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Good Morning Crazies.....It sure was great to sleep in our own bed last night and get to bed at a descent hour.  It&#39;s so much fun to go away but terrific to come back home again.  Yesterday GS Colin turned 5 so after we called him and heard all about his party we both sat down and napped til it was time to go to bed.  We definately found a new place for vacation - we both loved Newport although it was a 5 hour drive away for us.  After a very late night on Friday (I think we went to our hotel rooms at 3AM - we were on our way into  Newport at 7:30 and never got back to the hotel until 10PM and then played cards and visited til 4AM.  Then Sunday we were back together at 7AM again.  We are definately too old for that.  LOL  In addition to the long hours we walked and walked and walked.  We walked along the cliffs overlooking the sea and toured one of five mansions open to the public (The Vanderbilt SUMMER home - a nice little 70 room beach cottage overlooking the sea.)  WOW - what a way to live - especially in the late 1800&#39;s.  I would be very comfortable living in the childrens play cottage on the grounds.  I had lobster for lunch, lobster for dinner and even briefly considered the lobster omelet for breakfast but had second thoughts on that one.  In between meals we stopped at little places to have drinks and canapes&#39; and I had guess what??  So much fun and such good company.  We now probably won&#39;t be able to get together til Christmas time when the couple moving away come back north to see family for the holidays.  It is amazing how nicely we all get along - we met on a Roll Call on another Cruise board which will go unnamed (for good reason) but just hit it off so nicely and have cruised together several times in the past and now looking for a cruise for May 08 for us.  We have been getting together every 3 months for the last few years so I will miss them for now.  <br />
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I still have not gone back and read through the weekend posts but will do that later today as I plan on doing nothing all day.  <br />
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Kim - Welcome to the Dock - I hope you will post here often and let us know how your daily life is going.  I feel like I really know some of these folks so well just from their daily reports on their lives.<br />
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Keith &amp; Rita - the house is looking terrific.  It looks like it is way ahead of schedule.  Any luck with your other place yet - I can&#39;t believe it hasn&#39;t been snatched up yet.  That also is a beautiful home.<br />
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Cheryl - just glancing through the recent posts it appears you will be joining the Carnival cruisers.  Congrats on the booking.  I hope you have as much fun with your cruise friends as we did. <br />
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Joey - sounds like you might be joining the troublemakers.  Congrats to you and David on the booking<br />
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Rose - how did the photo prints come out?  I don&#39;t have a Walgreens nearby but someone else mentioned doing it in Sams and I do have one of those.<br />
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Maria - hope you had a great day with the family yesterday.<br />
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Jen - good luck with the computer room clean out.  I just did that about 2 weeks ago and it&#39;s amazing how much more room I have.  I can even sometimes find what I am looking for in there now.  LOL<br />
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Well I need to get Jim up and moving and send him off to make some money so I can go shopping some more.  We were going to have a small family BBQ on the 14th with just my kids and brothers but it sort of got out of hand and has become quite large - so today I will at least get all the paper goods bought and get a final menu made and start shopping.  <br />
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