The USA Family

The Family, originally uploaded by tonyeckersley.

USA mum, Dannie and I took a trip down to Fincastle, VA where we spend some time with the USA family, aka the Crockers – Rob, Wanda, Cynthia, John, Kim Nanny (aka Mildred) and the kids, Page and Sam. This was quite a fun trip. First, on Friday night, me and Danielle were treated to the Honeymoon suite at Acorn Hill in Lynchburg (a pit stop to see Rob and Wanda before hitting Fincastle) which happened to be fantastic. We had a beautiful view, spa-bath, bed and balcony all to our selves. This was a very nice treat as me and Dannie had been meaning to stay there for a while. It was actually nice just to relax after a long week renovating at Mediastudio!

After breakfast we headed to Fincastle where we chilled with the full family. It’s funny what you learn about family, especially one as unique as this. Man do they have some serious stories! Obviously I wont go into any detail as I don’t really want to go and blurt this families story all over the intertubes, but it does make great listening! One day Dannie says she will make a script out of her family history. I’m putting 100 bucks down on it being an Oscar winner already.

But things came up that inspired me. Rob lost his sight temporarily a few years back dub to his diabetes (has one glass eye now) and during his stay in hospital he vocalized some of his memories from growing up in Up state New York, terrorizing his family, getting in trouble and all sorts of tom-foolery along the way. It was such a great read and really made me realize how important it is to document our lives (the main reason I set up this blog). From now on, I am going to try and write down at least one memory a day (and post some here) so I never forget. In fact, I already feel like I am forgetting my childhood a little. It wasn’t until someone set up an alumni page on Facebook for my high school that I started remember what the hell I did at school! That was only 8 years ago!

Me and Dannie also watched Superbad again. Again…

Just want to say, this is the funniest comedy movie pretty much ever. There is so much more to it than I think a lot of people see. Maybe that’s because they don’t have it on in the background 3 out of 5 days a week at work? Anyway, there is so much you can relate too from growing up – and the last scene, where they are really splitting up for the first time to hang out with new people? Fully took me back to the last night I had with my old friends before heading to college. Great times, great film.

“That was like 8 years ago asshole”

“People don’t forget”

Haha