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Juju2bigdog

Friday, September 20, 2002 - 08:44 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I heard from TnT this evening! She is in San Luis Obispo, CA. She toured the Hearst Castle today, said she had a wonderful guide.

Hearst Castle

She has already toured in the Los Angeles area and is now heading north, going to Gilroy, CA tomorrow for about a week and then San Francisco for a few days and then on up the California coast. She is having a great time, got to watch Survivor last night (and presumably BB, I forgot to ask).

She says tell everybody hi and she is sorry to have missed Moondance while in the L.A. area.

Theowl

Friday, September 20, 2002 - 10:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks for the update Juju!! Did she see, or will she see, any of the TVCHer's? That's too bad she didn't meet Moonie. TTF is a really nice lady and so easy to talk to. I hope Moonie's doing OK. Has anyone heard from her?

Abbynormal

Friday, September 20, 2002 - 11:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
What's wrong with Moonie? I'm missing something!

Tess

Friday, September 20, 2002 - 11:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks for the update, Juju! I just sent Tnt some photos this afternoon by Express Mail to that Gilroy address so she can show them off to relatives. Sounds like she's having a wonderful trip! :)

Urgrace

Saturday, September 21, 2002 - 10:42 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Abbynormal, Moondance recently lost her godfather-uncle and one of her most beloved kitties. We are all hoping she will feel better soon as we have all missed her terribly.

Juju, thanks for the update on TNT. With my phone being all messed up, I'm glad she had your number to call.

Hey, Gail, if it had been me I probably would have been using leather garden gloves or something to remove the fish from the hook! Hahaha

Lancecrossfire

Saturday, September 21, 2002 - 10:49 am EditMoveDeleteIP
It sounds like TNT is having a great time and seeing a lot of the country. Thanks for the update Juju.

Bob2112

Saturday, September 21, 2002 - 04:26 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Bob Hi Everybody! :)

I just have a few minutes to touch base since the resort we are staying at for the next 2 days is gouging me for the dial-up connection, even though I am dialing an 800 number!

We successfully avoided hurricane Isidore by 48 hours and have only had a few hours of rainy weather the entire week. We were snorkeling at the time, so it didn't really matter. Now that we are in Tampa Bay, it looks like we may get rained on both days. We planned on going to Busch Gardens on Sunday, so hopefully it will not be a complete washout.

I have several pictures to upload, but they will have to wait until Monday evening when I can stay on-line without being charged per minute. I do have a couple of pictures for now.

Mrs. Sponge surprised me with a side trip this morning to the one and only, Sponge-O-Rama!
She's the best!

SpongeORama

Oh the childhood memories came flooding back!

Here's a picture of my Mom and Dad

MomAndDad

and they insisted that I post a baby picture.
Notice the square bottom has not yet developed!

BabySponge

Well that's all for now. I'll be back on-line in 2 days and will get caught up with email and other posts at that time. I will also try to make it into chat (if the chat server will cooperate!)

Tess

Saturday, September 21, 2002 - 09:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
OMH! <gasp> That is hysterical! What a lovely family you have there, Bob.

Hurry home, but have fun and drive carefully. :)

Juju2bigdog

Saturday, September 21, 2002 - 09:31 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yay Bob!!!! I hope you gave our best to Mumsy and Popsy. They look like real holey terrors.

Abbynormal

Saturday, September 21, 2002 - 10:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks Gracie!

Egbok

Saturday, September 21, 2002 - 10:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
SpongeBob, thanks for the update and thanks for the laugh - you are so entertaining!!

Sia

Sunday, September 22, 2002 - 04:59 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Glad to hear that you're all having fun, Bob! Thanks for checking in; I was wondering about you guys! (Um, I think there IS a family resemblance with your folks there! Cute baby photo; you look positively squeeze-able!)

Babyruth

Sunday, September 22, 2002 - 06:34 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks for the great family pics!! Keep on soaking up the good times, SpongeBob. :)

Juju2bigdog

Sunday, September 22, 2002 - 08:43 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I just hope Spongie doesn't come back from his vacation all wrung out.

Buttercup

Sunday, September 22, 2002 - 04:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Bob, your family is absolutely a good looking one! I've always been partial to buttercup yellow myself

Buttercup

Bob2112

Tuesday, September 24, 2002 - 09:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks for all the kind words: Tess, Dawg, Eggie, Sia, Babyruth and Buttercup!
(I'm partial to Buttercup in any color. )

Here's a picture of what I did most of the week on the ship (except substitute various rum drinks for the wine if it was after dinner! ).

dinner

It's now been 4 days without a rum drink and I am back down to 3 normal sized meals a day. I don't look forward to posting my weight loss/gain next Monday!

Now, here's me from just a few minutes ago preparing to get into chat.

chat

Hope the server is friendly tonight and lets me in without a fight. :)

Talk to you all soon.

Bob2112

Tuesday, September 24, 2002 - 09:27 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I posted this in SherBear's folder and it looked so much like a post card, that I thought I would post it here as a post card from the Sponge family to all of you. It's a picture of the Disney Magic as seen from Disney's private Island in the Bahamas, Castaway Cay.

ship


The message on the other side says:

Weather's here, wish you were fine!

Urgrace

Tuesday, September 24, 2002 - 09:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Bob, glad you didn't get caught up in any of the tropical storms brewing. What a great postcard!

Bob2112

Sunday, September 29, 2002 - 03:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
... and now the trip is over.

Bookworm

Sunday, September 29, 2002 - 04:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Welcome back Bob! Looks like you had a wonderful time.

Now where is TnTitan? Any updates anyone?

Wargod

Sunday, September 29, 2002 - 04:46 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Bob, since I welcomed you home last week, hehe, all I got to say is "it's about dang time!" Get yourself over to the lurker adoption thread and adopt a lurker/new member!

<I really did miss you and I'm very glad you're home!>

Juju2bigdog

Sunday, September 29, 2002 - 08:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Welcome Home, Pants.

Sia

Sunday, September 29, 2002 - 10:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm glad you're back, Bob! Happy to hear that you all had a wonderful vacation. It sounds heavenly!
castle

Urgrace

Friday, October 04, 2002 - 03:03 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hope you're having a great time TNT! Miss you.

Tess

Friday, October 04, 2002 - 07:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Well, guess what? I found out today that I have a voice message on my cell phone from TNT!!! Who knew??

She talked ALOT and very fast so I'll try to get everything down here. Bottom line is she's having a fabulous time on the west coast.

They spent a week in the small town of Gilroy, CA for a week and was "busy, busy, busy" while there. Then they went up to San Francisco and did a city tour there. After that tour they went on a tour of Alcatraz. They left San Francisco via the Golden Gate Bridge and went north into wine country. They toured a couple of wineries, did a bit of tasting and generally had a wonderful time. Then it was back to the Pacific Coast Highway for the trip up to Ft Bragg. That's as far as they had gotten when she called my phone earlier in the week. I'm guessing this was at least 2-3 days ago. They especially enjoyed the beautiful scenery along Hwy 1, overlooking the Pacific.

She's also following Survivor and TAR while on the road. She called Tanya "that wimpy girl from Tennessee" which cracked me up. You have to know TNT in person to know how funny that is. She is far and away the most active person I've ever met. They were able to catch the end of BB, also, and she misses everyone here very much.

All in all it sounds like they are having an absolutely fantastic vacation. :)