The Week in Review- Part One

Hmm. How to begin this one? I have so many notes about things that we said and did that will probably only be funny to the four of us. Still, it’s funny to think back about it all, so the rest will just have to deal. I think about the manager at the Japanese restaurant and he would say “Si, Como no?” (Yes, why not?) So, there you have it…

I Wish I Knew You

We knew going in to the week that there wasn’t going to be a lot to do in terms of entertainment. We prepared for this by each bringing a game to play. The 80’s trivia game that Baby brought was a lot of fun, but also a lot harder than I personally thought it would be. ThreeL got pounded with Sports questions. Mimi ruled 80’s TV. Mimi’s game (I think it was hers) was like Outburst except you had to sing. You had a single word and your teams had to go back and forth trying to name as many songs as you could with the word in it. The catch was that you couldn’t just name the song; you had to sing at least 6 words of it.

One of the best games was Apples to Apples. I won’t go in to the details here, but it is really fun and potentially hysterical. It does help to really know the people you are playing with, since it will help your strategy tremendously, but it isn’t necessary. We played this one a few times and I loved it. This game also sparked the phrase “I wish I knew You Better” which was funny (to us) since we have known each other since 1989.

Other than that we played cards a lot. We would just park ourselves in a lounge somewhere and drink and play for a while. We had a lot of people come up to us and ask what we were playing. And by “people” I mean men old enough to be our fathers. Given the fact that the four of us were some of the youngest people there that weren’t on our honeymoon, who can blame them for making conversation?

Senior Frog, Senior Café and Your Turkish Friend

We did venture out one night to the bar next door to the resort called Senior Frog’s. They had a live band which was pretty good and it was right on the beach. We had to buy a beer in order to claim a table, but that was fine. I think it was good for us to be able to get out and see some other nightlife than what we were doing at the hotel. This also helped us along with one topic of discussion that ran the whole week called “songs that need to be locked in a vault.” If you are thinking that another Top 5 list is coming, you would be correct. There are a heck of a lot more than 5 songs that need to be locked up, but I’m sure you will get the idea.

1. Anything Bryan Adams did for a movie soundtrack


2. Anything you hear at EVERY wedding you go to. (Brown-eyed Girl, Mony Mony, Shout, YMCA, Celebrate, and so on)


3. The Gambler


4. I Will Survive


5. Sussudio (Personally I like this one, but Mimi insisted)
   

Like I said, there are a lot more, but these are the ones I have written down. Sure enough, we heard a few of these at Senior Frog’s. I believe I even stood up in my chair to do YMCA.

We met a lot of super nice people from Canada while we were there. In particular, were 2 sisters named Barb and Sandy who were there with their husbands. Baby and Mimi met them at the bar and when ThreeL and I came along they were already good friends and we all did a series of fun shots together. Barb’s husband was Garth. Cool name, right? And I don’t remember how the story goes, but for some reason we called him Senior Café. I took one look at him and saw the actor Buddy Ebsen. I couldn’t remember what TV show he was in, but Baby saved me and said it was Barnaby Jones. Senior Café was a farmer. I don’t remember what exactly he was growing, but he was super nice and it was really great to hang out with all of them at the pool.

Barb and I ended up singing a song together for Karaoke night, but it was pretty much a disaster. I let her pick the song and she picked one that I don’t think she knew all the words. Luckily, the girls said they could barely hear us.

And finally, a brief word about your Turkish friend. This could be one of those topics that lose something in the retelling, but it was hysterical at the time.

Apparently, Mimi knows someone from Turkey and wants to be friends with her, except for the tiny problem of not being able to pronounce her name. According to Mimi, the correct pronunciation requires language skills on par with Darryl Hannah from Splash, in that no human can possibly make these sounds. To make matters worse, part of this girl’s name carries a French translation for a word not used in polite company. (But since it’s just us here, the word is asshole.) So, how easy would it be to be friends with someone whose name means asshole? You can see why this is funny, right?

It became even funnier as the week went on, but I may have to leave those stories out for now. For now, here is another picture of the hotties. This one was taken after dancing with the cutest guy there. His name was Santino and he was probably all of 2 years old. His grandpa took him out of his stroller and he started to do the dance that all babies do, which is bounce up and down while waving their arms. It was too cute and we all danced with him.