So each year I send a few Christmas cards out and recieve a few and one thing I always like getting is the folded up 1-page paper talking about family highlights; what jobs people are at, where they vacationed and what grade their children are in... I never remember to send anything like that, so I thought I would post a blog entry on some of our more comical travel highlights from this year, but only the most entertaining ones and in the form of the twelve days of Christmas....On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me:
One bear-a-scaring us out of our campsite in Yosimiteeeeee
On the second day of Christmas my true love gave to me:Two bights of Costa Rica Disantereeeee
On the third day of Christmas my true love gave to me:
Three hot spring water slides of death that will give you a wedgeeee
On the fourth day of Christmas my true love gave to me:
Four unaware rafters in wetsuits paddling in water that was muddyeeeeOn the fifth day of Christmas my true love gave to me:
Five States of traveling though to lose my avocado to agriculture poliiicceeeee
On the sixth day of Christmas my true love gave to me:
Six Moab paddlers-a-drinking, getting dehydrated, camping and floatingOn the seventh day of Christmas my true love gave to me:
Seven snakes a squirming past our feet at Dome Rock as we jumped and screeeeamed
On the eighth day of Christmas my true love gave to me:
Eight-near-crashes into tourists on the Golden Bridge while riding ourbikes when it was windyeeee
On the ninth day of Christmas my true love gave to me:
Nine minutes of surfing lessons before I got seasick and ended up
sitting on the beach watching WesleyeeeeOn the tenth day of Christmas my true love gave to me:
Ten-white-knuckled fingers gripping the steering wheel going over Wolf Creek Pass in a blizzardeeee
On the eleventh day of Christmas my true love gave to me:
Eleven mini-breaks to reach to the top of the Sand Dunes with nowhereOn the twelfth day of Christmas my true love gave to me:
Twelve feet of trail-clearing that took us all day to remove rocks and
shrubberies!!!
