Comments on: Uhhhhhh…I Got Nothin’

By: freakgirl

freakgirl — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:39:06 +0000

Shannon - SCARY!

GC - we saw the balloons doing their morning ascension on the way to the walkathon Saturday morning. It was so lovely. And I forgot my camera. Grrrr.

By: Greater Czarina

Greater Czarina — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:32:49 +0000

We went to the Balloon Festival Saturday, which was hot, but fun. Sunday we went to a picnic-party with the NJ Secular Humanists in this beautiful park near Morristown. A very active weekend!

By: Shannon

Shannon — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:18:41 +0000

I took my kids to where I was born on LI. Sophie got to see the house where I was a little kid, we took her to the old bakery for a black and white cake, and she got to swim off Fire Island (crazy huge waves!) On the way home we got stuck in the most hellish storm I have ever been in. Every overpass on the highway was crammed full of cars trying to get some shelter—I almost got stuck in a flash flood and we took shelter in a firehouse when the hail started. I got to see 4 direct hits to the Outerbridge Crossing as we went up the approach—someone in the left hand lane panicked and stopped, but my lane kept moving. I never get unnerved driving in bad weather, but this was other-worldly!

By: shannon b.

shannon b. — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:01:16 +0000

On Saturday I went to Auschwitz. Needless to say my weekend was kind of a downer, but tomorrow we leave for Hungary so things should perk up.

By: freakgirl

freakgirl — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:22:28 +0000

Wow, I’ve never seen that before. Maybe I’ll pick it up — our family loves board games. Especially if we can figure out a way to play for money.

By: maddie

maddie — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:00:30 +0000

http://tinyurl.com/67l92t

Here is a picture of it to better illustrate. I highly recommend it if you have a group of fun people to play with.

By: maddie

maddie — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:56:44 +0000

That would be fun to meet up while you’re here, if you have time!

Mexican Train is a super-addicting dominoes game, it has just the right amount of strategy without being annoying. How it works is a bit hard to explain, I’ll let wikipedia do it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_train

By: Suz

Suz — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:42:09 +0000

Maddie - I’m right there with you on the dominoes - I’ll happily wile away hours playing dominoes. That and Carcasonne (which makes me alternately an old lady and a 13 year old boy). I don’t know how to describe Mexican Train Dominoes except that its dominoes with little plastic trains.

By: freakgirl

freakgirl — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:28:02 +0000

Also - what are Mexican Train Dominoes?

By: leah

leah — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:41:10 +0000

Willie turns to B.B. and motions with his head, man…I got a bus outside lets fly this chicken coop and get Jimmy happy. Scratchin his neck and nodding his head B.B. replies…..