WOW!! Awesome pics DF.. Just gorgeous...

		Deep Freeze wrote:
		OK! As promised, here are a couple shots taken today!!! this one is off the balcony of our room looking out into Mission Bay!! Yow!

I never brought food for the seagulls, period. Don't want them to get sick or anything. 

On that day my family decided to have a picnic at the beach. My sister finished making her sandwich and was reaching for a soda in an ice cooler. Then that seagull dived down from the air and snatched it while her back was turned. The resulting pursuit for the coveted sandwich was funny as heck!!

		spapad wrote:
		LOL, I still love the part in finding Nemo where all the seagulls say is "mine, mine, mine," So true! Have you ever taken Cheetos to the beach? Wonderful things happen. Just hold one in the air and pitch a couple on the beach and before you know it your sourounded by seagulls and they will normally take one out of your hand in mid flight! BTW, they like the puffed ones!      Vaillant 3.0 wrote: HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hiya, Fred!! Looks like the same seagull that stole my older sister's sandwich a few years ago!!      Deep Freeze wrote: Another look out the sliding window by the balcony.... you may notice "Fred" on the railing there. Well, he came with the room. HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! More to follow tomorrow!!!  Nighty Night All!!!

That is so beautiful DF! Glad you are having a wonderful time on your Vacation! Tell the Princess we all send her hugs and much good wishes, and .................Oh yeh, we send them to you as well my friend! LOL  Enjoy!

		Deep Freeze wrote:
		OK! As promised, here are a couple shots taken today!!! this one is off the balcony of our room looking out into Mission Bay!! Yow!

Oh yeah your telling me! My job is nothing as to what it was.. Luckly I do Corporate travel so I work with large companies rather then walk-in or lesiure travel. However regardless everyone is cutting back including these compaines!

There is a major difference in using an agent compared to an online reservation system, honestly it depends where you are going! If the trip is Intl , use an agent! With the layovers and schedule changes personally I would use an agent. Travelocity and sites similar don't notify and/or reissue tickets. Instead you are left to find out at your own at the airport. The end results can be using losing value of your tickets... plus what you dont see if that you have to pay a service for the booking its just added into your taxes.

But! If you go within the u.s, I agree book it online! Its can be cheaper and you usually should not have many issues within the us... But if your curious on pricing you dont have to book with me, I can just look it up and let you what you should pay.. I can get the same fares.. It would make the searching process easier...

What a shitty agency! Sorry they did that too you! Let me know if I can ever help... Its the summer and I'm bored!!!

		Deep Freeze wrote:
		You know SR, a couple weeks ago I may have taken you up on that offer BUT I have recently had a very distasteful experience with my travel agent and have decided her services are no longer needed. Whe the Princess and I went to San Francisco in April, everything was great. We used our same agent from past trips. Good service, fair price, nice hotel and some fun tours. All in all, a very pleasant trip. When we decided to go to San Diego a couple months later, I called the same agent and asked her to prepare a package. Almost three weeks later, I had still not received a return call!!!!! Finally, I contacted another agent (same company) and gave her my information. About three or four days later, she called and gave me a package to St. Thomas!!! I told her we did not (and could not) travel that far and she told me she had nothing "on the beach" in San Diego! I decided to do the same thing I did with my upcoming Detroit trip and simply go online to Travelocity. Not only did I get a great deal, we got a FOUR star resort ON the beach, airfare AND transfers! I have decided that there is really no reason to utilize a travel agent when I can do the same thing myself and save a few bucks. Sadly, this is what things have come to in the travel industry. Apparently, the agent could not make enough money on the trip I requested and so I became insignificant.      Sinner Rider wrote: I'm a Intl travel agent and work is very slow. I can help with travel if anyone needs it.

Answer to first question: Everybody.

Answer to the second paragraph: Where the hell do you get potatos so big? 

Answer to the third: You are Peggy. Resistance is futile.

		guidogodoy wrote:
		Hey! Who is talking smack about me while I am sleeping?!? I'll have you know that I am actually HAVING a potato for lunch today! LOL!!!! Ok, so it is a pre-washed sucker as I don't like to soil my dainty hands with anything like scrubbing but still..... Also be it known that if I had a bod like Katie Segal, I'd never leave the house! Better yet...make me Christina Applegate!!!      devils_child wrote: Yeah notice how Guid has all the money!!! No wonder we're eating potatos for lunch....... Catch ya later Strat!      _strat_ wrote: Lol!!!! Yeah, Freeze looks about right... Guido, on the other hand, looks like he is going to a Cinderella show! Srry, got to go now... Ive been tasked with peeling the potatoes for lunch... See you later!      devils_child wrote: Vacation.... you know they are ditching us to go see Priest.... Look, Freeze is already dressed for the occasion.    (Quoting Message by _strat_ from Sunday, April 05, 2009 4:12:20 AM)   _strat_ wrote:   What? They gave you a vacation in the shoe store? Me and Kelly...umm... Melly, want to come too! Just leave that redhead Guido at home...      Deep Freeze wrote:   Oh my darling children..I acknowledge you. I adore you. You are my life. Please know that!!! I have been a little pre-occupied with preparations for our trip. So much to do!!!! Made up my mind to make a new start..goin' to California with an achin' in my heart................. Edited at: Sunday, April 05, 2009 4:33:25 AM

You think so? I wouldnt count on it. He still hasnt acknowleged us.

		devils_child wrote:
		Strat, Guido is a bad parent..... Maybe Freeze will be a little kinder..      _strat_ wrote: Squire, eh? You wouldnt even want your kids to have an original Fender?      guidogodoy wrote: Plunder nothin'! Strat already GOT his!!! Not my fault if the mail is slow in all y'alls parts of the world. Plus, watch it...Calvin is vicious. Protects his master and his guitars.      devils_child wrote: Oh, sorry for the mistake (Let's blame the Yankie parents)... your 20?.... I'm good at being an older sister. I reckon we sue them for all they have..... let's plunder Guid's guitar collection!!! Bwahahaa!!!      _strat_ wrote: Well, thats the Yanks for you... Divide and conquer. What about we sue them for 20 years worth of allowance? Oh, and you have a younger European brother...      devils_child wrote: Call me Melly.....  I always wanted an older European brother.... how dare they keep us apart!    (Quoting Message by _strat_ from Friday, April 03, 2009 5:17:02 AM)   _strat_ wrote:   Oh, I know. Theyre sneaky bastards, arent they?  I always wanted an older sister to wind up! Mind if I call you Kelly?      devils_child wrote:   Soooooo you're my long lost brother!!! Guid and Freeze would never open up about it...... *hugs*.....      _strat_ wrote:   Ah, in that case, I can reveal that we are siblings. Welcome to the family!      devils_child wrote:   Shhhhhhh Dammit!!!!! That was supposed to be a secret!!!      _strat_ wrote:   Lol... Well, slap your forehead... I dont want to know what they are slaping. Btw... I have a hunch that you might be their offspring.      devils_child wrote:   *Slaps forehead*..... Geeeeezzzz.... you didn't know that Strat!? .....      _strat_ wrote:   So... Youre the princess?      guidogodoy wrote:   HAAA! I say that it is 4:30 in the morn here, I will NEVER take you to Brazil to see the beauty that is the Pedra da Itapuca and that I am comfortable in my sexuality. I love Deep Freeze. There shall be no others.    (Quoting Message by _strat_ from Friday, April 03, 2009 4:26:53 AM)   _strat_ wrote:   Hey, hey, hey!!! Dont you dare play nice with me, mister! I just exposed homophobia and perverse symbolism in your post! What have you got to say for yourself?      guidogodoy wrote:   HAAAAAAA!!!!! As I say, this site is both fun and informational! Good to know when a Serbo-Croat is offending me! LOL!!!!!      _strat_ wrote:   Pedra? You know, if you strip away the a, you get the Serbo-Croat slang for "Fag". And that rock has a strangely phallic feeling to it...  Am I a vile base creature now?      guidogodoy wrote:   Changing topics (you vile and base creatures disrupting my enjoyment of the Rio bootleg), this is my view most summers in Brazil. Pedra da Itapuca (rock = pedra). That flying saucer in the background is a modern art museum in Niteroi, RJ. Edited at: Friday, April 03, 2009 4:31:28 AM Edited at: Friday, April 03, 2009 5:22:21 AM

No, you cant. You know how we are... We never give you up, we never let you down...

		Deep Freeze wrote:
		And just what is all this chatter about me??? Can't a guy get a little sleep without having his name and imagine thrown about and dragged through the mud?????????  HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh, and I love you too, guido!!!! My lil snoogie woogie...................HAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!! Edited at: Friday, April 03, 2009 7:58:01 AM

Come here boy!   You're about to learn yourselves some manners! 

		_strat_ wrote:
		No! You cant! Im telling pa!      Darth_Painkiller_0870 wrote: And you conspired...which makes you an accessory!   Now drop and give me 40 soldier!      _strat_ wrote: She started!      Darth_Painkiller_0870 wrote: Now kids...behave yourselves or Uncle Darth will take his lightsaber to your posterior!      devils_child wrote: Oh, sorry for the mistake (Let's blame the Yankie parents)... your 20?.... I'm good at being an older sister. I reckon we sue them for all they have..... let's plunder Guid's guitar collection!!! Bwahahaa!!!      _strat_ wrote: Well, thats the Yanks for you... Divide and conquer. What about we sue them for 20 years worth of allowance? Oh, and you have a younger European brother...      devils_child wrote: Call me Melly.....  I always wanted an older European brother.... how dare they keep us apart!    (Quoting Message by _strat_ from Friday, April 03, 2009 5:17:02 AM)   _strat_ wrote:   Oh, I know. Theyre sneaky bastards, arent they?  I always wanted an older sister to wind up! Mind if I call you Kelly?      devils_child wrote:   Soooooo you're my long lost brother!!! Guid and Freeze would never open up about it...... *hugs*.....      _strat_ wrote:   Ah, in that case, I can reveal that we are siblings. Welcome to the family!      devils_child wrote:   Shhhhhhh Dammit!!!!! That was supposed to be a secret!!!      _strat_ wrote:   Lol... Well, slap your forehead... I dont want to know what they are slaping. Btw... I have a hunch that you might be their offspring.      devils_child wrote:   *Slaps forehead*..... Geeeeezzzz.... you didn't know that Strat!? .....      _strat_ wrote:   So... Youre the princess?      guidogodoy wrote:   HAAA! I say that it is 4:30 in the morn here, I will NEVER take you to Brazil to see the beauty that is the Pedra da Itapuca and that I am comfortable in my sexuality. I love Deep Freeze. There shall be no others.    (Quoting Message by _strat_ from Friday, April 03, 2009 4:26:53 AM)   _strat_ wrote:   Hey, hey, hey!!! Dont you dare play nice with me, mister! I just exposed homophobia and perverse symbolism in your post! What have you got to say for yourself?      guidogodoy wrote:   HAAAAAAA!!!!! As I say, this site is both fun and informational! Good to know when a Serbo-Croat is offending me! LOL!!!!!      _strat_ wrote:   Pedra? You know, if you strip away the a, you get the Serbo-Croat slang for "Fag". And that rock has a strangely phallic feeling to it...  Am I a vile base creature now?      guidogodoy wrote:   Changing topics (you vile and base creatures disrupting my enjoyment of the Rio bootleg), this is my view most summers in Brazil. Pedra da Itapuca (rock = pedra). That flying saucer in the background is a modern art museum in Niteroi, RJ. Edited at: Friday, April 03, 2009 4:31:28 AM Edited at: Friday, April 03, 2009 5:22:21 AM