Vacations, holidays and trips with friends and family are supposed to be fun and relaxing, a time to get away from it all: work, school, the daily routine. However, things don’t always work out the way they should. Everyone has a story about a vacation or a family reunion gone awry, so we’ve asked you to share those stories with us in our second bounty. Whether they’re fiction or non-fiction, we’re dying to read your stories, so we’ve decided to post trailers and clips from some great “vacation and holiday mayhem” movies to get your creative juices flowing.

National Lampoon’s Vacation
If you’ve never had a chance to see it, National Lampoon’s Vacation follows the Griswold family on their journey to the Walley World theme park. As you might have guessed, their road trip doesn’t go as planned, but we’ll let the trailer speak for itself:

*Fun fact: National Lampoon’s Vacation was actually based on a short story, which you can read here.

Home Alone
Ah, the film that caused a revolution in facial expressions and introduced the “Home Alone Face” to the world.

The Home Alone Face

The Darjeeling Limited
A very different movie from the two mentioned above, but still a great example of trips and family reunions gone wrong:

Eurotrip
This is the movie for those who like their “vacation gone awry” comedies on the raunchy side. We just couldn’t resist adding the robot fight scene to this list:

We hope these clips inspire you to write and to submit your true or not-so-true stories to our Vacation & Holiday Mayhem bounty.

-Team Libboo

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