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Just heard pots and pans being rattled, and applause all over the city. It felt wonderful to hear, for all those workers. We rattled our own, too!

Here's one from the first TPR China Tour, 2012... Yep, we didn't care what we did, on that tour. I'm in the middle of this. And this - is Bjorn - on the right.

I just came back from shopping, a couple of blocks away. And I have to say, the whole set up of queues, space markers, people watching out for each other....in our liquor store, our Super Valu, the Postal Station for lottery tickets ... on and on, we weave and dodge each other. Actually pretty quietly too, without too much "impatience in the air". But it's like you've entered (Alice In) Wonderland, and are playing the wierdest Human Chess/Checkers Board Game Ever! A Danish supermarket. Local shopping spots here, usually use straight line duct tape marks.

^ Mmmm. I really would have liked to ride that, myself. Such a unique way of creating a coaster ride.

^ It's in Japan....somewhere. Here's another one.... (EDIT To Add! We just got a near 1000 Bonus Miles added to our AirMiles account! Could be a CoVid thing. We're not sure about it, as it's listed as "Annual". Who knows? This may be a new thing they were making changes to, anyway, before CoVid- 19 started.) (DOUBLE EDIT!!! I also bought $20 worth of lottery and scratch tickets, but only had to pay $10 from last wins I got. And.... won myself $18 cash and a free $3 ticket! Life can be good, in little way$.) I love this one. Very Fairy Tale -ish.

^ That's true. I'm also {secretly} glad, that David paid for my Seniors Pass this year ~Holiday Gift~ and it cost him only $48 Cdn. for it. So neither of us is losing too much, out of this year's Pass, heh. RETRO PNE: Me on the Game of Thrones' ....uh.... Throne. (o; From the 2014 Exhibit Tour (and free @ PNE), before Season 3 of GoT started.

^ Oh, that's sad. Has he already proposed, now that the trip is cancelled? Maybe you could all conference phone (?) and figure out something else to do? Sorry, but it's just sad when these are the important things that get interrupted and/or cancelled, by this.... medical problem.

I'm very glad Coaster is polyamorous. Number eleven is fantastic and fully deserved. We're Number 11! We're Number 11! July 12, 2019. Last Season, I rode Coaster over 66+ times. (I look half-crazed.) Matching and exceeding my (then) current age #... This year? Who knows?

Kind of ironic, when all stage productions/tours are being postponed/cancelled nowadays.... Happy World Theatre Day!

From the "Isn't It Ironic" Dept... Happy World Theatre Day!

^ I'm hoping Playland would do "something" for the Season Pass Holders. But - the Season only runs from (usually) May to PNE Time, last two weeks of August. Then, if we're lucky, after Labor Day weekend it opens for 1-2 more weekends, then shuts down to get ready for Fright Nights. And then after that, end of October, that's it for Playland's Season. Really not much time it's actually open. I think they were quoted at saying around 80+ days that Playland is open every year. So.... who knows if they're going to offer anything to patrons, pass holders and non-? Or, they'll just open in July and run the Season "us usual," until PNE time, etc. For myself, it's all about Coaster and hoping it'll be running regularly, and not with the hiccups it had, last year.

Tonight's Dinner will include.... "Carrots In Bondage"

Hope Springs Eternal. And P.S.... Jeff? I know this is old crap, to wander through again. But these are in-home times, and some "squirrely-ness" turns into thread jumping, finding anything "new" to go through. And comment about. Again. Been there, many times. Such is life, right now. Back then. Thank you to whoever took this photo.

^^^ They're all so beautiful, including Mom! Makes me wish we had a mother cat again, tending to her brood. Playland(PNE) has just pushed back their opening date to July 1, our Canada Day. And they've also posted a Playland COLORING PAGE for everyone to work on and enjoy, in these stay-at-home times we're now in. http://www.pne.ca/playland/ P.S. I'm not checking all of them, but are any other park sites doing this? Offering coloring pages to work on, at home? Maybe some of them should, hmm? P.P.S. By the way, anybody(s) who colors this page - please post your results, here! It would/will be great to see so many colors used, by everybody (around the world?)! And FINALLY: How about printing several of them, and have an In-Home Coloring Contest??? Of course, EVERYBODY will WIN and it'll be Ice Cream for Everybody!!!! Part of the Coloring Page. Showing part of our new Sea-To-Sky Swinger ride. What the Sea-To-Sky really looks like. Photo taken past summer, it's Opening Season.

^^ Geez, my Season Pass will be worth only a month and a bit, by the time the PNE opens (last two weeks August) and nullifies it. Also, on turning 67 next Monday , my new challenge was to ride Coaster at least 67 times during this season. Last year, I successfully rode it over 70 times, to 'win'. Hmmm. May have to alter that plan, just a tidge. The PNE site also added a Playland Colouring/Coloring Page for kids (and with their parents) and everyone to work on, while at home, staying safe. http://www.pne.ca/playland/ Part of the Colouring/Coloring Page. The whole page is available at the PNE website.

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Awesome Positive News! In our downtown West End, where a lot of people live, everybody is coming out of their homes every evening, at 7pm PST, usually on balconies and starting ....to APPLAUD. For a few minutes. It is for all the people who have to stay "out there" for medical and services needs. Even for groceries and pharmacy, too. So The APPLAUSE is For Them. And it's starting to grow here. It's being picked up where we live, and the thrill of hearing the applause waft through the entire main city.... it's very cool to hear. I dare to add...it sounds kind of like, when Canada won Hockey Gold at the 2010 Olympics! Truth!

From the "While We're Taking Care of Ourselves And Each Other, Dept..." Here. A retro overhead view of Playland during a decades old PNE. See how many flat rides you can figure out and list here? No prize. Just instant satisfaction and gratification. (You can enlarge it, to see better. Bon Chance!) This is Playland during the 1977 PNE. Photo from Vancouver Archives.

Great take on your EPCOT Day! I love that place, too. Always been my fave, of all the Parks in WDW. Looking forward to your time spent in "The Kingdom of Magic Kingdoms"!

Terrance McNally was a shock to find out about. His book on the musical "Kiss of The Spider Woman" was amazing, considering the outcome of the piece. It's like the musical "Titanic" .... you know how it'll end, but the live experience is still worth the price of admission, etc. And that musical won the TONY for Best Musical, as did "Spider Woman." Along with a Best Book Win by Terrance. And before that, he wrote "Love! Valor! Compassion!" one of his best plays, ever. Starring a wonderful Nathan Lane, and equaled pretty good in the film, with Jason Alexander in the same part. Lots he wrote. Go look him up, those who don't know him.

The province of Quebec just SPIKED and is now the largest number of cases per province, over 1000, in Canada. Showoffs. I'm kidding, I'm kidding, I AM KIDDING! And I miss visiting Montreal.

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Define "healthy snack".....? A good cheese and crackers? And a nice wine. Yummy snack to moi, YES-terday-nite! When was the last time you had spaghetti and meatballs fir dinner? Bonus Points: With Garlic Bread, too?

Listening to the VERY UNDERESTIMATED Track #7 of Frozen 2... "Show Yourself," that honestly should have been the Oscar Nominee over "Into The Unknown". Gorgeous orchestrations. Epic. And whatta singer Idina Menzel still is, by this time, in the plot.

"You Oughta Know" from the Broadway cast CD of JAGGED LITTLE PILL ....Immediately followed by "Uninvited."...And ended with "You Learn." (o: