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27 December, 2010
24 December, 2010
My Christmas Tribute - Brad Paisley - Santa looked alot like Daddy
I wish my dad was still around to play Santa. In my childhood, he didn't play Santa for me, though I'm sure if he had grandkids before he passed, he would have played Santa for them.
I'd like to wish all my followers and readers a Very Merry Christmas and a bright and wonderful New year
May God's blessings shine down upon thee this christmas season and the upcoming new year
Thank you
21 December, 2010
Semi-unexpected trip
Well my friends Char and Evy are youth ministers at their church. Evy's been asking me for ideas for things to do with the kids and for fundraisers off and on. Well they told me of an upcoming trip to Six Flags Discovery Kingdom about a month ago. When the announcement was made on Face-book, I commented that I hope they have a great trip. And they offered me a chance to come along.
Yesterday, was the trip. I knew it wasn't going to start off well when Char told me he'd pick me up around 1100. He didn't pick me up till about 12ish. we got to the church about a half hour later. At that time, the Pastor wasn't there. So we had to wait for him. then the cousins. by the time they all arrived and we got situated it was pushing 115. We got on the road about 130.
I realized that on the way, we'd be going through Dixion California, where my dad is buried. I haven't been able to get out to see his grave at the National Veteran's Cemetery there. Anyways, we're about half way through Dixon when the kids and Evy tell Char (who's driving) that they need a rest stop. The Next exit? just happens to be the exit one takes to that National Cemetery. It was too weird. Anyways after that stop we're on the road again
another 30 minutes or so we're at Discovery Kingdom. We were told by one of the Pastor's kids that they were in the Skittles lot, so when we pulled up to the parking attendants booths to pay for the parking, we asked which lot was the skittles lot. She looked back at us blankly. "You can buy skittles inside". we tried explaining what we were referring to, and she told us "the skittles tram was out in the front of the parking lot. and she'd had never heard the lot be called the skittles before." we laughed and decided to try to find the lot ourselves. We drive and find the Pastor's car parked in Low and behold, the Skittles section of the parking lot. I think they may have been hitting the egg nog a little early? maybe?
Well we get inside and get our pictures with Miss Gingerbread-man and Blitzen and break off into our three groups. The cousins in one group. The pastor, his wife and kids in another group, and Char, Evy and me in the last with the three kids we drove to the park. We sat down and circled the rides and things we wanted to see before heading out into the park.
The first stop off the entrance area was the dolphin tank, the water was so blue that you couldn't see the dolphins at first unless they were at the window. They were showing off and ever so often, swam by the window, scaring the proverbial crap out of the kids. I believe both girls screamed as the dolphins said hello.
We decided to hit some of the rides next, Cobra, Medusa and Kong. None of those were a ride for me, so i stayed safety on the ground and took pictures of what I could. I could see the kids having a blast, which I was greatful for. After that we headed over to the Land animal area. we got there about 356ish, at 358 Evy and I overheard the park attendents talking
PA1: Two minutes
PA2: Yes.
We asked PA2 what it meant by 2 minutes, we found out that they were about to close the land animal section. Apparently they feed the animals about 4 pm and during the winter they just close that part of the park at 4. Inquiring further, we found out that they opened that part of the park at 2 pm, so the land animals were only open for two hours. sucks.... I really wanted to see the tigers and the lions.
lets see, after the kids did the last ride of the day on one of the rides in the land animal area, we headed towards the Killer Whale's tank. the kids got distracted by the snow they had at the park, there was also a sledding hill which in retrospect looked really fun, but I didn't ride it I tried to get some pictures here, but it was really hard to. Right afterwards, I spotted a ride that is very reminicent of the teacups at Disneyland, but at Discovery Kingdom, they were called Monky bowls or some such thing. This ride I figured I could do and went on with Evy and the Kids, Char at first decided to stay off, but the kids, after finding out, started to tease him and playfully call him a chicken. He came on and the six of us had a blast. I was fine until the bowl we were in started to slow down, that's when I got a bit dizzy. After that we headed to eat. we were going to see the killer whale after linner, but we never got around to it.
while we were eating the Pastor's group came by and the pastor said that he wouldn't mind taking the three kids we had to give us a break. we finished eating and went to the park's tree lighting (which was amusing) several of the carolers seemed more into it than the others. and you could tell when they were faking smiles. *Shrug* think it was more for the kids than anything. I did some shopping and we headed back to the Medusa ride to meet up with the pastor's party. all day it was touch and go with the rain, and as we approached the ride, several park employees were telling us that the park was closing at 630 due to the weather. we did some last minute shopping and headed home.
We stopped in Dixion again on the way home, but the ride home was a bit on the uneventful ride, though I was pleased. One of the girls, about when we entered west sacramento, asked Are we there yet. The whole ride there I was waiting for it, but it didn't come, but I'm glad I heard it at least once on the way home. ^^;
Yesterday, was the trip. I knew it wasn't going to start off well when Char told me he'd pick me up around 1100. He didn't pick me up till about 12ish. we got to the church about a half hour later. At that time, the Pastor wasn't there. So we had to wait for him. then the cousins. by the time they all arrived and we got situated it was pushing 115. We got on the road about 130.
I realized that on the way, we'd be going through Dixion California, where my dad is buried. I haven't been able to get out to see his grave at the National Veteran's Cemetery there. Anyways, we're about half way through Dixon when the kids and Evy tell Char (who's driving) that they need a rest stop. The Next exit? just happens to be the exit one takes to that National Cemetery. It was too weird. Anyways after that stop we're on the road again
another 30 minutes or so we're at Discovery Kingdom. We were told by one of the Pastor's kids that they were in the Skittles lot, so when we pulled up to the parking attendants booths to pay for the parking, we asked which lot was the skittles lot. She looked back at us blankly. "You can buy skittles inside". we tried explaining what we were referring to, and she told us "the skittles tram was out in the front of the parking lot. and she'd had never heard the lot be called the skittles before." we laughed and decided to try to find the lot ourselves. We drive and find the Pastor's car parked in Low and behold, the Skittles section of the parking lot. I think they may have been hitting the egg nog a little early? maybe?
Well we get inside and get our pictures with Miss Gingerbread-man and Blitzen and break off into our three groups. The cousins in one group. The pastor, his wife and kids in another group, and Char, Evy and me in the last with the three kids we drove to the park. We sat down and circled the rides and things we wanted to see before heading out into the park.
The first stop off the entrance area was the dolphin tank, the water was so blue that you couldn't see the dolphins at first unless they were at the window. They were showing off and ever so often, swam by the window, scaring the proverbial crap out of the kids. I believe both girls screamed as the dolphins said hello.
We decided to hit some of the rides next, Cobra, Medusa and Kong. None of those were a ride for me, so i stayed safety on the ground and took pictures of what I could. I could see the kids having a blast, which I was greatful for. After that we headed over to the Land animal area. we got there about 356ish, at 358 Evy and I overheard the park attendents talking
PA1: Two minutes
PA2: Yes.
We asked PA2 what it meant by 2 minutes, we found out that they were about to close the land animal section. Apparently they feed the animals about 4 pm and during the winter they just close that part of the park at 4. Inquiring further, we found out that they opened that part of the park at 2 pm, so the land animals were only open for two hours. sucks.... I really wanted to see the tigers and the lions.
lets see, after the kids did the last ride of the day on one of the rides in the land animal area, we headed towards the Killer Whale's tank. the kids got distracted by the snow they had at the park, there was also a sledding hill which in retrospect looked really fun, but I didn't ride it I tried to get some pictures here, but it was really hard to. Right afterwards, I spotted a ride that is very reminicent of the teacups at Disneyland, but at Discovery Kingdom, they were called Monky bowls or some such thing. This ride I figured I could do and went on with Evy and the Kids, Char at first decided to stay off, but the kids, after finding out, started to tease him and playfully call him a chicken. He came on and the six of us had a blast. I was fine until the bowl we were in started to slow down, that's when I got a bit dizzy. After that we headed to eat. we were going to see the killer whale after linner, but we never got around to it.
while we were eating the Pastor's group came by and the pastor said that he wouldn't mind taking the three kids we had to give us a break. we finished eating and went to the park's tree lighting (which was amusing) several of the carolers seemed more into it than the others. and you could tell when they were faking smiles. *Shrug* think it was more for the kids than anything. I did some shopping and we headed back to the Medusa ride to meet up with the pastor's party. all day it was touch and go with the rain, and as we approached the ride, several park employees were telling us that the park was closing at 630 due to the weather. we did some last minute shopping and headed home.
We stopped in Dixion again on the way home, but the ride home was a bit on the uneventful ride, though I was pleased. One of the girls, about when we entered west sacramento, asked Are we there yet. The whole ride there I was waiting for it, but it didn't come, but I'm glad I heard it at least once on the way home. ^^;
19 December, 2010
It's a Bird, it's a plane.... no it's just my page views
Thank you All, and best wishes this holiday season.
15 December, 2010
Welcome to the Office Building Fun-house...of doom
Well last night we had the next installment of DarkBlade. As we left off, Yukio was having a break due to the evil magic in the building. Well, Talone, our own party's magic user chatted, to put it kindly, to an old 'friend'. needless to say it ended up in a fire fight and the windows on the second floor of the building. Titanium tried jumping into the open window, however he was blown sixty yards away. Luna (my character) decides to use the stairs. However before she could react to the posing boss, A bullet fired from Titanium's uber gun, hits the force field around him and forces William the insane mage to crash out of the one office building and into another one.
The party moves into the new building. The first floor, all the lights go out, those of us who failed their body check *cough*luna*cough* ended up face first in what would become to be seen as Blood...and a lot of it. since the stairs were trapped, I decided to punch through the ceiling. After getting the party up through the hole I made, the room we ended up in started to get warmer and warmer. I tried again to punch through the ceiling, but fail and end up scared out of my wits as an evil magic monstercomes out of now where. The only way out is using the stairs. For those who failed their soul check, it was a nightmare, for Talone, he saw his party eyeless and inside each eye was a demon we'd come to know as Missy leaning out of the eye socket and chanting "i'm watching yoooou" over and over again, for Titanium it was the entire team as charred bodies, for Luna, for anyone she looked at it was her Stepfather covered in blood. Raging, she attacked the nearest one, who happened to be the other psycran of the party,(The one two games earlier had accidently spaced her). Talone finally came to the rescue and turned off the magic that had possessed her.
After that, Yukio, who had been out all this time, had finally woken up (since his player finally arrived) and after being filled in, we head upstairs. The other Psycran got hit with the mind possession, but Talone was able to save him. Next floor up, was again drenched with Darkness and had zero gravity to boot. Luna tried punching though the ceiling again and kept going up and up, or at least she thought she was. the entire party had been lifted off the floor. Talone using his magic detector was able to get out of his bubble. He used rope to tie to Luna's leg, then to the rest of the party, one by one, bubbles popped and the characters came tumbling down, Luna's bubble was the last to pop, and instead of falling down, since she was in mid jump, she did go up, inertia carried her and the rest of the party, thanks to the rope, up through 5 floors, landing on a plane of black dawne soilders. all pointing guns at them.
We don't know how it happened,but Titanium went Hulk smash on everyone, starting with the psycrans. He, looking demonic, attacked Eopic (the other psycran) and slashed at him with really wicked looking knives. Luna tried punching him to either knock him out or distract him. Distract him she did.... enough for him to turn on her. Remember in the previous post, I believe I said that Luna was at half hit points, well with her shields down, Luna's just a sitting duck. Needless to say, Luna proved to be a distraction for Demon Titanium... to the point of -40 hp...I was luckily revived, only to come face to face with Missy herself. talk about the winner of Little Miss Creepy contest. She takes the form of a child and after talking to Talone, Titanium and Eopic, she turned her sights on Luna. After bouncing around her, Missy starts to 'play' with luna, first by taunting, then by taking one of her artificial eyes and throwing it to Yukio. He tried to hold onto it, but failed, it dropped from his hand and rolled back. During this entire scene, Luna's vision was in two places at once, giving her quite the headache. Missy then took her eye and swallowed it. then ripped open her stomach, pulled it out and then put it back into Luna's eye socket..... not a pleasent experience. she then told luna that she was fun to play with and sent her up to the next floor. She then taunted Yukio some, telling him that she knew where Kit was (Yukio's love intrest) and then sent him to the next floor as well.
I can't remember what happened next exactly, but we ended up back on the bottom floor and Black Dawne started to surround the place. We tried to run for the stairs when they opened fire. Luna was at 1 hp and failed her defense roll, thus dying once again. Twice in one night, I couldn't believe it. but again I was revived. after an epic calvery arriving moment, the party was wisked away and transported back to the Psycran World ship.
The party moves into the new building. The first floor, all the lights go out, those of us who failed their body check *cough*luna*cough* ended up face first in what would become to be seen as Blood...and a lot of it. since the stairs were trapped, I decided to punch through the ceiling. After getting the party up through the hole I made, the room we ended up in started to get warmer and warmer. I tried again to punch through the ceiling, but fail and end up scared out of my wits as an evil magic monstercomes out of now where. The only way out is using the stairs. For those who failed their soul check, it was a nightmare, for Talone, he saw his party eyeless and inside each eye was a demon we'd come to know as Missy leaning out of the eye socket and chanting "i'm watching yoooou" over and over again, for Titanium it was the entire team as charred bodies, for Luna, for anyone she looked at it was her Stepfather covered in blood. Raging, she attacked the nearest one, who happened to be the other psycran of the party,(The one two games earlier had accidently spaced her). Talone finally came to the rescue and turned off the magic that had possessed her.
After that, Yukio, who had been out all this time, had finally woken up (since his player finally arrived) and after being filled in, we head upstairs. The other Psycran got hit with the mind possession, but Talone was able to save him. Next floor up, was again drenched with Darkness and had zero gravity to boot. Luna tried punching though the ceiling again and kept going up and up, or at least she thought she was. the entire party had been lifted off the floor. Talone using his magic detector was able to get out of his bubble. He used rope to tie to Luna's leg, then to the rest of the party, one by one, bubbles popped and the characters came tumbling down, Luna's bubble was the last to pop, and instead of falling down, since she was in mid jump, she did go up, inertia carried her and the rest of the party, thanks to the rope, up through 5 floors, landing on a plane of black dawne soilders. all pointing guns at them.
We don't know how it happened,but Titanium went Hulk smash on everyone, starting with the psycrans. He, looking demonic, attacked Eopic (the other psycran) and slashed at him with really wicked looking knives. Luna tried punching him to either knock him out or distract him. Distract him she did.... enough for him to turn on her. Remember in the previous post, I believe I said that Luna was at half hit points, well with her shields down, Luna's just a sitting duck. Needless to say, Luna proved to be a distraction for Demon Titanium... to the point of -40 hp...I was luckily revived, only to come face to face with Missy herself. talk about the winner of Little Miss Creepy contest. She takes the form of a child and after talking to Talone, Titanium and Eopic, she turned her sights on Luna. After bouncing around her, Missy starts to 'play' with luna, first by taunting, then by taking one of her artificial eyes and throwing it to Yukio. He tried to hold onto it, but failed, it dropped from his hand and rolled back. During this entire scene, Luna's vision was in two places at once, giving her quite the headache. Missy then took her eye and swallowed it. then ripped open her stomach, pulled it out and then put it back into Luna's eye socket..... not a pleasent experience. she then told luna that she was fun to play with and sent her up to the next floor. She then taunted Yukio some, telling him that she knew where Kit was (Yukio's love intrest) and then sent him to the next floor as well.
I can't remember what happened next exactly, but we ended up back on the bottom floor and Black Dawne started to surround the place. We tried to run for the stairs when they opened fire. Luna was at 1 hp and failed her defense roll, thus dying once again. Twice in one night, I couldn't believe it. but again I was revived. after an epic calvery arriving moment, the party was wisked away and transported back to the Psycran World ship.
11 December, 2010
Courtesy Of The Red, White And Blue (The Angry American)
This song always brings a tear to my eye every time I hear it. and I always think of my dad. Dad, where ever you are, I love you
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