Driving back from Delaware on Sunday I made two new friends, always an interesting experience. The first was the driver for Marten Trucking pulling trailer #16305 on the New Jersey Turnpike. He felt the need for speed, and tried to pass the bus that was going 60. Unfortunately for him, his truck and trailer seemed to have a top speed of 60. After 20 (yes, 20) miles of this he finally gave up and moved back behind the bus. I think there was steam coming out of my ears by that time. He received a very feminine hand gesture to show my appreciation. Out the sunroof, so that made it even classier. Z would be so proud.....
My second new friend was a man driving his wife's minivan. It made me wonder what would possess a man to wave and wink at another female, while driving his wife's minivan?! What made this minivan special was the 20" chrome wheels in the back, but only the back. The front wheels were stock, and the wheel covers had come off. There appeared to be a lot of weight in the back of the van, possibly some of his children's toys?, because the back wheels were tilted in at a scary angle. I got away from him pretty quick. Stay tuned for the next drama of traveling with the princess!
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Corvettes Always Have the Right of Way
Today Z and I went to Corvette Carlisle, which, amazingly enough, is a Corvette show in Carlisle PA. We were up at 5am to hit the road at 6, to make sure we arrived around 8 so we could beat the traffic in. Mission accomplished! We tried to go to this very same show three years ago but had the weekend wrong. The only other time I spent with Corvette guys was during the Power Tour. I hadn't been too impressed with them then, I'm less now.
Now let's play "Where's the Corvette Guy" - these are the ways to find one and identify him:
1. A Corvette Guy always has the right of way.
2. If out of his car, he will be wearing at least one item of Corvette apparel, usually either a shirt or hat. Sometimes shoes to match the car, or even socks.
3. He is usually at least 40 years old.
4. He does not even glance at other models of cars - if not a Corvette, he is not interested.
5. Most of the time he is either with male friends or by himself - chances are there is no wife - the wives we did see were with men who appeared to be at retirement age.
6. Corvette guys will drive from all over the country (and continent!) to Carlisle PA for the biggest Corvette show in the US - we saw license plates from VA, NJ, MA, NC, ME, TN & Ontario.
Z is a car guy, so even though he has a Corvette, he does not have any of these characteristics; he likes all cars, as long as they're fast.
Now let's play "Where's the Corvette Guy" - these are the ways to find one and identify him:
1. A Corvette Guy always has the right of way.
2. If out of his car, he will be wearing at least one item of Corvette apparel, usually either a shirt or hat. Sometimes shoes to match the car, or even socks.
3. He is usually at least 40 years old.
4. He does not even glance at other models of cars - if not a Corvette, he is not interested.
5. Most of the time he is either with male friends or by himself - chances are there is no wife - the wives we did see were with men who appeared to be at retirement age.
6. Corvette guys will drive from all over the country (and continent!) to Carlisle PA for the biggest Corvette show in the US - we saw license plates from VA, NJ, MA, NC, ME, TN & Ontario.
Z is a car guy, so even though he has a Corvette, he does not have any of these characteristics; he likes all cars, as long as they're fast.
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
50 Days to Go!!
Can you believe it?! Only 50 days until D I S N E Y and MICKEY!! Oh yeah, woo hoo, yippee! I ordered our park tickets today, 8 day base tickets. A little birdy (thanks L!) told me the prices will be going up tomorrow. I was on hold for about 27 minutes (it would seem a few other people shared my idea) but didn't really notice because I was enjoying the sounds of Haunted Mansion, Splash Mountain, Pirates of the Caribbean, Oh My! This is what I have 4,500 roll over minutes for, to enjoy the sounds of Disney! And to hear at the end of the phone conversation, "Have a magical day", really that's what life is about.
I figured, in all of my wisdom, that we should get the 8 day tickets, that way we can start having fun Friday night when we arrive, even if we just go for fireworks. At an extra $3/person/day, you really can't beat it. Beats waiting in line again though.
One thing I am intent on purchasing is a Figment sticker for my laptop, because he is purple and his name is Figment, of course!
I have not been gloating at work, so I have not had to pay the required fine every time I mention vacation. Instead I quietly write on my dry erase board every day the DISNEY COUNTDOWN. It feels like just last week I was too excited to sit down when I was calling to get tickets for Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party. Sigh, the good times.
I ordered special maps of the parks from Disney, I picked which attractions I wanted listed - maps are really cool, check out disneyworld.com if you want a set! Interestingly enough, my maps did not include any roller coasters. I wonder how that happened? They must all be closed when we're going.
I figured, in all of my wisdom, that we should get the 8 day tickets, that way we can start having fun Friday night when we arrive, even if we just go for fireworks. At an extra $3/person/day, you really can't beat it. Beats waiting in line again though.
One thing I am intent on purchasing is a Figment sticker for my laptop, because he is purple and his name is Figment, of course!
I have not been gloating at work, so I have not had to pay the required fine every time I mention vacation. Instead I quietly write on my dry erase board every day the DISNEY COUNTDOWN. It feels like just last week I was too excited to sit down when I was calling to get tickets for Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party. Sigh, the good times.
I ordered special maps of the parks from Disney, I picked which attractions I wanted listed - maps are really cool, check out disneyworld.com if you want a set! Interestingly enough, my maps did not include any roller coasters. I wonder how that happened? They must all be closed when we're going.
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Another One Bites the Dust!
Z and I traveled to New Port Richey FL this weekend for his best friend's wedding. No Julia Roberts, though. We flew down Friday morning and are now sitting at the Tampa airport waiting for our flight. Thursday night after work I drove down to DE and got to Z's house around 11:30. I had a small detour when my air pressure was low on one of my tires; thank goodness for the air gauge in my dashboard. That done, it was an uneventful trip.
Friday morning at 4:00 the alarm went off - I am not that good on four hours of sleep. Once we got to the airport there was, of course, an issue with Z's license. Apparently the security sticker was missing. Going through security the lady wanted to know "what happened to it?" We didn't know. DMV, here he comes!
As some of you may know, I am not a good flyer. Luckily my doc gave me some anti-anxiety pills. I took one, and wasn't really feeling it, so I took another one. .5 milligrams, how bad can it be? Once we were in the air we found out. I was in a little bit of a la la land state. I think I even fell asleep for a while!
We landed safely, and headed over to pick up the rental car. We were scheduled for a PT Cruiser. Ewwww. The lovely man at the desk offered us an upgrade to an Infiniti G37 for an extra $40/day. Z looked to me for help, I said "Oh yeah". We ended up with the Infiniti. Push button start, 330 HP, back up camera. Nice! It may be my next car. If I can get past the fact that it's a Nissan. We'll see. Once Z got into the gas, I think he was pretty happy to have upgraded.
We met a friend of Z's from high school at Chilis (yum!) for lunch. They hadn't seen each other in 15 years, it was a lot of fun. After that we were able to check into our hotel, which was a Hilton Resort, Homewood Suites (excellent deal on Hotels.com!). When we checked in the desk warned us they were having a reception there that night but we should not be affected, they were supposed to park down the street. More on that later. Z tossed me Cookie to put the church address in, as we were headed over that night for rehearsal. I grabbed the invitation and put what I thought was the address in; keep in mind I was still out of it from the pills. One of us fell asleep almost immediately after that. When it was time to get ready it was not easy to wake me up. Z thought I was dead, but no such luck!
We headed over to the church address that I had put into Cookie and instead arrived at the reception hall. Oops. That's the last time I'll be trusted to do that! It was okay, we called and got the correct address and made it there with two minutes to spare. Rehearsal went well, then it was off to (guess where!), Chilis! There were about 20 people there, we totally invaded. Dinner was a lot of fun, then back to the bride and groom's house for a bit of final instruction.
Back at the hotel we were not able to find an empty spot. So much for their promise that we wouldn't be affected. I drove around the parking lot twice, getting quite angry the more I looked. I squealed to a stop at the front lobby door, stormed in and loudly proclaimed "We're staying here and we can't get a spot because of these people, I need someone to move their car so I can park". Sometimes it pays off to be a pushy broad. A man followed us out and proceeded to move his jeep. Problem solved. Almost. Once we were in our room there was an endless trail of women loudly walking down the hall. One was so loud I stuck my head out the door and asked them to keep in down. She asked her companion "is she serious?" Oh yeah, come closer and see how serious she is!
Saturday we ate our complimentary breakfast at the hotel, then the groom called and asked us to go to breakfast, so we ate again at Cracker Barrel. I dropped off Z, the groom and a groomsman at the groom's mom's house for their day of fun. I even made it back to the hotel all by myself! Yay!
Reception at the church was great, no tears or anything! Bride was beautiful, groom was very handsome! Then off to the reception, which was really fun! They had a photo booth, and one half of the strip went to us and the other half went to the bride and groom, in a scrapbook, excellent idea, wonderful presentation. We visited the photo booth four times, I peer pressured Z into it.
Today we had breakfast at the hotel with the bride and groom, then off to the airport. Time to turn in the wonderful rental car. Oh well. Now we're sitting at the airport, and of course our flight into Philly is delayed. So far an hour and a half.
Friday morning at 4:00 the alarm went off - I am not that good on four hours of sleep. Once we got to the airport there was, of course, an issue with Z's license. Apparently the security sticker was missing. Going through security the lady wanted to know "what happened to it?" We didn't know. DMV, here he comes!
As some of you may know, I am not a good flyer. Luckily my doc gave me some anti-anxiety pills. I took one, and wasn't really feeling it, so I took another one. .5 milligrams, how bad can it be? Once we were in the air we found out. I was in a little bit of a la la land state. I think I even fell asleep for a while!
We landed safely, and headed over to pick up the rental car. We were scheduled for a PT Cruiser. Ewwww. The lovely man at the desk offered us an upgrade to an Infiniti G37 for an extra $40/day. Z looked to me for help, I said "Oh yeah". We ended up with the Infiniti. Push button start, 330 HP, back up camera. Nice! It may be my next car. If I can get past the fact that it's a Nissan. We'll see. Once Z got into the gas, I think he was pretty happy to have upgraded.
We met a friend of Z's from high school at Chilis (yum!) for lunch. They hadn't seen each other in 15 years, it was a lot of fun. After that we were able to check into our hotel, which was a Hilton Resort, Homewood Suites (excellent deal on Hotels.com!). When we checked in the desk warned us they were having a reception there that night but we should not be affected, they were supposed to park down the street. More on that later. Z tossed me Cookie to put the church address in, as we were headed over that night for rehearsal. I grabbed the invitation and put what I thought was the address in; keep in mind I was still out of it from the pills. One of us fell asleep almost immediately after that. When it was time to get ready it was not easy to wake me up. Z thought I was dead, but no such luck!
We headed over to the church address that I had put into Cookie and instead arrived at the reception hall. Oops. That's the last time I'll be trusted to do that! It was okay, we called and got the correct address and made it there with two minutes to spare. Rehearsal went well, then it was off to (guess where!), Chilis! There were about 20 people there, we totally invaded. Dinner was a lot of fun, then back to the bride and groom's house for a bit of final instruction.
Back at the hotel we were not able to find an empty spot. So much for their promise that we wouldn't be affected. I drove around the parking lot twice, getting quite angry the more I looked. I squealed to a stop at the front lobby door, stormed in and loudly proclaimed "We're staying here and we can't get a spot because of these people, I need someone to move their car so I can park". Sometimes it pays off to be a pushy broad. A man followed us out and proceeded to move his jeep. Problem solved. Almost. Once we were in our room there was an endless trail of women loudly walking down the hall. One was so loud I stuck my head out the door and asked them to keep in down. She asked her companion "is she serious?" Oh yeah, come closer and see how serious she is!
Saturday we ate our complimentary breakfast at the hotel, then the groom called and asked us to go to breakfast, so we ate again at Cracker Barrel. I dropped off Z, the groom and a groomsman at the groom's mom's house for their day of fun. I even made it back to the hotel all by myself! Yay!
Reception at the church was great, no tears or anything! Bride was beautiful, groom was very handsome! Then off to the reception, which was really fun! They had a photo booth, and one half of the strip went to us and the other half went to the bride and groom, in a scrapbook, excellent idea, wonderful presentation. We visited the photo booth four times, I peer pressured Z into it.
Today we had breakfast at the hotel with the bride and groom, then off to the airport. Time to turn in the wonderful rental car. Oh well. Now we're sitting at the airport, and of course our flight into Philly is delayed. So far an hour and a half.
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