I'm hoping we'll be having our first family holiday to my Mum's house in France this Summer, but she and her ex-husband are still wrangling over it at present so we don't know if she'll actuslly own it by then!

Dunno yet, but it's getting to be time to plan before it's too late and the prices are outrageous.

I really need to get away.

A lot is riding on whether I can see my way clear to getting a new(er) minivan...Big Red is in its 10th year, with over 150K miles on the clock...the missus wants #2 son to finally see the gulf coast of Florida this year (where he was conceived 16 yrs ago) & we haven't been back since...what the budget will allow is still a crapshoot...

wellll..........
on the 7th I left the frigid cold of South Dakota and flew to Florida for 2 weeks,
went to the keys last week, near Canaveral right at this moment.....my flight back to south dakota is later today........................but I'm not going!
changed my plans and staying in Florida till the 28th!!!
I will be in Orlando for the next few weeks, hehe.

so I'm on my vacation trip right now and making it a longer vacation trip!

You Hoser!!!!!!

Lets see......first weekend in June hope to get kiddo back to her dad in SD for a month, then go back and get her after that month.

Um, wanna take kiddo to Cedar Point and catch up with Scarecrow. :)

Would love to see DB again this summer.

Still wanna hook up with Nutworld.

If we drive thru Iowa then wanna catch Chey and Cobalt and hopefully meet IowaMan too.

Still trying to get WWotN to come down on Amtrak and see us. Keep promising her we won't go to Cleveland. :) (unless she really wants too....*wink wink*.)

We have lots of little mini vacations but I miss taking a week off just to either go somewhere or sit home even.

Soda looks like you will have a nice relaxing summer just hanging out. LMAO

:curse:

:ranting:
<----- * fills out AMTrack Customs Inspector application. :cool:

Must be heading north???

Hey, that'd be cool to have the Iowa, Illinois and Michigan contingents meet somewhere like the Quad Cities, or Muscatine, or Burlington and do lunch together.

Let a lot of us meet and at least visit a bit. Not quite a PAGAN, but maybe we could call it the IMP ... Iowa Meeting of Pixies. :)

Heck, who knows, maybe Red-Green and others could stop in, too, if they were so inclined. Make it an overnighter or something.

^^^^ I'm game.

Actually we could even meet in Illinois around Peoria and make the highlight a River Cruise on the paddlewheeler (The Spirit of Peoria) that docks in Peoria. Lots of good food places; hotels and things to see and do. Could even still use "IMP" ... Illinois Meeting of Pixies."

We're ready for either.

:)

Sounds like a good idea to me. I'll try and arrange my *ahem* BUSY schedule.

Gee, I guess I owe you and booger an apology Soda. I thought you'd forgotten all about me. ;)

Nut, how would I ever forget about a fellow neighbor. :D

And here I was hoping we could have a "Let's all get together to put in the new windows, siding and hardwood floors at IowaMan's house," party. :D