What's the weirdest/funniest thing ever happened to you on a holiday?

[OakLeaf]

I did that once. It is very cool.

It's much more controlled in the USA though, to protect the turtles. Park rangers or trained volunteer turtle patrols find the turtles. The public participants wait in the park office, watch a video about the turtles, and then we just sit and wait until they find a turtle. We aren't allowed to go until she's already dug her nest and started laying. No lights except small red flashlights are allowed. Once she was done laying, we got to help cover the nest better, and mark it off.

The mosquitoes were gawdawful though. I was dressed head to toe, dousing myself with bug spray every 5 minutes, and still got over 60 bites, everywhere fabric touched my skin and they could bite through.

[sfa]

Weirdest was on our honeymoon--DH and I were in Montreal and decided to go to a Chinese restaurant for lunch. We picked the place because it seemed pretty popular--there were tons of people inside. Well, we walked around and around the restaurant and could NOT find a way to get inside! We checked the front, the sides, the back alley and the only door we saw was an emergency exit (blocked, btw, by a table on the other side of it!). We went into the shops on either side of it, thinking maybe there was an entrance there--nothing. We finally ended up at another restaurant down the street that was nearly deserted, but we had a good meal anyway.

I still scratch my head about that one. In retrospect, I wonder if there was an entrance from the underground, but it still seems odd that they wouldn't also have a street entrance.

This pales, however, in comparison to some of the weird and funny experiences we've had at Pennsic, but that's a whole nother world and not worth getting into!

Sarah

[indigoiis]

When in Belgium, when I was sixteen, I went to give a talk (I was an exchange student) in French to the local Rotary club. It also happened to be my birthday. They found out and of course, sang me happy birthday before I spoke.

In my little speech, I thanked them for wishing me a happy birthday and wanted to say that after a year abroad, I felt older and more mature. I used the incorrect word, telling them instead I was pregnant (and more mature.)

[redrhodie]

I used the incorrect word, telling them instead I was pregnant (and more mature.)

Snort!