Something like this happened in my apartment complex in the late 90s.
I lived near the Ohio State airport, Don Scott, UEM knows where I mean, and a small plane ran crashed on the next "street" over. It was probably 50 feet from my apartment. No one was killed, but the pilot broke both his legs. Turns out he was drunk and ran out of fuel.
Since Kite won't stop hounding me about it, I have decided to write a lengthy post detailing my recent trip to SOTSG-famous Florida, with some links and stuff.
We flew From BDL to MCO (mj knows what I mean) last Wednesday evening, rented a car, and drove the town of Edgewater. As we all know, it was named in honor of our very own BSMB. The trip down was pretty uneventful, I guess. The highlight was that my wife was unwilling to spend an additional $14 to pre-select seats for herself and Pup 3, so they arrived at the gate without assigned seats. Somehow that didn't turn into a shit show, so maybe it was worth saving $14 (it prob wasn't), but anyway... they ended up sitting like 20 rows in front of me and the boys, so I had a nice relaxing flight while they played on their iPads and she had to deal with a squirmy toddler for 3 hours. Other than a long ass rental car line, the whole thing really went pretty smoothly.
We were in Edgewater because my wife's aunt and uncle* live there (I guess he's technically her uncle because he's married to her aunt. But it's her 3rd husband, they started dating when my wife was like 28, so she doesn't call him "uncle". I refer to him as my wife's aunt's husband, or WAH). So anyway, we got a hotel near their house to visit for a few days. MIL was staying at their house too. Thursday and Friday we spent most of the day at the beach (New Smyrna Beach, if you must know), while also hanging out at their house a bit. They have a pool, so the kids had fun there when they wanted a break from the beach. It was a nice beach (no idea if it's nice by Florida standards, but pretty awesome compared to what's available in CT). Not all that crowded, but still a fair amount of good looking young sluts. Also a couple two tree really hot age-appropriate woman, if you're into that sort of thing.
Friday night, my BIL and his fiancee and her tits drove up from Theny's nip of the noodle to meet up with us and celebrate Wolfette's burfday wurfday. I already posted about that in the food thread, but here's the link for mj to check out again. Twas a very enjoyable meal of food; would go back. Saturday we wet back to the beach in the morning for a couple hours, the kids made a big sandcastle, fun was had. Then they hung out at her aunt's house while I played golf with BIL and WAH. It was a short but reasonably challenging course. Shit load of water, none of which was remotely hidden despite the name. I used borrowed clubs and will blame them for my general suckiness (I'd have sucked regardless, of course). I had a couple pars, and actually played pretty well the last 4-5 holes, but I still shot 102. They both shot in the low 80s because they live in Florida and golf multiple times a week year-round. WAH and I split a 6 pack of Yuengling on the back 9, and then I had a couple Sweetwater 420s at the bar after the round. We then enjoyed a nice home-cooked meal of spaghetti and meatballs back at her aunt's house. WAH had like 4 glasses of wine with dinner, could barely speak, and I later learned he was skinny dipping in their pool when we left to take the kids back to the hotel and go to bed. Pretty normal behavior when you have a house full of guests.
Sunday we packed up and drove back down to Orlando to spend the rest of the trip at Universal Studios. We left Pup 3 with MIL for a couple days (she was flying out of Orlando Tuesday afternoon and agreed to keep her so we could hae a day or 2 at the park with just the boys, and then she came and dropped her back off at our hotel on her way to the airport). Sunday was a washout, just absolutely pissing rain all day. Made for a really enjoyable drive, going about 35mph with maybe 50 feet of visibility for lengthy stretches of the highway. But we survived. Sadly we didn't make it into the park on Sunday because of the weather. The broad checking us in at the hotel evidently has family that live in our town, so she got all chatty with Wolfette and hooked us up with a room upgrade, free parking, and 4 meal vouchers. By my math this was about $350 worth of free stuff; Prez would be proud, I'm sure.
If you're unfamiliar, they have 2 theme parks there - Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure. We did US on Monday and IoA on Tuesday. BIL and Tits joined us on Monday, as well. Tuesday was a bit of a clusterfuck with Wolfette leaving the park to go meet her mom and pick up Pup 3, and she then forgot to bring a pacifier when she came back to the park. So P3 was kind of a pain in the ass for much of the day, and then was in total meltdown mode by the time we were leaving and trying to get dinner. Still a pretty fun day, all things considered. Wednesday we went back to IoA for half the day to hit a couple rides that we had missed, as well as explore more of the Harry Potter stuff, and then spent the afternoon at the hotel pool.
My overall thoughts on Universal...
If you have little kids (like 5 and under), you're way better off at Disney. There is next to nothing there for very young kids. There's a Dr. Seuss section (which we're working on removing, obviously) that had 2 rides Pup 3 was able to partake in, but the toddler "play areas" were closed because Covid. Even if that stuff was open, all the decent rides have a 48" height requirement, which thankfully P2 was just tall enough to en-joy. I was glad we got a full day without P3, because having to take turns waiting with her was a pain in the ass.
If you're a Harry Potter nerd, you should check it out. One park has a whole Diagon Alley section, and the other has a whole Hogsmeade section. Both are set up like a couple of city blocks, with all the stores and restaurants and stuff from the books/movies. They also have this interactive wand experience thing, where there's like a dozen spots throughout each area that you have to stand there and wave your wand in a particular pattern to activate the scene. There were hundreds of people who looked way too old for such things that seemed to be really enjoying it, and my kids loved it. There's also a "Hogswarts Express" train that takes you from one park to the other (assuming, of course, that you paid the upcharge for park-to-park tickets). The train was pretty cool; the windows play a hologram video to simulate the ride to/from Hogswarts. But this was the longest line we waited in the whole trip (70 minutes), and not worth the wait.
There are also 4 Harry Potter-themed rides. Hagrid's Motorbike Adventure was one of the best roller coasters I've ever ridden. I'm not an expert like UEM, so take that with a grain of salt I guess, but I loved this ride. 2 of them were 3D movie-type rides - Escape from Gringotts was fun; Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey seemed really cool, and P2 absolutely loved it, but it made me dizzy af, and I had to close my eyes for most of it to avoid vomiting. The other one was a smaler roller coaster for kids; I didn't do it, but the boys liked it.
Universal has a lot of rides that incorporate screens (both with and without 3D glasses) to simulate all the drops and twists and turns and such. I mostly like those, but some (like that Harry Potter one) make me sick. If those aren't your cup of tea, maybe don't go here. But they do have some good regular roller coasters too. That Hagrid one was awesome, as was the Rip It Rockit. The other one they're famous for is an Incredible Hulk coaster. The kids weren't tall enough to ride, and I didn't feel like waiting in line for an hour by myself, so I skipped that one but it's supposed to be fun.
The Southwest flight home was only half full. We gambled on that by booking P3 as a lap infant, and were rewarded with a shit load of empty seats so we got to give her own seat without buying a ticket. Prez would be proud again, I bet. There was probably some other stuff that we did during the week that didn't make the cut for this post. AMA.
Since Kite won't stop hounding me about it, I have decided to write a lengthy post detailing my recent trip to SOTSG-famous Florida, with some links and stuff.
We flew From BDL to MCO (mj knows what I mean) last Wednesday evening, rented a car, and drove the town of Edgewater. As we all know, it was named in honor of our very own BSMB. The trip down was pretty uneventful, I guess. The highlight was that my wife was unwilling to spend an additional $14 to pre-select seats for herself and Pup 3, so they arrived at the gate without assigned seats. Somehow that didn't turn into a shit show, so maybe it was worth saving $14 (it prob wasn't), but anyway... they ended up sitting like 20 rows in front of me and the boys, so I had a nice relaxing flight while they played on their iPads and she had to deal with a squirmy toddler for 3 hours. Other than a long ass rental car line, the whole thing really went pretty smoothly.
We were in Edgewater because my wife's aunt and uncle* live there (I guess he's technically her uncle because he's married to her aunt. But it's her 3rd husband, they started dating when my wife was like 28, so she doesn't call him "uncle". I refer to him as my wife's aunt's husband, or WAH). So anyway, we got a hotel near their house to visit for a few days. MIL was staying at their house too. Thursday and Friday we spent most of the day at the beach (New Smyrna Beach, if you must know), while also hanging out at their house a bit. They have a pool, so the kids had fun there when they wanted a break from the beach. It was a nice beach (no idea if it's nice by Florida standards, but pretty awesome compared to what's available in CT). Not all that crowded, but still a fair amount of good looking young sluts. Also a couple two tree really hot age-appropriate woman, if you're into that sort of thing.
Friday night, my BIL and his fiancee and her tits drove up from Theny's nip of the noodle to meet up with us and celebrate Wolfette's burfday wurfday. I already posted about that in the food thread, but here's the link for mj to check out again. Twas a very enjoyable meal of food; would go back. Saturday we wet back to the beach in the morning for a couple hours, the kids made a big sandcastle, fun was had. Then they hung out at her aunt's house while I played golf with BIL and WAH. It was a short but reasonably challenging course. Shit load of water, none of which was remotely hidden despite the name. I used borrowed clubs and will blame them for my general suckiness (I'd have sucked regardless, of course). I had a couple pars, and actually played pretty well the last 4-5 holes, but I still shot 102. They both shot in the low 80s because they live in Florida and golf multiple times a week year-round. WAH and I split a 6 pack of Yuengling on the back 9, and then I had a couple Sweetwater 420s at the bar after the round. We then enjoyed a nice home-cooked meal of spaghetti and meatballs back at her aunt's house. WAH had like 4 glasses of wine with dinner, could barely speak, and I later learned he was skinny dipping in their pool when we left to take the kids back to the hotel and go to bed. Pretty normal behavior when you have a house full of guests.
Sunday we packed up and drove back down to Orlando to spend the rest of the trip at Universal Studios. We left Pup 3 with MIL for a couple days (she was flying out of Orlando Tuesday afternoon and agreed to keep her so we could hae a day or 2 at the park with just the boys, and then she came and dropped her back off at our hotel on her way to the airport). Sunday was a washout, just absolutely pissing rain all day. Made for a really enjoyable drive, going about 35mph with maybe 50 feet of visibility for lengthy stretches of the highway. But we survived. Sadly we didn't make it into the park on Sunday because of the weather. The broad checking us in at the hotel evidently has family that live in our town, so she got all chatty with Wolfette and hooked us up with a room upgrade, free parking, and 4 meal vouchers. By my math this was about $350 worth of free stuff; Prez would be proud, I'm sure.
If you're unfamiliar, they have 2 theme parks there - Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure. We did US on Monday and IoA on Tuesday. BIL and Tits joined us on Monday, as well. Tuesday was a bit of a clusterfuck with Wolfette leaving the park to go meet her mom and pick up Pup 3, and she then forgot to bring a pacifier when she came back to the park. So P3 was kind of a pain in the ass for much of the day, and then was in total meltdown mode by the time we were leaving and trying to get dinner. Still a pretty fun day, all things considered. Wednesday we went back to IoA for half the day to hit a couple rides that we had missed, as well as explore more of the Harry Potter stuff, and then spent the afternoon at the hotel pool.
My overall thoughts on Universal...
If you have little kids (like 5 and under), you're way better off at Disney. There is next to nothing there for very young kids. There's a Dr. Seuss section (which we're working on removing, obviously) that had 2 rides Pup 3 was able to partake in, but the toddler "play areas" were closed because Covid. Even if that stuff was open, all the decent rides have a 48" height requirement, which thankfully P2 was just tall enough to en-joy. I was glad we got a full day without P3, because having to take turns waiting with her was a pain in the ass.
If you're a Harry Potter nerd, you should check it out. One park has a whole Diagon Alley section, and the other has a whole Hogsmeade section. Both are set up like a couple of city blocks, with all the stores and restaurants and stuff from the books/movies. They also have this interactive wand experience thing, where there's like a dozen spots throughout each area that you have to stand there and wave your wand in a particular pattern to activate the scene. There were hundreds of people who looked way too old for such things that seemed to be really enjoying it, and my kids loved it. There's also a "Hogswarts Express" train that takes you from one park to the other (assuming, of course, that you paid the upcharge for park-to-park tickets). The train was pretty cool; the windows play a hologram video to simulate the ride to/from Hogswarts. But this was the longest line we waited in the whole trip (70 minutes), and not worth the wait.
There are also 4 Harry Potter-themed rides. Hagrid's Motorbike Adventure was one of the best roller coasters I've ever ridden. I'm not an expert like UEM, so take that with a grain of salt I guess, but I loved this ride. 2 of them were 3D movie-type rides - Escape from Gringotts was fun; Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey seemed really cool, and P2 absolutely loved it, but it made me dizzy af, and I had to close my eyes for most of it to avoid vomiting. The other one was a smaler roller coaster for kids; I didn't do it, but the boys liked it.
Universal has a lot of rides that incorporate screens (both with and without 3D glasses) to simulate all the drops and twists and turns and such. I mostly like those, but some (like that Harry Potter one) make me sick. If those aren't your cup of tea, maybe don't go here. But they do have some good regular roller coasters too. That Hagrid one was awesome, as was the Rip It Rockit. The other one they're famous for is an Incredible Hulk coaster. The kids weren't tall enough to ride, and I didn't feel like waiting in line for an hour by myself, so I skipped that one but it's supposed to be fun.
The Southwest flight home was only half full. We gambled on that by booking P3 as a lap infant, and were rewarded with a shit load of empty seats so we got to give her own seat without buying a ticket. Prez would be proud again, I bet. There was probably some other stuff that we did during the week that didn't make the cut for this post. AMA.
Good post.
Tim said he and his kids really enjoyed the Hagrid's Motorbike Adventure ride.
Not many condiments AT the park for me as I mostly just ate grab and go snacks there. But let's see what condiments I can recall from the trip...
I had a hot dog before golf on Saturday, with boring old yellow mustard (that and ketchup were the only condiments offered). The restaurant we went to Friday night served the bread with roasted garlic; we poured olive oil and balsamic over that and mashed it all around on the plate to dip the bread in. I ordered a gyro from the poolside restaurant at the hotel on Wednesday; that was served with tzatziki sauce, and I also paired it with frenched fries dipped in ketchup. We lunched at the Leaky Cauldron one day, and I had a few bites of my wife's fish (I didn't eat any of her chips) dipped in tartar sauce; my meal (beef, lamb, and Guinness stew in a bread bowl) was served condiment-less, but it did include a side salad with Ranch. I ordered a pastrami sandwich for dinner one night; that came with a spicy brown mustard.
Not many condiments AT the park for me as I mostly just ate grab and go snacks there. But let's see what condiments I can recall from the trip...
I had a hot dog before golf on Saturday, with boring old yellow mustard (that and ketchup were the only condiments offered). The restaurant we went to Friday night served the bread with roasted garlic; we poured olive oil and balsamic over that and mashed it all around on the plate to dip the bread in. I ordered a gyro from the poolside restaurant at the hotel on Wednesday; that was served with tzatziki sauce, and I also paired it with frenched fries dipped in ketchup. We lunched at the Leaky Cauldron one day, and I had a few bites of my wife's fish (I didn't eat any of her chips) dipped in tartar sauce; my meal (beef, lamb, and Guinness stew in a bread bowl) was served condiment-less, but it did include a side salad with Ranch. I ordered a pastrami sandwich for dinner one night; that came with a spicy brown mustard.
This has been a condiment post.
Sounds like a spectacularly well-rounded trip. Congrats and
Isn't it a little racist to call it Black Friday? - Joy Behar
Not many condiments AT the park for me as I mostly just ate grab and go snacks there. But let's see what condiments I can recall from the trip...
I had a hot dog before golf on Saturday, with boring old yellow mustard (that and ketchup were the only condiments offered). The restaurant we went to Friday night served the bread with roasted garlic; we poured olive oil and balsamic over that and mashed it all around on the plate to dip the bread in. I ordered a gyro from the poolside restaurant at the hotel on Wednesday; that was served with tzatziki sauce, and I also paired it with frenched fries dipped in ketchup. We lunched at the Leaky Cauldron one day, and I had a few bites of my wife's fish (I didn't eat any of her chips) dipped in tartar sauce; my meal (beef, lamb, and Guinness stew in a bread bowl) was served condiment-less, but it did include a side salad with Ranch. I ordered a pastrami sandwich for dinner one night; that came with a spicy brown mustard.
This has been a condiment post.
Sounds like a spectacularly well-rounded trip. Congrats and
TY. Twas a nice time. Being back at "work" today is dumb.
Post by SouthernYokel on Apr 24, 2021 20:17:32 GMT -5
just booked a trip to Maui in August. paid for main cabin and then used most of my miles to upgrade our seats to first class. feelin pretty good aboot it.
just booked a trip to Maui in August. paid for main cabin and then used most of my miles to upgrade our seats to first class. feelin pretty good aboot it.
That didn't last long...the rental car costs nearly as much as the flights. Fuckin Hawaii.
