October 11-18, 2008 Eastern Magic-Parrothead Pirates in Paradise! Chapter#4

[RanCan]

Ha, sometimes I swear they have NO eyesight!!!! When they look for something, they just stand in one place and scan the area. I'm like, for Pete's sake, sometimes you have to move stuff around to find what you want!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Drives me nuts!

Oh my gosh......That is so true!!!!!! You sometimes wonder how they are able to function when you're not around!!!

 

[belle1627]

Thanks for the Pirate Name link. I'm Mad Bess Rackham. We plan to sing Yo Ho on the veranda the first night. If yer on deck 7 you may hear us!

Welcome aboard, you sound like you will fit in just fine with this Motley crew!!! Yo ho ho

 

[RanCan]

Hey Parrothead Pirates!!!! Just doing some cleaning too, totally relate to the dust elephants!!!!

Spending alot of time at the school doing a set for the school play, covered in glitter and glue right now!!!

Hope you are all having a great day!!!

Hi Gina!!!!!
It's so great to hear from you!!!! We missed you!!!
How are you doing?? How is your mom???
Sounds like you been pretty busy!!!

 

[belle1627]

Hi Gina!!!!!
It's so great to hear from you!!!! We missed you!!!
How are you doing?? How is your mom???
Sounds like you been pretty busy!!!

I have missed everyone too, this is such a wonderful escape. My mom is doing okay, she is moving at the end of this month very close to me so I am very happy about that. Things have been crazy busy around here I am looking forward to it slowing down and spending some DIS time!!!! How are you doing??

 

[RanCan]

I have missed everyone too, this is such a wonderful escape. My mom is doing okay, she is moving at the end of this month very close to me so I am very happy about that. Things have been crazy busy around here I am looking forward to it slowing down and spending some DIS time!!!! How are you doing??

I'm doing good......pretty busy around here too!!!!!
It's going to be a pretty busy week.......and my weekend is going to be so busy, I don't know if I'll be on at all this weekend!!!
It will be nice when things start slowing down for me to!!! I haven't been able to chat as much as I would like to!!!

 

[pinkygirl]

LOL!!
Funny thing is they are Canadians!!!
I should tell them I can't visit right now because I'm busy chatting with my other Canadian friends!!! Do you think they would understand???

oh I'm sure!!!!!! we're all easy going

 

[pinkygirl]

Ha, sometimes I swear they have NO eyesight!!!! When they look for something, they just stand in one place and scan the area. I'm like, for Pete's sake, sometimes you have to move stuff around to find what you want!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Drives me nuts!

hmm that sounds more like my DH!!!!!!

 

[pinkygirl]

Hey Parrothead Pirates!!!! Just doing some cleaning too, totally relate to the dust elephants!!!!

Spending alot of time at the school doing a set for the school play, covered in glitter and glue right now!!!

Hope you are all having a great day!!!

Hi Gina!!!!!! so how did the castle building turn out? do you have a picture?
ok now I'm thinking Josh's school is pretty boring compared to your kids school....we never have plays or anything fun .....do you feel like tinkerbell today with all that glitter stuck to you

 

[WDWCrazzyCunninghams]

Hello Everyone!!!
Candy, the girls gowns are BEAUTIFUL!! As are they!!! I don't know if I'll get a new dress, but the 2 dresses I have, I have worn on both cruises! Can't have photos in the same dress, right? I too, am a jeans and tshirts person, so dressing up is wierd for me too!

Allen, We would LOVE a Lime Green Mickey Head or 2!! Add us to your list!

Okay...our weekend....We had SO much fun! Ate WAY too much food! Met a TON of new friends and got to visit with a few old friends!
Friday's drive was uneventful. We took the boys past our first house and ate at a restaraunt we LOVE! We had enough food left over that we reheated it for dinner. Friday night everyone came to socialize and a spring thunderstorm rolled through.
Saturday we met up with everyone and drove over to Blackwater Falls. Walked down the 214 steps to get there....and then had to walk back up the 214 steps to leave! Left there and headed to Seneca Rocks. There is a trail you can walk. It's 1.5 miles, up the side of the mountain to get to an overlook. Connor was DYING to walk up, so I went with him. I have walked it 2 other times, but that was 15 and 19 years and 60 pounds ago, so it was not easy. Needless to say, we only walked 1/3 of it, and turned around to come back down. Partly because I was winded, partly because my plantar faciiatis was flairing and partly because at the pace we were going, we would not make it back down in time to meet up with everyone else. He was okay with it and we enjoyed just spending some time together. Then we all left for Smokehole Caverns. BEAUTIFUL Cavern! Our tour guide was great! Played right along with our antics! After the caverns we headed back to our cabin at Blackwater Falls. On the way, we were witness to a carwreck and became first responders. We had a line of about 14 trucks cruising at about 65 miles an hour, going down hill. Coming the other way was a man in a car waiting to turn into his drive as we passed. Coming behind him was a car with 4 teenage girls. I doubt they were older then 16. The driver was gauking at the Avalanches and didn't see the guy waiting to turn. He couldn't turn because we were passing, when she finally saw him, she just locked them up. He was smart enough to give his car all the gas he could to try and get some momentum going. She rearended him, big time! The backend of his sedan was totally crumpled and the front end of her Dodge Neon was totally crumpled. We pulled off within 1000 feet, radioed ahead to the group, told our boys to NOT get out of the truck and we ran back up the hill to see. By the Grace of God, all 4 girls were okay. The driver was freaking that her Mom was going to be mad. I tried to calm her down and tell her that her Mom is just going to be happy she is alive. The passenger was upset that she lost her cell and cigs. We found them, but she was very calm after that...I think she was in shock. In the back, the blonde had her shin all scrapped. I think her leg might have went under the seat and the dark haired girl in the back had a gooseegg the size of a soft ball on her head. I am sure she either hit the window or piller or the front seat. OR when the front seat broke and came back it smacked her in the head. Anyway, we were SO grateful to find four girls alive and talking and crying. We had to pry the doors open to get them out. The airbags did deploy and I think that saved thier lives. When we got to them, NONE of them had seatbelts on!! We couldn't have been more then 30 secs from the time of the crash to the time we arrived. The other driver walked down and was SUPER cool about the whole thing. He said he was even gauking at the Av's. We were there about 45 mins. The driver's Mom arrived and Volunteer Rescue arrived, we left all our info with the male driver's Wife, this accident happened at the bottom of his driveway! By the time we got to the cabin, dinner was started, the food was out and people were having a good time! The weather that day was summer.....76 degrees and abundant sun! Some of us even got a sunburn! BUT, but the time the sun set, it was getting cold, more like a fall day!
Sunday morning we awoke to winter! It was snowing when we got up!! Some people had never seen snow or driven in it! We all had breakfast at the lodge and went our separate ways. I have yet to load my photos to picturetrail. I was going to when I got home, but Steve's desktop froze up and I didn't feel like dealing with it! I'll try to get some photos posted later!

Steve stayed home from work today with "stomach distress" and Connor stayed home from school for the same. I am not sure if it is a virus or what I call "traveler's gut". Steve must be feeling better this afternoon since he mowed the grass!!!

I hope Kristin is having a good time in FL!

We are all so tired from the weekend!! I plan to be in bed early, but I'll check back in a bit. I need to flip the wash (I have stripped my bed and Connor's), and make something for dinner!

It's good to be home!

 

[Pinkgurlshubby]

Hello Everyone!!!
Candy, the girls gowns are BEAUTIFUL!! As are they!!! I don't know if I'll get a new dress, but the 2 dresses I have, I have worn on both cruises! Can't have photos in the same dress, right? I too, am a jeans and tshirts person, so dressing up is wierd for me too!
Allen, We would LOVE a Lime Green Mickey Head or 2!! Add us to your list!

Okay...our weekend....We had SO much fun! Ate WAY too much food! Met a TON of new friends and got to visit with a few old friends!
Friday's drive was uneventful. We took the boys past our first house and ate at a restaraunt we LOVE! We had enough food left over that we reheated it for dinner. Friday night everyone came to socialize and a spring thunderstorm rolled through.
Saturday we met up with everyone and drove over to Blackwater Falls. Walked down the 214 steps to get there....and then had to walk back up the 214 steps to leave! Left there and headed to Seneca Rocks. There is a trail you can walk. It's 1.5 miles, up the side of the mountain to get to an overlook. Connor was DYING to walk up, so I went with him. I have walked it 2 other times, but that was 15 and 19 years and 60 pounds ago, so it was not easy. Needless to say, we only walked 1/3 of it, and turned around to come back down. Partly because I was winded, partly because my plantar faciiatis was flairing and partly because at the pace we were going, we would not make it back down in time to meet up with everyone else. He was okay with it and we enjoyed just spending some time together. Then we all left for Smokehole Caverns. BEAUTIFUL Cavern! Our tour guide was great! Played right along with our antics! After the caverns we headed back to our cabin at Blackwater Falls. On the way, we were witness to a carwreck and became first responders. We had a line of about 14 trucks cruising at about 65 miles an hour, going down hill. Coming the other way was a man in a car waiting to turn into his drive as we passed. Coming behind him was a car with 4 teenage girls. I doubt they were older then 16. The driver was gauking at the Avalanches and didn't see the guy waiting to turn. He couldn't turn because we were passing, when she finally saw him, she just locked them up. He was smart enough to give his car all the gas he could to try and get some momentum going. She rearended him, big time! The backend of his sedan was totally crumpled and the front end of her Dodge Neon was totally crumpled. We pulled off within 1000 feet, radioed ahead to the group, told our boys to NOT get out of the truck and we ran back up the hill to see. By the Grace of God, all 4 girls were okay. The driver was freaking that her Mom was going to be mad. I tried to calm her down and tell her that her Mom is just going to be happy she is alive. The passenger was upset that she lost her cell and cigs. We found them, but she was very calm after that...I think she was in shock. In the back, the blonde had her shin all scrapped. I think her leg might have went under the seat and the dark haired girl in the back had a gooseegg the size of a soft ball on her head. I am sure she either hit the window or piller or the front seat. OR when the front seat broke and came back it smacked her in the head. Anyway, we were SO grateful to find four girls alive and talking and crying. We had to pry the doors open to get them out. The airbags did deploy and I think that saved thier lives. When we got to them, NONE of them had seatbelts on!! We couldn't have been more then 30 secs from the time of the crash to the time we arrived. The other driver walked down and was SUPER cool about the whole thing. He said he was even gauking at the Av's. We were there about 45 mins. The driver's Mom arrived and Volunteer Rescue arrived, we left all our info with the male driver's Wife, this accident happened at the bottom of his driveway! By the time we got to the cabin, dinner was started, the food was out and people were having a good time! The weather that day was summer.....76 degrees and abundant sun! Some of us even got a sunburn! BUT, but the time the sun set, it was getting cold, more like a fall day!
Sunday morning we awoke to winter! It was snowing when we got up!! Some people had never seen snow or driven in it! We all had breakfast at the lodge and went our separate ways. I have yet to load my photos to picturetrail. I was going to when I got home, but Steve's desktop froze up and I didn't feel like dealing with it! I'll try to get some photos posted later!

Steve stayed home from work today with "stomach distress" and Connor stayed home from school for the same. I am not sure if it is a virus or what I call "traveler's gut". Steve must be feeling better this afternoon since he mowed the grass!!!

I hope Kristin is having a good time in FL!

We are all so tired from the weekend!! I plan to be in bed early, but I'll check back in a bit. I need to flip the wash (I have stripped my bed and Connor's), and make something for dinner!

It's good to be home!

Well since you're not into dressing up I can let you borrow some of my work clothes and steel toe boots. I can also toss in a pair of special socks. You know, the Sunday ones

 

[cdhheidi]

That is some kind of excitement you had there Michele! Goodness gracious... thankful that everyone for the most part escaped without too much trouble...

Welcome home, and get some rest!

 

[Pinkgurlshubby]

I have been reading Peter Greenberg's Travel Detective Bible. Lots of good info for anything travel. Tips for almost anything having to do with traveling, flying, cruising....like DCL' menus are some of the most unhealthy menus on cruise ships..... It's those dang chocolate lava cakes and chocolate soufflés!

They can't include everything. Have you ever seen the KFC chicken bowls?

 

[pinkygirl]

welcome home Michele!!!!!!!!! glad you had a great time and also glad you were not involved in the accident!!!!!!!! that must of been so scary for everyone!!!!! so happy you're back, we missed you!!

 

[WDWCrazzyCunninghams]

thanks everyone! It's good to be home! We are VERY lucky to have NOT been in the wreck! She said she was thinking of trying to swerve, but there were 2 trucks there. That would have been ours and the folks behind us!! which, BTW, they stopped to help too. The accident happened just as we were beside of her. Had she tried to swerve, she would have hit us, and she probably wouldn't be alive to tell us those thoughts!

I missed you all too!! We had no tv, no phone, (limited cell service) and only one bathroom for the 3 families to share! 6 adults and our 2 kids! IT was interesting, but we made it work!

Time for dinner!

 

[BigRed1]

They can't include everything. Have you ever seen the KFC chicken bowls?

Oh yea, I have sampled a couple..... Heart attack in a bowl!!

 

[pinkygirl]

Oh yea, I have sampled a couple..... Heart attack in a bowl!!

never tried one and never will....they don't do anything for me LOL

 

[pinkygirl]

thanks everyone! It's good to be home! We are VERY lucky to have NOT been in the wreck! She said she was thinking of trying to swerve, but there were 2 trucks there. That would have been ours and the folks behind us!! which, BTW, they stopped to help too. The accident happened just as we were beside of her. Had she tried to swerve, she would have hit us, and she probably wouldn't be alive to tell us those thoughts!

I missed you all too!! We had no tv, no phone, (limited cell service) and only one bathroom for the 3 families to share! 6 adults and our 2 kids! IT was interesting, but we made it work!

Time for dinner!

well it's a darn good thing she didn't swerve then

 

[pinkygirl]

come on Allen....are you going to sneak in there? LOL

 

[M&M64]

come on Allen....are you going to sneak in there? LOL

maybe I can
mm

 

[M&M64]

or not!!!!
mm