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Kennedy Space Center With Migliories
Posted by Chris in Family Vacations, TheNolands on November 25, 2008
Today’s festivities started out with a trip to the Kennedy Space center. The Migliories joined us as Rob is one of the few people I know that went to space camp!
Still need to work on Andrew as Rob’s little girl who is 5 (Josie) wanted to hold Andrew hand so bad all day… and he wanted to play with Rob’s son Anthony. I have to say this is not a little Cat in training. We have time…
The Shuttle was not on the pad this time as it was docked with the International Space station. There is still a ton of stuff to see and really only made it through about ½ of the exhibits. It is kind of depressing that we have not been back to the moon in such a long time, and the next trip to the moon and mars are re-purposing the capsule technology but just on a bigger scale and better computers.
We are trying to get You to support a more robust space program…
Another fun day in Orlando…
Rollins College
Posted by Chris in Family Vacations, TheNolands on November 24, 2008
Andrew was tired of hearing all of the stories of Stacey’s glory day’s at Rollin College and said “Mommy, I want to go to you college” So we got the experience of seeing “the Harvard of the South” as I hear quite frequently… never heard that about SIU… so maybe it is a better place.
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Rollins College Visit
I quickly figure out is was not a “real” school as we walked about the picture perfect down town and had lunch at Panera Bread and stopped into Williams Sonoma to get some Peppermint Bark. Where are the bars I kept asking myself? Maybe this would be a good place for Andrew to go to school I thought. As we walked around I think…small liberal arts college, there must be lots of hot chicks and Andrew would have a target rich environment. We got to stick around between class changes and I did not see a single one, maybe they were hiding. I am going to have to consult another other recent grads… but he went to school at night for an MBA.
So Andrew’s school choice still are Harvard, MIT and Notre Dame. He better get good grades and I better start saving more.
Orlando at the Pepper’s
Posted by Chris in Family Vacations, TheNolands on November 23, 2008
The Noland’s arrived in Orlando last night (November 22nd) for our annual thanksgiving trip. Today we spend some quality time at the Peppers house and got to see the entire family.
Andrew had fun playing with Olivia and helping the “baby” around and giving her toys to play with. It was a fun first day and enjoying a bit warmer weather as it started to get cold in Dallas right before we left… but I guess cold is relative.
4th of July
Posted by stacey in TheNolands on July 5, 2008
Another fine 4th of July was celebrated on Big Turtle Lake. We met NaNa’s cousin Mary and her family (Kurt, Meagan, Allison and Lucas) to spend a fun filled day of tubing, water skiing and fishing. (Not to mentioned a couple of fine cocktails). One 4 gallon box of sangria, 1 gallon of margarita’s and 6 beers later… I (Stacey) was feeling really good. Sun, boats and booze are a dangerous combination
Chris and PaPa water skied. Andrew thought the water was way too cold for his southern bones (71 degrees is a bit chilly for our kid). Chris said he is going to call Rob Migliore and have him to start looking for a job for us both so Andrew can experience swimming in Lake Michigan on a regular basis… and snow.
Does a Bear…in the woods
Posted by stacey in TheNolands on July 3, 2008
Does a Bear really poo in the woods?
Yes, they do! We drove to the town of Orr where there is the Vincent Shute Wildlife Preserve. Vincent Shute was a man who started a logging company in the town of Orr in the 40’s and was having a problem with Black Bears breaking into this house to look for food. He shot many black bears. One day he caught another one in his house and shot it. He went into town and said “We won’t have any more problems with the black bears because I just shot the last one in MN.” Well, he spoke too soon because when he went back home he found 3 more bears in his house. This is when he realized he needed to learn how to live with then and started feeding them.
When he realized he was not going to be around forever and didn’t want people to kill them they started this wild life sanctuary for the bears. Park is open from 5p – 8p and you get pretty close to the bears when they eat. There were many babies that were born in Jan/Feb (Bears have babies every 1.5 years). Our favorite was Oscar, a huge bear!
Andrew loved being that close to the bears and one actually climbed the stairs to come and say hi to him. There are 80 named bears on the preserve.
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