Going On Vacation ?

[Wurger]

He is "a history" now guys.

 

[Marcel]

He is "a history" now guys.

Thanks Wojtek, it was a sneeky one, this guy.

 

[Wayne Little]

He is "a history" now guys.

 

[RabidAlien]

The wife, kiddo and I will be heading out eeeeeeeeearly Friday morning to Orlando for a week. May get a chance to hit up an air museum while down there, but not sure.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Have fun! Take some pics.

I still need to post up my Normandy and Egypt pics.

 

[RabidAlien]

We're bringing a point-n-shoot camera...leaving the SLR's at home. *sniff* This is the first leave/vacation I've been on where I didn't have a backpack full of lenses, filters, film, and bodies as my carry-on. My carryon now contains Crayons. LOL I'd imagine most of our pics will now contain a beaming 2.75-year-old and various over-sized cartoon characters.

 

[vikingBerserker]

Have a blast RA

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Have fun RA!!!!!

 

[Wayne Little]

Enjoy yourself man...

 

[RabidAlien]

Hey, y'all, arrived back safe and sound (not gonna mention "sane" in there....travel with a 2.75-year-old is....interesting. But, on the plus side, she LOVES roller-coasters and airplanes!). I'll be posting some pics over on my thread in the Photos section, as soon as the wife finishes uploading the most embarrassing pics on our blog (The Lowry Place). I will say, however, that the number of American tourists in Orlando at this time of year seemed to be greatly outnumbered by the number of European/Indian (not so many Asians, oddly enough) tourists. We shared the hotel pool/hot tub with a couple of Scottish kids our first day (still not sure if their parents fully understood the significance of the "cute" little bunny with the bent ear that was plastered all over the pool floats they were using. Or...maybe they were...), talked to a couple of Londoners while trying to convince the kiddo to take a nap in her stroller in the middle of the Hogwarts area of Universal Studio's "Islands of Adventure", felt quite thin while wandering around Acquatica (Sea World's water park, complete with dolphins) and comfortable enough to go swimming shirtless (most DEFINITELY not the chubbiest guy there!), and capped the whole ordea....er....experience with a trip to a nearby Air Museum on Wed, where we were treated to a Storch wandering/moseying/drifting/hovering overhead. I mean...one always "knew" that the wide wingspan helped the aircraft maintain lift at low speeds, but to actually "understand" one has to see it. I swear the pilot stopped and threw the thing in reverse at one point. Now....how Skortzeny managed to cram the pilot (from the photos, probably not a very small, skinny guy), himself (6-foot 5 or something tall) and Mussolini (6-foot 5 or something wide) into one of those things, I'll never know. Although rumor has it that several tubes of KY were involved. Oh, and the museum has a V-1. FRIKKIN SWEET!!!!!!!

Okay, the wif' is yellin at me, time to run post-vacation errands. Apparently the expiration date on milk does not acknowledge the concept of vacation. Will post pics later.

 

[Airframes]

Sounds good, looking forward to the pics.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Well tomorrow is Veterans day, and I will be celebrating it by taking a long weekend and heading down to the Alps (Fuessen, near Garmisch). Just going to relax and spend a nice romantic weekend with the wife in the mountains. Not really a vacation though...

 

[GrauGeist]

Well guys, it looks like I'll definately be going to Europe here in about 2 weeks.

I'll be flying in to Sofia to vacation with my girlfriend (she's been over there for about 3 months now, on business) and I'll be spending about two weeks there.

We're going to be heading from Bulgaria over to Greece and then on to Italy. I wanted to get up to England, Germany and that neck of the woods, but we won't have time. The cool part of this, is I'll get to visit Herculaneum! The trade off here, is that she gets to see to Venice (don't tell her, but I think I got the better end of the deal) lol

Anyway, this should be interesting, since I've never been to Europe and I haven't taken an official two-week vacation from work ever!

 

[Vic Balshaw]

You will love Herculaneum Dave and you will be amazed at what you see. Have a good trip and enjoy, Athens as I assume you will going there and please, watch your step as you get off the train in Venice, I'd hate for you both to fall in the water!!......................Just kidding Dave, but again you will be gobsmacked.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Have fUn. You will like all 3 places. Sophia is very cheap, at least it was 9 years ago when I was there the last time. Greece is amazing, and Venice is great as well. It might be a bit smelly this time if year though...

 

[vikingBerserker]

Have a blast Dave!

 

[Airframes]

Nice one Dave - hope you have a great time. Watch out in Venice though, the streets are flooded .........

 

[Marcel]

And please spend a lot of money in greece, will help their economy

 

[GrauGeist]

Thanks guys...I have to admit, it's pretty exciting, being my first visit to the old country!

But my girlfriend said we'll be doing this at least once a year, and she said we'll definately head to the north on the next time over, so that'll give me a chance to get together with some of the gang up that way!

And good idea, Marcel, but I'm going to try and get through Greece as quick as possible!

 

[Marcel]

Yeah, come visit the NL. Would be fun.