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French Quarter

French Quarter

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FutureCEO said:
Drink your donut calories instead

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I bet that is amazing. I love coffee stout so I should get some donut porter to go with.
 
French Quarter

French Quarter

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Songbird76 said:
My family drove everywhere when I was a kid. We drove to Illinois in 2 days about every other year and we drove to DisneyWorld one year....it took us 3 days driving from about 6 am to 5 p.m. We also drove to New York when I was singing in Carnegie with my choir. And I was too young to remember it, but we drove to California to Disney when I was a year old. We always did stuff along the way...like, when we drove to Florida, we stopped in...I want to say Kentucky, and went to a cave there...and somewhere the Louis and Clark had traveled, and I think there was a trapping museum there. And I remember staying overnight in Hays Kansas and we went to a museum there. Whenever we went to Illinois, we stopped at Wall Drug in South Dakota, and we did the badlands a few times, and the Corn Palace. When we went to New York, we stopped in DC for a day, too. I saw SOOO much as a kid. I kind of miss that.
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This is the experience I want to give my kids. Road trips are so much fun and allow you to come across things that you couldn't plan for. I also think it gives everyone time to think about life and to talk to each other. It is certainly a different way to see the world.
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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French Quarter said:
This is the experience I want to give my kids. Road trips are so much fun and allow you to come across things that you couldn't plan for. I also think it gives everyone time to think about life and to talk to each other. It is certainly a different way to see the world.
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It was really great. Where I live now, it's so small that you drive from one side of the country to the other in just a couple of hours. We drove all the way to the opposite end of Germany almost to Austria in something like 9 hours. We did a bus tour to Paris and I think it was somewhere between 5 and 8 hours. But those trips have just be DH and myself...we've never done that with the kids and hubby doesn't think the kids would be able to sit in the car for that long. They aren't used to it. I grew up with that, but the kids haven't because we just don't HAVE those distances here unless you are going to another country. I would LOVE to do a big road trip in the US, but DH isn't real keen on it. We did it once the year after I moved over here. My mom passed just before we moved and we came back to do her burial, which was in Illinois. Then we drove from IL back home to Wyo to visit family and friends. I took him on our standard drive through Blue Earth Minnesota to see the Jolly Green Giant, across South Dakota through Sioux Falls, the Badlands, Wall, down into Wyo. On the way back, we went through Kansas to meet some cousins I found through Genealogy research and see my Great Great Grandfather's house and grave and one of the churches he built (he was a stone mason and minister and the Secretary of State in Kansas in the late1800s). DH was a good sport about it, but he really didn't like sitting in the car for that long. Not his thing. So I'm afraid my kids won't get those experiences. We do lots of fun things with them, but road trips just aren't in the cards.
 
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Songbird76 said:
It was really great. Where I live now, it's so small that you drive from one side of the country to the other in just a couple of hours. We drove all the way to the opposite end of Germany almost to Austria in something like 9 hours. We did a bus tour to Paris and I think it was somewhere between 5 and 8 hours. But those trips have just be DH and myself...we've never done that with the kids and hubby doesn't think the kids would be able to sit in the car for that long. They aren't used to it. I grew up with that, but the kids haven't because we just don't HAVE those distances here unless you are going to another country. I would LOVE to do a big road trip in the US, but DH isn't real keen on it. We did it once the year after I moved over here. My mom passed just before we moved and we came back to do her burial, which was in Illinois. Then we drove from IL back home to Wyo to visit family and friends. I took him on our standard drive through Blue Earth Minnesota to see the Jolly Green Giant, across South Dakota through Sioux Falls, the Badlands, Wall, down into Wyo. On the way back, we went through Kansas to meet some cousins I found through Genealogy research and see my Great Great Grandfather's house and grave and one of the churches he built (he was a stone mason and minister and the Secretary of State in Kansas in the late1800s). DH was a good sport about it, but he really didn't like sitting in the car for that long. Not his thing. So I'm afraid my kids won't get those experiences. We do lots of fun things with them, but road trips just aren't in the cards.
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You still live in a huge country.I can drive around my island in less than an hour and thats with a speed limit of 35mph.kinda freaked us out the first time we got directions in Florida and down the road turned out to be a 20 minute drive.
 
MinnieM123

MinnieM123

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MOXOMUMD said:
I liked Mo'Rockin. :(
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I loved that group, too. And the talented dancer added to the overall show. I thought they were all awesome. I'd stand there and listen and watch for a long time. Sometimes, you see various shows in World Showcase and you stop for a few minutes, and then walk on. I never did that with Mo'Rockin. Never did it with Off Kilter either. Really sorry to see both of those groups go.
 
MinnieM123

MinnieM123

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ajrwdwgirl said:
Wow I admire your willpower to only eat half the donut! Maybe I will start trying that to save some calories. I thought I was doing good with only one donut for each day!:)
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Well, each weekend morning before I go out, I also have a small container of plain yogurt, so it's not like I'm only eating 1/2 donut. If I didn't have something else with 1/2 donut each morning, I'd be hungry and reach for something else--which would defeat the purpose.
 
MinnieM123

MinnieM123

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ajrwdwgirl said:
I've bought Kapono the expensive tough toys too. She finds a way to destroy them, in just a tiny bit longer time than the cheap ones. The first "tough" toy we bought her she destroyed in less than 15 minutes. So I find buying the cheap toys is just as cost effective. Sometimes I will let her play then take it away for awhile, then give it back later in the day, I find it makes the toy last a little longer. The dog that passed away in January he rarely destroyed his toys, he loved them but he was a gentle player and had buckets of toys until we got Kapono and she started slowly destroying them.
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Jack has all kinds of carp laying around--half destroyed toys, and a few he can't wreck. I find the thick, tight, rope toys work well as he can't destroy those!!

Oh, and he also improvises his toy collection . . . :rolleyes: that is, with anything of ours that he's not supposed to have!! He goes for the craziest stuff and his interests run in phases . . . o_O Sometimes, he'll go on a paper towel fest and rip them to shreds--and leave the evidence all over the house . . . and sometimes, he'll grab a sock from the laundry basket and it will end up under the kitchen table all gnawed with dog slobber . . . Those are just a few of the things I can mention here! ;)
 
MinnieM123

MinnieM123

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French Quarter said:
Not for me. I wish it was Christmas all year round. I just love the way it feels to watch those films.
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I love Christmas as much as anyone else, and all the fun activities. The problem (for me) is that I stress out if it's mentioned too early, as I'm always battling budget issues as it is. And don't think that our salaries will ever even catch up with the cost of living at 2% a year. I recall years ago that it was common to get 8-10%.
 

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