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Figgy1

Figgy1

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Songbird76 said:
So DD brings home the invitation (that she had to make herself) for the "6th grade send off"...there's no graduation as such here, but every year, USUALLY schools do a 6th grade musical as their final event of the year and then they are done. DD was REALLY looking forward to it, because she does Musical Theater lessons and she loves it, so she couldn't wait for that. And then they decided not to do one this year, because with the new merger, they have 2 classes of 6th grade, and they decided it was too many kids and they couldn't give every kid a part and so a lot of the kids would only be in the chorus and it is a lot of work to put in, bla bla bla. So no musical, but they still wanted to do SOMETHING special as a send off. It's in 2 weeks, and we JUST got the information now, and while traditionally, the whole family would be invited....grandparents, parents, siblings, etc, we're now restricted to parents only. Even DS doesn't get to go. And to add insult to injury, we have to prepare the food ourselves for the event. So, they couldn't even pay for invitations, the kids had to make them and bring them home so they didn't have to send them in the mail, and they can't even go buy a couple packages of cookies? So basically it's an obligatory "It will look bad if we don't plan anything, but we really can't be bothered, so let's let the families do it themselves, but we don't have room for all the families, so they can't bring anyone" party. If it weren't for the fact that DD deserves some recognition for all her hard work, I'd refuse to go. I think it's absolute carp that they aren't doing ANYTHING for the kids at all, when previous years, they got to bring their whole family and the school paid for the treats served and drinks, and it was a special evening for those kids to say goodbye to the school. And now they can't put the work in for a musical, and can't put money in for some stamps to send real invitations out, or for some simple snacks to serve. What's the point? Why the charade of a "send off"? They literally could not do any less for the kids. What kind of event makes you prepare your own invitations, entertainment, AND food?
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I can't like most of that! Our kids in elementary school do invitations as part of their art classes, which I do like but parents only? Are they that short on space? Most of our functions involving food are pot luck which can be fun and we get a wide range of food:joyfull: I don't get the cancelling of a tradition at all:grumpy:
 
Figgy1

Figgy1

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ajrwdwgirl said:
I got my bag back, it was sitting in Southwest's office just waiting and looking lonely waiting for me. I think it had quite the adventure. Southwest told me it was on the plane to St. Louis but the tag taped onto says Midway (Chicago). Southwest also gave me a travel voucher for a decent amount which I didn't ask for or expect really, so I plan to use that towards my trip to Anaheim in 2019 for D23 Expo.
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You deserve a Basin night!
 
MinnieM123

MinnieM123

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ajrwdwgirl said:
I have purple duct tape strips on the outside of the case, a Minnesota Wild hockey and Walt Disney Imagineering tags on it.
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I always put colored duct tape on my suitcase, too. I purposely make it look stupid (like a kid did it) -- because I figure no one would get caught dead walking around with my ugly suitcase, full of tape all over it! HA! It makes it really easy to spot at the airport when I pick it up.

ajrwdwgirl said:
I got my bag back, it was sitting in Southwest's office just waiting and looking lonely waiting for me. I think it had quite the adventure. Southwest told me it was on the plane to St. Louis but the tag taped onto says Midway (Chicago). Southwest also gave me a travel voucher for a decent amount which I didn't ask for or expect really, so I plan to use that towards my trip to Anaheim in 2019 for D23 Expo.
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I read your other posts about your gross trip back. Atlanta Hartsfield is not the airport you want to connect through--ever. It's too big and the gates seem miles apart. Years ago, I also had a lousey connection through that place--never again. I felt your pain when you wrote about sprinting to one of the gates far away.

(Reminds me of a similar run I had some year ago at LaGaurdia, when connecting to my flight to Boston. I swear that the gate was at the absolute farthest point AWAY from the gate that my plane, from Charlotte, NC, landed at. The Charlotte flight was late, and I hear my name announced all over the freaking airport's PA system, "Passenger (x) please proceed to gate (x) -- your flight is ready to depart." I ran my butt off (thank God I only had carry-on luggage).

Anyway, I am glad you are home safely now and sorry about your experience.
 
Cesar R M

Cesar R M

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ajrwdwgirl said:
I got my bag back, it was sitting in Southwest's office just waiting and looking lonely waiting for me. I think it had quite the adventure. Southwest told me it was on the plane to St. Louis but the tag taped onto says Midway (Chicago). Southwest also gave me a travel voucher for a decent amount which I didn't ask for or expect really, so I plan to use that towards my trip to Anaheim in 2019 for D23 Expo.
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good to know they gave you some sort of compensation!
 
Cesar R M

Cesar R M

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StarWarsGirl said:
So my friend changed her Siri to a British man and has him respond to Mr. Darcy.

Isn't technology a wonderful thing?
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MR. Darcy?
:hilarious:
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donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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MySmallWorldof4 said:
At my kids' gym for teams, they propose to get new uniforms for the kids every 3 years because they can cost $300. They are getting new ones this year for everyone. What they do though, is that when the new season starts, kids can hand down to smaller kids the outgrown ones and charge about half of what they would cost new. It is up to the parent to charge what they want, but usually they will take half. The more glitzy they are with Swarovski crystals, the more expensive. The one in charge likes to be straight upfront with cost. You want glitz, you will pay more. There needs to be a nice medium. She wants to keep the cost this year at about $200. The girls have practice uniforms and luckily dd has not outgrown hers. They have about 9 competitions during the year and unless there is a blizzard where the roads are closed, they are never cancelled. The participation fee is usually $75. I will say that we get our money's worth probably because we are located where we are, (not in a metropolitan area). Costs are much less in terms of tuition which includes coaches fees.
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Woof! Swarovski crystals...?! :cyclops:
I didn't even know what that was until until we went to pick out our wedding crystal almost 30 years ago...!!!!! :hilarious: ;)
 
CoreNovawarAMM

CoreNovawarAMM

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StarWarsGirl said:
So my friend changed her Siri to a British man and has him respond to Mr. Darcy.

Isn't technology a wonderful thing?
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I have my Siri as a British man, but I didn’t know that one can change the name that Siri answers to...that’s cool!
To be honest, I only use Siri when I want to ask it questions it can’t answer...😁
My dad told his Siri once (just to see what she would say), “Siri, you’re an idiot.” She promptly answered, “We we’re talking about you, not me.”
 
MySmallWorldof4

MySmallWorldof4

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ajrwdwgirl said:
Hey folks! I'm back from my trip with my friend. It was fun. I still am going to share some of my Epcot day pictures. Warning: travel story ahead..... My travel home was not very delightful, I had a connection through Atlanta and there were storms there and in Orlando. I got switched to a connection through St. Louis then ultimately back to the connection through Atlanta. I almost missed that connection though, the plane was supposed to take off at 10:20 pm for Minneapolis and at 10:19 pm my flight from Orlando hadn't landed yet. Luckily the Minneapolis flight was delayed and I had a chance to catch it. I ended up having to run the length of the concourse, and I don't run ever, and basically got on literally at the last second. Or so I thought, after I sat down Southwest decided to hold the plane for about 20-25 more minutes because there was another flight with a bunch of passengers that were supposed to connect to the Minneapolis flight. They didn't make it. So my flight came in at 1am. My bag however did not, it had been sent to St. Louis.

The bag agent was helpful and told me it would be on the 1pm flight into Minneapolis (on June 23) and reassured me at least twice I would be called or notified when they had it. But because I lived out of the delivery range they would FedEx it to me with arrival by Tuesday. :( So I met up with my hubs who was picking me up and made it home by 2:30 am and got lots of kisses from the dog. On the way home, hubs told me that he has to go to the airport Sunday (today) to pick up the large vans they need for the church trip, apparently it is cheapest to pick them up at the airport. Great I thought, when Southwest calls or notifies me about my bag I will just tell them I will pick it up. Well I hadn't been notified about my delivery by 2:30 yesterday so I called and yep it was there. So I tell the guy that I'm just going to pick it up on Sunday since I'm traveling to the airport anyway. He says okay and gets a little snippy that he had just filled out the FedEx paper work. So anyway, hopefully it will still be at the airport today when I go to get it.

Lessons learned:
1. If I book a flight with connections just take a carry on bag
2. Never have a connection through Atlanta, this was my third horrid experience with that airport.
3. When checking luggage, take a picture of the outside and inside in case it gets lost so you can easily describe it. Luckily I had a picture of the outside of my bag (I had sent a picture to my friend when I was all packed at home and sent it to share my excitement). But when I tried to remember the inside of my bag at 1 am I was not to descriptive.
4. Maybe instead of trying to save money with a connecting flight, maybe just spring for the more expensive non-stop flights.
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Connecting flights are lousy. Definitely spring for non-stop. In any case, glad you are home safe, and I cannot wait to see more pics. I seem to be ketching up backwards so maybe you posted some already. ;)
 
ajrwdwgirl

ajrwdwgirl

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MinnieM123 said:
I always put colored duct tape on my suitcase, too. I purposely make it look stupid (like a kid did it) -- because I figure no one would get caught dead walking around with my ugly suitcase, full of tape all over it! HA! It makes it really easy to spot at the airport when I pick it up.



I read your other posts about your gross trip back. Atlanta Hartsfield is not the airport you want to connect through--ever. It's too big and the gates seem miles apart. Years ago, I also had a lousey connection through that place--never again. I felt your pain when you wrote about sprinting to one of the gates far away.

(Reminds me of a similar run I had some year ago at LaGaurdia, when connecting to my flight to Boston. I swear that the gate was at the absolute farthest point AWAY from the gate that my plane, from Charlotte, NC, landed at. The Charlotte flight was late, and I hear my name announced all over the freaking airport's PA system, "Passenger (x) please proceed to gate (x) -- your flight is ready to depart." I ran my butt off (thank God I only had carry-on luggage).

Anyway, I am glad you are home safely now and sorry about your experience.
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Yep, I figured duct tape might ward some people off of my suitcase. And this wasn't the first sprint I've had in Atlanta, and I think I have learned my lesson so hopefully it will be my last.;)
 

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