and welcome to the DIS! I also see you are a disney cast member. What do you do? My son works in Disney since 2003. It is so great to chat on this site. Also to every other pennsylvania sure hope it works out that many of you can meet in Disney. Such a small world.
I don't work at Disney (wouldn't be a bad thing if I did tho 
)....but I'd love to hear more about what your son does there. Emmaus checking in!
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j/k homie...
Let me know when you plan a VF visit.... like I said, I'm only 10-15 minutes away... My Grandpop lives on Red Lion Rd. near ArchBishop Ryan HS. Down the street from the shopping center on the corner (Acme) and his house is across the street from the baseball field. He used to have a 'monster' evergreen in his front yard, and 2 years ago, donated it for a Christmas tree (can't remember if it was the city or state he donated it to....think it was city tho). I have other family on Alton St. in the Northeast and Longshore Ave (off Unruh St) in NE. I used to live on Whitaker Ave near the old Sears building they torn down/blew up.
! It was great to meet you as well. I'm sure we'll run into you alot since DS is always begging to stop and smell the candles!
HA! KIDS nuthin'....I want to spend more time outside!!! But, sounds like we "sing the same song" .... I originally wanted to live near the beach, but second thought that....they do, after all, have hurri's ...so, I think I'd like more inland....maybe 1/2 hour -45 min. trip to the parks
Tarapa - i saw in a post you said you work at Yankee, is that the one at the Promenade Shops?? If so I will have to look for you when I am there next, I always have to stop in when I get down there! So nice you had a little DIS meet today!
DH, DD and I went to Hershey for the first time in a couple of years with my friend from work and her "crew". We were looking forward to checking out the new Boardwalk section. The whole park was sooooooo crowdedIt was the week before schools went back and maybe earlier in the season was better, but the crowds were unreal.
We hardly got to do any rides. DH and DD love the "wilder" rides, by I am a real chicken, and there wasn't all that much to do, especially w/o DS to keep me company......lol. Really can't even compare it to WDW, that's for sure. Of course, when my kids were younger and we couldn't take them out of school, we suffered the Disney crowds and heat of August and that was no picnic either. Still, there is more to do for those of us with tamer tastes and the last week of August is (slightly) less crowded as far as summer crowds go.
I think Hershey's Boardwalk was a bigger success than they anticipated. The crowds were unreal and I don't think they stay open after the "season", which is a shame because the weather has been beautiful. It would be nice to only be a 1/2 hour away, but Philly is a good area, reasonable rides to Hershey, Poconos, Jersey shore, etc.
Oh neat, a PA thread! I am from Philly (well I just moved over the border to the Abington area last month - but I still work in Philly and consider it my home
yep....it will always be "Nabisco" to us...can't get used to the Kraft thing.... (how did you LIVE with that smell? I'd want to eat all the time!) I have a pretty good idea where you are....my Grandmom is buried in the cemetary on Byberry Rd. We will have to keep in touch....holidays are right around the corner ....literally!
True about the hurricane's and living too close to the shore. I do love a trip to the Jersey shore, but I wouldn't want to live there year round. My BIL lives in Newport Richey and my cousins in Olsmar, both outside of Tampa, but the insurance due to the hurricanes is now killing them. I would stay inland, too. I still have to convince DH that Florida is a better place to retire than Arizona (ugh - not that I have ever been there and he has, but it doesn't sound appealing). Of course, we have to wait until we retire, which, at the rate we are going, will be like another 10 years.
that's our plan too....but, early retirement (only want to work part time or not at all).... Our plan was to move when our mortgage was paid off. Well, we did some math, and realized Bubba would be like 12 or 13 years old when that happened. DH & I both moved a lot when we were that age, so we don't want to move Bubba at that age. So, we wait till he graduates high school...2017! 
We'll just plunk away at college in the meantime.... DH always says Bubba's graduation gift is a "For Sale" sign in the front yard! 
Tell DH that AZ isn't as much FUN as Fl....
Now we have college loans to pay off, so retirement doesn't seem to be in the immediate future. I agree with you on that Arizona thing - yuk!! If the kids ever get independant 
Guess we need to see where they end up (probably still right here), but I'm looking forward to "The Sunshine State". 
In order to go to one or more boards (which you mentioned last night after I called it quits) - do you open a new page or is there an easier way????
Hey, by the way "teach"
...like I been around here forever....
