Wednesday Fluff

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Wednesday Fluff
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Wed, 09-15-2010 - 10:00am

I think we need a little fluff :)

1. Have you/Will you decorate(d) for the fall?

2. Have you started any Holiday shopping yet?

3. What is one food (or drink) that you look forward to when the weather gets cooler?

Bonus (it was a discussion at work yesterday and wondered others opinions):
4. If you were able to have an inheritance for your children (or maybe you have already experienced this with your own family), and you were able to live comfortably and was not relying on that money to survive, would you rather spend the money while you are alive and watch your children enjoy the money now or would you rather have it given to them when you died?






Edited 9/15/2010 10:24 am ET by harvardgrad

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Registered: 07-17-2007
Fri, 09-17-2010 - 9:09pm

Again, try to sell me on it. Beyond telling me to go on one. Tell me why you like it so much.

Again, I don't drink, I don't dance, I don't sit in the sun. I don't gamble. I like to be in a room that is wider than my arm spread - unless it is a train.






Edited 9/17/2010 9:10 pm ET by tryingtoquit
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Fri, 09-17-2010 - 9:09pm

Hmmm....you should ask what I DON'T like about a cruise-lol!!



There is so much to do, or nothing to do. You meet new people (we still are in contact with a couple we met 4 years ago), you go to more than one place, you try all different foods (you can have as much as you want too), both my dh and I can drink as no designated driver needed-lol!!.



We just love it.

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Registered: 12-01-2009
Fri, 09-17-2010 - 9:11pm
yeah it wasn't the food that got boring it was the Disneyish of the food taht got boring - by picking two special splurge night and one fun night at Downtown Disneys Pier 37 we got the variety we wanted and also the disney touches --
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Registered: 03-27-2000
Fri, 09-17-2010 - 9:11pm

My mother doesn't do any of those things either. However, she and my father have gone on some amazing cruises. One was around Scandinavia and St. Petersburg. Another started in Italy, went to Greece and Turkey. I know they've been on at least one other, but I can't remember where they went. On those cruises, it was mainly a means of transport b/w places without having to constantly get on planes/trains/etc and unpack in various hotels. They had many tours throughout the cities they visited. My parents don't do Caribbean cruises or ones that are more sun/beach oriented. They go to Europe for historical type of cruises. My mom wants to do an Alaskan cruise but so far has not been able to convince my father.

MIL has been on a few cruises too. She did one down the Danube that she absolutely loved. She's going on another one this fall but I can't remember where.

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Registered: 12-01-2009
Fri, 09-17-2010 - 9:12pm
we didn't have crowds either as our spring breakf is a week later than the rest of the country's. *shrug* I still liked this the best out of my five disney trips
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Registered: 03-27-2000
Fri, 09-17-2010 - 9:14pm
I've never gone on a cruise, but not sure if we ever will. Dh spent many years driving ships while he was in the Navy so he prefers not to take vacations on them.
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Fri, 09-17-2010 - 9:15pm
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Registered: 07-17-2007
Fri, 09-17-2010 - 9:15pm

What kind of places? How much time are you alloted in each port - from the time you leave the shipyard to when you have to be back?

For me, specialty restaurants are NOT "Mexican" or Italian. They are Ethiopian, or Brazilian, or Argentinian, Indian, Lebanese, or El Salvadorian...... The kind that haven't been "americanized".

Again, I don't drink- so not having to drive home and being able to get drunk isn't my idea of an asset.

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Registered: 07-17-2007
Fri, 09-17-2010 - 9:17pm
Which is why I have said that I am saving my cruises for when I am older. They don't appeal to me know, but I can see the appeal in later years.
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Fri, 09-17-2010 - 9:17pm

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