sarbah77
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It's Europe! And a cruise!! So it's double-annoying packing, because it's a long flight, luggage restrictions, AND "formal" nights! When we went to Alaska a couple of summers ago (also on a cruise... it's funny, I don't think of myself as a cruiser!), we packed one pair of dress pants for dinner buuuut everyone wore jeans or worse, so we never really needed them. We did enjoy formal night (sort of), but Jeremy only wore a button down shirt and tie.
I'll have my netbook with me, to keep a travel diary!
Hey, if I can do one suitcase for two weeks in northern Europe (read: cold!), I bet you can do it for Hawaii (read: tropical!)!
I hope to do more, tonight... but I'm one of those ladies who has a "uniform." I wear jeans/khaki pants/khaki capris/khaki or denim skirt (note a theme?
) and a colored t-shirt. In the winter, it's a long sleeve, in the summer, it's short sleeve! Everything matches everything else! It's not hard to pack.We always forget the little things. Visiting the in-laws this weekend and we realized that we had 3 ibuprofen with us. He's still recovering from a stress fracture and I, uh, needed some pain killers. We stopped by a CVS, bought a bottle, and left it in our travel backpack! We also forgot toothpaste, but the hotel front desk gave that out (so that's also staying packed).
Of course!
I'm trying to think of little thank you gifts for some people:
-There's one woman on our cruise who picked up some hair conditioner and some chocolate (J looooves the Aero bars) and said the cost was insignificant and not to worry about it. She's a scrapbooker, so I'll probably go to Joanns and pick up a very small thing or two. I can't afford to Cricut cartridges though! I know there are a few scrapbookers here; suggestions? Should I see if they have cruise related stickers/papers for her?
-One of our friends moved to Helsinki recently (he's always lived in Finland) and he's on vacation when we're in town, so he'll spend the day showing us around. What do you buy for a 20-something GUY? Of course, his girlfriend will be out of town that day. Maybe we'll just end up buying his lunch or something!
Happy Monday Snowbirds! (I can say that since Monday's work day is done) I've been super busy these days since I took on a newborn.
I almost forgot how much work they are. She's the sweetest little thing- 3 months but man does she love to be held! Makes for a long day and has definitely reminded me of why DH and I are done with having any more kids. It's nice to pass them over to the parents for the night.
We had a nice weekend and the kids had a blast at Hershey. We spent most of the day in the waterpark area. It was very hot and all I kept thinking was how I would not want to be at Disney at those temps. Funny how everywhere makes me think of Disney. DH rolled his eyes at me because I made a comment about how it just wasn't the same without the big fat Mickey glove when the workers waved goodbye on our way out.
***Edited: I've tried 2X to make these pics not so big! Photobucket is not my friend today.
We did do a little discussing of Disney again. We're torn between May and November of 2011 but leaning more towards November now. I'd love to see Disney all decorated for Christmas. Plus Andrew always has a couple days off school in the first 2 weeks of school so if I timed it right he wouldn't miss too many days. So now I'm making plans for November to keep myself sane.
Looks like a fun day! I enjoy Hersheypark, except for the people. There's just something about the clientele at amusement parks v. Disney theme parks, you know?!
Edit: Oh my gosh! My ticker says 9 days! Single digit dance!!!!! (I leave a week from today but the cruise is a couple days later!!)
Do I hear the makings of a SNOWBIRD reunion in November 2011??? 
DS will be in middle school by then and I think it will be too rough for him to miss 5 days. 
So 2011 will either have to be summer or a school holiday. 
I don't think I could get my DH to agree to it, but who knows?
Sarah, I'll have to look up the packing folders from Sierra Trading Post--thanks for the tip!
Thanks! I've just requested the next one from our library.
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See, DS12, and to a lesser extent DH and DS10 are big Bon Jovi fans. When they found out Bon Jovi was performing in Europe this summer, they made plans to go with another guy and his two boys to the concert in Paris (about 2 hours from here). However...the Paris concert was June 16 and DH couldn't be back until June 19. And the friends are leaving for the States on June 23. Buy hey! 
Bon Jovi will be playing in London on June 19! So they made the plan to go to that show. It's supposed to be a guys' outing, but I haven't seen DH in 10 weeks so DD and I are crashing the party. We'll just stay at the hotel while they're at the concert. 
I like Bon Jovi fine, but not enough to go to all this trouble, and not enough to find someone to watch DD while I went. Anyway, we'll all look around London a little bit on Sunday, and come home that evening. 
The boys are super excited, and I'm sure it will be a fun weekend. I'll just be happy to have DH back!
I too would have to go!!! I would looooove to go to London..no one else around here has any desire to go---my oldest wants to go to Ireland...so it'll be a long trip..we have all of Europe to see!!! I know you are soooo excited to have him home!
