The Last Poster Wins! [v17]

[Chakramaster]

Up in the higher elevations in summer like that is just fantastic. A high of around 70 and lows being in the 40s to 50s and with NO humidity at all? Perfect kind of weather. Here though? It's like 80-100% humidity all summer long and it sucks. It's why I prefer the fall and winter over the others. It may not rain as much then, but it's just much more bearable here then.

[Neo Emolga]

Yes, us electric rodents sure love those thunderstorms. Hey, I think they're awesome too.

[Bulbasaur]

While we're talking about vacations, I'll mention that I'm in Ocean City, NJ.

[Chakramaster]

Lol yes Neo, we do (kinda ironic in a way too).

I haven't had a real vacation in the last 2 years. Well outside of going out west to see my dad since he was living out the working a contract job. NM is pretty interesting to see in parts. The first trip there also lead me here to PXR on the trip out there I had time to check online for stuff and some things caught my eye and suddenly I find my way here through the old site. Well it wasn't just NM it was Las Vegas as well. Both times they were pretty cool. Just barely missed a huge storm there though that had a huge flood in the city from what I heard after we left.

Either way I still would like to take a small vacation somewhere, maybe even with the family if they want, but time for everyone like that is hard to get with everyone on a different schedule.

[Morzone]

My family is always planning really far in advance, at least a year, so that they all can actually make time for each other. It does help that we live relatively close together of course.

[Neo Emolga]

The only vacation I went on was that very recent camping trip, and I didn't actually take any time off for that, it was mainly for the weekend. Still, it was a great new experience for me and was definitely a fantastic use of the few days we had.

I decided to use my vacation time on Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Halloween... just because. I don't have any actual plans, yet.

[Chakramaster]

If I ever had the chance I'd go back to New York City for Thanksgiving (or around Christmas time). I never had a better time somewhere decorated out for the Christmas spirit. I got to see the Thanksgiving Parade while there before the new Pikachu balloon replaced the one with the flashing cheeks. It was a great time (though I think after my first ever flight I came down with jet lag pretty bad because once I hit that room I couldn't move without feeling sick.

The Nintendo store was pretty cool as well, though I didn't find anything interesting at the time. Well...it was before I started picking up Pikachu plushies and stuff, but still in the Black and White games time. At least I planned it at the best possible year because if I had waited like I had the choice for the next year I would've wasted a few hundred of dollars because I ended up in the hospital that next year around that time. Still it was a great time in NY back then.

Edit: wow I just noticed the last two posts I made were like text walls...I gotta stop that lol. It's too easy to start rambling.

[Bulbasaur]

Rambling is my middle name. No worries!

[Neo Emolga]

The Nintendo store is just ok. I've been there twice, but never really saw anything worth buying. It was way more awesome when the whole place was devoted entirely to Pokemon. They had way more exclusive stuff that was worth whipping out the credit card for.

And yeah, I've been at the Thanksgiving Day Parade in person a few times. It's way more awesome in person, but having to wake up ULTRA early to catch a train to the city is tough. Also, finding a decent spot can be tricky also, but it is really cool to see everything in person and not have to be bombarded with ads!

[Chakramaster]

It's weird though, being there in person. After years of watching it on tv it's almost custom to hear background music play for each float or balloon, but actually there it's nothing but cheers....and cold weather lol. The crowd was pretty bad too. Lucky I got there early enough, even though people still pushed there way up front. Still as cold and bad as the crowd was if love to do it again.

That's what really fueled me to watch to see NY before I actually looked more around online at NY. Was the Pokemon Center there. I saw images of it in Nintendo Power when it first opened up and was super excited something like it opened in Anerica. It was unusual to see. Wish I had made it in time. Oh well, there's always Japan now lol.