The longest relationship you will have is not with your children, parents, or spouses, its with your siblings.
They are the only ones that are there from your birth to your death. Brother is one of the greatest people I know, he can make anyone laugh and be his friend. He is also one of the funniest people I have ever met, and my kids call him "Uncle Funny". Brother has lived through a lot of hard times and he is MY super-hero. When our father was alive he took Brother & I went to Disney 14 times back when the MK was the only park there. This was our first trip together since the other parks opened. It was our "homecoming".
His wife was sucking the life out of it.
From the time they met, until this day they knew each other a total of eight months. Yeah, time to get away from each other. They don't even seem to like each other.
Brothers little announcement surprised me for about a minute and a half. He was trying so hard to please her, but nothing did.
We finished up lunch, Brother, DH & I went to the smoking area to have a cigarette. I had a seat, told Dh that the cigarettes were in the locker and gave him the key.
Hand to god, sometimes I think I married Jim Carrey circa Ace Ventura.
DH went to the locker, and a second later he was running back to Brother and I, hands in the air waving over his head shaped like claws, taking gigantic hop-steps. There was some kind of guy language exchange that I totally missed, because Brother grabbed the back of my chair and tipped me backwards **screech!!* dangerously close to the ground. I wrapped my legs around the legs of the chair and was holding on for dear life. It was after all, a six inch drop. I could have suffered a disfiguring bump to the head.
Brother bent over me holding the chair and stuck his finger in my face.
"You have been previously warned!" He bellowed.
Don’t drop me! What did I do?
"This is your final warning, understand?" He continued.
Okay, I'll never do it again, just don't drop me!
Brother put me back where I belong, Dh was wiggling around with the hee-bee gee-bees. I was trying to recover from my near death experience of a six inch drop to the ground and the risk of a disfiguring bump to the head. What just happened?
There was a tampon in the locker.
For the love of God guys, when you travel with 3 girls over the age of twelve, thats the chance you take, deal with it.
We had some time to kill and Em wanted to swim some more. That kid is part fish. Beatlebum & Commando Nikki wanted to check out the bird aviary, so I told them to head down, I'd be right behind them. Dh & I said our "love ya, mean its" and parted ways.
When I walked into the aviary Commando Nikki had a bird sitting on her head, trying to make a nest out of her braids. She was chanting "Please don't poop, nice bird, please don't poop." All the birds were very friendly, they kept landing on us, except the toucan. I went over and looked at the Toucan, but I was too chicken to put my hand near it.
Get it? Bird aviary, I was chicken? HA! I crack me up.
Good thing, because some guy DID put his hand near it and it snapped at him. His bill made a loud clap sound, like a knife hitting a cutting board.
Note to self: Avoid pigtails and the Toucan.
Our Dolphin swim time was coming around and we gathered the crew into our cabana. They put you into groups of eight, Waldo went with us and two very nice, but Band-Aid covered people. (From here on out to be known as "the Band-Aids, Mr. & Mrs.) Brother, his wife and scruffy went with 5 other people. We watched a movie about dolphins and what to do or not do. Em kept falling asleep. Dh kept shaking her. She would sit up, open her eyes real wide for a second and fall back to sleep. She was a pooped little kid.
I think everyone in that room could feel Beatlebums excitement. It was busting out of her face. I have never seen her more alive. This was a moment she waited for her entire life and when I told her we were taking her, she broke down in sobbing tears. When I looked over at her, she was sitting on the edge of her seat leaning forward and I could tell she was trying to memorize and absorb everything the woman said. She was enjoying every second. The expression in her eyes is something I will never forget.
It was a very happy day.
For Beatlebum at least.