Stokes Family Vacation
Authors note – Ok been away on holiday and during my time away I had some very funny experiences happen, especially from my twenty- month old daughter. If later in life she wanted to become a comedienne I would not stop her. Please read and review and most importantly enjoy and laugh! This is a Snickers story, where Sara and Nick have four daughters Natalie, Megan and twins Letisha and Charly. Natalie is ten, Megan is eight and Letisha and Charly are six years old.
Disclaimer – Do not own CSI, what I own is this story and a very hyper twenty-month old daughter who can turn a bad day into a great day! This one is for you Charly.
Sara and Nick Stokes knew they weren't going to get a lie in today, especially as far as their six year old daughters Letisha and Charly were concerned, arguing who was making the breakfast or who was the oldest just basically general twin banter!
"You are so not the oldest!" Charly dramatically groaned "Mom tells you it was me!"
"Only because you were lazy and stopped breathing!" Letisha replied "Now I'm making breakfast enough said!"
"I don't think so; it's my turn so there!" Charly replied sticking her tongue out at her sister
"Charly Ray, Letisha Ann both stop this right now!" Sara groaned still asleep "Besides it's only five am, what are you doing up this early?"
"Family Vacation mom!" Letisha and Charly replied at the same time
"Please do not do your twin thing so early in the morning!" Nick begged mumbling into the pillow
"Sorry daddy!" Charly and Letisha replied laughing at their fathers groans
"Can you go back to bed for a few more hours?" Sara asked her twin girls
"Nope, we are ready! Our bags are in the car all we are doing is waiting for you, daddy, Natalie and Megan!" Charly said looking down the corridor to her sisters bedrooms "Ok maybe just you daddy and Natalie now!"
"MEGAN!" Letisha shouted causing her sleepy sister to jump "Good morning"
"Yea morning!" Megan replied rubbing her eyes "So what time are we heading out?"
"Well as soon as the in house Drama Queen wakes up!" Nick said walking towards the bedroom door in just his boxers looking at the shocked faces of Megan, Letisha and Charly "What?"
"One word dude, clothes!" Megan says making her way down stairs
"Oh sorry!" Nick remarked covering his chest and walking back into the room
"Man I didn't know daddy had a hairy chest!" Letisha remarked walking with her sister downstairs
"Hey do you think daddy, like turns into a Gorilla at night? Maybe that's what all those weird noises are?" Charly replies laughing at Megan getting the frozen chips out of the freezer and heating up the fryer "Uhh Megan what you doing?"
"Making my breakfast!" Megan replies shaking her head and turning back to the fryer waiting for it to heat up
Twenty minutes later and Natalie walks into the kitchen to find Charly and Letisha eating their cereal and Megan eating her Ketchup covered chips for breakfast, shaking her head at her younger sister Natalie walks over to the freezer and brings out her favourite ice cream, Ben and Jerry's Vanilla flavour.
"Oh man this is so good!" Natalie sighs after taking her first spoonful of ice cream
"Natalie are you eating ice cream for breakfast?" Sara asks from the doorway of the kitchen "Megan are you eating chips? What are you two eating?"
"Cereal mom!" Charly and Letisha reply continuing to eat their breakfast
"Yea I'm eating chips, they are nice, you want some?" Megan asked her mom shoving a red covered chip at her moms face
"No thanks, Natalie why are you eating ice cream for breakfast?" Sara asks her oldest girl
"Two reasons, first reason it's nice and the second reason is its uhh nice!" Natalie replies putting the half empty carton back into the freezer
"The best explained reasons goes to Natalie Grace Stokes!" Charly remarks "Round of applause ladies and gentleman!"
"Shut up Charly!" Natalie groaned "Now if you excuse me I'm going to finish getting ready"
"We only have a week's vacation time, not two!" Charly remarks
"Your so dead!" Natalie growls running towards her sister
"Oh no Natalie's after me!" Charly laughs running around the kitchen and towards her mom
"I'm going to kill you!" Natalie hisses "Don't bother hiding behind mom!"
"Natalie Grace Stokes, we do not live in a zoo! Please stop running around like you should live in one!" Nick says walking into the kitchen "Megan are you eating chips?"
"Daddy!" Natalie groaned "Charly started it!"
"I so did not!" Charly dramatically protested "It's not my fault the Drama Queen can not take a joke!"
"Oh I give up!" Natalie sighs slamming the kitchen door
"Oh door slamming that's a new one!" Charly remarks causing everyone to laugh
At six-thirty am, only two hours earlier than planned the Stokes were on their way to their camping trip in the middle of the Nevada Desert, a weird destination but at least they had a lodge nearby if things started getting to much. Thirty minutes into the journey and Charly and Letisha were getting bored.
"I'm so bored Letisha, what about you?" Charly whispered to her sister
"Yea same here, want to play a game?" Letisha asks Charly who shakes her head
"How about we sing? Do you know the 'I know a song that will get on everybody's nerves'?" Charly asks Letisha who receives a nod "Ok you want to do it? You ready?"
"I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves!" Letisha started to sing who was then joined by Charly "I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves!"
"Will you two shut up?" Natalie asks "Please for all our sanity!"
"I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves!" Charly and Letisha continue to sing
"Mom tell them to stop!" Natalie groaned
"Charly, Letisha would you please stop?" Sara begged Charly and Letisha who stopped and smiled innocently "Thank you!"
Only ten minutes later and both Letisha and Charly began to sing again, causing Megan and Natalie to groan, Nick to grip the steering wheel and Sara to shrug her shoulders and groan. Another hour later Nick pulls into a gas station and stops to re fill the car and for the family to stretch their legs, as soon as the car stopped Natalie and Megan jumped from the car and lay on their backs.
"WERE FREE, OH LOVELY LOVELY LAND!" both Natalie and Megan shout at the top of their lungs
"Girls will you get up off the floor, we are in public!" Nick remarks "People are staring"
"Let them stare, we have had to listen to those two brats singing that stupid song all the way here!" Natalie said in one breath "So excuse us for losing our sanity, now where was I? Oh yea LAND SWEET UNSAUNTARY LAND!
"Don't worry folks they are only allowed out once!" Charly shouts to passers by "Have no fear we are on our way to take them back, continue walking nothing to see here!"
"Oh look a diner, how about we get some food?" Sara asks trying to deter Natalie from killing Charly, well just yet.
Thirty minutes later and sat with their meals in front of them, everyone was almost finished when Charly stood up, Sara and Nick dreaded what Charly was going to say but stayed seated.
"I would just like to announce to the whole diner" Charly shouted looking around at everyone "I'm a doorbell, ding dong! Thank you for your time!"
While Charly settled back into her seat, Sara let her coffee dribble down her chin, Nick went red and Natalie groaned and buried her head into her hands, the only ones who thought it was incredibly funny was Megan and Letisha.
"Oh my god that was great!" Megan said through laughing
"Where did that come from?" Letisha asked giving Charly a high five "Totally random but funny!"
"Do you suppose mom is ok?" Charly asked pointing at the still dribbling Sara "Hey mom you ok?"
"Uhh? Yea I'm fine who wants pancakes?" Sara asks "What?"
"Mom we finished breakfast ages ago!" Megan replied "Are you sure your ok?"
"Yea sure, Nick honey why do you look like a beetroot?" Sara asked Nick who looked at Sara and then at Charly
"Charly outside right now!" Nick demanded
"Oh man!" Charly groaned
"Oh come on dude it was funny!" Megan protested helping her sister "It was so funny, it made everyone laugh, well apart from you, mom and Natalie!"
"Megan, I am not a dude!" Nick replied
"So does that make you a dudette then?" Charly asked receiving a death glare "Oh ok shutting up now!"
Charly moved her arms to get comfy and in the process knocked over the remaining coffee in her mom's cup all over her legs.
"HOT!" Sara screamed jumping up from the table and jumping up and down in one spot "SO DAM HOT!"
"Stand still!" Nick says trying to calm Sara "Sara listen remain calm, remain still!"
"HOT!" Sara screamed in Nick's ear
"I think we have established that, that coffee is hot!" Charly remarked "How about we pour our milkshake over her legs? Might cool them down!"
"Ok on three! Three" Megan replies throwing her milkshake at her mom's legs as Charly and Letisha did the same
"Ahh cool! " Sara sighed smiling "AHHHHH COLD!"
"God we can not win!" Charly groaned "First her legs are to hot and now they are too cold!"
"Will you three grow up? Your so embarrassing!" Natalie groaned through her hands
"Sorry!" Charly dramatically groaned winking at Letisha and Megan who burst out laughing
"Do you find something funny?" Nick asked Megan and Letisha and then looked at Charly who had a goofy grin on her face "You?"
"Yes daddy? Need help getting mom to the car?" Charly asks grinning "Or would you like me to control the Riff Raff?"
"Hey I'm not Riff Raff!" Letisha groaned "What's Riff Raff?"
"Basically someone who doesn't do as they are told!" Natalie explains "Can we go now?"
Natalie, and Nick help a coffee milkshake covered Sara to the car, while Megan, Letisha and Charly followed trying not to laugh, Nick kept looking around at the girls who every time looked around the girls smiled sweetly at him and then giggled when he turned back around.
Eventually arriving at their destination there was a mutual agreement that the family stayed in the lodge tonight instead of setting up camp. Natalie was fast asleep when the family arrived at the lodge so Charly being Charly ran into the house found a plastic up, filled it with water and threw it over her sleeping sister and then ran.
"CHARLY!" Natalie screamed
"What?" Charly innocently asks from the doorway of the lodge "I didn't do anything!"
"MOM!" Natalie screamed
"Stop shouting Natalie!" Sara warns Natalie "What is the problem?"
"Charly threw water over me!" Natalie groaned "What you going to do about it?"
"Well as Charly has been with me as soon as we got here not a lot!" Sara replied "Now come inside both of you!"
Charly and Natalie walk into the Lodge to be instantly taken aback.
"Well blow me away!" Charly exclaimed "This place is huge!"
"Yea I agree with you there!" Natalie replied "How much did this cost to rent?"
"Enough!" Nick replied "Now everyone has their own room, god knows the place is big enough! Charly don't go breaking anything!"
"I won't, I promise!" Charly replies almost walking into a glass vase on the counter "Sorry!"
"Charly watch where your going!" Natalie shouts "Hey look a swimming pool!"
"Wow!" Megan exclaimed "This place has everything! Hey who wants to go in the pool?"
All four girls grabbed their bags from their bewildered and somewhat shocked dad and headed towards their rooms, where they changed into their costumes. Megan was the first one to come back towards the living room and made her way towards the pool.
"Megan look out for the screen..." Charly attempted to say but was cut off by the loud thud "door!"
"Uhh?" Megan asked herself "weird!"
After watching her sister attempt to walk through a glass screen door, ten times Charly finally sighed and walked up to her sister.
"It might help you if you opened the door, instead of doing an impression of a fly!" Charly said opening the door and grinning at Megan
"Oh I see!" Megan replied grinning back at Charly
When all girls were in the pool, Charly laughed and started flapping about in the water much to the confusion of Natalie and Letisha but the disappointment to Megan, who knew what was coming.
"Ok what has got you flapping around like an idiot Charly?" Natalie asks "Your not having a fit are you?"
"No I'm good, not that I can say that for the screen door though!" Charly replied giggling
"Screen door?" Letisha asks "You going to share? Or sit there flapping about like a bird getting nowhere!"
"Megan walked into the screen door, not once but ten times!" Charly replied bursting into hysterical laughter
"You walked into a screen door ten times?" Natalie asks Megan just to be sure
"Ok fine! Yes I walked into the screen door!" Megan sighed "Can we stop talking about it now?"
"No!" replied Natalie, Letisha and Charly together
"Guys did I just feel snow?" Megan asks
"Way to change the subject Megan" Natalie replies "No I didn't feel snow, you sure your ok? Walking into the screen door didn't damage your brain?"
"Dudes I'm being serious!" Megan protested getting out of the pool "See you guys later!"
"Actually it is getting kind of cold, come on guys lets go inside!" Natalie says pointing towards Charly and Letisha "Last one in gets the dirty dishes!"
As quick as lightning both Charly and Letisha were in the lodge and in their rooms, being the last one in it was up to Natalie to do the dirty dinner dishes. Sara walked into the kitchen and looked out of the window and dropped the plates on the floor.
"OH MY GOD! SNOW IN THE MIDDLE OF VEGAS!" Sara shouted "IN VEGAS IN THE MIDDLE OF MARCH!"
"Mom you ok?" Natalie asks from the doorway "Uhh mom? Earth to mom!"
"Snow Natalie!" Sara exclaimed pointing at the window "Snow!"
"Dad can you come here a second?" Natalie asks backing off from her mom "Like now!"
"Dude mom's gone crazy!" Megan remarked standing behind Natalie
"Whoa what's wrong with mom?" Letisha asks "She's finally gone mad!"
"Uhh shouldn't we help her?" Charly asks taking a step towards her mom who pulled her into a tight hug
"Look Charly snow!" Sara squealed into Charly's face
"Mom air! Mom I need air!" Charly said struggling to breath "MOM!"
"Oh sorry, time for bed!" Sara announced getting groans from the girls
"You heard your mom!" Nick says as he looks at Charly who was just turning to a normal colour "Charly you ok?"
"Yea I'm fine, just mom got a little freaked out about the snow and insisted in strangling me to see it!" Charly replies "Where the hell were you? Natalie shouted you five minutes ago!"
"I was busy!" Nick replied "Sorry!"
"Yea you would be sorry when my own mother was strangling me!" Charly said rather annoyed "Parents!"
Charly stormed off, Megan Letisha walked away from their dad which left Natalie to confront her dad.
"Dad not that I agree all the time with Charly, but you seriously need to drop things when you hear one of your children in distress!" Natalie said raising her voice "I do realise that mom didn't mean to strangle Charly but if you had got here when I first shouted you then Charly wouldn't have shouted at you, now I'm going to bed!"
"Good night Natalie, please tell Charly I'm sorry!" Sara shouted
"Yea sure mom, bye dad!" Natalie replied sighing and closing her bedroom door
"You freaked out at the sight of snow?" Nick asked Sara
"Yea I guess I did!" Sara replied "Let's get to bed I think its going to be one of those days tomorrow!"
TBC
Ok please review, my wacky British humour does tend to need a pick me up every now and again, so your reviews will come good or bad very helpful.