10/24/2009 Bash On the Boat (I'm with B.O.B.) - Thread #20!

[Verandah Man]

This is the last pic I took of the smoke that trailed the Discovery after it's launch.

 

[dizneycrazy4]

Our daughter is currently 16 and our boys are 14 and 12. All three will gain a year by the end of July. In fact middle son has celebrated his birthday on DCL at least 4 times! He didn't last year...but he did his 13th...in Naples/Pompeii! It was one of those, how do you ever top that?...kinda moments! The nice thing is, he is child that relishes EVERY birthday!
DH and I take a week every year without them...miss them terribly....but relish the romance of our solo time!

What about your kiddos? How long have you been married? We will make 20 years this November.

Will be married 20 yrs in June. DS 14 in July, DD 10 in June. Don't think I could or they would let us cruise without them. That's fine by me, they grow up too fast as is.

By the way, where is Tomah, Wisconsin? You have such a beautiful state!

Tomah is in the middle of the state. Follow I90/94 up from Rockford, where the two interstates divide, is where Tomah is. Do you know where WI Dells is? We are 45 min. north. Beautiful state, I like it here.

 

[Verandah Man]

Looks like we'll be taking a ride down to Orlando tomorrow. When we got back from dinner last evening Hazel went to get her Diet Pepsi out of the frig, in doing so dropped a glass jar onto the glass tray that covers the veggie keeper. As luck would have it, the glass tray shattered.

The closest Whirlpool store is in Orlando. The glass tray cost $80.00, way to go Hazel......

 

[captchris]

Cool video Andy. I am guessing it is really hard to see the shuttle once the booster rockets burn out and separate.

I would have like to have been outside on our last cruise to see the shuttle go off. We were at least able to see it for a few seconds from inside the terminal. I have posted the pictures before. If anyone wants to see them I will post them again.

 

[Verandah Man]

I gave Lina her first "Behind the Wheel" driving lesson last evening. Our property here is 10,500 sq ft and our trailer is only 12' X 65' so I had her drive around the trailer a couple of times. She was quite nervous, but did OK otherwise. Here is a pic of her "after" the lesson.

 

[Verandah Man]

Cool video Andy. I am guessing it is really hard to see the shuttle once the booster rockets burn out and separate.

I would have like to have been outside on our last cruise to see the shuttle go off. We were at least able to see it for a few seconds from inside the terminal. I have posted the pictures before. If anyone wants to see them I will post them again.

It was cool, I got to see the solid rocket boosters separate from Discovery, I don't think they showed up on any of the pics I took. I will have to check the pics out again real close.....

 

[Verandah Man]

Discovery launch FO

 

[Verandah Man]

The little white dot, that looks like a star in this pic, is the Space Shuttle Discovery.

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OK, just to the right of the telephone pole, in the pic above, there is a tiny white dot, this is one of the two solid rockets boosters.

 

[Verandah Man]

Looks like it is time to sign off, the battery in my laptop is getting very low, time to go charge it up again..........

 

[captchris]

I am off to the gym and then work.

 

[Walt & Di]

Heres our servers

Jeff - please let me know if you want me to remove this photo - its the only one I have of the girls

Yes they were Walt, Mike, Robin and mine servers too. Yes they were great. Diane

 

[Walt & Di]

I gave Lina her first "Behind the Wheel" driving lesson last evening. Our property here is 10,500 sq ft and our trailer is only 12' X 65' so I had her drive around the trailer a couple of times. She was quite nervous, but did OK otherwise. Here is a pic of her "after" the lesson.

Andy tell Lina good luck in driving and she looks natural at it. Oh I remember the days I taught my girls. Wow. Very exciting and nerve wracking. Pretty soon it will be Elijah's turn. 5-6 years. Diane

 

[Walt & Di]

Great Pictures Karen. Hope you had a great day at school. Walt is out walking while I am dising. I will go in alittle while. Diane

 

[Dee73]

Good morning everyone. One kid is better, now the other is complaining about an ear ache! Elaine will be calling the Doctor's office in 8 minutes to try to get Sammi in today. Let's hope we can get some antibiotics in her!

On our last Disney Cruise it would be a tie between Belle or our Head Server Aleksandra.

Samantha made a rose in the Oceaneer's Club for Belle. That evening she saw Belle in the lobby and gave it to her. The next night after dinner we returned to the room and under our door was an envelope with Samantha's name on it. We opened it and was a thank you card from Belle with a personalized autographed picture. On the last night, at the Till we Meet Again in the atrium, Samantha went up to Belle and thanked her for the picture. Belle pulled Sam close and said, "thank you for the rose, I loved it." That really was nice. Anyone CM could have made that card, it easily could have been staffed out, but no, Disney made it magical.

On the first evening in Animator's Aleksandra came by to say hello. Jay hadn't eaten his veggies, so Aleksandra starting teasing him saying that he would have to help Mickey wash dishes. Jay was just glaring at her the whole time thinking, "who is this chick and what's her deal?" He was 4 at the time. The next night, same thing, and Jay actually grinned this time.

On the third night, Aleksandra came and said, "what do you like?" Jay responded, "I like corn." A few minutes later she returned with a plateful of corn on the cob. Jay loves corn on the cob! For the next few nights, until the end of the cruise, she came to the table everynight with a plateful of corn on the cob for Jay.

On the last evening, we had Jay give Aleksandra her tip. She hugged him and thanked him. I really hope she is still around because he really liked her. I made sure I mentioned her on the comment card.

Sorry to hear that your daughter isn't feeling well. Do you have any picutres of Aleksandra? I think that we may have had her too on our last cruise and she was great with the kids. I would love to have her again.

 

[goslingl]

Here she is. Isn't she a cutie. I haven't decided on a name yet. She's 6 weeks old. She's a black lab...just what I was looking for. Mike doesn't know yet. I guess he'll find out when he reads this.

Congrats!!! She is adorable.

 

[Verandah Man]

Here's a couple pics from yesterday while we were waiting for the rest of our group to join us at Emmy's Time Out Tavern.

 

[Walt & Di]

Here's a couple pics from yesterday while we were waiting for the rest of our group to join us at Emmy's Time Out Tavern.​

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Beautiful pictures. What a great looking bunch. Looks like you all are having a great time. Weather also looks nice. Lucky you. It looks pretty nice here today too. Walt has already walked and is doing the Wi fit now. Diane

 

[Verandah Man]

Our dinner plates from last evening. First pic is Hazel holding her plate(her pork shank was huge).

The second pic is my dinner and the third pic is of Lina's dinner.

 

[Verandah Man]

This is a pic of my Tomato/Cucumber/Cabbage Salad, this was so yummy tasty!!!

 

[Verandah Man]

A few pics of a family of Sandy Hill Cranes that were in our yard the other morning. Hazel didn't know I took these pics, she went out later to get some pics of the cranes(while I was taking a nap), but the cranes turned and started walking towards her, so Hazel darted for the house as she was afraid she was going to get attacked by the birds.......