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7 On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month in the second year of the reign of Darius, the Message of God was given to the prophet Zechariah son of Berechiah, son of Iddo: | 7 On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, the month of Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berekiah, the son of Iddo. |
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This week on Cyprus Avenue, we feature newly-released music from some outstanding female artists.
On this week's 12th Street Jump we celebrate the birthdays of song stylist Miss Nancy Wilson & the High Priestess of Soul, Nina Simone, with our very own Nedra Dixon.
During the hour, the 12th Street Jump gang plays "So What's Your Question?" and we learn a bit more about Nedra in a little jam session called, "Who's Got the Blues?"


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For all the bad blood over smartphones, a coziness remains when it comes to Samsung-made chips, says the chief of VLSI Research. "Apple has been ... learned how to work that relationship."
The widespread security breach reportedly compromised 40 million credit and debit cards, which are costing banks a pretty penny to reissue.
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The search giant has signed an agreement promising to tweak how it gathers personal data from users in Britain.
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Miley Cyrus and Justin Gaston: Living in Sin?
Ice cream dream couple Miley Cyrus, 15, and boyfriend Justin Gaston, 20, are reportedly living together in the Cyrus family home, according to the New York Daily News.
Billy Ray Cyrus and wife Tish seem like some pretty permissive parents. Do Miley and topless partyboy Justin share a room?
"Justin is the guy Miley's parents see her settling down with a few years down the line," a source says. "He's handsome, talented, clean-living, goes to church and knows his Bible—a real catch."
Gaston reportedly still keeps a separate apartment, but seems to spend most of his time at the Cyrus residence...which would supply him with hot and cold running Miley whenever he wants.
"Billy Ray wasn't born yesterday," a source says. "He figures the safest path to take is to keep Miley and Justin on a short leash—and under the same roof."
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Conservatives always need their dragons to slay. And so, to fully appreciate the furor which has erupted on the Right over the tragic deaths of four Americans at that remote consulate in Benghazi on September 11th it is necessary to recall the right wing outrage four years ago when the Obama Administration dropped "The War on Terror" as the organizing construct of US foreign policy.
Neoconservatives perceived in the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and their subsequent GWOT - or "Global War on Terror" - an opportunity "to escape from the decadent and deadening peace and prosperity of the Clinton years, which they believed had weakened American society," writes Corey Robin in The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin.
And the source of this decadence in the neoconservative view was "the liberal obsession with rule of law," says Robin, which manifested itself in several ways: due process in criminal procedure; a preference for litigation over legislation; attempts to restrain executive power through judicial and legislative oversight; and, most important, and emphasis on diplomacy and international law over war.
Neoconservatives believed that "if another 9/11 is to be prevented, that culture of rights and rules must be repudiated an reversed," said Robin.
Consequently, the neoconservative's "War on Terror" reflects conservative "sensibilities and sensitivities" much more than they do "the actual facts of 9/11 and the need to prevent another attack," says Robin. Thus we get the legacy of the neoconservative's open-ended War on Terror: its push for torture and the overturning of the Geneva Conventions; its refusal to abide by the restrictions of international law; its support for illegal surveillance; and its predilection to see terrorism through the lens of "war" rather than as a problem of crime and punishment.
"She's soft - too soft" said retired right wing Lt. General Jerry Boykin of pre-9/11 America. And the way conservatives intend to to make her "hard again," says Robin, "is not merely to undertake difficult and strenuous military action but also to violate the rules - and the culture of rules - that made her soft in the first place."
Republicans are understandably grumpy at the thought a White House cover-up may have denied them an "October Surprise" scandal in Libya which might have snatched victory from the jaws of defeat on November 6th.
As National Review contributor Victor Davis Hanson writes, the President's entire reelection effort was premised on the "catchy narrative" that Barack Obama had killed Osama bin Laden, scattered al Qaeda to the desert winds and reset America diplomacy in a way "consistent with a new lower-profile American posture abroad."
Consequently, Hanson insists that if it had been revealed prior to the election that an al Qaeda affiliate had carried out a preplanned hit against an unprepared American diplomatic post, it would have shattered that narrative by reminding Americans that al Qaeda is very much alive, even after the death of bin Laden.
Even worse for Obama, says Hanson, the revelation that terrorists were responsible for the attack would have come "at the very time the President on the campaign trail was telling the country that we were leaving wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, not starting one in Libya."
Ending wars? Can't have that. Yet the truth is that most middle Americans, as Daily Beast's Michael Tomasky correctly notes, were neither surprised nor scandalized to learn it was terrorists who hit our consulate last September. That is because most Americans recognize Benghazi for what it was, says Tomasky: "a terribly sad tragedy, but the kind of thing that, in a dangerous world, happens."
That pragmatic attitude is "all but inconceivable" to most ideologically-motivated Republicans, says Tomasky, "because in the ecosystem in which they thrive, Benghazi is bigger than Watergate, Waterloo, and water-boarding combined."
Indeed, as Kevin Drum reports in Mother Jones, "the only segment of the country that really cares about the sham Benghazi scandal is Republicans." And the reason they do is Fox News.
How far down the rabbit hole have conservatives gone with their 24/7 hysteria? asks Drum. Well, 42% of Republicans say they are following the Benghazi story intently while only about half as many other people are.
There are bigger issues in play here, however, than just partisanship. In the end, Libya is about ideology not politics or even policy.
Only neo-conservatives who are forever inventing monsters to justify their military misadventures abroad would think it politically devastating to call a "terrorist" attack by some other name. And, reading between the lines of Republican hysteria over the Benghazi attacks, it is evident that a disgraced neo-conservatism hopes to use this manufactured "scandal" to launch a political comeback.
Throughout most of the eight years of George W. Bush's failed presidency, if there was a 1% chance of something bad happening that threat had to be treated "as a certainty in terms of our response," said Vice President Dick Cheney.
This "One Percent Doctrine," as Ron Suskind called it, meant that America had abandoned foreign policy "realism" and just war theory "in favor of pre-emptive war against eternal foes," notes Andrew Sullivan.
Variations of this shoot-first-and-ask-questions-later mentality echoed all throughout the Bush administration.
"We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud," said then-national security adviser Condi Rice.
"The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence," said Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who routinely mocked Pentagon analysts for looking for "actionable intelligence" where "all the dots connected for us with a ribbon wrapped around it."
"Some have said we must not act until the threat is imminent," said President Bush by way of justifying his administration's militarized foreign policy of unilateral prevention. "Since when have terrorists and tyrants announced their intentions, politely putting us on notice before they strike?"
Conservatives like NRO's Victor Davis Hanson are convinced that if the details of the assault on the Benghazi foreign mission had come out sooner, with its link to al Qaeda known, not only would President Obama's reelection have been preempted but it would also have reignited public support for a moribund neo-conservatism that is rooted in fear.
"Had we, as our people on the ground had requested, beefed up security at the annex with Marines, attention at some point might have been focused on the chaotic situation in Libya and the vulnerability of the very Americans who supposedly had done so much to free Libyans from Qaddafi," writes Hanson.
The ambassador killed in the attack, Christopher Stevens, was President Obama's type of diplomat, said Hanson: "low-key, cool, a career professional, fluent in the local language and customs, able to blend in with the locals."
Stevens typified the new "soft-power approach" that neo-conservatives despise, says Hanson, and was "hardly the sort of ambassador who would need, or want to be associated with, a sandbagged, barbed-wired, Marine-laden traditional compound." You know, the kind of fortresses George Bush's neo-conservative proconsuls built in Baghdad's Green Zone.
Every religion needs its virgin sacrifices. And so neo-conservative hawks who think it is the divinely-ordained mission of the United States to spread American Exceptionalism around the world at the point of a gun have now made UN Ambassador Susan Rice their burnt offering to the gods of war.
It's not the crime, as the old saying goes, it's the cover-up. And the alleged cover-up that has so many conservatives up in arms is the alleged reluctance of the administration to immediately identify the attack on our consulate as an act of terror, organized and executed by al Qaeda, and not some street protest over a racist video gone bad.
This is the cover-up Republican senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham want to get to the bottom of by ludicrously impaneling a Senate select committee. It was also the noose Mitt Romney hoped to wrap around the President's neck during their second debate, before moderator Candy Crowley stepped in to set the record straight.
"Benghazi-gate" is also the make-believe scandal that has a mainstream media -- which has always ridden to the sound of the guns whenever the right wing makes noise -- breathlessly chasing down every lead or "exclusive" in order to identify which federal agency and which unnamed source put what bit of garbled intelligence into the talking points that Ambassador Rice delivered on the Sunday talk shows two days after the Libyan attacks.
Can you tell how unimpressed I am by this "scandal?"
What happened to four brave Americans in that remote consulate in Libya on September 11 was tragic. A full accounting of that horrible night and the United States' response to it is needed for the lessons such a review might teach us about what we must do better to secure our foreign missions in the future.
But the hysteria on the Right over whether this was, or was not, a "terrorist act" is utterly trivial, especially when compared to the serial and much more serious foreign affairs scandals that tarnished America's reputation during George W. Bush's administration.
Republicans can't understand or accept why so many middle Americans don't share their outrage over Libya, just as Tomasky says, because they do not accept or even acknowledge the past Republican foreign policy outrages against which people like me are measuring the attacks in Benghazi.
How, for example, can disputed charges of White House duplicity possibly measure up to the reality of a Downing Street Memo in which British intelligence says "facts were being fixed around the policy" by a Bush administration determined to invade Iraq based on Saddam Hussein's imagined ties to al Qaeda and his phantom Weapons of Mass Destruction?
How can we possibly take Republicans seriously when they charge President Obama dropped the ball if they also stood up for George Bush when, just five weeks before 9/11, he brushed off an intelligence report warning "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US" while at the same time telling the CIA briefing officer who delivered the alarming news: "All right. You've covered your ass."
How genuine can Republicans really be about national security today when it was not so long ago they thought it was perfectly okay for the Vice President's minions to out the identity of a covert CIA operative (causing the death of who knows how many CIA assets) in retaliation for the agent's husband discrediting the Bush/Cheney administration and its case for war?
It is hard to keep a straight face while listening to Republicans demand a Watergate-style select committee on Benghazi considering the way Republicans themselves circled the wagons to stonewall any investigation into the intelligence failures that led to a catastrophic terrorist attack in this country, on a Republican President's watch, in which more than 3,000 Americans were incinerated.
I am not so forgetful that I can't remember how Republicans said it would not only be unproductive but unpatriotic as well for Democrats to criticize George W. Bush for the leadership failures that led to 9/11.
Indeed, Dick Cheney even went so far as to suggest Democrats might be drawn up on charges of treason if their (legitimate) criticisms of George Bush managed to weaken this "commander-in-chief" in time of war.
When "terrorist czar" Richard Clarke said the Bush administration's ideologically-inspired negligence of bin Laden and al Qaeda was exacerbated by the neo-conservative preoccupation with Saddam Hussein, Republicans slandered this hero -- who stood on deck in the White House Situation Room on the morning of 9/11 while Dick Cheney cowered in his "secure location" -- as a royalty-seeking whore.
And what Republicans said about Clarke was only marginally less offensive than what right wing pundits like Ann Coulter said about the widows of husbands who died on 9/11 when they came forward to demand an accounting from a George W. Bush reluctant to take part in any investigation that might explain how 3,000 Americans were killed on his watch under circumstances that then-national security adviser Condi Rice insisted no one could have imagined.
In her book, Godless, Coulter writes of the 9/11 widows: "These broads are millionaires (thanks to the 9/11 victims compensation fund), lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by grief-arazzies. I have never seen people enjoying their husbands' death so much."
Coulter dubbed four of the women "The Witches of East Brunswick," after the town where they lived.
"How do we know their husbands weren't planning to divorce these harpies?" Coulter later ponders. "I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much."
In response, the targets of Coulter's vile accusations issued a public statement of their own: "Contrary to Ms. Coulter's statements, there was no joy in watching men that we loved burn alive. There was no happiness in telling our children that their fathers were never coming home again. We adored these men and miss them every day."
Incredibly, Coulter didn't back down: "The 9/11 widows are witches and harpies. You can't argue with them. You just have to listen."
This is the larger context within which conservatives are today accusing President Obama of an operational failure and subsequent cover-up at least as scandalous as Watergate. What a joke.
My suspicion is that Rice will turn into the scapegoat and the country will lose a top notch S of S. Obama will continue his politics of appeasement, be attacked as resolutely from liberal ideologists as retrograds, but in the end may triumph by giving them no more red meat in his second term than he did his first, and set Hillary up as no succeeding Dem has been set up before.
It's a strategy--a way of thinking usually absent from American politics, and is really what distinguishes Obama.
My God, Coulter is disgusting. If you didn't reference her I wouldn't have a clue what she thinks, and could care less. I also suspect she now has a feeding frenzy to capitalize on and will only get worse. The girl knows how to play the suckers and bilk 'em for all their worth.
The players seem to ALL be of an amoral, scheming ilk that properly belong in a mental hospital getting treatment. They have taken America to the brink of disaster and caused it to be known world-wide as a rogue - no worse than rogue - a terrorist nation of rapacious greed and a willingness to kill anyone who even speaks out against their atrocities.
This is soon to come home to roost. Sadly those who are responsible will not suffer their just deserts but the innocent citizens will.


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Yeah man you would be surprised how many guys are going into your field after doing some time in the Corps. Plus I am sure there are plenty of Marines out there who find it nice that you have a brother that is a Marine after being pulled over. How come the Police always assume you are drunk after they find out you are a Marine though?
i didnt realize that yall are pigeonholed as drunks during traffic stops? maybe because youre all crazy?
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But after an impromptu lunch thrown together by Savage while Cielo was still under construction, a meal that showcased the simple norteño cuisine that chef Marcela Guerrero (a former sous chef at both the Denver and Florida Tamayos) would be featuring on the menu, Colantonio decided that he wanted to be part of Cielo. "About a week after entering into the consulting arrangement," he said, "I just told them, 'I want to run this restaurant.'"
That was fine with Sims and Savage. After they worked out a contract, Colantonio came on board as a kind of operations manager, handling both the front and back of the house, overseeing construction, approving menus and shepherding Cielo through its long-delayed opening. He was happy with his position, thrilled about the restaurant and excited for the future. All seemed right with the world.
But things are about to change again. Colantonio got me on the red phone at Bite Me HQ last week to announce that his time as Cielo's manager is coming to an end. "I've been in this business since I was a teenager," he explained. "And I've learned that once you become an employee, no one listens to you anymore. I feel I've done as much as I can with Cielo. Six months in, I think they have a great product. I think the food is great. They have some really interesting things happening in the future. But I've decided to open a public-relations and restaurant-consulting business."
The time had come, he told me, when he had to take a risk and step out on his own. "You know, I've lived on both coasts," he said. "I know the restaurant business, and I'm still a fairly young guy, but my thing is not to operate a restaurant on a day-to-day basis. I sell food and I sell chefs. I don't want to be worrying anymore about the circuit breaker that blows on Saturday night or if the dishwashers are going to show up on time."
We spent quite a while on the phone discussing the future of Denver dining and his thoughts on what this town needs to really come into its own as the great food city we both know it can be. His career change could fill one of those needs, he said, since he wants "to do consulting services that are real. Sort of what my life has been about, making restaurants work. I know demographics, and I think I know what the people want. And I don't want to be the guy who just tells you that every idea is a great one and nothing ever goes wrong."
Colantonio will be staying on at Cielo through the transition but hopes to have his new office -- Colantonio Communications -- up and running in Cherry Creek before the first of November. And can you guess who his first clients are going to be?
Yup, he'll be handling all the PR and consulting work for Cielo, plus Sims and Savage's other restaurant, Lime, at 1424 Larimer Street, just up the block from his old stomping grounds at Tamayo. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Leftovers: Recently I've reviewed one very bad Italian restaurant ("Same Old, Same Old," September 11) and one very good one (see page 73). Another one that still thrills me -- the joint I keep sending people to whenever they ask where to get honest Italian food -- is Venice (5121 South Yosemite Street in Greenwood Village). Chef/owner Alessandro Carollo's bastion of country Italian cuisine has been a favorite since I reviewed it for my debut Cafe column ("Now, That's Italian," July 18, 2002) a few months after it opened, and it's been so successful that Carollo opened a second, larger Venice at 5946 South Holly Street, also in Greenwood Village.
Now the original is about to undergo a transformation. At the end of September, that Venice will shut down for nine days for a major overhaul of both menu and decor. The walls are being redone with murals of small-town Tuscan villages and views of the Chianti region of Italy; the ceiling is being painted to make the space seem more open; and the menu is being totally scrapped in favor of an all-Tuscan board of fare. And when the place reopens on October 7, it will also have a new name: Chianti.
The second Venice, though, will carry on the name, as well as retain the original Venice menu.
In other news, the space at Leetsdale and Forest Street that had housed Tacos Jalisco #2 until last month has already been snapped up. Come October, it will be the Blue Line Bar and Grill. Out in Lone Tree, Greg and Christie Metheny recently opened the Dragonfly Cafe (7824 Park Meadows Drive), designed specifically with busy parents in mind: Worked into the design of the coffee-shop/lunch bar is a play area for kids with tables set up around it so that Mom can keep an eye on Junior while grabbing a quick breakfast or lunch or cup of java. The menu includes wraps, panini sandwiches and salads, with PB&Js, sliced apples with caramel and plenty of healthy choices for kids, "plus all the usual full-sinful stuff," says Greg.


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Five persons from Mendocino County were arrested on April 3 by federal agents on warrants issued under a sealed federal indictment from an Arkansas court on charges of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute marijuana involving 1,000 kilograms or more of marijuana. Keith David Johnson, 56, of Willits was also charged with possession of 50 kilos of marijuana.
The others arrested and booked into the Humboldt County Jail were Nicholas Warren Durupt, 49; Brian Eric Hartman, 33; Ryan Marie Hartman, 35; and Paul Michael Larramendy, 45. All were released and are expected to appear in an Arkansas court later this month.
The arrests are linked to a federal case filed in November 2012 against Tyler Lamastus of Bee Branch, Arkansas, according to court records. In December 2010, agents reported finding 283 pounds of marijuana and about a dozen fully automatic assault rifles. Officials told the media they were tipped off to search Lamastus' Bee Branch compound following a traffic stop in Oklahoma.
In November 2012, Lamastus was charged in a 22 count indictment alleging in count one he "conspired with others, known and unknown, to knowingly and intentionally distribute and possess with intent to distribute marijuana." The second count charged him with possession of marijuana and the next 20 counts involved various firearms charges, including a variety of machine guns, a sawed off shotgun, a pistol with silencer and guns with serial numbers removed.
On Jan. 8, 2014 a second superseding indictment was filed.
Federal court records show sealed indictments for 12 unnamed defendants in the Lamastus federal court case were filed in January 2014.


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Join Date: May 2012
Location: Portland, Or
Posts: 151
Surprising kids, tell me your stories!!
We have just booked our first trip to WDW and we are going to keep it a secret, which I fear is going to be VERY hard to do. Our boys will be 7.5 and 4.5 when we go, and the oldest can read, so hiding books are a bit difficult. I think I need to get some book covers!
We will be going Dec 8 for 8 days/7 nights. We will be leaving the house around 4 AM (seriously, why did I pick that time). I am not sure how to go about surprising them. Should we wait until we are at the airport, on the plane, or when I wake them up in the morning? I plan to video it, so we can see the surprise. Can you please share how you shocked your kids? Thanks!
Melissa, Disneyland veteran, Disney World rookie!
~Me 34 : ~DH 33 ~DS7 ~DS4 ______________________________________ SURPRISE TRIP FOR THE BOYS Dec 8-15, '12: Port Orleans Riverside Royal Guest room PTR: Santa's coming early! |
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 153
We just got back from our surprise trip - I'm doing the stinky lanundry right now! The kids knew all along that we were saving for our Disney trip so that we could go "someday". We also would watch the planning video and ask them what they would want to do for "someday". We would work it into everyday conversation so it wouldn't be like we were quizzing them on Disney all at once.
We surprised the kids simply. I just used a very direct approach. All week long we kept telling the kids we had "a lot of things to do" on Saturday and that we'd be very busy. The morning of our flight, after the kids had eaten a good breakfast (and had a good night's sleep), we handed our oldest, who can read, our To-Do List for the day. Each item had a separate page and said simply "Get up; Eat Breakfast; Get Dressed; Fly to Disney!!!" We had packed the night before so all of our things were already in the van and all the kids needed to do was get dressed and pack their toys. I've never seen them get dressed so fast before! The kids were in shock a little. I didn't want to do something like a treasure hunt since it can take a while for them to wake up and have their brains start working - just like Mommy! But the plan went off without a hitch. DD even told Crush that her vacation was a surprise during Turtle Talk! |
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Location: 100 Acre Wood
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We surprised our girls w/a trip to WDW last summer. We didn't reveal the surprise until we were literally getting ready to drive through the Maingate. Thankfully, we did this before DD5 could read...that was the only way we were able to pull it off like this. There were months and months of fibs - just trying to get their opinions on things. They knew we were going someplace special for DD5's bday, but they had no idea where (although I told them it might be Sea World or grandma and grandpa's). They had been to WDW about 8 mos prior, so it really wasn't on their radar. I even had to pack the bags in a special way so I wouldn't ruin the surprise. I've posted the vid on here before, but this is them getting their surprise.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48jii...3&feature=plcp We'll be reciprocating for DD3's 4th bday in Nov, but she will get the actual surprise on her bday (before we travel). I'm still working out the details on that. I will say this- as far as hiding things from my girls...I just tell them I'm helping other friends plan their WDW trips. It's really not that far from the truth...but it enables me to search online, read books, and look at all kinds of things Disney without tipping them off.
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Melissa, Disneyland veteran, Disney World rookie!
~Me 34 : ~DH 33 ~DS7 ~DS4 ______________________________________ SURPRISE TRIP FOR THE BOYS Dec 8-15, '12: Port Orleans Riverside Royal Guest room PTR: Santa's coming early! |
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: FL - less than 1 hr to the Mouse
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I will never forget when we surprised our boys in 2008 and am so glad that we did it. We picked them up at school and they had no clue where we were going. When we got to the airport we told them we were going to Florida to see my aunt and uncle (which we had done before) and then when we got to the airport in Orlando, we pulled the surprise. DH surprised to call my aunt and uncle and they weren't home.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSQDRTo2RoM They helped plan our trip but they didn't know it. We always talked about when we would make our next trip to Disney World but they knew it would be a long way away. We would watch DIsney things on the travel channel, the planning video, see books, etc. and I would ask them "if you were going to Disney World, which restaurant would you want to eat at?"
Sherri Me DH DS 17 DS13 We just moved from MD to FL and I still love going to WDW!
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Southern Illinois
Posts: 537
We surprised our girls for Christmas, we had just been in May and at the time had been going every other year so they had no idea. We had planned to leave the day after Christmas so I wrapped their disney pin lanyards with $100 and a pin saying "Surprise we are going to Walt Disney World tomorrow!" I loved my youngest dd's reaction, she gets a bit dramatic at times!
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Northeast OH
Posts: 205
We are planing a surprise trip for our DD7's 8th birthday. Since our flight leaves very early, we are going to stay at the airport hotel the night before. This is when we plan on telling her, and we are going to do so with a treasure hunt. I am going to make her an autograph book, we have ordered our Disney Park maps, I plan on having a frying pan for Rapunzel to sign, and a few other items to use for the scavenger hunt. We are now discussing what to tell her when we pick her up from school as to why we are going to the Pittsburgh airport and why we are staying overnight.
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Location: PA
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We did a surprise trip in aug of 2010.Our girls were 11 and 6 at the time. I had to work in the morning and my girls were in summer camp. When they came home my Dh was home(very unusual) he told them that he "didnt feel like working that day so he came home early". They didnt think anything of it. By that time I had my dads car packed with our luggage. I had my dad call my girls and ask if they wanted to go with him to pick up a friend. When my DD(11)asked me if it was ok I said lets all go for a ride. My dad picked us up and took us to the airport when he pulled over to let us out the girls started to get mad at us(they thought Dh and I were going away without them). when i opened the trunk and they seen the disney tags they were jumping up and down yelling "Were going to Disney, Were going to disney". We had some people at philly airport laughing. we checked in and waited for our plane. Then the questions started rolling in did you bring this? what about that? I dont have this or that. I did get the kids disney book for that year and they took turns reading it on the plane. It was great. They did say they rather know about the trip so they can help plan things out(we didnt do our usual garden grill but we tried crystal palace and the dinner at swan & dolphin) they were both great but the girls miss the garden grill so this aug we have to go there.
I keep rubbing my head hoping an answer will come into it
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Southern NJ
Posts: 671
Surprise kids
I have typed a letter on the computer from Mickey saying he was excited (enter names of children) were coming to visit him, etc. (enter favorite characters) are also excited to see you on (enter date of trip). Add some Disney clip art and make up a post mark. Shove it into mail when getting the mail and tell kids they have a letter from Mickey mouse! video excitement as letter is read by oldest to youngest child. So sweet
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We drive there and last year (our second family trip) all the kids knew was that we were going to a park with roller coasters (it was originally going to be Hershey Park, but that fell through). Once we hit the stretch where all the Disney billboards start, I thought for sure they would figure it out. Luckily, they were both busy playing their games and never looked up. It wasn't until we got to the Disney sign over the road that we told them to look up (and taped their reaction). Oldest DS went nuts! He was dying to go back to Disney, but we told him it would be a few years. Youngest DS just said he wanted to go to a hotel lol! After he found out we would be staying in a hotel in Disney World, his day got a lot better .
Surprises are so much fun, but we would never be able to pull it off if we had a long wait! They knew all about our first trip and the second trip was only a surprise because it was a spur of the minute decision and I knew we could keep it a secret for 30 days (even then, I slipped a few times, they just didn't catch me). That was also a double whammy surprise - the grandparents were getting there to spend the last few days with us, so even after we got there, we had to keep another surprise until Wednesday . It was worth it! This year, we told them when we booked it and we also told them when the other grandparents confirmed that they could go. We are planning a surprise trip to Disneyland next year - I think the WDW excitement is making it easier to keep that a secret! DS9 knows we're going to California next year, but his request is to go to Hollywood, so that's what he's looking forward to. He isn't even aware (to my knowledge) that there is a place called Disneyland. He just thinks there's Disney World and "the Disney Boat", which is what he really wants to go on.
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Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 158
I love these stories! haha
My sister and I are taking my girls this November and they have no idea they think we are going NEXT november! I have no clue how long I can hold out first I thought we'd tell them at 100 days out because they like to countdown (we did this the first time we took them in 2011) But I'd love to wait till maybe a week out to spring it on them! I just dont know if I can hold it in that long! Good thing is that we talk about disney almost daily haha so they dont find it unusual me asking them all sorts of questions about what they would like to ride next time we go since they think its a year and a half from now I couldn't tell them on the day we're leaving, my oldest is a planner and I know that will be too overwhelming for her, she needs a little time to adjust to a change in plans so a week before would be awesome it all depends on mommy!!!
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Join Date: May 2012
Location: Portland, Or
Posts: 151
I love the stories!!! Thanks guys!!! This is awesome! I really hope we can hold out until the morning of!
Melissa, Disneyland veteran, Disney World rookie!
~Me 34 : ~DH 33 ~DS7 ~DS4 ______________________________________ SURPRISE TRIP FOR THE BOYS Dec 8-15, '12: Port Orleans Riverside Royal Guest room PTR: Santa's coming early! |
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Join Date: Sep 1999
Location: Small town Idaho, USA
Posts: 456
We are surprising our 4 boys June 7th and we are flying out on the 10th. We are taking them to dinner and are going to have a Mickey shaped pizza and cake that says "we are going to WDW" delivered to the table (my husband works at the restaurant so this will all be prearranged). We have been talking a lot about going because "Mom loves Disney", so the youngest 3 don't have any idea. My oldest might have an idea, but still doesn't know for sure. The 7th is their last day of school so that is the reason why we will be going out to eat! (wink, wink) we need to give my oldest at least one days notice because he is high functioning autism and doesn't appreciate big surprises, that is why we arent doing it the morning we leave. Looking forward to all of this and the vacation!
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Brampton, Ontario
Posts: 129
Just a word of caution...... I got back from a surprise trip with my DS5 2 months ago, and the surprise part was a bit of a downer.
We are from Canada and don't make it very often, and I took my kids for the first time in Jan 2011 - I was on mat leave with my youngest and since I am a teacher, it was my only chance to go when it isn't a school break. We had a blast and my older son fell in love with Disney. This spring break, I got a chance to take my oldest on a surprise, last-minute trip. I decided to keep it a surprise. It nearly killed me to stay quiet! I got him out of school early and brought him home to a scavenger hunt that ended in his bedroom where I had ballons - including a Mickey head, his suitcase already packed, a t-shirt waiting that said 'SURPRISE - You're going to Disney World! - and a bunch of goodies for him for the plane. I think he was in shock at first, but then he was - OK, let's go -no dancing up and down, nothing. He doesn't have a great concept of money, so he wasn't aware that this was a big deal and a bit of a financial sacrifice. He had been before, and now he was going again - no big deal. It took me a few GOOD hours - almost the whole trip there (10 hours door to door) to get over the letdown. I was expecting his excitement to at least match - if not exceed mine, and when that didn't happen, I was devasted. I am not saying this to warn you off a surprise trip - just the opposite. I would do a surprise trip again in a heartbeat, but I would better 'prepare' my son for it, and I would make sure my expectations weren't so high, that the wrong reaction could ruin the trip. I hope all goes well for you.
Yearly Disney trips far too numerous to list, but all remembered fondly...
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