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Spring Break: Day Five: Bocce and Coldstone

April 6, 2007 10:07 AM

e woke up remarkably early, seeing as how some of us were incredibly, ridiculously drunk (X-tina, I'm looking at you here). As soon as we got up, PH, Vice, and I began our search for bocce balls. I called up the nearest Wal-Mart to make sure that they had them. The guy said he'd transfer me to the sporting goods department, but then no one answered. We should have taken that as an harbinger of the general incompetence that's required to work at Wal-Mart.

We decided to just drive the fifteen miles to the Wal-Mart because we also needed to refill our propane tank for the grill. We got to the sotre and didn't see one of those Blue Rhino cases out front, so we failed on that score. Then we went inside and found that the bocce balls were sold out. Great. I went up to the customer service counter and asked if they could give me the number for the next nearest Wal-Mart, which the guy did, and also whether they might have more bocce balls in stock somewhere. The guy looked at us like we were from a different planet, and went and got his manager, who seemed incredulous that we would even ask. She checked anyway, and told us that they didn't have any, but that we should check back in a week or so. No use to us at all.

So we went down to the next Wal-Mart. This Wal-Mart had the Blue Rhino and the bocce balls, so we were all set. We came back here and played a few rounds of four-way bocce, which was a hell of a lot of fun. After that, we came back to the house and, surprisingly, played in the pool. And it was awesome.

Later on in the evening, we decided to head down to the Coldstone for some ice cream. After waiting in a line that stretched out the door and onto the sidewalk, we got our ridiculously good ice-cream dinner. We walked around near the water for a while, checking out the big boats and stuff.

Then we came back here and had a pretty quiet evening. And it was great.


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