Blogging from A to Z April Challenge 2016 - Letter C

Celebrate the Magic: Let me tell you a little about us sisters. We are both in our sixties (I'm heading out of them this year) and although we have always been close, in the past several years I've  been visiting her every few months. She lives up by Buffalo, I live just above Manhattan. It's an hour or so by plane but 6 1/2 to 7 hours by car or train (my recent form of travel, but that's another story). When I retired, I would go help out in her first grade class several times a year. Now that Alison is retired, we spend a week or so each season doing craft projects, going to classes, shopping, talking incessantly, solving world problems and babysitting for her one year old grandson, Nicholas.

Coloring Book, Copyright 1964, Walt Disney Productions

Going to Disney had always been on the back burner for me. I am much more of a beach person when I vacation- Mystic, CT; Newport, RI; the coast of Maine. I've also taken three cruises- Bermuda twice and up the coast and into the St. Lawrence River to Quebec City. Traveling to the heat of Florida with my husband to walk around acres of an amusement park wasn't high on the list.

However, exchange my husband for my sister and add in Winnie the Pooh, Peter Pan and Cinderella with colors, music and fireworks and that's when you create the Magic. Alison and I are very much the product of our childhood. We both were young when television first came into households. We watched The Mickey Mouse Club originals after school and the Sunday night Disney program faithfully. We saw the original runs of the fairy tale films in the movies. We colored in Winnie the Pooh coloring books and had fashion paper dolls of Snow White.

So, a six day trip to Disney with Alison was certainly something to celebrate...

Blogging from A to Z April Challenge 2016 - Letter B

Disney World Vacation:

  Planning, Prepping, Packing and Postponing a trip of a lifetime and things I learned along the way.

Barnes and Noble: So, as soon as we heard we were planning a trip, Alison and I stopped at her local book store to stock up on travel books. We spent several hours studying various series of books about traveling to Disney- The Official Guides, The Unofficial Guides, The First Time to Disney, The Disney with Kids, The Disney with Seniors. We didn't find a volume titled 2 Crazy Senior Overweight Sisters out for a Lark, so we had to buy several books each to cover all our bases. We did very well with the ideas and tips in the Unofficial Guide series.
 I'll be dropping some hints along the way...
Hint: Always get trip insurance. So worth the money because you never know what's coming up in your future.

Alison, my sister, retired from teaching last June.She had devoted herself to her students, giving them her all for many years. When she left teaching, she was really worn out and her husband, Tony, wanted to do something special for her. Since I had retired two years before, her husband thought it would be a great idea to send us both to Disney World. Alison has been there several times and it is her happy place. This would be my maiden voyage. We began to plan...

Blogging from A to Z April Challenge 2016 - Letter A

Disney World Vacation:

  Planning, Prepping, Packing and Postponing a trip of a lifetime and things I learned along the way.

Alison, my sister, retired from teaching last June.She had devoted herself to her students, giving them her all for many years. When she left teaching, she was really worn out and her husband, Tony, wanted to do something special for her. Since I had retired two years before, her husband thought it would be a great idea to send us both to Disney World. Alison has been there several times and it is her happy place. This would be my maiden voyage. We began to plan...

Only a bunch of hours....

until the Blogging A-Z Challenge starts. Do you think I have my Theme and the first several letters ready for posting? Get real!  I do my best work at the last second.

See you tomorrow.  Suz

Where have I been.....

Don't know, don't care. I am here now again.

It is February, and it has been unusually mild this winter. Today, we have had rain all day. It's been warm enough so that the rain has been soaking into the ground. Great day to do laundry and read a good book, look out the window and watch the rain fall.

Writing 201: Poetry...2/24/15

Day 2's challenge is to create a limerick. The subject is about travel, the devise is alliteration. These poems take their time mulling around in my mind, so I am a little behind.

I thought I'd peaked your interest with a concert by Fleetwood Mac.
Travel down to Charlotte by train, clickity clack.
I ask, "You want to go?"
You never said NO.
But two weeks later we still sit here with no plans to pack.

Writing 201: Poetry...2/16/15

Graceful birds soar
Above silent, dark waters
Sing the speed of song.


For the next two weeks, I'll be posting some home created poetry. I am participating in a challenge. A prompt, form and devise are provided every day as suggestions.
Monday's were: water, haiku and simile. Not sure I achieved the challenge's goal, however, I like what I created.