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Bongo’s. Dry, over cooked and either bland or over salted. We all raced for bathrooms afterwards.

:thanks: Crud. See what happens when I don't head to Disney after three years? So what's the lesson here? Go to Disney more often, obviously!!! *lol*

I contacted AAA to book our family's January 2019 trip. I've used AAA in the past because it used to include a decent discount. I was told they no longer offer this. Now, also, in the past my AAA used a "Disney expert" to book the trips and she's now retired. Do you think perhaps this new...

Been there! Done that! I had a friend pull the hard drive from the old computer. We bought an enclosure for it -- about $25. It's now our back up drive / external hard drive. Installing it in the enclosure is dead easy (says the woman who walked into the computer store, hard drive in...

This is totally my husband's domain -- he sends for the seeds, plants them indoors until he can transplant them in the yard, and does all the other leg work. :worship: Let's just say that he's got the green thumb, and despite my family's history of farming, I've got the black thumb...

Ditto! Totally lost without my list and to avoid a basket of crazy stuff as i check out, I make sure to leave DH and our sons at home...which saves about $100 alone. :rotfl: We've got an Aldi's right down the road from a Giant. I usually hit Aldi's first and then supplement with whatever...

We "cheat" with souvenairs! :rotfl2: Months in advance, DH and I will keep at eye out at Target, Walmart, the Dollar Store, and the Disney Store for Disney based sales items. We pack 'em and take 'em with us. A few times during the trip our boys will wake up and find Mickey or Stitch or...

More details needed but... Re. rental car -- BTDT and it worked for us. We have two older cars which -- when we went to Disney last year -- were in the 150K range; one is an SUV, so that was definitely out of the question re. gas. Look around online for coupon codes for rental cars. We...

The hubs, the two boys and I just spent a weekend in Baltimore Inner Harbor. We thought we'd do a spur of the moment trip and make the 2.5 hr. drive, take in the sights and have a few good meals. Now, we're talkin' a Friday, Saturday, and just breakfast on Sunday. We knew we'd pay out the...

Ditto what others said -- some candy (not much), an Easter Egg hunt with change and maybe a few bills inside, etc. Last year was the exception -- kinda. My sons are now 12 and 14 and were in dire need of new backpacks. LL Bean just happened to have a sale the month before -- we filled the...

In fact, I'm about 25 minutes from you in the Poconos. :thumbsup2 Can't comment on the Veloster but in terms of Hyundai and PA winters -- My Elantra is now eight years old with 174K miles on it and is totally rust free. In fact those darned cinder trucks on Rt. 33 have done more damage to...

Love WW Crest and our family's been staying there over Memorial Day weekend and at least once over the summer since I was pregnant with my oldest (who's now 14). We normally stay in an efficiency at The Reges or next door at the Beau Rivage. Yep, both are a little on the pricey side during the...

Sounds like the birthday boy is on the autism spectrum (Aspergers, maybe?), and let me just state as a mom of an Aspergian kid -- you've no idea how much more your son's presence and that of the others at his table meant to the mom and her son than any gift possibly could. Way to go, Mom...

On the more uppity end, we've got shrimp and escargot. On the other end of the spectrum, we've got the kid-requested frozen items (chicken nuggets and mozz. sticks), plus pizza dip and bacon-wrapped lil' smokies. We usually do popper dip as well, but all of us really over indulged at...

We just took part in a gifts drive and the Marine who assisted us said to be wary of "kids" asking for gift cards because a lot of the time, it's actually the parents who end up using it and a lot of the time it isn't the child who benefits. Sad but true. :confused3

and I came downstairs to find Elfis sitting on the stove (everything was off), holding a frying pan. In the frying pan was Mr. Potato Head. The note next to Elfis said, "Now, THIS is what I call a fritata!" :rotfl2:

Another idea -- AC Moore has this mini pancake pan. It makes three pancakes with Christmas patterns. Think I'm going to pick that up this week and sometime between now and Christmas have Elfis make the boys green and red pancakes in it. :thumbsup2

My sons are now 12 and 14 and a little "old" technically for ours, but they love the tradition. This year, I told them that dad and I wanted them to do some elf related stuff... I came downstairs this morning to find Elfis sitting on the stove (yes it was off) holding a frying pan. In the...

DH used to keep his change in one of those huge, clear plastic pretzel containers. It was right inside his closet door. We got robbed, it was taken, and I hope the person who lifted it got a hernia as a result because that bad boy was FULL of change. I follow my mom's lead these days. She...

I honestly tried...once. When we got there and I had to loop the parking lot twice, I just left and went home and shopped online, and have done so from that point on. We were discussing this last night while recooperating from our turkey comas, and SIL said, "They have to be handing out...