Bear's Big Blog

It's our last night in Mexico and we hate to say goodbye, but will enjoy getting back... Just keep the warm weather going for us back home.  We had a great group of listeners joining us every morning, rain, wind or shine.  The poppers were a hit as usual.  We visited Tulum, had a pedicure, saw some interesting creatures in the lagoon and got some relaxation in.  It rained more than usual but that didn't stop us from enjoying our vacation.  The biggest decision I have yet today is which restaurant to eat at for our final dinner.

If you'd like to see photos of our listeners enjoying themselves in Mexico check out some of our photos in the Great Escape gallery and find the tropical word of each day to make a phrase.  Enter it here and we'll be drawing a winner on Monday, February 6 for a pair of tickets to The Brothers in the Sun Tour with Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw in Chicago.

Want to see more? Katy is posting hundreds more photos here. We hope to see you next year on Great Escape 2013... wherever we go and take over for the week!

It's our last night in Mexico and we hate to say goodbye, but will enjoy getting back... Just keep the warm weather going for us back home.  We had a great group of listeners joining us every morning, rain, wind or shine.  The poppers were a hit as usual.  We visited Tulum, had a pedicure, saw some interesting creatures in the lagoon and got some relaxation in.  It rained more than usual but that didn't stop us from enjoying our vacation.  The biggest decision I have yet today is which restaurant to eat at for our final dinner.

If you'd like to see photos of our listeners enjoying themselves in Mexico check out some of our photos in the Great Escape gallery and find the tropical word of each day to make a phrase.  Enter it here and we'll be drawing a winner on Monday, February 6 for a pair of tickets to The Brothers in the Sun Tour with Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw in Chicago.

Want to see more? Katy is posting hundreds more photos here. We hope to see you next year on Great Escape 2013... wherever we go and take over for the week!

Well I did it!  Bridget talked me into it and as promised, here's a picture of my pedicure in Mexico.  The $1500 resort credit at the Aventura Spa Palace has been great... our Y100 listeners are getting pampered and everything is fantastic down in Mexico.  I even saw Jason Michael Carroll and Phil Vassar hitting up the pool with everyone yesterday.  The Phil concert was just excellent last night... what a great show.  Watch for concert photos from all three artists tomorrow in our photo gallery.  We'll post them after our show tonight with Neal McCoy and Jason. It doesn't get any better than this.

We're leaving for Riviera Maya, Mexico Saturday!  The Aventura Spa Palace Resort is going to be our home for 7 nights and the private concerts from Phil Vassar, Neal McCoy and Jason Michael Carroll are going to be great! What a line-up, and a special thank you to Neal and Jason for helping us out and rearranging their schedules at the last-minute... Neal is even flying in from Canada!  With this group of Y100 Travelers you can expect nothing but the best time.

Dan and I will be broadcasting every morning Monday through Friday from Mexico.  For those of you who can't join us this year (we'll miss you), we'll be posting photos and updates for you:

• Watch our blogs here on wncy.com - Dan and I will be posting photos and updates during the week!
• Follow our Facebook page... I think the Facebook vote is I won’t lose my man card for getting a pedicure, so Bridget wins!  Watch for photos… maybe we’ll even talk Dan into it.

Katy from Fox World Travel will also be helping us keep you posted with plenty of photos and videos throughout the week:

• PHOTOS: Visit The Great Escape FLICKR page
• Visit The Great Escape Blog
• Follow The Great Escape Facebook Page
• FWT YouTube

Adiós!

Prince Fielder singed a huge contract with Detriot this week worth $214 million over nine years. I wondered how that broke down over nine years and my friend Greg, an accountant laid it out. Here is the email.

Per Year: $23,777,777.78

Congratulations to the owners of the Kangaroosteraunt (love that name) of the Fox Valley. Although I have never seen this truck, I guess it is a mobile kitchen and I hear thier food is really good. This truck took third place amoung all mobile kitchen trucks in the nation!!! Very cool! I love stuff like this.

The Green Bay Press Gazette Sports Department did a great job today grading each Packer player based on their performance in the past season. I agreed with most of the greades. Here is the link

http://packersnews.greenbaypressgazette.com/article/20120121/PKR01/120121029/2011-report-card-Defense-lets-Packers-down?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|GPG-Sports|p

The 10 Worst Kids’ Breakfast Cereals--Your child's morning meal may pack more sugar than a Twinkie from fitbee.com

1.Kellogg’s Honey Smacks: 55.6% sugar

2.Post Golden Crisp: 51.9% sugar

3.Kellogg’s Froot Loops Marshmallow: 48.3% sugar

4.Quaker Oats Cap’n Crunch’s OOPS! All Berries: 46.9% sugar

5.Quaker Oats Cap’n Crunch Original: 44.4% sugar

6.Quaker Oats Oh!s: 44.4% sugar

7.Kellogg’s Smorz: 43.3% sugar

8.Kellogg’s Apple Jacks: 42.9% sugar

9.Quaker Oats Cap’n Crunch’s Crunch Berries: 42.3% sugar

10.Kellogg’s Froot Loops Original: 41.4% sugar

I found this great article in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal this morning as to the competiveness of Aaron Rodgers such a great quarterback. Read it if you like, it's great! http://www.jsonline.com/sports/packers/competitiveness-pushes-rodgers-to-the-top-b63pbrr-137231488.html

The Top 10 US Cities For Dating from msn.com

10. Washington, D.C.

9. Ann Arbor, MI

8. San Francisco, CA

7. Madison, WI

6. Seattle, WA

5. Minneapolis, MN

4. Austin, TX

3. Lincoln, NE

2. Gainesville, FL

1. Atlanta, GA

ARE YOU NUTS?

Here's a cool web site that has an insanity quiz that'll let you know
how crazy you are. It has 55 yes or no questions. Have all the members
of the morning show take it and reveal to the audience which person on
your show is the most insane. Since it's so long, we all did it off the
air except for our intern...asked him all the questions live. The most
nuts on our show? I...according to this website he's 70.9% insane.
After we took it, we instructed the listeners to try it so we could find
the most insane person in the audience. Here's the address:
http://fringe.davesource.com/Fringe/Tests/Sanity_Test.html

Have Fun!    

I feel sorry for this pro bowler at a qualifing event in Vagas recently. How emabarrasing!

Watch the video!  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKAgekkECbg