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Did you take trips with your grandparents when you were younger?
Posted on 4/23/17 at 9:39 pm
Posted on 4/23/17 at 9:39 pm
Got any good stories or memories?
My brother and I used to spend a week or two with the grandparents during the summers when we were younger. I remember one trip we took to Branson, Missouri. My gramps liked to haul arse in the Crown Victoria back in the day. My grandma didn't like this speed he traveled especially with the grandkids in the car. Grandma let him know about it a few times too my grandpa's response was to drift over to the shoulder of the road look at grandma in the face and say " You wanna drive?". This shut grandma down for a few hundred miles. During this trip we hit Dogpatch USA, Silver Dollar City, and few country shows in Brandson. Well looking back now that grandma is gone and grandpa doesn't have much longer I am grateful for this experience. Anyone have any good grandparent stories?
My brother and I used to spend a week or two with the grandparents during the summers when we were younger. I remember one trip we took to Branson, Missouri. My gramps liked to haul arse in the Crown Victoria back in the day. My grandma didn't like this speed he traveled especially with the grandkids in the car. Grandma let him know about it a few times too my grandpa's response was to drift over to the shoulder of the road look at grandma in the face and say " You wanna drive?". This shut grandma down for a few hundred miles. During this trip we hit Dogpatch USA, Silver Dollar City, and few country shows in Brandson. Well looking back now that grandma is gone and grandpa doesn't have much longer I am grateful for this experience. Anyone have any good grandparent stories?
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Posted on 4/23/17 at 9:44 pm to FLBooGoTigs1
I loved spending time with my grandparents. My grandmother spoiled me. I'd spend a couple of weeks during the summer at their house. Later on they had a motor home and they would take my sister and I on trips to the beach in Alabama or Florida. Great times.
Posted on 4/23/17 at 9:45 pm to FLBooGoTigs1
To the bingo hall and Piccadilly. That's all.
Posted on 4/23/17 at 9:45 pm to FLBooGoTigs1
No, but I traveled with my family 900 miles one way every summer to visit my grandparents and family. This is the 80s and early 90s. I remember looking out the window, getting truck drivers to honk, playing with hot wheels in the back seat and doing word search puzzles to pass the time.
Posted on 4/23/17 at 9:46 pm to FLBooGoTigs1
Hell yeah. I remember going visit my great uncle and aunt in Woodlands as a kid. The other uncles would take turns driving the RV while my grandma and aunts would drink wine and gossip in French.
Once we got there all the women would cook while the men would drink and play pedro.
It's honestly one of my favorite memories.
Once we got there all the women would cook while the men would drink and play pedro.
It's honestly one of my favorite memories.
This post was edited on 4/23/17 at 9:50 pm
Posted on 4/23/17 at 9:51 pm to FLBooGoTigs1
We used to go to Branson, Mo a lot with my grandparents when we were younger.
There are no "good stories" involving Branson, Mo.
There are no "good stories" involving Branson, Mo.
Posted on 4/23/17 at 9:58 pm to FLBooGoTigs1
spending a week at the beach with my grandparents and cousins was the highlight of my summer while growing up
Posted on 4/23/17 at 10:02 pm to FLBooGoTigs1
We used to go camping at Percy Quinn.
They bought a pop up camper & we would go stay a week at a time.
So many great memories, I am so thankful they were such a huge part of my life growing up.
They bought a pop up camper & we would go stay a week at a time.
So many great memories, I am so thankful they were such a huge part of my life growing up.
Posted on 4/23/17 at 10:09 pm to FLBooGoTigs1
They used to bring us to Pensacola in the back of a pickup with a camper on it. Wtf. 
Posted on 4/23/17 at 10:10 pm to FLBooGoTigs1
my grandparents didn't take many trips when we wer young, but we did spend some amount of time staying at their farm each summer...seemed kinda slow at the time, but it turns out to be some of my fondest memories of them. sure wish I could wake up just one more time to the smell of coffee brewing and my grandmother cooking pancakes for us.
Posted on 4/23/17 at 10:11 pm to Spankum
No. I was a horrible child. My grandparents probably didn't even like me to come and visit. Can't blame them.
Posted on 4/23/17 at 10:13 pm to FLBooGoTigs1
Took a few trips with them, but nothing out of the ordinary. My grandfather didn't retire until he was 83.. Putting me at 27. They didn't have that much downtime for a lot of trips outside of their own.
Posted on 4/23/17 at 10:15 pm to FLBooGoTigs1
My grandpa had narcolepsy and would fall asleep at a red light. The light would turn red and my grandma would yet "god damn Milton the light is green. Go" and he would say something like "shite Betty! I know its green!" and they would have the same argument just about every time he had to stop at a red light.
She eventually made him eat fritos while he drives so it would help him say awake a traffic lights.
She eventually made him eat fritos while he drives so it would help him say awake a traffic lights.
Posted on 4/23/17 at 10:21 pm to Spankum
The smell of coffee and hungry jack biscuits is what I remember when I woke up every morning at my grandparents.
For dinner and when we visited my grandma's chicken and sausage gumbo was the GOAT.
Great memories. Before she passed away last year I told her how much I loved her as a grandma and I hoped I could be as good as they were to us. She started to cry. Damn onions in room now.
For dinner and when we visited my grandma's chicken and sausage gumbo was the GOAT.
Great memories. Before she passed away last year I told her how much I loved her as a grandma and I hoped I could be as good as they were to us. She started to cry. Damn onions in room now.
This post was edited on 4/23/17 at 10:25 pm
Posted on 4/23/17 at 10:27 pm to OweO
Gotta love names like Milton. My grandma's name was Doris.
Posted on 4/23/17 at 10:43 pm to FLBooGoTigs1
Used to go to Branson with my grandparents each summer for 5 or 6 years. We'd fly on a Northwest DC9 from Baton Rouge to Memphis and connect to Springfield on a Saab 340 turboprop. One summer we drove, my grandfather hated the interstate so we took backroads all the way up there driving through little towns in Louisiana and Arkansas.
My grandfather also took me to my first LSU away game at Mississippi State, as a kid that was the best trip ever. There were no hotels in Starkville so we had to stay in Jackson. I remember listening to the World Series on the AM dial in the car after the game.
Fun memories and I'm lucky enough that they're still around.
My grandfather also took me to my first LSU away game at Mississippi State, as a kid that was the best trip ever. There were no hotels in Starkville so we had to stay in Jackson. I remember listening to the World Series on the AM dial in the car after the game.
Fun memories and I'm lucky enough that they're still around.
This post was edited on 4/23/17 at 11:06 pm
Posted on 4/23/17 at 10:48 pm to RedFoxx
Yep I remember driving through the Ozark mountains for the first time. Great memories 
Posted on 4/23/17 at 10:50 pm to FLBooGoTigs1
I didn't know my grandparents, dad's or mom's side.
Posted on 4/23/17 at 10:56 pm to Langland
Well sorry to hear that not everyone had good grandparents. I was just blessed to have 2 good sets that lived long enough that I got to know them.
This post was edited on 4/23/17 at 11:16 pm
Posted on 4/23/17 at 11:01 pm to FLBooGoTigs1
No trips but the cousins and I would go stay with the grandparents on Bayou Bartholomew for a couple weeks every summer. Frog hunting, trot lining, running hoopnets with him, then grandma frying the fish and frog legs at night. Great memories!
Oh and one memory that I always get a kick out of is grandpa would come into our bedroom as we went to bed and say "ok boys put that sheet over your heads! Gotta kill these damn skeeters!" Then he would break out one of these bad boys and start pumping it up and spraying. We always thought we would die by morning breathing the poison.
Oh and one memory that I always get a kick out of is grandpa would come into our bedroom as we went to bed and say "ok boys put that sheet over your heads! Gotta kill these damn skeeters!" Then he would break out one of these bad boys and start pumping it up and spraying. We always thought we would die by morning breathing the poison.
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