Family for the Holidays?

[Illiciter]

Anyone have any good stories about family gatherings during the holidays?

Fortunately mine have been relatively painless except for the first few with the wife's family. They only fill up the entire house with people/kids and it's pure madness.. not to mention I was the "new guy" so lots of stares and forgotten names...


Oh, and when my mom gets drunk, that's always fun.


But there was one time when we were doing a bon-fire at my moms farm and we were searching out more wood to fuel the fire.. my wife comes around saying, "This log is really soggy" and my mom goes, "who cares? throw it in!" so in it went, and at the same time I noticed it wasn't a log at all, it was a wet 70lb sandbag tube.

Interestingly enough, it burned!

 

[Wreck]

Haha, yeah my wife's fam fills up the apt too! And its wayyyyy more madness!

 

[Horhay]

We usually round up everyone at my house, two Christmas ago everyone got so wasted and it was around 7am when people were finally went to bed...needless to say I stepped on my cousin's face because he was asleep right below my bed lol with writing on his face he didn't even know how he got there...crazy.

 

[MacDaddyOJack]

But there was one time when we were doing a bon-fire at my moms farm and we were searching out more wood to fuel the fire.. my wife comes around saying, "This log is really soggy" and my mom goes, "who cares? throw it in!" so in it went, and at the same time I noticed it wasn't a log at all, it was a wet 70lb sandbag tube.

Interestingly enough, it burned!

haha, it's always fun to see what will burn. In college, one night after my roomate drank himself stupid, he threw his nalgene bottle in the fire, and I mean right on top of the glowing red coals. It stuck around and held its shape for a remarkably long time, about 5 mins. But it eventually caved and burnt up. It probably wouldn't be as cool to watch again if I was sober but I remember getting a kick out of it then.

Our family gatherings are somewhat tame, plenty of drinking and overall raucus, but no parties till 7AM and face stepping, lol. My cousin's wedding at the beach a few years ago was a different story though....My bro and I woke up with sand burrs in our legs/ass/feet and in our own hotel. My cousins beach house was over a mile away and my best guess for the trip home is still time travel - don't know how the sand burrs fit in though.

 

[Nerdkiller]

I remember going to a holiday resort in 2002 and 2003. Those years, I could not escape from the arcade.

 

[Jon D]

This is the 2nd year where there has been no family get togethers and I'm loving it.

 

[Scoot87]

This is the 2nd year where there has been no family get togethers and I'm loving it.

+1

Not really big on spending time with the family