Here we go again!

We are in the process of opening another store, this time near Ogden, UT. It is in the middle of a huge shopping area in Riverdale.

This is an old Wallpaper Warehouse store that has been vacant for a while. It requires some work. We are repainting the entire interior, which is somewhat challenging because there is old, awful wallpaper on the walls. Have you ever tried removing wallpaper?? It would be a tremendous effort to remove it so the painter is going to paint over it after he treats it will Kilz primer and sheetrock mud. Then he will paint. My personal experience with wallpaper is limited, the stuff we had to tear out of my mother-in-laws condo was horrific, we had to rent a steamer and even then it was like picking it off an inch at a time. When I put wallpaper borders in my girls rooms years ago I treated the walls with 'sizing' before we put it up. When I took it down in Katies room, it just came right off soaking it with water. This next week we are removing the stuff from Laura's room -- I hope it goes as well.

We have to repaint the part where the old sign was, but will be leaving the UGLY maroon stripe. It has a huge sign post, that certainly would not pass current sign codes, but we are excited that it will tower over everything else around it. The store sits in the parking lot of a Home Depot, and WalMart is just adjacent to that.

These store expansions make me crazy with worry, but they've worked out so far. Hope to have it painted, recarpeted, signs up and open the end of April.

Happiest Place on Earth! ( a few new pictures)

We (Karl, Laura, Me) had the opportunity to go to Orlando, Florida for a convention. We have NEVER been there before so we decided to go.
We had a wonderful trip.

The weather was 82-84 degrees everyday with sunny blue skies. When we described the trip to my niece, Elise, she said that we took "park hopping" to a whole new level!

I loved the visual aspect of Harry Potter's Wizarding World, as well as the Disney streets and Epcot's various country depictions.

I'm not much into the rides, Karl and Laura did most of them. We did ride Spiderman three times, Harry Potter a couple and Laura rode the Tower of Terror 4 times! I throughly enjoyed the Beauty and the Beast show while they did "Terror" again.

I had to take a picture of this woman in the Norway mural at Epcot, I felt like I could be related to her, it reminds me of pictures of my mom when she was younger!

I was happily surprised to find that the Disney restaurants had gluten free menus, each time I ordered, however, it required a manager to come and enter it, and was labeled clearly so it was handled carefully. I really appreciated the care that was taken. We had to laugh when one of the receipts was tagged "Glutton Allergy". Yes, we should all be free of gluttony. :)

Enough said.

It's always tough to end a great vacation; but there's no place like home.