Tanning

We are planning a trip to Texas to visit our dear friends Sima and Darian in June.

Sima and Darian after moving to Austin in September 2011

 While we are there I would like to spend a couple of days on the Gulf Coast and go swimming in the warm BP oil slick waters of said Gulf.  However, I am an Oregon white boy. And to go out on the beach looking as white as a shark's under belly would not be good.  No sense in blinding the whole state of Texas. I have two options to get a tan before we go. 1) Lay out on the lawn and make the neighbors suffer the blinding white for a few days until I get some color, or 2) go to a tanning salon.  I think I will opt for the latter as it is more private.  I haven't used a tanning bed since I owned one way back in the mid eighties when I was a hot little thing of 25 or so.

Me on New Year's Eve 1993.  I always rented a tux on this holiday.

Of course, I am going to have to get a sunscreen with an SPF of about 4,000,000,000 since I have just recently gotten rid of all of the hair on my head (which there wasn't much left anyway).  Pic and explanation of that in another post.