mrsbabypowder
17-04-2005, 21:31
We've come up with a heap of fun ideas for vacation activities around the home.
* Pretend to go to the beach by lying in your back yard until you're completely sunburnt. Pay neighbourhood children to hit you with a mis-thrown tennis ball just as you're about to drift off to sleep.
* Recreate a holiday to the Swiss Alps by breaking open your bean bag and skiing on the beads.
* Re-enact exciting search and rescue operations using Barbie and the ice-cave that is the freezer compartment.
* Go on an 'African Safari' by placing a mane on your pet dog, then taking photos of it through a 1600mm zoom lens.
* Recreate a trek down the mighty Amazon river by placing lots of pot plants around your bath.
* Buy some watermelons and vodka, and drink yourself silly each evening on dacquiris. For more autheniticity, pay your kids $15 per drink you have. If you don't have kids, just put a match to $100.
* Why climb Mt Everest when there's an awfully steep 'mountain' on your roof.
* Recreate an authentic London-holiday adventure by sitting indoors and listening to your friends complaining that it's raining.
Paris is a romantic holiday destination that can easily be replicated in your own home. Simply ask all your house mates to be rude to you.
* Pretend you're in New Jersey by visiting the local garbage dump.
* Don't bother visiting Sydney - make your own. Bend a coat hanger to look like the Bridge, and drive matchbox cars over it. Charge yourself a toll for every trip south.
* Cheap vodka and a rotten potato make for a great taste of Russia. * For more authenticity, queue for six hours to buy the potato.
* India is hot, smelly and full of beggars. So is your local shopping mall.
* A holiday to Houston, Texas can be replicated by buying your family 10 gallon hats and saying 'y'all' at the start of every sentence.
* Take a virtual trip to LA by taking a handgun on the freeway.
* Turn on the hot water in your shower and leave it running for an hour to create the steamy environment of Singapore.
* Simulate an authentic night in the wild by pitching a tent in your lounge room and tuning the TV to the Discovery Channel.
* Pretend to go to the beach by lying in your back yard until you're completely sunburnt. Pay neighbourhood children to hit you with a mis-thrown tennis ball just as you're about to drift off to sleep.
* Recreate a holiday to the Swiss Alps by breaking open your bean bag and skiing on the beads.
* Re-enact exciting search and rescue operations using Barbie and the ice-cave that is the freezer compartment.
* Go on an 'African Safari' by placing a mane on your pet dog, then taking photos of it through a 1600mm zoom lens.
* Recreate a trek down the mighty Amazon river by placing lots of pot plants around your bath.
* Buy some watermelons and vodka, and drink yourself silly each evening on dacquiris. For more autheniticity, pay your kids $15 per drink you have. If you don't have kids, just put a match to $100.
* Why climb Mt Everest when there's an awfully steep 'mountain' on your roof.
* Recreate an authentic London-holiday adventure by sitting indoors and listening to your friends complaining that it's raining.
Paris is a romantic holiday destination that can easily be replicated in your own home. Simply ask all your house mates to be rude to you.
* Pretend you're in New Jersey by visiting the local garbage dump.
* Don't bother visiting Sydney - make your own. Bend a coat hanger to look like the Bridge, and drive matchbox cars over it. Charge yourself a toll for every trip south.
* Cheap vodka and a rotten potato make for a great taste of Russia. * For more authenticity, queue for six hours to buy the potato.
* India is hot, smelly and full of beggars. So is your local shopping mall.
* A holiday to Houston, Texas can be replicated by buying your family 10 gallon hats and saying 'y'all' at the start of every sentence.
* Take a virtual trip to LA by taking a handgun on the freeway.
* Turn on the hot water in your shower and leave it running for an hour to create the steamy environment of Singapore.
* Simulate an authentic night in the wild by pitching a tent in your lounge room and tuning the TV to the Discovery Channel.