Where in the World Isn't Bob Saget?

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ajrwdwgirl said:
13 days

12.5 with students

10 classroom days: the other 2.5 are a service learning day, a trip to Valleyfair (an amusement park), and the last day is a half day (we will do locker clean out and games).

May 30th is an inservice day and at 3:31pm my tiki bar party for the staff starts
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The end of the year is crazy busy with events...

Music program
Field trip to a geology museum
1st grade park trip
Spirit Day (bouncy houses and inflatable obstacle courses)

The past few years I've also done a Splash Day as our final class reward. I've taken my class to the aforementioned park to play water games. It's nice there because we have lots of space, don't distract any classrooms, and they have separate bathrooms to change in. But with the behaviors in my class, I'm not comfortable taking them to the park by myself. So I'm trying to figure out how to do that at school.
 
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So May 30th is our last day with students, and it's a half day for them. We're unclear if we can leave after that, or have to stay. If we can leave, some friends invited me for ice cream after school. There's a place giving it out for free to celebrate the end of the year. Then we go back for inservice on June 2nd and 3rd.
 
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Songbird76 said:
The one we always ate at for that deal was JBs. I always ordered the spaghetti and meatballs. There was also a hotel chain where kids stay free, so when we didn't have a relative to stay with somewhere along the way, we'd stay at one of those... Like... Sunset Inn or Sunrise Inn or something. They were all over the US. We had regular stops... Like we always stopped and at at Happy Chef in I think it was Mitchell South Dakota, and one time we got evacuated because the P in the happy chef sign caught fire from a bird's nest. And we always stopped at Blue Earth Minnesota to see the Jolly Green Giant statue. And I don't know where it was, but somewhere we always stopped for gas had a giant pig statue that you could put a quarter in and it talked. I wish I could remember where. And in Tennessee, we had bad timing... There was some event going on and we went to Denny's for dinner and everything we tried to order, they were out of. I think we finally ended up asking what we COULD order. That was one of our Disney trips, on our way down to Florida.
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JB's sounds about right, but I could be thinking of something else, same type of walk along a few counters, take what you want and then go to the cashier. Whatever we got wasn't all that much though the largest costs were for my wife and myself. We did have to watch the youngin's though to be sure they didn't fill their tray with 100% sugar. I think it was there for most of the 80's, however, after that I have no clue. For some reason, I think it was near where they had that giant plastic Gator on 192 east of Rte 4. Not Gaterland, but it's close cousin, twice removed.

As far as hotels, we just got a flier for all the Econo-lodges from Vermont to Florida and made reservations for wherever we planned to get to that day. We also did a brand new Econo-lodge just about a mile west of the entrance to World Drive for the time we were planning to stay in Kissimmee. It was still there in 2017, but gone by 2019. That first time was in 1983 and it was $25.00 per night based on two people, kids were free. It was in pretty nice shape and we went there for a few consecutive years and then it started to get a little raged around the edges. I can't imagine what it must have looked like inside 33 years later.
 
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rshell68 said:
Familiar with that area. This is where I grew up: https://www.grantpark-il.org/ until we moved here https://www.charlestonillinois.org/ when I was in 8th grade. It was the WORST time to move....everyone already had their cliques by the time I arrived.
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My mom met my dad on an airplane and she moved to Wyoming when they got married, but her whole family was in Kane County Illinois. The whole cemetery in West Dundee is full of my mom's relatives. They have spread out a little more now....one of my cousins is in Iowa, and her dad moved to Tennessee just a couple of years ago. And one of my mom's cousins moved to Arizona and one to California, and she always said that they were always left out of the loop....everyone in the family knew who was pregnant, who was sick, who had passed, etc, except those three who left. Now that her generation is all gone, the kids have kind of moved on.
 
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Goofyernmost said:
JB's sounds about right, but I could be thinking of something else, same type of walk along a few counters, take what you want and then go to the cashier. Whatever we got wasn't all that much though the largest costs were for my wife and myself. We did have to watch the youngin's though to be sure they didn't fill their tray with 100% sugar. I think it was there for most of the 80's, however, after that I have no clue. For some reason, I think it was near where they had that giant plastic Gator on 192 east of Rte 4. Not Gaterland, but it's close cousin, twice removed.

As far as hotels, we just got a flier for all the Econo-lodges from Vermont to Florida and made reservations for wherever we planned to get to that day. We also did a brand new Econo-lodge just about a mile west of the entrance to World Drive for the time we were planning to stay in Kissimmee. It was still there in 2017, but gone by 2019. That first time was in 1983 and it was $25.00 per night based on two people, kids were free. It was in pretty nice shape and we went there for a few consecutive years and then it started to get a little raged around the edges. I can't imagine what it must have looked like inside 33 years later.
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Our JBs was always a sit down restaurant...there was no walking along the counter to take what you wanted. They did have a salad bar, I think....

I also got to thinking, maybe it wasn't a giant pig statue....maybe it was an elephant. I just don't remember anymore, it was such a long time ago, and I think mom figured we outgrew that by the time we were 8 or 9. I don't know.
 

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