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Mygetaway

Monday, March 31, 2003 - 07:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Bob, I agree with Twinkie.. Your post cheered me up today too. How fun. Thanks for sharing with us!

Julieboo

Monday, March 31, 2003 - 07:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Oh Man, Bob, how are we gonna top that?!?!?!?

Nightcrawler

Monday, March 31, 2003 - 07:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
that was COOL VERYCOOL thank's BOB:)

Sia

Monday, March 31, 2003 - 08:24 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Bob, thanks for the wildly entertaining meeting-pics! You're too much, pal! Love your sense humor.

Um, is it me, or does Juju seem a bit "stiff" in those photos? Some people do have trouble relaxing for the camera.

Egbok

Monday, March 31, 2003 - 08:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Bob, that was a hoot and I thoroughly enjoyed every word of your meeting with Juju!! You are the most talented sponge I've ever known!! Thank you for bringing laughter into my life just now!!
P.S. The infamous "butt shot" was my favorite picture!

Tess

Monday, March 31, 2003 - 10:52 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I just got home from meeting Juju a little bit ago. What an adventure! Everything was planned so carefully. Look up location on mapquest--check. Print out directions--check. Turn on cell phone--check. Have both cameras--check. Good. Nervous as heck I leave 15 minutes late (I'll deal with Miss Sarah tomorrow) and start on my way. Juju's train was due in at 10:25pm and I'd allowed and extra 30 minutes to get to the station so everything was still under control. Right? Wrong!

The map printed out fine in teeny tiny print but there were no directions. Reach for cell phone....not there. Forge ahead. One missed exit later, I made it with 20 minutes to spare (speed limits really are just a suggestion aren't they?). omh! The train was early and there was Juju as soon as I got inside the door. yay!!

May I just say that I am now in love with BigDog? He is an absolutely adorable man. I wanted to take him home with me. And, I know some of you have been worried about Momma. No, she didn't get tossed from the u-haul. She's alive and well and getting into mischief somewhere in the state of Arkansas.

On to Juju! She is just delightful. It was wonderful to finally get to meet her and talk to her in person. She's got a fantastic sense of humor and is so down to earth. I think y'all knew that already. I told her about the pictures posted from her adventures with Bob and she thought they were hilarious. Bigdog smiled very indulgently. (He's a very nice man). We were all pretty low-key. I think a certain Sponge had things pretty riled up down in Chicago.

Too soon it was time to say goodbye. They were early arriving so the train was departing early as well. Time for just a few photos (I even got one of Bigdog) and hugs goodbye (yep, one from Bigdog) and poof! They were gone.

Bigdog, Juju and Tess
no behind shots for this crowd. That's Bigdog on the right. Juju's in the middle of course, and there I am, eyes closed for the camera as usual.

Wargod

Monday, March 31, 2003 - 11:03 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Bob, you made me laugh!

Tess....woo hoo!!!

Schoolmarm

Tuesday, April 01, 2003 - 02:32 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Oh, WOW! What an excellent thread!

Bob...GREAT job, I haven't laughed so hard in such a long time. Now maybe you will get hooked on meeting other TVCHers, too. Have fun meeting Julieboo, too.

Tess! I'm so glad that you got to meet Juju and BigDog. I know that you have really wanted to meet them.

What great write ups!

PS...I'm only one or two photos away from developing butt shots from JANUARY in Bloomington and FEBRUARY in NYC!

Fanny

Tuesday, April 01, 2003 - 06:35 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Half, Bob, Tess... I LOVE you guys!

Mware

Tuesday, April 01, 2003 - 07:27 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Great meeting, Tess!

I love how everybody has good things to say about each other when they meet. We must be some really special people!

Squaredsc

Tuesday, April 01, 2003 - 09:33 am EditMoveDeleteIP
ahh tess you have the gift just like bob. great story and pic.

Egbok

Tuesday, April 01, 2003 - 10:36 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Gosh Tess, I'm so glad that you finally got to meet Juju and Big Dog in person! Woo Hoo!!

I enjoyed your detailed adventure and I'm glad it all worked out for you, especially since it was so late at night! You are a brave angel. The picture is adorable and you are so cute with your eyes shut once again!

Kady

Tuesday, April 01, 2003 - 12:27 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm just jealous that Juju, Big Dog, Bob and Tess come in stuffed animals. No fair!! I want to change my name now...maybe to kadycat.

You guys are great...my son loved the pics. :)

Lucy

Tuesday, April 01, 2003 - 05:03 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Great travel story, Tess! The picture of you, Juju and Bigdog is a work of art! Are those buttons on your legs??lol!

Tess

Tuesday, April 01, 2003 - 07:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yep, buttons. Certain people know how to push them on a fairly regular basis, too.

Juju2bigdog

Wednesday, April 02, 2003 - 05:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Kady, remember it is never too late to order yourself a jumbo supply of Jujugoat dolls. Although Juju is the preferred name, since you will own all 144 of them, you can name them all Kady if you like.

Fanny

Wednesday, April 02, 2003 - 08:02 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yay! Juju's home!

Spygirl

Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 02:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
On the roll of film I had developed today, I found the official "TVCH Butt Shot" from my meeting with Sukii at the end of February! :)

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Squaredsc

Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 03:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
kool butt shot spy. who is who?

Schoolmarm

Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 03:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Just by the hair I would guess Spy in the white shirt and Sukii with the vest....I could be wrong, though!

In either case, Spy is REALLY getting into shape! Congrats!

Spygirl

Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 03:20 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yeah, I wish that was my bee-hind on the right! LOL

Egbok

Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 03:26 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Great TVCH Classic picture Spy!

<When we meet and take our picture, we'll look like twins...well, you'll have to cut your hair short and dye it brown>

Twinkie

Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 05:20 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Spy, you look awesome girl!!

Juju2bigdog

Sunday, April 06, 2003 - 09:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Okay, I guess I better make an entry here, or I'm never going to get to it. As some of you may know, I have been gone from the Pacific northwest for over four months, and I returned to Washington this past week.

We spent most of the winter in a rented condo on the beach in South Padre Island, TX, which is down there at the very tip of Texas, next to Mexico. It was not a particularly warm winter but I guess it was balmy compared to what the rest of the country experienced.

We left South Padre on March 5 and went on a bus trip to the interior of Mexico with a tour company, as we had never before driven into Mexico and weren't sure we wanted to go by ourselves. We visited San Luis Potosi, San Miguel de Allende, Dolores Hidalgo, Guanajuato, Saltillo, and briefly Monterrey. We spent three night in a lovely hotel in San Miguel de Allende, a colonial city which has a large expatriate American and Canadian population. We liked the area well enough, but were not inspired to move there and join them. We might, however, consider spending a future winter in Mexico.

After Mexico, we returned to South Texas and packed Bigdog's 98 year old Momma, her new husband, and all of her precious 1940's era belongings out of her winter trailer and into a U-Haul trailer which I then pulled behind a small pickup truck back to rural north Arkansas. Bigdog drove Momma back to Arkansas in her old land barge of a Cadillac, and the new husband rode with me.

From Arkansas we made our way to Illinois, where we visited various friends and relatives in various places in central Illinois. One early morning less than a week ago, we boarded Amtrak from central Illinois to Chicago. As you saw above, TVCH's very own Spongie sloshed aboard a commuter Amtrak train and met me and Bigdog in Union Station in Chicago. We had lunch. Bigdog had barbecue, Spongie had a plate of kelp and aquatic microbes, and I had, well, uhhhhhhhh ...

weinies

Bob brought me those. Isn't that hilarious?

Later that afternoon, Bigdog and I boarded Amtrak again for a two day journey back to the west coast of Washington. We crossed through Wisconsin and then had a stop in Minneapolis/St. Paul, where we got off the train and met Tess!!! Thank goodness she came early, as we arrived early. Tess bribed me with a missed Survivor episode videotape, and I spilled the beans all about Bob, er Spongie. I just told her the truth, that Bob is much as you would imagine him - sweet, sincere, a tad hyper, smart, larger than life, yellowish, holey, and mostly plain goofy. And of course, Tess herself is just like she is on the board, sweet and funny, and much younger looking than one might expect.

Okay, that is the important TVCH stuff. I might come back later with a small train trip saga.

Azriel

Monday, April 07, 2003 - 01:25 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Cool, Juju! I'm glad you checked in. I love the pic! You and Bob look just like I've always pictured you