Last night was Stratford Landing’s annual “Parents Night at the Science Fair”. We’ve probably been to 11 of these. Basically they are all the same – you walk around and look at science projects all presented on exhibition boards and we see a number of the same projects year after year. Actually it is best […]
I waved Caroline off at the airport for her 2:00 flight back to Connecticut and a half hour later she called to say they were overbooked and looking for volunteers to go on a later flight. So for $200 plus the cost of her flight she agreed to a firm seat on the 7:00 flight […]
Caroline goes back to school today after a very fast three weeks. As always we’ll miss her a lot. She is amazingly pleasant to have around. Well, as long as you don’t try to get her up too early in the morning. (And the one benefit of rheumatoid arthritis is that since you need extra […]
Okay, I admit it, I’m hoping on the band wagon late for George Mason. But, they did after all beat Carolina so I was entitled to sulk for a few days. But all week I’ve been hearing the George Mason coach Jim Larranaga on the radio and he comes across as an unbelievably great guy […]
There are people who wait in lines and people who avoid lines. We avoid them. So for us the Disney FastPass system is just perfect. You show up at the ride, check the “Stand By” time, and in our case decide the line is too long and either move on to something else or get […]
On the Post travel blog I’d read about airport hotels where you can park cheap or for free and they shuttle you to the airport. So when the Florida flights came up much cheaper if we flew in the very early morning (plus would have us on the Florida roads by about 9:00 am) I […]
On our Captiva trip we had visited the Kennedy Space Center. I was so taken with it I decided we would return when John was about 10. We made it back three years ahead of schedule. It hadn’t changed much, except that there were barely any lines this time. (The last trip was the first […]
But we had a really, really good time. Partially I think because we like traveling together, but you have to give a lot of credit to Disney for doing things very well. A number of times things which we thought were going to be hokey or stupid won us over. Caroline and Scotty will be […]
Really. Caroline has spring training and we are tagging along. Caitlin, John, and I will just go down until Tuesday, but Scotty will stay the whole week and get to help out with the team. Is that a great 50th birthday present or what? In addition to seeing all the girls I’m most looking forward […]
Sometimes John reminds us a bit too much of Uncle Bobby. Lately it has been with reading. He’d been bringing home really easy books, but finally his teacher convinced him to bring home “Tigers at Twilight”, a Magic Tree House book for his 5 minutes of reading every night. Five minutes is really not so […]