Tickle Your Fancy is one of our Themes. Since The Reading Cafe is a place we can all hang out, while we drink our coffee or sip our margaritas, the talk of everything books can lead to funny stuff when we are having fun. Since we have been enjoying this feature…It is time for another Marcie…..

Adventures on Vacations

For anyone who loves to go on vacations I’m sure you’ve all had your share of mishaps, funny incidents and just plain old out of your hands situations.  Well my friends I’m no different and I swear every time I go on vacation, whether it’s a short one or long one, the trip disaster fairy decides to show up.   

For example, for one of our first big adventures, we decided it would be fun to take the train and travel to Montreal and Quebec.  Not wanting to leave our car for a week in another city, we took the Greyhound bus to get there.  All was going well till we reached our destination and have been introduced to the trip disaster fairy.  We were told the train would be delayed for 3 hours due an emergency stop.  No vehicle with us we were stuck at the train station in the middle of no where.  I’m serious this train station is called a junction point and it’s in the middle of the bush with nothing around but the people who work there.  Talk about an exciting 3 hours.  One creepy worker wouldn’t leave us alone, kept talking to us, played cards with us, even talked to us about our nail polish since we decided to paint our nails to pass some time.  Who does that at their job????  Oh and lets not forget the wildlife, they came out to visit too.  At one point we couldn’t identify this one creature, who came out of the bushes and crossed the tracks, probably looking for food.  Upon returning from our trip, Mr. Creepy decided to drive us back to the bus station because he felt bad for us having to wait all that time for our train and didn’t want us to have to wait for a cab to come get us. Again who does that, and why did we agree to the ride??????  Must have been tired from our trip.  😉

Flying is always another adventure for us as it seems we are never destined to get home on time.  For one reason or another we are always delayed, either due to weather or mechanical issues.  Coming back from Las Vegas our first time we were delayed landing in Detroit due to weather.  I’m stuck on the plane with turbulence and trying not to be sick.  Finally land only to learn our connecting flight is delayed, and delayed, and delayed.  Thought we were never leaving Detroit that night, but finally at midnight they have us board the plane.  We go to take off, the plane goes into darkness as the trip disaster fairy strikes again.  We’re told the electrical part of the plane has no power and needs to be charged.  So we are stuck on the plane with no power as they call for a generator, it’s hot, humid and we’re exhausted.  Enter the giggle fairy, we can’t stop laughing and we’re dying of heat.  At one point, my sister is laughing so hard she almost falls out of her seat and flight attendants are looking at us like we’ve lost it (which I’m pretty sure we had at this point) and asks us if we’re okay.  In between fits of laughter and snorting I reply, ‘it’s been a really long day, can you open a window’.  Yup I had lost it by now.  😉  Flying is always an adventure for us and the trip disaster fairy never disappoints us. 

Over the years as we’ve traveled throughout North America we’ve had some pretty funny situations, from spending a week out East in total fog and looking like drowned rats every day thanks to the moisture in the air, to being out West for the Calgary Stampede, and dealing with weather changes almost every 10 mins.  Everyone in Calgary told us they having a saying, ‘if you don’t like the weather, wait 10 mins’. They weren’t kidding.  I can go on and on about our adventures on vacation courtesy of the trip disaster fairy but I fear you’d be reading forever.  Just know whenever I travel, you can be sure something crazy and out of my control will occur, and all involved will be attacked by the giggle fairy, completely loosing it over the situation we are finding ourselves in.   Well that’s all for now, got to go pack for my next adventure, let’s hope the trip disaster fairy stays home this time.  😉 

Marcie