We drove six hours for rooms that we thought would be here.

It' wasn't something we thought about. We just did it,

I enjoyed it ... I thought he talked about a lot of the key issues.

It sounded like a big freight train. I thought it was a tornado, and then I felt a little shaking. And it just kept getting worse. And it shook and the house started shaking pretty bad. And then it started rattling some of the glass and making more noise. And it lasted, I don't know, about five or ten seconds.

We were estimating about $700,000, so we're quite a bit over what we thought we were going to get. We all know what happened to the tourism industry after Sept. 11. Since then, we've been building up again. Now we're almost at pre-Sept. 11 levels.

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