July 18 2009 Tortola

[3princessMommy]

Boy, did I need that good news....we've had a rough week - lost a really GREAT friend, who was also coming on this cruise......never, EVER experienced what I experienced this week. In fact, not just me, our whole family.....Enough said...don't wanna bring you down!

Bob, Tyler and I are headed to Washington DC early tomorrow morning, for a short vacation, coming home Sunday night....we were going to cancel our short trip, but we really, really need to get away....I won't be taking our computer so I want to wish everyone a very Happy Easter.....enjoy your time with family and friends.

Lucy - We are thinking about you! Wish I could be in DC this weekend to give you a big hug.

 

[3princessMommy]

Joann #2....love the Easter Egg Hunt pictures!!!! What beautiful girls you have in your life. Your egg hunt photos brought back so many memories of egg hunts we used to host. We started small in the first year and ended up filling 2000 eggs for our next to the last egg hunt. It took forever. I remember the kids and I sitting around just filling eggs for a few days. The last egg hunt we had we changed it up a little since they were older. We did a night time egg hunt with flashlights. It was a lot of fun. Found some of those eggs in the summer though. Enjoy your other egg hunt this weekend.

Thanks!

The eggs are all stuffed and ready to go for tomorrow. Now I just need to clean the house and figure out where I'm going to put 60 people for a brunch buffet.

 

[♥sassy♥tink♥]

Lucy - We are thinking about you! Wish I could be in DC this weekend to give you a big hug.

Yes Lucy.... just know that we are all thinking about you and your family.

 

[3princessMommy]

The trip to New Mexico will be fun for my guys but we are now into fine tuning this trip. My DH is leading 23 people on this trip. First thing is to arrange transportation from where we live to Dullas Airport which is near DC and about 2 hours away from home. They haven't been given their flight times about told it would be around 7 AM. The return isn't any better. They should return around midnight. One estimate for 12 people was $900. When I think of the cost of a towncar to Port C., it doesn't sound so bad.

You know we're from the Fairfax County area and when we go home for leave or training or something, we generally use hotwire or priceline. DH got us a 4-star hotel room in Tysons Corner for $80/night for this summer. Maybe you should consider spending the night before the early morning flight?

Did I misread your post? Are you bringing 23 people on this cruise!?!?!

 

[3princessMommy]

Sorry about the long string of posts - our internet has been out for the past couple of days, so I was catching up!

 

[3princessMommy]

Anyone know where the cruise logo went for the siggies?

Mine just shows a red x.

 

[noahsmom]

Thanks!

The eggs are all stuffed and ready to go for tomorrow. Now I just need to clean the house and figure out where I'm going to put 60 people for a brunch buffet.

OMG 60!? wow, I thought my group of 15 was bad. I got all the leaves raked out of the perennial garden yesterday, the boys just have to finish bagging. DH got the waterfall running again- a sure sign of spring! Today I can concentrate on the house. It needs a lot of concentration.

 

[jlawall]

Originally Posted by jlawall
1. JoAnn #1 & Ken, Tara 24, Jessica 19 (jlawall) #I'll update soon..........PA
2. Amy & Jesse, Nicholas 13, Jared 10 (luvtwoboys) #2577TN
3. Monica (Mickeymo/Mickeymo'sbo/dd14/dd12) #6135 TX
4. (Mickeymo's db/dsil/dn7 ) #6137TX
5. (Mickeymo's dparents) #6134 TX
6. Susan (gonecrusin/dh/dd) #7007MD
7. Lissa (tinkerbell_29) #2609 subject to changeNC
8. Aaron & Joann #2, DDs 7,5,2 (BigAWL and 3Princessmommy)#2594 & #2596 Burkina Faso
9. Maryann & Tom (MrsG)NY #6584
10. Mona & Tom, Catherine, 15 (SC minnie) #7120SC
11. Eeyore18 #6118 & DM #6136NJ
12. "The Rents" Bill & Alice (albil) #NJ
13. Lucy & Bob (lwilliam) #5513PA
14. Jenny & Mark?IN
15. Shirley (Dizzyworld), Allison, 14, and Alex, 15 # 2120MD
16. Kelli (noahsmom) #2070WI
17. Chip & Nancy, Matt 16, Kellie 13(ramule) #8546 OH
18. Lori & Steve, Sam, 16, Jack, 10 (♥sassy♥tink♥) #6008 TN
19. Virgil & Frances, Lauren, 14, Ashley, 14(WVMD) # 8046 WV
20. Kristen & Nick (WVSpacemonkey) # 7543 WV (now living in Texas)
21. Chrissy & Brett (IM_A_PRINCESS) #6632
Updated..........

 

[noahsmom]

Originally Posted by jlawall
1. JoAnn #1 & Ken, Tara 24, Jessica 19 (jlawall) #I'll update soon..........PA
2. Amy & Jesse, Nicholas 13, Jared 10 (luvtwoboys) #2577TN
3. Monica (Mickeymo/Mickeymo'sbo/dd14/dd12) #6135 TX
4. (Mickeymo's db/dsil/dn7 ) #6137TX
5. (Mickeymo's dparents) #6134 TX
6. Susan (gonecrusin/dh/dd) #7007MD
7. Lissa (tinkerbell_29) #2609 subject to changeNC
8. Aaron & Joann #2, DDs 7,5,2 (BigAWL and 3Princessmommy)#2594 & #2596 Burkina Faso
9. Maryann & Tom (MrsG)NY #6584
10. Mona & Tom, Catherine, 15 (SC minnie) #7120SC
11. Eeyore18 #6118 & DM #6136NJ
12. "The Rents" Bill & Alice (albil) #NJ
13. Lucy & Bob (lwilliam) #5513PA
14. Jenny & Mark?IN
15. Shirley (Dizzyworld), Allison, 14, and Alex, 15 # 2120MD
16. Kelli (noahsmom), DH Bill, Noah 11 #2070WI
17. Chip & Nancy, Matt 16, Kellie 13(ramule) #8546 OH
18. Lori & Steve, Sam, 16, Jack, 10 (♥sassy♥tink♥) #6008 TN
19. Virgil & Frances, Lauren, 14, Ashley, 14(WVMD) # 8046 WV
20. Kristen & Nick (WVSpacemonkey) # 7543 WV (now living in Texas)
21. Chrissy & Brett (IM_A_PRINCESS) #6632
Updated..........

I added DH and DS to above list (they want to come along with me )

 

[3princessMommy]

OMG 60!? wow, I thought my group of 15 was bad. I got all the leaves raked out of the perennial garden yesterday, the boys just have to finish bagging. DH got the waterfall running again- a sure sign of spring! Today I can concentrate on the house. It needs a lot of concentration.

It's the whole church - so I'm guestimating for 60. I'm thinking that I'll have about 30 kids.

 

[Dizzyworld]

You know we're from the Fairfax County area and when we go home for leave or training or something, we generally use hotwire or priceline. DH got us a 4-star hotel room in Tysons Corner for $80/night for this summer. Maybe you should consider spending the night before the early morning flight?

Did I misread your post? Are you bringing 23 people on this cruise!?!?!

Thanks for the hotel thought.

My DH is taking 23 adults/teenagers to New Mexico for 12 days. They come back on the Monday night before the cruise. My DH won't return to work until that Wed. This is one of the reasons he won't be joining us on the cruise. He just can't take off 4 weeks in a row. Since our DD will be going to high school this year, she wants to try out for the soccer team. This will be on Aug. 15, the time we usually take a family vacation. The timing just isn't working for us as a fmaily. This was cruise suppose to a mother-daughter cruise but I just can't live without my DS for 4 weeks in a row. (I am going to be terrible as an empty nester.) Good thing the two children get along very well.

The cruise will be a perfect trip for my DS since he will be hiking for 12 days and eating freezed dried food for all his meals except two. But watch out all the food places on DCL, he should gain back all the weight he will lose. I couldn't have taken him if we were doing the parks.

 

[jlawall]

Originally Posted by jlawall
1. JoAnn #1 & Ken, Tara 24, Jessica 19 (jlawall) #I'll update soon..........PA and possibly two BFs......Jer, 25 & Jack, 20
2. Amy & Jesse, Nicholas 13, Jared 10 (luvtwoboys) #2577TN
3. Monica (Mickeymo/Mickeymo'sbo/dd14/dd12) #6135 TX
4. (Mickeymo's db/dsil/dn7 ) #6137TX
5. (Mickeymo's dparents) #6134 TX
6. Susan (gonecrusin/dh/dd) #7007MD
7. Lissa (tinkerbell_29) #2609 subject to changeNC
8. Aaron & Joann #2, DDs 7,5,2 (BigAWL and 3Princessmommy)#2594 & #2596 Burkina Faso
9. Maryann & Tom (MrsG)NY #6584
10. Mona & Tom, Catherine, 15 (SC minnie) #7120SC
11. Eeyore18 #6118 & DM #6136NJ
12. "The Rents" Bill & Alice (albil) #NJ
13. Lucy & Bob (lwilliam) #5513PA
14. Jenny & Mark?IN
15. Shirley (Dizzyworld), Allison, 14, and Alex, 15 # 2120MD
16. Kelli (noahsmom), DH Bill, Noah 11 #2070WI
17. Chip & Nancy, Matt 16, Kellie 13(ramule) #8546 OH
18. Lori & Steve, Sam, 16, Jack, 10 (♥sassy♥tink♥) #6008 TN
19. Virgil & Frances, Lauren, 14, Ashley, 14(WVMD) # 8046 WV
20. Kristen & Nick (WVSpacemonkey) # 7543 WV (now living in Texas)
21. Chrissy & Brett (IM_A_PRINCESS) #6632
Updated..........

 

[WVMD]

Originally Posted by jlawall
1. JoAnn #1 & Ken, Tara 24, Jessica 19 (jlawall) #I'll update soon..........PA and possibly two BFs......Jer, 25 & Jack, 20
2. Amy & Jesse, Nicholas 13, Jared 10 (luvtwoboys) #2577TN
3. Monica (Mickeymo/Mickeymo'sbo/dd14/dd12) #6135 TX
4. (Mickeymo's db/dsil/dn7 ) #6137TX
5. (Mickeymo's dparents) #6134 TX
6. Susan (gonecrusin/dh/dd) #7007MD
7. Lissa (tinkerbell_29) #2609 subject to changeNC
8. Aaron & Joann #2, DDs 7,5,2 (BigAWL and 3Princessmommy)#2594 & #2596 Burkina Faso
9. Maryann & Tom (MrsG)NY #6584
10. Mona & Tom, Catherine, 15 (SC minnie) #7120SC
11. Eeyore18 #6118 & DM #6136NJ
12. "The Rents" Bill & Alice (albil) #NJ
13. Lucy & Bob (lwilliam) #5513PA
14. Jenny & Mark?IN
15. Shirley (Dizzyworld), Allison, 14, and Alex, 15 # 2120MD
16. Kelli (noahsmom), DH Bill, Noah 11 #2070WI
17. Chip & Nancy, Matt 16, Kellie 13(ramule) #8546 OH
18. Lori & Steve, Sam, 16, Jack, 10 (♥sassy♥tink♥) #6008 TN
19. Virgil & Frances, Lauren, 14, Ashley, 14(WVMD) # 8046 WV
20. Kristin & Nick (WVSpacemonkey) # 7543 WV (now living in Texas)
21. Chrissy & Brett (IM_A_PRINCESS) #6632
Updated..........

Spelling correction....

Virgil

 

[mickeymo]

One more minor correction...

Originally Posted by jlawall
1. JoAnn #1 & Ken, Tara 24, Jessica 19 (jlawall) #I'll update soon..........PA and possibly two BFs......Jer, 25 & Jack, 20
2. Amy & Jesse, Nicholas 13, Jared 10 (luvtwoboys) #2577TN
3. Monica (Mickeymo/Mickeymo'sbo/dd14/dd12) #6135 TX
4. (Mickeymo's db/dsil/dn7 ) #6137 IL
5. (Mickeymo's dparents) #6134 IL
6. Susan (gonecrusin/dh/dd) #7007MD
7. Lissa (tinkerbell_29) #2609 subject to changeNC
8. Aaron & Joann #2, DDs 7,5,2 (BigAWL and 3Princessmommy)#2594 & #2596 Burkina Faso
9. Maryann & Tom (MrsG)NY #6584
10. Mona & Tom, Catherine, 15 (SC minnie) #7120SC
11. Eeyore18 #6118 & DM #6136NJ
12. "The Rents" Bill & Alice (albil) #NJ
13. Lucy & Bob (lwilliam) #5513PA
14. Jenny & Mark?IN
15. Shirley (Dizzyworld), Allison, 14, and Alex, 15 # 2120MD
16. Kelli (noahsmom), DH Bill, Noah 11 #2070WI
17. Chip & Nancy, Matt 16, Kellie 13(ramule) #8546 OH
18. Lori & Steve, Sam, 16, Jack, 10 (♥sassy♥tink♥) #6008 TN
19. Virgil & Frances, Lauren, 14, Ashley, 14(WVMD) # 8046 WV
20. Kristin & Nick (WVSpacemonkey) # 7543 WV (now living in Texas)
21. Chrissy & Brett (IM_A_PRINCESS) #6632
Updated..........

 

[mickeymo]

Good Morning All!

Happy Easter to all who celebrate. We're spending the afternoon with John's aunt, uncle, cousins, and their Polish neighbors for our traditional Easter dinner. We will eat very well, including some traditional Polish dishes, or at least perogies and jurek. That's the phonetical spelling, jurek, a thin vinegar and milk based soup with bits of sausage. yum!!!! The neighbor took small portions of all the food to be blessed at the Polish church yesterday. We're also doing the traditional egg fight (bashing hard boiled eggs together - last one uncracked is the winner...) and hunting eggs. The cousins and neighbor kids all range from 41-12

I'm feeling rather old and showing my geekiness at the moment, two friends, here in Houston, took their children to a local high school for an Easter egg hunt yesterday. The twist is the eggs were dropped out of a helicopter. I commented on their facebook pages "As God is my witness I thought turkey's could fly..." Since both are in their early 20s and early 30s, neither got the WKRP reference... sigh...

Of course, it doesn't help I scored 13 out of 14 on the latest classic sitcom quiz on facebook... I think I need to get a life...

 

[noahsmom]

Good Morning All!

Happy Easter to all who celebrate.
I'm feeling rather old and showing my geekiness at the moment, two friends, here in Houston, took their children to a local high school for an Easter egg hunt yesterday. The twist is the eggs were dropped out of a helicopter. I commented on their facebook pages "As God is my witness I thought turkey's could fly..." Since both are in their early 20s and early 30s, neither got the WKRP reference... sigh...

Of course, it doesn't help I scored 13 out of 14 on the latest classic sitcom quiz on facebook... I think I need to get a life...

BOL! WKRP was my FAVORITE show! In fact, Noah would have been named Bailey if he had been a she. The turkey episode was and is a classic. I'm confused about eggs dropping out of a helicopter though - were they plastic eggs? Seamless? Definately an odd twist to an egg hunt.

 

[mickeymo]

BOL! WKRP was my FAVORITE show! In fact, Noah would have been named Bailey if he had been a she. The turkey episode was and is a classic. I'm confused about eggs dropping out of a helicopter though - were they plastic eggs? Seamless? Definately an odd twist to an egg hunt.

I guess they were plastic eggs - they dropped about 30,000 and after all of that - her daughter didn't get any...

 

[3princessMommy]

Happy Easter everyone!

Just finished the Lockard Easter potluck and Egg Hunt!!!

We had about 60-70 folks including abotu 25 kids. They definitely had fun finding all the eggs. I put out about 500 in the garden. I'm sure our gardener will find several on Tuesday!

The nice thing about having a church function though is that everyone stays to help clean up too! My house is almost cleaner now after they left then it was when they got here!

BONUS - They did the dishes!!!!

So, now about an hour before exercise time at the school.

Wish we were closer to the Pirate! I'd love to get Captain Hoppy on Easter!!!!!

 

[jfis1020]

Good Morning All!

Happy Easter to all who celebrate. We're spending the afternoon with John's aunt, uncle, cousins, and their Polish neighbors for our traditional Easter dinner. We will eat very well, including some traditional Polish dishes, or at least perogies and jurek. That's the phonetical spelling, jurek, a thin vinegar and milk based soup with bits of sausage. yum!!!! The neighbor took small portions of all the food to be blessed at the Polish church yesterday. We're also doing the traditional egg fight (bashing hard boiled eggs together - last one uncracked is the winner...) and hunting eggs. The cousins and neighbor kids all range from 41-12

I'm feeling rather old and showing my geekiness at the moment, two friends, here in Houston, took their children to a local high school for an Easter egg hunt yesterday. The twist is the eggs were dropped out of a helicopter. I commented on their facebook pages "As God is my witness I thought turkey's could fly..." Since both are in their early 20s and early 30s, neither got the WKRP reference... sigh...

Of course, it doesn't help I scored 13 out of 14 on the latest classic sitcom quiz on facebook... I think I need to get a life...

WKRP!! We have that on DVD. My husband, being a former resident of Cincinnati, that is one of his favorites! They actually sell the WKRP T-shirts all over town!! That is a priceless show!

Just got back from church. DS12 was confirmed today. It's interesting....none of us are members there, but his asst. scoutmaster is the minister and they have such a wonderful relationship. He asked to become a member and takes it upon himself on Sundays to get me going and I take him. It was quite heartwarming. DH and I have talked that we wouldn't be surprised if he didn't become a minister or youth minister. He would be able to work with children, which he loves, and play his music, his total passion.

HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!

 

[jfis1020]

Happy Easter everyone!

Just finished the Lockard Easter potluck and Egg Hunt!!!

We had about 60-70 folks including abotu 25 kids. They definitely had fun finding all the eggs. I put out about 500 in the garden. I'm sure our gardener will find several on Tuesday!

We don't hide them outside....I am not sure why. Our bunny brings coins in eggs!

The nice thing about having a church function though is that everyone stays to help clean up too! My house is almost cleaner now after they left then it was when they got here!

BONUS - They did the dishes!!!!

I like those kind of people!!!!

Wish we were closer to the Pirate! I'd love to get Captain Hoppy on Easter!!!!!

Heck we did more than this last Sunday......let's go for it!!!