There were some cool kids who had to be our friends no matter how
lame we were and that was our very cool, athletic, good looking and
rich cousins. All of their names start with a 'B' which would be cute
if there were two or three but there are nine. Blake, Brooke,Brent,
Bradley, Britney, Bridger, Bennett, Branson and Bailey (nick-named
Bo-bo's). There were only the first three for a long time until my
cousin, their mother, got married and added the other six with her
second husband. Blake was a year older than me but we were good
friends and Brooke was my age but she was a girl so virtually
invisible as far as I was concerned. Brent was a year younger than me
and was mostly Matt's friend. We would see them at all of the family
parties for life events and holidays but usually once a year my mom
and dad would go on a long trip and instead of leaving us with
psychopaths we would stay with our cousins instead. It was awesome
they had good toys that we had free run of, they had video games that
they shared freely, they had great food it was perfect. By great food
I mean that they had cheese we could eat and they had cereal, sugar
cereal. We would have sugar cereal on occasion but it was usually
only on the weekend and then it was the cheapest huge bag of Sugar
Smacks knockoff cereal. At their house they had a couple of name
brand cereal choices that we could just choose and then pour a bowl
and eat it and then if we wanted a second bowl, now this was really
awesome, we could just have one. We played in the common areas of
their condo and their cool friend had to play with us. It was so much
fun that I looked forward to it all of the time and loved any chance
I had to go play at their house.
