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Yep they can take away our internet, but they can’t take away our fun!!! Good thing I’m an easy going, glass half full type person!

Want to see our internet cafe?? Of course you do!

Yes, my own private internet cafe…ala mini van. If I sit sideways I can steal borrow some nice unsuspecting neighbor’s wireless. Barely.

So the property “management” came by with the green box. “There you go. Plug it in and you’re all set.” Why did I doubt that? But just in case they left us the phone number to Gulftel.

So, of course the modem didn’t work. And, just following along with the saga of the non internet connection..the phone number they left for us wasn’t the right one either. We finally found the right number. Called. Went through their automated phone menu…twice. Got a really helpful woman…who said “y’all just wait for 4 hours or so. That usually makes it work.” Yeah, right. I’m thinking she was off duty in 4 hours.

The Geeky One keeps working on it. We call back again and speak to a slightly more knowledgeable guy. At least he asked us what model DSL modem we had. After an hour and half, Slighty More Knowledgeable gave up. He so kindly offered to “Write y’all up a ticket. Y’all got a super modem there. I can’t get ‘er to work. Someone will call ya within 24 hours.”

Yeah, I’m all over that. I’m going to sit inside and wait for that call…

But WAIT, there’s more. So the Geeky One and I were sitting there and I smelled something that smelled, well, like an electrical fire. We look over, and A LAMP IS ON FIRE. Honest. Could I make this crap up?? So it’s plugged into an outlet UNDER THE CARPET. We have to move furniture to be able to pry up the carpet to unplug the lamp. We throw the burning lamp outside. The owner better not even THINK about keeping our deposit because of the stupid blackened lamp! By then I’m thinking serious drinking is in order.

Okay, got that covered…

Yep, we’re a glass half full type of family. Or, maybe here, we’re a glass empty. But we know how to fill it back up.

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Yes, we have some unusual holiday traditions. What can I say. Like how we shoot dyed eggs with a sling shot. Into the woods behind the house. Trying to hit a plastic blow up Easter Bunny hung from a tree. I bet none of you have a tradition as weird as that, now do you? The good thing? The deer then come up and eat the eggs. Good photo op

Not to be deterred by the fact that we have no woods this year. We have a beach. We brought the sling shot. Okay, so we didn’t actually dye the eggs this year, but we boiled them for ammunition… We know how to make our own fun.

Pull it back.

Watch the eggs fly. Watch the seagulls swoop. Who can shoot it the furthest??

Who can shoot it the furthest? You’ll notice it wasn’t me. Here is the egg falling out of the sling shot. Right in front of me. While I’m midway to falling on my butt. Yep, I was so not the winner of the egg sling shot contest. At all.

(notice I went out searching for a connection so I could upload some photos. The things I do for you guys. I’m just nice like that. What, you’re wondering if the phone guys showed up to fix the wireless?? As if!)

So can any of you beat our holiday tradition??

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Okay, so we always make sure we have broadband at the places we stay at when we travel. Always double check. Which I did for this beach place too. But…we get here. No broadband hookup. Call the owner. He’s not sure where the hook up is. WHAT? So he sends out Bubba (seriously) too check on the hook up. Bubba says there should be a “green box”. All the houses here have a “green box”. Well, we have no stinking green box.

Pretend I inserted a great photo here.

So the owner is supposed to call the telephone company…on Monday, and have them come out and set us up. Yeah, right. Like the phone company will be right out here.

So I try and steal borrow someone’s wireless. Which I’ve been known to do lots occasionally. Well, like in Palm Springs, for instance.

Another pretend FANTASTIC beach shot here.

But here I’ve found a very weak wireless signal sitting on the floor in this tiny hallway to the kitchen. With the door to the house open. And no one opens the fridge. (have no idea why that cuts the signal off). Or out in our rented mini van, parked in the driveway, not under the house, in the front seat only, sitting sideways. Could I even make this stuff up?? The signals I can barely pick up have cool names though. Like Aqua Therapy, Beach Castle, Heritage Shores. Too bad they don’t have stronger signals. Thank goodness these people don’t secure them. But the signal is so weak, gosh darn it. Slower than dial up and keeps dropping out. You don’t even want to know how many tries this has taken me to make this post.

Insert breath taking sunrise photo here…well, another pretend one.

But I can’t get a good enough signal to upload photos…and this will probably take me like 10 minutes to get this one to post. Tomorrow the Geeky one and I will be off in search of a better connection. So I can show pics. Of how we celebrated our Easter. Those that look forward to my annual pics of our Easter “celebration” will not be disappointed. But we didn’t have the blow up bunny to aim for this year… Stay tuned.

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