Greetings Sports Fans!

[AZ JazzyJ]

Hello everyone!

It's been quite a while since I've wandered over to the Collector's board and I wanted to see how everyone is doing?

After having missed going to the pin event last year and being park location challenged, Trina and I are in the midst of planning a vacation to Walt Disney World for this summer. We're talking all of the kids (heaven help me) so this should be interesting. The trip is a Summers Celebration. Our oldest daughter Ashley graduates from college next month. Our daughter Tiffany turns 16 this year, and Trina and I will celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary. So if anyone is planning to be in the parks from June 16 - June 25 maybe we can meet up for a mini-meet.

I'm just starting to dust off the pin books and look through them to find trading pins for the trip. With seven pin traders, I think I might go broke loading lanyards for 10 days. Does anyone have any recommendations for introducing kids to pin trading? I'm pretty sure my idea of pin trading is not exactly what Disney or the kids had in mind. Trina reminded me that talking with an Australian accent and making people run around the parks looking for cotton candy is not a normal pin trading activity.

Jeff

 

[gary403]

Baseball season must be over!

 

[daber]

Baseball season must be over!

Either that or there was 12" of snow in the Phoenix/Chandler area.

Welcome back to the boards....does this mean with a June trip that GPA IV is a no go for this year?

 

[AZ JazzyJ]

Baseball season must be over!

I am a week away from baseball season beginning and I'm pretty excited even if the Diamondbacks pitching seems kind of pathetic this year. I'm like a kid waiting for Christmas to arrive. I'm having a hard time sleeping and I've laid out my jersey and hat waiting for Opening Day to arrive. I am begging everyone, please write to your congressman and tell them that Opening Day needs to be recognized as a national holiday. It's at least as important as Thanksgiving.
My absence was mostly due to the fact that I had reconstructive shoulder surgery on my pitching arm leaving me in a brace and without the use of my left arm for 8 weeks. But the brace is gone as of last Monday (yeah!) so I thought I would drop by and see what's up.

does this mean with a June trip that GPA IV is a no go for this year?

I'm not so sure. I was talking to Figgy the other night and she was asking me if I thought I might be able to swing a trip to the pin event this year. I think I have Trina talked into making my park ticket an annual pass just in case the pins start calling my name again. I don't ever hear from Lauri so if I did another GPA it would be a solo event. I do have a few ideas though so you just never know. I'm hoping to use the June trip as a scouting expedition to see what may or may not work.

Jeff