Does Pixie Dust Help with Decision-Making? A 2012 PTR! NEW! 6/30 pg.85

[Lady Lallie]

Someday Chelsea will talk about that trip to the fort and be appreciative that she got to go...I know, I have done that with many things my parents dragged me to do in my teen years and now I appreciate it so much.

Oh that hat. I have no words. At least it wasn't a tshirt?

Poor Mickey and Ponce, I thought hermit crabs lived a long time!

Tybee Island looks so beautiful. I really need to come down South and explore all the historic things, maybe you can be my tour guide someday when I make it down there.

 

[xoktenox]

Tybee looks like such a beautiful place, Jackie. What a wonderful place to soake up the sun with the family. Thanks for sharing with us! I hope this doesn't mean your PTR is going to close...?

 

[IheartDDuck]

Love the fort! We had many a trip where we visited places like that and I always thought they were so cool.

Poor Ponce and Mickey! I had no idea something like that would happen after a month.

 

[mickeysmyboy]

Your mornings on Tybee sound so wonderfully relaxing!!

The fort looks so neat! Sorry Chelsea complained! Teenagers!

I’m sorry about the hermit crabs! DS8 kept a several hermit crabs he collected at the beach in a bucket on our front porch. That was until they grew a little to big for their shells and started trying to evict one another to find a new home! ACK!!

It looks like you had a lovely day at the beach on your last day!

I love your comment about Chelsea’s airbrush hat! LOL!! I thought they only did that at the Jersey Shore! My favorite is the airbrushed tee shirts that are cut up to have tassels! Yup!!

Holy moly that is a lot of gators!!! YIKES! I love the Spanish moss in the trees too! There’s just something about it! I can’t even put my finger on it!


Can’t wait for more!

 

[MeMom]

So glad you got to take the trip.

You did look a bit pink in that last dinner picture. Yikes!

Sorry about the hermit crabs. I thought about getting some for the classroom, but most people say they don't last long, so decided against it.

My girls are enjoying Panama City Beach this week. They saw dolphins, and Brooklynn got a dolphin necklace to commemorate that. Jill said there have been a lot of dead jellyfish on the beach. The girls have picked a few thousand shells, I think, so they'll have to go through those and choose just a few to take home.

Are you and Charles going to get a long weekend F&W trip, by any chance?

 

[SoonerGirl]

What a great vacation, well aside from Chelsea complaining about the trip to the fort, that is. I love history, so it would have been right up my alley!

I, too, love the look of the spanish moss in the trees. My desktop wallpaper right now is a picture of the oaks at Boone Hall Plantation covered in moss - so pretty!

 

[Roxychica7]

Mmm, your season festivities always make me hungry!!

Love your last 2 days there! Oh Chelsea...I agree with LL, at least it wasn't a shirt? Maybe it can somehow disappear this winter by accident in the good will bag??

Ready to see the souvies!

 

[Happydog]

Great updates there Jackie! I really love going to the NPS historical sites! We were just at Harper's Ferry and had a great time. They really know how to design the museum aspects of the sites, as well as great restoration! Neat photos. I know my kids would love that site.

I can't wait to hear how your fall is going. We were SOO cold this weekend!! I hope Jen did alright while she was here!!! What happened to fall??!! LOL! Well they say it is coming back this week.... I hope all is well with you!

Did I miss something about the hermit crabs??!!

 

[Wicket's Mom]

We've had quite a few of those hermit crabs die on us. Sons all had to have a crab when they were growing up. Those critters are just plain ugly when coming out of their shell!

Love the history stuff, visits to old forts & houses are what we do. We get to partcipate in activities for the public at those types of places.

Tybee is such a lovely place, I want to go there, but I also want more Disney time!

 

[Stringbean&Wingnut]

I was totally a complaining-during-the-cultural-bits-of-the-vacation teenager too...hey, to a teenager, the beach is just much more instant-gratification fun!

Tybee looks like such a fun place!

 

[jeremysdisneymom]

The fort looks like a lot of fun. We didn't have time to do it when we were there. Sure wish we had.

I just love the spanish moss! Makes me wish I was there right now.

So glad you had a great time at Tybee. Really enjoyed the report.

 

[DWGal210]

What a great time you had at Tybee!! I'm sure the kids had a blast (even Chelsea at the fort! ). What a cool place!!!

Your paint colors are CUTE - I love them! Isn't it amazing how a little paint spices up a room?

Have a super day!!

 

[Lovemy3babes]

Oh poor Chelsea. She must have been bored out of her mind. Morghan would have complained just as loudly.

We have hermit crabs too. We're up to three but have had to replace two. I think they are ugly but the kids love 'em!

What a great relaxing vacation you had. Lots of memories.

 

[MEK]

I am so sorry to be catching up without pictures, but I honestly can't wait to see that Spanish moss in 3 weeks and I am really looking forward to learning all about Savannah's history. I think I need waaaaaaaaaaay more than one day to visit. I would love to see Tybee Island someday.

We have decided to see Charleston on our return trip home, so I am looking forward to that as well. Thank you for all your wonderful tips. I have them all written down.

Loved your Tybee Island report and I can't wait to hear what's on the upcoming trip agenda!

 

[RinkyTinkyTinky]

I like these! Very nice!

I love all the historical stuff too. I would have enjoyed that fort. We have a fort near here too and it is a pretty neat place. Chelsea will come around some day and realize that it's cool to be a history nerd.

So sorry to hear about your crabs. They do tend to live very short lives, don't they.

So what are your next vacation plans? I say Charles and Chelsea got their year off from Disney so it should be back to the magic!

 

[eandesmom]

The full effect of the experience is lacking, though, since you can’t hear Chelsea complaining the entire time.

Kendall would have been the same way. Or maybe not. Could be the silent treatment with simultaneous texting and eye rolling.

You did get a bit crispy!

 

[mousescrapper]

Hi Jackie...

the day at the fort sounds cool to me...sorry Chelsea didn't think so the end of your trip sounded wonderful...good food, sun, sand and who cdoesn't get sunburn at the beach

that is freaky and sad about Ponce and Mickey...cool shells, never seen them like that before. Hope you can find some of those souvies to show us

 

[disneydreamingdebby]

I was Chelsea on our family trip in Canada...oh my poor parents. There is a lovely picture of me that says it all. Someday, she will have a payback...

Trucker hat and Vera Bradley- NOW THAT'S A STATEMENT... you are a good mom. ... She will laugh at herself with the trucker hat someday, but the memory of being able to get it will be special.

(You should see my daughter's new adidas...DC meets Clown colors- we have DC's too...awful. Her leg is the size of my arm and she wears a women's 6...)

 

[brookelizabeth]

The full effect of the experience is lacking, though, since you can’t hear Chelsea complaining the entire time.

and lucky for everyone, those rooms look like they had fantastic acoustics!

Sounds like a lovely way to spend your last 2 days! What a perfect beach vacation!!!

 

[jenjolt]

What a great trip Jackie!! I still say I want to vacay with your family!!! I love historical sites too and that is why I had the best time this weekend in DC!! What a great city!!!!!

Love the beach and was so glad you had time to relax and enjoy the sights!! Tybee is definitely on must do list someday!!!!!!!