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Gnoming Around the World Game (...and here we go!)

Mickey arrived yesterday (he apparently arrived a few days prior, but I was never home to let him out of his envelope) but he'll be going out tomorrow to Arizona (I have your address chroll)! I will post photos tomorrow ^_^
 
Hope Donald will arrive soon with Jason (HandA) in Florida! :)
Woohoo! Good news and bad news ...

Good news ... Donald arrived safe and sound about an hour ago and just in time to go fishing tomorrow assuming the weather holds. I hope Donald brought his sea legs. :p


Bad news ... I'm hearing crickets from my pm to Hidden_Miki asking for her address. What is worse is that it looks like she hasn't signed on in over a month. Does anyone have her address?
 
Woohoo! Good news and bad news ...

Good news ... Donald arrived safe and sound about an hour ago and just in time to go fishing tomorrow assuming the weather holds. I hope Donald brought his sea legs. :p


Bad news ... I'm hearing crickets from my pm to Hidden_Miki asking for her address. What is worse is that it looks like she hasn't signed on in over a month. Does anyone have her address?

Woohoo! Can't wait to see pics! :D

And Uh-oh I have no address either, hope someone else can contact her maybe?
 
Well ... wouldn't you know it. The day that Donald leaves ... and we finally get our first day of sunshine. Nothing but rain, doom, and gloom while that albatross was here! :lol:

Nonetheless, we made the most of our Sunday and I decided to take Donald fishing ... weather be dammed. Visibility was next to nothing and we had no business being on the water, but at least he'll have some stories to tell. He got to spend some time talking to some long lost cousins, almost got eaten by a Spanish Mackerel, and even took a turn at driving the boat! We'll forget about the part where he ran us aground on an oyster bar. After we got back on dry land ... I figured I needed take Donald to church to count our blessings!! We are in the bible belt after all.

Here is my picture submitted for the contest from Donald's Scary Adventure!

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Don't worry ... I can assure you that no fish OR pins were harmed during the taking of this picture!!
(yes, it was a catch and release)

Thanks sooo much to Jacob for the Window to the Magic zap!! My Hannah will love it! I've been trying to get that one. I have a new zap along with Donald and a postcard on their to back to Cali.

More pictures of the full trip will be posted later!
 
Those jokers have some wicked teeth. Meaner than hell and pretty stupid too. :D

Reminds me of this ...

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I'll have some "prettier" pictures coming up in a bit.
 
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I'm hearing crickets from my pm to Hidden_Miki asking for her address. What is worse is that it looks like she hasn't signed on in over a month. Does anyone have her address?

Jason,

I just got off the phone with our cute pin collector Miki aka (Hidden_Miki) Who informed me that she has PM'd you her home mailing address. Get the Gnome Donald pin out to her!

Angel
 
Mickey arrived yesterday (he apparently arrived a few days prior, but I was never home to let him out of his envelope) but he'll be going out tomorrow to Arizona (I have your address chroll)! I will post photos tomorrow ^_^

I hear a rumor from my house that Mickey has arrived!
 
Even if Donald wins...he still didn't beat Mickey since he put the whole game on pause in the first place to replace Chip N Dale, TEAM MICKEY!!!

P.S. Still haven't uploaded the photos to my computer...this week has been baaaaaaaad.
 
Even if Donald wins...he still didn't beat Mickey since he put the whole game on pause in the first place to replace Chip N Dale, TEAM MICKEY!!!
Poor Mickey ... we knew this was coming eventually.

[video=youtube;JFvujknrBuE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFvujknrBuE[/video]
 
Alrighty ... Here are a few more pics of our dreary day in the Cola ...

Here Donald and I set off onto a very eerie morning. Donald got excited and saw one of his long lost relatives, the Pelican, and thought he give it his best impersonation.

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Here we are almost running into a BIG boat near the port. Did I mention how hard it was to drive with a camera in one hand and Donald in the other!
After that we stumbled onto some more pelicans and Donald decided to chat it up a little bit ... talkin' about old times.

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After Donald's encounter with Dorkfish, we made it church and he found this goofy lookin' kid that needed some help on his easter egg hunt! Atta boy, Donald.

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Then we hit historic downtown Pensacola to Plaza De Luna where Donald got to meet King Juan Carlos I

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You know ... you pick easter eggs with a kid and they'll follow you everywhere!! :rant: sheesh!

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I thought it was important for Donald to honor our men and women in the armed forces, so we also checked out a few monuments. Yes ... we have a scaled down version of the Vietnam memorial. Why??? Because we can. :D

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... and then off to see the nearby Missing Children Memorial.

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and last but not least ... you'll never guess what we stumbled upon ... in Pensacola of all places?!?










RAPUNZEL'S TOWER!!! :hsd:



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Ok ... local legend is that it's the remnants of the chimney for the old lumber mill, but I'm not buyin' it. :lol:
 
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