Monday, December 31, 2001
ESCONDIDO
I spent the day with my family and my aunts, uncles, and cousins at the Lawrence Welk Resort in Escondido. The place is full of things to do on the site itself, but it's absolutely desolate outside of it - just mountains full of boulders, but no civilization aside from the 15 freeway. Even going on a market run is complicated since it's not close and not very convenient at all.
And the place itself is exactly what the name implies - a resort ... for old people. While waiting for the 3:00pm check-in time to arrive, we entertained ourselves by blasting our music, dancing (well, sort of), telling jokes, and generally being young. Meanwhile, all the cars that pulled up (about nine of them) all had older people in it. But this is definitely one of the "cooler" older places. While we were there, we had the chance to work out (I did my uppers workout since I didn't get to do it this past week), play basketball, shoot pool, play the piano, go for a nature walk, feed the ducks on the lake, watch people golf, and of course, watch TV. Because the place had cable, I was all over the TVs. Here's what I watched: an old ER episode, VH1's Behind the Music on Def Leppard and one on the Goo Goo Dolls, La Bamba, A League of Their Own, West Side Story, and of course, SportsCenter.
The evening was spent having all the Shens sleep on the floor in the living room, creating what was later desribed as the noisiest snoring symphony ever.
Vacations. You gotta love 'em!
I spent the day with my family and my aunts, uncles, and cousins at the Lawrence Welk Resort in Escondido. The place is full of things to do on the site itself, but it's absolutely desolate outside of it - just mountains full of boulders, but no civilization aside from the 15 freeway. Even going on a market run is complicated since it's not close and not very convenient at all.
And the place itself is exactly what the name implies - a resort ... for old people. While waiting for the 3:00pm check-in time to arrive, we entertained ourselves by blasting our music, dancing (well, sort of), telling jokes, and generally being young. Meanwhile, all the cars that pulled up (about nine of them) all had older people in it. But this is definitely one of the "cooler" older places. While we were there, we had the chance to work out (I did my uppers workout since I didn't get to do it this past week), play basketball, shoot pool, play the piano, go for a nature walk, feed the ducks on the lake, watch people golf, and of course, watch TV. Because the place had cable, I was all over the TVs. Here's what I watched: an old ER episode, VH1's Behind the Music on Def Leppard and one on the Goo Goo Dolls, La Bamba, A League of Their Own, West Side Story, and of course, SportsCenter.
The evening was spent having all the Shens sleep on the floor in the living room, creating what was later desribed as the noisiest snoring symphony ever.
Vacations. You gotta love 'em!
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