Half a Ton of Big Guys goes to Southern California

[Bloodhound]

We start off this Trip Report letting you all know this will be a non-traditional T R with input from everyone willing and that wants to contribute. Im Pluto.. My journey starts with complete last minute packing and fiqureing out how to make my new camera work thats still in the package that morning of departure...lol ... woo hoo gotta love that huh :goodvibes and followed with a drive from Fort Knox to Bowling Green...Stopping at K Mart to buy a new suitcase cause I just split the seams on my old one....lol and then off to Bowling Green and stop by my Flealand Antiques Mall business there to get paid and add a few things to my antiques booth and I go to dads house were Donald is on his way to pick me up after watching a Disney movie... I just finished repacking in the driveway on the tailgate of my truck at my fathers house and Donald arrives and Im still getting ready for departure.... and NO not a beer yet....lol Dont you just love the last minute details of a vaction....lol
We grab a burger at the neighboorhood Wendy's dirve thru and were off to Nashville and a nice overnight stay at Donalds sister's large new to them house in Nashville on Thursday Oct 23rd. afternoon... with our first stop at his neice's Ice Cream shop in Nashville Tn.....I had the Trailor Trash Hot Fudge Sunday ... Donald whats the name of the store????? We have a nice visit with His niece and her baby boy and his sister takes off for a tour of the neiborhood and we are off to see her son's new Resturaunt that may be opened by now and we are checking out the new place and decide to go eat wings....woo hoooo food....but no beer I find out when we get there ... wth !!!! there is just
something about wings and beer that go together ... you all know what I mean that love hotwings .....but we are told were told we can bring our own beer and use one of there cups the next time :woohooo: Can you tell Beer was on my mind????....this is an Adults Vacation you know and its well after 5pm by now Thursday Eve.... lol The wings were great and we asked for Hot Plus alittle extra kick and boy could we have done without that extra kick but they were great wings and fries. ... and again the name of the place fails me .... Donald alittle help please....lol
We head off to her house after eating ... which is so close to the wings house they can walk if the feel like it... and they drop me off to go pick up Donalds car while I wait the arrival of the other two Big Gus comming from Elisabethtown and Louisville for our Big Guys slumber party .....Donald and His sis gets back and Im watching tv and playing with the cat on my lap and still no Mickey and Goofy....we all stitting there and and get a phone call the others made a wrong turn and Donald leads them in an we are all together at last.....let the vacation begin....still no BEER!!!! lol We get a tour of the huge house and go upstairs to the sleeping quarters and I get stuck with a futon .... the most comfortable one Ive ever been on I might add and still too excite too sleep all night long....lol
We get up at 4a.m. and make our early morning rainy trip to the Airport cram packed into a nice 4door with the 5 us and lugage for a re-routed trip to the airport due to Clintion ariving in Nashville we made it on time and were off to checking in no time...Flying from Nashville to Denver and a 30 min layover and then Denver to John W Orange County airport and get out hertz reanal car. with picks of the duke will waiting....lol still to early for any beer opertunnities for me.....lol....
I will stop here till I get my 2 answers from Donald and His input from all the travel aragement bargains he made.... Pictures comming soonish.... I have one in storage of the four of us Big Guys that I need to scan and post from last year to introduce the cast of Big Guys and have figure out how to load my new picks onto photobucket in the meantime....carry on and have a great weekend its Friday :woohoo: I've worked non stop practically getting things caught up since my return and this weekend Im off to my sisiter's for fun an relaxation in Louisville Ky. My step daughter and her new baby lives twenty minites away from my sis's house just off !-64 in Indianna so we will see them as well.:thumbsup2

[FauntleroyFAN07]

im first imfirst im first

[FauntleroyFAN07]

okay now i actually read it, sorry i was excited, i have never been first to post on a thread after it was started.


sounds like a nice crazy start to the TR, cant wait for some pictures to folow up, and yes you need beer with wings, what is wrong with those people.
:confused3 :rotfl:

[DonaldTDuck]

No for the important FACTS. The name of my niece's ice cream parlor is ied Piper Creamery, located on 11th in East Nashville, just off Five Points. The name of the restaurant owned by my nephew and other niece is, well, Pied Piper Diner. BTW, my sister owns(or did, not sure of status) Pied Piper Day Care. She is, of course, Elaine Drummer.(bid-a-bing)
The name of the Wings place is Ghot Wings and is on Gallatin Pike next to the Auto-Diesel college. Two big:thumbsup2 on this place.
The travel arrangements were made be exhaustive internet searches. I used AirTravelWatchdog.com to check airfares and we came up with roundtrip Louisville-Orange County for under $250 including all fees. Now you may ask, why did they go to Nashville, then? Well, about 3 months from departure I get a call from Frontier(our carrier) informing me they've closed their Louisville center, and would I like a refund or to change my city of origin. I think I shocked her when I took the second option. The flight out was the same time and hit the same connection in Denver. Coming back, though, we got to spend an extra hour in California and still got to Nashville the same time we'd have gotten to Louisville.
I found Cortona Inn on Travelocity for $62.25 a night, a 2 and a half star place. I found the car rental on HotWire at $139 a week including everything but insurance. And lastly,, I found our hotel in San Diego, Day's Hotel, on Orbitz for $74. I'm never afraid to shop around to squeeze those little Lincolns as hard as I can. However, Pluto did the most important planning for our trip, getting women to show up and , well, we'll discuss that later.
BTW, BH could have had a beer at the airport in Denver, but decided to eat at Quizno's with us. Best sammich I've had in a while.
As for the fan of my oddly middle-named hero, welcome and goog to see you again. Don't expect any mentions of him, though. We never saw him, or the Mickster, at all.

[Bloodhound]

okay now i actually read it, sorry i was excited, i have never been first to post on a thread after it was started.


sounds like a nice crazy start to the TR, cant wait for some pictures to folow up, and yes you need beer with wings, what is wrong with those people.
:confused3 :rotfl:

:welcome: Dan you get the cookie for being first:lmao: plus you will be pleased to know Chip and Dale are there to steal your wife when you ever make it to DisneyLand lol

my guess as for why Ghot Wings dont have beer is beacuse its right next door to the mecanics college and city wouldnt alow them to serve alcohol....just a quess.

[Bloodhound]

. BTW, BH could have had a beer at the airport in Denver, but decided to eat at Quizno's with us. Best sammich I've had in a while.
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Yes those were great sandwiches and we were hungry with no breackfast to speack of and 9ish a.m. at Denver is too early in the day for beer...for me anyway....I like my beer at night with dinner when we are done for the day.

[MAGICFOR2]

I'm here! Can't wait to see your adventures! pirate: pirate: pirate: pirate:

[FauntleroyFAN07]

:welcome: Dan you get the cookie for being first:lmao: plus you will be pleased to know Chip and Dale are there to steal your wife when you ever make it to DisneyLand lol

my guess as for why Ghot Wings dont have beer is beacuse its right next door to the mecanics college and city wouldnt alow them to serve alcohol....just a quess.
sounds good to me, i am thinking whenever we go to hawaii with erh parents, we will stop there for a few days andmake it a 2fer trip since we have to fly that way anyway, might as well make it worth the while.

[Bloodhound]

I'm here! Can't wait to see your adventures! pirate: pirate: pirate: pirate:

:welcome: Glad you came Im having trouble with the pictures will update soon...new camera blues lol

[Bloodhound]

sounds good to me, i am thinking whenever we go to hawaii with erh parents, we will stop there for a few days andmake it a 2fer trip since we have to fly that way anyway, might as well make it worth the while.

That will be great for you .....stay at Howard Johnson and use the entertainment coupon or AAA Card and Fly into SNA Orange County

[FauntleroyFAN07]

That will be great for you .....stay at Howard Johnson and use the entertainment coupon or AAA Card and Fly into SNA Orange County
thanks for the tips

[nurse.darcy]

I am here finally, and when you get to my part I will gladly interject with pictures and everything. Ya know I am good for that. . .lol.

[tinkermell]

I've been waiting for your report. popcorn::

Yay!:yay:

[Bloodhound]

I am here finally, and when you get to my part I will gladly interject with pictures and everything. Ya know I am good for that. . .lol.

I've been waiting for your report. popcorn::

Yay!:yay:

:welcome: to the trip reort its been slow moving I cant find a picture Im looking for and still having problems with my new camera and very busy with life lol I know just get on with the tr right???? lol

[Bloodhound]

hi all....life has really been getting in the way of this tr...my wife has been fighting with kidney stones...very painfull.... the last couple days and Ive been her personal nurse and driver..... she is milking it for all its worth lol

[DonaldTDuck]

ehkay, looks like it's up to me to get the ball rolling.
Our flight was pretty uneventful, other than the fact that we had 3 lovely attendants to Denver, then 3 not so lovely(i.e. male) attendants from Denver to Orange County. Actually, I think 2 of them found each other attractive, but that's not why we're here. We had about 45 minutes in Denver so we had time to go to Quizno's and get a small sandwich. Well, that wasn't Quizno's plan. We got the medium sandwich and I can't imagine how big the big would be.
We land in Santa Ana and get our luggage. I go to the Hertz desk and am waited on by a bilingual counterperson. Just wish one of the languages had been English. Is Esperanto still a language? So we head to where I thought she said to go and see this.

http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee316/DonaldTDuck/ds1-1.jpg
We all had a dear friend who died a few years ago that had to be JW's #1 fan, so we took a few minutes of reverance. Goofy was his roommate so we took his pic.

http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee316/DonaldTDuck/ds8-1.jpg

We found a cop and found where we belonged. We were topd we would pick the car up at the airport, but the van took us to a location halfway between John Wayne Airport and LAX. Well, almost. But what a car. A brand new Impala with less than 300 total miles on it. And it held all our luggage in the trunk!
Our plan for months had been to arrive and go straight to In 'n Out to eat, but Quizno's nixed that. We got in the car and headed to Anaheim and our home for the next 5 days. (That's the car in front.)

http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee316/DonaldTDuck/ds7-1.jpg

[Bloodhound]

Great start Donald....Glad someone thought to take the pic of the car ...I really liked that car alot ....very roomy and lots of power for 4 big guys and all our stuff

[FauntleroyFAN07]

good start, have pics inside the hotel?

[toocherie]

sorry I missed you guys when you were here--bad timing, as I was getting ready for my first WDW trip. Waiting to hear more about the BG's trip!

[MAGICFOR2]

Nice start Donald! I've never even seen The Duke at the airport - where is it located? We always come into luggage and get picked up by family. My Dad and I are huge JW fans - I used to sit and watch old westerns with him all the time as a little girl.:lovestruc

[Bloodhound]

JW is located downstairs by the rental car sign in...its a very impressive statue

[MAGICFOR2]

JW is located downstairs by the rental car sign in...its a very impressive statue

Thanks! I'll have to look for him next time!:thumbsup2

Still waiting....popcorn::

[Bloodhound]

Your welcome....it will be worth the out of the way trip to see it.

[Bloodhound]

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone....Im off to my sisters in Louisville for a couple days

[Minnie_Moo]

BH and DTD, I just found your trip report! Off to read now :)

[Bloodhound]

:welcome: glad to have you aboard...I just got home from my shop till u drop weekend in Louisville and I have drooped lol

[Bloodhound]

The hoteL grounds were nice and far back off the road but our rooms werent ready till 3pm :sad2: so we had alot of time before Our Whale watching excurtion at Dana's Point Warf. And head off to the Beach....my first site of the Great Pacific Ocean,,,, we drive down the ! state rd along the coast enjoying the drive taking in all the sights and I spot a pier and we pull over and walk over and see how far away it is and get back in a drive alittle ways farther and find Huntington Beach Pier and they had a nice parking area and alot of shops and resturaunts...we take off our shoes and get walking to the surf ....its a nice sunny warm day an the surf is roaring as every wave hits the beach ...we just has to go step in the surf and man was it cold an we got splashed...but it was really awesome.....sea gulls were everywhere begging for food much bigger than they looked on TV....we saw one that had a fish hook caught in his beack as we walked way out to the end of the pier which had a resturaunt that was very busy and fisherman on both sides up an down the board walk....there were some guys on small surf boards having alot of fun and we watch them awhile while on the pier they were doing pretty good job an had a few wipe outs. though..

..we decide to go back to the shopping area and find some food an notice that BJ's Pizza was not all that busy and go in..sat down an.we must have brought the crowd with us causr it filled up fast after that an they looked to be short handed ....it was finally time for a berr :woohoo: I ordered the smaller wich had 7 different small bears and the others ordered different typs while...we get a big order of nachos BJ's style which were awesome while waitting on the pizza....Donald do you remember the name of the pizza we ordered??? It was excellant an we were all hungry an didnt leave a scrap....lol

[MAGICFOR2]

You went to Huntington Beach :yay: That's my favorite - I love the area and it is so close to DL! Sounds like you had a great start to your day!

[Bloodhound]

Hi...yes it was a great place to walk around barefoot in the sand and watch the surfers and the waves crashing into the beach

[DonaldTDuck]

I checked online and came up with this for the pizza:
BJ’S BACON CHEESEBURGER
For the classic burger lover - ground Angus beef, red onions, Applewood smoked bacon, cheddar cheese, diced tomatoes and chopped dill pickles drizzled with our signature burger sauce.
It was goog. And the beers were all great. There was a stout in Pluto's sampler, and I knew he wouldn't care for it. Yea, bonus beer. And that appy was huge, enough for 4 Big Guys. BTW, the surf caught me from behind and soaked me as we were leaving the ocean. I've been in the Pacific many times, mostly Seal Beach and Waikiki, so I should have known better.
On to the whale watch. I had been very exscited to book this, I dreamed of Shamu swimming by. What we got were whales that looked incredibly like dolphins, but not as animated. I really don't mind, any excuse to be on a boat is a goog one. And met a lot of nice folks; you can't help but meet them if Goofy is there, he is a natural born social director.
Our plan all along had been to watch whales, then nead to Old World Restaurant for Octoberfest. But this trip would not go as planned on very many levels, and the morning Quizno adventure caused us to change our eating protocol, sending us to BJ's and making us not a bit hungry after sailing. We also needed to physically check in, so back to Anaheim and get a look at our rooms. I regret not taking pics inside because the rooms were fantastic. The fridge was about 54 inches tall, much larger than expected. The furniture was all new and the shower was great. And my request for first floor was honored. But the biggie was, when we opened the door, there was no odor, not from the carpet, not from the curtains, not from the bathroom. Now when we left....
As I mentioned, out meal plan for the day was shot, but, being Big Guys, we weren't done eating. About 10, we all started feeling it. So I brought up what had been in the back of my mind(a cold and dusty place) for a while, Bubba Gump's. Turned out it was the first restaurant on Garden Walk coming from our direction. And since we were walking, that was a big plus. We walked in and the place was packed. They gave us a beeper and promised it wouldn't be long. And it wasn't. We barely had time to go out front and harass the giant shrimp fuzzy(?) character when it went off(the beeper, not the shrimp). It's October 24 and they seated us outside at 10:30 at night. And it was gaauuugess.(In case you didn't know the southern spellun) Our server was a petite hotT college chick that might have been 4'10 and 85 pounds wringing wet. Kept mentioning her boyfriend for some reason:rolleyes1 .
She came to take our drink order, well they had a beer and a shot, so what could I do? Asked for Bourbon and she wasn't quite sure what it was. Thought she did, but asked if Jack Daniels would work.:eek: No honey, bourbon, as in Kentucky distilled, like oh, maybe Maker's Mark. What beer? I ordered a Blue Moon, then all the others did the same. We then serenaded her with Blue Moon of Kentucky, the Bill Monroe version. She looked stunned. More talk of boyfriend. Pluto, did we all get the bucket of boat trash? And I added on an ear of corn the size of Kansas. Left there fuller than a tick at a blood bank. We could hear but not see the fireworks at DL, Bubba's faces the wrong way. Then we saw dozens, perhaps hundreds of folks walking back to their resorts. Many with strollers and/or small kids. Walking further than we would have to, and we were out of the 'walking zone' on all the maps. Gave us hope as we headed in at 1 am to be at rope drop at 8 am.

[DonaldTDuck]

Just realized while writing that that we never introduced ourselves. Many of you read our WDW report last year, link below, and some are new friends from the DL pages who helped with our planning, but for all you newbies, We are the Big Guys.
First, by age AND beauty, c'est moi. I'm Donald, both in real life sometimes and at Disney. Also known as Tom.
http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee316/DonaldTDuck/dw8-1.jpg

I'm the one on the right. From last year. I did pretty goog avoiding the camera this trip.
Next up my lovely cohost for this trippie, and the baby of the foursome, is Pluto, AKA Robert.

http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee316/DonaldTDuck/Pluto.jpg

The dog on the left.

Next is Mickey, the nice guy of the group, and full time female cm chatter, Jeff.

http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee316/DonaldTDuck/Mickey.jpg

http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee316/DonaldTDuck/mini-DisneyWorld010.jpg

Oh this could go on all day.

And last, and certainly not least(he passed me in weight, so I could say most) Goofy. Goofy can and will talk to anyone, and makes everyone comfortable. We call him Tony IRL.

http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee316/DonaldTDuck/Goofy.jpg

Can you see the resemblence? They are about the same height.
We also had friends drop by. I can't find any pics of Dalepool, but do of Nurse Darcy and her friend Tom, copied from one of her posts on here.

http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee316/DonaldTDuck/BigGuysTomandDarci.jpg

That's the other Tom in front. He and Darci(ain't she a purty li'l thang?) hopefully will drop by with comments as we get in deeper with this.
Glad to have you all (and y'all) aboard.

[Bloodhound]

Hi Tom we all did really enjoy Buba Gump's and the Blue Moon's :woohoo: I was the only one that had the Tialapia fish with mango salsa delish The ret of you had the boat trash. I really enjoyed the car ride down the coast to the whale watch at Dana's Point Warf...speeking to Darcy today she informed me of my problem with uploading my photo's I should use the window's installer instead of the downloadable cd with the camera...we shall see how this works cause I have lots of pictures to inset of the whale watch. Hound Out

[MAGICFOR2]

Great update, Donald - just need more pics! :goodvibes We ate at Bubba Gumps in Monterey - really good! :thumbsup2 Poor waitress - what were you big guys doing, singing songs about Kentucky to her? :sad2: :rotfl2: :rotfl2: :rotfl2:

"fuller than a tick at a blood drive" :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:

[nurse.darcy]

Just realized while writing that that we never introduced ourselves. Many of you read our WDW report last year, link below, and some are new friends from the DL pages who helped with our planning, but for all you newbies, We are the Big Guys.
First, by age AND beauty, c'est moi. I'm Donald, both in real life sometimes and at Disney. Also known as Tom.
http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee316/DonaldTDuck/dw8-1.jpg

I'm the one on the right. From last year. I did pretty goog avoiding the camera this trip.
Next up my lovely cohost for this trippie, and the baby of the foursome, is Pluto, AKA Robert.

http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee316/DonaldTDuck/Pluto.jpg

The dog on the left.

Next is Mickey, the nice guy of the group, and full time female cm chatter, Jeff.

http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee316/DonaldTDuck/Mickey.jpg

http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee316/DonaldTDuck/mini-DisneyWorld010.jpg

Oh this could go on all day.

And last, and certainly not least(he passed me in weight, so I could say most) Goofy. Goofy can and will talk to anyone, and makes everyone comfortable. We call him Tony IRL.

http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee316/DonaldTDuck/Goofy.jpg

Can you see the resemblence? They are about the same height.
We also had friends drop by. I can't find any pics of Dalepool, but do of Nurse Darcy and her friend Tom, copied from one of her posts on here.

http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee316/DonaldTDuck/BigGuysTomandDarci.jpg

That's the other Tom in front. He and Darci(ain't she a purty li'l thang?) hopefully will drop by with comments as we get in deeper with this.
Glad to have you all (and y'all) aboard.

There's my boys. They all were a lot of fun. I totally enjoyed hanging with them for a couple days. Cant wait till they get to the part where I can add in. . .lol.

[hlrababy]

Well, I finally made it over!!! :lmao:

[DonaldTDuck]

I haven't heard from Pluto in a while, so I will forge ahead. We managed to get up Saturday by 7 and were at the gates by 7:45. We were on the Southern California City Pass, so we had to go to the ticket booth to swap our voucher for a 3 day parkhopper. We were a few minutes after 8 when we got in the back of the line, and wer in by 8:10. We headed straight to Peter Pan, but there was a veerryy long line, so we went on by to the next ride, which had no wait. If you know FL well, you know Mr. Toad's Wild Ride is next. So I got to do my must do for FL as the very first thing. Yea. On to Dumbo. Yep, the half a ton took up four elephants, but there was a shockingly short line, so what the hey. Besides, when I was a teenager, Muhummad Ali visited DL and declared Dumbo his favorite ride, so it must be manly. In spite of my fear of heights, I love this ride.
Next we head to Pinocchio's Adventure(yawn) and Snow White's Skerry Adventure. I did rub the apple. Made Goofy jump. hehehe. Working back to the right, we hit Alice in Wonderland, possibly the cutest ride in all the Land. Then I convinced(begged) one of the guys to ride the Mad Hatter Tea Party with me. I'm pretty sure it was Pluto, so if he ever returns from where ever he's hiding, we'll ask him. Then we for the first of many times this trip, we climb on the Matterhorn. This ride is worth the crosscountry trip by itself. It's not the best mountain, but it is the most unique. As we head into the mountain, the cute teenaged cm notices my tshirt, The Three Cabelleros and says it's her favorite movie. Before we got in the mountain, I'd told her of the ride at Mexico and she said she HAD to go the the World now. Kewl.
This first ride was on the old Tomorrowland side, although the ride is completely in FL now. Since the wait was so short, we immediately rode the FL side. It really is a step slower. But the drops are slightly higher I think. When we get off, it's not yet 10:00.
A short walk and we are at the place that we would return to about 10 times- Space Mountain. WDW should change the name of theirs to Lame Mountain until they can rehab it to where there's at least a comparison. From the time you cross over the ride in the line and see the handicapped car on the side with its separte loading and sideways conveyer belt to put it in queu as soon as it's loaded to the music as you take off to the smooth dark track, everything is fantastic. And since we'd picked up a fast pass on our way in, we know we'd be back that day.
We go over to Autopia, a much kewler ride than that thing at WDW. First of all, they give you a 'special' driver's license for Autopia. Secondly, the cars are cooler. Thirdly, the track is far more interesting, at least than the last time I rode Indy. And the ride uses a biofuel, and the whole area smells of french fries.
Breakfast had been at the motel's free bar, and I found it better than average, but lunch time is barreling at us. We decide to head to New Orleans Square, and the train is right there, so we hit the rails. The panoramas add nothing. I'd rather see trees. But everything is so packed in, they use them to hide attractions, or at least the back of attractions. Our first thought was to eat at the French Market, but 20,00 others thought of it first. We decide to head to the Hungry Bear, which by this point we all resemble. We all got burgers and fries and thought they were much better than our first meal of burgers and fries at WDW last year, at Backlot in MGM.
Nest time, PotC, HM/NBC, and how I learned to hate the DL version of my favorite ride at WDW.

[DonaldTDuck]

Great update, Donald - just need more pics! :goodvibes We ate at Bubba Gumps in Monterey - really good! :thumbsup2 Poor waitress - what were you big guys doing, singing songs about Kentucky to her? :sad2: :rotfl2: :rotfl2: :rotfl2:

"fuller than a tick at a blood drive" :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
I hope you're still aboard. I'm sorry for the delay. I leave for WDW in 2 weeks so I hope to get a few more up before then.

There's my boys. They all were a lot of fun. I totally enjoyed hanging with them for a couple days. Cant wait till they get to the part where I can add in. . .lol.
You can chime in at any time with anything you want to say. We need to do the World together sometime.

Well, I finally made it over!!! :lmao:
Hi, hirababy. Welcome to our trippie. I hope to get on with it the next few days. For sure by the first.

[Bloodhound]

Hi DtD , yes I was the one that you pleaded to go on the teacups ride...nice installment. Thanks

[tinkermell]

I haven't heard from Pluto in a while, so I will forge ahead. We managed to get up Saturday by 7 and were at the gates by 7:45. We were on the Southern California City Pass, so we had to go to the ticket booth to swap our voucher for a 3 day parkhopper. We were a few minutes after 8 when we got in the back of the line, and wer in by 8:10. We headed straight to Peter Pan, but there was a veerryy long line, so we went on by to the next ride, which had no wait. If you know FL well, you know Mr. Toad's Wild Ride is next. So I got to do my must do for FL as the very first thing. Yea. On to Dumbo. Yep, the half a ton took up four elephants, but there was a shockingly short line, so what the hey. Besides, when I was a teenager, Muhummad Ali visited DL and declared Dumbo his favorite ride, so it must be manly. In spite of my fear of heights, I love this ride.
Next we head to Pinocchio's Adventure(yawn) and Snow White's Skerry Adventure. I did rub the apple. Made Goofy jump. hehehe. Working back to the right, we hit Alice in Wonderland, possibly the cutest ride in all the Land. Then I convinced(begged) one of the guys to ride the Mad Hatter Tea Party with me. I'm pretty sure it was Pluto, so if he ever returns from where ever he's hiding, we'll ask him. Then we for the first of many times this trip, we climb on the Matterhorn. This ride is worth the crosscountry trip by itself. It's not the best mountain, but it is the most unique. As we head into the mountain, the cute teenaged cm notices my tshirt, The Three Cabelleros and says it's her favorite movie. Before we got in the mountain, I'd told her of the ride at Mexico and she said she HAD to go the the World now. Kewl.
This first ride was on the old Tomorrowland side, although the ride is completely in FL now. Since the wait was so short, we immediately rode the FL side. It really is a step slower. But the drops are slightly higher I think. When we get off, it's not yet 10:00.
A short walk and we are at the place that we would return to about 10 times- Space Mountain. WDW should change the name of theirs to Lame Mountain until they can rehab it to where there's at least a comparison. From the time you cross over the ride in the line and see the handicapped car on the side with its separte loading and sideways conveyer belt to put it in queu as soon as it's loaded to the music as you take off to the smooth dark track, everything is fantastic. And since we'd picked up a fast pass on our way in, we know we'd be back that day.
We go over to Autopia, a much kewler ride than that thing at WDW. First of all, they give you a 'special' driver's license for Autopia. Secondly, the cars are cooler. Thirdly, the track is far more interesting, at least than the last time I rode Indy. And the ride uses a biofuel, and the whole area smells of french fries.
Breakfast had been at the motel's free bar, and I found it better than average, but lunch time is barreling at us. We decide to head to New Orleans Square, and the train is right there, so we hit the rails. The panoramas add nothing. I'd rather see trees. But everything is so packed in, they use them to hide attractions, or at least the back of attractions. Our first thought was to eat at the French Market, but 20,00 others thought of it first. We decide to head to the Hungry Bear, which by this point we all resemble. We all got burgers and fries and thought they were much better than our first meal of burgers and fries at WDW last year, at Backlot in MGM.
Nest time, PotC, HM/NBC, and how I learned to hate the DL version of my favorite ride at WDW.Hmm? I'm assuming that you did not like the NBC version??? Blasphemy!!! :rotfl:

[DonaldTDuck]

Hmm? I'm assuming that you did not like the NBC version??? Blasphemy!!! :rotfl:

Now you know what happens when you assume. You make an astatstar out of u & me.;)

[FauntleroyFAN07]

good update, you should have tried to fit 2 of you in 1 dumbo
:laughing:

[Bloodhound]

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Merry Christmas everyone

[MAGICFOR2]

Hope yours was Merry! I enjoyed your journey into Fantasyland!

[nurse.darcy]

I haven't heard from Pluto in a while, so I will forge ahead. We managed to get up Saturday by 7 and were at the gates by 7:45. We were on the Southern California City Pass, so we had to go to the ticket booth to swap our voucher for a 3 day parkhopper. We were a few minutes after 8 when we got in the back of the line, and wer in by 8:10. We headed straight to Peter Pan, but there was a veerryy long line, so we went on by to the next ride, which had no wait. If you know FL well, you know Mr. Toad's Wild Ride is next. So I got to do my must do for FL as the very first thing. Yea. On to Dumbo. Yep, the half a ton took up four elephants, but there was a shockingly short line, so what the hey. Besides, when I was a teenager, Muhummad Ali visited DL and declared Dumbo his favorite ride, so it must be manly. In spite of my fear of heights, I love this ride.
Next we head to Pinocchio's Adventure(yawn) and Snow White's Skerry Adventure. I did rub the apple. Made Goofy jump. hehehe. Working back to the right, we hit Alice in Wonderland, possibly the cutest ride in all the Land. Then I convinced(begged) one of the guys to ride the Mad Hatter Tea Party with me. I'm pretty sure it was Pluto, so if he ever returns from where ever he's hiding, we'll ask him. Then we for the first of many times this trip, we climb on the Matterhorn. This ride is worth the crosscountry trip by itself. It's not the best mountain, but it is the most unique. As we head into the mountain, the cute teenaged cm notices my tshirt, The Three Cabelleros and says it's her favorite movie. Before we got in the mountain, I'd told her of the ride at Mexico and she said she HAD to go the the World now. Kewl.
This first ride was on the old Tomorrowland side, although the ride is completely in FL now. Since the wait was so short, we immediately rode the FL side. It really is a step slower. But the drops are slightly higher I think. When we get off, it's not yet 10:00.
A short walk and we are at the place that we would return to about 10 times- Space Mountain. WDW should change the name of theirs to Lame Mountain until they can rehab it to where there's at least a comparison. From the time you cross over the ride in the line and see the handicapped car on the side with its separte loading and sideways conveyer belt to put it in queu as soon as it's loaded to the music as you take off to the smooth dark track, everything is fantastic. And since we'd picked up a fast pass on our way in, we know we'd be back that day.
We go over to Autopia, a much kewler ride than that thing at WDW. First of all, they give you a 'special' driver's license for Autopia. Secondly, the cars are cooler. Thirdly, the track is far more interesting, at least than the last time I rode Indy. And the ride uses a biofuel, and the whole area smells of french fries.
Breakfast had been at the motel's free bar, and I found it better than average, but lunch time is barreling at us. We decide to head to New Orleans Square, and the train is right there, so we hit the rails. The panoramas add nothing. I'd rather see trees. But everything is so packed in, they use them to hide attractions, or at least the back of attractions. Our first thought was to eat at the French Market, but 20,00 others thought of it first. We decide to head to the Hungry Bear, which by this point we all resemble. We all got burgers and fries and thought they were much better than our first meal of burgers and fries at WDW last year, at Backlot in MGM.
Nest time, PotC, HM/NBC, and how I learned to hate the DL version of my favorite ride at WDW.

Oh hun, I love you, but you have to know that Pluto is a bit preoccupied these days. . .lol. I will get on with my late sunday all day monday trippie . . . you can finish Saturday anytime. Not sure bloodhound will chime in.

[nurse.darcy]

Oh hun, I love you, but you have to know that Pluto is a bit preoccupied these days. . .lol. I will get on with my late sunday all day monday trippie . . . you can finish Saturday anytime. Not sure bloodhound will chime in.

Anyway, I, and my traveling companion Tom, arrive at Disneyland sometime around 11, That works after a 4 hr drive . . .

[nurse.darcy]

We get there and immediately head for a ride. Of course I am calling Pluto like crazy trying to figure out where they are. We hit up POTC and HM, and then I hear from Pluto and they are all over at California Adventure. So Tom and I head to California Adventure to meet up with the big guys. We all decided to meet at the Taste Pilots Grill cause everyone is starving and its lunchtime. Tom and I are waiting for the guys and they sneak up behind us, not quite sure how that happened but we finally all meet up and head in to get lunch. Burgers, ribs, chicken sandwiches, good solid "big guy" food. I believe we hit up Soarin for fastpasses after lunch then headed off to TOT. Quite a different ride from the one at WDW but we had a blast. . .We decide to wait in the standby line cause I personally know that unless the line is wrapped around outside of the gate, the line only takes about 20 minutes. Here we are:

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After this we head over to California Screamin for I believe 3 turns on this coaster. The lines are fairly short and we are having a ball so why not. Here are a couple photos:

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The guys appear content to just let me lead them around so after screamin we head to Toy Story Mania. We decided to do the standby line (no fastpasses in Cali) though it appeared fairly long. The ride stopped twice while we were in line but we stuck it out and got on the ride finally. Of course, the ride broke down while we were on it so we ended up getting escorted off. . .too funny. Nothing like ruining disney magic by turning the lights on on a ride and making you walk out. Crazy. After that we decide its beer thirty so we head over to Fishermans Wharf and try some different varieties of Carl Strauss beer. Yummy stuff. Up next, kiddie rides, Soarin, and then over to the Land side. . .

[Bloodhound]

Great update Darcy .... we need all the help we can get ... lol

Hapy New Year Everyone

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[MAGICFOR2]

Happy New Year! Thanks for the update, Darcy. Looks like you were having fun being the official DL tourguide! Too bad about TSM - that is such a fun ride.:sad2:

[FauntleroyFAN07]

thanks for the update, hope all is well with everyone and you had a good holiday

[travelmel]

keep up the good work!

[Bloodhound]

thanks for the update, hope all is well with everyone and you had a good holiday


Hi Dan, good to hear from you...we had a great holiday season witch ended Sat with a family get together with a great meal you would have loved with pork tenderloin, smoked rib roast, spiral ham, slow cooked grean beans with seasoned meat and augraton potatoesc, biscuits and homeade pecan pie an cheese cake...you see we are all about the meats....lol

keep up the good work!
Hi :welcome: to our trippie its been a slow start so please stick with us

[FauntleroyFAN07]

MEAT=GOOD:goodvibes

[nurse.darcy]

Okay thought I posted an update with pics. .. will try again tomorrow.

[nurse.darcy]

Okay, well, so much for "tomorrow". Tomorrow is that day that never comes. I am leaving on a jetplane tomorrow and won't be back till the 3rd. I AM taking my laptop so I should probably do an update while there. . .BUUUUUUUUUT, that all depends on how much time I actually spend on the puter. . .l l l


Not exactly sure what happened to DonaldT. He should have updated this report a while ago. . .