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mchookem

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  1. oh man...i really miss Gene Hackman in movies!
  2. haha thread started as some sort of 'oh aren't i clever' gotcha and now i'm imagining the originator like this ๐Ÿ˜„
  3. ok i lied, another... or this one, not sure which was better...
  4. yep, i was about to say we haven't even touched Scorsese or Spielberg yet. some great gotdamn movies in here! i had the exact same reaction to that Philadelphia scene as Denzel.
  5. ETA in case you don't want to go to YT, the bottom one is when Marcellus and Butch meet Maynard and Zed. and The Gimp.
  6. nm i could have sworn he won for Birdman but apparently not ๐Ÿคจ
  7. i chuckled a couple times ep1, not at all ep2...but multiple lols this week. nice bounce back ๐Ÿ˜†
  8. anyways, i don't think he'll be back bc there is no logical counter to how he 'feels' ๐Ÿ™„
  9. now...cabal! cease and desist the neg-bombing! you're being so toxic with all the negging to obliv...wait....oh.
  10. well. at least this will reduce the number of new Alabamans brought into the world.
  11. similarly, i don't usually give ๐Ÿค˜ to those i know aren't Texas grads.
  12. yeah i feel like he took over in the depths of the pandemic, not anywhere near the conclusion ๐Ÿคจ
  13. actually...now i'm thinking of another question...Rome is pretty close to the coast right? what would be a good destination for a nice day trip to soak in some of the Mediterranean? since we don't have anything planned yet for Rome, i might want to look into that. again, just a 'sample', a nice place to shop a little, picnic or have lunch with a view, not looking to spend 4 hours in a car traveling to the Amalfi coast lol ๐Ÿ˜Š @texasdago? ETA: did a little research...this might be reasonable?๐Ÿค”one-hour train ride Rome >Santa Severa, 15 minute walk to Castello di Santa Severa (9th century castle! ding! ๐Ÿฐ) with a good museum, immediately adjacent to a nice size free beach, with lunch at Isola del Pescatore restaurant which looks amazing, right on the beach. go on a Sunday when it will likely be more crowded, or Monday when the castle and museum will be closed (so just external pics)? Google tells me Italian school year goes until mid-June so we'd be a few weeks ahead of that. hmmm...
  14. ha! well you would know thank you! i've noted these, which also look to be substantial day trips from Florence/Rome. i'm gonna hold off on booking any of these for now, see how everything else fills in. i still haven't researched all the possible sites around Paris or Rome. in Paris i've booked a dinner cruise with the family (first night) and a morning Secret Food Tour in Monmarte, that's it so far. we've got a half day winery tour from Florence, and other than a list of places i know i want to see (Colliseum, Parthenon, Vatican, Sistine Chapel, etc.) i haven't booked anything for our three days in Rome yet. we still have a lot of time to fill in...or not ๐Ÿ˜„ mais oui, je sais que les francais sont aimable! i've already been practicing, doing an online refresher, etc...our exchange student was wonderful and she is SO excited for us to come visit her this time! so cute lol. she always told us that the French, and Europeans in general, especially young people, still love the average American, despite some, uh, recent 'challenges' we've had #noCR (she stayed with us in 2017 and 2018). i'm up on the greeting etiquette and i've been corresponding in French with all of our AirBnB hosts (Strasbourg, Normandie, Brest, Paris) and they have all been kind and gracious (and only one doesn't speak much English). it helps that i can read/write a lot better than i can converse in person haha! but i'm not at all worried about making our way about in France, even in the countryside. my sister is the one with the heightened anxiety about it, but i suspect once we're there a while she'll relax a bit. and good to know about the train - yes, i'll be booking the TGV Lyria Paris to Florence, via Switzerland. tickets not yet available but should be within the next week (i've been tracking daily). will just be the two of us at this point, and i plan on splurging for the first-class tickets so we can get the full Alps experience. there seem to still be plenty of tickets that far out so far but i know they will sell out eventually between now and then. good to be prepared for what the crowds might look like, especially since it's an early morning train, thanks. we're still going, just after we take a couple days in Kitzigen to get our sea legs. only one night though, an old Bavarian hotel - will honestly be our must 'rustic' accomodations lol. coming in the afternoon before and planning to be at Eagle's Nest right at opening (hotel is only 10 minute drive). depending on how much time we spend there...Burg Hohenwerfen isn't nearly as out-of-the-way as Heidelberg would be ๐Ÿค”looks like it only adds about half an hour as opposed to 2 1/2 to our drive time to Strasbourg. hmmmm...we may call an audible on that one. ohhh and it has a funicular too! like Heidelberg!๐Ÿ˜€i'm a dork for funiculars lol. thanks for the mention of this one! merci! i'm getting pretty stoked. my dad is as well...talking about the DDay spots in France, he said "man, i'm so glad i'm gonna get to see all this before i check out!" this trip is really going to mean something to him ๐Ÿงก. i'd say my sister is still in the anxiety phase...she has pretty much said 'i have no opinion on seeing anything or anywhere, i will go wherever any of y'all say to go, just get me through it safely!' et oui, absolutement j'attends les fraises et le vin specifiquement!๐Ÿ“๐Ÿท thanks for the ideas guys.
  15. well, you wanted new, interesting members!
  16. also...Titanic. pure ridiculous cheese, still it's a 'stop and watch' for me even when i try not to. OMG! that was literally the only movie from my childhood that terrified me so much i couldn't sleep, i cried at night, i hid under my covers...and that was all just bc of the TRAILER i saw on tv! ๐Ÿ˜† how about... What About Bob The Great Outdoors Romeo and Juliet...the Claire/Leo one. do those fit?
  17. ok... one of the things very high on my list for this trip is visiting some real-by-god castles ๐Ÿฐ ๐Ÿ˜Š Germany...Neuschwanstein would be the best candidate (based on route) but it isn't really what i had in mind - too 'young' lol. i really wanted to visit Heidelberg castle...but i want to enjoy our time in Strasbourg and keeping in mind all the advice not to try to see too much haha...i don't think we're gonna fit it in. France...i think we'll be able to see some ancient ruins in the Brest area... but i'm also looking at a full day trip to Loire valley to visit two or three spectacular castles. this would be your standard tour bus trip, with a stop for lunch in Blois. we've got four days in Paris so don't mind spending a day on this. we're not interested in renting a car at all (once the family leaves) so doing it on our own is out. just wondering if someone has done one of these, with what company, and how it was overall? ๐Ÿค” Italy...they don't seem to feature as much there, at least near Florence/Rome. not nearly as big or opulent as the French palaces. i will also research Ireland as i'm sure they have many, but we're gonna be pretty tired by then and wanting to spend time with our friends...๐Ÿค”
  18. lol feeling a little bit of that^ in my thread, people got me laying awake at night questioning whether i need to piss my dad off by refusing to do/see everything he wants ๐Ÿ˜„ Grand Canyon is absolutely worth it. one of our 'way finding' trips last spring included spontaneous detours to Sedona, Grand Canyon, Monument Valley/Valley of the Gods, with an overnight in Moab. i couldn't drive much thru Utah bc the landscape gave me extreme vertigo, that's how incredible it was...and we just drove by Arches and Canyonlands! ๐Ÿ˜ฎ i do know it gets brutally hot in the summer. pictures of that part of the country don't do it justice, i spent most of the drive just gaping out the window going 'wow! oh wow! omg wow!' ๐Ÿ˜ we've also spent significant time in NM... absolutely agree Santa Fe > Taos. Bandalier National Monument is a great daytrip out of SF. and of course, i live in Denver now...RMNP is do-not-miss in the summer. def an all day trip though, i wouldn't try to drive farther than Denver after a visit. we went three times last summer and i was able to buy admission tickets at 5pm the day before every time. my only caution would be drive as much as you want, just make sure you leave time to actually see/do. and make sure you account for the toll elevation will take on you, particularly at RMNP...we had to stop in Grand Lakes/Estes and get double espressos for the drive home each time ๐Ÿ˜ have fun...we love road trips!
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