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Texannie
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07-16-2001

Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 7:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Anyone watch? At first I didn't think I would care for this show at all, but I really liked it.
LOVED Big Mama and her family!!! I didn't care for the Hahn's at first, but then really grew to like them too.


Lilfair
Member

07-09-2003

Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 9:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I wanted to watch but forgot it was on. I saw the last 15 mins.

What was up with that rich family. Any info on them would be appreciated? Did they ever say why they participated and what was the rich families vacation like?

Thanks!

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 9:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I saw the opening and was so turned off by the clips that I changed the channel and then nothing else was on, so I went back! LOL So I didn't see the reasons why they all chose to do this.
The rich family, Hahn's vacation was skiing in Aspen.....very top drawer, dress for dinner, very snooty. The mom took Big Momma shopping for new clothes and furs....that would have been nice! LOL
But everyone had a good time.

Hippyt
Member

06-15-2001

Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 9:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I watched,it was a fun show. No major traumas,lol.
I'm grumpy right now,so I will write more later.....

Lilfair
Member

07-09-2003

Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 10:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Glass of Shiraz and chocolate (known to chase the grumpy's away) for Hippyt...

Mocha
Member

08-12-2001

Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 10:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I loved it. Loved the Orlando family, they were fun. Liked a couple of the Hawn kids. In the end the Hawn mom was a good sport.

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 11:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
the Orlandos were a great family!!!! That one Hahn kid I wanted to smack, but the others were troopers.
Was there a Hahn dad?

Mizinvanccouver
Member

02-22-2003

Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 11:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
What channel and when is this show on??

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 11:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
ABC at 9 CST last night (Wednesday)

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 11:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
sounds like it was a one time thing (and oops, spelled the Hawn's name wrong!)



Vacation Swap
Wednesday, March 23 at 10/9c

Could your family survive a two-week vacation with a completely different family you’ve never met?
See what happens when a millionaire family accustomed to a luxurious lifestyle, complete with a butler and chef, goes on holiday with a blue-collar family whose idea of a vacation is roughing it in a trailer park!

For this special broadcast, two families who have never met both agree to take vacations together. In the first week, one family goes on vacation with the other at a location and in a style that's completely foreign to them, while in the second week, the other family vacations the way the first traditionally does. It'll be a vacation package neither will ever forget.

Chelle Hawn, 44, and her four sons, Mark (21), Brian (20), Joe (17) and Ben (13), live in the lap of luxury in their mansion in Georgia. Used to getting whatever they desire at home, family vacations tend to be over the top. Wherever they go, the Hawns travel in full style because money is no object. Their traditional vacation includes skiing in ritzy Aspen, Colorado, where they rent a house for 10K a night -- including a private chef and butler. But once there, the Hawns spend so much time doing their own things that their vacations aren't the bonding experience they should be.

On the other side of the country, Jackie Orlando, 50, also nicknamed "Big Mama," her 51-year-old husband, Joe, and their three children, Joe (20), Stephanie (20) and Matthew (14), are a close knit family from southern California. This down-to-earth family is so animated that neighbors call the clan "the loud Orlandos." Their traditional vacation includes fitting the family of five into their tiny trailer and traveling to a low-budget RV park outside a dairy farm in Southern California. But the Orlandos go camping every single vacation, and wonder if they shouldn't broaden their horizons.

By the end of the two-week vacation swap, will the families have learned that, as far as family vacations go, hell is other people? Or will they this year bring home something more valuable from vacation than just a souvenir

http://abc.go.com/specials/vacation_swap.html

Terolyn
Member

05-06-2004

Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 11:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I liked the Orlando's too, but couldn't they have found a nicer place to camp? And they go there every year??? There must be better camps then that.

Mocha
Member

08-12-2001

Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 11:40 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh I forgot to mention that they have a show like this on BBC which is probably where ABC got the idea.

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 11:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Except for being right next to the dairy farm, it sure looked lovely...the stream, hiking trails, basketball court, paddle boats, running water bathrooms and showers.
heck, I am NOT a camper and they made it look fun and relaxing! LOL
It was interesting. I tend to plan active vacations like the Hawn's (way less expensive). It made me think when the Orlandos brought out the point that the Hawn's were really doing things TOGETHER while on vacation...made me go hmmmmm

Hippyt
Member

06-15-2001

Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 12:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Terolyn,I had the same thought. Camping at a dairy farm????? And it looked like they were fishing in a ditch.
My parents used to take us camping as kids and we went to rivers or lakes,and no cows.
I thought it was a cute show. Orlando mom sure was a sport about the skiing. I would imagine that would make a person really really sore.
At first I hated Hawn Mom,but her attitude really changed. I think she got a lot out of the experience. Sheesh,I wouldn't want to fix a busted sewage pipe either.
This was a nice change from Wife Swap.

Terolyn
Member

05-06-2004

Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 12:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
We camp alot, but usually in areas where the scenery ... and the aroma... is pleasant. Hiking, fishing in streams/lakes etc., but also near towns/attractions so that we can also play the tourist card.



Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 1:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
But didn't Big Momma react to the smell too like it was out of the norm? It also didn't tend to be an issue later.

Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 2:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I have been a camper in my life and I would not have spent two minutes at that campsite. Ewww!

Fun show. I think I would prefer spending time with Big Momma in Aspen. LOL!

Sunshyne4u
Member

06-17-2003

Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 9:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I liked this show as well. BUT...I must say, FART stories????

Now I've been camping many times with the guys who basically FISH and drink beer all day(and night)...and I've NEVER heard them go on about fart stories. Mrs Hawn was correct...it was offensive.

Big Momma was right though, we are human and we all fart. BUT people I know, even the barbaric ones, keep their fart jokes for PRIVATE.

All in all a good show though. THAT wasnt MY kind of camping either. Being Canadian there are lots of great wilderness places to go. All those trailers made it look like a RV Village, which is not close to "real" camping in my opinion. LOL

Would have loved to see Mrs Hawn try to find an OUTHOUSE in some of the campsites I've been in. LOL Bears have been known to run at you as you try to have a nighttime Pee. (they come in after dark looking for FISH that tourists dont pack away properly.)



Hippyt
Member

06-15-2001

Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 9:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I don't find fart jokes offensive,just immature and gross. Yeah,not so funny.

Scout
Member

01-20-2005

Friday, March 25, 2005 - 8:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I was surprised that the Hahn mom had four boys. It seems like a lot of work for someone as pampered as her to go through. Guess she couldn't get the butler for that one, though.

Wonder what it would be like to be able to use the sentence, "money is no object"...

I ended up liking the show. The rich family was so smug in the beginning and so insensitive to the feelings of the other family or their needs. I loved it when things were turned around and the people who can't abide "whiners" became full-fledged ones themselves.

I thought the rich boys who helped did seem proud of themselves in the end, but that last sequence when they were all doing chores around the house felt like a set-up.