DS8 looking over my shoulder right now: "Are we going to go through that?"
I just found out my company won the contract to oversee the construction of 2 new sets of locks at the Panama Canal.Do you think I can get them to pay for my cruise as a business expense?
This was in our company newsletter last week. I thought it was pretty exciting and a big win for the company.
As program manager, ***** will work with ACP to oversee construction of two sets of locks and the excavation and dredging of massive amounts of material, which will increase the canals capacity to handle much larger ships. The expansion will also increase the number of ships the canal can handle each day.
The seven-year project is scheduled to be completed in 2014, which marks the 100th anniversary of the Panama Canal. The ACP said it wants the first ship to pass through the expanded canal on Aug. 15, 2014, 100 years to the day from the opening of the original canal, Kennedy said. That certainly sets the pace and expectations for this project.
We are going back in Nov. for MNSSHP & the F&W, but we will be going back to our home resort of SSR. 
Although, Springfest has been known to become riotfest because the students get ticked off that the bars close at 1AM due to Daylight Savings Time (clocks jump forward 1 hour from 1am to 2am, then bars are ordered closed). At one said riot, one of our football players got arrested for beating up a police horse. Of course, over the last 40 years, our football team hasn't been known for beating up anyone, so it was kind of "good..now focus the energy towards the football field" type thing. And it was just two years ago when our head football coach was found passed out at the wheel of his car facing the wrong way on Court Street...he believes someone slipped him a "roofie", since he's the first coach to take OU to a bowl game in 40 years, I believe him 
Know when to say "when".Ya like that, huh? I'll tell the story. The teens were cranky because...well, they're teens...and we made them get out of bed early. We caught an early flight to CA the day of the cruise...leaving enough room to catch another flight if something went wrong.
My Dad was actually pouting. My Mom hadn't let up on him since we'd left the house. He wanted orange juice and she'd told him no. So he put it in a plastic cup to bring in the car. Right as we were leaving, he spilled the OJ all over the kitchen of the guest house, and she had to clean it up before we could leave. Meanwhile, Jay was mad because we had to wait for Mom to clean up the orange juice.
Have I said that there's a reason that I'm going on THIS cruise without my family????
)Playa Medano....closest beach to the ship. $1 gets you a water taxi (climb into a rowboat from the pier) or $4 gets you a taxi here.
We hired a private catamaran for the day, but had to water taxi over near Playa Medano to get to the Cat. Needless to say, I took a land taxi back. Too hard to climb down into the row boat!!
You could always jaunt over to the musuems....
American History and A&Space are right across from each other on the mall and would make an interesting afternoon. Or maybe spy museum.
I like to go over to the National Gallery but i'm just weird that way.
Panda bears will still be there next time.
and don't worry...VA public schools have plenty of silly holiday/in-service days in Sept/Oct too...
For anyone who's not used the Long Beach airport I have a few pictures to give you an idea of the size of it.
The first picture shows the terminal bldg straight ahead (taken from the side of the building). Upstairs there is a restaurant, downstairs is where you check in. The picture was taken at the outside baggage claim area. Yep...claim your bags outside.
Here's a picture of the front of the terminal. You can see where the Super Shuttle parked, and we walked across...to the right...and entered the door with the banner above that says "Embarkation Lobby"...with the blow-up castle thing next to it. They wouldn't let me take pictures inside.
I removed the heads of my son, daughter, Mom and Dad, because they were all looking really cranky and they'd never forgive me if I posted pics of them like that.
I thought someone ate their heads off
So I always joke with DH that "on paper" there is no way we would be compatable. Yet somehow it works for us. Here is further evidence:
Top 20 Party Schools
9. Ohio University, Athens
Top 20 Stone Cold Sober Schools
6. U.S. Coast Guard Academy
What can I say. Soulmates and whatnot.
Baggage Claim. Just beyond the green building is the conveyor belt where the luggage comes out.
I love this airport....easy in, easy out. And only about a 20 minute drive to the port. So much less stressful than LAX.
