CONTEST: 3 Finalists for vacation horror stories!

Thank you again for all your tales of woes. Here are this week’s three finalists. The winner will have his or her story published on Sunday AJC and will be qualified to win the grand prize, a getaway trip.

Folks, we need your help now. Take a look at the finalists’ tales. Then vote for the family vacation story you like the best.

Which author should win this week? Check out the prize!

• The poll is at the bottom of the story.

THE EYE, THE RAT & THE PARASITE by Earline Feldman of Roswell

My husband booked a trip for us to the beautiful Caribbean Island of Dutch St. Maartin for a week. Everything on the flight from Atlanta was uneventful until we landed. When we exited the plane down an open staircase onto the tarmac in St. Maartin, a small cinder blew into my eye. Read on.

IT”S JUST A DRIZZLE by Hal Gauldin

My wife and I just returned from our annual vacation at our condo in Daytona – the vacation that’s now known in family lore as “The Vacation from Hell!”

This vacation was months in the planning as we also invited my wife’s brother, his wife and our one year old nephew and my wife’s parents. Schedules had to be arranged and re-arranged, my wife postponed a much needed surgical procedure, and I took final exams a week early all in an attempt to achieve the impossible. Finally we were able to assemble all the pieces of the puzzle and make the necessary arrangements. Read on.

SNAKE! JUST KIDDING by Melissa Eubanks

Spring Break 2007, my family and I were on a short getaway to Helen. My kids wanted to swim, so we found a hotel with an indoor pool since it was kind of chilly. We paid cash for a two-night stay, went to our room and changed to go to the pool.

We had a great time, then went back to our room to get ready for bed. That’s when the trouble started. Read on.

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