<p>We’ll have a great virtual meal waiting for you all, including the national dish of Quebec, poutine (french fries, gravy and curd cheese).</p>
<p>I am so excited!! Missypie leave the tour and come with us!!!
toured DC in the summer, 98 degrees, 100 percent humidity, I could not breathe! remember to hydrate!!!
Yes you can have Tim sigh!!! I still love John Cusak!!!</p>
<p>So, in the course of a day we’ve gone from pantyhose to road trip? 
I do love this thread! Count me in for the trip.</p>
<p>Oh lord, just reading about poutine at 6:30 in the morning makes me ill! Please don’t tell me you like the concoction, Shawbridge!</p>
<p>Is that road trip to Canada? It was 96 here (NoVA) yesterday. I’m in.</p>
<p>I’m in too! But you lost me at Curd Cheese… fries and gravy? Unfortunately for my waistline, that sounds good! Mid-90’s here yesterday, but supposed to be slightly better today. That I woke up to it having rained bodes well for cutting the humidity.</p>
<p>I had to google it! And I’m going to have to pass. I did try fried cheese curds in Wisconsin a few years ago…but not an item I’m eager to try again. </p>
<p>FallGirl, many years ago when we moved to the Buffalo area my husband told me we didn’t need air conditioning because it never got hot in Buffalo/Canada. He lied. It was an inferno! I remember sitting in my car with the a/c running, eating pizza and studying for the bar exam. It was that hot. Maybe shawbridge’s house is better!</p>
<p>Can the bus come to Texas? We haven’t hit 100 yet, so people are calling this a “mild” summer. Lows of 75 and highs of 98 with 80 % humidity is not my idea of a mild anything.</p>
<p>I spent a half hour with a flat iron and 3 different products trying to get the frizz out of my hair the other day. Decided (once again as I do every year) to embrace the frizz.</p>
<p>I am completely baffled by poutine or rather why anyone would eat it, but they now make gourmet versions (e.g., with sweet potato fries, with foie gras, etc.). I’ve had one version that is actually very good.</p>
<p>Our house is on a lake and is largely shielded by big old trees, so even when it is hot, it is nice. But, it can get hot (though never Texas hot). Air conditioning is what we do with screens and doors. Plus what Canadians think is hot is not that hot.</p>
<p>I’ll take the sweet potatoe fries. i’ll take hot over rain. the last two years at our cottage in NH it has rained. Yuck!
I didnt think Texas was humid, used to live in San antonio when I was a kid.</p>
<p>Mmmm, poutine! It’s delicious.</p>
<p>SPAM^^^</p>
<p>Well…what a difference a day makes! Had a very interesting call from a friend who coaches another sport at the university D2 is transferring to. She said the University wants D2 to play for them and the coach from her sport can’t officially talk to her as she hasn’t requested an NCAA release from her old University. Can you believe this…D2 is thinking of getting the release and talking with her! Where did that come from!!! I can only think the excitement of World Cup has made her realize maybe she isn’t finished playing. I am floored!</p>
<p>Woohoo, NM, sounds exciting for your D (I think?).</p>
<p>And Woohoo, Shawbridge adopted me and I am running away to the Laurentians to eat poutine and flirt with the naughty french boys who mistake my textbook Parisian french for upper-crustedness 
(Sorry, just had a momentary childhood flashback…)</p>
<p>So when’s the bus swinging by here, huh? Enough talk…let’s roll, ladies. I will bring a small generator for the blender.</p>
<p>Can we up the size of the generator and bring several blenders? After the couple of work weeks I’ve had today I could use an entire pitcher just for me.</p>
<p>I vote for an industrial size margarita maker.</p>
<p>On second thought, it might be fair to warn everyone that the time I was in I was in Seattle they had record heat and the same thing happened the only time I ever visited Minnesota. </p>
<p>Voting yes on the industrial size margaritas.</p>
<p>Industrial size is good. Love margaritas!</p>
<p>I’ll bring the chips and salsa. I mean what are margaritas without chips and salsa?</p>
<p>Margaritas, yes. And poutine. It’s delicious, in a total junk food way. Really.</p>
<p>I think I would like nachos better than poutine.
NM did you feel the earthquake? good luck with your D2 its always something. glad its a goodish thing.
What kind of bus can we get, I want one of those tour bus things while we are planning.
Oh yeah D2 now has her drivers license, now let the wars begin over the car!!!</p>