My Christmas Vacation

[RegSpec]

Im still wondering how my wife talked me into it…..going to visit the outlaws in Canberra for Xmas….the only city in Australia where just about every bloody thing shuts down completely at 9.00pm at night.

She wanted to go for over a week, but I talked her down to 4 days…. figured that’s about all I could take.

Our daughter and son-in-law live in a modest home in McGregor and they have a caravan in the front yard where we were supposed to sleep (another reason I didn’t want to be stuck down there for a whole week) :o

We lob in on Xmas eve, do the pressie deal around the tree for the grandkids and go to bed about 1.00am.

Its still hot and they give us a fan to keep cool……great idea except even on low speed it’s like trying to sleep under a helicopter about to take off……my missus starts snoring, ……then, not 5mtrs away in their bedroom, my son-in-law starts as well…..he can drown out the noise from a chainsaw with his snoring and by 2.30am,…. Ive had enough ….Im cursing myself for being to big a tightass to pay for a motel room (not that there was any free over Xmas anyway)… grab my pillow and keys and decide to sleep in the car.

Its still hot and Im only wearing a Tshirt and shorts…..uncomfortable as buggery after origamiing my six foot plus frame into the back seat of the XR.

Within an hour or so….it starts to cool down, lots, then it starts to rain (typical Canberra) and next I’m shivering and cramped up…..stuff this

I decide that I’ll take my chances in the house rather than walk like a cripple for the next 3 days and give half my next pay to the chiropractor.

After plugging my ears with two pieces of Kleenex, (all I could find in the dark) I settle down on the lounge at about 3.30am and just start to drift off when feel this "thump" on my chest……it’s their damn cat.

After the cat has finished its flight down the hallway at the end of my foot the stupid bastard comes back not 20 mins later and does it again ……WTF?

I’m starting to get pissed by now and give it another toss across the room only this time it runs into the Xmas tree….fully laden with decorations and lights,… it starts to lean……I dive off the lounge and grab it before it falls over….fumbling around in the dark trying to prop the damn thing back up again..

This time, the cat exits the front door about 2mtrs off the ground and doesn’t come back…..I settle back on the lounge, its now almost 4.30am.

I swear I only blinked, that's what it felt like anyway, but in that time 2hours went past and I hear the kids coming down the hallway to see what Santa has bought them…….aaaaargh….

That was the first night of my Christmas vacation…..pretty cool eh’

We’ll see what the next 3 days bring I guess…….

[berzerker]

Haha, thanks for the laugh mate, glad its not me! Stupid cat.. wouldve been a disaster if that tree came all the way down.

[Mat]

Not a great start but least fireworks are legal :D

[xr6t1]

Hey its Christmas, we all have to suffer but I feel for you in Canberra

[RIPGMH]

AHHH The things you do to keep the peace lol.My father in law is giving my aged scotch botle I bought overseas A good hiding,if it was anyone else,they would be locked out from my place by now and ive got one more week of this FFS,I feel for you I need to use all my will power and im sure you are no different

[tig]

Gotta love xmas, our tree went for a tumble too, last year went to the tree farm and bought a 6' tree, but this year thought I would have a Clarke Grizwald xmas and bought a 8' tree. Adjusted the tree in the base with the screws and loaded up the tree with lights, decorations till you could hardly see the tree. Was here reading on the forums when I heard a bang and tinkle tinkle in the other room as most of the decorations fell off. Doesn't sound like you are having the best time mate, you had the cat annoying you but I had my mother in-law, Things can only get better from now on mate.

[smicky]

Reg, you poor bastard!

You and I both know - you should know better...

As for the cat - two words... "Oxygen Theaf"....

[Buf-Phoon]

I had a Xmas tree come down one year in unusual circumstances. No cat though................

A mate of mine 4 feet off the ground and completely horizontal , you could even read the branding on the soles of his shoes

put a shot on the Xmas tree that any good footballer would be proud of

A couple of hours later the Xmas pudding caught on fire whilst we were swimming in the pool

Not to be out done another mate decided the fish pond would make a good urinal

the WAGs were not amused and rightly so

PS Reg , get a few beers into ya and make sure you get to sleep first

[arjey]

hahahaha poor reg!

You of all people should know that Canberra is only good for about four days of the year! Anything out of those four days is murder on the dance floor