Something About Nothing..........# 10

[macraven]

rain again today..............

looked at the weather site for the east coast for next week, no rain but cooler temps.
hoping that will change.


i will leave town while it has icky temps and go to a place that has icky temps.
i can't win.......


i guess the only places i can get sunshine in for a short vacation would be So. Cal or Florida.

 

[keishashadow]

icky, don't hear that word everyday. When do you leave for your trip? mac has a mac, makes perfect sense to me.

Picked up touchpads for a song, but once novelty wore off they're only turned on when we travel now. My GD had stomped on my just-out-of-warranty laptop and the screen slowly died. Screensurgeons hooked me up for approx $100, DH had it replaced in under a half hour and it's working swell. I was using a brick last few weeks to connect.

carole you've seen far more of NYC than me. So, what did u bring back from the garment district?

feel like i won the lottery, a bayview room @ PBH opened up for June trip, difference between it and gardenview will cover a few rounds @ citiwalk woohoo

 

[macraven]

keisha, going to Hagerstown 5/1 for 5 days.
the weather right now states 40's in the evening.
high could be mid 60's.
hopefully it will change in the next week.

Mr Mac and I are members of the Chicago Round Table.
it's a civil war group.
each spring we go on the group tour of civil war sites.
we do battle strategies, weapons study, officers of the war, that type of stuff.
we follow the paths of the battles basically.

this year we concentrate on the Antietam campaign.

the busses pull out from our hotel at 7:30 am and we return between 7-8 each evening.
i don't want to have to lug a coat with me all day so hopefully, the lower temps will be higher than in the mid 40's.



hide your laptop when the little is at your house.


hey, great news about your room booking!

 

[schumigirl]

wasn't it loverly that you got to spend time with the fam !!!
and you get to return next year again.


ok, who is gonna tell Tom about this trip?
don't look at me......

It really was lovely.........can`t wait to go back.

LOL........well, he knows now I`m going back......and he said he guessed I was going to say that. He hoped my mum loved it and wanted us to go back. And I had a whole speech prepared to justify it didn`t need it after all, he was great and said we should go back

carole you've seen far more of NYC than me. So, what did u bring back from the garment district?

feel like i won the lottery, a bayview room @ PBH opened up for June trip, difference between it and gardenview will cover a few rounds @ citiwalk woohoo

Well nothing specific from there but I did splash out on a handbag from Saks. It`s a new Marni hobo bag I had spotted. It`s my birthday and Christmas included apparently!!!! Make up and perfume from Macy`s and a whole load of tourist tat like fridge magnets and any other junk that said NY on it I am such a tourist!!! Got some lovely Vera wang scarves too. So I did alright....oh a ton of coconut M&M`s for Tom and I and Godiva chocolate for Kyle.

Didn`t quite need a bigger suitcase thankfully

Good news on the room at PB

keisha, going to Hagerstown 5/1 for 5 days.
the weather right now states 40's in the evening.
high could be mid 60's.
hopefully it will change in the next week.

Fingers crossed for good weather for you.....hope you both have a great time



We have lovely weather here today....it`s actually warm....I had my sunglasses on this morning.

Finally caught up with all the laundry I brought home I did come home to a lovely tidy place though, so they did everything I asked when I was away

It`s Wednesday already.....this week is flying by

 

[Lynne G]

Raven,
Wishing you warmer weather and safe travels. My DS is a huge history buff. Especially likes the Civil War and likes the Revolutionary War. He spent hours in Gettysburg and we have several battle plaques in our area. We watched the crossing of the Delaware enactment several times. Must be fun to be one of those actors. I'd rather watch.

Well, sun today, and then cooler weather. Spring is such a tease.

DD planted some lettuce seads. She didn't know how to separate them, so now we have a ton of little sprouts. Keeping them inside until they are double their size and the nights a little warmer than we've been having.

Only soccer travel for us, no trips until the end of summer. I keep getting USO ads, and a ton of Disneyworld ads. So ready for a vacation now.

 

[Metro West]

Carole.....

Just wanted to tell you we tried RusTeak in Ocoee tonight for dinner. That's the place you were asking about and is owned by the same people who run Teak Neighborhood Grill. It was....

WONDERFUL!

I had the French Dip sandwich with fries...the best sandwich I've had in a long time!

Everything was delicious and pretty reasonable. We will definitely have to go there when you guys visit.

http://www.rusteakwinebar.com/

 

[Lynne G]

Carole.....

Just wanted to tell you we tried RusTeak in Ocoee tonight for dinner. That's the place you were asking about and is owned by the same people who run Teak Neighborhood Grill. It was....

WONDERFUL!

I had the French Dip sandwich with fries...the best sandwich I've had in a long time!

Everything was delicious and pretty reasonable. We will definitely have to go there when you guys visit.

http://www.rusteakwinebar.com/

Metro, sorry if you do not mind if I ask where that is in relation to SW. We are going at Christmas and would like some more out of the tourist places with good food, casual and not too expensive. My DH mostly likes to live in jeans and T's even if we go out to dinner. Thanks.

 

[Cdn Friends of Pooh]

Holy Crap ... I haven't even booked our flights yet

 

[Bluer101]

Holy Crap ... I haven't even booked our flights yet

Better get going!

 

[macraven]

Holy Crap ... I haven't even booked our flights yet

holy crapola is right...........



you're 3 weeks out and i know you aren't gonna be walking to orlando....
and there's no snow once you hit kentucky so the dog sled isn't gonna cut it.

 

[Cdn Friends of Pooh]

Better get going!

holy crapola is right...........

you're 3 weeks out and i know you aren't gonna be walking to orlando....
and there's no snow once you hit kentucky so the dog sled isn't gonna cut it.

By next week at this time I'll have them booked

 

[Metro West]

Metro, sorry if you do not mind if I ask where that is in relation to SW. We are going at Christmas and would like some more out of the tourist places with good food, casual and not too expensive. My DH mostly likes to live in jeans and T's even if we go out to dinner. Thanks.

Don't mind at all. RusTeak is on the corner of Maguire and Old Winter Garden Roads in Ocoee which is west of the tourist area.

From SW, the quickest way is probably I-4 to 408W and then exit 1 to Colonial Drive (SR50). Make a left on Maguire and it's in the corner shopping center before the intersection.

There several ways to go via back roads but I'm not sure how familiar you are with Orlando.

From SW or Universal...you would take Turkey Lake Road north to a left on Conroy Windermere Road to a right on Apopka Vineland Road. Make a left on Old Winter Garden Road...stay on OWG and the shopping center you're looking for is on the right hand side of the road.

There is also another restaurant (Teak Neighborhood Grill) which is owned by the same people located in MetroWest which would be closer but its a different style menu.

 

[Lynne G]

Don't mind at all. RusTeak is on the corner of Maguire and Old Winter Garden Roads in Ocoee which is west of the tourist area.

From SW, the quickest way is probably I-4 to 408W and then exit 1 to Colonial Drive (SR50). Make a left on Maguire and it's in the corner shopping center before the intersection.

There several ways to go via back roads but I'm not sure how familiar you are with Orlando.

From SW or Universal...you would take Turkey Lake Road north to a left on Conroy Windermere Road to a right on Apopka Vineland Road. Make a left on Old Winter Garden Road...stay on OWG and the shopping center you're looking for is on the right hand side of the road.

There is also another restaurant (Teak Neighborhood Grill) which is owned by the same people located in MetroWest which would be closer but its a different style menu.

Thanks Metro. I am somewhat familar. I don't mind driving around Orlando and have driven TL Road and AV Road quite a bit, though I am not afraid of a highway either. I think we will try the place you just ate at. My town is famous for cheesesteaks and we are up for a variety of food.

 

[Lynne G]

By next week at this time I'll have them booked

Braver than me! I booked my end of August trip in January!

 

[schumigirl]

Carole.....

Just wanted to tell you we tried RusTeak in Ocoee tonight for dinner. That's the place you were asking about and is owned by the same people who run Teak Neighborhood Grill. It was....

WONDERFUL!

I had the French Dip sandwich with fries...the best sandwich I've had in a long time!

Everything was delicious and pretty reasonable. We will definitely have to go there when you guys visit.

http://www.rusteakwinebar.com/

It`s a date!!!! Looking forward to it

Tom loves French Dip Sandwiches.....so I`ll bet a $ that`s what he orders.......good to know you enjoyed it.

Was it quieter than Teak?? Don`t think the night we went there could have been noisier if they tried

 

[Metro West]

Was it quieter than Teak?? Don`t think the night we went there could have been noisier if they tried

No...not quieter...louder. But remember...this place is not very big and it was packed! It was alright though...we didn't have any problems hearing each other. I'm sure you will love it! One thing though...I didn't see any Mac & Cheese on the menu so Kyle might be upset.

 

[SharkyGoddess]

Got to see one of my fav Dark Siders mentioned on Facebook so I had to come here and say "HI MAC!!!"

How is everyone doing? I'm going to start reading backwards to see if there is any juicy US/IOA news to catch up on and of course... there is the HHN date release to SQUEEE over!

 

[SharkyGoddess]

I'm sorry I have not responded sooner....but the little guy has been keeping me busy!

And here he is...

He's precious!

 

[peaches00]

PEACHES...........00


i see you have a trip planned for 9/13 at the darkside.
looks like you are another homie that enjoys that hotel.

what dates do you have lined up?
i feel the middle and end of the month is the best time for september

i've only done one stay there, with the rest of my stays at hrh and rph.



yea, planning for the motherland is a full time job.
i do enjoy the planning but it has points of frustration for me at times.
at 180 days out, i couldn't get a ressie for the Plaza at MK.
still can't get one for noontime, so i booked that adr for a day i wasn't planning to be in that park.


this means i have to rearrange all my adr's to different days in order to get that one place i want.
all of this changing around to get the reuben sandwich and tomato basil soup.

after the motherland, i switch to the darkside for 10 nights.
i'm planning nothing except for finnegans in advance for the night i book a tour/hhn.

all i've done is book the room, booked car service.
i'll do the planning when i get there.
easy peasy.


be sure to come back here and play awhile!

Ok...I'll play. We will be at pbr from sept 12-18. Just me and the hub. We loooove it there. As my hub said when he was trying to persuade me to switch disney yacht club...we could stay a week here even without the parks. And there's always that pesky problem of kids at disney. They act like they own the place. Lol. My son is in his fi.al year o med school and we enjoyed taking him and new dil to disney but he just doesn't know what his schedule will be. We took them to rpr which I thought was superior to poly club in every way. The club especially. So its just me and hubby. Of course we tolk them to uo before harry potter so I know they want to go. Once new hp attractions are done...we
will probably surprise them. I do miss my little boy.

 

[macraven]

Got to see one of my fav Dark Siders mentioned on Facebook so I had to come here and say "HI MAC!!!"

How is everyone doing? I'm going to start reading backwards to see if there is any juicy US/IOA news to catch up on and of course... there is the HHN date release to SQUEEE over!

uh oh, ok, who's talking about me.........


how's your darkside trip planning coming along?


think you will hit the place in october when i will be there?