Girls gone wild

(Joan) Karen and her three roommates had been anxiously awaiting spring break for months. All they could think about was tanning on the beaches of Cancun while hitting on really drunk, tan, obnoxious guys with shell necklaces and gelled hair. However, the day of departure brought all their dreams to a halt. Their first bad omen was boarding the plane, which was a four- seater -not the commercial turbo jet on which they expected to travel. Oh well, they thought, maybe Delta had reserved them this special plane because they were four very special girls. But 10 hours later, skepticism kicked in again.

"I thought it only took six hours to get to Cancun!" yelled Jasmine, over the roars of the plane's engine.

"Attention ladies, this is your captain speaking," howled a voice over the cockpit intercom, " We are now making our final descent into Cocoon, Idaho."

"Cocoon?! Guys, we're supposed to be in Cancun! What's going on?!" yelled Amy. "Wendi, you booked the tickets, what the heck is wrong?"

With a knot in her stomach, Wendi pulled her plane ticket out and realized the shocking truth; she had bought her and her roommates four round trip tickets to Cocoon, Idaho...not Cancun, Mexico. "Damn it!" She thought to herself. " I must have clicked the wrong box online. Maybe Cocoon won't be so bad...It could be worse, right?" She asked herself, under the weight of her roommates' furious stares.

Five minutes later, they were dropped off on a dirt runway, handed a sack of Idaho Grade A potatoes, and bid farewell by their pilot. So there they stood: tube tops, shorts, sunglasses, and five days in the wilderness ahead of them.

(Erin) The first thing they needed to do, they decided, was to get some woodsy gear because they were unprepared for the less-than-balmy Idaho climate. "Okay girls, let's hit up Abercrombie for some hoodie sweaters and cargo flares, since we're going to try and make the best of it," Karen offered. The problem was that they had no idea where the mall was. They started walking up a dirt road, but there was no sign of civilization. There were some sheep standing around in a field, though. Wendi had a brief vision of them trying to spin the wool to make sweaters, she was so cold. "Oh, how cute, look at the little furry sheep!" Amy exclaimed, scaring the sheep away. They took off, leaving the four girls completely alone in the Idaho wilderness.

(Kelly) "All right, Wendi," said Jasmine threateningly. "Either you use those designer sunglasses to start a fire for us or we're gonna sew your bikinis into blankets!"

Wendi sensed this trip was going to get really ugly, really fast.

(Mike) The girls kept walking down the dirt road until they passed a small, rundown farmhouse. "Let's see if they can point us toward downtown Cocoon," Amy said optimistically.

A tall man in overalls met them before they could even reach the front door. "This is private property! Get off my land!"

(Dave Q.) Scared, angry, and just plain out of options, the girls did what they would normally do to get out of sticky situations-they lifted up their tube tops and cheered. "Yeah spring break," Jasmine screamed, "Woohoo!" They didn't know what would happen. They didn't know if they'd seen their last keg party. But they were going to do what came naturally, and if this wasn't going to work, they were prepared to make out.

"Karen?" the tall man questioned.

"Dr. Brad?" Karen replied.

"Karen!" Dr. Brad shouted. "I knew it was you. I'd recognize those anywhere-I always know my work."

Karen was shocked. And the other girls, as you can imagine, weren't sure exactly what was going on. As Dr. Brad approached, they began questioning Karen.

(Jen) "Remember when I went home for the weekend last semester because I had strep throat?" said Karen as her roommates nodded. "Well I really didn't have strep throat- I had an appointment with Dr. Brad."

"So that's why you couldn't lift anything heavy for six to eight weeks!" exclaimed Amy.

"What brings you girls to Cocoon?" asked Dr. Brad as he approached.

"It's my fault," sighed Wendi. "We were supposed to be going to Cancun but I messed up our tickets. Now we're freezing in the middle of nowhere with suitcases full of cute tank tops and bikinis!"

(Lauren D.) "Well girls, I think I have just the thing to help," said Dr. Brad as he motioned for them to follow him into his barn. Thinking that things couldn't possibly get much worse, the girls walked inside, and were amazed at what they found.

Expecting to see horses, hay, and a tractor, the girls found a tanning booth and a hot tub. Not wanting their spring break ruined, Dr. Brad invited the girls to stay with him for the week, giving them free use of his tanning booth and the hot tub, and take whatever they liked from his bar whenever they wanted. As an added bonus, Dr. Brad performed "free work" for the girls, who returned to school tan and with a new look, if you will. Maybe Cocoon wasn't such a bad spring break after all...