at least we saw a few. About 9 ish we leave to go to the room.
Jan 13 off work early wohooooooo hooo. Black hammock again. Except this time we are there early enough to take an airboat ride. First we are starving. So to the diner we go and get the same waitress. Nice lady. And showing age and can tell she is an older Florida girl. Nancy had fish tacos this time. Again I don't know what I had but it was quick so we could get good seats on the boat. A quick walk to the landing and we meet Steve the captain. We hear he is the best captain and it's true. He is certainly a gentleman. Cleaning water off seats and giving coats to chilly girls. Anyway our first stop is a cypress swamp with several gators in the swamp. He bumps the grass attempting to get the big gator to his but we didn't see her. Just her babies. Very cool area. I could have explored this area much more. But off we go to the other side of the lake. On the other side we view cool birds and learn the lake is only 5 foot any place in the lake. But I bet the fishing rocks. Speaking of fishing we were trying to set up deep sea fishing for me. On the other side of the lake there are muddy area we go through and juvenile gators all over. At times you hear the boat hit them I think. Just so many. But they can swim so they dive down. Off to an island and listening to Steve. He had so much info. Great tour Steve. So we beat feet back to the docks and got out pic taken with a gator.
Jan 14.
Passed my test at school another certificate. I think this is number 35-40? Somewhere in there. Happy to have this under my belt. Off work a bit early and we leave the crappy hotel chain (LQ) and off to cocoa beach and cocoanuts for dinner. I tell Nancy about the first time I was ever there. Not a sole in site raining and spring break. But not this time. It's cold so no bikinis in there but it's rather full and the people watching is good. We have dinner and go out to the ocean (pictured) collecting shells and walking along. It's hard to walk my fat ass down a beach with skinny feet. All I do is sink! Lol. But I make it quite a ways and we then decide tomorrow will be a Miami day. She has never seen the beach there. I think I kept it a secret til we got close. But that night we stayed in a good hotel. I liked it and it was free I think. Moons and shells and beach with walking and holding hands a little. There were a lot of shells to defend my actions.
Jan 15
We wake up and down the road we go. Miami is about 200 miles away and we have a puke car. We are on our way. The trip was longer than I expected but at least south beach is on my mind. Excited to be back!!!! I really did love living there. Really I lived in ft Lauderdale which is the same area. We get to Miami and look over and see the huge ships and it makes me want to take a cruise more. They look so fun. I had some people I knew one time talk about how horrible a cruise is. Yet never have been on one. Pretentiousness might be a word that represents some in this time of my life. I had some issues with the people in my life back then. But I will forget about that. If I started down that path, I would have some anger coming out. So we are close. I get there and Nancy doesn't know where we are. And what we will see. So I drive into the south beach area not knowing what is going on and I attempt to find parking. So 5 blocks away I find a valet. And we park. I'm a bit worried about wrecking the car. But we leave and walk towards the beach. I don't let out the big reveal until we get sand on our feet. And tell her. "Welcome to south beach" she didn't get it. Didn't put Art Deco and ocean blvd or south beach all together. It's a nude beach and I'm sure there were some. Just much more to see out there. We walk the beach again collecting shells and having fun. It's time to turn and see Art Deco. Oh this is so fun for me. And the review happens and.....wtf it's a festival. Tents all over. And not a good view of the Deco. But there is the beacon hotel. We had to go see it. Let's eat here I say. Ok. As we sit and eat I had to ask. We go inside and there is a room available. We stay at the Beacon hotel! What a treat. A time I never thought I would ever have. So fun to do these things. Now we have our place to rest. Car is parked. Time to people watch. So many people out. All these people waking up every day doing something. Living there. Being at home in a city I really want to call home. These people get up every day to live their lives and every day it's not me. But I'm here now. So let's make the best of it. Up and down the street. We walk miles and miles. In and out of souvenir shops to find the perfect Miami gift to myself. We stay up rather late. Maybe have a beer? Maybe not. I just wasn't feeling it. But could be a place I get one tied on. Kites and beautiful people everywhere. So much to see. The tents start to close down and we go to the hotel for the night.
Jan 16
yuck we wake up to the reality of having to leave 80 degree..... by the way last night was the first night I ssaw a lady wearing a parka at 80 degree. Hahahahh. We have to leave. This blows, all the sudden Nancy checks a flight and ITS CANCELED. AN ICE STORM s*** DOWN THE AIRPORT. Oh no. So Nancy gets to work looking for a way, I get to work because I need to be back. I call the travel agency we use and ask them to only get a run around. A travel agency with no ability to do their jobs. No thinking ability. As this is happening we have already walked downstairs and a car show holly crap. This is to cool. But travel. This sucks. I don't want to leave. Can I just stay. I could make a wonderful life here. The agent finally pisses me off enough I hang up. Nancy figures out to get to Kansas City rent a car and drive the final road. The ice storm may be happening but it's not that bad. I drove on it. And I trust she can drive. I finally agree. And hop on the Nancy plan. Now that we know our path we can go see some sites on the beach. So.... into the car show festival we head. Looking and buying and really keeping time in mind but really just making our way to the car. We get to the car and away we head to Orlando. Now I don't know why we decided to go to Orlando? Maybe car drop off was our issue. Who knows. So Orlando airport we go. Get to the airport and remember the cooler I found? We needed another piece of luggage so here it is! Jahhahah. Yay me. So on a plane we get and to kc we fly. Land late and finding luggage sucks. But it's gathered up and Nancy screeches around the corner and I load up the exploder and she claims she can drive. Ok so I lay back and rest my depressed head. We get to Omaha early in the next am and stop in a parking lot.
Jan 17
I wake up in a hotel parking lot at about 5ish am and we get me to my car and I take off for Sioux City.
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