monkey nonsense

so this weekend was the “annual” (not really ’cause we missed 2006 and made up for it by going in january 2007) trip to NC!

roundtrip ticket to NC - $128.60
parking fee at airport - $30
roundtrip driving (in the ice/snow on the way back) to BWI so i could fly Southwest - 2+ hours
(alternatively, a 4 hour drive down after being delayed at the dealership for several hours, but 6+ hour drive in the snow back by Larry and Angela)
listening to mariam sing while driving - priceless

so apparently the only two songs on the radio in NC is fergilicious by fergie and what goes around by justin timberlake. really. only those two songs. every time we got in the car and turned on the radio, it would be one of those two songs. after attempting to decipher the lyrics to the songs over mariam loudly singing her made up lyrics… i finally looked up the tricky lyrics to fergilious and what goes around…

fergie is, in fact, trying to spell tasty and delicious as we suspected in the car. (we’re not very good verbal spellers and it doesn’t help when mariam just starts to recite the alphabet after D…)

T to the A to the S T E Y girl you tasty, T to the A to the S T E Y girl you tasty
D to the E to the L I C I O U S, to the D to the E to the, to the, to the, hit it Fergie

apparently fergie isn’t very good at verbally spelling either…. tastey? we figured she was just elongating the T so that it would fit the rhythm of the song. fergie also counts similarly to mariam - “And they be lining down the block just to watch what I got (four, tres, two, uno)”… except mariam is more “A… B… C… 4″

and in what goes around, justin timberlake is actually saying:

What goes around, goes around, goes around
Comes all the way back around
What goes around, goes around, goes around
Comes all the way back around
What goes around, goes around, goes around
Comes all the way back around
What goes around, goes around, goes around
Comes all the way back around

very different than what angela or mariam were saying…

lots of fun this weekend i almost got over my fear of dogs. almost.  however, mariam still scares me.