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Recycling Coca-Cola style

Posted on July 16, 2009 11:27 am by TheAngelForever

The Green movement of buying more earth friendly products, recycling, using reusable bottles and bags has hit in our house for a while now. There are some things that will not happen (cloth diapering since my youngest is already 2), but we are trying to do as much as possible. I have been impressed recently with other places that are doing the same.

This is a sign that we snapped a photo of while at EPCOT in May. I loved the display with information for people and wished that I had more time to stop and check things out.

This weekend while visiting Six Flags something caught my eye in Wiggles World. I went to check it out and HAD to take a photo.

Yes, this was strategically located next to the regular garbage can. The Coca-Cola shaped bottle is actually a recycling container for visitors to place their empty soda bottles in. Love it! In fact, I kept looking for different places where they were hidden within the park. Here is another one that I found.

I think it is great that Six Flags and Coca-Cola are teaming up together to help our planet. They could simply have their trash cans and not bother, but they are going the extra step to help everyone. Kudos to both parks for helping us to be more Green!

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Riding in their Big Red Cars

Posted on July 15, 2009 7:46 am by TheAngelForever

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3 Things You Did Not Know About Me

Posted on July 14, 2009 8:30 am by TheAngelForever

Welcome to The Angel Forever to those that are new from the MckLinky Blog Hop. This is my first week participating. Many of my blogging friends were participating, so I wanted to join in the fun.

This week the theme is 3 Things You Did Not Know About Me. So here is my list for the week:

1. I started off college in pharmacy school and after two and a half miserable years I left to pursue my dream of teaching. I liked the idea of being a pharmacist (100% job placement and the salary), but always wanted to teach. One day I hope to be back in a classroom, but for now am happy being a SAHM with my two boys.

2. On the teaching front many people may not realize where my last teaching job was. I was the nice Jewish girl teaching at a private Catholic school. It was a fabulous learning experience for me.

3. Hubby and I met in a fairly unique way in 1999. With a wrong click of the mouse, I stumbled into a Yahoo chat room while working on something for college. Something caught my eye before I clicked the window closed. I messaged TechyDad and we started to chat. For several weeks we met online talking, eventually talked on the phone and finally met in person. It was a long distance relationship for quite some time. We did the online dating thing before it was hip and so widely accepted.

Feel free to hop around my blog and check things out. I am a SAHM of two little boys (NHL = almost 6 and JSL = just 2) and wife to TechyDad. As you will see we recently went to Disney World for our first family vacation and this weekend we used our Six Flags season passes for some close to home fun.

Please check out some of the other participants and join in the fun.

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Character photo crusade at Six Flags

Posted on July 13, 2009 10:00 pm by TheAngelForever

Last year when we went to Six Flags NHL wanted nothing to do with the characters walking around the park. He would shut down and refuse to move if they were close. Eventually we proved to him that if he did not go to them, they were not going to approach him. When we booked our trip to Disney World in May we were a little nervous. We figured by the end of the trip NHL would either need therapy or would finally get over his fear of the big costumes.

Over the week at Disney World we slowly moved our way up to the characters. Things did not go well at our initial dinner the night we arrived. The screams at Chef Mickey coming from our table were quite loud from both of the boys. Soon after we managed to get the boys with Pocohontas and do a family photo with Lilo and Stitch. JL went into some photos (like Buzz Lightyear) with both JSL and NHL to continue the progress. By the end of the week NHL was running to Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Pluto and Goofy!

We were curious to see how NHL would do when we went back to Six Flags on Sunday. Would he gravitate to the Looney Tune characters and Wiggles favorites? He talked about seeing Henry, Dorothy, and Wags all the way up.

When we walked into the park several of the characters were waiting to meet and greet people. Daffy Duck was first. NHL was not too sure about this. As you will see JL jumped into the shot, after handing a screaming terrified JSL back to me.

Next up was Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo. JL casually moved back of of the shot and NHL was fine with it.

When we went to Wiggles World he saw Captain Feathersword and Dorothy come out and RAN to them. Victory was ours!

After the Wiggles show he finished off getting some additional photos with the rest of the Wiggles gang including the Wiggly Dancer.

Later on we caught up with Sylvester, the Tazmanian Devil and Pepe Le Pew.

Then right when we were leaving we saw the Six Flags guy from the wacky commercials. Even JSL thought he was kind of funny and did not scream.

We will see if JSL will warm up to the characters. We figure seeing his big brother happy this year should help. Season passes and more opportunities should also keep things going in the right direction, but only time will tell.

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Follow the M&M Road

Posted on July 12, 2009 11:04 pm by TheAngelForever

Today was supposed to be a gorgeous day. Thanks to a little pressure from Nana, we decided to take the boys to Six Flags. In the fall, we upgraded our tickets to season passes for 2009. Prior to this, we had not gone this summer season. We arrived by Six Flags at about noon and went to a pizza place for a quick much less expensive lunch. Then we went back to the park. Thanks to our parking pass we did not have to pay almost $10 for a space. We bought nothing at the park. I had packed some snacks in our bag and lugged our Nalgene water bottles to refill.

We had a very nice time at the park. The boys loved Wiggles World, Looney Tunes kid area, and NHL had fun getting his photos taken with all of the characters. JL and NHL loved getting soaked on the Raging River and we all had a blast on the Bobsled ride. Lots more photos to come soon. Tonight I will leave you with some photos of the M&M Road that we found. As we were going over the bridge I could not help myself and think: "Follow the M&M Road. Follow the M&M Road. Follow, follow, follow, follow…follow the M&M Road!"