I looked into why the Canadiens got that nickname of "Habs". It is an abr. of "les habitants", an informal name given to the original settlers of New France. Since the Montreal Canadiens were established in 1909 and marketed as a french/canadian team, it fits. Who knew? Deffinitely not me, I'm not into hockey. Girly girl.
My boss got me tickets to the Sens (Ottawa Senators) last game but I didn't go because I was sick. It would have been my first game ever. I was disapointed but he said he will get tickets again.
I noticed the Dunkin Donuts, they are my absolute favorite. I wish we still had them around here. I always make a point to stop when I'm in the States. Yummy!
Your Dad is so cool to act out Twister.
Thank you for looking that up! For a little while, back when I first started watching/going to hockey games, I thought that the Montreal Canadiens and the Habs were two different teams.
I will have to pass that on to my dad and Mike and Charles, or just hope that they ask so I can say "OH I KNOW! LET ME TELL YOU!"
Hockey games are so much fun, I hope that you get to go to one eventually. Even if you are not wicked into it, it's fun just to hear some of the creative cheers that people come up with.
I couldn't live without a Dunkin Donuts nearby. In and around Boston, they are EVERYWHERE -- they're pretty hard to avoid. I have a Starbucks near my house, too, but I go there rarely, and when I do, I only get frappucinos or whatever seasonal drinks they have. Starbucks is bad for my wallet; Dunkins is much nicer to it.
Yeah, my dad's fun.
I hope to be a big kid like him when I am older and have kids of my own.
According to the Sabres schedule, our two teams play each other on the 26th (next Wednesday). Do you get to attend many games?
I don't attend too many -- maybe 2 or 3 a season. We can get balcony seats for fairly cheap, and we can save a few dollars more by avoiding ordering them online and just going to the box office to see if they have any available. I think that season tickets would be cool, and I'd definitely go to more, but I don't think I'd get to
enough games to justify the cost of it.
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I have not really posted on my own PTR much because I want to add pictures and lots of text, but school is getting a little nuts. Getting towards the end of the semester feels good, but sometimes, you have the teacher that realizes, "I haven't managed to squeeze in everything that I wanted to!," and basically re-writes the syllabus from that point on, throws you way off, and you end up with three different assignments, including a paper, due on the same day, rather than a couple of days apart. That's what happened in my history class. I adore the teacher, but she tries to squeeze so much into 75 minutes, and sometimes gets sidetracked and doesn't get to other topics that she wanted to cover. Oh well. I have like a month left in the semester.
AND I registered for classes for next semester! It took me about 90 minutes to meet with an adviser, get my classes, get my schedule printed out, and pay for the classes, but I'm all set! It's nice to be ahead.
With regards to our trip, I decided on yet another thing to add to my to-do list -- visit Basin in DTD, and get some tonga toast at the Poly. I am very excited to try tonga toast. My mom wants to try it as well, and even if no one else wants to head over to the Poly for breakfast with us, we will go, and we will have tonga toast, and we will have a blast.
Oh, and I realize that I wrote, next to Beaches and Cream, that I want to find out what the Kitchen Sink is all about. There is no way in heck that the four of us will order that, because we would probably not even finish a quarter of it. I just want to go there for ice cream and hope that someone else orders one, so I can see it for myself. If anything, I would order the No Way Jose. (Thank you, allears.net, for providing menus on your site!)
Before I go to bed, I will leave you with some pictures from our first full day in April. Right now, my Widget tells me that we have 83 days, 10 hours, and 24 minutes!
We were celebrating my birthday, six days later, and I wanted to hit MK first. And yes it was pretty crowded. It was a Saturday, during the late morning/early afternoon, over what was April vacation for many but we are not bothered by crowds.
...apparently, I didn't upload as many of the MK pictures to Facebook as I thought I did. Oh well. On to the nighttime! We went to Animal Kingdom, since we had a 9:40 reservation at Boma. Yeah it was a late dinner, but it was the only time open for that day, and I really wanted to have dinner there.
We rode Dinosaur. This is how I feel about that ride. (I really do love it)
We also got to ride Expedition: Everest for the first time. I LOVED IT SO MUCH!
We also got on one of the last safari rides. This guy was SUPER close to our truck. I don't think that my mom had to zoom in for this picture, really -- he was really, really close. Those horns made me a little nervous, but he was cute, in a strange way.
Then we made our way to Boma. Of course, my mom and Kailyn and I killed some time in the awesome gift shop. Then we waited in the little sitting area, and I amused myself by taking pictures of myself making faces and generally acting like a fool, because I was bored, hyper, and hungry.
Anyway, Boma was AMAZING. I could have filled up on the carrot-ginger soup alone. I am not fond of either by themselves, but they were a great combination. I really liked the flatbread and hummus, and I LOVED the prime rib. I went up many, many times for that.
This is how Mike and I felt after:
My mother is not amused by the fact that I've posted like three pictures of her (hi Mommy!), so here's one of my dad after we ate.
It is worth noting that, before I took this, I said, "look really full." I looked at the picture after I took it and went, "what is THAT face?"
Dad thought I said, "look really tipsy."
Either way, it's a great picture, eh?
It was pretty late by this point, so rather than deal with the busses, we just decided to take a cab back to Pop. None of us wanted to get stuck sitting up front with the driver, and naturally, my dad, Mike, and I all had the same idea at the same exact time, which was to run. We ran for the cab much faster than we would run under normal circumstances. And we all wrenched open the back doors and dove in as fast as we could without causing injuries.
My poor mother ended up being the one to sit up front with the driver. She was not terribly amused, but she can laugh about it now...I think.
Have a good night, everyone!
It does look huge.
How has work for you been up there? Are people treating you okay and not being TOO crazy? 
boyfriend snuck out during the show at some point and bought me a program, which I had signed. They were so nice and so gracious to everyone, even after playing for about 2 hours without a break. Needless to say, this is becoming a Christmas tradition for us, and I am really, really excited! 
) Can you imagine?
I found out that there's stuff going on for then next couple of days, so I may try to go again. 
I'm still stalking the boards, allears.net, and the official Disney website for any official news on the Pirate and Princess Parties, too. I hope that they have one when you're there! 
and welcome! Thanks for the compliment about us 
