Well Folks it`s over!
Posted: August 31, 2012, 6:27 pm
Darrell usually says that when Lyn and I are home!, That SlickStock is over!,..............Well we are home again!, infact we got home 22hrs ago but it has taken me this long to get to do this, what with sleeping for 14hrs last night.
It took us 32hrs from leaving the Motel we were staying at, to get to our front door, with 17hrs of that in planes, 2hrs in a car and bus, and the rest just waitng around for things to happen.
The down side of the trip came at Brisbane Airport, where we had to get off the plane so they could clean it and have customs check for what ever they look for!!!!, we then had to go through customs check again to be able to get back on the same plane, which is fair enough!. but that is where it went bad for me, I had bought a BBQ thermometer in the US and not thinking things through I had it in my carry-on bag. Big mistake!!, they wanted to conficate it because it had a sharp point!, I grabbed it package out of the customs " Supervisours" hands and tore open the box to show him what it was, and if it was going to be convicated then just take the detacthable probes, ( remember I have just flown 15,000KMs with this weapon, and cleared by the US customs to take it on board!!!). With that he said I could keep the blunt probe but not the sharp one!, WTF!.
Another customs officer standing close by said that is BS!, a pen could be as dangerous and went on to say that he was just trying to show he was the boss and also they hadn`t found anything else coming through on that plane!.
Other than that we had another great trip to the US and SlickStock!, and caught up with all our dear old friends and met some new ones as well!.
Other than SlickStock week and a half!,I think the next best memory would be the day we went to the Ball Game to watch The Texas Rangers play The Minisota Twins!, you see! Lyn does not like heights and our seats were in the nose bleed section, just going up the escalators had me worried!!! and my hand crushed by her grip!, but when we reached the top floor it opened out to a large open area that calmed her down some.
That was until we decided to look for our seats!
, broken hand time again!, after some reassurance, we went out to our seats, ( I must say that I was a bit unnerved being out there as well!), once we sat down, with me in the seat in front of her, she soon calmed down an enjoyed the specticale!, if you ever go to the Rangers stadium look up seat 334/10/9 there you will see where Lyns bum cheaks held on to the seat for 4 hrs! 
It took us 32hrs from leaving the Motel we were staying at, to get to our front door, with 17hrs of that in planes, 2hrs in a car and bus, and the rest just waitng around for things to happen.
The down side of the trip came at Brisbane Airport, where we had to get off the plane so they could clean it and have customs check for what ever they look for!!!!, we then had to go through customs check again to be able to get back on the same plane, which is fair enough!. but that is where it went bad for me, I had bought a BBQ thermometer in the US and not thinking things through I had it in my carry-on bag. Big mistake!!, they wanted to conficate it because it had a sharp point!, I grabbed it package out of the customs " Supervisours" hands and tore open the box to show him what it was, and if it was going to be convicated then just take the detacthable probes, ( remember I have just flown 15,000KMs with this weapon, and cleared by the US customs to take it on board!!!). With that he said I could keep the blunt probe but not the sharp one!, WTF!.
Another customs officer standing close by said that is BS!, a pen could be as dangerous and went on to say that he was just trying to show he was the boss and also they hadn`t found anything else coming through on that plane!.
Other than that we had another great trip to the US and SlickStock!, and caught up with all our dear old friends and met some new ones as well!.
Other than SlickStock week and a half!,I think the next best memory would be the day we went to the Ball Game to watch The Texas Rangers play The Minisota Twins!, you see! Lyn does not like heights and our seats were in the nose bleed section, just going up the escalators had me worried!!! and my hand crushed by her grip!, but when we reached the top floor it opened out to a large open area that calmed her down some.
That was until we decided to look for our seats!
, broken hand time again!, after some reassurance, we went out to our seats, ( I must say that I was a bit unnerved being out there as well!), once we sat down, with me in the seat in front of her, she soon calmed down an enjoyed the specticale!, if you ever go to the Rangers stadium look up seat 334/10/9 there you will see where Lyns bum cheaks held on to the seat for 4 hrs! 