Some pictures from the trip....
Clark, Chris, and Josh by Clark's broken-down truck outside of Canton, TX (55 miles east of Dallas).
Looking east on Santa Rosa Island.
The test all of us except Chris (because he's 22) had to take to ride the jet ski.
We all scored a 93 on it (wish I could make those kind of test grades in class) and now have Florida boater's licenses good for one year.
Me, Chris, Clark, Josh, and Jason by the jet skis in Santa Rosa Sound.
The Pensacola Beach water tower.
This must make all the West Texas A&M alumni proud.... oh and the windows on the other side were even worse.
Chris in the free throw shooting contest at Panama City Beach, better known as PCB.
He won the first round and got to shoot for $1000 and barely missed.
So many people....
The Jamaican reggae/rap artist Elephant Man performing on the MTV-U stage at PCB.
This was the clean part of the beach at PCB....
Historic Fort Pickens, an important Civil War fort on Santa Rosa Island that later held Geronimo in the 1880s.
All of us crammed into a gunpowder storage tunnel at the fort.
Me, Clark, Josh, and Chris in Clark's truckbed the last evening of the trip.
The quotes of the break....
FRIDAY THE 12TH
"Remember, you don't have to be monogamous." -Clark's brother
"Don't make me a grandmother." -my mom
"I feel deliciously white-trash." -Stewie from Family Guy
SUNDAY THE 14TH
"Hey, something's wrong." -me (after Clark's truck lost horsepower because of moisture in the distributor)
TUESDAY THE 16TH
"Man, if I were a girl, I'd so be a lesbian." -Josh
"'Hell no' is right." -Chris (during a beach football game)
WEDNESDAY THE 17TH
"I just heard a girl sneeze next door, and she sounded really hot." -Josh
"If you touch the damn air conditioner, I'll kill you." -Chris (wanted to write this to the maid)
"Do you have any men's trunks?" -Jason
"You mean like swimming trunks?" -salesperson at Academy
"You're gonna come back looking like a Mexican." -me to Josh
"I hope he's wasted, but he's alive." -a girl in Panama City Beach (about Josh as he ran across the street)
"Must be 15 or older to enter." -sign at Club LaVela in PCB (okay, that's just asking for trouble...)
"You felt sorry for the fat ones." -Josh to Jason
THURSDAY THE 18TH
"I guess I've decided to not dry my hair." -Clark
"Oh that was from when I threw the knife into my foot." -Clark
"I've gotta hump the cannon before we leave." -Jason (at Fort Pickens)
"Somebody turn on the light." -Chris (inside gunpowder tunnel at the fort)
"I just farted, and everyone's gonna smell it." -Josh (inside same tunnel)
"If there's grass in the infield, then play ball." -a guy on the beach
"Is Chris taking a leak again?" -me
THE QUOTE OF THE TRIP....
"I whipped it out, turned it on, it popped out, I shot it, and it went back in." -Jason (referring to taking a picture at Peg Leg Pete's, but it could be taken another way ;-) )
FRIDAY THE 19TH
"Ya 'bout done in there?" -old guy at the Wal-Mart in MS to Chris while he was peeing
"What is it with me and ketchup today?" -Chris (at dinner)
Schools we saw down there....
Ball State, California, East Carolina, Florida State, Indiana, Maryland, Miss State,
Missouri, Nebraska, OU, Okla State, Syracuse, Tennessee, Texas, Texas A&M,
Texas Tech, West Texas A&M, West Virginia, Wisconsin