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Anonymous

Margaret, that compliment was true. You do look very young.

Wanna here something funny and pathetic. My granddaughter who is four asked me, "Mimi, are you old?" LOL I replied, yes. My DD told her not to ask that and I said why not? I've always thought my grandmother was old.

Enjoy those young, good looks. You'll probably be seen on the Today Show (when they show the OLD people) at 105 years old looking like 80!
Shirley

Anonymous

Lisa, I absolutely LOVE the statue. How very, very cute.
Reminds me of those old movies when the "boys" came home.
Shirley

Anonymous

gsg, Loved the pictures. How nice. It almost looks like they should be hanging on the wall in my house. LOL

And what a good looking young man! He doesn't need a hat to draw in chicks.

So, he's going to be gone a year? What a great opportunity!
Shirley

Anonymous

Loved the pictures, Nancy. Looked like the giraffes were relaxing in someone's back yard.
Shirley

gsg

shirley, a year to a year and a half or until their money runs out, whichever comes first. will be traveling to 6 of the 7 continents.

and thanks for the nice words. he's my only child and is a real sweetheart, but likes to live life a little too close to the edge. I've been biting my nails for 28 years. He's going to parasail in the Andes...and is buying a small, cheap boat and taking it down the amazon. gulp.

did i say SMALL and CHEAP?

kats

Great photos everyone.

gsg you sure have an adventurous son.

gsg

kats: he scares me 99.9 percent of the time. i've asked him not to tell me what he's doing until after he's survived it, otherwise i'd never sleep.

shirley: lol@your granddaughter's comment.

re him picking up girls....this was the first pic i received from him. i think this was taken during his layover in costa rica on his way to peru. i have no idea who the pretty girl is. lol.

nancy75

hahaha, yeah it was pertty neat. My oldest boy loves to go to the zoo....Thank you for the compliment!

kats

I took this pic last summer when we went to St. Louis.
I had to kneel down & put the camera on the ground to take this pic.

gsg

i've always wanted to see the arch! did you go up to the top of it, Kats?

nancy, you have a lovely family!

kats

Yep we went to the top and on the way down our tram car door wouldn't open. It was 90+ degrees outside and we were stuck for 10 minutes in that small egg shaped tram car. It's so small it only seats 5 and you have to duck to get into it. In our tram there were 3 adults and 2 kids and were were crammed in there.

Here are some views from the top.

Anonymous

Oh, gsg honey, I know how you feel. Remember? My DD and SIL are still in Africa somewhere. I think they're still in Angola. They've been out of the country for over a year and I don't expect them to return for GOOD until next at the ealiest.

You son sounds like my SIL. I could kick my SIL's butt for making my DD into an adventerous person. Hell, she wouldn't even go camping before the two of them got together.

Their COBRA is about to run out so if they can't find anyone to insure them "over there" they may have to make a trip home. Hehehehehe. No, I don't want them to have to do that. It would be expensive and finding a safe place to store their new home (their vehicle) would be worrisome. But I would LOVE to see them.

All I can say is you better watch out for that good looking young man. Some woman may just steal his heart. But aren't you happy that he's having a great time? This is something that most people can only dream about. However, I'd rather go to Hawaii!
Shirley

Anonymous

Wow, Kats, those pics are awesome. I'm getting a nosebleed just looking at them. I would have been having a panic attack up in that small tram.
Shirley

gsg

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Their COBRA is about to run out so if they can't find anyone to insure them "over there" they may have to make a trip home. Hehehehehe. No, I don't want them to have to do that. It would be expensive and finding a safe place to store their new home (their vehicle) would be worrisome. But I would LOVE to see them.

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Shirley, there's medical insurance they can buy on-line or over the phone that will cover them over there. They will even pay to airlift back to the U.S., if necessary. My son bought it. It was $450 for 7 months, I believe, for himself. I'll check when I get home tonight the name of the company and PM it to you. I'm pretty sure he left us a copy of his policy.

p.s. I'd love for him to meet and fall in love with an "international" girl, so I'd have a cool place to settle in my sunset years.

gsg

kats: Your pictures made my stomach flip. Awesome!

also, your story reminds me of my girlfriend on her honeymoon at Disneyworld in Florida. They got stuck in the Pirates of the Caribbean ride for a couple hours. I don't remember why they weren't allowed to get off. She said if she ever heard that damn song again she'd voluntarily take a long walk off a short plank.

Anonymous

Thanks, gsg, I would really appreciate your PMing me the info if you can find it in all that clutter. LOL Now, if the "kids" can just get on the internet.
Shirley

SoCalLisa

Love all the photos...Kats..now I even get acrophobic looking at your pictures..yikes!!

Maria_C_

Great pics everyone.
Mannnn ... that arc is just FANTASTIC!!!!
Almost unreal.
It sure did worth
the all gymnastic you did to take the pic kats.

I just had dinner and those aerial views ...
I will not look again to those views today.

Hugs.

LindaLou53

This is Cream Puff, one of my 3 cats who are all 14 years old now. He has kidney disease and gets sub-Q fluids infused every day but is still a beautiful, affectionate kitty.

Linda

Anonymous

Oh, Linda, what a beautiful, beautiful kitty. He is so photogenic. I just hate it when our babies get sick.

We have four kitties.
Shirley

kats

Linda,
Cream Puff looks so sweet, those eyes are beautiful. We love our furbabies don't we?

A few years ago I was doing sub/Q fluids (lactated ringers) for one of my kitties. She did really well for 2 yrs on the sub/Q fluids. She then developed liver disease at age 16, on top of the kidney disease and sadly I had to have her put to sleep.

Now another one of my kitties has hyperthroidism (he's 14 yrs old). I treat him twice a day for that. It's expensive $64.00 a month for that medication.

kats

How about this view from the arch?

The height didn't get to me, it was the swaying back and forth the Arch was doing that was getting to me after awhile.

Anonymous

Kats, are you cur-RAzy! Oh my gosh! I would have fallen off of whatever you were standing on. The swaying of the Arch!

I was hungry, but I think I've lost it (not a bad thing).

Seriously, that's a great picture.
Shirley

kats

Shirley,
It's so weird up in the Arch. It's all enclosed but to look out the window you stand on a step and lean forward on a ledge.
Here's a pic my DH took of me taking a picture through a window in the Arch. That's our granddaughter kneeling on the ledge to look out the window.

Anonymous

That just looks to darn scary. Well, at least there's a window to keep you from jumping.

My inlaws lived in a highrise on the 15th floor. Of course they didn't have floor 13...can't imagine why. Anyway, while on the balconey looking down at the swimming pool I sort of wanted to dive in and I'M PETRIFIED OF WATER! LOL

I was thinking about you today. Thought it would be great if you could work as a photographer (perhaps for a newspaper) and take aerial shots from a helicopter. You could make some $$$$ doing that.
Shirley

christineK

Kats- thanks for the great pics of my city, which I love! If you were there in early June would've seen this. Keiner Plaza fountain dyed Pink for the Komen walk, in which we were the biggest in the country 60,000 +. Care to join us on June 16, 2007? All of Downton area participates in Pink!



Funny side story, my mother and her beat friends were scout leaders and took us up in the Arch, my first (and only one of two times to go there) The trams broke down and her friend has vertigo and afraid of heights, had to walk down all of the steps from the top. Before she went up, she never had these problems before, but has had them, along with panic attacks ever since. It hasn't really stopped me, but some of us are bigger risk takers. Like those, that love rollers coasters!

christineK

Oh and those pics of a new stadium are now almost a yr old, Baseball Village is coming along nicely, soon to have Lofts, restaurants and retail space over that land. Woo Hoo!

kats

Shirley,

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No Thanks

I have a friend who lives on the 36th floor of a high rise in Chicago right on Lake Michigan. I took this pic from her balcony, I didn't enjoy it out there at all. As you can see from the balcony below all there is is a wrought iron rail as a barrier.

kats

Christine,
That fountain looks beautiful.

We enjoyed our time in your city last year, we were there around the 4th of July. My brother-in-law and wife live in Washington, MO.

I actually thought about going down there one year to do the Komen Race, my sister-in-law says it's always a big event. This year the Detroit Komen Race it seems is on the same day, June 16th as your Komen Race. Like last year I'm going back there to join the Michigan ladies on their Team. I'll definately keep in mind going down to St. Louis one year for the race there.

Mary

dressmaker

I took this out our living room window this morning. I've tried for years to attract cardinals to our feeder. It finally happened!