Originally Posted By Mary Poppins mickeymeg, I remember those parades with the cub scouts. Are you going to parade in a Remembrance day march before the ceremony? Should be a nice together for the baby.
Originally Posted By mickeymeg There is a parade, though it is quite short. It is mostly about the ceremony. The ceremony itself is always quite interesting for the girls, the only hard part is keeping them quiet and together during the laying of the wreaths which always seems to take forever. Wish us no rain =)
Originally Posted By dagobert >>>Contracts amazed. This weekend we are going to the national gallery in London to the opening weekend of the Leonardo da Vinci exhibit, the biggest one ever assembled showing the majority of his paintings. Problem is, we are having problems getting the kids' their tickets.<<< I would love to go there. In the news they said it must be a fantastic exhibition. Isn't it allowed to take kids into that museum? That's strange.
Originally Posted By dagobert My weekend will be boring. I planned to go to a casino with my brother, but he doesn't have time due to a stupid soccer game. So I will stay in Salzbur and do some shopping and maybe watch the Formula 1 race on Sunday.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Kids are allowed. In fact they are free. But, to limit the numbers they have limited tickets. Knowing it would be hugely popular, I asked Sarah if we could go for my birthday. She said of course. I went to order the tickets on line but it would not let me order the kids'. So I called ticketmaster and ordered them over the phone, paying a larger admin fee and premium phone bill for the pleasure. When I called, the guy said he would sort it, but was having trouble. I raised the issue at the time that I was concerned there would be an issue if they did not have tickets. I was told not to worry, it would be sorted. The tickets arrived last week - 2 adults. When I made enquiries with the museum, I was told that due to capacity, everyone needed a ticket. Sarah has spent 6 hours on a premium phone line to try and sort it. The exhibition is sold out (though they have kept back 500 walk up tickets a day with 3 hour queues starting before the gallery opens) until January. People are coming over from the us ,Brazil, Russia, China etc. With the aim of seeing it. Ticketmaster are still trying to sort it and we are not there yet. We leave in 24 hours. It is very frustrating and taking the lustre off. If they do not sort it, I will not only write a formal complaint but take it to the media too. While it might be a simple computer glitch, it also has taken time and money to try to resolve. The cynic in me could say they don't want to give away free tickets and would rather sell them, or perhaps they do not want children at the event. I am so frustrated, especially as I ordered the tickets the very first day they came out so we could be there opening weekend, the weekend before my birthday.
Originally Posted By jasmine7 Gonna be a home weekend for me (well, depending on if I have to work more overtime than I have planned tonight). I plan on just staying home, working on my Beauty & the Beast cross-stitch & watching movies with a little World of Warcraft thrown in. Definitely want to watch both parts of Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows this weekend & watch part 2 of Kill Bill.
Originally Posted By Liberty Belle It's Saturday afternoon here. Stayed at a friend's last night. Didn't get home until fairly late this afternoon when I promptly had a nap (I'm too old for late nights!) and am now working hard on my students' report cards, as evidenced by my posts here. Tomorrow I'm having a picnic at the park with some work friends and then having a couple more friends over for a "tea sampling party".
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Well it is my birthday next week, so we celebrated of sorts this weekend. On Saturday we went to the amazing Leonardo Da Vinci exhibit for opening weekend in London: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150355305939998.356063.744599997&type=1&l=cb17b1d2e7" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/media/...17b1d2e7</a> Today was largely lazy (some work required sadly) with a waffle Brunch, watching the Abu Dabi Grand Prix and a roast duck dinner. The family gave me a fab TRON Legacy T Shirt and a pair of cuff links featuring the Simpsons as the Beatles crossing the Abbey Road Pelican Crossing. Early night tonight though as I have to be on the road for 4:30am tomorrow.
Originally Posted By dagobert It seems you had a great weekend. Did everything turn out to be fine with the tickets for your kids? What's the building in the first picture? It can't be National Gallery. If I'm not mistaken, it's the one in the last picture. Unfortunately I couldn't watch the Grand Prix today, but it doesn't matter since Red Bull was not winning.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo The red brick building is St Pancras train station, the building with the dome and columns is the national gallery. We did finally get the tickets sorted by Friday evening. As for the race, it was the most enjoyable and exciting this season. The first lap alone was action packed.
Originally Posted By dagobert I've figured it already out, thanks to your Facebook report, that it is St. Pancras. It's a great building with a wonderful architecture. As for the Grand Prix, it seems that I always miss the good races.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Lol. Often the way. Next weekend is a little quieter. Friday night will be enjoying Children in Need charity fundraiser, Saturday night is a community charity barn dance in the village where the kids go to school, and Sunday we will celebrate my birthday with my parents and brothers.
Originally Posted By Princessjenn5795 Next weekend I will be very busy shopping for my Thanksgiving ingredients, getting my house ready for the twelve people coming over for Thanksgiving, and studying for the calculus test my evil professor scheduled for the day before Thanksgiving.
Originally Posted By Labuda This coming weekend I will be freaking out, trying to figure out what I'm going to wear on Thanksgiving and what all I need to pack for the long weekend up in Dallas. Oh, and I'll be hoping that this time will be like when we last saw Matt's parents (in Houston, at my best friend's place) and his father said NOTHING racist instead of EVERYTHING racist. Eep.
Originally Posted By TINK-MOBILE Snow has started to Fall now..Family was going to get together for my Birthday..earlier this week..but would rather they stay home tomorrow night..better to be safe...
Originally Posted By dagobert It's going to be a boring weekend. Tomorrow we will buy some Christmas decorations and we will visit the Salzburg Christmas market in the evening since it will open tomorrow. Sunday is soccer day. My brother and me will get some beers and watch soccer.
Originally Posted By mele 12 people! Good luck! Tomorrow, my friend and I are driving around a Seattle neighborhood with our daughters. The girls are placing paper bags for food donations for Northwest Harvest door-to-door. In the evening we're going out to our favorite pub to celebrate my birthday (which is next week) with friends and family. On Sunday, I'll be deep cleaning and shopping for Thanksgiving.
Originally Posted By TheParsec It's been busy the past few weeks, working full time and then after work and on weekends working at my dads house doing odd things. This weekend working on my house. Going to paint the kitchen. Started last night. Sometime I have to go thanksgiving shopping also!
Originally Posted By mickeymeg no big plans. We are going to a community production of Pirates of Penzance tonight that a friend is in. I might try to get to a craft fair on Saturday or Sunday. Other than that we will just play it by ear.
