Remembering Dave Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 OK, hall pass please, from the Chapmans - all of us - leaving on Friday to meet up in Missoula, Montana and on to Glacier National Park. Need one for BeckyCW, too! A MUCH needed vacation from doctors, hospitals, chemo and - drum roll please - TELEVISION!! Do you hear that David C - no TV!!! No Law and Order reruns - no Discovery Health Channel blood! Karen C. (the other day, for some strange and rare reason, the TV was not on. Faith pointed at the TV a couple of times and said UH OH, like, oh no, it must be broken if it's not on!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeanCarl Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 No Law and Order reruns!!???!!! That, Karen, is cruel and unusual punishment!!!! On the other hand, I've been to Glacier National Park and I can't think of a more beautiful place to spend my time. Enjoy yourselves!!!! Dean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrea Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 You may go ONLY on the condition that you show some pictures!!!!! What right do I have to demand that? None whatsoever, but I felt like saying it b/c we want to see the family photos Are David's parents going too? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mhutch1366 Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 Oh, my... Karen, David, I am green with envy. Beautiful beautiful place to go. Y'all enjoy yourselves and get home to us in one piece, okay? Have fun! XOXOXOXOXOX Prayers always MaryAnn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Wood Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 ENJOY!!! Glacier National Park is gorgeous. Don Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ry Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 Ok Karen C, here's the deal.... You can all have a hall pass on one condition. You must get your own sign on name as Karen C! You cannot keep posting as David when you are Karen, you're driving people loopy. Now...is it a deal? If not, ten dollar fine for impersonating David! Have a wonderful time and enjoy yourselves. Rochelle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Cheryl- Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 I want to go! I wish I were with the clan taking in the scenery. Welp, have way too much fun!!! Cheryl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fay A. Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 Ry, I think you're confused.....it's David C. that does impersonations... female impersonations, if memory serves correctly. Karen and Company, I hope you have a wonderful time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brm1949 Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 Enjoy the trip and the family and forget about this stuff the whole time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ginnyde Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 I hope the whole Chapman clan have a wonderful vacation, restful and joyous. You will be missed and we do want pictures. Karen, especially you, get a good rest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stand4hope Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 Karen, More than anything going on today, I hope that you and your family have the best time ever! Love, Peggy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeckyCW Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 Yeah, I guess I need the hall pass, too. You could send it to David and Karen and ask them to share, I guess... We are soooooooo looking forward to this trip. I worked in Glacier National Park all 4 summers during college, and am appalled to realize that the first of those summers is now 29 years ago. (Don't do the math!) How is that possible?! Anyway, the place was a huge part of my life. David & our sister Tammy were just kids when they visited me there with our folks, but it's a place that gets under your skin and doesn't go away. Now we'll all be there together, with all our immediate family except my dear hubby who can't get away from his business. I can't wait to work on spoiling Faith and my other niece and nephew. Please pray for good weather, no icy winds or snow, no rain and clouds blocking the mountains, nothing but sun shining on the lakes, rivers, waterfalls and mountains! We will no doubt miss you all, but there is no phone service there, let alone online access. If you let me have my own hall pass, I promise to come back with a picture or two. Thanks, BeckyCW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bean_si (Not Active) Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 We need a little green jealous face/emoticon. It sounds like a beautiful place to have a vacation. Don't forget to bring back plenty of pictures. Cat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remembering Dave Posted August 4, 2004 Author Share Posted August 4, 2004 becky - I sent an email to glacier asking for emergency contact phone numbers and was told they now have phones at the village inn! but still no tv's, thank goodness! but don't tell your dad or dave about the phones in case they try to start hooking up computers to them, OK? Ry - I never got my own sign on name 'cause you had to have a separate email address which I didn't have without getting a hotmail account or something . . . but since dave and I share everything it didn't seem to matter (share to the point of driving each other nuts may I add?) am really looking forward to this - I'm even going to buy a new book to read while the inlaws spoil Faith! Karen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angie Daughter of Bill Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 Karen and David and Becky CW, I hope you have a wonderful time! Don't worry David, I will watch all of the bloody Discovery Health Channel shows for you and let you know what happened. Yeah, I watch all of those medical shows.........my hubby hates it. In my thoughts and prayers~~~ Angie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elaine Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 Have a great time! A really, really great time. elaine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ry Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 Ok hall passes all around, take these cute pine tree ones. Sorry Karen gotta fine you ...I keep going to see what David has posted and its not David! I think, oh good, what's David got to say and it's Karen. Not that I don't care what you have to say...but cut that out! Have a great time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Margaret Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 I hope the whole family has a wonderful time...don't know how it could be otherwise. Enjoy the fresh air and gorgeous scenery. Prayers that it is safe and full of joy. Margaret Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViVi Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 David, Karen, Faith, Becky et.al - Have a wonderful trip! And try not to think about all of us. Instead, let us do the thinking about you! ViVi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remembering Dave Posted August 4, 2004 Author Share Posted August 4, 2004 Hi all, David here. I can't wait to get to Montana. I lived there when I was 8 years old. That was 1972 and I remember my sister Becky CW was quite a hippy at the time, wearing multi rainbow collored clothes and all. ( Sorry Becky had, to slip that one in, ha,ha. ). We lived there a little over a year, I think, while my Dad was getting his Masters Degree. It was there that we went to a Trumpet recital at the University and I knew from that moment on that I wanted to be a professional Trumpet Player. I bugged my parents constantly for the next 4 years to buy me a trumpet. I had to wait until we moved to Northern Virginia before I was in a school system that had a music program. I played Lead Trumpet and Solo Coronet in High School and then moved to Richmond VA where I held all the top spots in all the ensembles thereat VCU (one of the top Jazz Programs in the country at the time). I played professionally for 13 years before I got married and settled down. I could have gone to NY or LA but I had decided that dodging the Grim Reaper, being on the road all the time getting home when the birds were getting up was really not the life I wanted for me or my family. Anyway......... I always wanted to go back to Montana but I really did not think there would be much of a demand for Professional Trumpet players in Montana. We are looking forward to this trip so much. Karen really needs a break, she has been through so much in the last month or so and has been so strong but she really needs a break. We really have not had much vacation time since a year before we went to China to adopt Faith. We have gone on little camping trips but have not had a good week long vacation. I love Montana and the Rocky Mountains, If you have never seen the Rockies you owe it to yourself to make a trip to see them. I must admit that I will have Law & Order withdrawals and computer withdrawals also but it will be for the best I believe. I do have to say that we will not be buying any more plane tickets since the last 2 times I did I got cancer shortly after purchasing the tickets, fist my initial Lung Cancer and then the my Metastisis to my noggin, so I have concluded that buying plane tickets causes cancer. Oh well, I better get off here, I had a full morning of running araound and I am beat. Need to lay down and rest before Karen and Faith get home tonight. David C Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mhutch1366 Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 Entirely too logical, David. Almost as logical as moving to Montana makes one want to play trumpet.. Enjoy! I lived there for a year when I was a baby hippy... llol.... XOXOXOXOX Prayers always, MaryAnn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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