Who feels like a Thread-Killer? Part 6

[tinknutt]

Hi All

Kim congrats on the 2 year weight loss and esp the maintainance!!!
Robin said the same thing, that this needs to be the pose for meets!!

TW where do I get the address? I have a sub-bucket with dismeet pics.

TZM, glad to hear you are doing better. And Ophie, I think another fabulous Disney trip is in order??? (Thats where DH and I had our honeymoon and are getting ready to celebrate our 25th!)

Ann, glad to see you here. Can't wait on the annual passes for all. We need to plan a sisters trip!!

Betsy any name for the new puppy?

BP where are you?

Belle, yuck , I hated writing papers in school. Ann was always the creative writer. And she who has no name (other DS), is a librarian.....I must have been absent (or talking) when they handed out writing skills

Hi Uraken, how are you?

Hi Tkerbell. What you up to today? Are you still on Leave from work?

Chat with you all later

 

[uraken]

i am fine srry i have not been in i was doing scool work then karate then bible bowl then i can play out side then play VMK and i talk alot at that stuff

i cant remember all the stuff well bye

ttfn(hehe)

 

[GoofyDad869]

I KNOW I am a thread killer. I'm also good at killing conversations in real life.

 

[KimRaye]

I KNOW I am a thread killer. I'm also good at killing conversations in real life.

Nice try , but WELCOME anyway!

 

[Dalpal]

Good Morning my TKer friends!

We are sticking with "Einstein" for the pup.
His papers will have "Albert K Ninestein"..He is unbelieveably smart...He already will sleep through the night in his crate...without any crying or mistakes....maybe a little whimper as you put him in.....but thats it... and not counting first day...he hasnt gone in the house at all...hope it lasts...

Susan,
Happy soon to be Anniversary!
Im sure you will have a great time... You will have to let me know how you like the WL....
Love the picture of you and robin!...and Im so glad you had a nice meet...

About the meet in NF...June is great with me...The weekend of the 16th...or the weekend of the 30th..is good for us I think...just to get the ball starting to roll.

Ophie,TZM,
6 months!....Congratulations!....

Colleen!
Great pictures...Marco is not to bad on the eyes there...easy to look at AND he feeds you...I wonder why hes so popular

Well Im gonna go food shopping today if I can get myself moving...

We are missing you Robin!...Hope you are having a blast!

We are missing you too BP...Would ya come back if I tried to find words for TTFN again?...Its alot of work, but to get you to post ...Ill work on it...

 

[Dalpal]

I KNOW I am a thread killer. I'm also good at killing conversations in real life.

You can try...but no one has killed it yet....We like to talk to much for this thread to die....
But join right in.. we always like to have new posters....

WELCOME!
By the way......
Do you like squirrel?????

Oh hey BP!.....Looky what I stumbled over ....

www.thesquirrelboard.com

I dont know if youd want to mention McNuggets there!

 

[ophie]

And Ophie, I think another fabulous Disney trip is in order??? (Thats where DH and I had our honeymoon and are getting ready to celebrate our 25th!)

To celebrate? Well, this weekend will be really busy and I'm sure we would have had to make plans a while back, lol. We don't have plans to go back until ESPN the Weekend (unless we take a quickie trip for the Everest Preview).

 

[KimRaye]

I dont know if youd want to mention McNuggets there!

 

[uraken]

hi GoofyDad869 and wellcome

do u think it is geting crowded in here?

 

[tinknutt]

Uraken, never too crowded

Welcome GoofyDad, sorry about the threadkiller thing....we've all been there, but you can't kill this one and are welcome to join in

Hi Kim and Betsy. Kim it's kindof early for you isn't it? Betsy, glad to hear the new puppy is doing so well

Chat with you all later, gotta get to the gym!!

 

[tiggerwannabe]

Ophie and TZM, what better way to celebrate than a trip to Orlando!

Betsy, Marco is a cutie-straight from Siciliy! Very, very strong accent~

Susan- Go to your photobucket, at the top of the page go to File, click send and then choose link by email. I'll pm you my email just in case you don't have it

Hey to all you other threadkillers out there!

 

[PrincessaC]

Hey everyone!!! Nice to see the boards chatty again

Thanks for the compliments on my siggie! Doesn't it look so much better then smelly feet and dynamite?

Belle.. good luck on your report! They sound very interesting...

Congratulations Kim!!! That's awesome!!! Keep up the good work!!!

Ophie & TZM .. Happy Anniversary!

GoofyDad869 Hi and Welcome


Betsy... that's a cute name.. You lucked out with such a smart puppy I went through (bleep) with mine aw: aw: But you deserve it!


Colleen, I was just going to ask if Marco was cute... but now I dont have to

Ann HI! Uraken! HI!

Hope I didn's miss anyone..

I gots to run... Gonna pick up dinner and a movie!!!!!!!!! We're having family movie night!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[tiggerwannabe]

Susan, check your PMs...I found your album, it was right in front of me the whole time

 

[tiggerwannabe]

Where have all the Threadkillers gone...

Long time passing...

BPs not here to sing this song...

So it's all up to me...


Busy Friday Everybody???

 

[tiggerwannabe]

Back to my trip report I guess

I'll go back...to 2 days before we arrived at AKL...

~~~insert wavy screen shot here~~~

Mom, Britt and I were going to get on the road at 5am

Mom showed up at our house, we were not ready and could not be in the 15 minute window she gave us to be....so she went home and said she'd be back at 9

Come 9am, she had returned and we were up and just about ready...loading up the car took us just over 30 minutes, we said goodbye to my hubby and we were off

There were three huge accidents on 95 before we even hit VA:

The first one had one lane blocked, a truck rear ended a school bus and looks like it went under the bus and caught on fire...pretty ugly for the truck driver I'm sure

The second one had traffic STOPPED!A big rig rear ended another big rig...this one definitely had a fire. We were lucky and smart...we folowwed a few cars thru an access for emergency vehicles into a carpool lane and bypassed about 20 miles of totally stopped traffic.

The thirs was on the other side of the highway...we saw a truck that had been capped (hit the roof and ripped it partially off) and as we passed it we saw what it probably hit. You know those green overhead signs, waaaay up above the road? Well this one was totally on the ground all the way across the road. Traffic on that side was again TOTALLY blocked.

We pack a cooler to avoid having to stop to buy food or beverages, the only stops we needed to make were potty stops...Brittany drinks alot of water so Mom still had issues with how often we needed to use facilities but obliged us anyway.

Thankfully, that was the end of our delays. It took us 5 hours to travel 3. We managed to get to our hotel in Santee around 8:30pm, checked in was easy-they had us at the front near the lobby and I respectfully requested that if we could get a room in the "old" section. They had one for us...it's quieter there and the rooms are nice and big.

The next am we checked out, very easily and headed over to waffle house for some breakfast. There good if you want fast and cheap. Their coffee's not half bad either

We were off to Jacksonville to meet with a couple of special threadkillers and their families...

 

[Dalpal]

Good Morning all

Colleen,

MORE, MORE, MORE!

 

[tiggerwannabe]

The drive was rather uneventful...

We made it to Jacksonville fairly early in the afternoon, and since the area Susan (Tinknutt) lives in is very congested we decided to meet up at her local mall.

A few phone calls, some starbucks coffee (for Susan) and a sock purchase (for me) later we were off to her home.

Getting out of the mall was a real challenge-it was two days to Christmas after all-but we made it without losing each other.

Susan has a lovely home, we got a quick tour and were shown to our room...she even did the hotel towels with soap and lotion bit for us...I got lavender, it smells yummy and is said to be a very relaxing scent. We met her youngest son on his way to work, he's actually alot like my Brittany only in male form Great Kid with a good head on his shoulders.

Before I knew it Ann had come over! Was it that late already?

We said our hellos, and got all our hugs in and headed to the pc to get on the DIS...we chatted until it was time to open our gifts, which I must say was another wonderful experience. Ann and I seem to have been the onyl ones who stayed within the $20 rule tho

We went out to Carabbas for dinner, learned we should have and could have called ahead for seating. We waited so long the guys went and had dinner somehwere else and were finished before we got our seats.

Dinner was good the company was better, Mom's favorite was the Italian speaking lessons in the restroom

We made it back to the tinknutt home around 9pm...it was Ann's bedtime. She stayed for a little bit but had to go home cause it was getting late. Susan, Mom and I watched Polar Express while Britt caught up with her friends on her MySpace.

We headed to bed after the movie, we had another ealry morning the next day...5am again...thank you Susan and Ann for the wonderful company, opening of your home and coffee, tea and hot chocolate that really hit the spot so early in the morning. :yawn:

 

[tiggerwannabe]

Hi Betsy! How are you and Mike and Schatzie this fine morning?

Our puppy likes to wake me for her morning potty break and breakfast...so much for sleeping in - of course now I am wide awake and she's asleep on the floor next to me

 

[tiggerwannabe]

 

[tiggerwannabe]

Here's the AKL portion - just as a recap

Animal Kingdom was Faaaabulous Dahling!

We left Susan (tinknutt's house) before the crack-o-dawn, totally missed any traffic into Orlando and made it to the airport to pick up Britt's friend Stefanie an hour ahead of schedule. We arrived at AKL around 11:30 and our room was ready for us We were upgraded to pool view too!

The girls and I were very tired from traveling and getting up early so I headed for the jacuzzi and took some pictures while they napped. Mom said she was going to downtown and wound up taking herself to Epcot. By the time the girls got up and I got dressed Mom was done epcot and told us she was headed to dtd.

I only went to DTD to get the girls to disney quest and buy our nye tickets at the house of blues...turns out the only tickets left had to be purchased online so I headed back over to AKL and hooked up with some friends who were already there.
Of course I picked up a hoodie for Britt on my way out, that she saw at planet hollywood, for a Christmas gift.

Aisling (from NY) and her two boys (13 & 20), Nan (from San Jose CA) her hubby, two kids (5 & 8) and sister were all there and ready for a mini meet. Nan was staying on concierge so we all headed up to her room. This was the first time we'd ever met face to face so there was a lotta hugging and hellos. Wilson (Nan's 5yo boy) and Paul (Nan's hubby) had their hair done in the Magic Kingdom and saved their new do-s for us to see! They both had pixie dist and spikes with hidden mickey's on the back.

Nan let me on her laptop to buy my nye tickets so that worked out very well for us. $145 later we all headed up to the concierge lounge for some shots-o-Baileys and cookies. The server there was great with the kids. An engineer by trade, can build rockets, but would rather wait on folks at disney and enjoy his life instead. They had airplane and rocket building competitions while the adults did the drinking and toasting.

The girls and I grabbed a bite at Mara, $27 for chicken nuggets, a salad and a burger and drinks. They had a great time at DQ, no crowd at all.

The next morning we did Boma for breakfast, very very nice, we met with the rest of our cruising group-John and Dede from Phoenix-had a great breakfast and we all went our seperate ways to prepare to head to the port. My group drove to Port Canaveral in Mom's car and the 9 of them took the DCL bus.