knewton64
- May the luck of the Irish always be with you -
- Joined
- Aug 20, 2008
Well the other day I finally figured out how to solve my delicious delima of passing the time while I go from DFW Airport to Heathrow come late August.
And it comes in the form of -
me buying a biographical book on P.L. Travers, "Mary Poppins She Wrote," as well as a dvd documentary about the Sherman Brothers "The Boys" in addition to the Cab Calloway cd.
So I figure as in with any relationship, there are always two sides to every story so it is going to be quite interesting to say in the least to read up on Ms Travers & see what made her write what she wrote, her reaction to seeing her Poppin's characters being protrayed in the way that they were portrayed in the Disney film we all love and enjoy seeing all the years to seeing what Walt's reaction was (if any) to her reaction, etc.
And that Sherman Brothers dvd has me curious as well.
I mean hey - with about a 10 hour direct flight to London, these two things (along with that Cab Calloway cd I am now loading up on my I-pod) outta keep me plenty busy and make for quite a tale to read up on as I plan to blogging about it in my below listed DISneyland Trip report u c listed in my below listed signature.
AND SPEAKIN' OF MOVIES.......
I am now near DFW Airport and just got out from a AMC Movie theatre presentation of "The Hobbit"......... THAT MOVIE ROCKED!!
From it's storyline, script, music, camera shots, etc - you name it it was WELL WORTH taking almost 3 hours to watch it!!
And to think, there is still a part 3 to this movie!! Don't know when it will come out nor be released but I plan on seeing it.
GOTTA though first see the Muppet movie that's slated to come out in 90 days............
ANYWHO -
Ladybug got dropped off ok and checked into her "hotel" (her Vet for boarding) ......say there's 'something wrong here' when her nightly room and tax is only a mere $18/nght!!!!
Hmmmmmm.......remind me next time to say something to the "hotel Manager" ......
cuz how much are we 2-legged Human Beings pay for OUR nightly room and Tax when we frequent a hotel??
So as I was droppiong her off,
She had that confused look of "DADDY.... DON'T LEAVE ME!! look on her face which I will admit I really had to hold back from crying as this is the first time in a long time we will be away from each other.
Yes, I had a long talk with her last night as well as this morning but I can tell it didn't help both sides as we obviously are gonna miss each other.
But with thoughts of a Cinamon roll in my head, I bid her a fond adieu and off I went to Grapevine Mills Mall......WOW!! Being there when the mall first opens up really helped as I was able to get in not 4 but 5 WALK FASTING laps around the Mall as that really helped out when at the end of the 5th lap wouldn't ya know it........I just 'had' to make that stop off at Cinabon and check out their cinamon rolls....... ** YYYYYUUUUMMMM!!!! ****
And the popcorn at the movie theatre hit the spot as well.
SO, now I have boogied on over to the Hilton DFW Area lakes hotel for a wee bit in time for some 5pm -10pm wine tasting out at Grapevine Texas followed by a rousing group dinner at a nearby restaurant.
Looking forward to the wine tasting (pics and video forthcoming I promise) as I can tell I am beginning now to get out of my 'business mode' and now am swinging full blown into my 'vacation mode.'
I get a feeling what has helped was the 11:10am Hobbitt movie was well over an hour LATE in downloading onto their main server so they offered us a few choices as alternative solutions and I was still able to see it AND receive a comped movie/popcorn and drink vouchers for my return!! ** WAY COOL **
So be on the lookout for me to def see the Muppet movie in mid April which is the next time I go on a small vacation as I will be seeing the Highlander games at Scarborough Faire (Waxahachie Texas), etc as part of me kicking off my London /Scotland adventure come August.
ALLRIGHTEE ----
updating my trip report will be spotty over the next 12 days of so but yes, do expect me from time to time to make a quite update.
Got plenty of gigs of film so that shouldn't be an issue.
Gotta a Employee rate room reserved at the hotel where I work at (near DFW Airport).......
Gonna get in very late tonight -
Flight 4 LaLA land leaves in 15 more hours......
Hmmmm.....
I'd say ** BRING IT!! **
** IT HAS BEGUN **
T.T.F.N.
&
Cheers
And it comes in the form of -
me buying a biographical book on P.L. Travers, "Mary Poppins She Wrote," as well as a dvd documentary about the Sherman Brothers "The Boys" in addition to the Cab Calloway cd.
So I figure as in with any relationship, there are always two sides to every story so it is going to be quite interesting to say in the least to read up on Ms Travers & see what made her write what she wrote, her reaction to seeing her Poppin's characters being protrayed in the way that they were portrayed in the Disney film we all love and enjoy seeing all the years to seeing what Walt's reaction was (if any) to her reaction, etc.
And that Sherman Brothers dvd has me curious as well.
I mean hey - with about a 10 hour direct flight to London, these two things (along with that Cab Calloway cd I am now loading up on my I-pod) outta keep me plenty busy and make for quite a tale to read up on as I plan to blogging about it in my below listed DISneyland Trip report u c listed in my below listed signature.
AND SPEAKIN' OF MOVIES.......
I am now near DFW Airport and just got out from a AMC Movie theatre presentation of "The Hobbit"......... THAT MOVIE ROCKED!!
From it's storyline, script, music, camera shots, etc - you name it it was WELL WORTH taking almost 3 hours to watch it!!
And to think, there is still a part 3 to this movie!! Don't know when it will come out nor be released but I plan on seeing it.
GOTTA though first see the Muppet movie that's slated to come out in 90 days............
ANYWHO -
Ladybug got dropped off ok and checked into her "hotel" (her Vet for boarding) ......say there's 'something wrong here' when her nightly room and tax is only a mere $18/nght!!!!
Hmmmmmm.......remind me next time to say something to the "hotel Manager" ......
cuz how much are we 2-legged Human Beings pay for OUR nightly room and Tax when we frequent a hotel??
So as I was droppiong her off,
She had that confused look of "DADDY.... DON'T LEAVE ME!! look on her face which I will admit I really had to hold back from crying as this is the first time in a long time we will be away from each other.
Yes, I had a long talk with her last night as well as this morning but I can tell it didn't help both sides as we obviously are gonna miss each other.
But with thoughts of a Cinamon roll in my head, I bid her a fond adieu and off I went to Grapevine Mills Mall......WOW!! Being there when the mall first opens up really helped as I was able to get in not 4 but 5 WALK FASTING laps around the Mall as that really helped out when at the end of the 5th lap wouldn't ya know it........I just 'had' to make that stop off at Cinabon and check out their cinamon rolls....... ** YYYYYUUUUMMMM!!!! ****
And the popcorn at the movie theatre hit the spot as well.
SO, now I have boogied on over to the Hilton DFW Area lakes hotel for a wee bit in time for some 5pm -10pm wine tasting out at Grapevine Texas followed by a rousing group dinner at a nearby restaurant.
Looking forward to the wine tasting (pics and video forthcoming I promise) as I can tell I am beginning now to get out of my 'business mode' and now am swinging full blown into my 'vacation mode.'
I get a feeling what has helped was the 11:10am Hobbitt movie was well over an hour LATE in downloading onto their main server so they offered us a few choices as alternative solutions and I was still able to see it AND receive a comped movie/popcorn and drink vouchers for my return!! ** WAY COOL **
So be on the lookout for me to def see the Muppet movie in mid April which is the next time I go on a small vacation as I will be seeing the Highlander games at Scarborough Faire (Waxahachie Texas), etc as part of me kicking off my London /Scotland adventure come August.
ALLRIGHTEE ----
updating my trip report will be spotty over the next 12 days of so but yes, do expect me from time to time to make a quite update.
Got plenty of gigs of film so that shouldn't be an issue.
Gotta a Employee rate room reserved at the hotel where I work at (near DFW Airport).......
Gonna get in very late tonight -
Flight 4 LaLA land leaves in 15 more hours......
Hmmmm.....
I'd say ** BRING IT!! **
** IT HAS BEGUN **
T.T.F.N.
&
Cheers