October 20th 2007 Western Magic Part 2

[Lindy Loo]

Rose, what a lovely story..... kind of like a love film script!

I met Wayne through a friend. I was holding my 30th Birthday party in this nightclub locally, I knew the owner so on a Wednesday there hired it out for me! I had a real blast with all my mates.... in my kitchen before we left my 6 best and oldest friends and I had champgne, and a toast to our friendship. I had an amzing night! at about 1am some of my friends who worked in Honda, and were on shifts joined us. Wayne was in this party, a friend or a friend ( Think he was just looking for a late night drink! ) anyway, I was dancing on the bar....( I was ALOT lighter and fitter then ! ) for some reason ( drink induced! ) I thought I should jump off the bar, but I kind of landed on him !

We kissed, after I apologised..... and that was it...

He was CAUGHT!

If I jumped off a bar at him now, I would kill him!

 

[Lindy Loo]

Morning all UK cruisers, did you remember the clocks went forward last night ! ?

I'm not working today, ( holidays to take by April ) but habits die hard, and I'm still up early.!

Wayne went to Wales yesterday for the Rugby matches. He got home after 2am this morning............... with his hip flask empty!
As im off I wanted to start stripping the wallpaper off the lounge wall, but I guess that wont be on his agenda!
Im cooking a roast dinner ( beef) from scratch.... I love dong this, but most sundays, as I work Wayne does tea. Im even making a fresh rasepberry triffle..... yum yum !

Happy Sunday, evereyone.

 

[JLDSMD]

Morning all UK cruisers, did you remember the clocks went forward last night ! ?

Why did I think you guys were on the old schedule we had in the US and it was the first Sat-Sun in April?

 

[dizneycrazy4]

Good morning everyone

Since last week when I first registered I have not been able to get back on.....whenever I tried to post some crazy messages came up. So I have not been ignoring you guys, just able to read. In respond to someone that asked about who was cruising, it's my husband, Mark, myself, Janice,
Bryce 12, Mackenzie 8. Everyone is as excited as the next. So we are welcome to anyone's advice, since this is our first cruise.

Happy Sunday

Janice

 

[cntkg1]

Good morning fellow KK's!!

I thought it would be fun to tell each other about our Easter traditions.

Here's ours:

Kristin and I ususally have the day off on Good Friday. We head for a mall in Illinois for the day. When we come back with "shopping sores" on our hands Chuck and Tony are here and we color eggs.

On Saturday I have a big dinner here for my side of the family. It's really small (just 9 of us) but still fun and of course stressful. Then to mass on Saturday night.

On Sunday at midnight I wake up to bite the ears off of my chocolate Easter bunny since I give up sweets for Lent. I really stick to my Lenten promise and believe me, I've been known to pace the kitchen about 5 minutes before midnight just to have my ears! It's a very sad, sad sight!

We have cinnamon rolls, and biscuits with honey, OJ and coffee for breakfast and then the fun begins! We have an Easter egg hunt for the kids. We have always done this since they were little but we did have to sweeten the pot a bit since they are older. Now we put money & little gifts in 50 of those plastic eggs and hide them around the house. If it's nice outside, we do that instead. All four kids have to put their bunny ears and tails on and hop around (either outside or inside) with baskets to find the eggs.

I love it when it's outside and the kids have to hop around. Last year Jesse was hopping on the lawn when a car of young ladies drove by. They stopped the car to watch him!! I was laughing so hard I couldn't keep the camcorder still.

When all the eggs are found they come in and crack them open. Some have cash and some have little gifts. Last year they each found a golden egg with a voucher for a refillable mug for the Caribbean Beach Resort (our vacation destination last year). Surprisingly, it comes out pretty even. Kristin finds the least eggs but finds the one's with $10.00 in them. I think it's because she is short and can't reach a lot of them.

Then we watch Disney's Easter parade and get ready to go to Chuck's sister's house for another dinner. That one is a bit bigger....about 20 of us.

By the time the weekend is over..it's waaaay too much food and waaaay too many relatives but still fun.

Anyone else want to share???

Oh yeah, I'll post pictures later.

 

[Karen Mouse]

Hi everyone

We dont have any traditions for easter. We took Ellis to a zoo the one year and had to find the easter bunny who was giving out sweeties to the children...well, we came across this woman dressed in a really terrible costume ahnding out sweets - would Ellis stand by her to have his photo taken - NO! Mind you it was a dreadful costume

OK, I'll join in the "how I met hubby" - met Neil on a plane going to Gran Canaria - he was with a bunch of mates for a week and I was with a girlfriend for 2 weeks of sun. They got off the bus at the same hotel as us and we met from there. I overheard his one mate saying which bar they were going to that night so we went too! The rest is history. He bought me a rose and walked me back to the hotel. He left after a week and said he would fetch me from the airport the following week - well, I thought I'd never see him again, but there he was waiting when we landed! That was 1988!

 

[JLDSMD]

We go to sunrise service (man that is early - worse when it would fall on DST weekend). Do the little breakfast they have there afterwards. Come home and relax if Easter is at DW's Sisters or get ready if it is at our house (we have the even years).

The kids do an egg hunt around the yard. They open their baskets and we eat somewhere in there. Like all holidays, pretty boring.

My ideal holiday, regardless of the holiday, would be to do a small traditional family thing (just myself, Suz and DS) and then sit in our PJs all day and watch movies. I'm not saying how I feel about getting together with my outlaws.

 

[JLDSMD]

Hi everyone

We dont have any traditions for easter. We took Ellis to a zoo the one year and had to find the easter bunny who was giving out sweeties to the children...well, we came across this woman dressed in a really terrible costume ahnding out sweets - would Ellis stand by her to have his photo taken - NO! Mind you it was a dreadful costume

OK, I'll join in the "how I met hubby" - met Neil on a plane going to Gran Canaria - he was with a bunch of mates for a week and I was with a girlfriend for 2 weeks of sun. They got off the bus at the same hotel as us and we met from there. I overheard his one mate saying which bar they were going to that night so we went too! The rest is history. He bought me a rose and walked me back to the hotel. He left after a week and said he would fetch me from the airport the following week - well, I thought I'd never see him again, but there he was waiting when we landed! That was 1988!

Too many comments I could make on this one.

 

[JLDSMD]

Oh yeah, I'll post pictures later.

You are mean.

Note to self: Do not partake in any games on the cruise that Nancy sets up.

 

[cntkg1]

Pictures posted!!

 

[cntkg1]

You are mean.

Note to self: Do not partake in any games on the cruise that Nancy sets up.

Thanks Jeff!!

 

[GOS]

Don't have any traditions...just eat too much chocolate and sit and watch TV. My In-laws are with us for the weekend, but will be seeing Bev, Dave and the family on Good Friday. I'll give them another nudge. By the way, they have already said hello at the begining. Dave is known as TheFatMan.

Rick is in the garden at the moment, trying to get the strimmer working. I can see him giving up in a moment and he's starting to lose his temper.

Have a good afternoon - Heather

 

[oybolshoi]

We don't celebrate Easter at our house.

One Easter when Jay was seven years old, his Uncle Jerry told him that he had seen a giant rabbit sneaking around his backyard with a basket full of eggs so he got his shotgun out and blasted him right between the eyes.

Then he made a giant pot of rabbit stew.

Jason refers to this as "the day Easter died."

So, rather than resurrect painful childhood memories we opt not to observe this particular "holiday."


Tune in in December for "The Day I Stopped Believing in Santa Claus."

 

[Scouter]

walked me back to the hotel. He left after a week

Too many comments I could make on this one.

 

[Scouter]

You are mean.

Note to self: Do not partake in any games on the cruise that Nancy sets up.

OOOOOKKK.......Nancy you aren't going to make us do DIS meets and DIS tag wearing mouse ears and tails are you??

 

[Scouter]

We don't celebrate Easter at our house.

One Easter when Jay was seven years old, his Uncle Jerry told him that he had seen a giant rabbit sneaking around his backyard with a basket full of eggs so he got his shotgun out and blasted him right between the eyes.

Then he made a giant pot of rabbit stew.

Jason refers to this as "the day Easter died."

So, rather than resurrect painful childhood memories we opt not to observe this particular "holiday."


Tune in in December for "The Day I Stopped Believing in Santa Claus."

Gosh Brenda, poor Jason

 

[oybolshoi]

Linda dear... I need to make sure it's OK for me to post that picture we have of the four of us at the GF from October.

I would like to mention our fabulous afternoon of drinking by the pool, but I want to be sure you don't mind my posting a picture as well.

Just let me know...I'm not quite up to the day yet, but I am getting close!!

Thanks, dearie!!

 

[Karen Mouse]

Too many comments I could make on this one.

Ok,... I should re-phrase... he walked me back to my hotel and said goodnight. He left Gran Canaria a week later - NOT MY ROOM YOU FILTHY MINDED BEAST

 

[Scouter]

We really don't anything for Easter either.
My son says he doesn't want a basket or eggs anymore.

My family and I haven't spoken in years. The last time was at the horribly distressing death of my grandmother, whom I cared for the last few years of her life............the rest of my family showed up for that...hadn't been around in years. My own mother screamed at me over her mother's death bed over a furnace that they stole from their mother's home Yes.....I am not kidding......they should be on the Jerry Springer show.
My poor boyfriend had just been dating me for only a couple of months at that time and stayed by my side and witnessed all that, poor guy.... he really didn't understand before that why I don't speak to my mother or other relatives. Now he does

OK enough of my rehashing old bitter family stuff...
But Sean and I have been alone for years and we usually just make dinner at home and invite a single friend of mine over for dinner.
This year though I'll probably be doing something with Bob's family.
Big adjustment for Sean........
He's not used to the family thing at all. (Dad died when he was 4 and didn't see much of those relatives either, now those Grandparents are deceased too.)
Needless to say, Sean and I have been our whole family, well and many, many friends....who I call family, for years.

This dating thing and a whole other new family is very different for us.

 

[disgrits]

We go to Saturday night mass, then try our best to get our kids to go to bed at a decent hour, so that I do not have to stay up until the wee hours of the morning. After they get to bed, I start pulling out all the goodies for their baskets......and realize that I bought way too much candy and other goodies. My DH just shakes his head, as he often does, when he thinks I am crazy. Sunday morning we spend our time in our pjs, eating goodies, playing games, etc. At our previous duty station, we did egg hunts with our close friends, and that was great since we were far away from home. (We never go home for Easter anyway--too hectic since the kids' Spring Breaks don't coincide with Easter.)

How I met my DH.....I was part of his DB's wedding party, and we kind of got together on the bachelor and bachelorette parties. Yes, as was true for Karen and Linda, a bar figures into this story as well. Rob wasn't able to consume alcohol because of meds he was taking (just got out of the hospital with meningitis--very dangerous). So he decided to get everyone else drunk so he could have some entertainment. I ended up his primary source of entertainment, so to speak. That was it. We were attached at the hip ever since. We've actually known each other our whole lives, but didn't feel "that way" about each other until we were in college. Three years later, almost to the night that we started dating, we were married....quickie wedding because of the Persian Gullf War. Maybe when he retires in 4 years we should throw ourselves a huge wedding. (What am I thinking, our wedding, as most Cajun weddings, WAS still big--too big. Well, at least the alcohol bill was big. You know the words spreads fast when there is party coming.) Note to self: No huge wedding--just more cruises.