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[OregonDisneyFanatic]

Happy Monday everyone

 

[adaygaby]

 

[LittleBlue22]

to the thread

 

[LittleBlue22]

Happy Monday everyone

yah, and? ..... j/k

I'm sure you are busy catching up on things

LB I the new paint color. It looks great.

thanks

Happy Birthday Kelsey Have some cake for me

ditto

Hope you had a fantastic party Kelz

 

[GIOny]

Your pirate name is:


Black Bess Rackham


Like anyone confronted with the harshness of robbery on the high seas, you can be pessimis at times. You have the good fortune of having a good name, since Rackham (pronounced RACKem, not rack-ham) is one of the coolest sounding surnames for a pirate. Arr!

I"ve heard of a rack of lamb but never a rack of ham

 

[GIOny]

 

[GIOny]

How is everyone? We are leaving early tomorrow afternoon for our 7 hour drive back home. We are eating at chef mickey's at 10:25 for breakfast.

Hope you had a safe ride back, can't wait to hear all about it I just got back from Jersey shore

 

[GIOny]

Everyone is asleep for me. We thought about doing the free dining bounceback offer, but we might skip wdw next year and go somewhere else. I do not want to get bored coming here. The free food is great, but the heat is not. I'm not sure if I want to attempt WDW with a 5 and 2 year old and an 8 month old nursing.

It may be a little to much, you may appreciate it more if you skip a year or two

 

[lucas]

Hope you had a safe ride back, can't wait to hear all about it I just got back from Jersey shore

Hope you had a good time.

 

[GIOny]

Thanks Gio, it was nice. Downtown Chicago was crowded, but it was nice to window shop and eat chocolate!
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Chocolate Did someone say Chocolate

 

[GIOny]

Hope you had a good time.

We had a great time and beautiful weather . We were just there for a long weekend. How are you doing Lucas

 

[lucas]

We had a great time and beautiful weather . We were just there for a long weekend. How are you doing Lucas

Sounds great!

I'm doing ok - nothing exciting going on. I gotta go for my walk - it is starting to get dark a little earlier. Still hot though.

 

[GIOny]

I wonder how far NYC is from Wash. D.C.? :

It's about 41/2 - 5 hours depending on traffic.

 

[GIOny]

Sounds great!

I'm doing ok - nothing exciting going on. I gotta go for my walk - it is starting to get dark a little earlier. Still hot though.

enjoy your walk , how far do you walk

? It's still pretty warm in ny

 

[GIOny]

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almost

 

[GIOny]

Do any of you have the smiley thread subscription from 5/17/07 ish? I can't find my thread in my sub list . I thought I kept it and it appears I've deleted it. I'm searching the blue dog, but no luck yet. If you still have that thread, could you post the link? Pleeeeeease

btw- happy Sunday

I'll look for it

 

[GIOny]

Before: A very white room-

After: The Forest- Look I dressed up the couch for ya'll! DH's putting the cableing back together.

We haven't painted the green for the beam yet.

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I that color green, is that the same room It looks really nice

 

[GIOny]

Here's a view of Navy Pier from the Ladies restroom in the John Hancock Bldg. We were on the 96th floor.

We walked to Navy Pier from the JH bldg. and took a trolly back. We could see the route we took from above.

Beautiful view Did you go to the Sears Tower

 

[GIOny]

I agree!


everyone miss you all!

 

[GIOny]

gather round friends, its story time .

Thursday, Sept. 18th-
We got going about 11ish not aware of any detouring we'd have to take. So, the usual 3 hour drive took 4 almost 4.5 hour drive instead. Even our navigator wanted to take us back to the highway, but we couldn't b/c there'd been flooding. So, imagine all the dinging saying "recalculating"- ding recalculating... The kids then started started calling Garmin- Garmeanie, her true name. We followed some semis and wern't sure how far west or North they'd be going, but we knew instinctively that we'd get to Chicago one way or another. The drive was beautiful! It was very pleasant, the skies were blue with some clouds, the roads we took wern't too windy. The noise and the whine in the back however was abundant.

The kids know not to ask, "are we there yet?", so, they'll ask, how far is it were going or what time are we supposed to be there instead. Grandma ended up sitting in the back bench seat between two booster seats b/c all three older kids couldn't handle being in the same space. Poor Grandma.

Once we saw the Chicago skyline that's when traffic stopped. We didn't get to the outer edges until 4ish, their time. We didn't want to go downtown due to lack of time. Instead we went to the Botanical gardens.

The kids were anxious and I was glad to be out of the van. Admittance was free, but the parking and the train section were not.

We walked in the gardens and I felt like I was in a movie. It was beautiful. The lighting for taking pictures was fantastic! It was breath taking seeing various plants and vegetation.

There was a lot to see. The kids were able to run around and get their sillies out while we adults got to enjoy nature. The Botanical Garden received rains from Hurricane Ike and there in sections of the park you could see high water, brown spots (mud) on low lying plants, and flooding. There were a couple low spots where you could walk and look out on to the water, well, those walks were covered with water. We walked some more saw asian plants- the area with a zen feel.

There was a european themed section and near it was the train area. Even the girls got excited to see Thomas the Train running on a track. That's where we shelled out cash to see the trains and I'm glad we did.


Can you see the trolly?

I don't know much about trains, but the ones they used were "G" sized G for gi-normous-lol. G scale trains are larger. The tains run on copper lines since they don't pull up the trains during the winter (or part of it any way). The train area is themed so we saw Wriggley field, Lombard Street from San Francisco, the White House, the Statue of Liberty and some other landmarks such as Mount Rushmore and Mt. Saint Helen.

End of day one.

great pics, aren't the Botanical Gardens great, I've never been to the one in Chicago but we have them in the Bronx, they are really beautiful especially around the holidays