Where in the World is Bob Saget?

[Gabe1]

Yes, it is sooo humid. Haven't had that all summer but it looks like the rain skimmed right over us and got you.

It is so humid here and the hour rain didn't help. Guess more rain on the horizon later. Joy Joy

 

[unkadug]

Anyone wanta meet me for dinner at Sunshine Seasons for a Fish Taco? I need 4.5 hours to make it to Epcot.

4.5 hours? It takes me 7.5 to get there and I live closer.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

I'm torn on those Fantasyland antiquated dark rides current and former. I took my final spin on Snow before she closed and was OK with it departing but objected to closing a ride for yet another meet and greet. Toad was cute but I had a bond with Pooh so I thought I was OK with that. I am still disappointed on how little Disney did with the Pooh attraction in the MK. That attraction should have been better like Pooh Tokyo:


But I'll take a Meh Pooh at the MK over a meet and greet over a ride. As popular as Peter Pan is (I fail to get it) it could use some modernization too along with a much better load ratio.

I enjoy the WDW Pooh very much. The DL Pooh...meh. Very meh.

 

[Gabe1]

An old friend of both my DD and DS was on the front page of a major paper in N. IL yesterday for her work with dolphins in Clearwater. She was doing an internship during the filming of Dolphin Tale. She had two years of college under her belt and took an unpaid internship. At a wrap party with Clearwater, cast and crew they received a call for a down dolphin and its baby. The film crew actually got to see and film a genuine rescue. While the Mom was a goner the baby Hope was saved.

Their friend is almost done with her degree has been back at Clearwater for a while and is one of the trainers for baby Hope, part of Dolphin 2. We got to look at photo's of her in the water with the baby dolphin. So fun. This girl is putting herself through college on her own so I am so proud of her. When she did her internship she had to ride a bike through the woods at night 7 miles cause she couldn't afford a car. She let nothing stand in her way of working with dolphins her childhood dream. Quite a young woman by age 23.

clearwater photo's

 

[StarWarsGirl]

My daughter's first year of school they decided to have separate father/daughter and mother/son dances instead of an all school dance. They got a real backlash because it HAD to be the child's actual parent, not a grandparent, not an aunt or uncle, so children in a single parent home or living with a guardian weren't supposed to attend. (I took my daughter to the movies instead.) After that year they changed back to the everyone together format and attendance doubled.

Not just single parents, but what about children who are being raised by grandparents or aunts and uncles because of absent parents? Dumb decision.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

4.5 hours? It takes me 7.5 to get there and I live closer.

Airplanes.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Good point. I will edit my objection. Why are they selling it at WDW?

 

[JenniferS]

Anyone wanta meet me for dinner at Sunshine Seasons for a Fish Taco? I need 4.5 hours to make it to Epcot.

I'll have two, please.
Those look really good.

 

[Gabe1]

4.5 hours? It takes me 7.5 to get there and I live closer.

2.45 flight, hour security, hour DME. If the stars are aligned yep. The plane took off at 610 am cdt this spring and I was on property at resort at 930 EST

 

[Gabe1]

We poobered around some shopping outlets up in Kittery,

I wanted to take a moment to acknowledge @MinnieM123 into the club for -isms. I love the word poobered.

 

[MOXOMUMD]

4.5 hours? It takes me 7.5 to get there and I live closer.

Without delays, it's an even two hour direct flight for us.

 

[MinnieM123]

I wanted to take a moment to acknowledge @MinnieM123 into the club for -isms. I love the word poobered.

I'm honored to be an esteemed member of this club! Yah, I've been saying poober and poobered (depending upon the verb tense in a sentence) ever since I was little. I don't know if I made up the word, myself, or if I heard it from one of my siblings.

 

[Soarin' Over Pgh]

My daughter's first year of school they decided to have separate father/daughter and mother/son dances instead of an all school dance. They got a real backlash because it HAD to be the child's actual parent, not a grandparent, not an aunt or uncle, so children in a single parent home or living with a guardian weren't supposed to attend. (I took my daughter to the movies instead.) After that year they changed back to the everyone together format and attendance doubled.

That's a terrible decision. Shame on them.

Unrelated, but I buy my mom flowers and give her a nice card for Father's Day.

It's more than her husbands two idiot sons do for him, and that es me off, so now I get him a "you're awesome" card and take them out to dinner.

 

[MinnieM123]

I'll have two, please.
Those look really good.

I love tacos, but I don't want any fish in my tacos. If the fish was served separately on a plate, I'd eat it. None of my "explanation" will make any sense to anyone, but moi.

 

[MinnieM123]

O.k. I just tried a new feature about highlighting and hitting the quote button. I was experimenting with @Soarin' Over Pgh 's response to MOXOMUMD's post about father/daughter dances, etc. Then Soarin posted another thought in that same thread about the nice things she does for Mother's and Father's Days, and I thought that was great. Hence, I tried the quotie thing and I'm not sure I did this right. So, if you're all confused, here goes nothing! HA! (Quotie button thingie test 1 is commencing; puts hands over eyes--did I do it right or, more likely scenario--screw it up completely??! HERE GOES! )

That's a terrible decision. Shame on them.

Unrelated, but I buy my mom flowers and give her a nice card for Father's Day.

It's more than her husbands two idiot sons do for him, and that es me off, so now I get him a "you're awesome" card and take them out to dinner.

 

[MinnieM123]

Oh heck--I just looked above--how did it end up upside down??

 

[unkadug]

Without delays, it's an even two hour direct flight for us.

Even if I flew it would still be over 6 hours for me as I would have to fly to Atlanta or Charlotte then to Orlando!

 

[donaldtoo]

Happy Labor Day to everyone. Let's enjoy this day off!!!!!!!!!!!

@donaldtoo , I really liked those pictures you shared. I love history—every state has fascinating stories to tell. (Remember that recent, excellent post that @Soarin' Over Pgh did about Pittsburgh; I loved that, too!)

Anyway, when I saw the photos of Texas it seemed so different to me, in a nice way, of course. I think with work, other duties in life, etc., we only scratch the surface of what's out there to see, in our lifetime.

One of your comments amazed me—it was the one about how architecture in SA could never cast a shadow on the sanctuary. Now, that's good stuff, right there! It never ceases to impress me just how brilliant and caring our forefathers were. Oh, and by the way, that was cool that DWifey had a distant relative's connection to the Alamo!

Happy Labor Day to you, too!

Thanks, and I very much loved @Soarin' Over Pgh's Pittsburgh history, as well!

Yep, many folks, understandably, still seem to think of the entire Texas landscape as either prairie or dessert. Truth is, the landscapes of this state are as vast as the area it encompasses. Over 350 miles of gulf coastline, hundreds of sq. miles of beautiful central Texas hill country, nine 8,000+ ft. high mountain peaks in west Texas, the piney woods of east Texas, and even Palo Duro Canyon up in the panhandle flatlands near Amarillo. So vast.
Folks come down here and are just completely, and happily, surprised and amazed.
That's why I, occasionally, and jokingly, post things like "Stop comin' down here! It's already too darn crowded! "

Just one typical example: A few years ago, at the clothing store, I sold 2 suits to a guy who's company had recently transferred him down here from the northeast. He told me that he and his wife had come down here just to take a look around, to see if they'd like it here, knowing full-well they wouldn't. Not only did they like it, they bought a house on that first visit (something they told me they had not, at all, planned on doing) before they went back up north to prepare for the move down that they thought they wouldn't even wanna' be making.

I've actually been as far west as San Francisco, as far east as NYC, as far north as Warroad Minnesota, and as far south as Laredo, Texas, and MANY places in between. But, with the exception of 2 church trips to a girls orphanage down in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, I have never left the contiguous 48.
Funny thing is, as you related, there's still sooo much in this country I have yet to experience...!!!

 

[donaldtoo]

gentlemen.. preparing to board the wonder..woohoo!!

WOOHOOOOO!!! is right, Cesar!!!
Have a BLAST!!!!!

 

[MinnieM123]

Not just single parents, but what about children who are being raised by grandparents or aunts and uncles because of absent parents? Dumb decision.

You are so right. In this day and age, it does boggle the mind how a school district could have been so unenlightened . . .

I am glad they changed the rule to a more sane one, after this debacle.

Note: By the way, we never had a father/daughter dance in my school. Maybe it was more of a regional event, in other parts of the country, perhaps.