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SentinelPrime
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SP Back From Vacation!

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Hello One and All!

Just wanted to let everyone know I was back in town and we had a AWESOME vacation! We helped move a friend of mine from where we live in the Panhandle of Texas to all the way down to a East Texas small town called Mauriceville. It's near Orange, Texas which is near Beaumont, Port Arthur, Galvaston and the Louisanna Border.

He accepted a Dean position at a local junior college there. It took us over 14 hours to get there, but we did stop about halfway and didn't drive straight through. The humidity was very bad, as you could just step outside and you were nearly soaking wet with sweat. I have some pics of places we visited:

1) Pics of the Victorian Style Stark House in Orange, Texas with the Carriage House that was used by the staff. They were remodeling it so it was closed to the public.

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2) This house was called the J.O. Simms Hertiage House. We got to tour the inside. It was very cool to see all that history:

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3) In Orange they also have hugh ship repair docks where they were working on a old battleship and tug boats:

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4) These next set of pics are of our trip to Galvaston via the free car ferry and the beach at the Gulf of Mexico. We also visited the very coolest water park, Schlitterbahn's!

(Here's fat pics of me! I take awful pics!)(Pic of my son Brett and me)
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(Pic of my lovely wife Denise and me)
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***Pic of a ferry we rode on to cross the Galvaston Bay:
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Various pics of the oil tankers out in the Gulf:

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***Loved the tankers in the horizon!
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***Here's a pic of the hotel on the pier on the Gulf. It looks the same as it did when I was there with the HS band 30 years ago! Whew! Am I that old???
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**And finally here's pic of my family and I playing in the Gulf water! It was very warm and pleasant!

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**Who's dunkin Who????
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Post by ghostinthemachine »

cool vacation pics looks like you had a great time
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"William Henry Stark: wealthy industrialist and father of mechanical genius and heir Tony Stark..."

Brett seems to have grown since last we've seen him!
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Post by Minerva »

Welcome back! Seems like you've had a good time!
Thanks for sharing pictures as well :)
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No way I would stay on that hotel on a pier!!!
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Post by Jose »

Good to have you back, Lance! And it looks like you really unwinded yourself. I wanna get a vacation too, someday...
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Post by Hot Shot »

Welcome back....looks like you had a great vacation. Man now I'm really jealous.....I WANT A VACATION!!!!!! Keep getting turned down at work...we are so short staffed that they only let a few of us take vaccations at a time. Whole month of August and the first part of September are all no goes :cry: At least I'm accumulation Vaccation time(If I ever get to use it).

Great pics by the way..you all look so happy :D
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Post by SentinelPrime »

Man it sounds an awful like retail management! When I was with Payless ShoeSource as a store mgr., our two busiest times of the year were Back to School in August and Palm Sunday and Easter. No vacation time or days off during these times! I can relate with you Hotshot!
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welcome back SP glad you and your family had a godo time on your vacation
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Welcome back Sentinel, glad you all had a lot of fun. :wink:
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Welcome back Sentinal Looks like u had an awesome time I love those pics of the houses :D
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Glad to see your back, and that you had a good time bud
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Welcome back. Sounds like you had a really good vacation.
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No way I would stay on that hotel on a pier!!!
What are ya ......... CHICKEN :lol: :lol: :lol:

It would be great to stay in a hotel on a pier, if you fancied a swim at night you could just dive out of the back window of the hotel :lol:
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Dirge1 wrote:It would be great to stay in a hotel on a pier, if you fancied a swim at night you could just dive out of the back window of the hotel :lol:
You go first Dirge...
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* Sound of a sickening crunch as Dirge hits the pier behind the hotel *
" Come on down the water is nice an warm ......... "
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Welcome home SentinelPrime! It looks like you had a fantastic time on holiday, and thank you for the pictures!

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Post by Dinobot »

Welcome back sentinel. Unlike Ramjet, I would totally stay in that hotel, I think that would be so fun! I haven't been to the ocean in a few years. I miss it badly :(
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