This morning we checked out of our hotel and then headed to the Holiday Inn next door to have breakfast with the happy new couple and the other wedding guests. We bade farewell to family and friends and then it was off to the airport for our flights back home. We were slightly delayed leaving [...]
Archive of entries posted in September 2009
Preparations, rehearsal, the ceremony, and the party!
Whew, what a couple of days! It’s late Saturday evening and my little brother is now a married man. Congratulations, kids! Friday morning started with a family breakfast, just the siblings and our parents … something we haven’t done for a very long time (years). The restaurant we had breakfast at was the location for [...]
Heading to Ohio
I’m flying home to Ohio today for my brother’s wedding on Saturday. Right now I’m in the Charlotte-Douglas International Airport (CLT) waiting for my connection to Cleveland. It’s been a long time since I’ve flown through Charlotte, so I had forgotten what a nice airport it is: rocking chairs, free wi-fi, a nice center food [...]
Wii puns go mainstream, still not funny
As investigators searched the home near Lakeland for drugs, some drug task force members found other ways to occupy their time. Within 20 minutes of entering the home, some of the investigators found a Wii video bowling game and began bowling frame after frame. I saw this headline on the local paper this morning: “A [...]
Testing Windows 7 RTM and XP Mode
I’ve been using the release candidate of Windows 7 at home for the past few months but now we’ve started testing Windows 7 at work. This past week I “upgraded” my laptop and desktop at the office to the RTM version of Microsoft’s latest operating system. Actually, both were clean installs since they were previously [...]
Labor Day Weekend @ Disney – Day 3
This morning we ate breakfast over at the Contemporary and then headed out to enjoy some of the pools at the resorts. My daughter and I swam in the pool at the Contemporary for a bit while we waited for the water slide to open at 10am. Once the lifeguards arrived and the slide was [...]
Labor Day Weekend @ Disney – Day 2
The plan was to get to Animal Kingdom close to opening time (9am) this morning, so we had breakfast in our room and then walked over to the bus stop at the Contemporary. The last time were we at Animal Kingdom was back in 2007, so we were looking forward to checking out the Asia [...]
Labor Day Weekend @ Disney – Day 1
This morning we got up early and headed over to the Magic Kingdom to meet some friends for breakfast. We caught the monorail over in the Contemporary had our particular car all to ourselves. That didn’t last, of course, as the monorail swung through the Polynesian and Grand Floridian resorts on the way over. We [...]
Labor Day Weekend @ Disney – Day 0
This weekend is Labor Day Weekend, so it’s time for our annual mini (or should that be “Minnie?”) family vacation at Walt Disney World. We drove over this afternoon after picking my daughter up from school and hit no traffic going through downtown Tampa or across to Orlando on I-4, which got us to our [...]
