Well, we are back from Thanksgiving break. All I can say about that is that it was absolutely fabulous to have a break and even better to see everyone in my family and catch up with them. I of course failed to take good pictures of the event, but I did manage to get pictures of our family's redneck adventure on Thanksgiving day.
I have some cousins who are all about the "shock value" in life. So Colby, my 18 year old cousin, decided to buy a huge 15 passenger van solely for that purpose. He swears it is the best $600 he ever spent. Well, the first thing Colby did with his new van is spray paint it black and the next thing he did was drive it to high school and take 60 of his classmates to lunch in it (I am sure he would have taken more, but that is all they could possibly cram in there). Oh dear. Good thing there is only one cop in St. Anthony, otherwise he would have been in trouble.
Of course, the topic of Thanksgiving dinner was Colby's van. So after the meal, we decided that we needed to see this legendary van. Colby ran home to get it, then we decided that nothing could be more fun than a ride in the beast! So everyone who desired to go jumps in the van ready for the adventure. Little did we know that Colby would take us to the dirt roads outside of town and that he was not timid in his crazy, way-too-fast, flyin'-over hills style of driving. I'm not even lying when I say that we were on two wheels at times. I am sure it would have been worse had my Grandma not been in the car. Poor woman! She was sitting in the passenger seat and my uncle who was sitting behind her literally had to hold her in place. She was screaming so loud that it took all her energy and she couldn't even sit straight in the seat! Everyone else was laughing so hard we couldn't breathe. Luckily, we all made it back safely and my grandma didn't have a heart attack.
So here are a few shots of the van and the ride for a visual. Gotta love the shock value!
6 comments:
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I wouldn't expect anything less than a crazy good time for you Kim! Glad to see you will make it to another Thanksgiving, you better make up your mind now that when an adventure like this is approaching you leave poor grandma on the curb to welcome you back, if you make it back!
hahaha- that is hilarious -- your grandma was screamin like mad! what fun times! glad to hear you survived a crazy ride in the spray painted HUGE van.
Did he not see my my shadow that was sray painted three times. It was terrible looking. It ruins your car!!! I hope your cuz realizes he just doomed himself to having an overlarge family. He was asking for it by buying that thing. I loved seeing you over Thanksgiving. It was one of the best things about the whole weekend. Sorry I didn't call you about the games... I was sick and just had to crash. Oh LOVELY background and LOVELY music! Worth the effort!!!
i love the story, your sense of humor just cracks me up! and that van! that is seriously the type of van that I eye down cautiously whenever i see one, as if some weirdo or murderer is going to jump out any moment, sending me screaming in panic for help. hopefully i never see that thing in person!!!haha nice to see you at thanksgiving!cara
Cute coat! I am glad to see a picture of Jen and Chris since I never see pictures posted of them other places. Maybe you should take charge of posting more pics of them until they get to the blogging world.
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