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Month: September 2017

  • Orlando Vacation: Halloween Horror Night

    For the last thirty-plus autumns, Gary will see a Haunted House billboard and say,”That sounds scary! We have to see it,” and then every year we don’t see it. We’ve never gone to any of these haunted houses because Gary always decides it won’t be scary enough. “We have to see it” changes to “That…

  • Orlando Vacation: Animals

    Fox – We saw our fox as we were leaving on vacation. Let me back up – we have an old, ratty fox. Squinty eyes, mangy fur. When we met him his tail was bone with a tuft of fur at the end, but it’s grown in a little. His tail’s like a Brazillian landing…

  • Orlando Vacation: Harry Potter Employees Commit to the Bit

    I fell hard for the Harry Potter section of Universal, for the incredible attention to detail, and because the park has a technology that will let you perform “spells.” You stand by a brass plaque, use your wand to perform the gesture engraved on the plaque (such as a figure 8 or a letter W),…

  • Vacation and Stress

    Everyone else takes stress-free vacations. Right now my stomach is twisted, hands are shaking, and I’m stress-coughing, if that’s a thing, because I’m leaving on vacation. If ever I needed a vacation, it would be now. I’m going to Universal in Orlando, because Orlando, Florida in hurricane season is a tremendous value. All I have…

  • Another Night at Trivia

    The best I’ve ever done at Trivia was winning a disputed first place at a very small school fundraiser trivia event. So, when Marcia (Friend #3) announced her intention to Win It All at the Teddy J United Way Trivia, I was skeptical. TeddyJ Trivia is the biggest in Saint Louis. She said she was…

  • Another Animal Adventure

    Gary and I again made our yearly visit to Big Joel’s Animal Safari Park. Big Joel has expanded a lot of his exhibits, and there were some piglets born four days ago that were draining the mother DRY, but the most remarkable things were not what we saw but what we heard. For example, we…