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: 02-23-2010
Sat, 09-18-2010 - 8:11pm
Yeah, that is why we do package deals with park hopper tickets. Last year it cost us $75/pp per day for hotel, park hopper tickets and the meal plan.
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Registered: 02-04-2009
Sat, 09-18-2010 - 9:15pm

I liked the traveling aspect of the cruise I was on up to San Juan (our last port of call). For one, we didn't get nearly as much time in San Juan as we got elsewhere (only 4 hours), and for another as the last port of call on a pretty long cruise by then I was done and ready to go home and get the laundry done.

But otherwise, I enjoyed the traveling part because it indulged my enjoyment of down time (at the pool, awesome sea breezes, all the coffee I could ever want). Heck the only thing I was missing was a sewing machine! LOL. (But I just took up English paper piecing which is all hand work so I'm ready for next time ;)

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Sun, 09-19-2010 - 1:57am

I don't go completely mental when I travel, I just don't like it and it makes me very anxious.


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Sun, 09-19-2010 - 2:14am
Have you ever asked about a diabetic menu? I know that when we have cruised other people at our table had special requests for one thing or another and they were always met. Once the waiter knows your need, they cater to you all week long.

It's not a diabetic problem.


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Sun, 09-19-2010 - 8:15am
A woman I work with has several food allergies. She finds it much easier to cook for herself than to try to find something she can eat out.
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Sun, 09-19-2010 - 8:25am

One point in favor of the Disney meal plan, because I was watching calories while we were there, the meal plan made it much more cost effective. Salads *can* be had throughout the park, but they regularly cost between $6 to $9, even in the quick meal eateries.

Cheaper meals could be had, but they were all pizza, hamburgers, chicken nuggets--terrible in term of nutrition, fat, salt, calories. If you want to eat sensibly in the parks, you're much better off financially to do the meal plans.

We also ate at much better restaurants than we would otherwise have chosen. Our first night--the restaurant at te resort area where we stayed as a Golf club type place. REALLY awesome, well-done food and there was almost never a line there (although we only ate there the once). The German restaurant (not the bratwurst stand, but the sit down restaurant)? Perfectly awful (for the price). It was buffet style and none of the 'typical' German fare was worth writing home about (other than to warn anyone else to eat there). We were thoroughly underwhelmed. I've had better food from German street vendors. And it sure didn't cost $33/person.

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Sun, 09-19-2010 - 8:34am
DH has a conference in Florida this year, and we briefly considered all going and hitting Disney. We probably would have done a meal plan, simply because it would be easier with a 4 year old and a 1 year old. If nothing else, we would have chosen one that would allow us to eat breakfast and lunch in the park and then find something else for dinner.
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Registered: 12-01-2009
Sun, 09-19-2010 - 8:51am
I think one of my favorite meals during our week was from the counter service restaurant in morrocco -- the food was awesome, we sat outside and watched the sun set- and the counter girl was big time flirting with the two of us ;-)
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Sun, 09-19-2010 - 10:03am
i'm not familiar enough with food allergies to know what "secrets" restaurants or wait staff do not tell, sigh..but i do think the argument can be made that for "some" it's not about food allergies at all as to why they cook in when on vacation.

 

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Sun, 09-19-2010 - 10:12am
We travel a lot as a family and if we are going to be anywhere longe than three days we find the cost of a suite with a kitchen to be a lot less than eating out, so for us it is cost. We tend to have breakfast at the hotel or whatever we are staying at, keep lots of fruit and other things for healthy sbacls for the boyys, pack a lot of picnic lunches, and eat out either for lunch or dinner about every three days at a memrable or unusual place. Eating out two or three meals every day for a week or more tends not only to be expensive but also unhealhy because we tend to eat richer foods in larger portions when we are eating out.

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