"You will have significant experiences. I hope that you will write them down and keep a record of them, that you will read them from time to time and refresh your memory of those meaningful and significant things. Some may be funny. Some may be significant only to you. Some of them may be sacred and quietly beautiful. Some may build one upon another until they represent a lifetime of special experiences." ~Gordon B. Hinckley

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Fine, Fine, the 'MAN'-cation Report

Long before we had kiddies, Court and I went to Sea World one time. This was before we ever had a digital camera. When we got home and finally developed the pictures I found rolls and rolls of pictures of all sorts of scenery and animals, but hardly any shot with a person in them. This was thanks to Court. Since then I have slowly trained him that if there isn't someone IN the shot, then it isn't really worth taking. Luckily for me he has learned this lesson well, and he did a GREAT job of documenting his week with the 'guys.

At the end of the week everybody exchanged their memory cards, so I actually ended up with ALL the pictures from everyone's cameras, and obviously the other MEN haven't learned their lesson becuz the bulk of THEIR pictures were like this...



Hawaii is INDEED beautiful--blah, blah, blah. But I wanted some ACTION shots! Ü Can't really give a daily play by play, cuz I wasn't there, and Court refuses to actually get on and blog about it but here are some of the highlight of the' gay' errr man-cation. (and in no particular order cuz I don't really know what was done when! )


Here are our three participants, Court, Wes Young and Jim Stewart!

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They are standing in front of the cage that they would later be in when they would be swimming with the sharks.
Here is the same cage in the ocean---and Court contemplating whether he should get in...
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Court did say that Wes is SCARED TO DEATH of sharks, so this was a big deal for him. While in the water Court was jerking around and would put his hands thru the cage and out into the water for the sharks to have a bite at him. Wes (to not be outshined) put his hand outside of the tank as well and Court dove for Wes' hand to hold it out there so he couldn't pull it back in.

This classy shot was taken on Tuesday night while the boys holed up in their hotel room to watch Biggest Loser...
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Usually that show inspires a healthier meal than McDonalds!

These haggard faces set out for a late night of deep sea fishing...
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And they actually caught something...
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Although I do have to say that between the machete and the crazy hair, that Court is looking more and more like the serial killer that we all know he is destined to be.

Some great candids....
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And here is the ULTIMATE! Ü
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I am glad that Court was able to fit in this guy trip into to his already scheduled work week.
I just hope these boys don't think this is a regular occurence!

5 comments:

Rachel Cunningham said...

Love the McDonalds while watching Biggest Loser...that is classic. Looks like a successful "gay-cation." Our dinner-and-a-movie girl nights suddenly seem so boring compared to a trip to Hawaii!! We need to step it up!

Blogging question: How do you make your pictures bigger like that?

Allyson & Jere said...

Funny post on something so random. But by far, that closing pic was THE BEST! Thanks for sharing the gaycation, looks like a grand time. You are EVER so nice to allow such things. I mean, when did YOU go to Hawaii?

Tara Fischbeck said...

Did they actually see sharks! That would be awesome but freaky!! At least there arms aren't around each other in the pictures!! Looks like the MAN-cation was awesome!

Mom Pace said...

very witty-- the sharks, the serial killer, the room shots-- very classic Julie!

Jenny said...

Looks like they had a gay, I mean great time! That last pic reminds me of a song I think by Cold Play???, I could be wrong. It sings..."Like Brothers in a hotel bed" They've got to be secure with their manhood to ever pose like that. Hey, at least we get to go to Utah for a weekend...ha ha ha.