Hello ladies. How are you tonight?
Lisa:Good evening.
Meags:I'm so good beyond good.
Drea:I have to tell you guys something. I actually even, I wrote it down so I wouldn't lose my train of thought, but I think you'd think this is cool. Kathy. No, not Kathy, maybe Kathy, but definitely you, Lisa. so last weekend Zla went to see my mom. And my mom does like a genealogy stuff. And so Zla called me after early words and she was like, oh, MIMA showed me our, our our family tree and this and that and the other. And, and. Like, and I've known this, but my mother's told me this before, but she told Zla that, our ancestors came over on the Mayflower, but she actually showed it to her. Like it wasn't just this, you know, like funky thing. It was like an actual like, so I looked at the May I know. And so I looked at the Mayflower Society and and then I was going through the roster of like whoever had been on the, on the boat. And I called my mom and it was lunchtime, which was a terrible time, like lunch during the work. My mom is very long winded and so I was like, mom, can you send me the, you know, like the, the people that were on, like whoever was on the Mayflower flower and then, you know, like cuz the list of people underneath that, right. I swear to God, I was on the call, I was on the phone with her for like 20 minutes before I got to my next word in. And she didn't, she didn't, there was a, like, she didn't come land on a single person and I was. I have to go, gotta go. It's like lunchtime, She's like, but Andrea, and I was just like, oh mom, I love you, but I gotta go. So anyway, but it's for real. So I'm gonna, I was, I'm gonna submit like an application for Zla and I hope to, I hope to get it back by her birthday. I'm like, that would be a cool birthday present, don't
Lisa:Yeah. That's pretty cool. Yeah, my brother did his DNA thing and he, I don't know exactly. If it's accurate or not. But there's a chance that an ancestor came from Ireland as a indentured servant during like the 17 hundreds, the prior to the revolution.
Drea:You could be
Lisa:So I think that means I could be, I could be part of a, was it the Daughters of the American Revolution or something? So,
Drea:that too. We can do that together.
Lisa:Woohoo. So yeah, I think I need to do, I, I. I don't know. Anyone else afraid if you do that, that your DNA is like,
Meags:Oh, I would a hundred percent never do that.
Lisa:like big brother's gonna come and find you when they want you?
Meags:You mean like my high school classmate who got arrested
Drea:What
Meags:and has now been convicted for murder
Lisa:No. Well,
Meags:like to, to add to the excitement, he did not spit in a tube. His aunt did and because it was a cold case, they
Kathy:familial. D.
Meags:it's familial, d n a, and they came after him with that and they export. They, extradited him from Maine to Alaska and he stood trial.
Kathy:maybe don't do murders though. Maybe that's.
Meags:I don't think he did the murder though, that boy, I was in school with that boy for my entire life. He could not keep a secret to save his soul. There is no way that he murdered somebody and didn't tell anybody for 20 years possible. Very, at the very least, highly unlikely.
Kathy:did he ever go to Alaska?
Lisa:Yeah. Was he in Alaska when the murder happened?
Meags:yeah, he was at school. He was in college.
Lisa:Huh
Meags:So, but it's very, you know,
Lisa:anything about the murder, I can't guess as to how
Meags:Yes. No, like the whole, I mean, in my book, you know, any DNA n a you find in a dorm,
Drea:Oh,
Kathy:Oh.
Meags:you know, like,
Drea:there's a lot of DNA in a
Meags:any, any DNA you find on, you know, two people who there is even any small notion that they could possibly have had consensual sex in college. Probably good chance. Yeah, so no, like I, it's funny cause like my parents have both done it, so I'm sure that I'll, you know, technically all my DNA's already in there. But, that, that one put me off it. I'm not, not doing that.
Drea:Zola was put off because, again, this class that she's taking, the professor was talking about, not that, but like how, you can check someone's kind of, their, predisposition towards certain diseases and things like that. And so that's like another thing that she was like, I don't want people to know that. And I was like, well, that's a good thing to not want people to know. So,
Lisa:Oh, so that like, Oh, okay. I thought cuz you may wanna know if you're predisposed for certain diseases.
Drea:but they can, like, let's say you're asking for life insurance. They can ask you if you've taken one of those and then ask for the results.
Lisa:Oh wow.
Drea:Yeah.
Lisa:I
Meags:I also am not entirely sure I want far pharmaceutical companies to have that piece of information about me.
Drea:Another goddamn business.
Meags:You know, so that, so that they can target me for whatever they're, you know, cuz they would take that information and decide what to research next with it would be my guess. So, yeah.
Drea:Yeah. right. Okay.
Meags:Okay. That got real grim, real fast. Sorry.
Lisa:Yeah, that's depressing.
Drea:all right.
Lisa:guess so if we
Drea:I wanna, I wanna like fart. I wanna fart and make it like go away,
Lisa:well, no, I'm just
Kathy:Well, I'm just gonna say this.
Lisa:ancestry places are gonna ever want to sponsor us, just saying, but,
Meags:I, I,
Drea:are you, what do, what do you think Kathy?
Kathy:I'll just say, I mean, my reason for not ever doing it is I don't care.
Meags:Kathy,
Lisa:right. That's a, that's a viewpoint,
Meags:that's a super valid reason.
Drea:exactly.
Meags:I was much more interested in getting my dog's d n a than I was getting my own. So,
Lisa:you know, that's something I wanna do with my new puppy is get her DNA done.
Kathy:Well, I can tell you from experience, it should make it up. They throw it into a randomizer and they send it back on a piece of paper. Because there's no way my dog is any of the things that it says. It says it is
Drea:Which dog,
Kathy:Hamish.
Lisa:What do they say it is?
Kathy:they said like, I mean, well, you saw him
Lisa:Yeah.
Kathy:then, okay. Here.
Lisa:unique bull doc. Adorable. Very
Kathy:Okay. This is what it says. Chihuahua, Dawon. Jisu. The Jisu is the only one I can see. American Pit, bull Terrier,
Meags:That's in every, that's in everything.
Kathy:Pomeranian Poodle, and Beagle.
Lisa:I could kind of see the Chihuahua just because of his stature. He is so small,
Kathy:He's not that small. He's almost a size. I mean, he is as tall as Gu and longer.
Lisa:yeah, but just, I don't know. His bone structure, I guess is small.
Drea:well, chihuahuas, like Mexican chihuahuas are bigger the ones that we have here, like. Aw, he's so
Kathy:like any of those,
Drea:I'm gonna have to put a, I'll put a pla I'll put a picture up because he's so cute. It's hard to even describe.
Lisa:Yes. It's
Kathy:not even a terrier in the mix.
Lisa:Yeah, he looks
Kathy:any of those. So
Meags:looks like he should have a terrier in the mix.
Kathy:it's a, it's bullshit.
Lisa:So yeah, we'll have to post a picture that.
Kathy:And they ask you for, that's the other thing, Lisa, they ask you for a picture and I didn't send a picture. Cause I'm like, I don't want you to, no, I want you to do the dna n a, you shouldn't need a picture to do a dna.
Meags:Yeah. See, my dog
Lisa:can look at my dog and guess I am sending money to you to do the blood work. Tell me what it says.
Kathy:exactly.
Drea:what was your dogs?
Meags:my dog is all kinds of things, none of which is what she was advertised as. she was advertised as a Bek and Rhodesian Ridgeback mix. Which she is totally not, she's not 50% anything. Like the thing that she is the most of is like 40%, pit bull, which is makes perfect sense cuz she's, you know, she was an unwed teenage mother from Mississippi. so, but what I liked about getting it done was that, I had not, I got to see pictures of her puppies. And I got to see other dogs that she was related to that I had clearly, you know, in the, in Mississippi that, you know, we would never have laid eyes on otherwise, which was kind of fun. but
Kathy:did any of her relatives get arrested as a result of her DNA
Meags:not that I know of, but I'm staying tuned and like all, you know, like the most important part of the whole thing. Was my youngest told me in like very, very, very serious tone when I said like, what do you think Domino's thing is gonna be? Because I made them all commit so we could open it and find out. And he just kept telling me, listen mom, she is 100% good dog. hang on. Don't, don't come between the boy's dog. Like, all right, fine. She's a hundred percent good dog. And she is, she's a hundred percent
Drea:She's a badass. I love her.
Meags:he's a silly
Drea:I love all your dogs. I love'em all.
Meags:Plenty of dogs to go around. Lots and lots of dogs to go
Lisa:Not getting to know my dog. I've had her for, what, two weeks now.
Drea:Hmm.
Lisa:She's just getting, getting comfortable, getting her independence, learning how to bark at us when she wants something, which isn't a good thing, but, but it's cute. Just the same.
Drea:All right, Megan, hit us up. What questions do you got?
Meags:All right, so I came up with five questions and we can apply them to all sorts of different things. So what we're going to apply them to first is vacations per Kathy's request. so here are our questions and I think that maybe we'll do them one at a time so that we don't completely lose our thread. so what's the first vacation you remember going on? The first one I remember going on was my parents rented a house on a lake in Maine and I could not have been more than six. And all I remember was that it rained and my mother was mighty unhappy. She was mighty unhappy to begin with cuz she does not like to go on vacation anywhere where she has to cook and do the dishes and stuff like that. And like the addition of rain in small children. Not, not a positive first, vacation experience, but
Kathy:I am with your mom. I don't wanna do dishes and laundry on vacation.
Meags:no, I'm, I'm totally with her too. Yeah. Yeah. Anybody else remember their first vacation?
Lisa:I remember. And I was told later it was what we took to, Disney World. We drove it from St. Louis to Orlando apparently. And but what I remember is to, we were in a hotel room one night on the way, I believe it was on the way down there, cuz I don't think my mom wanted to sleep in the thing. I dunno if we ever spent the night in it. We just, I don't, which makes no sense. But anyway,
Drea:It does with your mom.
Lisa:What?
Drea:It makes sense with your mom,
Lisa:Oh wait. I mean, if you know my mom, well, apparently there's problems with the toilet too. It didn't work. Right. So my mom was just grossed out by it all. And so anyway, but we were at this hotel room and my brother was bouncing in his bed and you know, jumping on the bed and fell and like cracked his head and was bleeding.
Meags:There's a whole nursery room about that.
Lisa:Yeah. Right. So we, I remember being in the ambulance with my mom, with my brother in the ambulance driving and my dad driving behind us driving the camper. That's like my earliest memory of a vacation.
Kathy:Which, which, which brother? Older or younger?
Lisa:yet older, like this is, I was three. So
Kathy:Okay. Oh, yeah. So yeah, Tim wasn't
Lisa:My older, yeah, my older brother,
Kathy:mean, I was guessing it was, I was guessing it was George. I was just checking.
Lisa:Yeah, I was a baby. I was like, I was like three.
Kathy:Well, I agree with your mother too. I find campers the concept of campers and shitter thing. I find that whole thing disgusting. I don't want anything to do with it.
Lisa:it'd be fine to, to take that like to Yellowstone or something, but then I have memories of. Vague memories of that vacation. My mother's commentary and it makes me very anxious to do it, so probably won't.
Kathy:They have a lodge at yellow hair. It's really.
Lisa:There's lots of lodging
Drea:go there too. We'll go there,
Lisa:Okay, we'll go there.
Drea:cafe.
Meags:first vacation? Cathy,
Kathy:Sure. Well, it's hard to know whi which ones first. I'm sure I've seen pictures of the first one, but it's pretty easy because they were all same vacation every year. So, I mean, I got all the memories. So, we, I mean there were parts of it that would vary, but we always went to Estes Park, Colorado, so we would vary the route. So sometimes we would go and stay with my brother, my dad's fraternity brother and their family in Fort Worth on the way, and they had a pool and we'd hang out with them for a couple days and then we were older. We would go maybe to like something first, but we always would. Essis Park, Colorado, and my aunt and uncle and my cousins would come from Col, from Oklahoma and they'd be there at the same time. They actually lived in Colorado when I was really, really little. And they, but, but they were always there at the same time. And, you know, we'd go on hikes and so I have seen pictures when I'm super, super little and, and the, backpack carrier. But the thing I remember most was one, getting. Trail mix that had M&Ms in it, and then two feeding trail mix to chipmunks, many of which would just come and sit on me and I would feed them trail
Meags:Oh my goodness.
Kathy:too. And there's pictures of them and me getting in my backpack, which I had put on the ground. And they cause to get the trail mix. So trail mix and chip mucks, hiking. That's what I remember.
Meags:It's like a perfect little cottage. Core like,
Kathy:Yeah,
Meags:oh,
Kathy:and we always celebrated my, my mom, my, my aunt, my dad and I all have birthdays in the same week, and so we would always celebrate, plus my aunt uncle's anniversary, my parents' anniversary also the same week. So we would always get, like, we'd always have a dinner and there would be a cake. So not only did they get trail mix with M&Ms, I also got cake. So,
Drea:Yay.
Kathy:win,
Meags:I, I'm glad somebody has a positive tion story. This is
Drea:Mine is not
Meags:Yeah. Yeah.
Lisa:it's funny
Drea:straight out.
Lisa:apparently when we got to Disney World we did have a lot of fun cuz there's pictures of it, but it's like I remem like those memories are more like looking at the picture and people telling me about what happened. Not exactly, you know.
Meags:yeah.
Drea:Yeah. Not exactly your memory.
Lisa:Right.
Drea:Yeah. Well, I, my parents, we lived in, California for two years when I was growing up, so I guess I was like three and four
Lisa:I never knew that,
Meags:No
Lisa:known each other
Meags:I have
Lisa:for like 30 years and I've never, 30 years. I've known you, Andrea, and I've never heard
Kathy:We've all known her 30 years and we didn't know This
Drea:I know, I know. I'm, you know, I didn't
Lisa:lady of mystery.
Meags:the, the Park Valley girl is all beginning to finally make sense.
Drea:totally.
Lisa:Yeah.
Kathy:Totally.
Drea:Oh my God.
Kathy:Wait. Oh my God.
Drea:Oh my God. God, I was thinking about Valley Girl the other day, but I've gotta focus. So yeah, so I was, we, I was little and we went to like, this lake, I don't know, somewhere in Oregon, but what I remember is not the lake, but there was this sulfuric lake and someone told me that a guy had stuck his leg in it and lost his leg. And so I'm like three or four. Right. And there is a, Someone had told me that and then there was this, walkway across it. And I was terrified. I was terrified. I was like, oh my God. Ok. Got it. And I was like freaking out and I didn't wanna go. I was, you know, and I, and my mom. She just, she's like, you just need to follow me. And she just kept going. She just kept going. I was like, oh my God. And I was just terrified and crying the whole time. And, I was, I still resent the fact that she didn't come back and get me. So, so yeah. So it was a traumatizing experience, but, yeah, that's, that's one of my first, memories of vacations.
Meags:Oh my goodness. Holy cow. all right, so perhaps we can move on to a more uplifting question, which is, you know, what is your favorite vacation
Drea:Oh,
Lisa:Hmm.
Meags:I'm getting a lot of like deep thought faces for those of you who are wondering at home what's happening now.
Drea:my favorite vacation with you is when we went to Cayman Islands.
Meags:Yeah. That was
Drea:And that was really fun. That was a really good time. We went to hell, right? We went to hell. And I don't remember you and I don't, I feel like you didn't do it with me, but I did the stingray like swimming with the
Meags:no, I, I swear
Drea:You did do it with me. Yeah. Yeah. And then of course, just hanging out on
Meags:that a bunch of times.
Drea:But I do distinctly remember you saying to me, like, reminding me, do not wake me up before 11 or something. something like that. Like leave me alone. So,
Meags:There has to be rules even on vacation.
Drea:Yeah. Yeah. I get
Meags:Yeah. For most definitely. Yeah. That was a good vacation. I had not thought about that one, but yeah, that was a pretty good vacation.
Drea:so
Meags:I think my, I feel, I feel like my favorite might have been when I went to see you in London.
Drea:Oh,
Meags:that was like, that was really fun. And that was like, my mother was like, I wanna buy you a couch for Christmas. And I was like, but I think I wanna go see Drea in London cuz she's working in London for a minute. And my mom was like, oh absolutely. Lemme get your plane ticket. And I was like, wow. Here. but that was a very, that was a very lively trip. And I went, I saw family friends and I went to the Canadian Embassy Christmas party. And this was a whole, that was a whole thing back when I used to do things all by myself and not have, you know, a whole circus attached to me. so that was a pretty good one. Kathy, you look very deep in thought.
Kathy:I'm, I honestly, I'm, I'm like going through all the vacations in my mind, trying to figure out like which one's the best, and I'm like, I mean, like I've embarrassingly gone on a lot of really fantastic vacations.
Drea:It's a good thing.
Meags:It is a good
Kathy:a good thing. I mean,
Meags:It's part of the reason why I wanted to ask you these questions,
Kathy:seriously, I could list, I could list like 12.
Meags:All right. Maybe go for top three.
Kathy:Okay. Hawaii.
Meags:Okay. Which island Uhoh,
Drea:I feel like we
Lisa:Kathy's frozen.
Meags:yeah, I'd say I, I, I really like that face sheet's making though.
Drea:It isn't really. She looks pretty cute, I have to say.
Lisa:Yes she does.
Drea:So Lisa.
Meags:Got a favorite vacation for us.
Lisa:You know, it's like we've had some good family vacations, but then I think about, but I mean, not fantastic places necessarily, but just relaxing, like. I think of South Haven, Michigan gone there like three or four times as a family and it's just very simple, relaxing vacations on the beach. and we went to
Drea:Yeah.
Lisa:Smokey Mountains last New Year's and Smoke. I was impressed. We just went on some hikes and it was just beautiful there and I wasn't expecting that. I just wanted to have a cabin in the mountains around Christmas time last year, and I got that. And then I also got to go on some really pretty hikes too. So, but I mean, I, the experience of backpacking through Europe with Carrie when we were in college, which unfortunately carrie's not here to share that memory, but that two weeks of just rambling around on trains and doing some stupid things, some fun things, and just having a great time. You know, have some Italian guy at some disco tech in Prague, say he loves me a thousand times. It was wonderful. I wasn't, it was weird, but it was fun that.
Meags:Kathy, you're back.
Kathy:I'm back. I don't know what the problem is with my internet tonight, guys. So I'm gonna turn my camera off up for a bit to see if that helps. okay. So you had asked for top three then short synopsis, I would say Hawaii with our friends, in which my friend Amy planned the whole thing. The kids were pretty little, but you know, for part of the trip we were on Maui and we had this great house that we had rented that a beautiful view and it had a lanai. And the this, the key to this trip was that we took, someone with us to help watch the kids. So that was really great. so we watched, we stayed at some wonderful places. We watched, you know, we traveled around, we got to eat some great food, and then
Drea:Tell him about the beef.
Kathy:oh, the meat, I mean, yeah, 85 Wagyu beef. That stuff was
Meags:Oh yeah,
Kathy:melting your mouth. That Chef Morimoto. Restaurant and, and the, the sushi was like still moving practically. I think it was like fresh. And then, we went to Oahu and they're filming me a movie and we gotta see Zach Efron running around in a wife beater. And then, Adam Devine, during a break cut his toe on some coral down at the beach and he came and sat right behind me and he was bleeding. And, so we got to talk to him about how he was, cut himself doing something stupid, like trying to pat stand up paddleboard, on the hour break from filming. So that was fun too.
Drea:Did you get a picture with him?
Kathy:no, I got a picture of Zach Efron, though within his wife here. I'll show you later. And then, so that was really great. one time Nick and I, when Charlie was. Just the two of us went to London and we went to Bath and we went to Stratford on Avon and we like rented a car and we drove up to Scott, like all the way up to Scotland and we went to see the house he'd lived in, in Scotland and we hung out with his old neighbors. but the part of the funniest part was, was driving the car cuz you know, it was stick shift, it was on the wrong side and they wouldn't rent. A GPS because it belongs to the actual lo rental location. And we are gonna leave the car, we're driving to Scotland, we're gonna leave the car in Scotland. So I had to get like a, a road atlas, a British road atlas and like navigate this like old school way. and we just had a great time. It was a lot of fun. That's up
Drea:my God.
Kathy:And then I think our trip, our trip to Italy and also with our friends we went to Hawaii with, but when the kids were a little bit older, that was just a lot of fun. That was my, you know, first time going to Italy. we went all over and we stayed at great places. And
Meags:Sounds like your friend should be a travel planner.
Kathy:I mean, yeah, when she's done being a doctor, she might be,
Meags:I mean, being a doctor can be kind of a pain in the ass. She might decide she wants to do something else.
Kathy:might.
Meags:Maybe we'll see. right, so see, that was better. We all have had good vacations. We've all had fun places and things like that, so, you know, now we need to talk about where, what, what's like the weirdest vacation that you've been on. Like weird place, weird people, just not what you thought it was going to be.
Drea:I don't know if it's like a, I dunno if I qualifies as a vacation, but definitely the weirdest I, I mean, it was a weekend and you know, my cousin Greg, he's a burner and he took, he invited me and my brother to go to a Burning Man event that's like, It was local. It wasn't Burning Man, so it was like a local one in East Texas, and it was. It's an adventure. I mean, that play those people, it was like I was playing someone, I was like, it's like the land of the broken dolls, do you know? But everybody's like, literally like dressed up. Like I, Dean and I, we, we brought up, a tent and we are, you know, like we got there late. And then the next morning we got up and we were like wandering around. We found my cousin and everything. And there was a guy, it was like 50 degrees or whatever, there was a guy and he was just wearing. A pelt. Just that was it. Like, just a pelt over his chest. Nothing else. Nothing else. And then my cousin, he didn't wear clothes at all the whole day. And Dean and I like spent all day
Kathy:Cousin nudity is not a good.
Drea:Oh yeah, I told you guys about the, his girlfriend. The, the, the, the one with the. That she would, she, the epi lady on her, on her vagina.
Meags:yes,
Drea:That's where I saw her. So anyway, but yeah, so he was naked the whole time. But he had someone, that was painting him and he was like in charge of everything. So he was, he was, Going all over this campsite and the sky's following him with a paintbrush, like a pink paint, like a blue and silver paintbrushes. And, and so every once in a while, Greg would stop and they'd slap some more paint on him, painted his penis. I mean, it was just wild. I've just, it was just wild. There's just, so, anyway, it, that was, I would say that was the, the most peculiar trip I've been on.
Meags:That sounds peculiar is a good word. Peculiar is a very good. It's an excellent word. And you know what that made me think of? I was like, I was like, what? Gosh, do I have an answer to this question? And the more I think about it, the more I think, oh my God, when you took me to Texas a and m, which was like planet a and m, it was like a whole different. World. And I was from Maine and it was the first time I had been to Texas and Drea looked at me and was like, oh, we're gonna march with the ri, the R O T C band, cuz that's like a thing. And I was like, Uhhuh. And then she stands me next to this boy and says, okay, we'll find you later. Like what? What are we? And so I'm thinking, this is it. This is where it ends for me. I get lost at a and m where nobody can understand what I'm saying because nobody understands sarcasm. And everyone is just so bloody smiley and straightforward and
Drea:I know they all say Howdy, howdy, howdy.
Meags:just, and plus like we did like every, we did, like ev, every time I meet somebody from a and m and I tell'em that story, like we hit like, like we, we went to bonfire, we marched with the band. We went to see your friend dunk their ring, We would like we did like all this stuff. That was
Kathy:all the a and m highlights.
Meags:Yeah, all the a m highlights, and it was like, I just spent the whole, I just, I think back on it now and I think, oh my God. It was like I was on another planet. It really was. It was really like, we had fun, but
Drea:We had
Meags:it was, I remember thinking, this is weird. Like, like there's like the, I just remember being so completely floored by the idea that everyone was so enthusiastic and nobody was sarcastic at all. And I was like, these are not my people. But you know, it's good to, it's good to visit. Strange. It's a learning experience. have, have you thought of anything, Lisa?
Lisa:I think so. Say strange lands. And I went to the Strange Land of, southeast Missouri, with a ex-boyfriend of mine in my twenties, and he, we decide for some reason to go this area called Elephant Rocks in Missouri. And it's a real pretty area, like, you know, the strange, you know, rock formations and it's like the Ozark, so it's, it's scenic. It's pretty, but. I don't know where we went, but I really just kept hearing like banjos from deliverance that we were at this area. Like the people just looking at you like on these blank stairs and it was so weird. And then we ended up, we wanted to go camping. And, and I, I have bad luck with camping apparently because I had a bad luck experience with Andrea. And this one though, we ended up staying at this hotel that like had like wood paneling from like the sixties and the what do you call it? You know, the coverings on the beds were like from the sixties and it was really gross and it was weird. It was supposed to be this little romantic getaway and it was just very stressful and gross to me and. He made me feel like I was some uppity rich bitch, and I'm like, no, I don't think I'm being that way. I think I'm just ask, asking for cleanliness and for not being around scary people.
Drea:Those are reasonable.
Meags:I feel like a, a weird vacation will definitely tell you whether or not you're with the right person.
Lisa:but I stayed with him for like another year. I, well though, a lot of
Meags:figured it out eventually.
Lisa:I, I went away to law school in California. He stayed in St. Louis. And then that woke me up from whatever thing I was in and dumped him afterwards.
Meags:Yeah. When I
Lisa:that first.
Meags:when I was in probably middle school, my parents funded a bike trip in Greece for my youngest aunt, primarily because they did not like her boyfriend, and they figured that if they let helped her go on this trip, she would realize that she did not like her boyfriend and she would get rid of him. And it worked. And I was like, mom, you are smart. so I feel like, you know, traveling together is definitely a, a good test of, compatibility.
Lisa:Yeah, I, I learned, my mom came and stepfather were visiting me in California and took me out to this very nice restaurant for dinner in San Diego, and it was on the beach and everything. And she pulls out this article that she like clipped from the paper and it was like a, a column and it was like, how you know you're with the wrong man? And I was like, I know you don't like Jeff. I get it. And,
Meags:I love that she clipped it outta the.
Lisa:And it's just like this totally, you know, I totally pushed me the wrong way. I was like more adamant, like, he's a good guy, mom, you just don't understand him. You know, you don't get it. So, yeah, I should, I think I threw it away. I probably should have saved the column and actually read it, but I don't believe I ever did. Anyway, I woke up, eventually didn't marry him.
Drea:Thank God.
Meags:also the ends. Well, you got one for us, Kathy. You got, you've had any vacations that were weird?
Kathy:I mean, again, like I feel like there's been really weird things that have happened on different vacations, but like a total weird vacation. I think the. I mean, I never hung out naked with my cousin anywhere. That's hard to beat. But,
Drea:I had my clothes on.
Kathy:no. Yeah, naked cou like there's not, I don't have a single cousin that I wanna hang out with naked or see naked. I, there was one like V R B O that, my husband found. That, in Colorado was in a valley. There was no cell service. There was no landline. It was like a hundred something plus acres. So there was no neighbors or anyone anywhere near to hear us, and we couldn't drive our rental car down to where the house was. So they put us in an old, this was maybe like, Seven years ago. So, you know, we had iPhones and, you know, we should have had more things than we had. So we, we had to follow somebody there. They couldn't just send us a pin and say, oh, go check yourself in. They're like, well, let us, let us meet you. We'll follow, follow us there. And then I think we bottomed out the, I think we broke something on the other side of the rail car just getting onto the property to where they told us to pull over. All of all her stuff into like this old Jeep from like the eighties and it had, all the snow chains in the back, so it was like ghost rattling, like back there the whole time. And so it was like the road was like the road, just getting to that just kind of basically like essentially the driveway was really like heavy washed out rocks and whatever. So we get at this g all the rusty chains. We've been in Colorado staying at different places for you know, almost like for weeks. A few kind of trees, but not much. And so Charlie's like buckled up in the backseat. Nick's driving again, it's like a stick shift. And so we start, so they're like, yeah, so just, you know, the house is down there at the bottom and, you know, unlocked and, you know, going in, make stuff home, whatever. We started to drive down. It is sheer drop off the road and wide is the Jeep. It is straight down and then hairpin turns switch back. Hairpin turns the whole way down. There must have been like 10 of'em. And like, so my, my seat, the passengers, the front passenger seat did not lock in. So thing keeping me from going through the windshield was that the seat, my seatbelt worked. Nick's seatbelt didn't work, but his seat locked in place. So we're like driving down and I'm like rattling around around and he's like, wow. He's like, this is crazy. Look at this. He's like, take a picture. I'm like holding my phone and it's shaking around. I can't take, I was just like, it was. Like, oh my God, we're gonna die getting down here. And like supposedly the ride up was like, oh, we've had roasted weddings here. And I'm like, no fucking way. Someone got married down here. And so we get down there and we pull up to the house and like the living part was on the second floor and you walked in to sort of like, you know, there was like a room down there, but. Nobody's staying down here because you walk in and it's just rattlesnakes, skins like hanging, and you're like, oh, that's nice. You go up and you realize it's some sort of hunting cabin because every square inch of this place is covered with some sort of dead animal. And I kept snagging my nightgown getting into the bed on a, there was a bear on the side of the wall and his. His mouth was open and I kept snagging his, like the bare part was like right at my shoulder and I kept snagging my nightgown on the bare tooth trying to get into the bed. And they at
Lisa:slept in a room with a bear watching you
Kathy:yes, I mean there's like spiders, live spiders everywhere. And then it was like really dark and wooded and was like, and we were there for like five days. There's nothing to. we at least had satellite TV cuz I mean, could it good on your phone? You couldn't look at Facebook, you couldn't, I mean nothing, no internet, no cell phone, so service whatsoever. And my dad was not in the best of health and so it made me really uncomfortable being down there, with no one being able to reach us, no one knowing where we were and. We at least could watch the Olympics on satellite tv. So the first day we had to go up to the grocery store, so we had to get back in the car, go up, drive to the grocery store. So while we were out, we had cell phone service. My own like maybe only like 15, 20 minutes away to their house next. So I was like, all right, if you don't hear from us, but, whatever was, I was like, I sent her the pen, I sent her the contact name for the V R B O. something were to happen, like to dad or anybody, I was like, drive to the top of this hill and flash your lights and honk the horn until we, you see us come out. Because you could see the house down there. He was like, down in this valley
Meags:well,
Kathy:was bad. And then the li the night before we're supposed to leave. The guy who rented the house shows up with his nephew. Because he says, oh, I couldn't reach you. I tried calling you, but I couldn't reach you to find out what time you're checking out tomorrow. I'm like, are you shitting me? It's cuz you don't have any fucking service of any kind down here at your own damn house. So anyway, he shows up and he's like talking to us. He's talking to Nick and the nephew's like, hi uncle was, he's like two Rattlers over here. And he's like, oh, I need a shovel. And then Nick was like, do you not have a gun? And he's like, oh, get my pistol out of the truck. And so nephew comes with a pistol and he shoots and they shoot one of'em, and the other one gets away. It's, he holds up a six foot long rattlesnake that was parked right next to the car, right next to the passenger side door of where I would be getting in and out of the car. And then he sets the sprinklers and he leaves and he's like, Hey, in 20. Go out into the grass and turn off the sprinkler
Meags:Yeah, thanks. But no thanks
Kathy:up on the, on the deck. And he's like, you, you gonna go? You gonna go turn off that sprinkler? I'm like, nope. You, you're gonna go turn off the sprinkler. No, you knew. So I made him pay me$50 to go turn the sprinkler off. And that is why he's not allowed to pick the radiation rentals anymore.
Meags:I think that's very reasonable.
Drea:Yeah.
Meags:I think that's entirely reasonable.
Kathy:I don't know if it classifies as weird, but
Meags:I, I, I'm, I'm gonna say that for me, that classifi as weird. What, can I pull the group?
Kathy:certainly
Meags:lot of nods. I'm gonna say weird all the way around.
Drea:Got it. So I think I, I'm just looking at the time, so we probably need to have maybe like one little wrap up question.
Meags:can, we can have one little, we can have one quick wrap up question, which is, what would make something your dream vacation, the place something else? A, a, a feature about it? Because like for me, it's not so much the place, like my dream vacation would involve a chef who knows all my allergies and would cook me all my food. Because that's the most stressful part for me of traveling internationally. but it might be, for you guys, it might be a dream destination. What do
Lisa:No, you, you said that, and it's like a dream family vacation is to go on a vacation where it's not up to me about what we do for dinner. Still, even on a vacation, I still gotta figure out what we're doing for dinner. If a, if we're like heating up something or cooking something simple up at the condo or whatever we're renting or going out to eat and we're, it's always up to me. I would love to have a vacation where it's not up to me
Meags:See
Lisa:really.
Meags:things in life
Lisa:yes. And a beach would also be involved in that vacation.
Meags:I, I can get with that. Absolutely. What do you think Dre?
Drea:Well, my dream vacations always include bringing all of my friends with me. And not having to share a room with anyone except for maybe Zla, because I, I'm so weird about like the whole snoring thing or any noise. So that's always stressful to have, to share a room for, not just for me, but for anybody that's trying to share a room with me. and definitely the beach. I would wanna go to a beach place, but probably like, if we're going, if we're going for it, I wanna go someplace like really exotic. So we would maybe all get on like, On a private jet and go, I can't remember. I can never say this right. Maybe you guys can help me. It's over by Africa. It's like shin, shin
Meags:The shells
Drea:Yes.
Lisa:That did not sound like what Andrea was saying, so I'm very impressed you.
Drea:Figured
Meags:got a mind meld. It's a mind melt.
Drea:I know.
Meags:I used to have a coworker who was from there, so
Drea:Oh, okay. So I never say it right, but it's so beautiful. So I would take all you guys, we'd have a big massive house, I'd have a room for myself, and, we'd, we'd have an awesome time.
Meags:I love that. What, what do you think Kathy? Dream, destination dream like acc crema dream. What?
Kathy:I mean, I think it would just involve either, I mean, I was gonna say first class, but I really like Andrea's private jet scenario. so I would say it just want, I want luxury, you know, if I'm gonna do an vacation and I want. I want the best, I want the top. I wanna stay at the place with the biggest fluffiest bed. But the fluffiest is really nice
Meags:I love that.
Kathy:you know, as Carrie always says, I'm sorry she's not here. Fancy pants, hotels, in some place. And you know, that would be a mix of relaxing, but then also a mix of,
Drea:Yeah.
Meags:think those are, those are excellent factors. I think that's very interesting that for none of us, is it actually like a specific place? It's more like what, what you're doing or who you're with or. What you're eating. So I think that's kind of
Drea:did you answer Meags
Meags:I did, I said I would like, my dream would just, I just wanna go somewhere that has a, has a private chef who cooks for me all the time and knows all my allergies. Cuz like that's, like, that's the whole thing with me traveling internationally is like, it's just really, I'm just allergic to too many things. It's really hard to eat,
Drea:huh.
Meags:and so like, it, I thought, I always thought I was gonna be this great world traveler. Yeah. Not so much. And then I did have one more question, but it's a really easy question cuz I was like, we'll, we'll talk about like everybody's next planned vacation, but I'm pretty sure we're all planning the same vacation and we're gonna see each other in Florida in April.
Lisa:Yes. End of
Kathy:Well, I'm going, I'm going to Cancun in March,
Meags:All right. Fancy pants.
Drea:I know.
Lisa:well, actually my next trip is a couple's trip to, lake of the Ozark. In Missouri, but it's actually pretty, it's a friend of actually, Kathy, you might remember Mike Joe's best man. He has a place
Kathy:I remember Mike.
Lisa:they have similar birthdays. Joe's is Valentine's Day and his is a couple days later. So we're gonna go out there for a weekend and just chill out a weekend without children and have our dogs and it'll be relaxing on a lake for our weekend.
Meags:That sounds delightful. All right. I appreciate you all talking about vacations with me.
Drea:Yeah.
Meags:know you're gonna hear, you're gonna hear these five questions again, another time with another topic, but for today, I think we are
Lisa:All right,
Meags:good and done with our discussion.
Drea:Excellent. Y'all rock every, have a good week.
Meags:Thanks, you
Drea:Say bye to everyone,
Meags:Bye everyone.