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Have a great time, CC1.

Don't worry........we'll "hold the fort" until you get back!

lol

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Oh that would be classic! :toofunny

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:slaphappy :slaphappy :ursofunny :ursofunny :killinme :killinme

That was some funny stuff, I needed that laugh!!

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I am laughing my head off!!!!! I guess, since I've met him and stayed in his house on more than one occasion, that it makes it even funnier than if you've only "met" him on the net.

Man, I would stay clear of that 700 ft with every ounce of my strength. I'd be hiding under something that was SPLATTER-PROOF and have my binoculars around.

I think I'm too tired. My husband thinks me nuts, cause I'm laughing. I've probably awakened one of my boys and Granny from laughing, but oh well, that's life (life with CC1 as a friend, anyways!!!:toofunny)

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I survived Just taking a second to check in from the hotel business cetner before I go to bed. Tomorrow is our last full day in Honolulu before getting on the ship Monday and with too little time and way too much to do we are getting up at the crack of dawn tomorrow to head to Pearl Harbor and the USS Arizona memorial before driving on across the Island to the North Shore to watch some winter surfing action.

The parasailing was a blast and an "X=-treme" sport the day we did it because the winds and waves were so high. The boat that took us out a mile or two from shore into the ocean was being tossed around like crazy.l Mrs. CC1 and I were so scared I think we made ourselves almost ill the day leading up to it but we had such a great time we want to do it again. It was freaky though looking at the little sewn on two inch patch of material that the hooks on your harness were attached to. I kept thinking that sure is not much holding fat boy! To look down and see beneath your dangling legs the beautiful blue Pacific ocean about 700 feet below was amazing. They dunked us in the ocean before getting us all the way back in and that was cool (and scary).

May not get to post again until trip is over. Monday starts five nights on the ship back to Los Angeles.

God Bless

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I bet that was hard for Mrs. CC1 to do in a denim skirt.:toofunny

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:toofunny:toofunny:happydance:happydance

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Ok I just saw you made it back alive and in one piece... or so we are led to believe as you are posting... now tell us,,,, did you attempt to drown yourself or the wife... did you try to sink the boat... what was the adventure this time enquiring minds wanna know!!

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We had a great trip although it rained off and on while we were in Hawaii and I discovered that crossing 2557 miles of the Pacific Ocean in Feburary is much like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in May or September! Not warm, very windy, and pretty good waves.

The trip almost didn't start though as I had a last minute urgent matter from work tie me up and I ended up rushing out the door without my manila folder with all of our travel documents in it. I realized it halfway to the airport and had to turn around and go back home. I called my daughter to have her meet us halfway as we were on a tight timeline and in rush hour traffice. She found the folder but when she met us I grabbed the folder and realized it was the wrong one. She had found the right one but realized she needed to grab her shoes before running out the door so she laid it on a kitchen chair. When she came back in she grabbed an identical looking folder from the kitchen table that my son had placed there so he would remember to drop it off at my work!

I almost had a heart attack when I saw she had brought the wrong folder to me. We had to drive on the rest of the way home to get the right one. We did make it to the airport on time though and had a great trip.

The parasailing was great. The day we did it there was a wind advisory out the winds were so high. The special speedboat used for the parasailing was heaving about in the high waves like a cork in a bathtub. We had to carefully keep the boat balanced with the four couples and two crew members on board to keep from capsizing. The crew said it was truly "extreme" parasailing that day because of the wind and waves.

The liftoff from the boat was really smooth and actually a nice change from the rough seas. We were probably a mile or 1 1/2 miles from shore out in the ocean. I am scared of heights but at first was comforted when I examined the nice steel carinbers (sp?) that attach from the body harness you are in to the parachute. However I then looked up to see what the steel connector connected to and saw that it was a nylon strap that wrapped around the metal bar attached to the parachute and the the strap was just sewn together with stitching. My mind immediately started wondering how many thousands of times that stitching had all this weight on it, how good was it stiched, and what would happen if it let go! My next aphrensnion was in looking at the rather pedestrian looking yellow rope attached to the parachute harness in what looked like just a knot!

I kept thinking that if that rope came undone with the wind blowing the way it was we would probably be carried a 100 miles out in the Ocean before unceremoniously being depositid in the water.

It was exhilierating, scary, and peaecful up there. A very strange mix of emotions. It was strange looking down below my dangling feet to see the beautiful blue Pacific Ocean 700 feet below.

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CC1, Glad you had a blast! I hope i get the up the guts for parasailing someday.


Your passport woes sound familiar. Twice I misplaced my "package of valuable documents" overseas. Once, by simply leaving it in a cart at the central train station in Hamburg, Germany. Of course, as the "most responsible adult" I also had some local money, visas to other countries, and my daughter's passport in the package! I could not believe my good fortune, four hrs later, in finding it had all been turned in!

Where is that idioT thread????