Sunday, July 20, 2008

Florida Vacation Pictures- and funny story


































































I wanted to put up some pictures of our vacation. Jayla is getting so big. As you can see, the beach is beautiful and so relaxing! I have to share a funny story. St. Augustine is the oldest city in the US and has a lot of pirate history. One of the famous tales is that there is a lot of old coins that wash up from the ocean from pirate ships. Guerry was determined that he was going to find some gold or "Booty" as they call it and that we would be rich! Day after day he searched the beach, only to find shells, crabs and jellyfish! Justin, being the jokester that he is, and Lacey, whose innocent looks are deceiving, cooked up a plan. They bought a fake gold coin at the pirate shop in town. Then on our next beach outing, Lacey brought a BIG shell that she had from home. They buried the coin in the sand just under the big shell, and left part of the shell sticking out. You guessed it...Guerry found the shell...and then found the "booty!" He was pretty excited and all of us went along with the joke! Later that evening, Guerry stayed home with the kids while we all went to the outlet malls. We were laughing about the "joke" and trying to figure out how to tell him that it was fake. Justin was wondering if we had gone too far with the joke, but I said, "Oh, no...dad will think it's funny!" Then I called Guerry to tell him we were on our way home. He said he had just got off the phone with his dad..." I told him about the booty and he thinks that the size of coin I have is worth about 7 or 8k! " I hung up and told the kids, ..."I think we've gone too far!" So that night we were sitting around talking about the time Justin had played a trick on Brady with a fake lottery ticket worth 10,000 dollars and how funny that had been. When Guerry started laughing at that memory, Justin blurts out... "The booty is fake dad...I bought it and hid it in the sand...please don't be mad!" We all had a good laugh, but I think Guerry was a little upset... He watched Anger Management a couple of times after we got back to Ohio!

2 comments:

Kirsten said...

That is such a funny story!!! Poor dad thought he had "struck it rich!!"

Jarmeg Family said...

That is a great story, jared was cracking up! Jayla is so cute with her big blue eyes and tan skin!