im giving a biography speech about him and need help please

You might consider asking this in a more appropriate forum - this is not an etiquette question. Have you considered doing online research for the information you seek?

My kids’ grandparents and non custodial father want to take my minor children out of state for one week across the country. While I do not fear him kidnapping the kids, I hear about it on the news all the time.

No, not as long as they are traveling within the US.

I have a family of seven, so as you can imagine, when traveling expenses add up. If you have any ideas for saving money, and having a great experience, please share. I need help with everything; airfare, accommodation, food, everything. Links to good websites would also be helpful. Thanks!

You might find some of these sites useful.

I use Venere.com for accomodations here in Italy: http://www.venere.com/hotels/italy/ . It allows you to sort by price and has reviews by actual past guests.

The train website is here: http://www.ferroviedellostato.it/homepage_en.html . Note that there are family fares on some routes depending on the ages and various promotions are available. There are also discounts of up to 30% on the fast trains for early purchase of tickets. However, with that many people, it is likely to be more economical to rent a van. You might find this site useful for driving directions & times: http://www.viamichelin.com/ . It will also give you an estimate of tolls and fuel costs.

Airfares aren’t cheap and depend on where you’re coming from and exactly where you want to go. Try sites like: http://www.skyscanner.it/ for budget flights or http://www.kayak.com/ or http://www.expedia.com/

With respect to food, you can save some by shopping in the local markets and making your own sandwiches, etc. Generally, you can find a panino or pizza by the slice for 4 to 6 euro though or a pizza will run 8 to 13 euro. By the way, 1 pizza = 1 person typically here, but you can share if you carry out. Restaurants post menus and you can check them while you’re out exploring to find places that meet your tastes and budget. Look for local festivals and particularly Sagre - they feature local specialties and are usually a real bargain. There’s one in the town where I live that features maccheroni where the food is a couple of euro - until a couple of years ago, it was free.

I need to travel with my family from Chandigarh railway station to ISBT to catch a bus to Manali. What time it may take in the worst case? What is the best mode of transport? Thanks.

ISBT in sector 9 and 20 km from CHD railway station -just hire a auto or taxi

Yes I remember when we flew an alien space craft into the mother ship, installed a virus, to destroy the invading ships shields, that way we could launch an attack and then blow up the Mother ship. It was an amazing day, I remember Thomas J. Whitmore’s speech:
"Good morning. Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world, and you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind. Mankind, that word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can’t be consumed by our petty differences any more. We will be united in our common interest. Perhaps it’s fate that today is the 4th of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom. Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution, but from annihilation. We’re fighting for our right to live, to exist and should we win the day, the 4th of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day when the world declared in one voice, ‘We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight! We’re going to live on, we’re going to survive.’ Today we celebrate our independence day!"

Such an emotional time for everyone.

please dont tell me no where .. but online for free and dont say should buy it because i have looked hard for it and i cant buy it online becuase i dont have a credit/debt card

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You can read it for free there. Very interesting book.

Our family reunion is coming up in June and we need some good games to get people up and moving rather then just sitting. It is hawian theme and it is outside and inside. We have already decided on a limbo but need some help finding some FUN games that everyone can enjoy. Games can be for all ages, adults, or children. Need game rules/ how to play and also what is needed for the game.Thanks in advance.

maybe musical chairs or the cha cha slide

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The year was 1960. I’d just moved to Chicago and I would  have to spend Christmas alone, the first one ever away from my family. I’d bought gifts for everyone and packed them carefully into two big cartons and then dropped them off at the Railway Express office. I knew shipping by rail was slow, but since I was sending everything early, I knew it would all get there before Christmas.

I don’t remember now what the gifts were, but I do recall that each one was extra special that year.  As it turned out, I was able to get away after all, so I decided to drive home to Peoria and just show up at my parent’s front door and surprise everyone on Christmas Eve.

And they were surprised, but not as surprised as I was, or should I say, as stunned as I was to discover that the gifts had never arrived.  My reactions kept ricocheting between disbelief and disappointment, and then  . . I got mad, and the more I thought about it, the more unhinged I became until I was on the verge of a wild-eyed fit. My mother tried to calm me down. She didn’t care that the packages hadn’t arrived; she was just happy that I was home. That was more than enough for her. She kept saying, “Aw, don’t worry about it. They’ll probably deliver them in a couple days. Come on, let’s have some hot eggnog.”  My dad agreed.

Well, that wasn’t good enough for me. I said, “Get your coats, we’re going to the train station!” My dad said, “What? Why? There won’t be anybody down there on Christmas Eve.”  My mother said, “Oh, Sharon, you just got here. Let’s not worry about that now.”
 
But they both knew what sign I’d been born under and when the bullhead kicks in, there’s no stopping a Taurus. Besides, I could always smell an adventure in the making.

So, everybody bundled up and we headed for the far edge of town. Looking back now, I realize what good sports they’d always been . .  especially that night, letting me drag them out of the house on what must have seemed like a crazy wild goose chase.

My dad got into the swing of things right away. While we were driving he started reminiscing about the old same train station story he’d told us so many times—how once, years ago, he’d seen Nat King Cole. It was late at night and Cole and his musicians had just finished playing a gig in town and there they were, about to board the Rock Island Line and ride the rails back to Chicago. He said he remembered how tired they all looked . . . and kinda seedy and . . .  smokey, but that Cole had a big smile.

Yeah, they were probably higher than a kite, but I thought it best not to mention that. Why clutter his nice memories with details?  Besides, he said that every time he drove by the station after that, which wasn’t very often, he always thought about his one and only celebrity sighting.
 
I thought about my own memories of the Rock Island Line. They were the classic memories, the faint sound of a train whistle just as I was drifting off to sleep. . . it was a distant sound that seemed to be coming from somewhere way down the dark cinder alley behind our house.  On the flat prairie lands of Illinois, you could hear the sound for miles before it finally trailed off. It was the same comforting, but kind of lonely sound that poets and songwriters often write about.
 
We turned the corner and pulled into the train yard, and in the dim light of the street lamps we could see about a dozen or so freight cars lined up on the tracks…boxcars, they were called back in those days. The place looked pretty dark and deserted, until I noticed a little watchman’s hut on the far corner of the yard. And there was a light on.   
 
Now my dad was really enjoying himself.  Any old reason to be around trains. My mother had just come along for the ride and to make me happy, but she certainly didn’t have the slightest thoughts of actually finding the gifts I’d sent.
 
Somebody poked their head out of the hut.  I said, “Hey Look! Let’s go.”  We walked toward the hut and the skinny guy with a crewcut turned out to be somebody from my old high school.  I didn’t remember his name, but we vaguely recognized each other.
 
I explained my story, how I’d shipped two cartons from Chicago 10 days ago, and how they had never arrived, and how I’d come all the way down to spend Christmas with my family, and now the presents were missing—and that surely they must be here some place, probably in one of these box cars, so could I please, oh, please look through the cars and see if I could find them?
 
My mother gasped and looked at me with her mouth open as if it had just dawned on her why we were actually there. Yes, I was asking him to unlock each and every boxcar so I could climb in and dig around in the dark. But it seemed like a perfectly reasonable request to me. My dad just shook his head in disbelief, but he couldn’t stop grinning. And the young man seemed to be excited about the idea!
 
He got a flashlight and the two of us started going through the first car, stumbling over piles of cartons—cartons that probably contained Christmas presents that also hadn’t gotten delivered on time.  
 
My mother and dad stood outside peering through the sliding doors, breathing vapor into the cold night air. I’m sure she was also sucking air through her teeth at the thought of us inconveniencing this poor young man, the lone night watchman who had to work on Christmas Eve; the one who I could tell was having fun.
 
We had just started digging through the second car when I spotted our address on one of the cartons, and then on the other. I let out a squeal! It was Christmas miracle.  It seemed almost surreal, and yet, something about it seemed like the most natural thing to be happening.
 
I was so thrilled and so grateful.  He helped us put the cartons into the back seat and I handed him a big fat tip and as we pulled away, we were all wearing warm fuzzy smiles.  We got home, opened our gifts, laughed our heads off, and finally had that cup of hot eggnog.
 
My parents are part of my memories now, but if the guy from the boxcar is still around, I hope he can remember the night he became my Christmas hero.  
 

Sharon Rockey
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