Team Focker Watch: Lucky Number 13!

[cmp1111]

Hi! Went for a nice walk with my friend, and now I'm just vegging. We didn't go to karate last night, so we'll have to go tonight, but that's fine.

The kids had a great first day of school, woohoo!

And, really, that's all I know!

Congrats on the Glee CD, Jo - I love that show. Sorry about the golf comp, though.

 

[englishrose47]

Good Morning All!!!Just home from working 2nd job and then doing an Overnight check !!At least it's done for the month!!!!

Another prize huh!!Jo !!! Sorry about the gilf game though !!!

Hoping to get on the Dis before work tomorrow and after as well !!!Working all weekend !!! Have to make up for my DC trip!!!!

 

[lazydoxy66]

Wow, you guys didn't move up too much! Where is everyone?

I hope T is having fun in San Diego.

Hi Rosie, TE, V!

Now it is time to recuperate until the kid party on Saturday. Despite Hurrican Earl, Saturday is supposed to be absolutely perfect for a day at the zoo. 78 degrees, sunny and NO HUMIDITY! Jimmy can't wait.

Sorry, I meant to post B-day wishes for Jimmy. I guess belated wishes are just as good so 'Happy Birthday Jimmy!'

I watched 'Ghost Hunters' this week. TAPS was at the Philly Zoo. They said it was the first zoo. Lots of creepy stuff in the old house on the grounds.

Have fun!!

Took the girls and a friend shopping this morning, OMG I hate shopping, I know, I know but all the clothes are gross or too expensive or too cheap. Then I just did some final back to school stuff as they're back tomorrow.

I hate shopping also. I can never find what I want. Most of the stuff that is out right now isn't very flattering for the more, uh-hum, mature, pudgy women.
BTW, I'm glad I know at least one Brit that is so modest about themselves!

I'm FREEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!​

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Too funny!

Sorry about all your tennis drama.


Well I will be off work tonight. Then I get to work Sunday and Labor day for someone on the opposite shift. I keep telling myself it is Disney money! That cheers me up.... for about 10 minutes.

It is supposed to be nice outside today. I'll get some yard work done so I can enjoy it. I love fall. I wish it lasted longer.

Gotta get ready to head home.

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

 

[Muffinygood]

I'm here too but it's Gus' bday and my mother is visiting.

I did read all the pages I missed and wanted to quote, so it will have to wait. My mother is more work than my children.
V, can you hear me???? I'm booking the trip to Bangladesh....LOL

Have a great day, everyone.
MEL

 

[englishrose47]

Morning Kristel!!! I know this thread is moving soooo slow this summer !!It's kinda nice as I don't have to catch up 10 pages in a few hours

The wether here has turned pretty chilly !!!! I may have to wear a jacket today We are having a LUAU at work today ,so I think it better be inside !!Don't want Grass skirts floating around the neighborhood

Will check back in this evening !!

 

[HomeschoolMama]

Ahhhhh... A three day weekend to refresh, renew and relax. Momma likey.

This is sure to be one of the very few weekends not packed with stuff for us to do. I'm enjoying it. We're planning on grilling and goofing off today, church and fireworks on Sunday, (Did I mention we can see the city fireworks in our jammies in our driveway? It's one of the reasons I picked this neighborhood/house. ) and we have nothing planned so far for Monday.

We're down to just a few weeks until our trip, and I'm getting really excited. Well, other than Mel trying to get me to wear stupid costumes to the MNSSHP... Thank goodness the "the fattest Tinkerbells ever" has been officially taken off the list.

I hope everyone has a great, peaceful long weekend. Does anyone have anything fun planned or are we all trying to soak in the quiet this weekend?

 

[cmp1111]

Oh, Dawn, you made me giggle.

Hi, Kristel! Disney money is good, Disney money is good... Hope the work isn't too bad!

Hi, Rosie!

Mel, good luck with the rest of your weekend, and of course a big (belated) Happy Day to Gus.

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I had a lovely day yesterday. As in, I had not much to do! I took the kids to karate and then we picked up a pizza. I finished reading the 6th Harry Potter to them, and D & I had a relaxing evening watching the tennis.

We still have no plan whatsoever for today. It's supposed to be pretty windy with the remnants of the hurricane - which brought a little bit of rain overnight, and not much else.

Cooler - not quite 80, and sunny - beautiful day! But, we're just totally lazing around. We do a cookout/fun day at our neighbor's lake place tomorrow, and then D leaves Monday for Montreal for a week of training, so that's a big day of nothing.

Hope you all have a wonderful holiday weekend!

 

[DisneyJo]

BTW, I'm glad I know at least one Brit that is so modest about themselves!

Thanks, I think So what are the other Brits you know like? Sorry you have to work but think of the money

V, can you hear me???? I'm booking the trip to Bangladesh....LOL

We are having a LUAU at work today ,so I think it better be inside !!Don't want Grass skirts floating around the neighborhood

Have fun

Thank goodness the "the fattest Tinkerbells ever" has been officially taken off the list.

Oh Dawn BTW it's just made me realise it's almost a year since we met

We still have no plan whatsoever for today.

Enjoy


I've been busy all afternoon tidying and gacrdening which loosely translates as me chopping stuff down with my secaters I also found some weird bug lava so found the girls butterfly tent thing (it is like a little pop up tent that you place caterpillars in and watch them transform) so lets hope they're not too gross I then, as a treat, decided to open my box of Cadbury Milk Tray that a friend gave me a few days ago for helping her plan her WDW trip

 

[puggymom]

Happy Labor day Fockers (you too Jo )

So let me finally finish my Italy trip report, since I leave Wednesday on my next trip...

Day 9, my last day in Italy. We had a walking tour scheduled with a local guide. One thing I didn’t know about Italy was there are different dialects and people from Italy can have trouble speaking with other Italians. That’s what happened today with the local guide and our tour director, they had to speak to each other in English. We saw the Rialto bridge, the local outdoor market ( I would love to have that at home, the fish, produce, meat was so fresh).

Barb snapped these pics on the tour.

Afterwards the backseat girls took off to do some shopping and have lunch.

We wanted someplace with outdoor seating and struggled to find something away from the tourists. We eventually found something, it was ok , but not nearly as good as some of the other places we had found.

We split up as we had different objectives on this last day in Italy. Barb, Tracy and I decided to walk back to the hotel and wander about. FYI – if in Venice, forget trying to read the maps, they are completely useless. We had a great time though wandering around and I bought myself a Christmas ornament and a couple things for friends.

After getting back to the hotel I needed to nap and back. I had an early morning departure and needed to have my packing done before I left for dinner.

Tonight was the farewell group dinner at a restaurant a few doors down from the hotel. It was great fun. The backseat girls (and Bill) grabbed a table for 6 and proceeded to enjoy our meal.

After dinner we got one last cannoli and gelato and went back to the hotel. We stopped to say goodbye to our wonderful tour director.

And then headed to the outdoor bar for one last evening of music and laughter.

Way to soon it was closing time and I had to get up 3:30 to leave for the airport. A 4:30 am launch was coming for me and another family that had an early departure too.

As we headed to the elevators there were many hugs and possibly a few tears. I shared an adventure of a lifetime with these ladies and was so sad to see it end. (and I even had an adult beverage tonight)

I really wish this vacation had lasted another day or two.

The next day I boarded the launch and sat backwards and watched Venice fade away behind me. I may never get back there I wanted to drink in every minute of it. It really is a beautiful city and I was glad to be leaving before dawn with it all lit up from the evening still. It was a beautiful way to say goodbye.


So that's my Italian tale Fockers, but now it's time to start my next Central Florida one. 4 more days and I board my southbound flight.

Looking forward to a couple of Focker meets and just getting away!

Hope you are all enjoying the long weekend and are getting the same gorgeous weather we aer getting here!

 

[jcc0621]

Hey all! Wow, didn't check in at all yesterday. It was pretty hectic.

Jimmy and I started off th da at school for the new parent tea. He did not get to met his teacher, but he did get his classrom so he was happy about that!

Afterwards we had a meeting about bookfair, which wound up turning into a chatfest, so that the othr kids andmom's were still here when Jim got home from work

We then went to Friendly's for dinner,and oun up ot getting home until after 8pm

Today was Jimmy's party at the zoo and the weather was perfect The kids and a ball and I didn't have to clean up

The inlaws came back to the house an wethrew some burgers and dogs on the grill and we watched Jimmy open his presents. They just left and now Jim and Jimmy are playing with their...um, I mean Jimmy's new toys

There was one funny moment at the Zoo when I saw a little boy who looked EXACTLY like Evan came into the zoo. I tarted thinking OMG T is here. Ten I realized I don't think she would travel 3000 miles for a kids birtda rotfl2: Of course I texted T and told her

Hi to everyone I didn't quote, but Idd read...

Dawn - glad you are finally relexing

Kristal - Glad you are checking in mor regularly!

Jo -Congrats on CD and sorry about golf.

Mo - Loved the TR, but no have to finish mine. I ony have one day left too.



Hope everyone is enjoying their holiday weekend I am going to try and get the lat day of our Virginia trip up tomorrow.

Have a great night!

 

[jcc0621]

Hi all. Jimmy is apparent;y very excited aout starting second grade, he got up this morning ad got his uniform all out a ready to go

Today has been very lazy day. Jim and Jimmy (mstly Jimm wth Jim jus sttin there rootng him on) built his Knex Robot that he got for his birthday.

Then we went to Hair Cuttery to get is back to school haircut, Staples for a couple of things Jim needed for his calssroom and scouts, ad then he play ground.

Now we are just hanging out!

I am up loading the last day of Williamsburg, aan I am going to put my last day up in the next post. BRB

 

[Muffinygood]

Hi all. Jimmy is apparent;y very excited aout starting second grade, he got up this morning ad got his uniform all out a ready to go

Today has been very lazy day. Jim and Jimmy (mstly Jimm wth Jim jus sttin there rootng him on) built his Knex Robot that he got for his birthday.

Then we went to Hair Cuttery to get is back to school haircut, Staples for a couple of things Jim needed for his calssroom and scouts, ad then he play ground.

Now we are just hanging out!

I am up loading the last day of Williamsburg, aan I am going to put my last day up in the next post. BRB

Collection for Janet

Please send any dollar amount that is affordable at this time to myself or Dawn. Poor Janet is missing the letters:
I, Y, N, L, G, T and D from her keyboard.

Donations are not tax-deductible. Thank you.

Mel

(ly/mi-lmao!!)

 

[jcc0621]

Wednesday August 18, 2010
BUSCH GARDENS

We woke up at 7:30 again and met Denise and the kids for breakfast by 8:00am. The hotel ran a shuttle to Busch Gardens, hourly, so we wanted to make sr we were on that 1st bus that left at 9:00am (BG does not open until 10a). We ate and still had plenty of timefor everone to use the bathroom and then we headed outside to wait for the bus.

It was a cloudy day, but I wasn't worried because all week they said clouds (and it was off and on) and rainy (which it wasn't). The bus arrived promptly at 8:50am and let at 9:00am! Thiswas a great service becasue it saved us paying $13.00 to park We were at BG in about 20 minutes. It stared to rain. Luckiy I had brought Jimmy's raincoat and a couple of dollar store ponchos for us. It wasn't raining a lot, but Jimmy wanted his raincoat anyway.

We had our tickets (I had purchased them from a place called discover america for $37 each as opposed tothe $69 each they normally are). Denise went to the ticket windowand purchased the tickets for her and the kids and we were off.

Like Disney, they have a rope drop, but you can enter the park and walk a bit before you actally hit the rope. All the stores were open of course The boys were all about smooshing pennies this trip, so the 1st stop was the pressed penny machine. Mission accomplished we headed toward the England/ Ireland section. Our goal was to get on the train an take that to the Italy section and start there. Our plan changed when the people at the rope informed us that The Sesame Street Section was open, so off we went.....

We pretty much rode everything here twice and before 10am!

From Sesame Street we headed to Italy where we rode this...

This is the log flume ride. You don't get wet, you get soaked...which would have been a lot more fun if it hadn't been raining.

We then rode Roman Rapids, which is thier version of Kali. Again we got soaked...twice: There was no line when we got back to the loading dock they let us go again, because now it wasn't just raining....I WAS POURING! Honestly, I don't know if it was te rain or what, but there was never more than a 5 minute wait for anything. Then again, wer weren't riding the big coasters and that may be where all the people were????

Here are some more pictues frm the Italy area

After this I really don't remember what order we did what things so I am just going to post some more pictures...

Dinner in Germany...

After dinner we let the kids play some games and then we had one more ride we waned to do before we shopped and headed out.

It was called Europe in the Air. It is supposed to be like Soarin....but it ain't. It was cool, but it was more of a combo of Star Tours and Soarin. Not overly impressed but I am glad we did it...once.

After that we headed to the front of the park to get some shopping done. Jimmy picked out a suffed Clydesdale that he has name Clyde...yeah, I know original. I got a magnet and Jim bought a garden gnome. Why you may ask? Well, as you know he is tryng to get out of the current school he is in. Well have you see the travelocity commercial with the gnome singing Dee de de dee I've got to get of of here. Jim had printed up a sign saying that and has it hangingarond the gnomes neck and it is the faculty lunch room.

After our shoppig expedition we headed to the bus stop...to wait....35 minutes, we were a bit early for the pick up time.

Back at the hotel we said good bye to Dense an the kids. Got Jimmy into bed and packed.

We got up the next morning, packed up the car, checked out, stopped at McD's for breakfast and were on the road at 9:08am. We pulled into our driveway at 2:30ish and with that, our excursion to Williamsburg was over.
I am guessing that Jimmy had a good time. We ran into hs 1st grade teacher at school on Friday and he was telling her all about the trip and everything he learned.

We had a great time and would definitely go back again!

Thanks for reading

 

[jcc0621]

Collection for Janet

Please send any dollar amount that is affordable at this time to myself or Dawn. Poor Janet is missing the letters:
I, Y, N, L, G, T and D from her keyboard.

Donations are not tax-deductible. Thank you.

Mel

(ly/mi-lmao!!)

I NEED A NEW KEYBOARD!!!!!!!

 

[Muffinygood]

We love you Janet. LOL

 

[sorul82?]

TE and I are both doped up on prednisone so we are going to write a commercial about our beautiful gut flora and it will be available in espanol as well!

 

[jcc0621]

TE and I are both doped up on prednisone so we are going to write a commercial about our beautiful gut flora and it will be available in espanol as well!

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Good morning everyone. We are enjoying, sort of, our last day of summer vacation. Jim is at the grocery store and I am doing laundry....but it is still a relaxing day. Jimmy is really excited about school starting, I hope he goes to bed tonight

This is going to be a crazy week. Tomorrow school starts, but I will have to leave work early because the after school program in their infinite wisdom is closed tomorrow for an in service day, so I have to pick Jimmy up. Going to do the same on Wednesday because I ain't paying them for one day. He will start there next Monday. THursday Jim and Jimmy are off but Jimmy has an OT appointment and a therapy appointment. Then Thursday night is soccer sign ups and then on Friday Cub Scouts starts

Hope everyone is having a lovely day. BBL

 

[englishrose47]

Good Morning All!!OOPs it's afternoon!!

Busch Gardens sounds relly cool, not Disney COOL but still cool!!

Jo are they picking on us Brits again!!!

Mo Venice looked wunderbar!!!!

 

[cmp1111]

I am sitting in an empty house. Wow!

Dave left for training about an hour and a half ago, and yesterday morning a boy who's been with Woody, Buzz, Woody, Buzz each respective school year called for a playdate. So, they're off at his house for the afternoon. I can't decide if I want to be productive or if I want to nap.

We had a totally lazy day Saturday at home, just doing laundry and catching up on stuff, then yesterday we went up to our neighbor's little lake house for a dinner cookout. It was too windy and cold to go on their boat, but we had a great evening, nonetheless. So, yeah, not such a busy weekend, and I'm definitely having a great day so far!

Hope you're all enjoying the holiday, too!

 

[DisneyJo]

Happy Labor day Fockers (you too Jo )

Aww thanks Your trip really sounded great!

Today was Jimmy's party at the zoo and the weather was perfect The kids and a ball and I didn't have to clean up

Fantastic

Hi all. Jimmy is apparent;y very excited aout starting second grade, he got up this morning ad got his uniform all out a ready to go

Awww bless

Collection for Janet

Please send any dollar amount that is affordable at this time to myself or Dawn. Poor Janet is missing the letters:
I, Y, N, L, G, T and D from her keyboard.

Donations are not tax-deductible. Thank you.

Mel

(ly/mi-lmao!!)

Do you take paypal?

I NEED A NEW KEYBOARD!!!!!!!

We know It makes it fun reading your posts though

Jo are they picking on us Brits again!!!

They sure are

I am sitting in an empty house. Wow!

Enjoy whatever you do

All I do is write the same updates, went to golf, went for a long walk etc etc I'm so boring