Saturday, November 18, 2006

Kyle's Sickening Sailing Sojourn


Hello my name is Kyle. I wanted to write and tell you all about my exciting adventure on the sailboat. My favorite Aunt and Uncle Juli & Rich were out visiting us and my previously most favorite uncle Rich forced my dad and I to go sailing with him. It started out pretty fun. Even though it was forecasted for "Brisk" it turned out to be a pretty nice day. I started to feel a little queasy so I was sent below so that they wouldn't have to deal with me. While I was gone I was told that I missed a pirate battle and a fight with a giant squid. It was Ok though because the beds were very comfortable.
After we got off the boat the real adventure began. I started doing battle with my stomach. Dad and Rich thought it would be fun to go eat at Muir Woods; this was a terrific idea except that Muir Woods is in the middle of this long extremely windy road. Midway through the drive my stomach won the first battle and helped me get even with uncle Rich by puking all over his car. Then after all that driving we didn't even eat at the woods because it was "too crowded". So we ate at the Beach and I rearmed my stomach with a lunchable which turned out to be a bad idea. On the drive back to the highway I threw up again. Then some nice people became very impatient because uncle Rich was driving too slow trying to lessen the impact of the windy roads on my stomach.
Finally we got on the freeway uncle Rich assured me that the worst was over and gave me a couple of paper bags he had got at the gas station in case I threw up again. I did and the paper bag didn't hold it. So we stopped at a mall to get more bags we walked around a while and I got a strawberry frapuccino. After we thought my stomach was calmed down we headed out for home. I threw up 2 more times but at least now it smelled like strawberries which was nicer. So the lesson I learned from all of this is that car sicknesses pills are not only for cars but can be used on boat trips too. Also if only dad would have let me make a sandwich instead of a lunchable we have been able to avoid this whole catastrophe.