Sylamore, Summer 2013

July 27 - 28

1.  “I can moon them with my dolphin tramp stamp."
— Lee, on impressing Jess’s fabled high school trail runners

2.  Conversation topic: How many eggs one would have to donate to finance a vacation to Europe.

3.  Trip Highlight: That time we accidentally drove to Missouri. (“SixTEEN! Not sixty?!” — Allie, clarifying where the directional malfunction happened)

4.  “It’s like a real map!”
— Lee, re iPads

5.  DJing from the front seat —
Lee: “Is this Michael Jackson?”
Becky (dryly): “Yeah. Three songs in…”

6.  Trip Highlight: Buying small plastic dogs from a candy dispenser at a gas station in Missouri.

7.  “Is there an ab workout for while you’re sitting down?”
— Lee, having a premonition about the trip as a whole

8.  “What if we all sang in Cookie Monster voices the whole time?”
— Lee, excitedly, while singing in a Cookie Monster voice

9.  “Even her laugh is a Cookie Monster laugh!”
— Allie, on Lee’s method acting

10.  “I think tomorrow, on the way home, we should stop by Texas.”
— Allie, on the most direct way to get from Arkansas to Memphis

11.  “OK! I’m here!”
— Lee, who left us temporarily for a Mexican restaurant

12.  Trip Highlight: Becky’s (re)introduction to baby food.

13.  Twenty Questions getting off to a promising start —
Allie: “Are you a person?”
Jessica: “What? No. Yes! I mean, I’m not.”

14.  “Does he need renal care?”
— Allie, on Canadian heartthrobs

15.  Still stumped by Ryan Gosling —
Lee: “Is he Alaskan?”
Allie: “That’s American, Lee!”

16.  Trip Highlight: Twenty Questions – fishing pole, tiara, fingernail polish, Ryan Gosling, Barry, and the hardest (and most gender-confusing) Twenty Questions answer of all time: flight attendant.

17.  Trip Highlight: The Ladies’ and Gents’ Comfort Zones (a.k.a. patriotically-themed his and hers gas station restrooms), complete with lively tropical murals and mildly racist wall decorations in the foyer.

18.  “Robert Dupuis has nothing on them!”
— Allie, enthusiastically, on the biker convention in Arkansas

19.  This —
Allie: “Ooh, it’s little!”
Jessica: “That’s what she said.”

20.  “My face is so flexible!” — Jess, assessing her skills at taking selfies

21.  “Y’all, I put the right address in there, but I don’t think it was the right address!”
— Lee, directing us to the first aid station

22.  Trip Highlight: Dinner at Anglers, where our waitress ("we got the goooood aaaiiicceee") may have been fired but then refused to leave (let’s just go with yes, that’s what happened) and a raucous group of middle-aged locals drunkenly showed us how you party in Mountain View.

23.  “Do you need a little Hopta-Poot in your life?”
— Lee, setting the standard for prank texting

24.  Trip Highlight: X-rated Bananagrams

25.  "That ain't no proper noun, girls!"
— Becky, while dominating at the above

26.  “I’m not reading it until you sign it!”
— Jessica, on book-inscription etiquette

27.  “I can’t even afford myself!”
— Allie, on the perils of childrearing