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MinnieM123

MinnieM123

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donaldtoo said:
Howdy Figgy, thanks for askin'...!
This afternoon...!!! :joyfull: :)
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Sorry this is a little late, but I just got home a little while ago from work. I picked these for your pop to welcome him home.

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ajrwdwgirl

ajrwdwgirl

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Songbird76 said:
I am back (obviously)! Had a fantastic weekend with the girls. We did a boat tour of Delft, which was fascinating....very quirky history. The tower of the old church was built on ground that was too soft, and it started to lean. Rather than re-build, they added some turrets of different sizes and shapes to make it LOOK straight. And centuries ago, they paid taxes on houses according to how many windows were on the front facade of the house. Rich people would add windows to show their wealth, but one guy didn't want to pay taxes and he had a LOT of windows, so he looked up the definition of "front facade" and it said it was the side with the front door. So he removed the front door, built up a wall and used a side entrance in the alley. We toured the Mauritshuis museum in Den Haag (The Hague) that has famous paintings by Rembrandt, Vermeer, Fabritius, etc. We toured the Vermeer museum in Delft, which was the house he lived in. And we toured both the old and the new churches in Delft, but I didn't go up into the tower of the new church because my hip is still hurting. But that church is where all the Dutch royals are buried under the floor in the crypt. Then on the way home yesterday we toured the Haar Castle in Utrecht. I'd been there before, but it was before I spoke Dutch and the family was coming to stay so we didn't get to see all of the rooms as they were getting them ready for the family, but it's been sold since then and the family doesn't come to stay in the castle, so this time I got to see the rooms I didn't see last time. It was interesting...the last Baron was pretty arrogant. He wasn't rich enough, so he went to France I think? And found a wealthy heiress to marry, then used all her money to rebuild the castle that had been destroyed. He wanted a park with trees, but didn't want to wait for trees to grow, so rather than plant seedling trees, he ripped out trees from somewhere else and had them brought in, only the trees had to come through the town, but were too big to go around this one corner, so he bought the house on that corner, tore it down, and brought the trees in...then he didn't want to share his park with the town, so he bought every building in the whole town and tore them all down and had them rebuilt in a different place that didn't border on his park side so he had the park all for himself. He had the entire town moved so he didn't have to share.
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Sounds fun, any pictures you care to share?
 
FutureCEO

FutureCEO

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General Mills is recalling 1.8 million boxes of Cheerios and Honey Nut Cheerios produced at a plant in Lodi, California, saying the cereal is labeled gluten-free but actually contains wheat.

The recall affects Cheerios and Honey Nut Cheerios that were made in July. The Minneapolis company says wheat flour was inadvertently used in a system that normally processes gluten-free oat flour.
 
Cesar R M

Cesar R M

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FutureCEO said:
and domestic ones too. But I think that's the point, the parks are so pack that there really isn't much room to handle new crowds especially at the Magic Kingdom.

Unless I use my parents or uncle's DVC points....I'm out for the foreseeable future. I rather spend thousands on a European vacation than a Disney one. Price increases don't affect me but...
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Well, hopefully they will clear the mess they made by themselves on magic kingdom (by letting the other parks get stagnant so much..)
 
Cesar R M

Cesar R M

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betty rose said:
I agree, Disney is getting too, too expensive for those on a fixed income. But, I can go to Disney, stay at DVC and do other thing then the parks, everyday. We will probably not renew the annual pass, after this year.
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I actually wonder how long before tokyo disney sea gets cheaper..
I mean.. flying + food + hotels seems cheaper everywhere but WDW area lol.
 

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