Playing golf was a new event for me. Although I really didn’t play, I guess you could say I was CW’s caddie. We went to Soldiers Creek Golf Club in Elberta, AL. It was designed on a National Wetland Preserve, where all 4 venomous snakes in the U.S. reside. Suddenly, it feels good to be made of hard plastic.

Before I get to the first tee, I have to get my gear ready…
    I keep hearing people yell what sounds like “four”. Why not 1,2,3 or heck 78. Shortly, there after someone corrected me and it is “fore” which rhymes with “sore” which is what I am now that I got picked off by a stray golf ball. I guess someone shanked their drive.
    Here I am sitting waiting for CW to tee off – This is Allen teeing off behind me. He shanked it in the woods, followed by Phil (CW’s brother) who shanked it in the woods. Finally CW teed off…. and shanked it in the woods…

These guys suck.

    At this point, I don’t think anyone was worried about their score. I was asked to hold the ball on the tee. I was told that this is customary for a caddie to do on the 17th hole…or something… The aftermath of this was not good as you can see. There are some places that a tee should not go. I know of one them now.

    Overall the vacation is good. Relaxing….no. But good nonetheless. Many lessons have been learned that I will use in the future. I am going to jump back in my box for the 12 hour trip home. Bowler out!

 

– Chris Walker

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    Well, we made an 8.5 hour drive in about 12 hours, but we finally made it to Navarre Beach, FL. I think this my first family vacation experience, but it has interesting. I am with Chris Walker (CW) (editor’s note, CW is commonly pronounced like “See Dub”) and his family consisting of his wife, mother, 3 year old Dawson, and 8 month Nolan (the juicy one). CW’s brother was there with his wife and 3 kids as well. I am expecting to be herding cats most of this week according to CW, but we’ll see what happens.
    The first couple of days we had bad weather, but luckily I picked up a poncho while in Scotland. The weather got better in the middle of the week and knew it was Red Stripe drinking weather.Stroller Assembly
    Apparently the juicy one got a new stroller before we left. I decided to put this together, so I needed to read the directions. It is not as easy as it looks especially when the wheels are bigger than you. I finally tamed the beast and got everything put in place. I was sore the next day, and spend most of the time in this stroller.

Diapers

    CW wanted to expose me to other pleasures that you can experience while on a family vacation, like changing the baby’s diaper. This is not as easy as it looks, especially when the baby is about 20 times bigger than you. It is about the Human equivalent of changing King Kong’s diaper. After being wrestled with I managed to get the diaper off. I let CW put a new one on.

 Eating Out    I decided to take everyone out to eat. We left the kids with Nana and a baby sitter so we could go out and get loose. While doing so, I was attacked by a gulf shrimp. It was not pictured here for graphic violence reasons, but I took him down and eventually and ate him. We got a ton of food and I paid the Bill. The waiter was enamored by my appearance and got a picture with me. I think he just wanted to get on the web site, but it’s all good. He did a good job and he’s good peeps.

Pool Action with/ the boys

    I tried hanging out at the Pool with Dawson (pictured) and his cousin Trey, but this 3 year and 4 year old crew is tough. Trey kept on calling me “Little Bo Peep”. I haven’t been called that since I got out of prison. I played with them a while and then they got board and left me at the bottom of the pool. Unfortunately when you are only about 4 inches tall every end is the deep end of the pool.

Beach Walk    We went out on the beach for a walk and we happen to run into this thing. I never thought that I would see a silicone breast implant on the beach in its raw form, but this was interesting. However, I touched it and it stung the fire out of me. I had been violated by a breast implant. CW later told me that it was a Jelly Fish. Interesting, woman sure do go through a lot of pain to enhance their appearance.

    Ah yes… tomorrow we golf.

 

– Chris Walker

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    For you long time Albino Bowler fans, you’ll recall that a while back he did some rock climbing out west on El Cap.  Well, it has become somewhat of a Tuesday tradition at the Claris Networks’ office to head up to Look Rock for some good ole East Tennessee climbing (at least for a couple of us anyway)… so we decided to bring him along so he could brush up on his skills a bit.  It got a bit hairy at times (because Zac is apparently not to quick with learning cameras that have more than one button), and yes, the Albino Bowler’s arm broke off… again.  Donations anyone?  We desperately need a spare parts / stunt double.

    At any rate, if you’re familiar with East Tennessee, hopefully by now you’ve heard of the Foothills Parkway (it’s on the way to Deal’s Gap and the “missing lake” mentioned in a previous post). 
It’s a gorgeous drive, and just so happens to have some decent sandstone (by our standards anyway).  Stop off at the Look Rock overlook and have a look around… you’ll see the short trails snaking back through the woods (no pun intended).  Zac Mckinney, Jay Norris, and I tied off and headed up the cliffs… check out the pictures for the rest of the story.

– Dan Thompson

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