By this time tomorrow, we will be on our way to the Netherlands for a week-long bacchanal of cheese, beer, wooden clogs, and hanging out with our non-Ookie sister. We don’t normally go places we have to fly to; in fact, the last airplane trip we took had Dallas as our destination. We had a fantastic time on that vacation, and brought back many marvelous memories of the sites we saw, like the Texas Star:
An unexpected benefit of our Dallas trip is that we now get to be inordinately excited every time we recognize a location in our neverending summer marathon of “Walker, Texas Ranger”:
So what we’re hoping for our vacation this week is that two years from now we’ll be able to scream “we’ve been there!” while snapping freeze-frame pictures of our television during a summerlong marathon of “Walker, Netherlands Ranger”.
Have a safe trip and lots of fun! Bring me back a dyke! And a Calvinist! And a windmill! And tulip bulbs! And jazz cigarettes! And a canal!
:^:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: We’ll do all those things, Tim!
I’d say have fun, but anything involving plenty of beer and cheese all but guarantees fun in spades. And visiting sisters, too, but I wouldn’t know anything about that.
Now here’s to hoping you have a child-free plane trip!
Now here’s to hoping you have a child-free plane trip!
Oooh, right! Thanks! That’s a very important key to a good trip, isn’t it? :D
Thanks, Kathleen! Keep your fingers crossed!
And Tim, I should have room in my suitcase for all that stuff, as well as my giant foam wooden clog hat.
oooooh, have fun!!! The Netherlands was the first place in Europe I visited and I loved it!
Cool! Have a good time!
Watching the WC Final there should be pretty fun!
Have a wonderful time! (I’m sure you will.)
The screws are gone! Let’s break stuff!
Have a wonderful time! I’m sure your photos from the trip are going to be fantastic.
In some hockey related news, Niedermayer the lesser is now a Sabre.
Have a fabulous trip!
Looking forward to the vacation slides! No really, I am. ;)
(Or are y’all too young to get that one? Hmm.)
In some hockey related news, Niedermayer the lesser is now a Sabre.
I guess that’s what we get for complaining about their inactivity.
I guess that’s what we get for complaining about their inactivity.
Ha! You beat me to it mcguffers. I was just going to say…
Anyways, Robbie Nieds and Mike Grier? Looks like we’re two-thirds of the way to the greatest geriatric checking line in the NHL.
In other news, Nabby signed a 4 year deal with SKA St. Petersburg. This makes me sad.
In other, more terrifying news, today is our due date. Not that the kid is coming out any time soon. He’s like a litte Kovalchuk in there. Taking his sweet ass time.
In other, more terrifying news, today is our due date. Not that the kid is coming out any time soon. He’s like a litte Kovalchuk in there. Taking his sweet ass time.
Good luck, and watch out for inflated bids by Russian parents trying to poach him.
Have fun Ookies! I went to Europe a couple of years ago and now love to say “I was there!” when watching the Sherlock Holmes episode set in Switzerland, Discovery channel shows from the Alps, Rick Steves travel shows from places we went or certain soccer games.
Looks like we’re two-thirds of the way to the greatest geriatric checking line in the NHL.
Seriously. Most teams wonder what players they’re going to lose due to free agency. We’ll have to start worrying about retirement.
Not that the kid is coming out any time soon.
As I sit here sweating while typing, I don’t even want to imagine what that poor woman is going through! Years from now, on some hot July day, when future Alex/Dylan starts complaining about it being too hot to go outside/take out the garbage/mow the lawn, I hope Tracie whips back with “Imagine how it would feel to be pregnant right now!!”
“Imagine how it would feel to be pregnant right now!!”
That’s what moms do, remind you of their suffering…every chance they get!
Actually it has been quite nice out here for the past couple of days. Odd, since everyone else is burning up. It’s 77 right now. Supposed to top out at 90 today. Positively balmy! Sorry if reading that sentence fills you with uncontrollable rage.
Sorry if reading that sentence fills you with uncontrollable rage.
Even the Hulk would agree it’s too humid for rage right now. But honestly, in the past few weeks we’ve had an earthquake and a heat wave. Those are usually the first two reasons we list for not wanting to live in California. The irony is not lost on me here.
Ugh. Dammit Spain.
Don’t blame Spain, blame Paul the Octopus for writing the future with his black magick tentacles.
Those are usually the first two reasons we list for not wanting to live in California. The irony is not lost on me here.
That is pretty funny. I would say something pithy about Rochester in return, but I got nothing.
Wait, I know…it’s cold there! Yeah! Ha! Take that!
Are they gone? Did anyone find the keys to the liquor cabinet?
Just as I was thinking “Teams, grow a pair and tell Kovalchuk you don’t want him anymore and he can suck it – the Kings went and did just that. (Sort of.) Someone just rocketed up my shortlist for 10-11′s WC fling.
a Calvinist
HA!
Happy trails, Ookies! Can’t wait to see these photos and hear all about it. Lucky.
Hey, you may be at the Amsterdam airport as I type this! LUCKY!
In other, more terrifying news, today is our due date. Not that the kid is coming out any time soon. He’s like a litte Kovalchuk in there. Taking his sweet ass time.
You could always name the kid Ilya.
And, at this point, I am finding Kovalchuk’s Hamlet act very underwhealming.
So, everytime I open up IPB this post throws me off. I keep reading “a week-long bacchanal of cheese, beer, wooden clogs…” But instead of clogs it always looks like dongs, which makes me laugh. Is anyone else seeing this, or am I just projecting all over the place here?
You could always name the kid Ilya.
Ha. Yeah right. I was never a big fan of him, even before this latest charade. Naming the first born after him…I don’t know.
Plus we’re not Russian! If we went with a super ethnic name, it’s have to at least come from our lineage, like Lars or Seamus or something.
Is anyone else seeing this, or am I just projecting all over the place here?
Yeaahhhh…maybe just you?
I wish I could project wooden dongs all over the place. I’d be single women’s favourite superhero.
Yeaahhhh…maybe just you?
Hey, don’t act like you didn’t see it. It’s right there!
I’d be single women’s favourite superhero.
Also under arrest. Most likely.
I vote Lars! (But I really think you should give Ilya another look.)
I vote Lars!
It is a great name. I don’t think the little lady would go for it. Too manly and awesome.
Is Thorgrun still on the menu?
At some point I think it’s going to become necessary to find out who’s who on the PS3.
Shea Weber is now the most bad-ass Captain on the block.
(ps – Call me!)
God, players in other sports are such divas. At least in the NHL, Derek Roy is your worst case scenario for that kind of thing. And tonight? Roy-z doesn’t seem so bad.
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(Please understand that in my head, I’ve already exiled Kovy to the KHL.)
Shea Weber is now the most bad-ass Captain on the block.
Shea Weber is now the most bad ass-Captain on the block.
Xkcd made me do it.
How dare you.
The heat is making me reconsider some things in my life. I now agree with Looch. I don’t want to wear pants anymore, it’s too hot.
It only gets hotter when you take off your pants.
I’m surprised I’m not on a “vacation-of-a-lifetime” to Europe right now. Usually that would be when they’d have their record high temperatures.
I’m so sorry about the heat, Grrrreg! I bet the Ookies aren’t happy to find it’s hot in the Netherlands, too.