The Space Shuttle Crew...well sort of.

If we look like we all had a lot of fun shooting this picture you are 100% correct. The video footage of us shooting this with a green screen background would win top prize on America's Funniest Videos...hands down. It took 4 takes to get Sherry's picture right, through no fault of her own. She's like a cartoon character, which only cracked us up. Hope even has a smile here ! Best part about the photo is Nicky being the centerpiece ! He looks like the captain of the ship directing all of us. It actually took a little over 30 minutes for them to shoot and crop the photo.


This is Sherry's Green Screen. I believe take #3.


Here's Rich's green screen. I hope he actually got to the "Ice Show" the next day and didn't wind up in traction ! I think they made him hold that pose for 20 seconds.

Kennedy Space Center Group Photo

This was the shot that I cut Rich's head off on from my Blackberry. This one came from the folks @ KSC (Kennedy Space Center). I wish we would have been earlier risers, so that we could have spent more time with Rich, Nicky and Lu. I feel bad that I bored them to death with my space program stories from when my dad worked for NASA. One day I'll dig out that film slide that came back from Apollo 11 and share it.

Sherry's Thanksgiving Homework

The assignment was for her to draw about what she did on Thanksgiving. She took creative liberty showing the green golf ball (that's what she calls it) of EPCOT.

She had to draw 4 pictures, which only too 90 minutes. Not exactly Rembrandt, but good enough for a 5 year old.
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2,484 miles later...

...we are home and of course the little people had to throw on Disney Channel. Ugh !!!

Hope had to straighten her hair and Maryss had to get her Mac book.

Everything back to normal !
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The Eagle Has Landed back home @ Tranquility base !

The traffic over the final 165 miles was horrible. If we didn't take 295 instead of the Turnpike we'd still be on the road. Almost 17 hours total on the road. Glad to be home !
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Del Mem Bridge

As soon as we got off the bridge on the "Joisey" side the info sign said, "NJ Turnpike backed up". That triggered and evasive maneuver to take I-295 into US-1, which saved about 2 hours worth of time sitting in bumper to bumper. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

11 min to go 3 miles

Not a good sign. I need a traffic report and fast.
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Olive Tree Part II

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Olive Tree ? Can you smell lawsuit

I wonder if its owned by the same guy (John Amos) who owned McDowells ?
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Derailed by a play place one again

First Mickey D's got us on the way down & now BK's got us on the way back just 10 minutes shy of the Delaware border.
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Pit Stop @ Maryland House

No eats. The place is mobbed. We'll find something to eat just up the road
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Baltimore Tunnel

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Not too far from Baltimore

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Andrews Air Force Base

Just North of DC, which means we r in Maryland
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Richmond, VA

The capitol of the Confederacy
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Virginia is for travelers

Working our way out of the confederacy !
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South of the Border

Pedro says, Don't stop here.
Poor first timers to I-95. They spend over 200 miles seeing these dumb signs only to get disappointed when seeing what a run down rat trap it is. For us it was a quick Pit Stop to switch drivers.

Glad to be in North Carolina
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Welcome to South Carolina

Goodbye GA
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We're in GA

It's staring to get a bit chilly
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The purple bridge in jacksonville

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The journey home starts

Synchronize your watches at 9:15 pm EST
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Mop is heading back to Port St. Lonesome

Without Maryss, who refuses to give him back his old apt in SI
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Even Mop joins the family Vac fun

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Mommy locked the keys in the car

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The Crew of the Shuttle

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Nick & the Girls

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Launch Pad 39a

The Apollo and Space Shuttle Programs took off from here. Both use those huge Saturn Rockets.
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Apollo 13

A Successful Failure
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Apollo 14 Capsule

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Rich and Lu looking @ the Shuttle Hangar

On the bus ride tour @ KSC
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Family Photo

Sorry Rich...the guy yelled @ me and I cut your head off.
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Go figure, a Cracker Barrel in our hotel parking lot

...and of course we are running late, so we won't even get to eat there. No worries, since I suspect we'll find at least 1 more on the way home !
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The Final Day in FL-A

We checked in @ 2:45am in Titusville, so I'm not shocked by the late start that we are getting.

Lu, Rich and Nicky have probably seen the whole Kennedy Space Center (KSP) by now :) !

We should be moving in 20 minutes after the ceremonial sharing of the bathroom has ended !
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The Final Ride: Space Mountain

After 5 days at the Wonderful World of Disney it all came down to 1 final ride: SPACE MOUNTAIN !
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Final pic @ the Castle

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Happy Birthday To You (Maryss)

We all sang nice and low, so as not to disturb the rest of the paying clientele
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Snow White and the two dwarfs

We couldn't find 5 more...
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All the Princesses

Its Maryss' special day, but how special a day can it be if you didn't share it with your sister Princesses
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Who's the fairest Princess of them all ?

Princess Maryss is ! That was an easy guess...silly !

Nobody, I repeat NOBODY loves Cinderella more than Princess Maryss.

From the time she was able to speak she would watch the video and sing all the songs.

It was only yesterday that she would sit in the den in my mom's house in Brooklyn and sing: "A d-weam is a wiss".

Could that really be 16+ years ago ?
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Oakland Raiders or Pittsburgh Pirates ?

Who could pass up a 4th ride on Pirates and a chance to raid the gift shoppe
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Disney gets ripped off apparently

Word on the street is that people are buying Disney Merchandise in Walmart and the outlets for more than half the price that it costs in the parks.

I have a suggestion that would prevent that from happening: Sell the plastic crap at a decent price and stop gouging the tourists and maybe they won't try these stunts.
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I think I found our 2010 Holiday Card Picture !!!

I was taking a photo of Lawra and Sherry on a sleigh when Sherry started pouting because Maryss and Hope wouldn't take a picture with them. Sherry won out and that's how we got the shot !
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Tom Sawyer's Island

Glad we got to walk thru it ! In all the times that I've been here I never took the launch over to the island. The little ones loved running thru it. Close time is dusk, so we lucked out once again ! First time I was here (1974) I missed going on it. The trappings of growing up with a neurotic mother. I think she was afraid I'd fall into the water or something. Maybe I had just eaten and we had to subscribe to the rule that Jews can't go in or on water for 45 minutes after eating. Guess we'll never know the truth. On of natures true mysteries
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Getting Wet on Splash Mountain

Didn't see uncle Remus, but we saw a lot of water.
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Song of the South..

Splash Mountain is gr8 ! Disney's politically correct crap isn't.

I can't believe they banned the movie because it has "so called" racial overtones. C'mon, give me a break. It was a time piece that reflected its era. Why do revisionist history ? Show the movie and let people ask questions and enjoy the entertainment.

I guess Disney is being sensitive thanks to all the Family Guy episodes making ole' Walt out to be an anti-semite. Another myth. The guy made anti-Nazi films during WWII. People confuse him with Henry Ford I think.
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Disney Railroad...

Full steam ahead !
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The last train to Disneyville...

The final monorail ride to Disney. Are u getting sentimental yet ?

Everyone is nice and full thanks to the remaining meatballs that grandpa gave them for the trip as well as the $5 footlongs we got at Subway just before arriving.

Not sure what is left to do after 4 days of extended hours, but we'll find something to do I'm sure.
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Entering Disney on the Final Day in Orlando

As we enter Disney for our final day everyone is ready to go.
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