04-09-2004, 11:54 AM | #1 |
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Holidays
Aren't they great?
The only bad things about them are: 1) there aren't enough compared with work days. the proportions should be exactly reversed, and 2) when they're over. Since I'm off on one, to Scotland for a week, here's a thread for saying where you're going, for how long and what it was like (after you've got back, of course, unless you have some sort of spooky power.) (if you reckon you do have spooky powers, this thread would be the ideal place to test it out) So, anyway, i'm off to a rented house in the Scottish borders, for a week with the entire clan of in-laws. My spooky prediction Should be mostly good, though some sticky moments are inevitable, along with copious escapism-fuelled boozing and occasional deep breaths. Like when you're trying to cook a meal and your brother and sister-in-law just barge in and take over. So, not throwing crockery at each other or actual fighting (like some families I've known), more like slightly unusual concepts of appropriateness on the behaviour front. Highlights should be a couple of visits to see old friends in Edinburgh and having the boy's birthday party while while we're up there. Anyhoo, see you later if I'm still sane. |
04-09-2004, 11:35 PM | #2 |
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Sadly I guess no one else is going anywhere. But I hope you have a good time. I don't have any family around me - so I will be just spending it by myself. My father is going to my sisters in Tennessee.
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04-09-2004, 11:56 PM | #3 |
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Hmm...sad to say I usually miss the holidays...though I intend on giving Lizra a valentines e-card next time
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04-10-2004, 12:58 AM | #4 |
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Holidays? Just another day.
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04-10-2004, 11:23 AM | #5 |
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Scottland! Sounds nice. Enjoy it. And dont forget money's like the muck midden, it deas nae guid till it be spreed! So donna be short with the nickles. Come back broke, happy and hung over.
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04-19-2004, 11:11 AM | #6 | |
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Well, I'm back
Had a grand time, thank you very much. Mony mickles were made into a muckle, and lang did wur lum reek.
Did some walking, climbing, loads of eating (Borders lamb - mmmm!) and hunnerts o drinkin. God, my in-laws can pack it away. Now off to detox for a week. Predictions were mostly accurate, though I did manage a couple of days with the Gamgee side of the family. We visited New Lanark, an early 18th Century social experiment-cum-industrial complex set up by Robert Owen: Quote:
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04-19-2004, 11:28 AM | #7 | |
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It's curious, because I hadn't thought about Owens (Robert) in long long years, and today I "met" him twice
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04-19-2004, 12:58 PM | #8 |
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Welcome back, Gaffer! Good idea for a thread - I usually try to post in my favorite threads when I'm going to be gone for a bit, so people don't think I'm ignoring them.
In the same house as the in-laws, eh? How many? I like my in-laws, but not in the same house for more than 5 days .... How many rooms in the house? How's your wife and the expection addition, btw? Have you managed to stay off smoking? We're having a major vacation to Ecuador in December with all of my husband's side of the family for 2 WEEKS! There'll be 22 of us. (They lived in Ecuador for 8 years and want to go back as a family.) I'm a bit nervous about it ...
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04-19-2004, 07:02 PM | #9 |
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but you do mean 'holidays' meaning 'vacations' in American English, right? Not 'holidays' like Memorial Day or Labor Day or The 4th of July...
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We went to Chicago last week for a little vacation. We stayed at the beautiful "Hotel Inter-Continental" 505 Michigan Ave. All that concrete and *!! SHOPPING !!* was a nice change of pace!
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04-19-2004, 09:47 PM | #11 |
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oooooo I just went to Disney World (Florida)! Wow- I was never there before. That was so much fun and more fun and even more fun!
My legs are sore because my friend and I went to every possible thing and really crammed stuff in from about 8 in the morning to 11 or 12 at night! And we walked really really fast to get everywhere. I hate our consumeristic society though.
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04-20-2004, 08:00 AM | #12 |
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Haha! You hate it....but it was sooo much fun! Forked tongue!
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04-26-2004, 04:08 AM | #14 |
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OK, just to make you all puke, the Gammer and I are off on YET ANOTHER holiday, this time to New York!
We're spending the weekend in the Hamptons then 5 days in NYC. Any suggestions for "must-see/must-do" or "avoid like the plague" items? |
04-26-2004, 01:09 PM | #15 |
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Go to the Carnegie Deli and get your gentile ass a big fat rubin. And a knish the size of a frisbee. Perhaps take home a couple cheesecakes. Its on 7th Ave. I think. Then hit china town and little italy of course and eat until you cant feel your fingers anymore.
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I doubt we're going to the Gal. It's a trip down memory lane for hubby's side of the family - "and here's where the drunken Indian chased me with the machete", "and here's where I got tear-gassed", "and here's where the tanks rolled down the street", "and here's where Dad made me cross the river with a rope around my waist to see if it was too deep for the jeep" ... and so on .... Oh, NY! I've never been there, and unfortunately you're too far away for me to meet you I'm on the other coast. I'm sure JD would be your best resource for things to do. Be sure to get AWAY from the big cities, tho - in America, the big cities aren't as attractive as those in Europe, IMHO. But we have loads of beautiful countryside.
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What a gorgeous pool! They said it was Johnny Weismueller's (sp) favorite, back in the day. The building used to be a Masonic temple of some sort, very gorgeous. Hubby took some nice pics of me lounging at the pool! Next time we go, I'll spring the extra $30 for the larger room in the historic tower, with the great veiw. If only we didn't have to drive on the Chicago Skyway! I hate heights!
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04-26-2004, 03:49 PM | #20 |
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Ugghh.
Took today off. Was sooo bored. Washed my car. Read a few chapters of the Silmarillion. Listened to deep house. Fell asleep while listening to deep house. Woke up and continued reading Silmarillion while listening to deep house. Cleaned the rest of my car while listening to white label trance. At least I got some sleep. And tomorrow is a public holiday, but I can't wait, since I'll be at the track the whole day. But I'm taking Wednesday off as well. I need the sleep. |
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