Great Vacation Moments

• Walking into the Holiday Inn in St. Paul, finding the lobby half-full of people dressed for Geek Prom and half-full of wet people in bathing suits, with the fire alarm blaring, and the people behind the front desk saying, "It's a false alarm. It's a false alarm. It's a false alarm," into every line on the phone.
• Seeing two guys fist-fighting in a way that made you think they were going to start making out at any second.
• Taking the bus to the bar.
• Walking down First Street on an 84-degree day eating a chili cheese dog wrapped in a piece of deli paper and drinking Sprite from a waxed paper cup, and feeling like I'd been transported back to 1979.
• Having complete strangers come up to me on the last night of Homegrown and ask me how the pneumonia is coming along.
• Ray the Wolf at Homegrown
• Ca-chee visiting from California
• Finding out that I'm not actually going deaf and that I just need to clean the birdshit out of my ears.
• Hailstorms