BradyBzLyn...Mo

AMAZING!!
An amazing trip report, amazing photos, amazingly adorable kids, and...
amazing that I just read the whole thing from start to finish!

Serves me right for being 3 months behind on TRs!!
One question - Kim, what kind of cameras are you and H using?
Some notes...
I am anti-poncho
I am VERY pro-EWP and COP (Hi Lou! :raspberry:)
I am also anti-prison
...pro-monoral
...anti- new Settlement Trading Post sign (yuk)
...PRO silly faces
...pro-picnic tables and canoes
Side note: someone on some other camping board recently mentioned that they actually REQUESTED site 617. Not. Even. Kidding.
I think I'm anti-pajama jeans but... I like pajamas and I like jeans
carrying on...
...pro-Clover King Wagon
...anti-"the water tanker is still missing"
...most decidedly ANTI-ending up in someone’s TR in a swimsuit!!!!
...pro, Pro, PRO-KFK's bike tour of a lifetime!
Thanks for the terrific TR, Kim
Thank especially for the Wishes!
I was singing along with your post...
...and crying along with the video.
:bighug:
:bravo:
...and now I need to go sleep for a week.

BBC America is the place to get your world news. CNN.com is the place to jump to entertainment news. Fox News is the place to go when you want to see guest not be able to answer a question and/or listen to my fatherinlaw get on his high horse. Huffington Post....is a good google feed.... :rofl2:
Seriously I stopped watching the news when I had to raise the antenna to get it. Sadly, I am happier this way and my fiends let me know if there is a hurricane coming ..... :banana:

This should be the cry your damned eyes out thread. I remember the first time I clicked on Daves link for the first child they were trying to adopt and thought, oh that's cool Dave is adopting a special needs child and didn't think much more of it. Then when they were denied that child and seeing the disappointment his family endured, it was like I went through it too. I was worried with Anna they'd get the same result and every time Dave would post on facebook or the boards I was hoping he wasn't going to say we didn't get her or another delay. That last trip to Russia had me on edge every day that something was going to happen even after they took her from the orphanage.
Since everybody else kinda spilled their guts and is being softies I might as well admit I went to the SMGG to enjoy fiends and share good times but had Anna not been there I might have backed out. I mean I had to see Bob for Pete's sake all weekend and drink those teribble toasted almonds Carol made me.
OK back to being the snarky attacking mean people we've been accused of being. Thanks for sharing Anna with us Dave. Your family wins the 2011 feel good about being a fiend award.

That's so awesome, fiends meeting up for the first time. That's one thing different about this place, the intent is to ACTUALLY meet new people, which is why I love it here. I have no life out side of kids and work. My husband said I had to make friends.. I did better than that, I made "fiends" :rofl2:

Dave-
What about the Rangers? Any signs of them? On the 4th of July they were wearing regular castmember costumes, and patrolling by golf cart or segway.
Here are my bold predictions for the weekend, once the crowds arrive:
1. They will have two dimwit castmembers directing traffic each evening at the three way stop by the Settlement. To make matters more interesting and congested, they will cone off the ingress/egress from the 100 loop by the Settlement Trading Post. This will cause congestion and back-ups, and maybe some near bus/golf cart collisions.
2. On one morning of the weekend, maybe two, two or three dimwit castmembers will arrive at the pool and pass out American flag wristbands to all who can produce a resort ID. Maybe a few freeloaders will be caught and asked to leave. But, then nobody will check wristbands for the rest of the day, and the pool will be crammed full. The freeloaders by now have figured out how this works, and will still arrive with their coolers and enjoy the pool for free all weekend. Then they will pile in to the 1500 loop comfort station and use all of the showers and get changed to go somewhere to enjoy their next activity.
3. Every evening, several dimwit castmembers will patrol the loops and put notes on all cars that do not have all four wheels on the pavement of the site. To keep things interesting, they will nit pick some campers, while allowing others to get away with the same violation. This lack of consistency appears to be how they entertain themselves.
4. Some dimwit castmembers will be riding around on golf carts and keeping everybody safe by stopping people on bikes and telling some of them to ride on the sidewalk, and others to ride on the road. Also, if you have an adult beverage in a red cup on your golf cart, they may stop and ask you to dump out your drink. In the meantime, you will see several modes of transportation that are on the banned list driving around, along with golf carts overloaded with young people and operated by 12 year old drivers. The dimwit castmembers will wave to all of these folks.
5. Should you have any legitimate visitors who want to come and visit your site, they will be appropriately harassed by the rent-a-cops in the guard house. Maybe they will be sent to the Wilderness Lodge to park so there will be enough parking spaces reserved for the local freeloaders who will be visiting the pool.
Let me know if I get any of these right.
And, have a great weekend!
TCD

Oh and just in case folks haven't seen it yet - we now have an official GOLF CART PAGE!

I love the ribs at Flametree.

Ooh!!

You take the coolest pictures.