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Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Thursday, March 04, 2004 - 6:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Spygirl, hugs to Berry and Scootsmom for me too. Especially big hug to Scooter if you get to meet him. Did I ever mention that I have had TWO wonderful pets named Scooter?

Scootersmom
Member

08-10-2002

Thursday, March 04, 2004 - 10:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Marm have a safe and wonderful trip!

Juju love hearing about Hong Kong.

Got the hugs! Scooter got lots of hugs from Spy. In fact, I think Spy was going to try and take lil Scooter home with her. But then of course Berry wants to take Shorty home with her too. I had to keep a close eye on my puppy dawgs

We had a wonderful time! It was great watching one of my favorite shows with Berry & Spy. Will write more later...now I'm off to bed.

hahaha Juju, Scooter is a wonderful name! And she is a wonderful dawg too!

Schoolmarm
Member

02-18-2001

Friday, March 05, 2004 - 1:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm in Munich, safe and sound and have already done an afternoon's worth of work!

Everyone was very happy to see me, but I have NO hot date plans. They kept the place open extra long today so I could work.

My hotel is nice, but the room is very small. The New York crew would recognize the size of the room as about equal to the Portland Square. BUT I have my own bathroom,and breakfast is REALLY yummy.

I had a couple of moments of panic right before I left. I couldn't find my passport, as it had gotten mixed in with my Boston convention stuff. My clothes weren't dry from the dryer when it was time to leave for work, so I had to take my 30 minute lunch to go home and throw the clothes into my suitcases.

I was also a little uneasy when the airline check in lady asked me for an emergency phone number. I quipped 'You mean my home phone number or who you should call in case the plan goes down?'

Flight to Philly was full and a couple of minutes late. After running through terminals C, B, A East and A West,I get to the plane just in time for the first boarding call....of course I'm in a LATER group, so I had time to catch my breath! I was wondering why we had a mechanic in the aisles as we were boarding. We sat for a really long time and then all of a sudden the lights went out. The emergency lights didn't come on for a while, either. The captain calmed us and we sat on the runway for almost an hour. Thankfully it was an uneventful flight except when we hit turbulence due to 170mph winds. I was sitting next to a very nice lady from SD-Minnesota who was also a church organist and music ed major. What are the odds of that!

I slept most of the way on the plane, and am very glad to be in Munich. I'm figuring out what concerts I'm going to tonight.

Boy, I sure hope that someone transcribed Survivor for me!

More later......Auf wiedersehen!


Hippyt
Member

09-10-2001

Friday, March 05, 2004 - 1:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Have you seen the notorious non-communicating man yet?

Schoolmarm
Member

02-18-2001

Friday, March 05, 2004 - 2:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yes, and he is happy to see me. He is working tonight, so here I sit at the internet cafe trying to stay awake so that I can kick the jet lag.

Got a kiss on the cheek. SIGH. Oh, yeah and an email right before I left the states.

I'm getting myself opera tickets for Monday and Tuesday, since I think that he will most likely be working.

I'm not getting worked up.....I'll let y'all know if there is anything to get worked up about!

Hippyt
Member

09-10-2001

Friday, March 05, 2004 - 7:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Cool,and yes I wanna hear about any getting worked up! Enjoy the opera!

Herckleperckle
Member

11-20-2003

Friday, March 05, 2004 - 9:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Schoolmarm, make a move on that man, would you? Live dangerously!

Schoolmarm
Member

02-18-2001

Saturday, March 06, 2004 - 4:31 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
OK, MAJOR jet lag this morning. How can this be? I was fine yesterday!

See my post in the 'Facts about you thread' about the trip. I'm thinking of going to the Hofbrauhaus for lunch....but then I would probably be asleep on the floor!

Got my computer to work with a funny plug to convert my three pronged plug to the two pronged converter. I will need some tape to hold it together, as it had three adapters after the plug. Sheesh! Batteries are all charged and ready to go. I'll do a little sightseeing this afternoon.

More later!

Strawberry
Member

07-18-2002

Sunday, March 07, 2004 - 11:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Here I am to report in on the Spygirl TVCH Get Together on Thursday night. Sorry I was so slow, but I was waiting for pics to post, but I'm gonna go ahead and not wait on the photos. I'll explain more later!

We had a fantastic time! Spy met up with me and I recognized her the minute I saw her. She has such a bubbly, fun personality and she put me right at ease as soon as we met up and I realized that she didn't have an axe in her back pocket :-) hehe

Then, we headed over to the restaurant to pick up the mexican food that Scootersmom had ordered and we headed out for Scoots house.

We got to Scoots house where Spy and Scoots met. We set all the food down and Scoots let the dogs out, literally . Her babies were in the basement when we first came in so that they didn't knock us over in their excitement to have company over!

Her dogs are the cutest little things. My favorite is Shorty. She's the older one of the 2 doggies. Scooterpuppy I think took a shining to Spy. She was howling and running around jumping on Spy and she took it all in stride. Probably cuz she's got 2 little furbabies at home and is used to that kind of greeting when she walks in!

We chatted for a little bit and then we broke out the bags of food. We filled up our plates and sat down to watch Survivor. It was really kewl to be able to watch it all together. We talked about our favorite commercials, during the commercials, and then when the show was over, Spy started playing cheeseburger with Scooterpuppy. She had that dog running from one side of the room to the other chasing that little toy. Scooterpuppy would run from the living room into the kitchen and when she hit that hardwood floor her little legs were going 90 to nothin as she slid across the floor to grab the cheeseburger and race back to Spy with it.

We all popped into chat for a little bit. I think we were a little late for the Survivor chat crowd, but we did get to talk to Ladytex, Hippy, Sq, and Llkoolaid. We then decided it was picture time. We did a variation on a butt shot and Spy uploaded the pics to Scoots computer. Somehow the pics won't load, so hopefully Spy didn't delete the pics and we'll be able to post a butt shot some time soon!

It was getting late, so we wound things up and said our goodbyes and Spy and I hit the road for home.

Scoots and I already knew each other from before the board, so I'll let Spy fill you in on her impressions of Scoots and I.

It was so nice to finally meet up with Spy. I had lots of fun getting to hang out with her and she is just as pretty as her pictures. I'm really glad that I finally got to meet her and I hope we can get together again some time soon!

Lucy
Member

10-08-2002

Sunday, March 07, 2004 - 12:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Juju, Marm and Ms. Berry, thanks for posting about your roadtrips. Strawberry, your meeting with Spy and Scoots sounds like it was so much fun. Now you need to work on those pictures!

Juju and Marm, I love hearing about your International travels. I'll be adding both places to my "must see" list. Have fun!!



Mware
Member

09-14-2001

Sunday, March 07, 2004 - 12:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yay Strawberry, Scootersmom, and Spygirl!!! Another successful TVCH meeting!

Mocha
Member

08-12-2001

Sunday, March 07, 2004 - 12:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ditto what Mware said. So how many notches is this is Spy's belt?

Wow Marm, back to Munich again? How's the weather there?

Strawberry
Member

07-18-2002

Sunday, March 07, 2004 - 2:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I think that makes it 50 :-)

Schoolmarm
Member

02-18-2001

Sunday, March 07, 2004 - 3:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
It's friggin' COLD here. I have to wear my coat INSIDE it's so cold. They don't heat the churches either. I went to two services this morning to hear different music. The catholic priest spoke very slowly and clearly and I knew that he was talking about the 'Passion of Christ' movie. The Lutheran bishop went a mile a minute and WHO knows what the heck he talked about. I had a Gospel Choir at the Lutheran and acapella Flor Peeters choir mass at the Catholic.

Went to two concerts. First one was at the Olympic Village. It was really cool to see some of the sites before the concert. They were having a soccar game at the stadium, I think as there were drunk and roudy fans on one of my Ubahn trains. Fortunately they didn't move so fast and missed the connection! The organist was from Prague and there was a chamber choir from the Ludwig's Maximillius University. The concert was TWO hour and free....I put a fiver in the plate and bought 3 CDs since the organist did some Czech music I did not know.

Second concert was by the Gasteig (Symphony) Hall, and was in a very small church that was hard to find. WHY in the world would you have John the Baptist church just two blocks from St. John's church....went to John the Baptist twice...once from the front and once from the back. FINALLY got on the correct winding road and got to the concert. It was FABULOUS and free (but again I put a fiver in the plate)....all acappella music from the Romantic era. The director also played a Rheinburger organ sonata.

Tomorrow I will go to the National Theater to see Madame Butterfly, which I have never seen. Tomorrow I will go there for Cosi von Tutti by Mozart.

I will spend the rest of my waking time at the Orff Zentrum. I'm looking at children's music compositions that were for a sweepstakes contest on the Radio just after WWII. Some of them are very good.

I love the rotisserie chicken at the train station. I haven't been going out to eat, since I need to lose weight and I'm alone. I just grab a hard boiled egg, a tomato and make a salami sandwich with a hard roll from breakfast for lunch and grab a sandwich or chicken for supper.

Maybe I'll eat at the Hofbrau this week.

The Olympic village was new for me. Dachau is still on my list, but you have to be in the right mood for that, I think.

I've walked over 16,000 steps today...that's enough to burn off a large fries from McDonalds....if I had eaten it!

More later!

Auf wiedersehen!

Mocha
Member

08-12-2001

Sunday, March 07, 2004 - 5:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Aww Marm, sorry it's so cold but sounds like you're having alot of fun. I feel so international with Marm updating us on Munich and Zuzu updating us on Hong Kong and I haven't even left my own city.

Spygirl
Member

04-23-2001

Sunday, March 07, 2004 - 7:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
What a great visit!! I very much enjoyed meeting Strawberry and Scootersmom both this past week.

As Berry reported, I met up with her at the McDonald's parking lot and then headed off to pick up the Mexican food. What she didn't mention was that they got enough Mexican food to feed about 100 people! LOL It took both Berry and I to carry it all out to the car, and I wouldn't be surprised if there was enough salsa to float a large ship.

We went winding through the outskirts of the city to Scootermom's house - and what a house!! She and DH have a gorgeous new home! We wanted to somehow incorporate the beauty of the home in our standard "Butt Shot", so we decided to take our picture in a unique way (see below).

I got the honor of meeting the real Scooter and her big sister Shorty right away, along with Scooter's DH. They (not DH) are the cutest balls of white fur and full of energy. Scooter (the pup, not the poster) has a tongue that goes constantly trying to lick everything - darndest thing I've ever seen.

We dived into the Mexican food, which was a veritable buffet, and situated ourselves for the show. I'm sure it was very amusing for Berry and Scootersmom to watch me watch the show since I was completely clueless about the outcome. In fact, I was floored!

As Berry mentioned, I started playing "Cheeseburger" with Scooter the pup. She has this little squeaky toy in the shape of a cheeseburger that she never tires of chasing. I nearly peed my pants laughing when she would hit the hardwood floor and start sliding...unsuccessfully trying to gain her footing while still chasing the bouncing toy. Hysterical! It provided me at least an hour of fun! The amazing thing is that little dog never got tired of it...or slowed down. I wouldn't be surprised if she is still trying to recover. I know I am.

Scootersmom got out some pictures of Shorty when she was younger - she was an adorable puppy. She needs to post some of those in the Dog thread.

We visited a little bit with DH, then joined the chatters in chat. Then, we talked DH into taking photos of us (again, see below). Finally, I had to head out for the evening and the night came to a close. Strawberry then helped me navigate my way back into the city.

Scootersmom, Strawberry...I had a terrific time getting to meet you both. You are generous and fun people and I look forward to more visits since I will travel more and more up that way in the coming years.


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TVCH KC "Butt" Shot


Hippyt
Member

09-10-2001

Sunday, March 07, 2004 - 8:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL!!!!!! I was told a jacuzzi was involved! That's great. And,wow what a nice tub!

Mocha
Member

08-12-2001

Sunday, March 07, 2004 - 8:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh I love that pic!! Beautiful tub Scoots.

Whoami
Member

08-03-2001

Monday, March 08, 2004 - 2:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Which one is which in the shots? I should know. One of my cyberkids is in there!

Tntitanfan
Member

08-03-2001

Monday, March 08, 2004 - 6:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hooray! Thanks to assistance from TheOwl and Gracie, I have two TVCHer's to meet and have fun with in Memphis on my trip to nearby Tunica, MS! I am meeting grannyg and dlkuhn (who says she is more a lurker than a poster)! Lunch at Peabody Place and a trip on the Memphis Belle are the current plans -

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Monday, March 08, 2004 - 6:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
If Spygirl hooked up with Landi, would we have double bubble? (just read Berry's description of the Spygirl meeting)

Very cute TVCH meeting pic. I suppose folks will have to try topping that one now.

Herckleperckle
Member

11-20-2003

Monday, March 08, 2004 - 9:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Great shot! How cute is that. Should have had the dogs in there, too, though!!

Schoolmarm
Member

02-18-2001

Monday, March 08, 2004 - 3:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Tnt...have as much fun with your meeting as the triple Sssssss's did on theirs. Wish I could be there, but alas, I am here!

OK....let's give Tess some things to work with in the travelogue/update section.

I just got back from seeing Madame Butterfly at the National Theatre. It is a very beautiful theater with lots of chandeliers and red walls. The story of Madame Butterfly is that she marries an American sailor in Japan and has his son, but he doesn't know. Three years later he brings his American wife to Japan and Madame Butterfly commits hari kari. Or at least that's what I got out of the German subtitles and the Italian singing. I won't even get into what I thought the moral of the story was!

I'm getting really good at riding the trams and the Ubahn. Bought a nice bottle of Frescotti wine for $5 and will try it tonight. The Japanese tour bus was VERY loud last night and I will need help getting to sleep.

This weekend, I had a couple of food mishaps at the Vitikulanmarkt. This is a HUGE year-round farmer's market. I bought what I thought was crispy fried chicken...it was named Krusti. Well, nope, it was REAL fried pork rinds. Not too bad, but certainly not filling enough for a meal. Up side of that was I got a nice big piece of foil to wrap my leftovers in. I also bought a strange kind of sausage. Moral of THIS story...never go food shopping without your dictionary!

OK, folks....it's voting time. On Wednesday, I will be eating at a bier hall for sure. I will be alone, I'm sure. I really like the Augistiner Bier, and they have a kind of quiet restaurant bier hall near the Hofbrau Haus. I LOVE the outdoor Augistiner Bier Garten....they have hundreds of picnic tables underneath hemlock (?) trees. My other option is to be a tourist and go to the Hofbraus Haus. Cast your votes!

I went to church on Sunday at the Mathiuskirche, the Lutheran bishop's church. It was destroyed during the war and the new building is very modern with some nice colored stone artwork. It is at Sendlingor Tor which is close to the Theresaweise where the Oktoberfest activities are held.

Other then that, I am spending my time at the Orff-Zentrum Munich. Today I plowed through all of the children's music compositions. I FOUND three pages of Carl Orff's manuscript to Musica Poetica stuck in with the children's compositions. I also found a manuscript for Gunild Keetman's First Recorder book. The archivist seemed happy to find these things and the director thought that it was a big deal. I guess that I'm lucky to have found an intact manuscript (Keetman's) and a large fragment (Orff's). Most archivists only dream of finding such things, and I found two in one day.

Most of the day was spent sorting children's picutres of 'Three farmers go searching for the bear' and 'Two rabbits live on a hill, one plays the zither and the other blows a horn'. Real intellectual stuff! The children's compositions are on equally intellectual rhymes! (Unk, Unk, Unk; Wirrle Wirrle was ist das?; Eins, zwei, drei, in der Foesterrei, etc.)

Well, I'm going to go to my loverly hotel and crack open the bottle of wine and watch some CNN.

OOOOOO in the Ubahn there are HUGE advertisements for Big Brother in ENGLISH....Every day at 5, and 'play fair' crossed out. It is for a whole year apparently.

And for Reiki....I took my 'Wicked' CD with me, and loaned it to one of the workers at the Zentrum who teaches children's theatre. He was very excited to hear it. I'm gonna feel funny telling him about all of my Broadway trips, well, just the one where I saw 'The Producers'....Can we hear a chorus of 'Springtime for Hitler and Germany' anyone?

Scootersmom
Member

08-10-2002

Monday, March 08, 2004 - 3:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Sorry I’m so late, but here are my thoughts on the TVCH meeting with Shorty and Scooter, oops, make that Spygirl and Berrygirl!

Thanks Spy for figuring out the pictures. I don’t know what happened to the files you copied to my computer, but they wouldn’t load!

Thanks Hippy and Mocha. I love that tub! And I’ll just let you guys guess who’s who in the photo.

I’m glad that Berrygirl met with Spygirl before they came to my house so Spy could follow her to my house since I live out in the boonies. Plus, I didn’t want Spy to worry about any axe murderers out in the boonies either :-)

My DH and I warn anyone before they come to the house about the dogs. They are hyper little things that love company. DH was so glad that Spy wore out little Scooterpuppy with the cheeseburger game, so we actually got to sleep in and didn’t have to get up at 3 a.m. to let her out to potty the next morning!

Here’s a little description of Berrygirl: She’s bright, funny, and has a laugh that’s contagious. Sometimes you don’t know what the heck your laughing at, but you just have to join in because it seems like she’s having too much fun!

It was nice to finally meet Spygirl. We’ve been trying to meet up with her ever since she moved to Kansas. Once you meet Spy, it’s like you’ve known her forever. She’s very friendly, outgoing, and she fit right in. I love when someone makes themselves right at home and she did just that!

I had lots of fun popping into chat as SpyScootsBerry. I think we confused everyone on who was actually talking, but we had fun anyway. Berry was doing all the typing for us!

I had a terrific time on girl’s night out watching Survivor and I hope that Spy gets to come up and see us again!

TNT have fun on your trip and make sure you give Granny a hug from me! And Marm, hope your having fun.

Lancecrossfire
Moderator

07-13-2000

Monday, March 08, 2004 - 4:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm casting my vote for: outdoor Augistiner Bier Garten....they have hundreds of picnic tables underneath hemlock (?) trees.

Just don't have any hemlock.