Bill McNeal wrote:Thanks Buck, how many days do you think you can do there? Is it a big enough place where 3 or 4 nights would be fun, or is it a one and done sort of place?

I'd say 2 nights/3 days would be the limit before ennui sets in.

TenuredVulture wrote:A post labor day weekend on the Jersey Shore can be rather nice--the weather is generally very good, the water will still be warm, and the crowds are gone (and prices are lower). Some things will be closed down, but you might want to check to see if the stuff you're interested in is still available.

Thats what I thought, I wanted to do like 3 or 4 nights in Ocean City, I think I'm going to push for that. the Ocean Front Hotel is running a special its like $200 for the first 3 nights then $50/night for each after that, which is nothing. My wife was worried that nothing would be open, but I think some stuff will be, and we'll have most of it to ourselves.

CalvinBall wrote:i went to williamsburg a few times as a kid. thought there was some neat stuff there. and you can do busch gardens one day.

Good call, maybe a few days at the shore and a few days there

Bucky wrote:

Bill McNeal wrote:Thanks Buck, how many days do you think you can do there? Is it a big enough place where 3 or 4 nights would be fun, or is it a one and done sort of place?

I'd say 2 nights/3 days would be the limit before ennui sets in.

and there.

hmmm...

CalvinBall wrote:i went to williamsburg a few times as a kid. thought there was some neat stuff there. and you can do busch gardens one day.

+1

Busch Gardens is awesome for parents and kids. Colonial Williamsburg is great for a few hours but then your kids will probably start pouting if they're anything like me and my brothers

Houshphandzadeh wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:i went to williamsburg a few times as a kid. thought there was some neat stuff there. and you can do busch gardens one day.

+1

Busch Gardens is awesome for parents and kids. Colonial Williamsburg is great for a few hours but then your kids will probably start pouting if they're anything like me and my brothers

jamestown and yorktown are both really close as well. they both have a lot of cool things there too.

There's only so much of that stuff that a 4 year old would care about though

true

i loved jamestown, yorktown, a former southern plantation, colonial williamsburg, loved it all. busch gardens was amazing as a kid.

It's depends on what kind of vacationers you are, whether you have the need to "do stuff" or just chill. Vox and I used to go to the poconos every September before kids, and then in the late summer after kids. It was a timeshare (not Great Wolf, but the other one with the water stuff now, where you pay the stupid quarter toll to get in...) and a townhome setup. We would open up all the windows and let the cool air in, see the leaves start to turn, go swimming in the pool, and read and play video games.

But, for us, it was partly the large space, and free time that made the vacation. The last time we went (with the kids), the same place was obviously in disrepair, and the pool was dirty from over use.

We had the same setup at williamsburg (again, time share). I'd probably pick W'burg if given the choice today.

second Great Wold Lodge

not sure how much Irish Weekend idiot spillover there will be to OC that weekend. probably not too much.

i will be part of that idiot spillover this year, trent

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azrider wrote:

MrsVox wrote:

azrider wrote:i guess the saying goes... one bad apple will spoil the bunch. obviously they have never dealt with trying to buy strawberries. if one starts to get soft, you have 24 hours to finish the entire package before they all go bad.

I found with strawberries, wash them when you get home by filling a bowl with cool water, soak them for a few minutes, then dry them on a towel. Remove the stems. Put them in a sealed container (I use those tall ziploc ones). They will easily last a week or more, as long as they weren't soft to begin with.

really a week or more? my standards are obviously low, because it would be amazing just to be able to get 4 days. i don't think i have had any produce that has lasted a week or more. heck, i can buy that bagged lettuce and the expiration date could be 9/10 and even WITHOUT opening it, it will go bad by the 7th.

definitely. I won't say that by day 7 they look pretty, they will start to look a little overdry. but no mold or rot or whatever.

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MrsVox wrote:(not Great Wolf, but the other one with the water stuff now, where you pay the stupid quarter toll to get in...)

Split Rock.

We went there a couple of years ago.

Swiggers wrote:

MrsVox wrote:(not Great Wolf, but the other one with the water stuff now, where you pay the stupid quarter toll to get in...)

Split Rock.

We went there a couple of years ago.

Live like 5 minutes from Split Rock... they have like an H2O Waterpark there now... that toll is stupid

Bill McNeal wrote:I'm trying to convince my wife to take a cruise in October, November or December, just the two of us and leave the kid at her folks or my folks, but she doesn't feel comfortable with that, which sucks. We live ~2 hours from any family and she never wants to hire a babysitter or ask someone we know down here to watch him for a few hours, so we pretty much never get a night out together (or separately for that matter), or do anything except "kid stuff".

Obviously I hate to play the role of social assassin but you need to nip this shit in the bud. You're wife is being an idiot and she could cause both of you to be in counselling. Honestly you should probably seek it out now. Taking a vacation without the kids re-energizes you and enables you to give more as a parent. A date night once a month or even once every two weeks reminds you guys why you're married and it's NOT just to serve as farmers to your kids. Your wife is being unreasonable and it's dangerous.

This is only going to get HARDER with two kids. Go take a babymoon. If you want, I'm happy to call her up and tell her the same stuff. Tough love.

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what if she married Steve Zahn?

that's ridiculous