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Yep. I was working the last 4 days, and at a place with no internet connections. I'll make it up the rest of the week though.
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I am so proud of this site, and I hope our lead holds up. The Meeses deserve this, and it feels good helping them get it.
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It appears that voting has closed at midnight EST, and unless something unusual happens/happened, we would appear to have received the most votes by far.
Thank you again, folks, for your continuing kindness to us. There's a reason we've always thought of Hatrack as another branch of our family. (No, sorry, that doesn't mean you all go on the trip with us if we do win. Sorry.) As we learn more of the results, and what exactly the might entail for us, we'll update you all.
--Pop
[Edit -- looks like they made it official! We won!]
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So um, you won't by any chance be taking your vacation to some place where you might have a hatrack party?
I know you won't be coming near me. There are no "road trips" to Trinidad even if you should decide you wanted to drive this far. But it would be kind of cool if some of the gang who've been voting like mad might be able to meet you at some point on your road trip.
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(In case anyone goes to the site and sees we're not identified as the winners any more -- turns out it's not official until we send in a notarized affidavit/release, so they pulled the announcement that their IT department had on a timer. It isn't that we didn't win, just that it's not officially official yet.)
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Excellent! Well done, and enjoy your trip. Don't forget to sent a postcard, or just a message on a PC...
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It's still showing you as the 2011 winner on the link above.
I am so happy for you and your family, and I a glad that I got into and helped as much as I can. Several of my family members said they voted multiple times as well, although not as much as we did ourselves.
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You know, FL is a great destination, and I live less than 1.5 hours from Icarus and Cor........and Chris Bridges isn't too far away.....
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Florida's also a very long road trip when you are starting in CA and have 4 kids in the car. Last years "Family Road Trip" lasted 6 days and I don't suspect that 24 hours a day of driving is either what the Meeses or Parenting magazines sponsors want.
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Yes, they re-officialed the unofficialness once they received our release/affidavit. We spoke with a few people from the magazine this morning to share some of our family's interests and ideas, plus some brands of products we use (the trip is way sponsored), and we'll continue to go forward. I don't know how much more they'll be asking us, or if they'll just decide on stuff for us to do or whatever. We're going to have a good time.
And again, thank you for voting for us. We couldn't have done this without the support of family and friends all over the place.
Florida is too far, much as we'd like to visit. Just sayin'.
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The local newspaper posted an article here. Not sure I would've started it off the way they did, but I guess it makes it more newsish than just announcing the win. It's interesting to see which parts of what we said made it into the article, too.
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And Mama's age, and a couple other not-entirely-accurate restatements of things we said, but it's close enough for government work.
If I could get a government job, that is.... *smile*
ETA: I was originally thinking that it was strange that they'd choose the blurry photo for the first one, but after thinking about it, our life seems sometimes like the kids are going a million miles an hour while we stand still, so I think it grew on me pretty quickly.
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So we don't have details, but we got this e-mail today:
quote:Happy Friday winners of our family road trip! We hope you’re excited—it’ll be here in a zip!
Your trip is finally coming together, I know it feels like it’s taken forever!
You’ll be driving an Audi Q7 up Highway One, While DVDs and games will provide road trip fun!
In Safety 1st car seats the kids will ride, Onto our next stop—San Simeon’s pride.
To San Diego we will go, But not before we hit the snow.
Pack your mittens, boots and winter wear, You’ll enjoy your first time skiing—we swear!
Your Panasonic camera will capture memories, Maybe whales, penguins and manatees??
Before we head back to your house, You’ll spend some time with America’s favorite mouse.
We can’t wait to meet you and hope you liked our rhyme, Be prepared for the trip of a lifetime!
So... Hearst Castle, skiing, Sea World, and Disney, from what we can tell. How much time in-between or what else might get squeezed in there, we don't know. But we're gonna have fun!
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Oh that's so awesome! It sounds exhausting, but I'm sure your kids will all have a blast! Who gets to do all the driving?
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I'll probably do most of the driving, but Mama will certainly get her chance behind the wheel. And she might drive the curvier roads on Hwy 1 and in the mountains because she's more likely to get carsick.
Don't have more specifics yet, but we now know that the "six-day" trip will be nine days long, undoubtedly because there was too much awesomeness to fit into only six! Woohoo!
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(Stressing over all these last-minute packing things. And Mama's stressing more, because she's the competent one.)
The car is pretty dang sweet, but yes, fitting everything is gonna be a problem (read: not happening). I think some of our stuff is gonna go in the chaperones' car.
I don't know how quickly they'll be updating the blog, but it's here. And our chaperones are tweeting at @TPG_FamRoadTrip (whatever the heck one does with that -- we're not twitterererers).
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I loved keeping up with the blog! I'm glad you guys had a great trip. It sounds like the kids will remember it forever.
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