My family vacation was ruined & I had to sleep on the floor – it wouldn’t have happened if I wasn’t put in the top bunk
A TIKTOKER has revealed how she ruined her family’s vacation as a child after overindulging in free snacks.
Travel guru Charissa shared the flashback from a trip she went on with her parents and two older sisters as a fifth grader.
“How I ruined our first family cruise to Alaska,” she said at the beginning of the video.
“My parents (booked) a separate room for me and my sisters,” Charissa said.
The girls’ quarters included two bunk beds.
“Because I’m the youngest child, they gave me the top bunk,” Charissa said.
Things started to go awry when the family participated in a whale watching tour which included free snacks.
“As a fifth grader, I ate unlimited crackers with peanut butter and salmon,” Charissa said.
“It was vacation and I could eat as much as I wanted.”
The family returned to the cruise at 8pm and settled in for the night.
“It was very hard to crawl up on my bed because the rungs of the ladder were not built for fifth grade legs. It was way too tall for me,” she said.
“It was painful on my feet.”
Charissa woke up in the middle of the night feeling ill.
“(I) knew I was about to barf,” she said.
“I tried to get down from my bunk bed, but it took way too long.”
Charissa managed to get down the ladder, but it was already too late.
“I couldn’t make it three more steps to the toilet and I threw up in the middle of the floor,” she said.
“My sisters woke up because the smell of salmon and peanut butter mixed in my stomach smelled so bad.”
That’s when the kids went to wake up their mother for help.
“At 3am, my poor mom had to clean up my peanut butter and salmon throw up from our cruise room,” Charissa said.
“My mom did not have cleaning supplies with her… All she had was a wash cloth and water to clean it up.”
The smell in the room put a damper on the rest of the trip.
“It smelled so bad in there that me and my sisters could not sleep in our own room for the rest of the cruise,” Charissa said.
“We had to sleep on the floor of my parents’ room because we physically could not sleep in that room without throwing up.”
Many commenters found the family’s misfortune relatable.
“This is great. I’m a mom and I feel that this is exactly how it goes any time we do something lmao,” one TikTok user said.
“Lmao ‘first’ family cruise? Y’all had the audacity to go on another cruise later??” another commenter asked.
“My parents were risk takers,” Charissa responded.
But one of the comments with the most likes asked an obvious question.
“Why didn’t you ask for cleaning supplies?”