Thanksgiving, 2016
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Magic Tree 2024
Just off the ship, we checked in to Magic Tree around 3pm, then relaxed for the rest of the day. Magic Tree is almost like home-they do a great job of maintaining it. My favorite place to read is out of the way, and has a fire pit for when it gets cool (this has never happened while we’ve been there). We visited Jill on…
Bahamas Cruise 2024
I’m not sure why it didn’t dawn on me before, but Port Canaveral is only one hour away from Magic Tree in Kissimmee. Why not combine a cruise with our trip to Magic Tree? And so we did. We started off with a four day cruise to the Bahamas on Carnival Glory, then disembarked the morning of our check-in day at Magic Tree, and started…
Magic Tree, 2023
We splurged this year, and reserved for 2 weeks. We arrived the Sunday after the Friday check in, but that was okay, as we still had 12 days. The chocolate museum on I-Drive (International Drive) is quite a hoot. They actually make their own chocolate, and will give you some samples. Be sure to NOT mention Hershey’s, as they’re quire snobbish. These are some of…
Phantom in Branson, 2024
Deanne invited us to her timeshare in Branson for the 5/18 week, and we decided to fly in to OKC for a week before, then drive up to the timeshare with her. We saw 7 shows it 5 day-now, that’s my idea of a good time. We also hit Top of the Rock, which is a golf cart tour of an area in the Ozark…
Madison Visits DC
Madison and Jimmy flew into Greensboro on June 10, 2023, to visit family and tour DC. They stayed at our sister Linda’s, in Kernersville, so I drove down on Tuesday, the 13th, to pick them up. We all celebrated the occasion by going to dinner at Don Juan’s, one of our fav Mexican places. On Wednesday, I took Madison to the Greensboro Cultural Center, where…
Cozumel Cruise 2000
Our friends, Rod and Joyce Molina, invited us to their high school class’s 35th reunion cruise. Of course, I graduated high school in Oklahoma, and not Varina, VA, but let’s see if we can pass ourselves off as part of the VA class. And we did, pretty much. Who actually remembers every face in their high school class after 35 years? Anyway, it was fun…
The Three-Body Problem, by Cixin Liu
This is one of those books that I had to struggle through, because, just at a point where I was ready to give up, I’d hit another passage that promised a surprise on the next page. The reason I had trouble is that there’s a lot of “dead weight” in between high points that really bogs down the story, not to mention that it’s translated…
Dead Silence, by S.A Barnes
Horror plus syfy-sign me up every time. One reviewer described it as The Shining meets Titanic, and I agree. Plus, the way it wrapped up reminded me of the movie Top Gun (the new one). Just when you think the story is over, another one pops up. Unfortunately, I can’t go too much into the story without giving away spoilers. But, as a huge Stephen…
Midway (2019 version)
Battle scenes deluxe. If you’re a war movie fan, especially airplane fighting (in particular, bomb runs), you’ll want to see this movie. It makes you feel like you’re in the cockpit of a plane making a dive run on an aircraft carrier. Like I would know, but it sure seems like it. There’s a great Pearl Harbor attack scene, followed by attacks on several Japanese…