Week One Without Home Internet
Tips For “Surviving” Without Home Internet
Timeline - What We Experienced When While Our Son Was At Air Force Basic Training
0500 to 0600 PC...This will alternate. One day you run, the next day you do aerobic exercise.
0600 to 0615 Breakfast
0630 to 0745 Dorm setup
0745 to 0800- formation to march to class
0800 to 1130 Drilling, classes, records checks, shots, uniforms issue, etc.
1130 to 1230 Lunch/ Canteen sanitation/ dorm check
1300 to1700 Classroom/dorm instruction
1700 to1800 Dinner/ Mail call
1900 to 2045 Set up the dorm for night time/ pick up and drop off dry cleaning. Fold laundry and clip strings/ shower and set up night displays/ Dust downs and details
2100 Lights out (bedtime)
Party Games For Large Groups
Partners In Pen
Likes & Dislikes
React and Act
- Being surprised by a large, aggressive bear in the woods
- You just won the lottery
- You have just been proposed for marriage with an engagement ring
- You just got fired by an incompetent boss
- Making the game winning pass to win the Superbowl
- You just fell in love
Saran Wrap Candy Ball Game
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Gilmore Girls FanFest 2016
Normally I do not spend money without a lot of thought. If she, my only daughter, hadn't been "leaving me" (She's at a college 30 minutes away and visits regularly - but it's been a pretty big year for our family with ALL FOUR of our children planning to be out of the house in the next few months, and our first grandchild being born and living on the other side of the continent. So allow me a bit of melodrama.) I might not have so quickly purchased $175 tickets to a festival we knew almost nothing about.
Because my daughter had a late psych test she could not miss, and we live 4 hours and 19 minutes away from the festival, we did not make it to the cocktail hour, or see the first night panel. We were disappointed, but it just wasn't possible to get there any earlier. Since we couldn't possibly get there in time, we stopped at the Tri State Marker for a fun geocache and beautiful view, and then at a great little diner in Port Jervis PA.
Spotify has a Complete Gilmore Girls Playlist - every song from every episode of Gilmore Girls. It's 4 hours and 19 minutes long, almost the exact length of our trip. That was pretty cool.
We drove through winding, curving, hills, with woods on each side, for about an hour (our entire trip was just over 4 hours) before we arrived at the Red Carpet Inn in New Milford CT. There were not many lights or any other businesses visible in the dark. We parked under trees, and had branches on the car the next morning. I'm a farm wife in PA - we are used to rural - but we are not really used to such rural hotels! The clerk showed us to our room - walked in ahead of us with a can of febreeze. Oh yeah, not a good sign. There was a huge Jacuzzi tub in the front room, with an out of order sign on it. From the smell of the room, I guessed it leaked all the time. We were told not to use it. We bought a can of lysol at a nearby convenience store, and kept our luggage in the car so that it would not absorb the odors of the room. There were cellar doors right to the left of our room door. It felt a bit like a scene from criminal minds - I texted my husband that if he didn't hear from us in the morning to make sure someone checked the basement. I was mostly joking. The room above us was not sound proof. It sounded like elephants were up there when they walked, and we could clearly hear the dialogue on their tv. Mostly we prayed that their tv and footsteps were ALL we would hear that night, and our prayers were answered. Our bathroom door didn't fully close, and we ran out of toilet paper and had to go to the office - in another building - to request another roll.
We watched the live facebook video of the screening from our hotel room. If we had had a nicer hotel room, I think I would have preferred this to sitting in the tent anyway. It really was frustrating to pay all of this money to sit in a tent and watch the same video we could watch on facebook from home. Perhaps if the weather had been better, we'd have had more of an opportunity to interact with the cast before they entered town hall, but it was very rainy and cold Saturday night as they entered, and I don't blame them for just wanting to get inside.
From there we attended what was listed as a Town Hall meeting. We expected an actual town meeting, but it was just a welcome to the festival, this is what is happening today, speech. This is when I realized how much it sucked to not have VIP tickets. VIP tickets were $250, and sold out before I knew the festival existed. VIP wrist bands were green, as opposed to our white ones, and granted you access to the actual town hall. Our white wristbands got us into a tent where we watched what happened in the town hall on a big screen. Almost everything that happened in town hall was videoed and posted on facebook, so if that was all the festival was, it would have been a huge waste of money and time. Thankfully there was more to it, although I'm still pretty disappointed that we never even got to see the Gilmore guys, or several cast members, except on the screen we could have watched from home.
There was a little farmers market in town Saturday too - part of the town, not part of the festival. It was really nice!