Weirdest thing ever: after work on Friday, Mom stopped by the apartment to pick me up so we could go out for supper and loan me the car. She came upstairs to see how the cat was, and when we went back downstairs, the car was nowhere to be found. Slightly alarmed, we looked around and saw a fire truck across the street, past the intersection. We hurried over and found that the car had smashed into a tree. Apparently, the emergency break broke, because it was definitely on. The car had crossed the street and traveled about a block without smashing into any other cars.
Poor car. It’s like it was too excited for our Prince Edward Island Labour Day Road Trip Extravaganza and set off without us. Needless to say, I had to rent a car, and due to shortages, we ended up getting bumped to a big-ass luxury car: a 2007 Buick Allure (aka the Tiger Woods-mobile).
Luuuxury. I felt like I was driving a boat — the term land yacht has never seemed so apt as when I was steering the car out of the MetroPark where I picked it up. It was a pretty nice car, in that big-ass-American-car-for-old-people sort of way — power everything, heated seats, automatic lights, XM radio, you name it. The XM radio was actually fun to play with, although my final opinion doesn’t deem it to be a worthy purchase (monthly fee AND ads? Insane!).
Anyway, prior to leaving on Saturday, Janet, Mom, and I went to my cousin Amber’s wedding. It was a nice and relatively short ceremony. We wished her luck, picked up Katie and David, and hit the road around 4 o’clock.
We arrived on the island around 8 o’clock and checked into our hotel, which was quite nice. We did the pool thing (tiny) and got an early night for a full day of tourist trap crap the next day. We managed to hit two mini-golf places, a dinosaur museum/petting zoo, the Cavendish boardwalk, and weird-stuff/Egyptian place in one day. Monday, we went to the beach for a sandcastle building contest and went through the world’s worst wax museum.
Overall, it was a fun weekend. Hopefully, Mom’s car will be fixable and things will work out well. She’ll find out today, I think. Anyway, I need to back to working, so until next time…don’t park on hills.
Comments
keddy@work
So they are thinking they will be able to fix the Elantra? And did you get the back Brakes done reciently? Also hows sam doin these days?
Katie Mac Innis
Dinosaur Museum was Jerassic Bart’s dinosaure musuem and petting Zoo. And the egypt one was Fan-tas-mi-goric Museum of oddities. It was great.
David MiniGolf Champ
I’am the official Mini golf champion, woots! Though mark was able to beat me by one point in the first game, I destroyed him in the second by more than ten, winning 20 bones in the process.
Heather
I can’t believe your aunt who can’t spell has found yet another word.
Angie@TheValley
I actually noticed "break" which should be "brake" for car brake. Mark and I did a check with his grandmother’s car in neutral to see how fast my car would have been going when it hit the curb then tree and it was around 50kms. I’m sad about the car, and sad about Sam. He looks like a torture victim. The wax museum in Cavendish used to be really good. What happened to it I wonder?
Alexa
Mark, I am a proud owner of a MacBook! I pick up the little bundle of joy tomorrow!
Mark@Home
OMG OMG OMG. Let’s be Mac buddies!
Alex
The worst wax museum ever is in fact the one at Atlantic Playland, on the Lucasville Road just outside of Sacktown.
Mark@Home
Hrm, I’ve never been. But surely it can’t beat this place. The Jim Carey looked like he had just eaten a baby, and the Michael Richards looked like a rapist.