Opa's place -Where an old rooster visits with friends

[Cindiloohoo]

Hi Opa, Ranchie, PK, and others!

 

[Ec_Prokta]

Wow, that was indeed fast, CCMH!

Hello, Cindiloohoo.

 

[Slywoody]

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Well, hi there Cindiloohoo!! Long time no see!!!!!!!!! Are you keepin' out of trouble???

All is good here. Waiting patiently for spring. Darn Seramas want to set and it's still way too cold here. I have to fight the little boogers to get the eggs away from them. Take care

 

[EweSheep]

Took a trip with my husband and dd up to Chicago to see those wonderful things in the Science museum. Well worth the travel. Mind you, I had NO idea about those planes flying above our heads but one I did recognize was the German airplane but have no idea of the make and model or what year. We got to see the famous German sub and talk about being narrow in those hallways and SMALL bunkbeds for the men who worked anywhere from 90 to 100 days at sea. I sense some heavyiness in the control area which I told hubby that I sense someone possibly dead. Alas, reading about the sub on line this morning, one captain blew his brains out in front of his crew.

I can not imagine fitting all 59 people in that small space of a sub! I have to remember they were alot skinner and smaller than our generation right now. The special effects were awesome.

Now for sensory overload, that HUGE cinemax theater......you felt like you were thrust into space when all those stars in the ceiling flying past you into the farthest part of the universe, whizzing past Pluto into those colorful neublaes. I felt like I was in the Star Trek movie. And those astronaunts getting dressed up and making sure they are comfortable and read to go. Seeing the space shuttle from the launch pad into sky....no words to explain that!

Hubby loves the ships display room and the Science discovery room........just awesome!

Now the food, well, I wished it was not so expensive! A snack size Ruffles or Cheetos would cost $1.59 and a slice of cheese pizza costed $3.59, hamburgers cost $6.59 OUCH! Drinks were ranged from $2.25 to $4.00. Next time we will bring our own food and snacks...costed us $30 dollars for the cheapest meal..hubby and dd went to the Kid's meal while I had a piece of pizza and water.

It will take a good day to look at all the stuff!

See my FB photos and some of you can help out with naming the planes: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?id=1143352917&aid=2110488

 

[Opa]

Ewesheep, sounds like you had a great time. Chicago, along the waterfront, has always been a favorite destination. I could spend days in the museum and you are right about the high cost of eating out. May oldest son was recently commenting on how he thought it was getting too expensive to eat out until he took his family to Paris. Here they were in a capital noted for fine dining at wound up eating at Mickey D's.

Very cold here again this morning and the forecast for the coming week doesn't sound particularily pleasant, but then that the price one must pay to not have to deal with as many spiders and snakes.

 

[PaulaSB12]

Life absolutly sucks at the moment. I have to do an nvq for work (national vocational qualification) which is going to take 100 hours. This has already had bad problems in that I couldn't go to my mothers first chemo season. That meant also instead of having 2 days of work one week I only had 1. My mother is having chemo which the side effects are not too bad she claims but are still bad enough and the whole chemo business and her being ill is making me feel so paralyzed that I can not do anything at all apart from eat!

 

[EweSheep]

Opa, I think travel savvy people would visit the fast food resturaunts to save money as well as Subway (or similar) or grinder sandwiches for less money. Hubby went over to Scotland and ate mostly cheese sandwiches and FF at taverns and fast food places which it was easy on the budget. He splurged once on a good meal at a tavern in Edinburgh which he said it was very good and the pastries were to die for. When he got back to the States, he had plenty of money left over.

I know next time we will bag our lunches and snacks. Chicago is neat to visit but to live there, forget it LOL! I can not stand the concrete walls with "fake" trees.

 

[Opa]

Paula, don't get to discouraged as things will eventually get better. The older I become the more I realize that it does absolutely no good to worry about things over which I have no control, and if I can influence something then there is no need to sorry over that. Remember there are no bad days only bad attitudes. Even on the days you are having to do something that you don't like, remember you are able to do it. Many people can't so try to be thankful for what you do have.

 

[Ec_Prokta]

Wise words, Opa.

 

[EweSheep]

Yes, good words!

Now if my daughter, aged 6 and half years old, would understand that!