One very expensive hobby I used to have - or rather the extension to a hobby - was that my brother and I went to Wrestlemania for 8 years straight - Wrestlemania's 23 through to 30. And that was very expensive to do, at least the way we were doing it. We would be ringside (not front row, 2nd was the closest we ever got) but in that area and each year we went the price just kept going up. We would do a travel package that WWE would put out which included the tickets to Wrestlemania itself, the Hall of Fame ceremony, and in later years the live TV the Monday night after. Also several nights in a hotel they had basically taken over (so literally everyone staying there was in the same package as us really). But that became our holiday each year - and for what was effectively ending up being a weekend away ended up costing us the same when we had two weeks at Disney World in Orlando. Plus after Wrestlemania 30 my brother was pretty much done... Undertaker losing soured him so much on the product he's not wanted to see any wrestling live since! He still comes over and watches it on TV occasionally with me but that ended him wanting to attend an event again.
But that's not to say either of us regretted doing it - those were some fun weekends... and we were flying over to America and going to a few cities that aren't exactly tourist traps so we got to see some very cool places. So aside from Wrestlemainas 24 & 28 which were in Orlando and Miami respectively (and while 29 was advertised as being in New York it was actually at the Meadowlands in New Jersey) we ended up going to Detroit, Houston, Phoenix/Glendale, Atlanta and New Orleans.
Good times!
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WalterB
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Mike is married, Lance. He's better not walk out with the sales girl. I know what waits for him at home, 
I'm pretty good with my hobbies for the moment. I will need to buy some new paints once I start on my plastic cars again. But after this wooden model I'm on now, I need to get back to my electronics kit. A little less expensive than WWE ticket packages for 8 years,
Stevie, I'm glad you got to see some big cities in America. Next time you need to come to El Paso. We'll take a road trip throughout the American West. We can visit Tombstone and go visit Johnny Ringo's grave site out in the middle of nowhere. In the OK Corral at the site of the gunfight, a cast of players do a kind of comedy show where they end up recreating the gunfight. In the picture below, you'll see that the corral seems to be burned down. In the early 1880's, they had a couple of fires that burned 4 city blocks. They rebuilt everything just the way it was before the fires. So what you see today is the Tombstone of the 1880's. We can visit Wyatt Earp's house ((can't go in. It's still a private residence.) We could even take a stagecoach ride if you like.
https://www.tombstonetraveltips.com/tombstone-1882.html
Death Valley and Donner Pass (I know you'll look it up, lol,) are great places to visit. My son and I went to Donner Pass when he was around 12. There's a tree trunk there that is 20 feet tall (6 meters?) which reflects how deep the snow was that winter. There is a nice monument to the pioneers, and a nice museum. Basically, a group of pioneers headed to California got snowed in there in 1845. The snow got so deep they ate everything in sight, including boiling leather to get something out of it. The survivors were rescued the following spring, but I think somewhere around 1/2 of them died. There was evidence that they had committed cannibalism, eating those who died.
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/donnerparty.htm
We'll hit Las Vegas. If timing is right, we'll hit the Reno Air Races.
If you want to see America, Let's go see AMERICA!
Johnny Ringo's death and grave site
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Allen Street. This is the route the Earps walked on the way to the famous gunfight
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The remains of the old Clanton Ranch
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The OK Corral, 1882
I'm pretty good with my hobbies for the moment. I will need to buy some new paints once I start on my plastic cars again. But after this wooden model I'm on now, I need to get back to my electronics kit. A little less expensive than WWE ticket packages for 8 years,
Stevie, I'm glad you got to see some big cities in America. Next time you need to come to El Paso. We'll take a road trip throughout the American West. We can visit Tombstone and go visit Johnny Ringo's grave site out in the middle of nowhere. In the OK Corral at the site of the gunfight, a cast of players do a kind of comedy show where they end up recreating the gunfight. In the picture below, you'll see that the corral seems to be burned down. In the early 1880's, they had a couple of fires that burned 4 city blocks. They rebuilt everything just the way it was before the fires. So what you see today is the Tombstone of the 1880's. We can visit Wyatt Earp's house ((can't go in. It's still a private residence.) We could even take a stagecoach ride if you like.
https://www.tombstonetraveltips.com/tombstone-1882.html
Death Valley and Donner Pass (I know you'll look it up, lol,) are great places to visit. My son and I went to Donner Pass when he was around 12. There's a tree trunk there that is 20 feet tall (6 meters?) which reflects how deep the snow was that winter. There is a nice monument to the pioneers, and a nice museum. Basically, a group of pioneers headed to California got snowed in there in 1845. The snow got so deep they ate everything in sight, including boiling leather to get something out of it. The survivors were rescued the following spring, but I think somewhere around 1/2 of them died. There was evidence that they had committed cannibalism, eating those who died.
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/donnerparty.htm
We'll hit Las Vegas. If timing is right, we'll hit the Reno Air Races.
If you want to see America, Let's go see AMERICA!
Johnny Ringo's death and grave site
Allen Street. This is the route the Earps walked on the way to the famous gunfight
The remains of the old Clanton Ranch
The OK Corral, 1882
I can resist everything except temptation.
I will keep that offer in mind, thank you! Although the next stateside trip planned with my brother is to go to the other Walt and see Disneyland in Anaheim... we had planned it all out and then the world went topsy turvy so it's just indefinitely on hold at the moment! My brother has been before but I would like to walk in the man's footsteps sometime soon!
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That sounds good, Stevie. I figure that Disneyland on it's worst day is leagues better than traveling with Walt on his best day, LOL.
I can resist everything except temptation.
Well I would never go as far as to say that! LOL!
Revitalising one of the other expensive hobbies that has been previously mentioned, I have just ordered a limited blu ray boxset of the classic Fu Manchu movies starring Christopher Lee. I haven't watched any of them for years and years but I have good memories of Sunday afternoons with my dad watching them when they'd be on TV. :)
Revitalising one of the other expensive hobbies that has been previously mentioned, I have just ordered a limited blu ray boxset of the classic Fu Manchu movies starring Christopher Lee. I haven't watched any of them for years and years but I have good memories of Sunday afternoons with my dad watching them when they'd be on TV. :)
The Fu Manchu box set arrived yesterday and I posted a couple of pics of this to horror twitter upon opening it (even though they aren't really horror films, Christopher Lee is a horror icon) and thought I'd share them here too!
Haha - yeah I know... well the 5 blu ray discs themselves with the poster art are superb.... the poster is actually double sided, and to tell you the truth I haven't dared go through the print cards for fear of not getting them back tucked in the sleeve without damaging them! :) But it would be good to have some of it on the wall... although I got a special cinema movie poster frame for my Army of Darkness one sheet and that is still yet to be hung up too!
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, Lance. I can't wait to get back to my car. Would love to see if I did it right and can get it to move. It is rubber band powered, and is supposed to travel 10 feet or so.I can resist everything except temptation.
I helped my son build one for a school project once. Popsicle stick for the frame, bobbins for wheels, and some gizmo I found at home depot that served as a jet. Attach an inflated balloon to the gizmo and it would traverse the length of the front hall. The finished product looked a lot like Fred Flinstone's car.
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Well, first, I missed your birthday. If it's in your profile, I should have seen it on the Front page. But I don't always look. So,
I wanted to ask about the last pictures. It looks like maybe DVDs or something like. The third is SkyFall I kind of lost James Bond after Roger Moore and Sean Connery (loved them both.) But after that, I seem to have lost interest. But I DO remember SkyFall, and I remember liking it. So that's bound to be a good series.
I wanted to ask about the last pictures. It looks like maybe DVDs or something like. The third is SkyFall I kind of lost James Bond after Roger Moore and Sean Connery (loved them both.) But after that, I seem to have lost interest. But I DO remember SkyFall, and I remember liking it. So that's bound to be a good series.
I can resist everything except temptation.
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Happy belated birthday Stevie!
Love the ectomobile, maybe you want to share a picture of the finished model once you're done building it.
Love the ectomobile, maybe you want to share a picture of the finished model once you're done building it.
Having too much sex can cause memory loss. I read that on page 69 in a medical journal on the 4th of May in 2008.
Thank you all for your birthday wishes! Sorry I have had a bit of a busy week really - I've had the week off, as has my brother, so we've basically been out every day on day trips and things which has been very much needed!
I am not sure if my birthday is in my profile or not, Walt... I will check after I have written this post! But yes those are the 4 Daniel Craig James Bond movies released on 4K Blu Ray so far (purchased after seeing the latest one in the cinema on Monday afternoon)!
I certainly will post photos of Ecto-1 once I have built it - but I have, also, got the Seinfeld apartment set yet to build first... I like to have one in reserve ready before I build one! :)
I am not sure if my birthday is in my profile or not, Walt... I will check after I have written this post! But yes those are the 4 Daniel Craig James Bond movies released on 4K Blu Ray so far (purchased after seeing the latest one in the cinema on Monday afternoon)!
I certainly will post photos of Ecto-1 once I have built it - but I have, also, got the Seinfeld apartment set yet to build first... I like to have one in reserve ready before I build one! :)
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