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When you go on vacation, you expect lines. Lines at airport security. Lines for every attraction at the theme park. More lines for food after the attractions.

Well, I just went on a European vacation, and I’m happy to report, they have lines, too.  In fact, I was in one line for four hours. With a ten-year-old. And I had to get up before dawn to wait in it. But what makes it a little different from the lines we have around here is: I enjoyed it.

If you must know, it was in England – a country that takes line waiting so seriously, they even have a more elegant word for it: queuing. And the queue in question was at Wimbledon – for grounds passes to the famed All England Lawn Tennis Championship.

If you must know, the Wimbledon queue is the best way to get early-round tickets. There are actually 19 courts in full operation during at least the first week of the tournament, and the difference between Centre Court matches and matches on, say, Court 11 is mostly the TV exposure and nationalities of the players involved. If you’re interested, Wimbledon sets aside 500 tickets for each of the show courts – Centre, One and Two – for queuers (is that a word?) every day.

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I’m sitting here, looking back at some older photos. I keep all my pictures on my hard drive, and also at www.kodakgallery.com . Sometimes I feel like being a little reminiscent of the older days, when my kids were a little younger. Well, not that much younger, this picture’s less than one year old.

Anyway, I love looking back. Sometimes it’s memories of birthday parties, concerts, holidays and mostly vacations. Honestly, what makes me smile more at work than seeing the pictures from all of our trips to Southwest Florida? It’s become an annual treat…every Week 9 on the South Seas Resort calendar, we spend the week in Unit 981 at Harborview Villas. There’s a smile on my face as I type.

The picture I’ve included has also become an annual tradition. The orange crunch cake or red velvet pie…you can not visit Captiva Island without a visit to The Bubble Room. A crazy place with so much décor on the walls, it’s hard to pay attention to your plate of food. Well, the kids love that “Tunnel of Love”, and the pictures are always awesome, with so many colors behind them. I’ve watched my children grow in that tunnel, MANY years running.

If you’re interested in an awesome vacation spot…go to www.southseasresorts.com. There are so many things to keep families busy. Of course the beautiful beaches of Southwest Florida, plenty of golf, tennis, watersports…Florida grouper, ice cream, should I continue???

Signing Out…
Sharon Laudenbach, President LuggageOnline