Alex and I spent the past week having an extremely needed vacation in Williamsburg, VA with his mom and her friend Michelle. Some highlights:
The billboard on the side of the road that advertised Fireworks, Ham, Sausage and Cigarettes.
The free samples of chewing tobacco in the gas station.
When my v-neck shirt was blown off my shoulders on a roller coaster in Busch Gardens, causing me to more-or-less flash the whole park. The whole incident was caught on the ride camera and put on display for all the teenage boys running around with their choir groups.
Alex lost his phone. Which almost killed him.
A lot of people have asked what we do diet-wise when we're on vacation, so I thought I'd mention a couple things. Since we were staying at a time-share with a kitchen, we went grocery shopping and stocked up on a couple key items for breakfast and lunch. Soy milk, some margarine, a couple yogurts, bread, lots of fruit and some veggies and we were able to cook in for almost every breakfast and lunch for both us and for the 'parents'.
All our other meals were eaten out, and following our usual vacation pattern, we just went wherever they wanted to go and found or made a vegan meal. We do this mainly because Alex's mom is usually buying and we like to be polite, but also because it's an effective way of proving that yes, we can actually go out and have a good time - we don't even have to stick to salad. We do have to ask a couple extra questions and sometimes ask for some special details on our meals, but it's not hard.
In other news, new posts will be coming more regularly since school ended last week. You can also find our writings at Vegan Soapbox.
Busch Gardens is so cool. I bet it was Apollo's Chariot that blew your shirt off - that's one of my favorite rides. Busch Gardens is so relaxing.
Are your parents vegan? If not, make them watch that movie "Earthlings" and then read Gary Franione's book "An Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child or the Dog?" - that should explain everything well.
Next time, you should go to Walt Disney World. I can give you tips - I used to work for Disney.
Did you buy the picture?
Thanks for the comment. Yeah. My shirt actually came off on the Loch Ness ride - first one of the day, and after that I jury-rigged a tie strap so that didn't happen again.
None of our parents or family are vegans. My younger sister is a vegetarian, and Alex's mom is making the transition. My own parents have been a little more hard headed, despite identifying and liberal animal lovers. They're on their way though.