My Texas vacation

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Texas vacation day one
Hey everyone. Today marks day 1 of my Texas vacation with my Texas relatives. We flew on a plane and stuff. I had to empty my backpack of fun. I took all my hand helds out and narrowed it down to my dsixl, psp, and ds classic, and respective charges and games. But I neglected to fully charge them, so with the terminal outlet ports, I had my phone, dsixl, psp, and ds classic all charging on the same terminal. Dad jokingly said the lights dimmed as I plugged in. Here's a picture.

Well then my aunt came and picked us up at the air port once we arrived. We're staying at there house. They have a pool. And again I'm writing this on my dsixl and sending to my email. I might be able to get to a computer, but they're mac, and I refuse to use apple. Today was kind of boring, but it'll get better.
 
Texas day 2, water park
Hey there. Day 2 on my Texas vacation. Today we went to a water park called the Schlitterbahn, pronounced shlit-ter-bon. It gets the name from German. But first I need to talk about the ride here.
I think I mentioned in the last blog that my aunt is a PC to mac convert. If I didn't, she is. I'm a hardened anti-apple, and she is a pushy apple cult member. It was quite an interesting ride with our bickering. We're comparable to a hardened democrat and republican arguing over political issues. It's actually kind of funny. Here are some texts I sent to my best friend on the car ride up.

"My aunt was trying to convert my mom by saying crap about how 'steve jobs is an innovator.' I jump in yelling 'DON'T LISTEN MOM! OUR FRIEND IS BILL! OUR FRIEND IS BILL!'"

"My aunt and I are arguing over her iPhone. Just told her windows phone/android can do any of that. And told her windows can get xbox live and iPhone can't. i won. score one for Microsoft/google"

We're something. Now onto the stops.

We went to this gas station called Buc-ees. For those of you who never went to one, you have missed out. It has incredibly nice bathrooms on any level. Millionaire estates are probably the only cleaner bathrooms on the market. I would show pictures, but not sure if bathroom pics are legal. They have this impressive food counter. That I can take a picture of. Here it is.

Then there was the wide selection of jerky. Here you go.

Here is me with Bucky.

More impressive pics up on my myspace.
Now for water park. It's a nice place. I rode this river ride called "the Congo." It went all the way through the park. I got stuck in certain parts because of the poor current. More to come tomorrow.
 
Texas day 3
Hey world, day 3 in the lone star state and day 2 at the schlitterbahn. Before I get into my awesome day, let me say I'm quite close to quite literally telling my aunt to f*** off with the apple crap. If she doesn't, I will blow up and drop an f bomb every other word. Oh well, on to fun stuff.

There's this racing slide that if done properly, you will go flying. It's fun getting air. There's this tower with 3 different slides. One that is a coaster like ride, one is a big family raft slide, and one that is a lone tube. The coaster was really fun, and so were the others. Then there was this lazy river that isn't lazy at all, and by that I mean it moves really fast, and has this wave that travels the whole river. It's called the torrent river, and I made a joke about "so where's my free copyrighted material." Torrent joke, lol. Then there was this artificial surfing wave. I'm not great by any means, but I'm novice level probably. I don't just go in and fall out. I will go in and do some belly gliding. I tried to do some tricks, but wiped out. Once almost losing my trunks. Then there's this lazy river that has it's entrance powered by the water from the wave. It's hard to describe, so I'll jut say it's awesome.

Now there's the other part of the park that is focused on river rides. It's basically tubing down rivers but they're artificial rivers and artificial falls. There was this one called the Congo and it basically it basically crosses the entire park. I got stuck many times and had to get out to move. Fun time.
Unfortunately they didn't have the souvenir dip n dots cups this time. My family still uses that souvenir cup bowl thing. But at least I got 5 admission bands from this. I love admission bands. When I get back I'll take a picture.

Well that's it for now. Later.
 
Day 4, I think
I'm starting to lose track of the days as you can tell. Today wasn't very interesting. We came back from the water park. We packed up and I'm a lobster. I am burned like crazy. Wow I hurt. I applied aloe and it helps. On the car ride home I watched hellboy and ghost rider on my psp. I have them on umd and they're both good movies.

We unpacked and applied more aloe. I then watched TV until time to pick up the dog from the animal resort. And I'm not glorifying the kennel by any means. Even the most outspoken PETA advocate would approve of it. She has her own large room, with a door to an outside patio area, super well fed (she put on weight last time), and has this wide open space to run around once a day with all the other dogs. They also have these special rooms for old, fragile, or aggressive animals that has a TV and comfy bed. There is also this bird in the lobby that'll whistle and is fun to whistle back at. I think it likes me because of the "ohhh hotie" whistle it kept giving me after we whistled some. Darkenedoptimist look out.

And now for the play by play of the format war between my aunt and I. She is weak in her apple attack after my iron clad defence. But I owe some of my power to the spirit lifting articles about why apple sucks. I need my Microsoft fix after being in this house of apple, and searching why apple sucks on Bing using my Nintendo dsi browser really helped. Thanks mac-sucks.com for the spirit lifter. My aunt I think doesn't realize that all she does on her icrap she can do just as easily, and I believe better, on a PC or android. She makes these photo slide shows on her mac and says she can make a DVD or put on YouTube. But what she does she could easily do with Microsoft photo story, and photo story is a free download. She also gloats about the GPS locator and netflix on her iPhone and you can easily do that with an android smart phone. I've made it a point to point that out. Maybe I should be nicer, but her time has come. I'm winning. Later.

 

from my counts day 5 I'm pretty sure
As you can tell by my title, I have almost forgotten what day of the trip it is. This time it isn't because of tiredness, it's because of fun. And man was today fun.

I wake up today afraid that my micro SD card for my phone is missing because of a dream I had where we were copying data off others in the family phone onto my card because I'm the only one that bought an SD card. We have done this before but unlike last time, we lost the card somehow in the dream. I wake up slightly panicked because I have data on that card and I saved up many swagbucks for it. I get my phone and it's in the slot on the phone where it should be. Dreams are weird like that.

Well today we went to the Main Event Fun Place and The Salt Lick Barbecue, the place was on man vs food. The main event is comparable to Dave and Busters or CJ Barrymore's. It has arcade games that use game cards that store money and ticket credit things. But not only that, but also billiards (didn't say pool to prevent confusion), bowling, mini golf, rock climbing, and laser tag. They had this promotion going on where for $15, I could have unlimited rock climbing, mini golf, laser tag, billiards, and bowling (but I'd have needed to pay to rent shoes, so didn't do that.) I had fun rock climbing, even though I'm kind of weak in the upper body strength. I got up to the top about 4 times, and maybe halfway up the other times. I played mini golf twice, the first time being serious with scoring 8 over par, and the second time just being a goof off round (mainly because I was pressed for time second round). Billiards was good, even though I just played myself. Laser tag was really fun. This one was different then other types I've played. For starters we had limited rounds and lives. Once we ran out of either, we had to go back to home base and and get more. It got annoying, but added strategy to the game. And speaking of home base, we were on teams and had to shoot at the opponents base.I got highest score in base tagging on my team and 3rd in that overall. I got 2nd on my team and 4rt all together. There were 28 people all together and 14 people on a team. That's pretty good, even if I kind of camped. It was a multi-level play area, and no one was on the second level, and easy to shoot at the base target. Then shoot those that did the same from the first floor. Hurray for camping.

After the main event we went to the salt lick. It was amazingly good. I had amazing brisket and ribs. So much meat. And since we did family style, it was all you can eat. I ate a lot. And for desert, I had a burnt end. It's the end of the brisket that is almost nothing but pure flavor. Here's a picture of me eating it and one in all it's glory.

The salt lick is one of the few places in America with an open pit, according to man vs food. I actually knew about the burnt end due to him. Here's a picture of the open pit.

It's amazing. If you're ever in Austin Texas and love barbecue, I highly recommend the salt lick. And if you're bold enough, ask for a burnt end neer the end of you're meal. Best taste sensation ever.

Well that's it for today. According to my parents there isn't much of a plan for the next few days. Expect some apple arguments. Later.
 
probably day 6
OK this is the 3rd time I've tried to write this blog. Basically I went to church, played jenga, and played monopoly. They're Methodist and I'm catholic. I felt out of place. Then I played monopoly, and lost. I would go on but I don't want to lose the signal again and have to start over. Bye.

AFTER THOUGH EDIT: I think because it was an apple wireless router or the airwaves were congested with icrap that's why I wasn't able to fully connect.
day 7 from my bad count
Day 7 I think. Today was a trip to walmart, Costco, and a really great barbecue place. It was also the day where I played the classic xbox in the futon room. My relatives have this room with a futon, a TV, a classic xbox, and the only VCR in there house. I typically will be only time that TV gets used. Poor TV, and poor dell sitting in there garage. Can't remember if I mentioned the sad dell, so here it is now.

OK, so now onto the trip things. I went to walmart with my mom, dad, and aunt. I looked at the electronics like normal. Then because I'm in Texas and on a vacation, I decided to get my girlfriend a souvenir. It's a snow globe with Texas stuff. I can tell you this even though she follows my blog. Why you might ask? Because I'll post this after I give it to her. I'll take a pic when I get home.

(Because it got confiscated by airport security, the picture will not happen)

So now onto Costco. I looked at the TVs and played with a samsung tablet. By my anti-apple opinion, it's a billion times better than the ipad. Stupid apple, just give up already. Oh, and another great thing was finding and buying Wallace and gromit the complete collection. It has a grand day out, a close shave, the wrong trousers, and a matter of loaf and death. Haven't seen loaf and death, but have seen the others, and love them. Then there's the bonus features, which sound great.

After a while at home, we went to whataburger for lunch. It was a while at there house. I took a picture of me in front of it. Here's the picture.

We don't have them at home, so it was really cool. They are really good tasting. I then played oddworld, Munch's Odyssey on the classic xbox in the futon room. I love that game and wish it was compatible with 360 so I could get a copy. Damn it's such a great game.

Well after hours of oddworld, we went to dinner at this amazing barbecue place. I had the ribs, and with that comes unlimited rolls, pickles, and other sides. So good. Oh man, to think the vacation is almost over. Well I better charge so I can be ready for the plane ride home. Late

 
I'm sure because I'm putting the blog together on my PC as we speak, day 8.
So today was the last day. We got packed up and went to the air port. Now for some security stories.
 

You know how I have a giant key chain? Well I know I've mentioned it and it has been in some videos. Well I needed to take it off for security, for obvious metal reasons. Then I had to take off my belt because of the buckle. I'm doing this while in line waiting to go to the checkpoint. In this, I have my id in my mouth all ready to hand to the security guy that was checking ids and boarding passes. I get ready to hand him my id and he says "just put that down here," pointing to a spot on his podium that is under his black light. I never knew that if you hold your drivers licence under a black light that circles will show up. Seeing that he wasn't wearing gloves, I don't blame him.

 
Last day I mentioned an amazing snow globe I got for my girlfriend. Well to save money my family packed in all Carey-ons because it's now $25 to check a bag. Well we didn't think about the snow globe being over liquid weight. Unfortunately they had to confiscate it. I got her a new one in the terminal, but it's not as awesome, so I won't do a picture.
 
We board, and take off. We're in the air, and something strange happens. The pilot comes out of the cockpit and goes to the bathroom at the back of the plain. Then after he returns, the copilot does the same. I know they're people with needs too, but I thought that after 9/11, they lock them in behind this door that won't open unless on the ground. I know I heard that somewhere, or something to that nature. It was just interesting.

 

Well now I'm home, with my PCs, and standard definition TV, and 10 gaming consoles, and 70-90 degree climate. Ahh it's good to be home.

Miscellaneous Texts that I saved

I sent these texts to my friend. Some are up in the blog, but others aren't.

"I am super giddy. After the constant nonstop apple throwing at my steel wall PC faith, she was starting to oxidize the wall, but then I found this site using my ds browser, and Microsoft Bing, and found this amazing site called mac-sucks.com and now I'm titanium re enforced."

"My aunt and I are arguing over her iPhone. Just told her an android or windows phone can do that. And that windows can get xbox live and her iPhone can't. I won. Score one for google/windows."
"My aunt is a downgraded Microsoft to apple convert. She won't shut up about how good it is and is trying to convert us. Apple cult members are one reason I hate apple, and she doesn't realize that all the gloating just puts more nails in the coffin. Just a few minutes ago in the car aunt was talking to mom about the 'awesomeness' and how 'steve jobs is an innovator.' I jump in and yell 'don't listen. Our friend is bill! Our friend is bill!'"

This was a funny thing another PC friend told me. If apple Friends ever say how awesome apple is and ask what can PC do that mac can't, just say "Right click."