8/17/08 Captain Jack's Repossession Repo Cruise to PC thru TPC Part 16

[crzy4dals]

It is another great day so far for Buckeye fans.

Oregon 32 Michigan 7
halftime

 

[poohmomof5]

Thank you

Okay, I haven't been here in months! I was trying to do some Ketchup, of course, totally impossible, so I started clicking on random pages to see what everyone was up to. But here is the funny part, I clicked on a page where Crash was trying to get Andrew from UK to get some lottery tickets for him. Then, the very next page I clicked on (probably 10+ pages later), was a huge "CONGRATS ANDREW" with fireworks, then, just below that was a Congrats Andrew again. So for a short while, I thought you guys had won big in the UK lottery. It turns out that it was for Andrew's 11,000th post. Oops!

I just had to share that, as I know I would forget by the time I got slightly caught up.

Poohmom

 

[Downrivermama]

It is another great day so far for Buckeye fans.

Oregon 32 Michigan 7
halftime

Great for us MSU fans too!

 

[poohmomof5]

Alright, well, I did it. I skimmed a few months worth of posts.

What an adventure. I can't believe I have spent my little girl's entire naptime (going on 3 hours now) reading this thread. I was going to do some laundry

So,here is my personal recap:

I have been a little surprised (the whole website issue was I guess...shocking!).

I have cried, several times in fact. I think it is really neat that people can share the ups and downs in their lives with this group. I truly wish the best for everyone that reads this and has had struggles of late. Reading through the kind words of support is a great testament to the people on this thread...the comfort, prayers and pixie dust are truly uplifting. Sorry to be so cheesy, but it is pretty neat to know that alot of wonderful people exist and will be on my TOAL!

I have laughed, oh my...some of you guys are so funny and a little naughty too!

Now that the kids are back in school and don't keep me up so late, I hope to be able to stay in touch. I am so excited to be thinking of the trip again.

Poohmom

 

[Downrivermama]

G'mornin' s

I'm still alive in case anyone missed me. I stayed away for a while trying to get the whole back-to-school-back-to-working-mom, thing going again.

I had a blast last night. There is a roadskating group in DC that meets at the White House a few times a week for a group skate. I work about 3 blocks away, so I joined them last night. There were about 30 people & we did 10 miles. I was in total tourist mode. We passed the White House, Capital, Supreme Court, circled the Mall (lots of Smithsonian bldgs.), Washington, Lincoln, & Jefferson Memorials. It was pretty surreal to see all of that on skates in less than an hour and a half! Then beer & pizza in a pub that doesn't mind 30 people wearing in-line skates!

M that must of been a killer skating up Capitol Hill! I go slow when I walk it. Glad to hear things are getting back to normal for you. I don't know about N. VA it is very congested. It takes forever to get thru a traffic light!

 

[poohmomof5]

Since I am mostly new, here is a little bit about me:

My family is me, just turned 37. DH, 38. DS15, DD13, DS12, DD10, DD2.

We are a pretty close knit family and we are all having a blast with our late addition. Little Jessie (DD2)is a super happy friendly, funny girl and is completely spoiled by the big kids.

We love to travel. Our trips in 2007 have included a ski trip to Whistler, Spring break in San Francisco and then we took the train down to Disneyland for 4 days. Our summer trip was to Yellowstone (this was our first driving trip since we had little one #5) Stuffing all of us in the minivan and driving 2500 miles (55 hours in the car) was an absolute blast! The kids are getting so big and it was a lot harder to fit us all in the van. With some strategic packing and the car top carrier, I managed to fit all of our stuff for 10 days. I kind of figured that this was practice packing for our Panama canal trip. But as I reminded my husband, we didn't need to pack formal clothes and nice outfits for dinner for this trip. So I have NO idea how we are going to accomplish that for the cruise. We will probably have to take 2 vans to the airport. How crazy is that!

We are going to WDW for an extended weekend at the end of Sept. Only one of the kids know, it is for my daughter's 14th birthday and EPCOTs 25th birthday and to have our first visit 'HOME' as we just joined DVC this year. We are staying at Animal Kingdom Villas. I think I am going to tell the kids I am picking them up early from school for their flu shots and instead, take them to the airport. Is that evil???

Then we are taking my MIL and FIL to Mexico for my MIL's 60th birthday in November. That will be so relaxing compared to every other trip we have done lately.

Next, I just found out that my son's band will be participating in Disney Music Days in March 2008. So we of course will have to go down and watch him. How exciting for the band!!!!! (and a great excuse for us to go down again so soon!).

Then of course, it is the TOAL! I can't wait!

We have done 4 Disney Cruises before and even the teenagers are fine with leaving their friends for that long because they love the cruises that much!

Nice to re meet y'all!

Poohmom

 

[justmestace]

Next, I just found out that my son's band will be participating in Disney Music Days in March 2008.

Nice to re meet y'all!

Poohmom

Hi! Thanks for telling us about yourself and your family!

When in March will you be at Disney? Is it Disneyland or DisneyWorld?

A bunch of us will be at DLand in March.

 

[minnieandmickey]

Next, I just found out that my son's band will be participating in Disney Music Days in March 2008. So we of course will have to go down and watch him. How exciting for the band!!!!! (and a great excuse for us to go down again so soon!).

Poohmom

Hey Poohmom,
I'm a little new here too. I lurk more than I post, most of that is due to having a cruise in Oct. so I am planning for that right now. I did Magic Music Days at Disneyland in 1988! I had a blast. It was so cool seeing what the backstage looked like, then marching down main street was well the start of my Disney obsession. I hope you son has a blast.

A little about me:
Only my Dh and I will be cruising this time around. It will be our 20th anniversary,and our second time on the Magic. We are looking forward to doing the adult activities on board. We have 2 children, DS is 18 and DD is 14. Looking forward to meeting everyone. As soon as our October cruise is over I will be posting and hopefully getting to know everyone better.
Becky

 

[PBader]

Do you think Adam is missing it at all?

I really enjoy my kids activities, and an added bonus has been the great friends we have made through their participation. If/when they quit......I'll really miss it, too.

Deanna, he says he doesn't. He has gone to all the home games and I watched him last night and he was standing at the fence at least the time I was there. He is still friends with all the boys. This would have been his 5th year of varsity football and his 4th new coach--so I do understand his reasoning for not playing.
He has been playing on a men's softball league that he enjoys--I haven't been to any of the games though. They play crazy hours.

But I miss my friends....

 

[poohmomof5]

Hi! Thanks for telling us about yourself and your family!

When in March will you be at Disney? Is it Disneyland or DisneyWorld?

A bunch of us will be at DLand in March.

We will be at Disney World. Bummer, I would love to meet you before the cruise!

 

[justmestace]

Hi everyone, I am playing catch-up from about a week.

I have a game for those of you who are so inclined.
Homework assignment that I thought would be fun to see what you all come up with.
It is called Phun Metric Conversions
Figure out what each of these measures would be equivalent to. Using a basic list of metric prefixes.
such as yocto- , zepto, atto, femto, pico, nano, micro, milli, centi, deci, base, deca, hecto, kilo, mega, giga, tera, peta, exa, zetta, yotta,

Example: 10 rations = decorations
2000 mockingbird = to kill a mockingbird

Problems: 1 trillion pins
100 rations
3 and 1/3 trident
200 withitz
2 monograms
10 monologs
4 nickels
2 wharves
6 curses
10 to the 100th eyes
2000 lbs of chinese soup
453.6 graham crackers
8 catfish
a million pains
2 snake eyes
1/2 large intestine
500 millinaries
1 kg of falling figs
1 kilo -ships
1000 cc of wet socks
16.5 ft in the Twilight Zone

BTW, these are the ones I don't have answers too so I can't tell you if you are right or not. But might be fun for you math types to figure out.

Have fun.

Just spent about ten minutes thinking....looking....thinking....
I give up!!

 

[PBader]

Thank you

Okay, I haven't been here in months! I was trying to do some Ketchup, of course, totally impossible, so I started clicking on random pages to see what everyone was up to. But here is the funny part, I clicked on a page where Crash was trying to get Andrew from UK to get some lottery tickets for him. Then, the very next page I clicked on (probably 10+ pages later), was a huge "CONGRATS ANDREW" with fireworks, then, just below that was a Congrats Andrew again. So for a short while, I thought you guys had won big in the UK lottery. It turns out that it was for Andrew's 11,000th post. Oops!

I just had to share that, as I know I would forget by the time I got slightly caught up.

Poohmom

 

[poohmomof5]

Hey Poohmom,

A little about me:
Only my Dh and I will be cruising this time around. It will be our 20th anniversary,and our second time on the Magic. We are looking forward to doing the adult activities on board. We have 2 children, DS is 18 and DD is 14. Looking forward to meeting everyone. As soon as our October cruise is over I will be posting and hopefully getting to know everyone better.
Becky

Nice to meet you too! Are you going to have a hard time leaving the kids? We have talked about going without them and we do a short 3-4 day trip without the kids every year, but this seems so long to be without them. Are they mad that they aren't going?

What a great way to celebrate your Anniversary! We will have just missed our anniversary for the trip, but we will find a way to celebrate I'm sure!

Poohmom

 

[PBader]

Since I am mostly new, here is a little bit about me:

Nice to re meet y'all!

Poohmom

I am sure that 5 children really keep you busy, I hope you find the time to post more with us. We really are a great bunch of pirates.

(I page jump too!)

 

[PBader]

A little about me:
Only my Dh and I will be cruising this time around. It will be our 20th anniversary,and our second time on the Magic. We are looking forward to doing the adult activities on board. We have 2 children, DS is 18 and DD is 14. Looking forward to meeting everyone. As soon as our October cruise is over I will be posting and hopefully getting to know everyone better.
Becky

Hi Becky, enjoy your October cruise! And it will be fun getting to know you too when you get back.

 

[arlenesp]

Since I am mostly new, here is a little bit about me:

My family is me, just turned 37. DH, 38. DS15, DD13, DS12, DD10, DD2.

We are a pretty close knit family and we are all having a blast with our late addition. Little Jessie (DD2)is a super happy friendly, funny girl and is completely spoiled by the big kids.



We are going to WDW for an extended weekend at the end of Sept. Only one of the kids know, it is for my daughter's 14th birthday and EPCOTs 25th birthday and to have our first visit 'HOME' as we just joined DVC this year. We are staying at Animal Kingdom Villas. I think I am going to tell the kids I am picking them up early from school for their flu shots and instead, take them to the airport. Is that evil???

Next, I just found out that my son's band will be participating in Disney Music Days in March 2008. So we of course will have to go down and watch him. How exciting for the band!!!!! (and a great excuse for us to go down again so soon!).

Then of course, it is the TOAL! I can't wait!

We have done 4 Disney Cruises before and even the teenagers are fine with leaving their friends for that long because they love the cruises that much!

Nice to re meet y'all!

Poohmom

No it's not evil it's a great surprise. Just have the camera ready.



My DS band which is located here in CFl was on e of the local HSs here to start off the parade at Christmas time. The kids loved to go as they got passes to come back. We would tell the cms backstage that wew wanted to see the band and they would let us in. Since the gate was next to Pirates of the Caribbean, I don't need to tell you where we were!!!!

We've done 4 as well but they were all the short ones.So we are really looking forward to this one.

 

[poohmomof5]

I am sure that 5 children really keep you busy, I hope you find the time to post more with us. We really are a great bunch of pirates.

(I page jump too!)

Yes, they sure do keep me busy! But, I wouldn't have it any other way...they keep me young too!

It looks to me like Page jumping is the only way I could ever keep up...but it seemed to work well enough!

Poohmom

 

[minnieandmickey]

I'm sure we will miss them, but DH and I hardly ever get to spend time together, and we never really had a honeymoon, so we are looking so forward to having us time. I'm sure the kids will miss us, but Grandma is coming down to stay with them, so they will be spoiled rotten while we are gone, and knowing the way MIL cooks they will probably gain as much weight as we will. Plus with both of them will be in school, so there is no way they will be able to go.
We try to take a vacation just DH and I every other year or so (it will be about 4 years since we have been able to do this come this cruise.), so the kids understand, and like I said GRANDMA IS COMING!
But when we get to Florida, my DH will be getting off and my sister and I will be cruising the 5 dayer afterward, so technically I won't get to see my kids for 20 days! I think I better start saving some money just for the internet and possibly the out of country fees on the cell phone.

 

[PBader]

I'm sure we will miss them, but DH and I hardly ever get to spend time together, and we never really had a honeymoon, so we are looking so forward to having us time. I'm sure the kids will miss us, but Grandma is coming down to stay with them, so they will be spoiled rotten while we are gone, and knowing the way MIL cooks they will probably gain as much weight as we will. Plus with both of them will be in school, so there is no way they will be able to go.
We try to take a vacation just DH and I every other year or so (it will be about 4 years since we have been able to do this come this cruise.), so the kids understand, and like I said GRANDMA IS COMING!
But when we get to Florida, my DH will be getting off and my sister and I will be cruising the 5 dayer afterward, so technically I won't get to see my kids for 20 days! I think I better start saving some money just for the internet and possibly the out of country fees on the cell phone.

Becky, DH and I did the first EBPC repo in 05 without DS. It was a great vacation. I am glad he is getting to joing us this time around, school and football caused him to miss last time. We are also staying for the 5 nighter after!

 

[The FairyGodmother]

I'm hoping that someday we can do a back to back cruise without the kids. Probably a few years away. Can't seem to get anyone who can watch the kids for very long during the school year. But only 4 more years until DS graduates.