Calling all Bears fans!

Ciaram22 · December 2010

The first time I flew by myself I was going to meet DH family for the first time. I got to the airport and was getting through security and they pulled my suitcase out to inspect it. Turns out the one I had borrowed from my grandma had a corkscrew in it and I didn't know it. I nearly didn't get on the plane because of it.

kellyjellybelly · December 2010

Well according to this: http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/12/late-week-storm-could-snarl-holiday-travel-plans.html

you should be fine

mica178 · December 2010

Oh, dnb.

Traveling alone isn't that bad. I've been doing it for years. Yeah, I'd rather be with H, but our schedules don't always match, so sometimes one person will fly out first. I used to travel alone for real (like backpacking through Europe) too. I found it liberating.

crfische · December 2010

I LOVE traveling alone. It's so fun. I love traveling with people, too, but I just really like being my myself sometimes.

Loopyseven · December 2010

I have enjoyed solo road trips, and flying places alone too. I've never gone anywhere and been on vacation by myself, but I've flown to meet my mom and/or my parents somewhere, and flown separately from H when our schedules didn't work. It's kind of fun

. And makes you feel accomplished

.

Beachy730 · December 2010

Looks like I'm going to just miss the storm!

Mica, I've flown before with just my friend's kids so I was the only adult but never alone. I'm not nervous about the airport or anything or the flight, it's just the matter of getting myself to the airport and dealing with the parking and the shuttle and just hoping everything runs smoothly. Plus I'm not a light packer so I have 2 big suitcases to drag behind me, and no H to pull them for me

kcscejal · December 2010

I like traveling alone, too. It just feels nice to be away from everyone for a little while.

Beachy730 · December 2010

I've done road travel by myself more times than I can count. Gotta love an LDR. And I know once I live in VA and H is deployed I'll make that drive to NY by myself.

musicalsunlight · December 2010

I hear ya on the LDR road travel. Last winter I spent far too many hours in the car driving alone. It's nice sometimes but the drive to Duluth is so unbelievably boring that it got very monotonous.

crfische · December 2010

Aw. I love Duluth.

musicalsunlight · December 2010

I love Duluth too! The drive from the cities is really boring though, on 35. It's just trees and nothingness for miles. Thankfully everyone goes about 80 or 85 mph. I love the scenery of Duluth but man driving up there in the winter is tough! Those hills are not forgiving on a little Hyundai.

crfische · December 2010

Oh yeah, I say that everytime i go there that I'm glad I don't have to drive it in the winter! I go up there to golf once a summer, and that's about it! But yeah. Such a cute, fun, pretty city. I really do love it. Scott had the chance to transfer there recently, and we talked and thought about it pretty seriously, but the family in town here won out.

[Deleted User] · December 2010

I could have made the trip home this week by myself, but that would have meant H would be here by himself and I didn't want to do that to him for our first Christmas being married.

musicalsunlight · December 2010

It's funny, I've never actually been there in the summer or fall. My FI is a UMD student, and had a semester as a multi-institutional student this past semester here at the TC campus. So every time I visited, it was between Jan-May. It's really hard to tell the lane spacing after all the snow and salt covers the roads, plus the potholes are INSANE! I was just thankful that the school is connected throughout, so we never had to go outside unless we went out somewhere. Kinda felt like a giant high school though. I've always wanted to see it in the summer.

ETA: FI just transferred there last winter, which is why I had never seen it before that, either.

crfische · December 2010

Aw, man! You should go in the summer time! It's fantastic!

Beachy730 · December 2010

Wow Missy I wish my H would have been that nice to me this year. And next year.

musicalsunlight · December 2010

So I've heard! How far of a drive is it from Fargo area to Duluth? That's another area I've never been to, even though my good friend went to college at Concordia in Moorhead.

crfische · December 2010

I am a Moorhead Cobber Alum myself! What year did she graduate!?

As for how long it takes? I really don't know. Every time I go, I'm with 4 other ladies and we stop at 6 bars and golf nine holes on the way there, so while it takes US like..10 hours to get there, I know it isn't really that far.

[Deleted User] · December 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_calling-bears-fans?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:83a2e435-1246-48a7-b373-8ede7aeed8b3Post:5d74411c-ef1c-4681-b483-c4566da4ecac">Re: Calling all Bears fans!</a>:
[QUOTE]Wow Missy I wish my H would have been that nice to me this year. And next year.
Posted by dnbeach12[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I know. After I posted it I thought about you and being away from your H and all. But at least you get to go home and see family. I guess our situations are almost opposite.

Beachy730 · December 2010

My parents used to hate it every single weekend that I would drive to go see H in the winter. And I have a Jeep, so I can't even imagine what they would do if I had a car without 4 wheel drive. Probably try and forbid me to go!

Beachy730 · December 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_calling-bears-fans?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:83a2e435-1246-48a7-b373-8ede7aeed8b3Post:1a914962-601f-4fa0-b5a1-77ec07a4ddc8">Re: Calling all Bears fans!</a>:
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Calling all Bears fans! : Yeah, I know. After I posted it I thought about you and being away from your H and all. But at least you get to go home and see family. I guess our situations are almost opposite.
Posted by MissySue20[/QUOTE]

<div>Yeah, I don't know which situation would be better. Being with H but no other family and friends, or being with all family and friends but no H. </div>

musicalsunlight · December 2010

She graduated this past May (I know, we're young :P), but for some reason I could never get time to go up and visit. Haha, well it sounds like that makes the trip more fun anyway! The only place in ND I've been to and actually stopped was Bismarck. That was after coming back from Montana and we ended up just stopping at McDonalds and Kmart while our vehicle was getting a new tire. Thrilling, I know.

crfische · December 2010

OH MAN, I graduated like...9 years ago! Either way, Cobbers are good people!

Well, actually, if we're being honest, they're stuck up, pretentious and all around no fun, BUT you get a good education and you can party with the NDSU or MSUM folks, so it's kind of the best of both worlds.

musicalsunlight · December 2010

Haha, she definitely had a good time partying up there, from what I heard. I know another girl who is there right now in her last year, she is more in the "all around no fun" crowd though.

I just love that the mascot is a cob of corn. It really is fantastic. In general, are people in Fargo mostly Vikes fans? Or does it vary?

Ciaram22 · December 2010

Well ladies. It may only be 830 but I'm off to bed. It has been a long day and it will be another one tomorrow.

crfische · December 2010

Well, I grew up in Minnesota, so I'm a fan from birth. It IS mostly Vikings, for the most part. I'd say the other teams represented are the Broncos, the Pack, and the Bears, but they are most definitely in the minority.

It's just most of the Concordia kids that are kind of sticks in the mud. There are the fun cliques, and I found 'em, but for the most part, we partied with the state kids. We have more rules than Monopoly in Cobberville.

Birdie1483 · December 2010

You know you're a post hoar when 3 of the last 4 threads have yourself as the latest poster

Sorry I'm just popping in and out of this thread with random tid bits

[Deleted User] · December 2010

Goodnight Ciara!

musicalsunlight · December 2010

Ahh, gotcha. I wonder that about states without professional teams, like who they decide to be fans of. When I was younger, it was ingrained in me to hate the Packers, but now that I have been with the FI, from WI, I have managed to be a mini-fan of the Pack, when they aren't playing the Vikes. Never will be a Bears fan though.

It's convenient for my FI because the restaurant by our apt is strictly a Packer bar on game day, and I made the mistake of going in with my purple jersey and got almost tore in half! It was actually a little frightening.

Yeah, I think my friend hung out with mostly non-Concordia people while she was there. It's funny, because I never experienced the kind of 'clique' thing with a small college, but now that I'm in law school, I totally see it. My class is the same 50 people all day every day and it's like I'm back in high school, except with an age range of 22-50.

crfische · December 2010

Did you grow up in MSP? And are you downtown now?

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