This afternoon we caught a matinee showing of the just-started US tour of “The Addams Family” musical at the Straz Center. It was an enjoyable, funny show and our whole family had a good time watching the antics of the Addamses and the Beinekes. I didn’t find the music/songs to be as earworm-worthy as those …
We got to “sleep in” a bit this morning, compared to the last two days. By 8:15am, we were checked out of our hotel, picking up breakfast at Starbucks, and back on the road to the Cincinnati airport (in Kentucky). The travel gods were looking out for us again (plus it was early Sunday morning) …
The day started early again as we got up at 7am, grabbed a quick breakfast at the hotel, and the headed out into the chilly, windy morning over to the University of Dayton Arena for rehearsal with the alumni band. Practice ended a few hours later after we rehearsed the pre-game and halftime shows with …
I’m up in Dayton, Ohio on a weekend trip with my daughter for the 2011 UD Band Alumni weekend. I haven’t been to Bandcoming since the 100 year anniversary back in 2005 so I’m looking forward to seeing some old college friends and spending a weekend with my daughter.
Normally we spend the morning of Labor Day in the hotel pool but since we already had some pool time yesterday, we checked out early and bid farewell to Universal Studios. We had breakfast at First Watch (I tried the new bacon/cheddar pancakes, which were different, but surprisingly good) and then killed some time at …
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We got up early this morning to take advantage of the early (8am) opening of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Islands of Adventure for hotel guests. Of course almost every other hotel guest was doing the same thing, but since there are only a few Universal hotels, the crowd was still manageable.
The last time I’d been to Universal Studios was in 1999, right after Islands of Adventure and CityWalk had opened (almost 12 years ago!) so I was really looking forward to our visit today.
Not a lot of excitement today, just driving and the anticipation of finally getting back home. We grabbed a quick breakfast, checked out of our last hotel, and were on the road by 8:30am. At 10:15 we crossed the border back into Florida. After going around Jacksonville to I-10, we took the back routes, cutting …
After breakfast (again) this morning at the hotel buffet, we drove over to Woburn to see some old family places (my mother-in-law grew up in the area). Then went to downtown to the city of Boston. We had pre-purchased tickets online for the Old Town Trolley tours, so after parking the car we walked to …
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We made it to Boston yesterday, but we’re just using it as our base of operations today. We had breakfast at the hotel and then got back in the car for the drive up to Ben & Jerry’s in Vermont. After making through the rush hour traffic jamming the I-95/I-93 interchange, we were on our …
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