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Underdog369

03-16-2009, 12:56 AM

Romper Stompers! I loved those things--they were yellow with green rope. I remember watching every morning before my mom watched the Dinah Shore show. (I'm 41, too. ;) )

I didn't know the color because we watched it on a black and white television. That was all the rage back then.

But I didn't want to get kicked out with them by proxy, so Smidgy and I went inside to eat.

I actually remember what we ordered this night, I had the nachos supreme and Smidgy had the "Mom's Special" which was chicken tonight.

I was disappointed with the nachos tonight, seem to remember them having more ground beef and cheese but Smidgy like her chicken ok.
On the way out, I never expected that group to still be there but they were, coolers and all. All I could think of was they would have fit in perfectly for Pop Warner week.

Back in the room, I'm studying the weather channel again. Not good.

62 tomorrow with rain.
56 Tuesday, clear.
58 Wednsday, clear.
64 Thursday, sunny.
73 Friday, sunny.

I'm still not sure what's the difference between clear and sunny, but these temperatures are NOT what I go to Florida for. Crap, I can get this at home.

After much research and planning, we have the whole schedule made out for us ahead of time. You know how that goes.
Monday is an Hollywood Studios day, a short day at the park, followed by some pool time.

Yep, page one of the schedule just went into the trash, but we kept with the rope drop at HS.

With umbrellas in hand, we decided to for once drive there, and it worked out pretty good. The first thing we did was the new Toy Story Midway Mania ride, then grabbed a fastpass to do it again later.

I'm sorry, I have read nothing but good reviews on this ride, but I was a bit underwhelmed. It was just one screen after another that you would shoot targets in. Your gun would either fire baseballs, darts, or rings, depending on the screen you were faced in front of.

I suppose even a lot of the ducks were given their walking papers.

It's funny, I still love B and the B, but it took us forever before we ever saw it the first time, one of those things we just never go around to do. By now it was time to use the fastpasses and I let her kick my butt again on Toy Story.

Nature was also kicking my butt, by now I have stepped in enough puddles that the water has found the cracks in the bottoms of my old sneakers, and my socks and feet are soaked. After a smoke by the Brown Derby DSA under our umbrellas, we did Good Movie Ride and then found ourselves standing out front, deciding.

"You know," I confessed, "I'm not really in the mood for splashing all the way down to TOT."
"Ok, what about the fastpasses, then?"

I thought about it, "How about we just give them to a nice looking couple on their way in?"

This is easier to say than do.

"Nope, too old."
"Nope,,,,,,,,,,UGGGGGGLLYYYYY!!
"Nope, too many of them."

Then we saw a young couple on the way in.
"THere we go. Perfect!," I told her.

We went up to them and Diane offered the tickets.
The girl was appreciative, the guy, HAH!

"We really need Toy Story passes."
"Yes, and you can still get them." My jaw dropped with his attitude.

Now Diane is explaining to them how fastpasses work, how this won't screw them up at all, and with the rain the car stunt show will be cancelled and all those people will be going elsewhere to get out of the rain, like TOWER OF TERROR!

I just stood there, thinking of the irony of all this, (wow, we're arguing with people we are trying to give fastpasses to).

Sometimes it doesn't pay to get out of bed.

Finally he said, "Well, ok, if this is all you've got," and he took them from her. Well, that's what it sounded like to me.

I said the only thing I could think of then, "Oh, thank you, thank you, you've made my day now!" And we left.

Geesh!

:lmao: :lmao: :rotfl: :rotfl:

It amazes me sometimes that you search for people to be nice to, who end up being rude and rude people who don't know how to shut up find you. Why does that really happen?

I'm still trying to figure out how I screwed up D'jay's birthday, I would have bet his farm it was in his screen name.
Dang.

I was feeling odd when I created my screen name and only used odd numbers. The first three I came up with were 369. I was also thinking about the program Disney 365 on the Disney channel, and chose the wrong numbers. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.......:snooty:

tiggerwannabe

03-16-2009, 08:53 AM

Imo, those rudies would have had the offer rescinded :rolleyes:

My fav fastpass giveaway was a day DS and I actually decided to do standby at Soarin ::yes:: We had FPs in hand as we exited the ride and saw an older couple staring at the standby entrance really looking horrified at the 90 minute wait time listed. I walked over and offered them our passes, actually had to explain that they could go right on and they were ecstatic!!! I felt good~

A little happiness goes *such* a long way~

PrincessV

03-16-2009, 03:14 PM

"We're a dying breed."

Ok, guess I'm not gonna be able to hide.

"Nice choice of words," I replied.
:lmao: Well done!

I just stood there, thinking of the irony of all this, (wow, we're arguing with people we are trying to give fastpasses to).
You'd think this is a pretty rare situation, right? I've yet to be able to give away a FP! I've given up at this point and just toss 'em or leave them sitting on a ledge, in plain sight. Bizarre. :sad2:

Disneydad99

03-17-2009, 02:25 PM

is there still room for disneydad in the suitcase?

hey neb and smidge love the report so far...maybe ill go back and read it:thumbsup2 soon!

:cool1:

Underdog369

03-17-2009, 10:43 PM

:lmao: Well done!

You'd think this is a pretty rare situation, right? I've yet to be able to give away a FP! I've given up at this point and just toss 'em or leave them sitting on a ledge, in plain sight. Bizarre. :sad2:

I guess you have to be in the right place at the right time. I haven't had any problem giving fast passes to people before. The people were usually very greatful. Of course, I approached the people with the question "Do you like (name of ride)? Congratulations, you can go right now with these fast passes!" The people I have given them to in this manner think they have won something. There were some special times in our past trip, but we haven't gotten there yet. As soon as we do, you'll read about it in Winkers tr.:woohoo:

Sandy321

03-17-2009, 10:54 PM

:lmao: Well done!

You'd think this is a pretty rare situation, right? I've yet to be able to give away a FP! I've given up at this point and just toss 'em or leave them sitting on a ledge, in plain sight. Bizarre. :sad2:

considering I must be the only person that CM's refuse to let us use late fp - I cant understand!! :confused3 So I understand why people refuse to take late fp

(altho we have been receipients of fp - and we were very happy!)

tiggerwannabe

03-19-2009, 09:17 PM

I was thinking about you today...

whilst checking the reading selection in the head wondering if a johns bathroom reader would fit in the basket....

:wave:

smidgy

03-19-2009, 11:25 PM

HEY!!!! disney dad!!! love to see you're back! nebo will be back soon! we had a busy family week. kiss hug!

sandy, you have to tell nebo you were refused a late fast pass.( he doesn't believe it can happen.) I always say, "don't depend on it" and he "pooh poohs me!" ( I hate being pooh pooed!:lmao: ) but. he has always been right.. we have NEVER been turned down on a late fast pass! but we have always been there at slow times. what month were you turned down? good to know. just once, I would LIKE to be turned down, just to show him I COULD be right... but then... hmm, he would be GRUMPY!!!!! :rotfl: ... I still say.. DON'T DEPEND on it!.. (at least not if it's going to get your feathers all in a ruffle!.. and ruin your day...or your plan... and then your plan is ruined and it's a paradox and your universe will explode!!!!.
.....but// I digress.

ok, taking a deep breath here. If I offer a fast pass to someone to a popular ride, late in the day... I want APPRECIATION! :confused3 :banana: dances:dance3: . however.. maybe we don't SEE the appreciaiton. maybe these people don't KNOW the great gift they are given UNTIL they aproach the line... hmmm... maybe they are... gasp.. newbies...do you always NEED to see the results of a gift? if a gift is truly FREE? perhaps an hour later, they were very grateful; does it take away from the gift? hmmm (not tying this at all to the easter season, and that just happened accidentally, just now, really!, but it DOES fit, FREE salvation and all)

I still like for people to be excited if I give them a fast pass! like when we were in the hallway at boardwalk looking for our room. and walked past a group leaving. you can tell the dif... they were sad, we were happy. they asked if we were checking in and gave us a bag of drinks. 2 bottles of water, 2 of coke zero, one power ade. now we don't really care for ANY of those... BUT.. I THANKED them profusely!!!... (later gave them away, but they didn't know that, so they were happy)

hmm. gift giving and gift receiving. that could be a whole thread!:scared1:

smidgy

03-19-2009, 11:42 PM

You can't dis the brat capital of the world. For shame.
LOVE the BRAT STTOP!!!
. smidge over the speed limit.
.:banana:
smidge!!!!:banana:

Can you give a hint at least if you are moving to Florida?
I can't believe he even asked that.:laughing:

unfortunatley, not any time real soon. waiting for the market to turn over, but you are welcome to stop over in Illinois on your way down. not much help' you'll make it much further south in one day. we are able to move, you guys will be amongst the FIRSSST to know!!!

cjsteiger

03-20-2009, 02:14 PM

This must be my lucky day. I found a new nebo and smidgy trip report. I read 2 of the others lurking mostly but I find you just so funny. Looking forward to reading it all. I'm only up to page 4 right now.

:yay: :banana: :cool1: :woohoo:
Cheryl:surfweb:

redrail

03-20-2009, 03:57 PM

Poor Nebo Smigey must be working him to hard no time for updates on this great report :laundy: :rotfl2:

nebo

03-21-2009, 05:42 PM

Hi, ya'll!
I'm sorry, sorry sorry. It has just been a really busy week, between March Madness and some interviews, and too many times I couldn't tie up the phone, but things should be pretty much back to normal now.
So we're gonna take baby steps, (not babynurses), and get back on track here. Most of the posts I haven't even read yet, so I'm just doing a handfull at a time, see what's there, before I move on and dis the next batch. So shall we see who's in the magic mirror today?
I see Sandy, I see Cherie, I see Kayte,,,,,,,,,,

another RR fan!! :lovestruc

:worship: Nebo - way to brighten a Friday night!!

:rotfl2:
Sandy, am I the only one that remembers something called Treetop House? Or did I dream up that too? Something with a "Miss Jean" maybe?

You can't dis the brat capital of the world. For shame.
Mari, I would never Dis that great town, remember, I used in a phrase that made it superior to NYC. By the way, I used to drive up on 294 to a place called the "Brat Stop" many years ago for the best brats in the entire world, we'd buy them by the multi-pound. I remember it burned down and then was rebuilt into a fancier place, but it just wasn't the same anymore. Is it still there? It was somewhere near rt. 50.
Can you give a hint at least if you are moving to Florida?
Wish I could. all depends on the housing market, we need to sell this place first to get the equity (read, money) out of it to buy what we want. Hey! wanna go in for half? We split the cost of the house, we live there all year and take care of it and then you have a place to come and stay anytime you want to!
Just minutes from Disney's Door!;)

My dh just invited me to go April 15-19 to Orlando, he has a convention
and he asked if I would be okay on my own.
I can't believe he even asked that.:laughing:
Ok, gotta ask, did you just say, "Here's your sign?"

Had to laugh about giving the fastpasses away ---

maybe ugly folk appreciate things more ?

:cool1:
geesh, you know I was just kidding about the ugly part, doncha? This is what happens when you marry the most beautiful girl in the world, you become opinionated, so don't blame me, blame Diane.
(damn, I'm good, in one sentence I shirked my own responsibility for being cold hearted, put the blame on her, and got in a compliment at the same time)

Maybe the good looking people are so used to others giving them stuff......you should have gone with an ugly couple. We ugly people are so shocked when we get anything.

Oh, right. LISTEN to her!

Nebo just got thru this TR need to go back & read the others!!!! Way too funny except I will have to wait I am scaring the customers laughing at the computer while they sip their lattes.

Smidgy I am with you on the drive thing we also drive down about the same route. Except not only is DH anti-fly he is anti-stop. So its a straight thru drive from the Ia/Il/WI border only gas & food breaks. All potty breaks must be done at that time. We usually go down in Jan/Feb maybe next time Nebo & DH can drive & you & I can fly down with the kids:rotfl:

Can't wait for more.:yay:

Hi Kayte, welcome a bored! Be careful what you say about Wisconsin, the moderator lives up there! Actually, I like your idea, it might be NICE to actually have a conversation with someone in the car woh isn't talking to their pillow!

oh, did I just say that out loud?:angel:

nebo

03-21-2009, 06:14 PM

You will truly enjoy them just wish nebo would put them in hard copy:thumbsup2
You and me both, Randy, you and me both. Got it all figures out. The first book would be a "Road trip to Disney", then the proceeds would go to bankroll another trip, maybe a road trip to the Grand Canyon and Vegas, then of coarse we'd have to take a Caribbean Cruise to write about that, then we'd shrink that checkbook one more time for Disney and Universal,,,,,,,,,sigh, but now I can't even get Reader's Digest to publish one of my lousy jokes.

I didn't know the color because we watched it on a black and white television. That was all the rage back then.

I stll like watching some movies in black and white. You probably don['t remember but they used to sell a plastic sheet you could stick on the tv screen, it had blue coloring on top and green on the bottom. It kinda worked for Gunsmoke, but Sea Quest looked pretty darn stupid!

:lmao: :lmao: :rotfl: :rotfl:

It amazes me sometimes that you search for people to be nice to, who end up being rude and rude people who don't know how to shut up find you. Why does that really happen?

yes, it is funny how they seem to find you. I was just commenting to Smidgy about these people we met during lunch that kept talking as I was trying to eat my wiener shnitzel,,,, and how,,,,,,,, hello? hello? testing,,,,hmm, somehow we got disconnected, it's ok, call you right back.
(for those that don't understand a word of that, we met D-Jay and Winkers at Biergarten later in this trip, they know I'm just teasin', right?)

I was feeling odd when I created my screen name and only used odd numbers. The first three I came up with were 369. I was also thinking about the program Disney 365 on the Disney channel, and chose the wrong numbers. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.......:snooty:
Oh, uh huh, I get it.
(What'd he say?)

Imo, those rudies would have had the offer rescinded :rolleyes:

My fav fastpass giveaway was a day DS and I actually decided to do standby at Soarin ::yes:: We had FPs in hand as we exited the ride and saw an older couple staring at the standby entrance really looking horrified at the 90 minute wait time listed. I walked over and offered them our passes, actually had to explain that they could go right on and they were ecstatic!!! I felt good~

A little happiness goes *such* a long way~

Couln't agree more. It's amazing how doing something that really doesn't matter to you can make you feel better. Puts light to " It's better to give then receive"
At least that's what I've been told.

:lmao: Well done!

You'd think this is a pretty rare situation, right? I've yet to be able to give away a FP! I've given up at this point and just toss 'em or leave them sitting on a ledge, in plain sight. Bizarre. :sad2:

Princess, I've had that happen more then just a few times, and not just ad Disney. I thought I saw a guy drop a twenty dollar bill once, and when I approached him about it, I could NOT get him to talk to me, it was like I was Jack the Ripper. Or Mayor Daily!
One time I thought I was going to come to blows with a lady that looked like she was about to give birth any second on the way back from Magic Kingdom, I could not get her to take my seat and sit down. Diane finally got her to take HER seat, and then after she agreed to do that, Diane could then sit down in my seat, with us switching, talk about convoluted logic. But after they switched,,,,,,,,

I changed my mind. :happytv:

is there still room for disneydad in the suitcase?

hey neb and smidge love the report so far...maybe ill go back and read it:thumbsup2 soon!

:cool1:

hey, we have a Disneydad sighting. Be carefull what you read from him, this is the same man who likes to tell his kids they are going to Disneyworld, and after they get allll packed he takes them to the doctor instead, or something like that. Great to see you, Patrick, feel free to join in anytime.

jcc0621

03-21-2009, 06:41 PM

is there still room for disneydad in the suitcase?

hey neb and smidge love the report so far...maybe ill go back and read it:thumbsup2 soon!

:cool1:

WOW! Look what the cat dragged in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

nebo

03-21-2009, 06:58 PM

I guess you have to be in the right place at the right time. I haven't had any problem giving fast passes to people before. The people were usually very greatful. Of course, I approached the people with the question "Do you like (name of ride)? Congratulations, you can go right now with these fast passes!" The people I have given them to in this manner think they have won something. There were some special times in our past trip, but we haven't gotten there yet. As soon as we do, you'll read about it in Winkers tr.:woohoo:

I like your idea, you find out in a hurry whether the peeps are "worthy" or not for the fastpasses. I DID try this approach once before at Epcot, when we still had fastpasses for Test Track left over. You see the bus stop was really crowded, and I thought,,,,,,,,,,,,:headache: Well, I tried. I think I heard someone say, "Yeah, it'll probably break down again as soon as we get near the boarding station anyway." considering I must be the only person that CM's refuse to let us use late fp - I cant understand!! :confused3 So I understand why people refuse to take late fp
You have to be kidding, right? Let me guess, you get like Diane does, she turns bright red, when she hands it over she stares at the ground, shuffles her feet, coughs,,,,and says, " You probably don't want to let us on because our fastpasses expired 4 hours ago, right?"

(altho we have been receipients of fp - and we were very happy!)

We once really did be the "unappreciative" recipients of fastpasses. All my fault, I could'nt help it. A woman tried to give us passes for Honey I shrunk the Audience. This is the most stupid, useless fastpass in existence. It doesn't save any time, you still have to see the back breaking, mind numbing pre-show, and you always get into the next show anyway since the theatre holds 20,000.
I told her I'd take them off her hands for 20 bucks, 25 if she wanted to throw in Maelstrom!

I was thinking about you today...

whilst checking the reading selection in the head wondering if a johns bathroom reader would fit in the basket....

:wave:
Did you buy one of the great Uncle John's Bathroom Readers for your John? I mean, your "John", not, "your john."
"John", not "John."
geesh

Anyway, they fit anywhere. They go best on the top of the tank, under the extra roll of toilet paper. Or, if you have too many candles and decoratative ovbjects on the tank cover, they can also prop of that white container next to the toilet that holds that silly brush.

it's ok honey, I might have mentioned the brush once, but I think I got away with it!

HEY!!!! disney dad!!! love to see you're back! nebo will be back soon! we had a busy family week. kiss hug!
I still like for people to be excited if I give them a fast pass! like when we were in the hallway at boardwalk looking for our room. and walked past a group leaving. you can tell the dif... they were sad, we were happy. they asked if we were checking in and gave us a bag of drinks. 2 bottles of water, 2 of coke zero, one power ade. now we don't really care for ANY of those... BUT.. I THANKED them profusely!!!..Yes she did, she even got a little profusion on me. (later gave them away, but they didn't know that, so they were happy)

:

yeah, big whip. Coke zero, water and some bread I think. Just once I wish people would feel free to give us a bottle of Early Times. NOW we are talking grateful!

This must be my lucky day. I found a new nebo and smidgy trip report. I read 2 of the others lurking mostly but I find you just so funny. Looking forward to reading it all. I'm only up to page 4 right now.

:yay: :banana: :cool1: :woohoo:
Cheryl:surfweb:

Hi Cheryl, welcome back. Here's hoping we can keep it up.
Poor Nebo Smigey must be working him to hard no time for updates on this great report :laundy: :rotfl2:

Yay, way to go Redrail! You are now up to 2 posts!

Ok, I'm hoping we can get right back on the horse tomorrow with a new chapter, check tomorrow night. :hug: steve

dvc at last !

03-21-2009, 08:38 PM

Quote:
Originally Posted by dvc at last !
Had to laugh about giving the fastpasses away ---

maybe ugly folk appreciate things more ?

geesh, you know I was just kidding about the ugly part, doncha? This is what happens when you marry the most beautiful girl in the world, you become opinionated, so don't blame me, blame Diane.
(damn, I'm good, in one sentence I shirked my own responsibility for being cold hearted, put the blame on her, and got in a compliment at the same time)

Quote:
Originally Posted by dvc at last !
Had to laugh about giving the fastpasses away ---

maybe ugly folk appreciate things more ?

geesh, you know I was just kidding about the ugly part, doncha? This is what happens when you marry the most beautiful girl in the world, you become opinionated, so don't blame me, blame Diane.
(damn, I'm good, in one sentence I shirked my own responsibility for being cold hearted, put the blame on her, and got in a compliment at the same time)

Quote:
Originally Posted by dvc at last !
Had to laugh about giving the fastpasses away ---

maybe ugly folk appreciate things more ?

geesh, you know I was just kidding about the ugly part, doncha? This is what happens when you marry the most beautiful girl in the world, you become opinionated, so don't blame me, blame Diane.
(damn, I'm good, in one sentence I shirked my own responsibility for being cold hearted, put the blame on her, and got in a compliment at the same time)

Quote:
Originally Posted by dvc at last !
Had to laugh about giving the fastpasses away ---

maybe ugly folk appreciate things more ?

geesh, you know I was just kidding about the ugly part, doncha? This is what happens when you marry the most beautiful girl in the world, you become opinionated, so don't blame me, blame Diane.
(damn, I'm good, in one sentence I shirked my own responsibility for being cold hearted, put the blame on her, and got in a compliment at the same time)

Quote:
Originally Posted by dvc at last !
Had to laugh about giving the fastpasses away ---

maybe ugly folk appreciate things more ?

geesh, you know I was just kidding about the ugly part, doncha? This is what happens when you marry the most beautiful girl in the world, you become opinionated, so don't blame me, blame Diane.
(damn, I'm good, in one sentence I shirked my own responsibility for being cold hearted, put the blame on her, and got in a compliment at the same time)

Nebo,
I am putting the blame on Diane
'cause she is so clever the way she has you trained.

Smidgy,
Hope you agree --- compliments get you everthing !

Nebo,
Also -
Are you still on dial-up ?

Wow !

What century is this ?

:cool1:

dvc at last !

03-21-2009, 08:43 PM

I just saw my post (above).
Yikes !
What did I do ?
I better take some computer classes !

Or better yet ask my kids - they know more about the computer than me !

:cool1:

nebo

03-22-2009, 07:50 PM

I just saw my post (above).
Yikes !
What did I do ?
I better take some computer classes !

Or better yet ask my kids - they know more about the computer than me !

:cool1:

Dvc, it's not you.
I have just been kicked off of the Dis 3 times now, the dreaded "web page not responding'. The Dis was shut down last night and half of today for a long time making changes, so before I try to put in another chapter I'm going to make sure things are going ok here first, I've sent enough stuff off into cyberspace. Tomorrow, I hope.

http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n126/nebo100/popboardwalk/birds.jpg

Sandy321

03-22-2009, 08:42 PM

Originally Posted by Sandy321
considering I must be the only person that CM's refuse to let us use late fp - I cant understand!! So I understand why people refuse to take late fp
You have to be kidding, right? Let me guess, you get like Diane does, she turns bright red, when she hands it over she stares at the ground, shuffles her feet, coughs,,,,and says, " You probably don't want to let us on because our fastpasses expired 4 hours ago, right?"

(altho we have been receipients of fp - and we were very happy!)
We once really did be the "unappreciative" recipients of fastpasses. All my fault, I could'nt help it. A woman tried to give us passes for Honey I shrunk the Audience. This is the most stupid, useless fastpass in existence. It doesn't save any time, you still have to see the back breaking, mind numbing pre-show, and you always get into the next show anyway since the theatre holds 20,000.
I told her I'd take them off her hands for 20 bucks, 25 if she wanted to throw in Maelstrom!

no, not kidding, and dh would so :rotfl2::lmao: at the thought of me turning red while walking by - as a matter of fact the 2 time (different trip even!) we got thru the first FP taker, with a late fp - went all the way down that stupid long walkway - then you give your FP - and I truly thought all was well - I gave them the 3 fp and walk to the right, and he grabbed dh and said "ma'am, ma'am come back " I ignored him, then dh yelled, "sandy, he wont let me thru" so I turn around and started yelling ' YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME" we had a freakin medical emergency that's why we are 30 freakin min late!

he said he didnt care, rules were rules, dd said "mom you are embarassing me" dh started to leave...

I had to ask for the manager - yep the manager gave us FP to go on (they were baby swaps) he gave us a handful btw! but we had to walk ALL the way down that stinkin hallway AGAIN! and the CM was different!

ITA with you on the Shrunk Audience - but we have a secret to that one - dh needs reflective captioning - so we wait with the wheelchair people - get in and have to sit back right and wait for the mirror - and then when people come in, we get yelled at for "not following directions" Until they see the Reflective captioning - then they usually apologize!

Nebo - try dsl!
cabledealfinder.com just sayin...

its addictive tho.

and the boards are just not right! very slow here.

Underdog369

03-23-2009, 03:13 AM

yes, it is funny how they seem to find you. I was just commenting to Smidgy about these people we met during lunch that kept talking as I was trying to eat my wiener shnitzel,,,, and how,,,,,,,, hello? hello? testing,,,,hmm, somehow we got disconnected, it's ok, call you right back.
(for those that don't understand a word of that, we met D-Jay and Winkers at Biergarten later in this trip, they know I'm just teasin', right?)

If there was better coordination, we would have sat at the same table. You would have then been interrupted by 2 pesky people, 4 annoying, yet wonderful kids, and a MIL. Then again, maybe that's the way you had it planned.:rotfl:

This from the man who started playing with his food after his wife stated we were going to take pictures with him!! His excuse...... "I was waiting for you.":lmao:

I like your idea, you find out in a hurry whether the peeps are "worthy" or not for the fastpasses. I DID try this approach once before at Epcot, when we still had fastpasses for Test Track left over. You see the bus stop was really crowded, and I thought,,,,,,,,,,,,:headache: Well, I tried. I think I heard someone say, "Yeah, it'll probably break down again as soon as we get near the boarding station anyway."

Maybe they were following us. Again, part of our trip report that Cherie doesn't want me to ruin the suprise.

nebo

03-23-2009, 07:59 PM

Not a whole bunch of time right now, but I really want to get back on track, so let's see how fast I can type and think at the same time.

We are going to leave our dumbfounded fastpass less heroes right where they are right now, in a drizzling rain on the way out of HS. Now, let's backtrack here a bit, to the planning stage of the trip.

I am going to guess, that from all the readers here, only maybe two of you might agree with me on my thoughts coming up, and they might be Randy and D-Jay.
See a pattern already?

Our buy 4, get 3 free deal also comes with a 200 dollar gift card, that we are mainlly going to use of coarse on FOOD.
Now, how to break it down?

To me, the answer is very simple, get the most bang for the buck out of it.

Many people take the attitude that once they have the card in their hands, they are now playing with Disney's money. A lot of dumb gamblers take the same approach once they get up a bit in their betting, and it's wrong.

Once the money is won, it becomes officially yours, there is no such thing as " But I was betting with the house's money, so it didn't matter."
No, once you win it, it become's your money, just like the same "your money' that you made the bet with originally.

Follow?

So just because we have an extra 200 bucks from Disney to spend, no, not going to blow it all at Victoria and Albert's.

You know how I would have spent it?

20 counter service meals! Ten apiece, and I don't have to pull out my wallet for food for the rest of the trip!
Wanna guess how far that thought lasted in our conversation?

Diane saw it as a form of "free dining". So, as experienced as we both are in the art of compromise and since we both have black belts in the "Marital Arts", we both got a little of what we want.

Buffet meals are generally the cheapest, so using that tactic and the fact we could knock another table service restaurant off our list, we chose Cape May as one place. Then Biergarten joined in. We wish to knock down the untried list somemore and decided on Nine Dragons. With 3 tables services taken, I figured there should still be enough for two counter service meals left, and a split of a funnel cake at Sleepy Hollow.

You are probably thinking I'm crazy, I had my calculator our when I did all the adding at home, and believe it or not, it worked out in the end to leave us exactly 1.45 cents left over doing exactly the meals we mentioned above.
We also have a 15 dollar gift certificate for Planet Hollywood and ressies set for an our of pocket meal at T-Rex.

I still like my first idea better, no having to be at a certain place at a certain time, no "saving" yourself for the "real" meal.
Just lots of ribs at Flame Tree, chicken parmisagna at Riverside, jambalaya at French Quarter, and chili-cheese dogs at Cosmic Ray's when I want the back of the bus all to myself at the end of Wishes. :scared1:

So, back to HS. It's about noon now, and the cold and the rain pretty much dampened my spirits, not to mention soaking my socks cuz my only comfortable shoes have cracks in the bottom of the soles, and it was time to change the schedule, go with the flow and play it by ear. Funny thing was, for every trip I usually make a small list of things I want to do, or see, that I always forget about. Remember how long it took us to finally see Devine?

One thing I wanted to do was have my picture taken somewhere in HS that we hardly ever are in the neighborhood of, supposedly it's the same style of lamp taht Gene Kelly swung around on in "Singin in the Rain."

I thought about it just before we left, but two problems; one is that I just don't feel like it right now, and two is that I'm not really sure where it is. And three is that because of the weather, I didn't even bring the camera with me.

The ironic part is that for that shot it would have been perfect today, It WAS raining. Probably just as well though, instead of "Singin' in the Rain", it would have looked more like "Moanin' in the Mist."

By the way, I have given this a lot of thought, and in my opinion, the single most impressive animatronic in all of DisneyWorld is the wicked witch in Great Movie Ride. For years we used to have debates on whether or not it is a live person or not.

Anybody else have their favorite animatronic?

We had take a tram to the front gate in the morning, but for some stupid reason I wanted to walk to the car now, so with umbrellas out we splashed our way back to the Santa Fe.

DId you know that it's a lot harder to find your car when the lot is full?
Honest.

Didn't miss a single puddle though.

In the room I changed socks and shoes, and we splashed our way out to the car again, time to use the certificate that came with the package for Planet Hollywood.

Once again the rain started up as soon as we parked so there wasn't much inclination to do much more than just go in and eat.

In our musings and bemusings about living down there and maybe working there, Diane has considered possibly getting a waitress job somewhere in Disney, she is an excellent waitress for a fine dining establishment up here, and at least in Disney you know the tables are going to be full.

Just not going to happen at Planet Hollywood though. Out of the ten different waitresses we saw, and on other trips as well, none were taller then 5'3, none looked older then 18, and I don't think there was a single one that weighed more then 105 pounds. She pointed out that her chest weighed more then most of the girls whole bodies, and I had to agree with her, though that wasn't exactly the word she used.

Personally, I think she's make a great "Mom" at Prime Time.
Then she could do what comes naturally.

Wait on people , not yell at them, geesh!

Whenever we have used the PH discount before we have ended up splitting appetizers, and they're ok, just not something to write home about. This time we both ordered burgers and fries. I thought it was better then expected, she agreed. Even though they aren't cheap, the whole thing cost and extra 14 bucks, including tip, which is fine by me.

And I still haven't cracked open the 200 dollar gift card yet!

The package also came with a 5 dollar merchandise Planet Hollywood card, and I think she used that to buy a toothpick. We were back to the resort by 3 o'clock, with no idea what to do with our time now.
And it was still raining.

After stopping in the food court/gift shop for a newspaper, we took a walk around all the food counters to see if anything was missed before, I had an idea that we might be hungry again later on tonight, and when you just hang around it seems you end up eating more then normal.

One thing I did see that a lot of people had ordered was a huge pizza.
We have both read about the pizzas in Disney, and from growing up in Chicago, we are both pretty picky when it comes to thin/pan/stuffed/doublestuffed or even in pie form, pizza.

But there's something about seeing a big open pizza box on a table, and everybody digging into it that makes you want to try it.
There was this one family sitting at a long table, with 2 huge boxes in front of them, not talking, just chowing down like it's the best thing in the world. I kept trying to get a good view of the main part still in the box, but everytime they opened it, they's close it right back up and just eat that one piece they took out, not even put in down first.

This is not helping me. I NEED to see the crust. I can' tell a lot about a pizza just by viewing the crust.

"Whatdoyathink, hon, can you tell?"
"Nope," she replied, "they keep closing the box on me."

"I know, how selfish!"

I started to walk away, but she had better thoughts, it was going to be a direct frontal approach.
I saw her walking over there, and was afraid she was going to grab the box and make a run with it.

In a way, that might have been a better choice.

"Excuse me, we were just wondering if the pizza here is any good."

Since she said, "we", and since they started looking around for the rest of "we", I figured that it might be prudent to go over and join her.

It turned out that Diane's "we', and their "we", were probably two different words. I think they thought she said "oui", because what followed was a mostly French couple of sentences, if it was a critique on the pizza, I have no idea. I nodded my head, trying not to laugh and started walking away mumbling thanks.

Did Smidgy take my lead?

Au contraire.

I must be rubbing off on her.
"Oh, so your from France?"
"Wow, that must have been SOME long flight to get here, so tell me, what part of France are you from?"

I looked at the guy, saw the little smirk and I could see what was coming. This time I did walk away just so I wouldn't be dumb by proxy, but I could stil hear the one word answer;

"Montreal".

I met her out by the smoking area, and she was still red. Turned out that they liked the pizza very much though, and later on that night we gave it a shot.

Oh brother, a shot would have been the humane thing. Apparently, when it comes to pizza they are easy to please up in Montreal. To me is was just your typical "air" pizza. Just like Domino's or Chuck E CHeese, with the inflated crust. The only thing it's good for is heartburn.

Tomorrow is tuesday, according to the weather channel, this is our forecast:
Tuesday; sunny and clear, high of 52
Wednsday; sunny, high 54
Thurday; sunny, high 55
Friday; sunny, high 64

I am not feeling the love or even being given the chance to get loose of Mr. Grumpy Gills. They keep pushing back the warm weather day by day. Tomorrow is also Magic Kingdom day, rope drop and all. Oh well, gotta grin and bear it.

After hanging around Pop yesterday, I did find out that there was ONE good thing about the room we were given.
It's like this;
If we were on the first floor, it would have been no problem to walk over to one of the smoking areas, and the second floor is also no problem, I don't mind one flight of stairs. But Pop has 4 floors with a stairway over by the lake side.

Anybody on the fourth floor used the elevator, no need to walk all the way down or up. There are also no corner rooms at the values, meaning no double windows, so the staircase side of the building is just that, a staircase and that's all that's over there. And, since the lake at Pop is just a "lookin at" lake, meaning that you can't swim, boat, canoe, fish, sail, or use it for anything but to look at, there is no reason again for anyone to use the stairs that lead down to it.

It made a great unauthorized smoking spot on the top floor, our of site of everybody, which was helpful when it's 35 degrees out and raining. I spent more time hiding in that Duncan Yo Yo then I ever did playing with one as a kid. :cheer2:

goodnight all, hopefully we're back on track now, and the chapters will come quicker then they have.

TyRy

03-23-2009, 08:42 PM

Many people take the attitude that once they have the card in their hands, they are now playing with Disney's money. A lot of dumb gamblers take the same approach once they get up a bit in their betting, and it's wrong.

Once the money is won, it becomes officially yours, there is no such thing as " But I was betting with the house's money, so it didn't matter."
No, once you win it, it become's your money, just like the same "your money' that you made the bet with originally.

See this is why I don't gamble...I'd be the dumb one who spends the money I just made at the slot machines! :goodvibes

So just because we have an extra 200 bucks from Disney to spend, no, not going to blow it all at Victoria and Albert's.

You know how I would have spent it?

20 counter service meals! Ten apiece, and I don't have to pull out my wallet for food for the rest of the trip!
Wanna guess how far that thought lasted in our conversation?

:rotfl: About as long as it would have lasted in my house...I'd see it totally as a way to do some TS that we wouldn't have done without it. Or maybe I would have just bought two new pieces for my Christmas village. :laughing:

I thought about it just before we left, but two problems; one is that I just don't feel like it right now, and two is that I'm not really sure where it is. And three is that because of the weather, I didn't even bring the camera with me.

The ironic part is that for that shot it would have been perfect today, It WAS raining. Probably just as well though, instead of "Singin' in the Rain", it would have looked more like "Moanin' in the Mist."
I swear I thought there was going to be a picture of you with an unbrella wrapped around a lightpost!

Anybody else have their favorite animatronic?
Captain Jack!

Didn't miss a single puddle though.
Is this like potholes with a car, cause I know mine hasn't missed any this year! :lmao:

"Montreal".
:rotfl2::rotfl::lmao:

KathyRN137

03-23-2009, 10:11 PM

Poor Smidgy! N'importe, Chiere!

Kathy

Sandy321

03-23-2009, 10:32 PM

:rotfl2:

great installment, many laughs...

and hey in the Great Movie Ride - am I the only one that yells "Follow the Yellow Brick Road" when the Cm asks? Love the Witch... Johnny is pretty good - but he is new... I do have a soft spot for Abraham Lincoln...

smidgy

03-23-2009, 11:45 PM

Quote:

Nebo,
Also -
Are you still on dial-up ?

Wow !

What century is this ?

:cool1:

I just saw my post (above).
Yikes !
What did I do ?
I better take some computer classes !

Or better yet ask my kids - they know more about the computer than me !

:cool1:

:rotfl::lmao::dance3:HAD to call you on this!!! sorry. you quadruple a post and tease us about dial up? tee hee!!! (of course, because of our ancient dial up, it took me about 20 minutes to post this!!!, and my slow computer makes me double post tons of times!)
by the way, I still can't handle multi quoting, that's whay i post a bunch of times! just had to give you grief. (on nebo's TR, it makes you feel like you belong!!!:grouphug:)

smidgy

03-24-2009, 12:02 AM

Dvc, it's not you.
I have just been kicked off of the Dis 3 times now, the dreaded "web page not responding'. The Dis was shut down last night and half of today for a long time making changes, so before I try to put in another chapter I'm going to make sure things are going ok here first, I've sent enough stuff off into cyberspace. Tomorrow, I hope.

http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n126/nebo100/popboardwalk/birds.jpg

GREAT! now i'm the crazy bird lady.... "feed the birds, tuppence a bag.. tuppence... tuppence... tuppence a bag"

(at Pop century, this is a "secret attraction", esp. for smokers. the other 3 value resorts don't have the lake. and the lake at POP has DSAs all along it)
I swear, I have no idea why animals love me. my one cat is right now sitting ON my feet. all my house cleaning customers that have dogs... those dogs follow me around ALL day.. I darn near trip on them.. and I'm not a dog person. at the bar I used to work, the owner had a doberman... not a very friendly dog..
but if I was at the bar having a drink that dog plopped down her butt right next to me , expecting me to pet her.:confused3

smidgy

03-24-2009, 12:41 AM

OK.. I just read the whole installment and I'm cracking up!:lmao: and it all really happened that way! but it's funny reading it with Nebo's "spin".
and I should know better than to try to converse with the foreign tourists.!!

It all started back in '02, when we were sitting at the waterfall(?) bar at Animal kingdom lodge. the man next to us with a british accent made us guess where he was from. I guessed "Wales" ... and I was right! the next year a couple on a boat from Royal Pacific resort (at Universal) were talking to us and I asked how they liked living in Boston... and I was right!!! ... I should have quit when I was ahead. but I still insist on talking to (bothering)strangers. I guess it comes from years of waiting for nebo to get off the thrill rides (like at great America, Cedar Point, etc).
I never met a stranger, only friends I don't know yet!!!!!:yay:

whogirl'smom

03-24-2009, 09:56 AM

It is quite a dilemma having $200 burning a hole in your pocket, but Diane's right, you can only eat so many chili dogs.....you could end up touring the World alone. ;) There are some mighty good CS things, though, like Tonga Toast and the breakfast pizza at Pop.

I don't try to guess accents anymore. Last trip dh and I were on the bus and he started talking to a nice couple that were standing beside us. Sounded like they were from NY to us, but, nope. Louisiana. It went from Cajun to the Bronx all in one sentence.

tiggerwannabe

03-24-2009, 11:57 AM

I never met a stranger, only friends I don't know yet!!!!!

:teeth:

:wave:

heaven2dc

03-24-2009, 12:57 PM

I am having a great time reading your TR! I can't believe the reaction that young man gave to your free FP's - I would have almost grabbed them back and said "good luck!" but then I'm most generally a nice person and wouldn't have done that. You were WAY too kind!!

I hope the weather improves! It was 80ish when we were there in December except the first day it was cold. Even with sunny weather 50-60 is still chilly in Florida.

winkers

03-24-2009, 07:00 PM

To me the 2 $200 giftcards were "free money"......why on earth would I spend it on food?;)

Smidgy......I would have guessed France too!

Underdog369

03-24-2009, 08:00 PM

To me the 2 $200 giftcards were "free money"......why on earth would I spend it on food?;)

We didn't either. Of course, if you would continue on with the trip report Cherie, I wouldn't be tempted to spoil all the suprises........:rotfl:

Backstage_Gal

03-24-2009, 08:08 PM

:rotfl2::rotfl2::rotfl2:

Nebo, very funny update again!

Love you making your secret smoking area on the 4th floor :thumbsup2

Not to get you down, I have no doubt about Smidgy being a wonderful server, but the hot spots at Disney are all filled all the time. There are plenty of places that are NOT full all the time.

It goes by seniority. I don't think anybody ever leaves places like Chef Mickey's or HDDR voluntarily. They either die or retire or get fired, and then 10,000 are in line for an opening....

But on the positive side, the prices are so high, the tips are good anyway :sad2:

Looking forward to the next update.

dvc at last !

03-24-2009, 09:03 PM

:rotfl::lmao::dance3:HAD to call you on this!!! sorry. you quadruple a post and tease us about dial up? tee hee!!! (of course, because of our ancient dial up, it took me about 20 minutes to post this!!!, and my slow computer makes me double post tons of times!)
by the way, I still can't handle multi quoting, that's whay i post a bunch of times! just had to give you grief. (on nebo's TR, it makes you feel like you belong!!!:grouphug:)

I can take it - we are tough here in the Cold Northeast -
The post I made was very funny --- I had to laugh, too !
But, really I am not an expert at the computer either. I get around
(the keyboard) and ask the kids many questions. Somtimes I understand
and other times - whatever !
You said it took you 20 min. to make a post. I can make a mistake in 20 seconds :dance3:

Anyway - I love reading this thread !

:cool1:

coffeehousemom

03-26-2009, 10:26 AM

Smidgy I feel your pain. When we were at Pop Century this past Jan we also encountered French speaking Canadians. It sooo confused DS. First they were speaking English to each other then they switched to French. He looked at me then looked back at them looked at me & said" Momma why are those people talking different?" I said they were speaking French he said " but they were just talking regular to me a minute ago?" Then DD pops in with "why would they speak French if they are from Canada? They are wearing Candian flag shirts." So as I am slouching further down into my seat on the bus I answer that half of Canada does speak French. Darling wonderful DS speaks at his best loudest decibel levels " thats weird why would you speak 2 different languages?":confused3:confused3

Needless to say I put him on my lap & tried to hide from our neighbors from up north the rest of the bus ride.:rotfl:

tiggerwannabe

03-26-2009, 12:44 PM

I just got this from the "boss" today :)

(I believe the general public will have access to the same deal by 3/30---rumor has it anyway)

Just released this morning - Use your Disney Visa card & Get Free Dining for most dates 8/16/09-10/3/09. Book by 6/21/09

Plus! Book by 4/30/09 and get a year of free access to Touringplans.com

Want more info?
isit http://www.MouseFan.Travel - or
email us at info@MouseFanTravel.com

lisalonglash

03-26-2009, 01:23 PM

20 counter service meals! Ten apiece, and I don't have to pull out my wallet for food for the rest of the trip!
Wanna guess how far that thought lasted in our conversation?

About as long as it would have lasted if dh and I were having the conversation? :lmao:

Then Biergarten joined in. We wish to knock down the untried list somemore and decided on Nine Dragons. With 3 tables services taken, I figured there should still be enough for two counter service meals left, and a split of a funnel cake at Sleepy Hollow.

Oooh, I can't wait to (a) read your review of Biergarten and (b) go there in September! :banana:

The ironic part is that for that shot it would have been perfect today, It WAS raining. Probably just as well though, instead of "Singin' in the Rain", it would have looked more like "Moanin' in the Mist."

It WOULD have been perfect - next time... :rolleyes1

By the way, I have given this a lot of thought, and in my opinion, the single most impressive animatronic in all of DisneyWorld is the wicked witch in Great Movie Ride. For years we used to have debates on whether or not it is a live person or not.

Can't wait to ride that - missed it the first time. Do you think it'll be too scary for my then 7yo son?

Didn't miss a single puddle though.

Sorry, but :rotfl:

The package also came with a 5 dollar merchandise Planet Hollywood card, and I think she used that to buy a toothpick. We were back to the resort by 3 o'clock, with no idea what to do with our time now.
And it was still raining.

A toothpick costs $5??? :eek: Sorry about that rain :sad2:

I met her out by the smoking area, and she was still red. Turned out that they liked the pizza very much though, and later on that night we gave it a shot.

Never mind, Smidgy. It's an honest mistake - and a really easy mistake to make! :hug:

Smidgy I feel your pain. When we were at Pop Century this past Jan we also encountered French speaking Canadians. It sooo confused DS. First they were speaking English to each other then they switched to French. He looked at me then looked back at them looked at me & said" Momma why are those people talking different?" I said they were speaking French he said " but they were just talking regular to me a minute ago?" Then DD pops in with "why would they speak French if they are from Canada? They are wearing Candian flag shirts." So as I am slouching further down into my seat on the bus I answer that half of Canada does speak French. Darling wonderful DS speaks at his best loudest decibel levels " thats weird why would you speak 2 different languages?":confused3:confused3

Needless to say I put him on my lap & tried to hide from our neighbors from up north the rest of the bus ride.:rotfl:

LOL! For the record, only about 23% of Canadians primarily speak French and, of those, about 80% of francophones live in Quebec. In fact, Chinese is the third most popular language in Canada at over 18%.

Your son sounds adorable :goodvibes Aww, most people wouldn't mind if a child asked them that question - I think it's a great question! :thumbsup2

BTW, my boys did the same (but opposite) when we were in France. "Mommy, why doesn't that man understand me?". "Well, you're speaking English and he speaks only French". "Well, why doesn't he speak English, that's weird!". Yep, a hasty retreat from that store and a quick discussion about languages again :laughing:

nebo

03-26-2009, 08:14 PM

Hi boys and girls, it's time to check the mailbag before another exciting chapter debuts tomorrow;

I swear I thought there was going to be a picture of you with an unbrella wrapped around a lightpost!

:rotfl2::rotfl::lmao:

Tracy, you're right, I blew it. But the picture I really blew was the one of the car parked on an "angle" at the motel in Alabama. That, you had to see to believe, I'm not kidding when I wanted to get out before Diane did so it wouldn't flip over.

Poor Smidgy! N'importe, Chiere!

Kathy

Kathy, I'm looking at your tag line, and it reminded me. I had a small cross hung on the wall, not sure what happened to it, might have fallen behind the dresser, but on each spoke it had: Faith, love, hope. And on the bottom I believe it said, "and the greatest of these is love."
I don't know, just popped in my mind. Just sayin. I like it.

:rotfl2:

great installment, many laughs...

and hey in the Great Movie Ride - am I the only one that yells "Follow the Yellow Brick Road" when the Cm asks? Love the Witch... Johnny is pretty good - but he is new... I do have a soft spot for Abraham Lincoln...

You know, the first time I rode it, I DID yell it out too. And it was as if time just came to a standstill, everyone turned around and looked at me, from the host conductor to even Smidgy and even a few munchkins popped there heads back up.
Now, I just sit there.

GREAT! now i'm the crazy bird lady....

I prefer the "Bird Lady of Askaban."

I never met a stranger, only friends I don't know yet!!!!!:yay:

Oh, Gack!

Last trip dh and I were on the bus and he started talking to a nice couple that were standing beside us. Sounded like they were from NY to us, but, nope. Louisiana. It went from Cajun to the Bronx all in one sentence.

Oh, uh huh, I see. Yep, you're from Tennessee allright. I'm teasin. "Dontcha know I love ya, ya crazy kid?"

I hope the weather improves! It was 80ish when we were there in December except the first day it was cold. Even with sunny weather 50-60 is still chilly in Florida.

I agree, for some reason 50 in Florida seems a lot colder then 50 in Chicago. Might be because when I go to Florida, I all ever pack is shorts and tank tops.

nebo

03-26-2009, 08:39 PM

To me the 2 $200 giftcards were "free money"......why on earth would I spend it on food?;)

!

YOU MEAN TO TELL ME, that you blew the whole wad on ALCOHOL?

:rotfl2::rotfl2::rotfl2:

Nebo, very funny update again!

Love you making your secret smoking area on the 4th floor :thumbsup2

Looking forward to the next update.

Marita, you going back to Germany next month? Great!

Anyway - I love reading this thread !

:cool1:

Me too! I just wish the guy who is writing most of it would do it a little more often.

Smidgy I feel your pain. When we were at Pop Century this past Jan we also encountered French speaking Canadians. It sooo confused DS. First they were speaking English to each other then they switched to French. He looked at me then looked back at them looked at me & said" Momma why are those people talking different?" I said they were speaking French he said " but they were just talking regular to me a minute ago?" Then DD pops in with "why would they speak French if they are from Canada? They are wearing Candian flag shirts." So as I am slouching further down into my seat on the bus I answer that half of Canada does speak French. Darling wonderful DS speaks at his best loudest decibel levels " thats weird why would you speak 2 different languages?":confused3:confused3

Needless to say I put him on my lap & tried to hide from our neighbors from up north the rest of the bus ride.:rotfl:

Kayte that's a great story, so, you're sayin I should then put Smidgy on my lap to get her to shut up?

I just got this from the "boss" today :)

(I believe the general public will have access to the same deal by 3/30---rumor has it anyway)

Just released this morning - Use your Disney Visa card & Get Free Dining for most dates 8/16/09-10/3/09. Book by 6/21/09

Plus! Book by 4/30/09 and get a year of free access to Touringplans.com

Want more info?
isit http://www.MouseFan.Travel - or
email us at info@MouseFanTravel.com

Thanks Colleen for the info, but the voices told me about it two weeks ago. Not to mention the special PIN we got in an e-mail 6 weeks ago for free Dining. DISNEY WON'T LEAVE US ALONE!

Oooh, I can't wait to (a) read your review of Biergarten and (b) go there in September! :banana:

Lisa, if you have ever read any of my restaurant reviews, you would know never to read any of my restaurant reviews. For a better review of Biergarten you should probably read Winkers report, she was there with us.

Can't wait to ride that - missed it the first time. Do you think it'll be too scary for my then 7yo son?

No, not at all, one little scary part, then it's all hugs and kisses.

LOL! For the record, only about 23% of Canadians primarily speak French and, of those, about 80% of francophones live in Quebec. In fact, Chinese is the third most popular language in Canada at over 18%.
:

I'll come clean now, they actually did say Quebec, but when I typed it out, the spelling didn't quite look right, so I changed it to Montreal, don't ask, who knows the reasons I do things?

tomorrow.

Disney 4-ever

03-27-2009, 08:23 AM

It's like this;
If we were on the first floor, it would have been no problem to walk over to one of the smoking areas, and the second floor is also no problem, I don't mind one flight of stairs. But Pop has 4 floors with a stairway over by the lake side.

Anybody on the fourth floor used the elevator, no need to walk all the way down or up. There are also no corner rooms at the values, meaning no double windows, so the staircase side of the building is just that, a staircase and that's all that's over there. And, since the lake at Pop is just a "lookin at" lake, meaning that you can't swim, boat, canoe, fish, sail, or use it for anything but to look at, there is no reason again for anyone to use the stairs that lead down to it.

It made a great unauthorized smoking spot on the top floor, our of site of everybody, which was helpful when it's 35 degrees out and raining. I spent more time hiding in that Duncan Yo Yo then I ever did playing with one as a kid. :cheer2:

that is the exact building we were in last time, on the top floor (corner room) lol, and I used the yo-yo alot, never seen anyone back there, so thats where I went, especially when it was pouring out.
You're also right about Randy and Myself included. We have been wanting a package with just counter services, so that's the way we would have went. Dont get me wrong, I love the sit down table services, but I hate it when I have to get everyone together to get to our reservations on time.
as usual, great update.

PrincessV

03-27-2009, 10:37 AM

I still like my first idea better, no having to be at a certain place at a certain time, no "saving" yourself for the "real" meal.
Just lots of ribs at Flame Tree, chicken parmisagna at Riverside, jambalaya at French Quarter, and chili-cheese dogs at Cosmic Ray's when I want the back of the bus all to myself at the end of Wishes. :scared1:
I have to say, you make it sound very good - yummy choices. Except for that last bit. :sad2: With that, I'm jumping off the hypothetical bus, thank you very much. :rotfl:

Anybody else have their favorite animatronic?
Sleeping monk in Spaceship Earth. :thumbsup2

Tuesday; sunny and clear, high of 52
Wednsday; sunny, high 54
Thurday; sunny, high 55
Friday; sunny, high 64
One bright spot here - once you're down here permanently, and go through a summer or two, 55 will start looking mighty fine! :rotfl:

nebo

03-27-2009, 06:31 PM

http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n126/nebo100/popboardwalk/tomorrowlandpic.jpg

Here's a shot you don't see all the time.
Does everybody know what it is?

From the patio by the Plaza, looking toward Tomorrowland. Which brings us to today, a MK day.

Early that morning after sticking my bald head out the door, Happy, happy, happy was going to be no match for Grumpy Gills today.
It was Freezing!

Ok, ok, it's a MK day, Magic Kingdom always makes me smile.
Fine, now, what to wear?
It's still early in the trip, but my situation is getting desperate, already.

In my designated drawers, as designated by "She who must not be disturbed", I still have 7 untouched tank tops, 6 untouched shorts, and countless shorty socks so I don't look like a complete dork when I wear the shorts.

None of these items have even been touched yet, except to be pushed out of the way to find something a tad warmer. It's tuesday, we've been in Florida since friday, and I'm still wearing long jeans, and regular type socks.

Trust me, today is not going to be any different. But I'm already down to 2 pairs of regular socks, and those are supposed to be for the drive home.

Hmnm, gonna have to improvise here. Let's see, yesterday because of the puddles and the holey shoes, that ate up two pairs. I checked the ones that got soaked, and yep, still soaked. Now, I hate putting on socks that have already been warn, but looks like I don't have a choice, and I only wore them half a day yesterday afternoon and night.

"Honey, have you seen the socks I had on yesterday?"

"Last I saw they were standing up in the corner next to the book bag. Why, You're not thinking of,,,,,,?"

"Shut."
"Up."
"You."

Like I said, improvise.

At least the rain had stopped, and you can see the sky breaking up, sun peaking through.

I ran down for a smoke, and to pick up a newspaper for later, sometimes they run out and Diane gets crabby when she can't do a Sudoku. Believe it or not, it's supposed to be a split stay day, with some pool time in between. Yeah, right.

As I walked past the pool I stopped to read the chalkboard. They have the high today at 53, and then the park hours. I did notice one thing, Blizzard Beach was closed.
Gosh, ya think?

On the way back up, I shared a ride with a young couple and their small son. None of them looked happy, with her looking like she was about to spit nails, and I could just tell that it was because of the cold, also.

So, you think I would just mind my own business and leave them alone?
Coarse not.

All I said was, "Next winter I'm going someplace warm, like Cleveland."

Nobody laughed, and she just glared at me, fire shooting out of her eyes.
I just looked down and mumbled, "hokay." Now that little remark brought a very small chuckle from the man standing next to me, a chuckle that I was certain he was going to live to regret.

And again, sans camera, we made rope drop with a lot more people than I would have expected. In the past I have always taken a picture of myself, and lately of Diane in the rocking chair in the smoking area near BTMR. But nope, not today, I don't want to remember this trip as the one where I wore a jacket most of the time. Besides, I don't look good in goosebumps. We will be back this trip, it's gotta be warmer sometime, right? As we are standing in the courtyard waiting for the good morning welcome routine show to begin, Diane suddenly hisses in my ear, "Steve, what are you doing? Put out the cigarette!"

One problem, I wasn't smoking, and I told her very loudly that I wasn't.

"I'm NOT smoking!"

"That's my breath you see, look, everyone is smoking."

It was that cold out. Once the ropes were dropped, the key was to stay in the sunshine, so everybody walked right down the center of the street. And, for some reason, nobody headed to Splash Mountain, the entire group of us made a right and went on to Tomorrowland.

What our plan here lately is, collect as many fastpasses we can in the morning, to use later when we come back. It's a good plan, especially if it's crowded.

Except not today. It's a tuesday in the tundra, crowds weren't a problem. We rode Buzz, got a fastpass. Then hit the dark rides in Fantasyland, which I liked much more than normal cuz they were inside, where it was warm.

Rodey Big Thunder, got a fastpass.

Did Pirates, Tiki Birds, yes, Tiki Birds, I like it, not sure why. At Jungle Cruise they weren't issuing fastpasses today, and the line was 25 minutes so we skipped it. Grabbed a fastpass for Space Mountain, then hit Laugh Floor and we were ready to head on back. It was about 11:30 and the sun felt pretty good, had the stupid idea that maybe if might be ok to at least lie in a lawn chair and read the paper.

Once again, in the room I put on my suit and pants over it.
And brought my jacket.

I thought that since the bowling pin pool was more enclosed by buildings, tht it might be less windy over there, so away we went.
Yep, wrong again, the buildings acted as a wind tunnel, we never even got settled in a chair, just turned around and went back to the Hippy Dippy Pool.

I lasted 20 minutes.
Which was about 15 minutes more than I would have liked. She said she was going to try it a bit more, and I went back to our room and changed again.

Then I started drinking.

Heh, Hey, nothing else to do!

With drink in hand, I then went and spent some quality time with myself in my special yo yo.

Later on, we are on our way back to the MK, Sunny D's in hand.
I have to say, it seemed like we were just going through the motions tonight, there was no Spectro, we positioned ourselves on Main street for Wishes and left without even using the Space Mountain fastpasses.
No, wasn't going to even try to give them away.

http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n126/nebo100/popboardwalk/wishes1.jpg

http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n126/nebo100/popboardwalk/wishes2.jpg

That night we had sandwiches and chips and cheese and crackers in the room, and I'm now getting gun shy about even turning on the weather channel. I remember on most trips, always watching the Disney preview channels, felt like I got to know Stacy personally. :scared1:

Now, I don't want to even see her in her shorts and midriffs, looking all tan and sweaty.

Wednsday morning while Diane was getting dressed, I turned the dang tv on again, and that's when I found out.

"Diane, you will be just so proud to know, that two hours ago, we set the all time low temperature for this day in Orlando, it got down to 26 degrees, and I am just so thrilled that you and I could be a part of it!"

"Up yours."

Wow, "Mrs. Grumpy Gills" shows up, it was finally getting to her.

Now I'm wishing I had long underwear. THis is NUTS! I don't have even the slightest little band of white under my wristwatch band, cuz the rest of my body is still bone white too!

To coin someone else's phrase: "As God is my witness, I will never come back in February again!"

Today is another split stay day, Animal Kingdom this time. I have always done the AK on EMH day, it makes a great way to see all the shows, and get to be in the park at night which is pretty cool looking.

Before we left I ran to my yo yo for a quick smoke, and DAMN it was cold.

AHEM! Damn it was cold!

(Oh, ok, "How cold was it?")

thank you

It was so cold:

That two guys were ice fishing on the Computer Pool. :scared1:
It was so cold:

That when the Magical Depress Bus pulled up, the folks waiting let out a big cheer!! :dance3:
It was so cold:

That Mr and Mrs Potato Head went back in the oven. :lmao:

And, it was so cold:
That before Wishes started, Tinkerbell's Flight was grounded due to icing on her wings!:eek:

It was that cold for a wednsday in Florida. :sad2:

Yes, I know, I don't play with smileys much, but sometimes they can be lots of fun.

We drove to AK, that was mistake number one. You see, this weather is playing havoc with my foot, and with all it went through last fall, it is not holding up well. This was too far of a walk today for me, and the first thing we want to do is Kilimanjaro Safari, again, an incredible walk way to the back with the pushing and shoving throng.

We have made it in the second car in the past, and even though we started out near the front, no such thing was gonna happen today. About a hundred people passed us as I limped along. It still wasn't much of a wait, and apparently the animals were all looking for some sunshine too, as there were plenty to see today.

We sat right behind the driver/guide, and he was just terrific. What made me like him even more was that he had to yell at some folks in the back a couple of times to keep their kid sitting down.

I kept waiting to hear, "If I have to turn around one more time young man, I'm going to turn this truck right around and we are going back home!"

On the way out I told him he was excellent at his work, and he seemed to appreciate it. Then I tried to give him a fastpass. (just kidding)

Sorry, Diane and I didn't get into another "No new news on the gnus" today.

We saw the Screamin Kids Show, (It's tough to be a Bug), and then sat right up front for "Finding Nebo".
I mean Nemo.

I never get tired of this show, probably have seen it now 6 times, it is just phenomenal, don't miss it!

WIth that, we left.

Our original plan was to either go check out more homesites, but we have already decided we know where we want to live,,,,,, or go and check out Old Key West and maybe rent bikes there,,, but it was too dang cold.

In the car, I started thinking, uh huh, to a trained eye, which as myopic as it is, is still highly trained when it comes to DisneyWorld, you can see the cutbacks that have been made. For one thing, less DSA's. That's designated smoking areas for the uniniatated. I guess less clean up? I already said they cut down the life guards from 12 to 10 at the pool, but even the ride in Fantasyland yesterday. To a trained eye you will notice that it is now Snow White and the 4 Dwarfs.

They laid off Sneezy, Grumpy and Bashful.

Other things too, we had the longest wait at MK in the middle of the day for a bus, unusual for Pop Century. Plus, and I know it was colder this trip, we were there last February, and the pools at Coronado and the ASMO were much more heated. There was still more to come.

I cannot for the life of me remember what we did back at the resort, I think we tried to take a nap, with my version of a nap staring at the ceiling, but before I knew it, I was making drinks again, and we were ready to head on back to AK.

Now,,,,, THIS,,,,,, was a HUGE,,, MISTAKE!

as you shall soon see.

ttfn, neebs :woohoo:

on a side note, every once in a while I have a really great time writing an installment, and think that I done good. This was one of those times. No, the memories aren't the best, I AM SICK OF THE COLD!, but I was glad to find some laughs in a chapter when all I want to do is skip ahead to when it finally gets warmer. Hope you all enjoyed it too. nebo :flower3:

Backstage_Gal

03-27-2009, 07:58 PM

Nebo, funny chapter again. Loved the corny jokes. Glad things finally warmed up. I remember freezing my tush off too.

We saw the Screamin Kids Show, (It's tough to be a Bug), and then sat right up front for "Finding Nebo".

Hmm, Finding Nebo, that sounds oddly familiar :rolleyes:

And yes, I am going back to Germany in May for my mom's 95th birthday! She is doing fairly well, but it's a big occasion, and at her age you just never know.

And I am happy to report that DH and I survived the Great Layoff of 2009, at least for now.

jcc0621

03-27-2009, 08:29 PM

SO, you are saying it was cold:confused: :rotfl2:

Sorry I shouldn't make fun:hug:

I do hope it warms up for you soon! And remember a cold day at Disney is better than any day any where else ::yes::

Underdog369

03-27-2009, 08:53 PM

"That's my breath you see, look, everyone is smoking."

It was that cold out.
"Diane, you will be just so proud to know, that two hours ago, we set the all time low temperature for this day in Orlando, it got down to 26 degrees, and I am just so thrilled that you and I could be a part of it!"

Yeah, I remember when we got there. Their low was our high where we came from. No Nebo, we don't live in the arctic, but really close.:lmao:

"Up yours."

Wow, "Mrs. Grumpy Gills" shows up, it was finally getting to her.

Now I'm wishing I had long underwear. THis is NUTS! I don't have even the slightest little band of white under my wristwatch band, cuz the rest of my body is still bone white too!

I guess Grumpy wears off. Is it some kind of disease when it gets cold and gloomy outside?????

To coin someone else's phrase: "As God is my witness, I will never come back in February again!"

AHEM! Damn it was cold!

(Oh, ok, "How cold was it?")

thank you

It was so cold:

That two guys were ice fishing on the Computer Pool. :scared1:

They might have even caught something.... Like a cold!!!!:headache:

It was so cold:

That when the Magical Depress Bus pulled up, the folks waiting let out a big cheer!! :dance3:

:yay::yay::yay::yay::dance3::dance3::dance3: <- My depiction of the arrival of the bus...

It was so cold:

That Mr and Mrs Potato Head went back in the oven. :lmao:

They had to meet their friends from France, The Fry Family.:banana:

And, it was so cold:
That before Wishes started, Tinkerbell's Flight was grounded due to icing on her wings!:eek:

It was that cold for a wednsday in Florida. :sad2:

I was told if she flew her wings would fall off and a horrible scene thereafer would ensue. Kids running in terror, adults yelling to use pixy dust pixiedust: and the irony of the applause afterward to try to bring poor tink splat back to life.... :scared1:

To a trained eye you will notice that it is now Snow White and the 4 Dwarfs.

They laid off Sneezy, Grumpy and Bashful.

That's cause you and Mrs. Grumpy showed up. They thought there were more than one and let the wrong ones go.:rolleyes1

Angelrose

03-27-2009, 09:09 PM

I remember one year we went in December and my son stayed in his sweat suit the whole time. We had all brought shorts and t's because it's Florida and everyone knows in warm in Florida. Right?? That was way back when we were newbys. Now whenever we go we make sure to bring enough warm clothes.

Great chapter Nebo as always.

whogirl'smom

03-28-2009, 03:41 PM

So....I'm guessing it was cold during your trip! ;) I had to laugh at the Mr. and Mrs. Potato head joke. I'm hoping it's a little cold when we go in December, you know like in the 60's, not the 30's. Brrr. But I would still take 30's-40's over 90's.

How long till you headed down to do laundry? :laundy:

winkers

03-28-2009, 09:34 PM

I love the "I don't look good in goosebumps" line!:lmao:

While you were freezing your assets off in MK, we were doing the same in DHS. If there was a patch of sun, we were in it.

lexmelinda

03-29-2009, 08:39 AM

Hey there!

Trying to get caught up. As you know, I am a slow but thorough reader. I am not using the skim method of TR up-catching like some people. (Hi, Wendee!)

I must admit I skim for TR updates and do not read the witty banter in between. Unless I come across my picture or something.

So did you resolve the issue with AOL. I hate AOL. I used to have it too and paid through the nose. Then I found out I could upgrade to broadband for only a couple of bucks more. (And so could you if you're paying $25/month!!!!) The AOL execs are rubbing their grubby paws together and giving a little sneer/chuckle over people who are still paying those fees for dial-up. You can use netzero for almost zero. (http://www.netzero.net/start/landing.do?page=www/free/index)

In fact you might even pay less for broadband. If you can find an ISP that has broadband service compatible with Windows 85. Heh.

AND. The big news is that you won't lose your AOL email address. You will have it for infinity. Just log on at AOL dot com and click on mail. Yep, it'll be there forever.

Thanks for all the chuckles this morning. Diagon Alley, trying to cross 192 from the Ponderosa, check in guy from Netherlands, parked by AKL, cheesy duck and random bird popcorn. OT: There are two young guys in our office that say CIAO every time they leave.They are pressuring me to use it. I will never cave. I hate CIAO. :rolleyes:

I'm up to the page 17 installment so I can finish this afternoon.

EPLS, LYMI, etc.

:grouphug:

babynurse1

03-30-2009, 08:21 AM

1. and countless shorty socks so I don't look like a complete dork when I wear the shorts.

2. (Oh, ok, "How cold was it?")

thank you

It was so cold:

That two guys were ice fishing on the Computer Pool. :scared1:
It was so cold:

That when the Magical Depress Bus pulled up, the folks waiting let out a big cheer!! :dance3:
It was so cold:

That Mr and Mrs Potato Head went back in the oven. :lmao:

And, it was so cold:
That before Wishes started, Tinkerbell's Flight was grounded due to icing on her wings!:eek:

1. ummm yeah, it's the socks that make you look so dorky. :duck:

2. :rotfl: Very good.

I was spring breaking last week, but I'm back. and caught up. you have my permission to continue.

nebo

03-30-2009, 05:22 PM

that is the exact building we were in last time, on the top floor (corner room) lol, and I used the yo-yo alot, never seen anyone back there, so thats where I went, especially when it was pouring out.
You're also right about Randy and Myself included. We have been wanting a package with just counter services, so that's the way we would have went. Dont get me wrong, I love the sit down table services, but I hate it when I have to get everyone together to get to our reservations on time.
as usual, great update.

Connie, I love food as much as the next person, but I do sometimes get tired of having to be at a certain place, certain time all the time. They DID come out with just a counter service plan, but it's way too expensive for just counter service meals. One of these days, if we ever meet up, it will have to be in the red Duncan Yo yo on the fourth floor near the lake.

I have to say, you make it sound very good - yummy choices. Except for that last bit. :sad2: With that, I'm jumping off the hypothetical bus, thank you very much. :rotfl:

Sorry Princess, that bus is not hypothetical.

Sleeping monk in Spaceship Earth. :thumbsup2

The sleeping monk? You kiddin? Ok, that one would have probably been about 264 on my list.:happytv: My second choice would probably be that Carnotaur at the very end of Dinosaur, that sucker makes me jump every time, especially at night when I can see him.

One bright spot here - once you're down here permanently, and go through a summer or two, 55 will start looking mighty fine! :rotfl:

I suppose you're right, still, not after I've driven 1300 miles to get there to escape the cold.

Nebo, funny chapter again. Loved the corny jokes. What corny jokes? Glad things finally warmed up. I remember freezing my tush off too.

Hmm, Finding Nebo, that sounds oddly familiar :rolleyes:
Ya tink?

And yes, I am going back to Germany in May for my mom's 95th birthday! She is doing fairly well, but it's a big occasion, and at her age you just never know.

And I am happy to report that DH and I survived the Great Layoff of 2009, at least for now.

Glad to hear you've survived the layoffs, and glad you can go see your mom in Germany,too. Fatherland huh? Even though my Grandparents were born there, and I was almost named after my dad, whose first and middle name were Adolph Gustav, what would that make Germany to me?
Cousinland?

SO, you are saying it was cold:confused: :rotfl2:

Sorry I shouldn't make fun:hug:

I do hope it warms up for you soon! And remember a cold day at Disney is better than any day any where else ::yes::

Sure, laugh at me. I hope when you are there in Aaaaghust!!!! that it is 95 every day!

Yeah, I remember when we got there. Their low was our high where we came from. No Nebo, we don't live in the arctic, but really close.:lmao:

Actually Djay, your climate is warmer then ours, just rainier I think.

I guess Grumpy wears off. Is it some kind of disease when it gets cold and gloomy outside?????

That's probably the benefit of going with the whole family, you don't have the time to relax as much as we do, so you don't feel the pain of nowhere to relax and be warmm at the same time except in your room.

:yay::yay::yay::yay::dance3:: <- My depiction of the arrival of the bus...

This was strange. Usually it's weeping and gnashing of teeth when it pulls up.

I was told if she flew her wings would fall off and a horrible scene thereafer would ensue. Kids running in terror, adults yelling to use pixy dust pixiedust: and the irony of the applause afterward to try to bring poor tink splat back to life.... :scared1:

Yeah, and we would have paid to see it!

That's cause you and Mrs. Grumpy showed up. They thought there were more than one and let the wrong ones go.:rolleyes1

I remember one year we went in December and my son stayed in his sweat suit the whole time. We had all brought shorts and t's because it's Florida and everyone knows in warm in Florida. Right?? That was way back when we were newbys. Now whenever we go we make sure to bring enough warm clothes.

Great chapter Nebo as always.

Angel, even though I loved the Osbourne Lights, I would still rather be hot on my sub tropical vacation then cold, I still prefer early May or right after Labor Day the best.

So....I'm guessing it was cold during your trip! ;) I had to laugh at the Mr. and Mrs. Potato head joke. I'm hoping it's a little cold when we go in December, you know like in the 60's, not the 30's. Brrr. But I would still take 30's-40's over 90's.

How long till you headed down to do laundry? :laundy:

We never did have to do laundry. And the last time we were there in December it was upper seventies and eighties every day.

I love the "I don't look good in goosebumps" line!:lmao:

While you were freezing your assets off in MK, we were doing the same in DHS. If there was a patch of sun, we were in it.

I know, trust me, I know. The only difference was when we were at DHS, it was raining, along with the cold. And,,,, if there was a patch of puddle, I was in it.

Hey there!

Trying to get caught up. As you know, I am a slow but thorough reader. I am not using the skim method of TR up-catching like some people. (Hi, Wendee!)

I must admit I skim for TR updates and do not read the witty banter in between. Unless I come across my picture or something.

So did you resolve the issue with AOL. I hate AOL. I used to have it too and paid through the nose. Then I found out I could upgrade to broadband for only a couple of bucks more. (And so could you if you're paying $25/month!!!!) The AOL execs are rubbing their grubby paws together and giving a little sneer/chuckle over people who are still paying those fees for dial-up. You can use netzero for almost zero. (http://www.netzero.net/start/landing.do?page=www/free/index)

In fact you might even pay less for broadband. If you can find an ISP that has broadband service compatible with Windows 85. Heh.

Thanks for all the chuckles this morning. Diagon Alley, trying to cross 192 from the Ponderosa, check in guy from Netherlands, parked by AKL, cheesy duck and random bird popcorn. OT: There are two young guys in our office that say CIAO every time they leave.They are pressuring me to use it. I will never cave. I hate CIAO. :rolleyes:

:grouphug:

Hi Melinda, we've missed you. Thanks for in Netzero info, I was on the website but after reading all I could, figured I better call them first to see what the system requirments are. And it's Windows 98, not 85. Geesh.

1. ummm yeah, it's the socks that make you look so dorky. :duck:

You know, I can't believe how many guys I still saw wearing sandals AND socks. Isn't there a law against that?

I was spring breaking last week, but I'm back. and caught up. you have my permission to continue.

Well thank you my friend, I shall probably do so tomorrow.

jcc0621

03-30-2009, 07:20 PM

Sure, laugh at me. I hope when you are there in Aaaaghust!!!! that it is 95 every day!

95 would be cool compared to normal August heat:thumbsup2
LAst year was bad with Tropical Storm Fay and water up to your knees:eek:

lexmelinda

03-30-2009, 08:57 PM

I was on the website but after reading all I could, figured I better call them first to see what the system requirments are. And it's Windows 98, not 85. Geesh.
Mr. Google is your friend :teacher:

The system requirements are:

Windows 98 SE/ME/2000/XP

* 90 MHz or higher processor
* 64 MB RAM
* 20 MB free disk space
* 28.8k modem
* Internet Explorer 5.0.1 or higher
* VGA monitor with 800x600 resolution

Philadisney

03-31-2009, 12:50 PM

Well Mr. & Mrs. Grumpy Gills, I have spent my morning reading you & Smidgy's wonderful adventures! I had fallen far behind having spent a week in glorious Orlando (not to brag, but it was 90 degrees & sunny every day....). As always your musings are cracking me up. Canadian pizza eaters. Using birds as weapons against obnoxious tourists. "Moanin' in the Mist." HA! :rotfl:

In fact this is probably one of the best lines I've ever read on the DIS: "With drink in hand, I then went and spent some quality time with myself in my special yo yo." You are a master of vernacular, Nebo.

nebo

04-01-2009, 08:18 PM

Resume.

As I said, we should not have gone back to the Animal Kingdom that night.

Way too painful.

T o start off, my foot was really giving me a problem, and not just the foot part but the ankle as well.

After I returned from my Duncan meditation, I made another drink, prepared a couple of good 'ol Sunny D's for us in the park, and,
took a couple of extra strength vikes.

Then I grabbed two more and stuck em in my pocket.

I know, I know but drastic times require drastic stategies.

I haven't mentioned the vikes much this trip report, at least not like usual, and that's basically cuz I've had everything under control.
But now I'm losing.

Smidgy is now ready, we gone.

Trying to finish our drinks before we get to the bus stop we took the long way through the fifties section around the building and sure enough, there's a bus just sitting there and the last person boarding it.

"Honey, quick!"
"Go throw yourself in front of it while I chug this down." The thing is, we made the drinks in plastic cups, and they frown on you if you try to bring open cups on a bus.
I don't like a frown hanging over my head. And you know, if we didn't have the drinks, there would have been no bus waiting there.
Then we could have pitched a tent.

She didn't see the humor in that line.

She finished hers and ran up to it.

I'm not running ANYWHERE!

But they waited, we got seats, and all was right with the world.

Except that it's only 47 degrees out now.

I have come to believe that most of the time, if your a Disney veteran, you should avoid EMH days at the parks. The one exception to this is AK. It is just about empty even on EMH nights.
THere's really not much to do, all the animals are in bed at dusk, and you pretty much have the park to yourself.

This is why we came back on such a cold night, foot be damned.

On the way there, everything suddenly kicked in, and chugging my last drink made sure of it. Besides, I hadn't taken a vike in a couple days, so now I'm more susceptible.

For the last couple of trips, I always try to sit in the seat right next to the exit door, got it both times going yesterday to MK. This time, uh uh, there is a man sitting there, and I just glared at him. Diane saw this and started laughing, "Oh, the nerve of him sitting in your seat, guess he doesn't know you."

We sat down next to him, and as the painkillers and the drinks took effect, noticed an Asian man sitting across from us. Where in Asia I have no idea, could have been Korean, could have been Thai or Chinese.

And I thought of Diane in the food court.

I swear, it almost came out, but I restrained myself at the very last second.
You know what I wanted to say, right?

"So, what part of France are you from?"

It was close. Dang pills.

Smidgy probably wouldn't have appreciated that either.
Then for some dumb reason, I took the other two pills I brought with. I guess as a reward for keeping my mouth shut.

Checking the times schedule on arrival, we laid out our plan. In a half hour the day guests would have to leave, and all animal exhibits would then close, so we chose the Maharijah Jungle Trek. We were walking hand in hand, with her kinda pulling me along to get there before it closed and right before we enter this room inside, she let go.

This is probably an instict now on her part, ever since the time she slammed my face in a doorway divider going into Terminator at Universal and I haven't let her hear the end of it.

Well, there weren't any doorway dividers, but there was a waste high walkway divider, a very, solid railing, very wide, and bolted into the concrete.

You know what's coming, I've done it before, but this time we were walking with a head of steam up and considering how well my eyes adjust going from light to dark, I was doomed.

Right in Tango and Cash.
More like Timber and Crash this time, I went down.
As we all know, the first thing you do is see who saw what happened, if you accidentally decapitated your head, your head will still look around to see if anyone saw.

A woman cast member was right there and ran over to me. Smidgy saw it too, and knew to just stand there and let the pain pass, but the cast member was another story. She kept asking if I'm allright, and all I can do is squeek.

It was as if my body knew I took the extra pills and wanted to make good use of them.

Or it was because of them.

I finally got up, waved her away, and walked till I got around a corner. Then I slumped against a wall for ten minutes. Man, it hurt, but it does go away.

We finished the tour, then slowly headed over to see Festival of the Lion King. My Sunny D didn't even make it that far.
In Camp Minnie area we had 15 minutes to kill and I wanted a smoke, but we couldn't find an ash tray in the smoking area that we have always used. Oh well, we stood where we have in the past and lit up, the entire area is deserted over here, with the closing of Pocahontas and Granny Willow, there's nothing back here now.

Then I cast member came over and told us to put them out, it's not a smoking area anymore. I got the map out, and sure enough, they eliminated half of the smoking areas. I think there are 3 or 4 left in the entire park. I don't know if this is a cutback on maintennance or what, but we found out that many spots that we always went to in the other parks were now also gone.

You know how in the beginning of Lion King how they make some poor kid make either an elephant noise or warthog or some other animal sound that no one knows how to make?
Well, if they had heard me 20 minutes ago it probably would have made a great elephant sound.

When the show was over, it was dark out now, so we headed to Dino Land and rode Primevil Hurl with a couple of teenage girls sharing our car. Only a ten minute wait.

Then fate struck once again.

The exit of the ride is all ramps, with cross boards every few feet to keep you from slipping I guess.

One of them was really cross, it took down Smidgy.

She went down hard, landed on her hand and now she is in great pain.

She wasn't sure if it was broken, we never did find out, but something in there popped and it started swelling up immediately.

We rode Dinosaur anyway, then left the park. The next day it had swelled up even worse, and still bothers her to this day. I took a picture of her hands the next day, it won't be hard to figure out which one she landed on. :sad2:

http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n126/nebo100/popboardwalk/dainehand.jpg

The next morning we set the record again they said. 29 degrees!

I was sore, but Smidgy's hand was really hurting. I offered her some vikes, but no way in the world will she take them. She had tried once before, and just hated the feeling the gave her, so she was now grabbing for the ibuprofen I also brought.

This is a non park day. We only have plans to let Smidgy shop around in the stores we never have time for in Downtown Disney, and ressies for T-Rex I think for 1:30, no, we've never tried it, so get to knock off another restaurant off our list.

After picking up a newspaper, I just kinda hung around the room and my Yo Yo that morning, then we drove over to DD. All we had time for before lunch was to visit Legoland, and this place blows me away.

Let's see if I can find my photos from Photobucket.:surfweb:

The first thing to catch my eye were the people right outside the door. I had to look close before I realized that all of them are made out of Legos.

http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n126/nebo100/popboardwalk/leggo1.jpg

Then we went inside. WOW! The PRICES of them blew me away too. I figured that if you were to buy the legos that made up that display it would probably cost about 30,000 dollars. On the way out we noticed more "sculptures".

http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n126/nebo100/popboardwalk/leggo3.jpg

Can you imagine buying that "kit" for your kid to put together at Christmas?

Ok, one more here.

http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n126/nebo100/popboardwalk/leggo2.jpg

And then it was time to eat. Let's see if T-Rex lives up to all the buildup.

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jcc0621

04-01-2009, 09:12 PM

Ouch:hug:

Looking forward to your T Rex review!:goodvibes

whogirl'smom

04-01-2009, 10:08 PM

Disney 4-ever

04-01-2009, 10:12 PM

I kind of feel bad, why is it when you got hurt, I giggled and almost wet myself, :confused3 but when you said Diane went down hard, I said OMG, I hope she is alright. :eek: Needless to say, I am sorry you both got hurt and hope all is better now. fantastic chapter.:cheer2:

TyRy

04-01-2009, 10:14 PM

Ouchie! You two did not have a good night at AK. Hope you both got better.:hug:

Backstage_Gal

04-01-2009, 10:23 PM

I echo the "OUCH!" Smidgy's hand looks really bad. Did you have it looked at all?

Philadisney

04-02-2009, 11:25 AM

I echo the "OUCH!" Smidgy's hand looks really bad. Did you have it looked at all?

I echo the echo! Poor Smidgy :hug: Sounds like a mildly disasterous day.

I am amazed by the Lego people too. I remember years ago the lego dragon caught my eye and I stood around for a few moments waiting for the jerk with the camera to get out of the way so I could take a picture of it...then I realized he was made of Legos too :laughing:

Am also curious about the all-new T Rex Restaurant!

winkers

04-02-2009, 12:05 PM

Poor Smidgy! that looks painfull! You need to get that checked out!

Nebo, I didn't want to leave you out of the sympathy post...but I'm not sure how to say.........Poor Tango & Cash...........just sounds kinda wrong.

ChelleinNC

04-02-2009, 12:50 PM

I echo the echo! Poor Smidgy :hug: Sounds like a mildly disasterous day.

Ouch Ouch Ouch Ouch

Poor both of you! That was quite a night :scared:

OhMari

04-02-2009, 02:07 PM

Then I cast member came over and told us to put them out, it's not a smoking area anymore. I got the map out, and sure enough, they eliminated half of the smoking areas. I think there are 3 or 4 left in the entire park. I don't know if this is a cutback on maintennance or what, but we found out that many spots that we always went to in the other parks were now also gone.
Hmmm, maybe they were preparing the parks for all the people that are going to quit, because of the $1.00 increase that was implemented yesterday.:rotfl: My dh will be really thrilled, he'll walk out of the park, eventually, if he can't find, somewhere~~~to smoke.

Just want to tell you, I'll give you a shout out tonite, when we drive by Illinois on our way to Bowling Green, unless, you are keeping a secret, and moved to Florida by now.

zigzagzerr

04-02-2009, 02:51 PM

What a bummer that it was so cold on your vacation -- we went one time in January and had to wear winter coats, hats and gloves. That made for hilarious pictures on the Dumbo ride! ;)

Thanks for the great report!

nebo

04-02-2009, 06:46 PM

Ok, you guys need a big roll of bubble wrap for yourselves this trip. Poor Nebo, I remember the trip you were having to ration the vikes, glad you had plenty this time.

Smidgy! You should have had your hand looked at, at least at an Urgent Care. Please tell me Nebo carried all your packages the next day at Downtown Disney?

Nope, didn't have to carry anything. They let you send the packages right to your resort doncha know.
Oh, that, and the fact she didn't buy anything. :hug:

I kind of feel bad, why is it when you got hurt, I giggled and almost wet myself, :confused3 but when you said Diane went down hard, I said OMG, I hope she is alright. :eek:. fantastic chapter.:cheer2:

Yeah, I seem to have that effect on people, if I drop dead, they would prefer I do it out of the way, over behind the bushes.

Ouchie! You two did not have a good night at AK. Hope you both got better.:hug:

I got better, Tango and Cash are waiting for the sequel to begin filming. But her hand is still bothering her..

I echo the "OUCH!" Smidgy's hand looks really bad. Did you have it looked at all?

Marita, we'll get to that.

I echo the echo! Poor Smidgy :hug: Sounds like a mildly disasterous day.

I am amazed by the Lego people too. I remember years ago the lego dragon caught my eye and I stood around for a few moments waiting for the jerk with the camera to get out of the way so I could take a picture of it...then I realized he was made of Legos too :laughing:

Am also curious about the all-new T Rex Restaurant!

Kelly smelly belly, that's a great line about the leggos, wish I thought of it. And you have read my food reviews before, you know better than to expect actual usefull information.

Poor Smidgy! that looks painfull! You need to get that checked out!

Nebo, I didn't want to leave you out of the sympathy post...but I'm not sure how to say.........Poor Tango & Cash...........just sounds kinda wrong.

If I had used Laurel and Hardy instead, would you have more sympathy?

Ouch Ouch Ouch Ouch

Poor both of you! That was quite a night :scared:

Yes, it was quite a night. We now call her the Claw, and I can hit the high notes on "Cara Mia".

Hmmm, maybe they were preparing the parks for all the people that are going to quit, because of the $1.00 increase that was implemented yesterday.:rotfl: My dh will be really thrilled, he'll walk out of the park, eventually, if he can't find, somewhere~~~to smoke.

Just want to tell you, I'll give you a shout out tonite, when we drive by Illinois on our way to Bowling Green, unless, you are keeping a secret, and moved to Florida by now.

Nope, still here. Just don't shout to loud when passing through, in case "She who must not be disturbed" is sleeping. I do have the feeling that someday, all the parks will be non smoking though. Boy, Bowling Green. You sure know how to live.

What a bummer that it was so cold on your vacation -- we went one time in January and had to wear winter coats, hats and gloves. That made for hilarious pictures on the Dumbo ride! ;)

Thanks for the great report!

Hi again triple Z. I may go again in early December, but never again in Jan or Feb, for me to enjoy myself, I need some morning pool time with my book, and if I drive all the way from freezing Chicago to Orlando, I'd rather have oppresive heat and humidity than gloves and chills.

whogirl'smom

04-02-2009, 07:05 PM

Yeah, I guess I'm too attached to my souvenirs and just carry them back with me. (Mine, mine, mine!) Of course we have always taken the car to DD for some reason. The only thing I ever had sent to the room was pictures from Tusker House and a vase we bought in Mexico so I wouldn't bungle them up.

smidgy

04-02-2009, 10:35 PM

We were walking hand in hand, with her kinda pulling me along to get there before it closed and right before we enter this room inside, she let go.

hold his hand... don't hand his hand' either way, it's wrong.

This is probably an instict now on her part, ever since the time she slammed my face in a doorway divider going into Terminator at Universal and I haven't let her hear the end of it.
yup, I took his face and slammed it right into the divider!;)to me, it was lit in there, and even after all these years, how did I know it was too dark for him to see the divider? It looked lit up to me.:confused3

Well, there weren't any doorway dividers, but there was a waste high walkway divider, a very, solid railing, very wide, and bolted into the concrete.

You know what's coming, I've done it before, but this time we were walking with a head of steam up and considering how well my eyes adjust going from light to dark, I was doomed.

A woman cast member was right there and ran over to me. Smidgy saw it too, and knew to just stand there and let the pain pass,

no, smidgy knew to hide!:rotfl:

I took a picture of her hands the next day, it won't be hard to figure out which one she landed on. :sad2:

http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n126/nebo100/popboardwalk/dainehand.jpg
I don't know which hand looks better, the injured one or the "grandmother Willow" one! If it wasn't for the pain, I think the non-wrinkled one.
I was sore, but Smidgy's hand was really hurting. I offered her some vikes, but no way in the world will she take them. She had tried once before, and just hated the feeling the gave her, so she was now grabbing for the ibuprofen I also brought.

VIKES: total nausea couple with extreme paranoia, with added sluggishness. to me... POISON! The first thing to catch my eye were the people right outside the door. I had to look close before I realized that all of them are made out of Legos.

the lego sculptures are really cool! and there's a lot of them!

And then it was time to eat. Let's see if T-Rex lives up to all the buildup.

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all i can say is Trex is REALLY COOL!!!

smidgy

04-02-2009, 10:49 PM

Please tell me Nebo carried all your packages the next day at Downtown Disney?

packages? you mean people aree allowed to buy stuff there? :laughing:
joking aside, we were never big on souveniers. nebos lucky, I'm not a big shopper. I love clothes, but at walmart prices. I did buy some disney puzzles for Jackson at the one small discount store (it's almost a hallway). I was going to buy him a Mr. Potato Head from the big toy store(where you can stuff pieces into the box, all you can fit in) but I think it was like 20 bucks or so, and I wasn't sure he would like it anyway. I got a box of 4 disney puzzles for $10. he is 3 and he can put these 30 piece puzzles together!!!! He's SO smart!

hhmmm... I think he did carry that bag.

my hand is all better except it gets sore when I have to hold heavy trays at work, and esp. when I have to hold the Flaming Saganaki very quickly to the table and light it.

Good installment, honey!! hey,:idea: I think I'll buy him a red yo-yo for father's day!!! ... to remember the trip by!

nebo

04-04-2009, 07:24 PM

packages? you mean people aree allowed to buy stuff there? :laughing:
Good installment, honey!! hey,:idea: I think I'll buy him a red yo-yo for father's day!!! ... to remember the trip by!

1. NO, they are not!
2. Gee thanks.

Coming up tomorrow, probably, we will talk about T-Rex. Now, if at all possible, if I can find it, I'm going to show you again why you should never take my restaurant reviews seriously. gotta go and dig now.

nebo

04-04-2009, 07:53 PM

Ok, I dug. And I just copied the whole installment. And then after seeing how it posted I had to go back and edit and delete stuff. The trip to the Rose and Crown is at the end, and it might be a tad hard to follow. Read at your own risk and confusion.

(Picking up after meeting Marita and Tiggerwannabe and her son Adrain for lunch)
It's around 3 now, mentally I feel good, but my back is killing me, with a lot of walking and standing left in the day.

HEY! I KNOW!

Yes, my little friends make an appearance.
Again.

Although, they only stayed briefly. Very Briefly.

On the boat, we head over to Boardwalk, that's the next stop.
People get off, no one gets on. We sit a while, then our female captain drives over to Y and B Club. Again, no one gets on. She gives up and now it's just the captain, (Karen), and me and Smidgy.
Smidgy and I.

Even though we are sitting near the front, Karen comes back a bit and just starts talking to us. I mean nobody is driving the boat except for the boat itself.

As she is talking, I'm looking around, looks safe so far, but I try to get her mind back on the fact that the channel is coming up.

"Boy Karen, you've go an awful big boat for just the three of us."

"EXCUSE ME?"

I saw the first fire in her eyes, and I didn 't get it, then she had a big grin on her face and the nickel again dropped in.
"I mean you could have gotten all of US over there in a CANOE."

'Yeah, yeah, I think you should quit while you're behind," she said.

"What about my behind?"
I got a "touche'" , out of her.

In Epcot we walk down to The Land, and grab a couple of fastpasses for Soarin again. Ok, ok, Diane runs down to get them, I'm in the nearby smoking section.

Wanna know how to make points with your spouse at Disney World?

When she get's back after running up the ramp past all the strollers, then down the ramp, down the stairs , through the counterservice area past all the crowds to reach the fastpass machines, then do it all backwards again, say this to her;

"What took you so long?"

Yeah, that'l work!

I did let her have a smoke though.

Then we went back into Canada and just kept moseying along.
I am real good at "Moseying" once my friends kick in, like they are doing right now.
I mean in the "trip report" right now, not "typing the trip report" right now.

My back is still hurting like hell, but at least I don't give a crap.

Around Morroco, I see them. A bunch of them, and the next thing I know, I'm yelling out "Hey look! Slurpies!"

She turns to me, "What?"

I point to all the guys, mostly with shaved heads and all wearing bright orange robes, "Over there, Slurpies!"

Diane looks, and then her own personal nickel goes "ka-ching".

"Oh, the Muslim tour group." "Monks". "But why did you call them,,, Oh, Serpas."

"Yeah, that's what I said, Slurpies, those wise men that sit high on the mountain tops and dispell great wisdom to all that take the effort to convene with them. "

She looked again. "I'm not sure about the universal "wise" part."
"One of them is trying to get into the women's bathroom."
I looked where she was looking, it had a line of women waiting outside it, but it was actually a "Companion" restroom. I know, I have done battle in the same john befor. But I didn't tell her.
"Yes. Woman's Bathroom. Slurpie you are wise beyond all my years," and I bowed to him.

Mostly we just hung around that side of World Showcase that afternoon, the crowds were kind of light unless you got too close to the American Adventure where the Candlelight Processional was still goin on.

I'm in real trouble today. The vikes are wearing off already, and now my foot is acting up. Only problem is, I'm out. The rest are back in the room.
Suddenly, enlightenment dawned on me.

Then, the sun broke through the clouds, right before dusk.
The Red Sea opened up. Moses was pointing to the Promised Land from the top of Mt. Nebo,,,,,,

and he was pointing right at my pocket.

The "Other" pocket.

What had dawned on me was the bloody shirt. I must have a lot of estrogen in me also, because there are shorts that I will usually where with a certain shirt. If I wore this shirt that night at MGM, there was a good chance I also wore these shorts. And I remembered how that night I wasn't doing too badly to need any vikes, I was having more fun seeing the Ozzie Lights and watching John try to score a beer. The last I remembered thinking of them that night was after my camera played "No nose is good nose", on me, but it was dark in the theater, and afterward, the little bleeding it did stopped and I forgot all about them.

But I had so much crap in my pockets that night, that I remember moving them to that little "change" pocket on the right side, the one I never, ever, use.

All of this "Divine Intervention" was revealed to me on another boat, this one from the Morocco station over to the Plaza.
(there, I have now spelled that country two different ways, I know one of them is right)

With a trembling, shaking hand, I gingerly touch the outside of the pocket, I don't want to blow it all immediately by thrusting my thumb in there.

Inconclusive.

I'm sitting, and sitting creates extra "folds" in the fabric. Not to mention, belly, hip and thigh fat.

No way I can get my thumb in that little pocket now, it's too tight. So midway across the lagoon, I do what I have to do.

With a packed boat, and everybody just kind of sitting there exhausted with a glazed look on their face and not knowing what to stare at:

I stand up!

All heads turn to me, thinking the entertainment is starting.

"No no folks, nothing to see here, move along, return to your homes."

No, I didn't say that, what I DID do though was thrust my thumb into that little slit of a pocket, thinking the whole time, "even if I didn't take them that night, what are the chances that they didn't fall out of this pocket that is all of an inch deep?"

The tip of my thumb hit interference before the bottom of the pocket came into play. "Could it be?" "Yes!"

And I scooped out 3 "tic-tacs", spearmint flavored and shoved them in my mouth and swallowed them.

With everybody still watching me. \

Ok, I lied. I scooped out 3 "extemely cozy" vikes, extra strength, kind of bent over backwards and went, "Ahhh" as I stretched my back, then sat back down. This is a magician's trick.
As my right hand was about to go in my pocket, I flamboyantly waved my left hand before it went to my back, and that is where all the eyes went.

The "Ahhh" was just frosting.

Now comes the hard part. I don't really want all 3, but that's what I now have in my hand.
No way am I going to risk the reverse, and go through all that just to get one back in. You can't go to the well too many times without getting caught!

"Hey, FREEZE!"
"Yeah, hold it. WHat have you got in your right hand?" "We all want to see!"

So now I have to "dry" swallow them.
"Honey, you didn't bring any of the little bottles with you, did you?"
"No Steve, we weren't going to drink much tonight, remember?"
"Yeah, I remember."

Me and my big mouth!

Pretty funny. Even though I have a prescription for the things, I feel like I am committing a felony. Kind of like when I was younger and three of us would leave my buddy's basement and sneak out to the garage and smoke that stinky stuff. Then hope that no one would stop us on the way back in.

That's usually when I just dive through a window, closed or not to get away.

And you know they all KNOW!

So here I am, they all know, and now I have to dry swallow these critters.

The first one was easy.

I put my hand to my mouth, and "lightly coughed". I get it down.
It gets harder now. For all the boat zombies, that cough WAS exciting, and pulled their attention back to me.

Going to have to be creative here.
Ok, I take off my camera from around my neck, and, "Oopsy," I dropped the whole case. As I bent WAY over to pick it up, number two went in my mouth, screw the little kid sitting across from me that saw something.

What I am thinking is this. "C'mon saliva, c'mon, do your thing, we don't want this thing to play and M and M on me here.
Finally, with a great gulping motion, I get it down.

Three quarters of the way. It feels like it's stuck in the middle of my chest.

One to go.

For the third one I stood up, got there attention, and said, "Thank you for cruising on the World Showcase Lagoon, we will all be docking soon at the World Showcase Plaza in just a few minutes. If you look behind you and to your left, you will see the water."

Of course they looked, and I popped.

No, no. I didn't do that. Would have been funny though, and probably worked. I did think of holding it up and going, "Diane? Want a tic-tac?" But, you never know, there was a slim chance she might have said "yes", and then all kinds of merry mayhem would have ensued.

I'm not really sure how I got the last one down, I think the second one got me coughing and when I was done I coughed one more time and got it in my mouth. But I couldn't swallow it, not without a major puke that would have negated the entire operation, not to mention the war, and sent the entire country on a downhill spiral.

This time I didn't try to make any jokes with the captain, I had my pill clenched tightly into a corner of the mouth, but it was dissolving, and the taste is really terrible.

When the boat pulled up, I vaulted a wheelchair that was prematurely making it's move, swung around the outside of a pier post, and ran to the nearest john, that usually has a drinking fountain. When Diane caught up with me she said "What in the world was that all about?"

"Hey, when you gotta go, you gotta go!"

We walked over to Soarin, time to use our fastpasses, with me only sporadically gagging now and then.

But it's still too early. This is another thing that strikes me funny. Once your fastpass time is due, it is good for the rest of the day, even though it doesn't say that, it is.

But JUST TRY to get in five minutes early.
JUST TRY!
"I'll get you my pretty,"

Considered going into a Communicore to kill some time, but instead ended up in a smoking section again. Yeah, yeah, Innoventions.

This is another word that cracks me up.
Here they call it Innoventions.
At my house we always had Interventions!

But Innoventions never really did much for me, I still get bored in there.

I'm thinking they should have an "Intervention" for "Innoventions".

After Soarin' (that appostrophe is trademarked), we head on back to England, time to meet Colleen and Adrian again, and also maybe "eat" something.

They were already there when we got there, already checked in and soon we were seated.

The whole idea of eating here is that we should be done just about the time that Illuminations starts, and they have a separate viewing area behind the restaurant, down by the lagoon. I have never been there, but it was worth a try.

Diane was happy because now we are "knocking off" another restaurant in World showcase that we have never eaten at before. Now, the only countries that we haven't had a sit-down dinner in are China, Norway, and of course, America. As far as Norway goes, I don't see me EVER eating at Akershus.
I've seen the menu, and I don't even want to waste a "free dining' meal on it.

Let me also say, there is a reason we haven't eaten HERE yet either.
I've looked at this menu too. Many times. I'm sorry, I don't even like the SOUND of an entree called a "meat pie".
Or a "shepherd's pie".
And I like chicken pot pies.
But if Swanson had a thing sitting in the freezer at your local grocery store that just said "meat pie", uh uh, I'll pass, thank you very much.

So I'm just looking for something "safe" on the menu tonight. I have a lot of vikes invested in me, and not going to lose them on a "cottage" pie.

For the record, the Chicago Cubs have a Felix Pie, but he was just sent back down to the minors, as well he should be.

Ok, here we go again, another great Nebo restaurant review, that will keep him from any possible future Disney employment!
I have no idea what Colleen and Adrian had that night, never thought of putting that in my notes. Hmm, know what? Now that you mention it, I didn't take any notes that night anyway.

I just asked Smidgy, she said she had "bangers and mash". Said it was ok.

But, being the self-centered, egocentric, person that I am, I remember EVERYTHING about what I ordered! Believe me, it made a "stuck in the throat" vicodin sound good again.

And Adrian didn't help!

We ordered a beer for me and Diane, Guiness, I believe. I don't know, could have been Billy Beer.

I think Tigger got a "glow thing". I remember my eyes just staring at the thing.

When it came to my turn to order, I still didn't know what to get. However, they have on the menu, "Fish and Chips".

Hmm, know what? That sounds safe right now. I've had the fish and chips form the counter service outside, and it tasted like what you get at Columbia Harbour House, or any of the counter service eateries. "Yeah, I'll have the fish and chips, thank you."

Boy, when I'm dumb, I'm dumb to the third power.

As we are sitting there haveing our drinks, a waitress walks by carrying a platter, and she passes close to Adrian.

He gives out a supressed, "EWWW", and we all turn to him.

"What, what did you see?" Colleen asked.

"Nothing, t'weren't nothing at all," he replied.

Now it's my turn.
"Oh, no no no no no."
"You have a civic responsibility to inform all those that may be upchucking in the very near future, and may I remind you that it will happen at your very own table, so please, tell us what you saw." and,
"May I remind you that you are under oath?"

"Ok," he said, "It was just this huge fish that still had it's head attached to it, that's all."

"EWWWW!"
That was from me.

There was only one fish item on the menu.
And THAT IS WHAT I ORDERED!

Diane grabbed the waitress before I could. "If you have any concerns about the cleanliness and sterility of the restaurant, you will make certain that when my husband receives his fish it no longer has a head attached to the main body."

I'm thinking, "yeah, yeah", but what comes out of me is only "I don't eat things that are looking at me."

Now, I still, to this day don't know if Adrian was pulling my leg or not, doesn't really matter at this time, and, no, we never actually asked the waitress if it did or not. We just made sure,,,,,,,NOT!

She came back with our plates, set mine down last.

I just stared at it.

For a long time.
I wasn't exactly sure what it was.

It ,,,,,, notice that I keep referring to my dinner as "IT"? It was served on an oval platter, and hung over both ends of the platter, lengthwise. At first I thought it might be a sturgeon, but it seemed too long and skinny, kind of like an eel.

Then, to make matters worse, as I was staring at it, a stupid song popped into my head,,,

"When the moon's in your eye, like a big pizza pie,,,,,"

You're going to hate me for this........

"That's a moray."

You know,,, Disney has been going a lot more "green", lately. Giving us more "healthy" options, more environmentally healthy food choices. And I'm all for trying to eat more "green".

I JUST DON'T WANT TO EAT SOYLENT GREEN!

But I still had to eat it.

I took a couple of bites, Diane is looking at me very intently, she knows how I am, and THIS doesnt even look good to her!

Everybody moved away from me, to the far side of the booth.

I took another bite, put my fork down, and said;

"Hmm, hmm, different. Just need one thing here."

Diane perked up. "What, salt? Tartar sauce?"

"Nope."

"ANTIDOTE!"

I just picked at the thing. I did eat all my chips though. I was still a bit hungry when it dawned on us. "Hey, we never got any bread!."
Well, since the waitress served me that eel, she knew better then to come back around. Finally, someone flagged her down and asked what happened to our bread.

"Yeah, I realized I forgot to get it for you, but I figured that it was too late to bring it out now."

Great! And now she really is correct, time to get out for the fireworks.

Going out the back door, we station ourselves on a patio overlooking the lagoon. It really turned out to be a great spot, sometimes a new angle can make it seem like a whole different show. Plus, they still had the extended version in the schedule.
Saying a quick goodbye go Colleen and Aidz, (we are going to meet them again in the morning), we take off on our EPCOT ESCAPE RUN.

Ok kids, it's time to close. Hope you enjoyed the "director's cut". I figured I am near the end of all this, and wanted to do something special. I guess this started out today at a "rip report", and ended up a "quip report." Don't worry, I'm outta quips.
Believe me, I'm not fishing for compliments, or posters, but I am concerned that some of you might have fallen into the "excommunication' hole that has happened here on the DIS, if you are still with us, I'd like to hear from you.

As Red Skelton used to say, "Goodnight, and God bless."
__________________

Sleeping*Beauty

04-04-2009, 09:36 PM

I swear I've read that update before!

Backstage_Gal

04-04-2009, 11:00 PM

Nebo, that night as you were enjoying (not) your Moray, I was dining on steak and lobster...:laughing: And you know why.

Great to re-read an old update, not sure what brought that about though.
I think things on the Dis have been slow all over lately. Maybe it's spring fever :confused3

Smidgy, I sooo hear you on the grandma Willow hands! :sad2:

Underdog369

04-05-2009, 01:16 AM

I echo the echo! Poor Smidgy :hug: Sounds like a mildly disasterous day.

I am amazed by the Lego people too. I remember years ago the lego dragon caught my eye and I stood around for a few moments waiting for the jerk with the camera to get out of the way so I could take a picture of it...then I realized he was made of Legos too :laughing:

Am also curious about the all-new T Rex Restaurant!

We had a great time with the T-Rex. Cherie wrote a great report about T-Rex (on Winkers board).

Nebo: sounds like tango and cash had a tangle and clash. :lmao::rotfl::rotfl2:

whogirl'smom

04-05-2009, 09:32 AM

I loved that installment! Didn't I write a nifty jingle about your fish? I couldn't find it now if my life depended on it.

Oh, and I just read in another thread that 3% of Dis users have dial-up. You are definitely a rare and exotic breed! :goodvibes

kath1210

04-06-2009, 09:06 PM

I swear I've read that update before!

Me too! Oops. I missed the "from the last trip report."

smidgy

04-07-2009, 12:03 AM

It was a "repeat" and the pic showed the most ridiculous loking thing fro the Crutaceous Period on squeamish Nebo's plate!

Lanie

04-07-2009, 10:06 AM

Apparently, when it comes to pizza they are easy to please up in Montreal. To me is was just your typical "air" pizza. Just like Domino's or Chuck E CHeese, with the inflated crust. The only thing it's good for is heartburn.

That just cracked me up! When I moved from Montréal, it took me months to find a place that made decent pizza! LOL "Montréal style" crust is actually known as really thin crust pizza, the kind that you can't eat without some of it ending up in your lap!

Loving the report, even if I'm a lurker! popcorn::

debsters41

04-08-2009, 06:31 AM

popcorn:: literally

nebo

04-08-2009, 06:02 PM

We had a great time with the T-Rex. Cherie wrote a great report about T-Rex (on Winkers board).

Nebo: sounds like tango and cash had a tangle and clash. :lmao::rotfl::rotfl2:
Yes they did, I'm thinking of wearing a cup from now on at Disney.

I loved that installment! Didn't I write a nifty jingle about your fish? I couldn't find it now if my life depended on it.

Oh, and I just read in another thread that 3% of Dis users have dial-up. You are definitely a rare and exotic breed! :goodvibes

I do remember you writing a jingle about it. I believe I found this chapter on page 62 of Honey, I shrunk, so your post is probably not far after that.

Me too! Oops. I missed the "from the last trip report."

See what happens when you skim?:happytv:

That just cracked me up! When I moved from Montréal, it took me months to find a place that made decent pizza! LOL "Montréal style" crust is actually known as really thin crust pizza, the kind that you can't eat without some of it ending up in your lap!

Loving the report, even if I'm a lurker! popcorn::

Hi lanie, I think you post once a trip report, whether you need to or not.

popcorn:: literally

Yeah, yeah

nebo

04-08-2009, 08:03 PM

Sorry about the delay, had an emergency household project that had to be taken care of, replace a garbage disposal. It was going anyway but Diane put it out of it's misery when she peeled about 8 pounds of potatoes and then tried to hide the peels by stuffing them all down it's throat.
Then I came to the rescue and after me best efforts were ineffective in releasing the clog, I used the only option left:
I poured Drano down it.
Then I poured some more Drano down it.

Then it became incontinent, leaking from the nether regions and that was it.
But it wasn't clogged anymore!
So let's get on with it, shall we?

It is time for our appointment at T-Rex. Yes, I use the word appointment here because that's how I feel. You make reservations for Easter Brunch, other holidays, but it seems now you also have to have one at Disney if you want to eat there, anywhere. And I do get tired of having to drop what your doing just to be at a certain restaurant at a certain time, ergo, appointments.

Luckily, there really is nothing planned at all today, and it's still too cold for pool time so this I was really looking forward to.

Ok, time for some:
DI-
NO_
MEAT!

Besides, I was starved! Hadn't eaten at all today yet, and didn't eat much yesterday because it's hard to chew properly when your teeth are clenched in pain. Both of us were starved.

T rex is made up of several different areas, or rooms.
The pteradactyl, the coral, the ice and the sequoia rooms.

We sat in the pteradactyl (and I'm not going to type that again) room.

THis is one of the first things we saw when entering.

http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n126/nebo100/popboardwalk/trex4.jpg

Of course our host tried to seat us right by the open doorway, where it was about 50 degrees and we would have had a lovely view of tourists walking by outside. Diane would have none of that and got us moved to a table further in.

THIS was a great table. We sat directly underneath this guy, and since it's the ptera........ big bird room, you know what is going to be right over us.

http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n126/nebo100/popboardwalk/trex5.jpg

That's right, Ray Romano.

When our waitress came, this also gave me a chance to use an old line that has always been a favorite of mine.

Looking up at Old Ray I said, "So, does that come with cole slaw and fries?"

I got the feeling she had heard that one before because I got the obligatory smile with no teeth.

Ok, let's see now; Diane got the paleozoic chicken sandwich, grilled and served with bacon and lettuce and tomatoes and avacado stuffage on fried pizza dough. Something like that.

I got the bronto burger.

Both sandwiches came with chips, but these aren't your basic Ruffles chips here, these are made there and much thicker, kinda of like very flat french fries.

To both of our surprise they were quite good, a little pricey at 12 for the burger and 13 for the chicken, but you are paying for the atmosphere here, and believe me, their electric bill had to be enormous.

After ordering we both got up to look around, I grabbed the camera.

THis fellow was in one corner;

http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n126/nebo100/popboardwalk/trex3.jpg

Then we went into the ice room.

http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n126/nebo100/popboardwalk/trex2.jpg

I think this guy was right at the border of the ice room and sequioa room.

http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n126/nebo100/popboardwalk/trex1.jpg

In my opinion, the ice room is probably to coolest looking, it also seems to undergo the biggest change every 20 minutes or so when the meteor storm hits,, all the blue walls and lighting turn bright red.

The coral room is by the bar and the sequioa room is way in the back, and wasn't even open when we were there.

Back at the table our cokes came, and then the place started messing with me.
Every once in a while there would be a light tap on my shoulder.

I'd turn and look, and nothing there. After the third time, I noticed that it was starting to get a little wet, something from above was driipping on me.

I gave Old Ray a funny look.
Diane asked what's wrong, and I told her.

"Ray's drooling on me!" "It's mammoth mucus!"

Naturally, right then the waitress was standing there, so I had to explain it to her. She told me it was probably from an air conditioning unit above.

Yeah, right, it was 55 degrees out.

All in all, it was a delightful time, no complaints at all and I'd go back there again. If you have kids, I promise you they will still be talking about T-Rex, it's by the same company that has the Rainforest Cafe, but in here it's like the rainforest on steroids.

By the way, it's not just when the meteor shower comes that the dinos move about, they do so almost constantly a little the whole time.

There is also a huge gift store attached to the building, try not to let kids see it on the way out.

Back at the resort, Diane thinks she may want to go and lie by the pool for a bit, and I think some of her Easter eggs are still hidden behind the seat cushion.

From last year.

I walked around the building to the side the pool was on , and yep, it is just packed with sunbathers.

http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n126/nebo100/popboardwalk/poppool.jpg

I took the picture, then went back to the room and showed her it and told her the ones that were down there have all been taken away with hypothermia.

There is a bright spot though, according to the weather channel, it is going to start warming up tomorrow, about frigginn time!

Later on, we went on down to the arcade to use our voucher that came with the package. Now, I have not done arcades in ages and I have no idea how the voucher works. We asked the attendant, and he lost me right after he said, "It works like this,"

We liked the arcade here at Pop because it had some of the old games; Donkey Kong, pac man, missile command and the like, but we spent more time, (of our allotted one half hour) trying to figure out how to switch the machines over to the game of our choosing.

On the way out through the gift shop, it still depresses me to no end that they still have all these scarfs and gloves piled high right on the checkout counter, and people were still scarfing them up.

But tomorrow will be better, and tomorrow is Epcot!
:dance3:

jcc0621

04-08-2009, 09:08 PM

I have heard T-Rex is really loud. Is it? Jimmy doesn't like really loud things and although I think he'd like the dinos part, I don't want him freaking out about the noise.

winkers

04-09-2009, 03:06 AM

Mammoth mucus!:lmao:

I hear Ray Ramano's voice every time I see a wooly mammoth too!
We were seated in the ice room and it was alot of fun to watch it change colors.

The gift shop on the way out is like quick sand.........one wrong step and your sucked under!

whogirl'smom

04-09-2009, 09:58 AM

Somehow I don't think I could get whogirl (with the supersonic, sensitive hearing) within a mile of T-Rex, but it looks very cool.

Woo, hoo! Epcot, my favorite!

Backstage_Gal

04-09-2009, 06:56 PM

T-Rex looks very cool. Who knows, I might make it there in my lifetime, but doubtful, LOL. Unless I have grandkids one day, which are not anywhere in sight so far.

Looking forward to warmer weather for you and Epcot.

ChelleinNC

04-09-2009, 09:01 PM

T-Rex looks cool, but loud. Looking forward to better weather & Epcot :goodvibes

OhMari

04-09-2009, 10:18 PM

I think the Vikes were making you hallucinate at the Rose and Crown. Since when does deep fried fish and potato chips look like a slimey eel. Unless they really changed the menu.

My dh got the fish and chips and it was cod and us Wisconites avoid bars/resturants on Friday nites that have cod.

dwheatl

04-09-2009, 11:34 PM

Hey, I just found you! You probably didn't even know you were lost. I'll come back tomorrow to actually catch up on here, but i wanted to sub in now, before the brain cells that found you jump ship. Goodnight!:hippie:

PrincessV

04-10-2009, 10:10 AM

It is time for our appointment at T-Rex. Yes, I use the word appointment here because that's how I feel. You make reservations for Easter Brunch, other holidays, but it seems now you also have to have one at Disney if you want to eat there, anywhere. And I do get tired of having to drop what your doing just to be at a certain restaurant at a certain time, ergo, appointments.
Amen! :worship:

"Ray's drooling on me!" "It's mammoth mucus!"
:rotfl2:

All in all, it was a delightful time, no complaints at all and I'd go back there again. If you have kids, I promise you they will still be talking about T-Rex, it's by the same company that has the Rainforest Cafe, but in here it's like the rainforest on steroids.
I totally agree, and that's the best T-Rex desription I've seen yet! :rotfl:

There is a bright spot though, according to the weather channel, it is going to start warming up tomorrow, about frigginn time!
Yay!

I have heard T-Rex is really loud. Is it?
I'm not Nebo, but YES. Really, really, really loud. Think he'd be okay with ear plugs? Because I do think he'd dig the place. :goodvibes

tiggerwannabe

04-10-2009, 11:15 AM

Great Dino pics!

Loved the update...and reliving the Fish Incident ;)

nebo

04-10-2009, 03:41 PM

Backstage_Gal

04-11-2009, 07:31 PM

Thanks for dragging that up from the primordial waters again, Neeb :scared1:

debsters41

04-12-2009, 02:37 AM

that was just scary!:scared:

Maroon

04-12-2009, 03:22 AM

Poor Smidgy! :sad2: To be treated like that after she saved you $300!

smidgy

04-13-2009, 12:49 AM

to me, Trex is almost an attraction, and not to be missed! I hated to leave, really. even though each room has it's own theme, they let you walk around (at least when we were there. )as nebo said it wasn't crowded, one whole room was not being used, although you could "tour" it. work of warning: if you are right near a big "creature", you may have people standing near you, gaping up, whilst you dine. for me, that was part of the fun .of course, sooner or later, someone will start a thread about the "rude" people standing by their table while they were "trying" to eat.(we were seated by the wooly mammoth, not you, so... you can't look!:rotfl:)remember, you heard the prediction here first, folks!
I didn't know where to look first! OR second! what fun!!!
oh yeah, I really did enjoy my sandwich.
we're not big shoppers so never saw a need to go to downtown disney marketplace for years. but between this and lego land, (and a chocolate at Ghiradellis), well worth an afternoon. I would evven pass up using the proverbial Planet Hollywood voucher for this restaurant OOP (out of pocket).
(now if they would only bring back Adventurer's Club.......:confused3)

TyRy

04-14-2009, 06:25 PM

Wow - the restaurant looks really cool...I wonder if you could request to be seated in a certain section. I think we'd really like the ice room...but only when it's warm out! :goodvibes

nebo

04-14-2009, 06:34 PM

hmm, this is going to be really easy today, all the call outs are really just on one subject.

I have heard T-Rex is really loud. Is it? Jimmy doesn't like really loud things and although I think he'd like the dinos part, I don't want him freaking out about the noise.

Somehow I don't think I could get whogirl (with the supersonic, sensitive hearing) within a mile of T-Rex, but it looks very cool.

Woo, hoo! Epcot, my favorite!

Ok, if you're afraid of the noise in there, honestly, I wouldn't be, and no, not because I hear like crap, but because I think the visuals will engage the senses in such a positive way that the auditory effects won't even be noticed. (that come out of me?)
Or, here's another idear. Make ressies for the place, then go and check it out with the younguns. Just going to the gift shop will give you and idea of the noise, and I doubt they would mind if you just went into the bar area and had a drink, then you can decide if you want to keep the ressie or not. (I'm so bright my mama called me sun.)

T-Rex looks very cool. Who knows, I might make it there in my lifetime, but doubtful, LOL. Unless I have grandkids one day, which are not anywhere in sight so far.

Looking forward to warmer weather for you and Epcot.

Ahem, Marita, we didn't have our grandkids with us, and we like it a lot. You might too if you ever get your keister out of Yacht and Beach Club.

T-Rex looks cool, but loud. Looking forward to better weather & Epcot :goodvibes

Me too, me too! I'm also looking forward to wearing clean clothes! Just because my socks not only talk to me but are actually bi-lingual is nothing to be proud of.

Hey, I just found you! You probably didn't even know you were lost. I'll come back tomorrow to actually catch up on here, but i wanted to sub in now, before the brain cells that found you jump ship. Goodnight!:hippie:

Danielle, since you have already posted on this thread before, I think not only have those brain cells jumped ship, but they are swimming out to meet the Carpathia.

Amen! :worship:

Ok, I just like quoting the little worship guy. No, really, the whole making ressies and having to be there thing is one thing we have compromised on, especially when it comes to Free Dining. Now we try to pick at least one signature resty to free up more time. Plus there are counter service meals we've never tried yet, especailly at Epcot and probably won't if we are always in a Showcase restaurant.

Great Dino pics!

Loved the update...and reliving the Fish Incident ;)

Thanks for dragging that up from the primordial waters again, Neeb :scared1:

Colleen and Marita, I will never forget that fish as long as I live. For the record to everybody else, that wasn't the exact, same fish I got that night, Lexmelinda found that somewhere, but as God is my witness, it was just about a dead ringer for it. I believe when I first posted it, Winkers called it a "Lizard with a gimpy leg." speaking of which,,,,,,,,,,

Mammoth mucus!:lmao:

I hear Ray Ramano's voice every time I see a wooly mammoth too!
We were seated in the ice room and it was alot of fun to watch it change colors.

The gift shop on the way out is like quick sand.........one wrong step and your sucked under!

Am I the only one who want's to ask her just how often she sees whooly mammoths? I wonder if the pink elephants approve?

that was just scary!:scared:

And you thought your gyros contained mystery meet.

Poor Smidgy! :sad2: To be treated like that after she saved you $300!

Now this is one I had to think about. Hi Maroon, ok, you're talking about the second or third chapter where I yelled at Smidgy not to get out of the car until I do so it doesn't flip over, right?

we're not big shoppers so never saw a need to go to downtown disney marketplace for years. but between this and lego land, (and a chocolate at Ghiradellis), well worth an afternoon. I would evven pass up using the proverbial Planet Hollywood voucher for this restaurant OOP (out of pocket).
(now if they would only bring back Adventurer's Club.......:confused3)

Ok, hold it right there. Pass up the free voucher? I don't think I heard that correctly. What part of "free" don't you understand?

Ok, tomorrow we write so hang in there. I don't know if the chapters will be any more entertaining, but I do know one thing.
They are finally going to be Warmer!

nebo

04-14-2009, 06:39 PM

Wow - the restaurant looks really cool...I wonder if you could request to be seated in a certain section. I think we'd really like the ice room...but only when it's warm out! :goodvibes

Tracy, I have no doubt you can request a certain section, just probably not when you make the ressies but you can try. Just tell the hostesss when you check in you want the ice room, if she gives you a hard time tell her you want to speak with Ray.

Backstage_Gal

04-14-2009, 07:56 PM

Ahem, Marita, we didn't have our grandkids with us, and we like it a lot. You might too if you ever get your keister out of Yacht and Beach Club.

Funny you said that, Nebo. I AM getting my keister out of Y&B, moving to a big office building on Monday. :rolleyes: But I will be near TOT (which I will never ride, EVAH!)

Looking forwards to warmer chapters to come.

dwheatl

04-14-2009, 08:45 PM

Danielle, since you have already posted on this thread before, I think not only have those brain cells jumped ship, but they are swimming out to meet the Carpathia.

Nope, not this thread. Although when I saw the fish, I wondered if I had, it was your previous trippies that I posted on.

So, although my Dory avatar fits this stage in my life ("Do I know you?"), I think my brain cells are not the only ones adrift this time.

OhMari

04-14-2009, 09:03 PM

sorry, not doing call outs right now. Just ONE!
This is for Oh Mari, who had the audacity to disagree with me on the condition of the "Fish".
Here, YOU WANNA EAT THIS?

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1058/1455290389_30f9343c67.jpg

Oh Nemo, bleb, bleb, bleb, I mean Nebo
I knew it was Cod, but I'll let the Fish name in you,
still believe you were eating the greasiest deep fried eel:rotfl:
(someone was lazy in the kitchen and forgot to cut the fish into decent pieces.):dance3:

nebo

04-16-2009, 06:02 PM

writing:teacher:

whogirl'smom

04-16-2009, 08:01 PM

writing:teacher:

:cheer2:

nebo

04-16-2009, 08:32 PM

Oh no, is he going to think again? Please don't let him think again, especially out loud!

Well, yes I am. I'm here to give you the whole truth and nothing but the whole, exaggerated truth.

Thursday night, after T Rex and after killing time in the arcade:

Even though it was only about 8 pm, both of us were tired, and I looked forward to just reading for awhile before I went to sleep, but as usual, my mind was still shooting off in about 20 different directions.

Back in the room, I had taken off my shoes, but still had on my jacket as I sat on the edge of the bed, just staring off into space thinking about nothing and everything, all at the same time. I was already considering something stupid, and I wanted to check out the weather channel to make sure if I brought it up to her that what I was thinking would make sense, but I took too long and she had already turned on some sitcom which I can't think of now to save my life.

I had grabbed a beer, and as I was still mulling this thing over in my head, the doorbell rang, and I went over to answer it.

Yep, that I did!

Just as I was sticking my head out the door the entire, stupid nickel finally dropped into the really stupid coin holder.
Ok moron, you are now trying to answer the door on the tv, and in 3 seconds she is about to put this together and let me have it. In one fluid motion I opened the door all the way, turned around and said I was going down to my yo yo for a smoke, and I was gone before she even noticed I didn't have any shoes on.

Good thing I didn't say, "I'll get it!" when the stupid bell on the tv rang. Yep, I'd still be hearing about that! To be honest, this was just as well, I needed some time tonight in my yo yo to think.

The problem is I feel like crap, even the doorbell thingy just now would have normally brought a laugh out of me, but not tonight.

The main reason is I feel like the world's biggest jerk. Since my company closed, we have now gone more than a year without health insurance, and it's a very scary place to be for the first time in your lives. She SHOULD have that hand looked at, but by the time you factor in ER room fees, x-rays, doctor fees and all the rest including the loss of a vacation day, the expenses would ruin any good time left that we still have.

It's probably not broken, just a popped tenden or ligament right now that will heal on it's own, but, I'm no doctor, and you never know. Diane's aware of all this too, and she does, and doesn't, want to see a doctor.

So I feel like a big jerk. Cobra was never really an option when the company went under, as our HR director totally screwed that up for the rest of us. Not that I could have afforded a thousand dollar a month insurance bill, at least not for long.

Also, at this stage of the trip, I wasn't the only one bummed out by the perpetual cold we hit down there. It is Thursday night, we got down here last Friday, and we still haven't even had a chance to even wear shorts yet, much less even take our jackets off for more than a few minutes. Weatherman says it's going to change now, Ol' Mama Nat is going to play nice nice, and not a moment too soon.

What I had been considering was to see if maybe we can extend our stay next week, nuts as it sounds. We really don't have to be anywhere right away when we get back, maybe Diane can move a house cleaning customer or two around, and after the Boardwalk, either come back here for 2 or 3 nights or stay at a different value for a couple of nights.
This is how a desperate mind works when you have just gone through a brutal year, and what had gotten you through it is now turning out to be about 75% less than expected.

Oh yes, there are major flaws in this line of thinking. Two major flaws to be exact. One is that they are currently still running the buy 4, get 3 free sale on the rooms and tickets.
The other is that next weekend is Presidents Week, not a value season, not a regular season, not even a summer season rate, but a HOLIDAY season at Disney.

I don't care about the crowds at this stage of the game, we will have already seen most of what we want, for about 6 bucks we can still add a day to the base ticket, go to a park in the morning and spend the rest of the day by a pool, which is what we have been severely shorted out of this trip.

Now, do I mention it or not?
3 times I decided to do it, and 3 times I changed my mind.

I even asked Mr. Duncan, but he was no help at all.

But if I'm going to do it, it better be now!

All the way back to the room, I thought about it.

Turns out I didn't have to.
She beat me to it!

Go ahead, tell me this isn't contagious? She brought up all the points that I thought of, and looked at me to see how I'd react.
'Really?"
"Huh, I never thought of doing that."
"Hmmm, maybe we should, but our chances of getting a room are 100 to 1."

So we talked about it, but the one thing I don't want to do is go back and stay somewhere in Kissimmee.

So finally, it was time to make a decision. "Ok", I said, "What do you think? Should we go for it?"

She just grinned, "Till debt do us part!"

:dance3:

Five minutes later I was on the phone, cutting off the voice activated flow chart at every junction. And, no, almost nothing.

SSR was available, 389 a night. Grand Floridian was open too, and I didn't even ask for a price. Ok, we'll try again tomorrow.

This turned into a regular routine the next few days, right after the brushing of teeth.

The next morning I tried again, no changes, so we left to make rope drop at Epcot.

Epcot has always been my favorite park, but maybe not so much anymore. With the Wonders of Life Pavilion closed down, there really isn't all that much to do in Future World anymore, and the big ticket draws are still only about 5 minute attractions.

We started out right at the front by the rope and were with the Soarin' group. (apostrophe trademarked) But my foot was really giving me hell today, and by the time we got to where the line stopped, we were back about 40 people or so. Damn, I used to be right there up front with the fastest runners, now I feel like an aging ballplayer on his way back down through the minors.

During the ride I tried again, but I still can't see the hidden mickey on the golf ball, I can tell there is something there, but that's as close as I can get to it.

While we were down in the bowels of the Land pavilion, we also rode Listen to the Land. Or is it Living with the Land? Or Lending Earth a Hand? I dunno, they keep changing the name of it, ANYWAY, I looked at a bunch of pumpkins. After this we hit a smoking area outside, and crossed over to go into Comuniventions.

That's when we finally noticed something that we hadn't read a single thing about.
The entire fountain was shut down and boarded up, a ten foot barrier going all the way around it like the Great Wall, a cast member told me this is the one man made attraction that you can actually see from outer space!

Ok, made the last part up, but this was a real downer, we always enjoy sitting in our out of the way designated smoking area in a remote corner of Mouse Gear and watching the fountain come to life.

By the way, our our of the way designated smoking area in a remote corner of Mouse Gear is also now sleeping with the fishes, not there any more.

Crap

Inside one of the Innerventions they get a bunch of you together in a small room, make you put on 3-D glasses, and then everybody takes turns yelling at you on how you've messed up your life.
Actually, it's a short film in 3-D about a hurricane, and then a seminar on how to prepare for one.

No, there's more than just the standard "bend over and kiss your,,,,,"
Again, I was expecting more from this, and again the 3-D didn't seem very three-d'y to me.

After that we went over to get Test Track fastpasses, and that was all that was working, the ride was shut down again. Then I talked Diane into going to the first aid room that's where the old Odysses used to be on the way to World Showcase. No, we really didn't have any expectations of a nurse being able to help, but it was worth a try.

Diane showed her the hand, she mumbled something, wrapped her hand in a bandage and gave Smidgy a couple of Ibuprofens.
And that was about it.
"Sorry, can't tell anything without and x-ray."

On the way back, Test Track was still closed down, we didn't feel like we were in the mood to throw up so skipped Mission Space, Wonders of Life is closed for good, and Ellen's Energy is also closed for lack of energy. We hit another smoking area trying to decide what we wanted to do.

It's getting a bit warmer, not swimming weather, but at least we can probably lie by the pool with maybe just ONE blanket this time.

We also have to be back here for our Nine Dragons appointment at 6;30, and it is also EMH night.

As I was slowly limping after Smidgy around the fountain, we stopped for a second trying to read signs, if any, that might say when the fountain will re-open. It was then that I saw the strangest thing.

Standing off the the side is a woman and a dog.
Now, normally the entrance to Mouse Gear is not usually where folks go to walk their dogs, pooper scooper or no pooper scooper. Usually everybody in the world walks their dogs on my driveway, or the sidewalk that leads to the driveway.
On further inspection, you could tell that this woman was blind, and the dog is her guide dog.

What I found unusual though was that this wasn't a german shepherd/ husiy type. It seemed more of a big, standard poodle type.
Ok, hold it. Husky type. Well, could have been a hussy type, but I wasn't going to flirt with it.

SO, I don't know, I guess other breeds can be trained the same way, just used to having the image of a shepherd big dog in my mind.
But also what was strange, is when you receive a guide dog, you are mostly ordered to throw away your cane.

Evidently this woman wasn't comfortable throwing away her blanky, as she had the cane under one arm, and the dog harness in her other hand.

This reminded me of a news story I had read somewhere not too long ago, about a woman who brought a big dog into a restaurant, and after she was done eating, let the dog just run around and fill itself up on all the other patrons meals until her fraud was found out and she was thrown out.

The manager actually had the guts to tell the cops that he should have suspected something when she told him the dog was a "Hearing Ear Dog!"

Back in Epcot, the woman and her guide dog and a friend started walking the other way, and I noticed she was also using the cane occasionally.

As we ourselves headed for the exit, I couldn't help but think;

"I bet there would be a lot less litter if they would just give blind people pointy canes!"

Right at the exit turnstyle, we asked a cast member how long the fountain would be shut down. I am not kidding, this was her response;

"What fountain?"

Diane tried to explain it to her, but she was still blank. BLANK!
She calle over another guy, and asked him, "Do you know anything about a fountain? They say it is shut down."
He was as bad as she was.
"Oh, I think I know what they are talking about. "

,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
,,,,,,,,,,,,,

"Oh, ok, when will it reopen?" This was Diane talking now.

"I think it's supposed to re-open at noon."

I threw up my hands, literally.
Diane said, "It's already ten to 12, you have no idea what we are talking about, do you?"

Now he was a bit indignant. "Yes I do, I think I do, and it's supposed to reopen at noon." Once again, I walked away. That is one thing I have found that I do not like about Disney employees, if they don't know, they will make stuff up rather than admit they don't know.

I would at least like to find employees with at least as much knowledge of day to day, park to park information as I have.
Unbelievable.

At exactly noon, we are at the bus stop, and sometimes this can be the very worst time to need a bus out of the parks. We waited, by ourselves for 25 minutes. Finally, another family came up, and sure enough, the bus pulled up within a couple more minutes.

"See honey, I told you that we never have to wait long for a bus, here comes one right now!"
I could have strangled her, but I knew if they hadn't walked up, we might still be waiting.

Funny thing was, as we were pulling away, I thought I could hear the celebratory cheers from all the guest inside Epcot, as the construction crews carted away the barriers, and the fountain started back up with Beethoven's 5th symphony!:mad:

dwheatl

04-16-2009, 09:38 PM

Am I first this time?

Funny thing was, as we were pulling away, I thought I could hear the celebratory cheers from all the guest inside Epcot, as the construction crews carted away the barriers, and the fountain started back up with Beethoven's 5th symphony!:mad:
Isn't that always the way? Anytime I have to leave a Disney park, I always feel like the people still there are about to have the best time ever, and I'm going to miss it.

whogirl'smom

04-16-2009, 10:18 PM

Don't feel bad, Nebo, I have done the doorbell thing at home. At least here I can pretend I thought it was the cat wanting in.

Aw, I feel bad about you feeling bad about Diane's hand. I hadn't thought about the insurance thing; I guess I thought you had Cobra all this time. :hug:

You did make me laugh about the fountain opening just as your bus was pulling away! :laughing: Here's to hoping you found a room to extend your trip!

smidgy

04-18-2009, 01:21 AM

Don't feel bad, Nebo, I have done the doorbell thing at home. At least here I can pretend I thought it was the cat wanting in.

!

is your cat related to our cats? I think Mischief has figured out the garage door code!

we also rode Listen to the Land. Or is it Living with the Land? Or Lending Earth a Hand?:lmao::rotfl:

as far as getting a room ressie, all I will say is: we are used to getting what we want at Disney. our split stay Dec. trip, when we checked in at French Quarter after our stint at Music: "um, we would like to add an extra night, if possible" CM: "probably, not, pretty booked" long wait, pregnant pause..... "OH! we didn't realize you were the GRISWOLDS of COURSE you can stay an extra night!" :cloud9: same year, Feb. trip: Nebo: "there is a snowstorm possibly coming within a 100 mile radius of Smidgy's drive home, and she is petrified of travel in the snow" CM: well, it IS Presidents week, pretty booked, I doubt it... WAIT! there is a footnote on ALL reservations.... if SMIDGY is afraid of travelling in possible snow, make a room available for her! 2 nights at Sports, you folks got it!" :banana:

one minor footnote about soarin'.......uhem.......Smidgy is petrified of heights. she does not relish the thought of hanging, legs dangling, 20 or 30 feet in the air. she likes the bottom row. Has tried the middle row, still likes the bottom row...
now, since Nebo was so depressed at this point... guess who sacrificed and, for the first time ever, rode in the dreaded TOP row?:scared1:

tiggerwannabe

04-18-2009, 05:15 PM

sorry, not doing call outs right now. Just ONE!
This is for Oh Mari, who had the audacity to disagree with me on the condition of the "Fish".
Here, YOU WANNA EAT THIS?

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1058/1455290389_30f9343c67.jpg

That is Rhonda's Fish...

(from Tiggerbell's Trippie!)

I tried to tell a deaf man
about the fish he shouldn't order...
alas, he never heard me,
so this was his surprise.

:headache::rolleyes1:laughing:

babynurse1

04-18-2009, 05:18 PM

I am back old friend. Not that you are old. You are young. At heart. What I mean is.....

Heyyy great installment. Thanks for sharing.

Although, it doesnt sound like a great day so far. I would be so very very sad if I went to Florida and it was cold.

If it helps at all I lol'd at this comment:"I bet there would be a lot less litter if they would just give blind people pointy canes!"

And Smidgy your philosophy about "until debt do us part" was quite astute. Loved it!

zigzagzerr

04-20-2009, 03:01 PM

Just as I was sticking my head out the door the entire, stupid nickel finally dropped into the really stupid coin holder.
Ok moron, you are now trying to answer the door on the tv, and in 3 seconds she is about to put this together and let me have it. In one fluid motion I opened the door all the way, turned around and said I was going down to my yo yo for a smoke, and I was gone before she even noticed I didn't have any shoes on.

Great fake out! This happens often to DH and myself -- we claim to share a brain, and oftentimes there's just not enough power to go around.

At my gym, there is a sign on the wall:

All of us have photographic memories,
but some of us don't have film in the camera.

The main reason is I feel like the world's biggest jerk. Since my company closed, we have now gone more than a year without health insurance, and it's a very scary place to be for the first time in your lives. She SHOULD have that hand looked at, but by the time you factor in ER room fees, x-rays, doctor fees and all the rest including the loss of a vacation day, the expenses would ruin any good time left that we still have.

No health insurance is rough - I'm sorry.

Right at the exit turnstyle, we asked a cast member how long the fountain would be shut down. I am not kidding, this was her response;

"What fountain?"

:rotfl:

one minor footnote about soarin'.......uhem.......Smidgy is petrified of heights. she does not relish the thought of hanging, legs dangling, 20 or 30 feet in the air. she likes the bottom row. Has tried the middle row, still likes the bottom row...
now, since Nebo was so depressed at this point... guess who sacrificed and, for the first time ever, rode in the dreaded TOP row?:scared1:

Yea Smidgy! You're a good woman.

TigerTown

04-21-2009, 11:58 AM

NEBO!!!!!!!

How in the world did I not realize you had a new report??? Man am I slacking.:lmao: Looks Like I have some reading to do popcorn::

OhMari

04-21-2009, 01:41 PM

Just returned home and I sat for over an hour and watched the Dancing Fountains. I never stopped and did that before.

My dh was perplexed that many of his smoking spots were eliminated at Future World. It was then that I remembered, "Nebo from Chicago, told me WDW is trying to get people to stop smoking, so they are slowly eliminating a lot of the smoking areas." My dh said, "who told you that?" "Then it dawned on him, where I got the info. "Nebo", don't you mean "Nemo"?~~(long story, didn't want to get into it with him.) We hightailed it to "The British Invasion area" and the smoking sign was gone: China still has one a smoking section. We were saved.

nebo

04-21-2009, 05:44 PM

Funny you said that, Nebo. I AM getting my keister out of Y&B, moving to a big office building on Monday. :rolleyes: But I will be near TOT (which I will never ride, EVAH!)

Looking forwards to warmer chapters to come.

Marita, doesn't sound like you are moving far, it does seem like a bit of a downer to me, I'd have loved to go to work at a place as pretty as Yand B Club are.

Nope, not this thread. Although when I saw the fish, I wondered if I had, it was your previous trippies that I posted on.

So, although my Dory avatar fits this stage in my life ("Do I know you?"), I think my brain cells are not the only ones adrift this time.

You are correct my dear, I stand here ashamed. But I DID check the stat sheet before I believed you. :happytv:

Oh Nemo, bleb, bleb, bleb, I mean Nebo
I knew it was Cod, but I'll let the Fish name in you,
still believe you were eating the greasiest deep fried eel:rotfl:
(someone was lazy in the kitchen and forgot to cut the fish into decent pieces.):dance3:

Mari, do you have any idea the grief I took when that darn movie came out? Now I know what it must have been like for anybody named Elmo when the doll became popular; "I'm warning you, if you try to tickle me ONE MORE TIME..."

Am I first this time?

Isn't that always the way? Anytime I have to leave a Disney park, I always feel like the people still there are about to have the best time ever, and I'm going to miss it.

What's even worse is when you are there for a record freeze, and then the weather gets better as you are pulling out to go home.

Don't feel bad, Nebo, I have done the doorbell thing at home. At least here I can pretend I thought it was the cat wanting in.

You did make me laugh about the fountain opening just as your bus was pulling away! :laughing: Here's to hoping you found a room to extend your trip!

Whoogi, I wouldn't hold your breath about us getting the extra room.

That is Rhonda's Fish...

(from Tiggerbell's Trippie!)

I tried to tell a deaf man
about the fish he shouldn't order...
alas, he never heard me,
so this was his surprise.

:headache::rolleyes1:laughing:

Emily Bronte you are not. And even a hearing ear guide dog would have done a better job protecting me from that monstrosity of the deep!

I am back old friend. Not that you are old. You are young. At heart. What I mean is.....

Heyyy great installment. Thanks for sharing.

And Smidgy your philosophy about "until debt do us part" was quite astute. Loved it!

Hi Elivabiff, glad somebody liked that line about the litter, I loved it, as politically incorrect as it was.

Great fake out! This happens often to DH and myself -- we claim to share a brain, and oftentimes there's just not enough power to go around.

At my gym, there is a sign on the wall:

All of us have photographic memories,
but some of us don't have film in the camera.

Yea Smidgy! You're a good woman.

Yes, she's a good woman for riding in the top row of Soarin. What I just don't get is how come when you are the highest, in row one, it feels like your feet are going to get wet even more than when you are in the lower row? Anybody else notice that?

NEBO!!!!!!!

How in the world did I not realize you had a new report??? Man am I slacking.:lmao: Looks Like I have some reading to do popcorn::

KYLE! How goes it Maggs man? WHere ya been? Get readin.

Just returned home and I sat for over an hour and watched the Dancing Fountains. I never stopped and did that before.

[COLOR="Blue"](ok, shall we give her a hard time?) "You have dancing fountains at home?" Glad you were able to see them, so, ok, what changes did they make that they had to have a total construction zone around them when we were there?

My dh was perplexed that many of his smoking spots were eliminated at Future World. It was then that I remembered, "Nebo from Chicago, told me WDW is trying to get people to stop smoking, so they are slowly eliminating a lot of the smoking areas." My dh said, "who told you that?" "Then it dawned on him, where I got the info. "Nebo", don't you mean "Nemo"?~~(long story, didn't want to get into it with him.) We hightailed it to "The British Invasion area" and the smoking sign was gone: China still has one a smoking section. We were saved.

Wthout a doubt, they are making it harder to smoke, I really miss the one by the Brittish Invasion, but I do like the one by China. There is also a nice one across from the Land still there, or least it was two months ago.

Probably in the next chapter, we are going to go the route of an old favorite of mine, Aesop's Fables. Gonna have to change the name someway, maybe Nebo's Foibles. This is a bizarre thing that happened to me reminiscent of Candid Camera, only with ME in the role of the victim. Coming soon to a trip report near you. :woohoo:

winkers

04-21-2009, 07:14 PM

smidgy

04-22-2009, 12:06 AM

I love that you tried to answer the doorbell! At first I thought...." I didn't know they had doorbell's there"....nothing gets past me.;)

.

OMG! Nebo didn't tell me this story at all, he kept it a secret until I read it in the report. then he and I had a laugh about it. it never occurred to me that there aren't doorbells there anyway!:rotfl:
(if there were,, the maid would love it. the one who keeps disturbing me by knocking on the door to make sure I don't want to be disturbed.!)

TigerTown

04-22-2009, 09:27 AM

KYLE! How goes it Maggs man? WHere ya been? Get readin.
:

Maggs is in a bit of a slump to start the season but Cabrera is on fire so it evens out I guess. Speaking of awesome hitters is Quentin ever going to cool off? That guy is a monster.

If you ever feel like taking the Sante Fe out for a day trip shoot me a message. I'd be happy to take you to a Sox - Tigers game @ Comerica :thumbsup2

OhMari

04-22-2009, 10:16 AM

ok, shall we give her a hard time?) "You have dancing fountains at home?" Glad you were able to see them, so, ok, what changes did they make that they had to have a total construction zone around them when we were there?
That my dyslexia, I know what I want to say, but I can't get it down correctly, or type it correctly, 3 different ideas sometimes ends up in a sentence.

Water Fountain-they probably didn't want anyone to see all the scum they were cleaning out of the fountain. Plus it looked painted inside. Jan/Feb. is a big time for WDW to get painting done, before it gets really hot out again.
The smoking section is gone from the Land area too, believe me, I know

nebo

04-24-2009, 07:08 PM

I love that you tried to answer the doorbell! At first I thought...." I didn't know they had doorbell's there"....nothing gets past me.;)

It reminds me of the story about a group of old ladies playing cards. They were all complaining about the aces and pains of old age. One piped up and said "Well, at least we're not senile yet.......KNock on wood"......"oh, there's sombody at the door"!

We were disapointed to see the fountains all boarded up too. We should get a ticket discount based on the number of attractions that are closed.

I agree about the discount. Can you imagine the lines this summer at MK with Space Mountain closed?

If you ever feel like taking the Sante Fe out for a day trip shoot me a message. I'd be happy to take you to a Sox - Tigers game @ Comerica :thumbsup2

Kyle, I'd love to take you up on the offer, but I'd have to bring the Elantra, the Santa Fe only knows how to go south, as in Florida.

That my dyslexia, I know what I want to say, but I can't get it down correctly, or type it correctly, 3 different ideas sometimes ends up in a sentence.

Water Fountain-they probably didn't want anyone to see all the scum they were cleaning out of the fountain. Plus it looked painted inside. Jan/Feb. is a big time for WDW to get painting done, before it gets really hot out again.
The smoking section is gone from the Land area too, believe me, I know

OhMari? Isn't summer about the ONLY time you have to get anything done up by you? I mean July and August? The rest of the time isn't there snow? We once rented a cabin up in Montello, a nice area and we went in August.
It never hit 75 degrees, we just sat around for a week drinking beer and grilling.
Now that I think of it, guess it wasn't a bad trip after all. :laughing:

__________________________________________________ ________

After waiting forever for the bus at Epcot, we finally got back to the resort, and it's getting close to 70 degrees today.
Good enough for me, I'll take anything with an "S" in it by now.

The first thing I did was march right into the gift shop at Pop, to demand they put away all the Mickey Mittens and Mickey Scarves and Minnie Muffs and Goofy Galoshes.

Ok, made the last one up, but they had already beaten me to it, none of those items were in sight now.
But finally I'm going to get what I have been waiting for all dang trip, a chance to lie by the pool and read the paper, do the Jumble, and make fun of Diane if she can't get all the words.
Alas it was not to be. All the Orlando Sentinels were out so I guess it's going to be back to my Bathroom Reader.

By the way, as Eco-oriented as Disney is, how come they never ask you "Paper or plastic?"
The other day after I was grocery shopping, the girl asked me that question at the check out, and I responded "Burlap."
She gave me that same look that the woman on the elevator gave me when I mentioned that next winter we should go to Cleveland instead.

Of course now that it's nice out, we didn't have a lot of time, we have ressies for Nine Dragons at 6:00 I believe. Normally, neither one of us like to drink much after we have had a big dinner, so cocktail hour had to start a little bit early today, and we hit into a Salvador pre-made margarita bottle as we changed.

We arrived just as a bus was pulling up, but being EMH night made it crowded, and I ended up standing on the way to Epcot. For once I have no fear going through customs at the entry, I have no vikes in my pockets, no Sunny D and no little bottles, yes, this is unusual for me.

this always does crack me up; Diane will have to empty out her fanny pack sometimes for the checker, and I just can walk right on through, even though I'm carrying 2 Sunny D's mixed with vodka, and four airplane bottles of whatever in my pockets.

For some reason they have changed the hours on Fridays now, and was it ever confusing. What we were told was that Epcot closes at 8 now on Fridays, with Illuminations at 8. Ok, sounds simple enough, right?

NOT!
What about World SHowcase? And Future World usually closes at 7, does that mean it's open later then normal? But some Future World rides stay open to nine usually, so do they now close at 8 and the lamer rides close at 6?

But wait, there's more! It is EMH night, so what time does that start and end? And what about Maelstrom and the American Adventure, which are EMH attractions.

We never did really find out, and to be honest, I don't care anymore.

I did get to see a critter I had never seen down in Disney before. On the pond near Showcase Plaza but on the Future World side, was a crowd all pointing into the water. I have expected to see a small gator, but was guy was yelling "Look at the gar!" Well, even though it had a pointy snout similar to a gar, it wasn't even the same species.

All you could see at the time was the head sticking up, and I told them it was a soft shelled turtle, and probably quite large. Once again I get the "psh, psh", so now I have to wait for vindication.

And this thing wasn't in the mood to vindicate anybody, it didn't move.
Well, ok, that should do it.

"Don't you think it may be getting just a little bit tired of breathing all this AIR by now?"

It was like a chorus around me, "OOOOOhhhhh", I loved it. And so did Crush evidently, for just then the head went under and his huge body came up, before it went under again too.

Over in China, we were seated right away and I'm going to sum this up very quickly right now. We were glad we tried it, got it crossed off our table service list and now brings our total different table service count up to 29, but probably won't go back there again.

We started out splitting an order of egg rolls, which were ok, each of us got a coke and I ordered the chicken fried rice. Smidgy has looked at the menu again, and still can't remember what exactly she ordered. All she knows is it had greenish noodles that were spicy, and she thinks it had chicken in it.

Don't look at me, I was trying to keep my bowl from falling over after the girl brought our entrees'. It looked to me like it was going to fall over, like she had set it down half on a saucer or something else and it looked like it was all headed for my lap! The girl laughed when she saw my reaction, and she was gone.

No, it's just a weird shaped bowl that's cockeyed on one side, I guess this is for scooping directly into you mouth with the chopsticks that I was having no part of.

I thought it was ok, a little blah, but Diane liked her mystery dish. I have to admit, there was more there then it looked like,,,,stupid bowl.

Yes, we opened the fortune cookies, and Diane's said she will be rich and famous, I told her to hurry up about it. I think mine said something like "Beware of falling trees", great, that's something that hasn't happened to me in a while.

When dinner was over I payed with our Disney gift card and we went around and watched Illuminations from the Showcase plaza side. And I couldn't believe it, they cut back on this too!

The whole propane flames and fire on the water in the beginning were gone, all there was was the fireworks and yes, I felt cheated. One of the reasons for being here tonight is to watch the show and not have to make the mad escape to the bus stop, because it's EMH night. It's nice to be able to just stroll out of the park at night.

We did hit Test Track, and for some reason they were still accepting fastpasses which normally they don't after official park closing to day guests.
I think even they didn't know when official park closing was. After that we did the Nemo ride and finally Spaceship Earth.

While I like what they did with the scenes inside, I still don't like the ride down, I don't like the stupid "build your future" on the screen, and I don't really care that much for Judy Dench's narration. I liked Jeremy Irons better, and I especially miss Ol' Walter Chronkite's narration.

Soon we were back in the room, calling it a day.

Saturday
Our last full day at Pop, before we transfer.
And it is going to be gorgeous!

I was up at 6, had my suit on, finally dug out a tank top, and headed down to my yo yo for a quick smoke. That's it, suit, tank top, no shoes.

It was 45 degrees out!

It was the fastest smoke I had since between the bell rings in high school to change classes. Remember hiding in the john for a couple quick puffs?

Trust me, I wasn't gone long. Soon enough I was back putting on pants over my suit and grabbed a jacket, then I headed on down to get coffee and a paper.

I just wandered around for a while, killing time, letting She Who Must Not Be Disturbed not be disturbed, but even that didn't work. Diane said she was sound asleep when the maid just opened the door and walked right in.

No knock, no nuttin.
Didn't even ring the doorbell.

I was glad I wasn't there, that maid is lucky to be alive!

Ok, after coffee for me, tea for her and a breakfast of coffee cake and Suzie Q's, we headed on down to the Computer pool around 11.

This is what I've been waiting for.
Finally!
Not a cloud in the sky, going up to 77.
It still wasn't that hot where you felt like you needed to cool off in the pool and I didn't, but Smidgy jumped in for a couple of minutes.

Tried to talk me into it too, I stuck my foot in it, and "Uh uh, nuttin doink!"

About 1 o'clock Smidgy said she wanted to get some more tea, so I suggested we relocate to the Hippy pool near the food court to save the walk back. And then I remembered something else.

I had every intention this trip to re take a photo of me with the potato heads, just like I did the first time we were here in May of '06.

Only problem is I'm still white as a ghost, I have been down here more than a week and have absolutely no tan, whatsoever.

I don't care, I'm gonna take it anyway, so I ask Diane to join me in a short walk first.

I take Smidgy's picture first.

http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n126/nebo100/popboardwalk/potatoedi.jpg

Then, as much as I hated to do it, she took mine.

http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n126/nebo100/popboardwalk/potatoehead.jpg

For some reason, when you're bald and ghostly white, you look like you're at death's door, or at least visiting.

Ok, here's what it was supposed to look like, from may of 06;

http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n126/nebo100/09-03-2006-16.jpg

See? Didn't I look healthier then? Send flowers, before it's too late. Smidgy almost always looks good, unlike me.

After the pics, we gathered up our stuff, and I was in a great mood. Know what that means, right?
Yep, I don't want coffee or tea, I want a drink! Finally, I feel like I'm on vacation!

We settled into a couple of loungers, and when she got up to refill her mug, I told her my intentions.

Man, I should have been a salesman. Within 3 sentances, those were her intentions TOO!

So I told her to stay put, I will go rectomize the problem.
rectify

Ah, but I didn't know what I was getting into, as simple and mundane as it was a chore to do.

Remember the "troll under the bridge" story?
You are soon to meet the "Elevator Baiter"! , then you will all be as terrified and confused as I was. Coming up! good night :woohoo:

Bee

04-24-2009, 09:43 PM

Hi my friends....

Still reading... still loving your writing....
You were a bad, bad boy- smoking during school hours... lol

I quit by the way, last Sunday... smoking that is... we will see how that works...

Write on my friend.... write on!

Bee

TyRy

04-25-2009, 08:40 AM

Uh oh - another scary charater you run into?

You look great in the picture...for all the Italian blood supposedly I have, without a tan I would look more like Mr. Potato Head's eyes! ;)

Glad it has FINALLY warmed up!

TigerTown

04-25-2009, 09:33 AM

Kyle, I'd love to take you up on the offer, but I'd have to bring the Elantra, the Santa Fe only knows how to go south, as in Florida.

That works too! I just have one request...I need you to bring some Garrett Popcorn...I'm jonesin really bad. :jumping3:

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babynurse1

04-27-2009, 08:59 AM

Yay for warmer weather. Does this make the grump less grumpy?

We had a maid walk right in on us at Pop too. It was our last day at the hotel and we figured we would try to sleep a little bit later. I was awake, but lying in bed watching t.v. while everybody else was sleeping. No knock, No "hello", just marched right in! Scared my daughter to death.

Maybe it was the same gal! Maybe she is allergic to knocking or sumpthn.:confused3

whogirl'smom

04-27-2009, 12:13 PM

If you are white as a ghost, then I am transparent. You could always try the spray tan before your next trip! It seems to work really well on all the prom princesses I've seen around here lately. :lmao:

No more fire during Illuminations? And Maelstrom is an EMH attraction? The things I learn from your trip reports!

Hope you guys are doing well! :flower3:

Underdog369

04-27-2009, 02:34 PM

After waiting forever for the bus at Epcot, we finally got back to the resort, and it's getting close to 70 degrees today.
Good enough for me, I'll take anything with an "S" in it by now.

Yeah, cold temps are for polar bears, either waaay north or waaay south, not on the equator.

By the way, as Eco-oriented as Disney is, how come they never ask you "Paper or plastic?"
The other day after I was grocery shopping, the girl asked me that question at the check out, and I responded "Burlap."
She gave me that same look that the woman on the elevator gave me when I mentioned that next winter we should go to Cleveland instead.

Maybe next time we should all ask whether we could have paper or plastic. Reminds me when at ak getting popcorn in those large plastic buckets that there are no lids, or "lips" as the cm would say. What's the difference with adding another 2 ounces of hard plastic to the top of the canister?:confused3

I did get to see a critter I had never seen down in Disney before. On the pond near Showcase Plaza but on the Future World side, was a crowd all pointing into the water. I have expected to see a small gator, but was guy was yelling "Look at the gar!" Well, even though it had a pointy snout similar to a gar, it wasn't even the same species.

All you could see at the time was the head sticking up, and I told them it was a soft shelled turtle, and probably quite large. Once again I get the "psh, psh", so now I have to wait for vindication.

And this thing wasn't in the mood to vindicate anybody, it didn't move.
Well, ok, that should do it.

"Don't you think it may be getting just a little bit tired of breathing all this AIR by now?"

It was like a chorus around me, "OOOOOhhhhh", I loved it. And so did Crush evidently, for just then the head went under and his huge body came up, before it went under again too.

At least the one you saw was alive. 2 years ago when we went, the kids instantly were drawn to and saw a dead turtle floating by the bridge right by mexico. Pretty appetizing to look at while trying to eat. :scared1:

I was up at 6, had my suit on, finally dug out a tank top, and headed down to my yo yo for a quick smoke. That's it, suit, tank top, no shoes.

It was 45 degrees out!

I hate it when mother nature plays tricks on you like that. Nice and sunny in an area where it should be warm and ends up being a frozen tundra. Are we shure that Disney doesn't put up fake scenery over the windows at night to make it look warm? Is it some kind of magic we don't know about?pixiedust::rotfl:

I had every intention this trip to re take a photo of me with the potato heads, just like I did the first time we were here in May of '06.

Only problem is I'm still white as a ghost, I have been down here more than a week and have absolutely no tan, whatsoever.

When Cherie and I first stayed at pop we really enjoyed walking through the resort. Unfortunately, we kept saying "the kids would love this" and thus ended my savings program.

winkers

04-27-2009, 03:24 PM

I'm trying to picture how exactly you would "rectomize" a situation.:scared:

I know....typical for me to take the bait on that one.:thumbsup2

You my friend, are very far from white........I'd be an albino if it weren't for my frekles..........my people came from the cold north countries that rarely see the sun leaving me with defective pasty white dna.

Backstage_Gal

04-27-2009, 10:41 PM

How the heck did I miss your update until today? sorry!

We arrived just as a bus was pulling up, but being EMH night made it crowded, and I ended up standing on the way to Epcot. For once I have no fear going through customs at the entry, I have no vikes in my pockets, no Sunny D and no little bottles, yes, this is unusual for me.

Nebo living the clean life? Who'd have thunk!!!!!!!!!!

The security check story reminded me of a story. My DS, (now an officer in eternal training in the Air Force) volunteered with his squadron for security duty at the Santa Barbara fair. Plain clothes, no uniforms.
His first day of duty was..............

Checking bathrooms for pervs :rotfl2:
Of course they never told him what to do if he acutally encountered any pervs. Luckily he didn't.
Second day was bag check, confiscating swiss army knives from non-english speaking mexicans.

Glad things FINALLY warmed up for you!

PrincessV

04-29-2009, 02:28 PM

After that we did the Nemo ride and finally Spaceship Earth.

While I like what they did with the scenes inside, I still don't like the ride down, I don't like the stupid "build your future" on the screen, and I don't really care that much for Judy Dench's narration. I liked Jeremy Irons better, and I especially miss Ol' Walter Chronkite's narration.
::yes:: I completely agree!

nebo

04-30-2009, 09:25 PM

Hello boys and girls. Ok, gonna do a few call outs, tomorrow we will get to the confusing, mind numbing, jaw dropping shenanigans that took place that Saturday afternoon at Pop.

Hi my friends....

Still reading... still loving your writing....
You were a bad, bad boy- smoking during school hours... lol

I quit by the way, last Sunday... smoking that is... we will see how that works...

Write on my friend.... write on!

Bee
Hey, GREAT Belinda, nice goin! Keep it up and please, try not to take a life while you're quitting.

Uh oh - another scary charater you run into?

You look great in the picture...for all the Italian blood supposedly I have, without a tan I would look more like Mr. Potato Head's eyes! ;)

Glad it has FINALLY warmed up!

Tracy, I've seen your pic and I didn't think you looked that white to me. Kind of funny though, remember how when we were teenagers, how important it was every summer to get as dark as we could? Well, for some reason I seem to have not grown out of that stage, and skin cancer is the least of the health issues that scare me.

That works too! I just have one request...I need you to bring some Garrett Popcorn...I'm jonesin really bad. :jumping3:

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Kyle, you're gonna hate me for this I guess, but I don't know what Garret popcorn is! I'm a "what's on sale and throw it in the microwave guy now, although I was pretty darn good at making popcorn on the stove in a pot with Crisco Oil.
Oh, by the way, what happened to you my man? WOW, from Steven Wright quotes to Dave Ramsey? The same financial guy who believes you shouldn't start living until your at least forty? "Don't buy a car until you have the money to buy it outright, don't buy a house until you have 80% down, never ever use a credit card. Yeah, I can't argue with his logic, but it's just not realistic in most cases, unless you have rich parents. Kinda like a doctor saying "Don't ever get sick!" Yes, I know Dave Ramsey, and I think I might have more hair than him. Either that or he's saving it to sell later to a wig company.
Sorry Kyle, I'm just kiddin, I'm sure something made you switch to a Ramsey quote over Stephen Wright.

"I figure I have enough money saved up right now to last me the rest of my life. Unless I ever have to buy anything!" : a bum on the Dick van **** Show.

Yay for warmer weather. Does this make the grump less grumpy?

We had a maid walk right in on us at Pop too. It was our last day at the hotel and we figured we would try to sleep a little bit later. I was awake, but lying in bed watching t.v. while everybody else was sleeping. No knock, No "hello", just marched right in! Scared my daughter to death.

Maybe it was the same gal! Maybe she is allergic to knocking or sumpthn.:confused3

Well Elivabiff, it didn't really make me THAT less grumpy. You see I just spent a ton of money to spend a week in Siberia. And every time I looked across the lake at the halted constuction over on the other side of hourglass lake I kept calling it the Gulag.
The more I think of it, housekeeping at Disney has got to be the worst job you can have there. I think walking in on people and "catching them in the act" has got to be the only thing they look forward to.

If you are white as a ghost, then I am transparent. You could always try the spray tan before your next trip! It seems to work really well on all the prom princesses I've seen around here lately. :lmao:

No more fire during Illuminations? And Maelstrom is an EMH attraction? The things I learn from your trip reports!

Hope you guys are doing well! :flower3:

Jamie, uh, Jamie, right? Ok, Hoogy, I hope the fire at the beginning of Illuminations comes back soon, it really adds a lot to the show. I like it when you are staying at an Epcot resort, and about 11 at night or two hours after the park closes you can hear them ignite the rest of the propane that didn't burn off during the show, it sounds like a muffled sonic boom, not enough to wake you through closed windows but you can hear it if you are outside.

Yeah, cold temps are for polar bears, either waaay north or waaay south, not on the equator.

DJ, in this case I think I would have called them BIpolar bears, cuz it definately created mood swings.

Maybe next time we should all ask whether we could have paper or plastic. Reminds me when at ak getting popcorn in those large plastic buckets that there are no lids, or "lips" as the cm would say. What's the difference with adding another 2 ounces of hard plastic to the top of the canister?:confused3

Yep, have you noticed you can't get a stir stick or a straw there either? I think it's so the animals don't "put their eye out."

At least the one you saw was alive. 2 years ago when we went, the kids instantly were drawn to and saw a dead turtle floating by the bridge right by mexico. Pretty appetizing to look at while trying to eat. :scared1:

Nothing worse than a curdled turtle about to become fertiled. (yeah, I know, that sucked)

I hate it when mother nature plays tricks on you like that. Nice and sunny in an area where it should be warm and ends up being a frozen tundra. Are we shure that Disney doesn't put up fake scenery over the windows at night to make it look warm? Is it some kind of magic we don't know about?pixiedust::rotfl:

Hey, we're talking about the same company that sends Borax flakes down on us during the Osbourne Lights, trying to get us to believe it's snow, so they can sell some more Goofy Galoshes.

When Cherie and I first stayed at pop we really enjoyed walking through the resort. Unfortunately, we kept saying "the kids would love this" and thus ended my savings program.

We did the same thing, only difference was that our kids were in their twenties at the time. Great post DJ!

I'm trying to picture how exactly you would "rectomize" a situation.:scared:

I know....typical for me to take the bait on that one.:thumbsup2

.

Cherie, at first I didn't know what you were talking about but wondered why you used that word that I've been known to use before. Guess I use it more than I think cuz I don't even remember writing it in the last chapter! And yes, it would be YOU! to be the ONLY one to pick that word out!

How the heck did I miss your update until today? sorry!

Nebo living the clean life? Who'd have thunk!!!!!!!!!!

Na, just a temporary blip on the screen, that's all.
folks

The security check story reminded me of a story. My DS, (now an officer in eternal training in the Air Force) volunteered with his squadron for security duty at the Santa Barbara fair. Plain clothes, no uniforms.
His first day of duty was..............

Checking bathrooms for pervs :rotfl2:
Of course they never told him what to do if he acutally encountered any pervs. Luckily he didn't.
Second day was bag check, confiscating swiss army knives from non-english speaking mexicans.

Glad things FINALLY warmed up for you!

Great story Marita, tell him I had my feet up on the seat.

::yes:: I completely agree!

Ok, this is on the changes to Spaceship Earth. PrincessV, I still don't see why they just waste the whole return trip down, I find nothing more boring than seeing computers hooked up and networking together, and they briefly covered the computer age on the way up.

How's this sound:
After the very top of the ride when the sky and stars appear, on the way back down they could have all the walls and ceiling lit up with different constellations, totally dark except for stars.
Then, as you pass under them, a line would connect the different stars to show the constellation that it gives it's name to: Orion the Hunter, the Big Dipper, the centaur in Sagitarrius, and so on. I'd rather look at something pretty like that than fiber optic computer connections and crappy graphics lit up on a little monitor in my "time machine".

What do ya think?

Ok, that's it I guess, see ya tomorrow :scared:

nebo

05-01-2009, 07:43 PM

Hmm, I was hoping for some feedback on my Spaceship Earth idear, if you don't know what I'm talking about please read the last post, previous page.

Ok, I have no idea how this is going to turn out, or how hard it will be to explain it all, so pour yourselves a glass and let's just have some fun.

Nebo's Foibles

The Boy and the Button

Once upon a time in a Century long ago lived a lad named Nebo, who's five year mission was to explore new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to BOLDLY go where no man has gone bef......

whoops, wrong narration

take two

Once upon a time in a Century long ago, lived a lad named Nebo.

Now Nebo was a naive soul, very trusti

(Nebo interupting) Hey, what happened to "lived a handsome young man named Nebo?"

...very trusting, but not too bright or quick with matters of the mind and wit.

(keep it up!)

His biggest claim to fortune, aside from winning the Village Idiot contest, was to have somehow ended in matrimony with the lovely Diana.

(yeah? what did you do, place?)

His lovely Diana was charming, clever and filled with the grace that only the wind through the very tops of the willow grove on a summer's day can compare.

(think you used enough superlatives in that sentance?)

Since Nebo usually kept to himself, the only company he was almost ever seen in was by his lovely mate's side. There were those that thought that as odd as he was, that he could talk to the Spirits.

But much more likely it was he pouring the spirits.

And it was on this lovely and clever Saturday that they were reposing by the watering hole sharing their thoughts. Sorry, lovely thoughts.

Mostly it was Diana doing the speaking, with Nebo feigning understanding.
Easy to understand why since there wasnn't enough current passing through his mind to light up a firefly.

(hey!, I warned you!)

After a while, Nebo finally decided to do something worthwhile and offered his services to leave and bring back some form of fermented grain concoction for the two of them.

His trip back to the abode went easy enough, he had mastered the skill of pressing the button that elevated the small chamber and conveyed him to the required level to gain admittance to his domicile.

(what'd he say?)

In his room, there were a few things that almost overwhelmed him that needed to be done. First he needed to rinse out the plastic cups used for the beverages, then he needed to go see the ice man and fill his bucket. Then he had to decide what to mix and in what quantities, and he had to do this accurately and efficiently since they happened to be short of time.

But most of all he needed to use the water closet, and maybe for a while.

(THAT'S IT! YOU'RE OUT OF HERE!)

I'm sorry, just couldn't take it any more, besides, this guy's a jerk.
And not only that, I was starting to feel like Gollum.

I was running around like crazy, lucky we were right by the ice machine, and I decided to give the lovely and clever Diana a healthy dose from the pre-made Margarita bottle. For her I used the refillable mug.
Classy, huh?

For me I made a manhattan, but put that in a plastic cup, no, manhattans just can't be drank from a refillable mug. Besides, those mugs hold so much and when you're making a drink, of course you want to FILL the mug,,,,,just not a good idear at this time of day.

I made the drinks, then ran down to my yo yo for a quickie.
(easy winkers)

After remembering to throw the room latch keeping the door ajar, I had my quick smoke and returned to the room, half expecting to find the maid in the room slugging down the drinks I just made.

When I think about this next part, my mind almost starts to blur, but I know it happened because you just can't make up something this stupid.

Ok, bear with me and follow along, just not too closely.

I grabbed my room card and my smokes, then grabbed the drinks and left.
Standing at the elevator is a woman and her young daughter, waiting.

Remember, we are on the 4th floor, no where to go but down.
This is where the naive, handsome young lad meets the very forward self-absorbed young lady.

Soon enough, the elevator arrives, those two go in and I follow, noticing that my manhattan in the plastic cup is already suffering from ice meltage.

Remember earlier in the trip, I tried to make a light hearted joke about going to Cleveland next winter where it's warm? Well, I'm not going to make the same mistake again, that lady's glare was bad enough so this time I am going to partake in the time honored tradition of either staring at the floor or a blank wall.

On her way in, she pressed the button, so there was no reason for me to bother. I just stared at the advertisement on the wall for the food court.

I guess my mind was wandering, and when the doors opened and the two of the walked out, I followed almost right behind.

I immediately realized that this is not the ground floor, not sure yet what floor this is but it surely isn't the ground floor.

See how sharp I am?

At the same time, the woman goes, "OH, I forgot my sunglasses," and heads right back into the elevator with me once again right behind.

As her young daughter starts to come back in herself, the woman presses a button, then holds the door open and tells her daughter to go to the room, she'll be right back in a moment.

HUH?

She didn't want the ground floor after all?
Just then, another couple just catches the door in time and joins us, and....

Presses a button.

My head is already spinning, and I look at the panel to see what is lit up.

No, she didn't get off on the wrong floor like I did, she MEANT to do it.
The button she pressed originally was number 2, which is where we all got off.
so to speak

And NOW!, when I thought she was pressing number one, to correct her earlier mistake, uh uh, no mistake.
This time she had pressed 4 again,
to go back up and retrieve her sunglasses.

I frantically lunge for the panel to press number 1, but it's way too late now. It was also hard to do holding two drinks, part of the reason I never pressed it in the first place.

Ok, still with me?

You would think that I would have been safe still, since the other couple got on the elevator on 2 and pressed a button, they have to be going down, right?

Nope, they had pressed number 3!
So, from floor 2, we are now going back up to floor 3, it's not going to come back down to 1 until it has finished it's direction cycle.

My mind was spinning trying to figure it all out.
Why would a couple get on at 2 and just go up one floor?
Unless they came from outside and originally pressed the wrong button and got off on the wrong floor. ?

And why would the woman and kid go from their room and get off on the second floor? And the woman told the kid she'd see her in the room, but only the woman went back up, and left the kid on the second floor?????

At floor 3 the doors open and the couple get out, now it's just me and the woman again, and yes, still going back up.

This was the only funny part;
it was like for the first time, the woman actually noticed me still with her, and she was starting to get that Dory look, "WHy are you following me?"
And to be honest, I'm getting a tad ticked by now myself, it was easy enough to see that I was trying to go outside with somebody else's drink in my hand until she hi-jacked the elevator for her own personal use.

I just stared at her, didn't say a word, then I looked at my increasingly watered down manhattan.

Finally she said, "Oh, I'm sorry, I should have noticed you had your hands full and asked what floor you wanted."

Well, um, no, I made the last part up.

The doors opened once again on FLOOR NUMBER 4!, and there was a group of about five people waiting for it.

HER GROUP!

"HI, what are you doing back up here, we were just coming down to join you?"

"Oh, I forgot my sunglasses, I'll be right back, hold the doors for me, will you?"

I almost crapped my you know what's!

"Sure, is Betty downstairs with Donna?"

"Yes, I just took her down, she looks so cute today with her princess costume."

They are standing there chatting! I now felt like I was kidnapped!
I felt like saying that I hope you're talking about Donna cuz there was nothing cute about that kid but held my tongue.

"Ok, be right back."

Now I'm bordering on livid, but as they were all getting in, I said "I got it", and as the door was closing, started to put my elbow in the way as if to prevent them from shutting. But since I was holding two drinks, it was easy enough to pretend that the door bumped my arm and I almost dropped one, ,,

and the door closed.

"Whoops, sorry about that."

Now I have 5 people glaring at me, and I didn't give a rat's patootie about it.

Finally, we are going down,
and then the hand comes from behind me and presses the 2 button.

For some reason this was almost like getting hit in the stomach. I looked at the panel wanting to hit the emergency stop button but couldn't find one. Then I thought about throwing my drinks at the panel hoping to short it out.

HEY, if I can't go where I want to, nobody can!

But for some reason, the phrase "Casting Early Times before swine" popped in my head, and I didn't.

At floor two, the doors opened and they all got out, but not without one more glare at me who didn't hold the door like the good little lad was supposed to.

"Say hi to Donna for me," was all I got out.

At long last, the doors opened on the ground floor,,,,,
and I ran!

If you are scoring this at home, I started on 4, down to 2, up to 3, up to 4, down to 2, down to 1.

Incredible!

When I handed the drink to Smidgy, she said, "What took so long?"

My mixed drink in the plastic cup was totally watered down by now, so I just chugged it down and headed right back to make another one.

I took the stairs.

I still have to wonder just what in the heck was going on at Donna's on the second floor, I probably would have caught on quicker if this had been Pop Warner season.

But for all of you boys and girls out there, remember.............

THE MORAL OF THE STORY IS TO ALWAYS PRESS THE BUTTON!

:laughing::scared1::happytv::rotfl::confused3:lmao :

:sad2::sick:

jcc0621

05-01-2009, 07:58 PM

ALl I can say is :rotfl2::rotfl2::lmao::lmao::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl2: :rotfl2:

dwheatl

05-01-2009, 08:17 PM

Nebo, that sounded like a third grade math question
Love the accidental elbow bump that closed the doors. Some people are so a)clueless, or b)plain rude (there's your multiple choice quiz).

OhMari

05-01-2009, 09:02 PM

OhMari? Isn't summer about the ONLY time you have to get anything done up by you? I mean July and August? The rest of the time isn't there snow? We once rented a cabin up in Montello, a nice area and we went in August.
It never hit 75 degrees, we just sat around for a week drinking beer and grilling.
Now that I think of it, guess it wasn't a bad trip after all.

Your killin me.
So you are one of them.
Illinois :cool2: people.

nebo Nebo's Foibles, The Boy and the Button

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Hmm, I was hoping for some feedback on my Spaceship Earth idear, if you don't know what I'm talking about please read the last post, previous page.

I played with my camera, and I didn't hear a voice. Or maybe I was napping, I can't remember, but I do remember I had my camera ready to take pictures. They didn't turn out, or I just didn't want to look at myself.

And,
instead of laying out in the sun, it's called "tanning bed".

kath1210

05-01-2009, 09:21 PM

I just had to read that one out loud to my DD and DH. We are all :rotfl2::rotfl::laughing:

mmeb144

05-01-2009, 10:38 PM

smidgy

05-03-2009, 03:04 AM

His lovely Diana was charming, clever and filled with the grace that only the wind through the very tops of the willow grove on a summer's day can compare.

grace? thanks for the props, hun, but I trip on a crack in the sidewalk! I'm no "waltz of the flowers"! more like "flight of the bumble bee"!:rotfl:

smidgy

05-03-2009, 03:19 AM

When I handed the drink to Smidgy, she said, "What took so long?"

reminds me of a time, ages ago. the lovely graceful Diana (:lmao:)was home ALLLLLL day with the little ones, awaiting the fine, handsome (;)) prince's return from a day slaying dragons.

now, unbeknownst to Diana, as prince Nebo was approaching the only trail (exit) leading to home, had only to venture past one false trail, a steel dragon moved over into HIS lane! wanted to be exactly where he was! the valiant Nebo had no choice but to enter the rough terrain on his right (grass) and in order to stop from stalling in the gulley of despair had to keep moving! found himself on the afore mentioned false trail (exit ramp to I90) heading east. next exit: Chicago! 20 miles
not to be deterred, Nebo drove all the way to Chicago, exited, turned around about 4 times, found the NEW trail (entrance to I90 west) and drove another 20 miles back to where he needed to be (thus thwarting death from the nasty steel dragon) albeit adding 40 miles to his drive time.
AH! success! he finally makes it home to his fair maiden, Diana,:bride: who asks:
"WHERE HAVE you been? WHAT took you so long?!:mad:"
prince Nebo "Chicago... don't ask!" :laughing:

whogirl'smom

05-03-2009, 07:57 AM

Well, I made it through all the trippie so far. Whew! That last bit with the elevator was hilarious!

I went looking for the fish poem from the earlier trip report and here it is, in all its radiant glory:

Ode to a Giant Fish

I do not know from whence it came,
With one lone appendage, it appears to be lame.
I will not, can not eat it, I say--
If I do, I fear I will spray!

Just gimme a beer and I'll kick back.
For getting in predicaments, I have a strange knack.
Sympathy is all I ask because starving I'll be;
Now where's that damn bottle of Sunny D?

Well worth the time to look for. I think Jamie (Whogirl's mom) posted this? I can't remember.

Yes, it was me...I must have had a couple myself that night to crank out that baby! :laughing:

Nebo, get thee an insulated cup for thy grain concoction!:rotfl:

Smidgy, my dh did the same thing coming home from work when he first moved to Asheville. Well, he didn't get all the way to Chicago, but was on the wrong interstate nonetheless! :laughing: Men.

coffeehousemom

05-03-2009, 12:02 PM

now, unbeknownst to Diana, as prince Nebo was approaching the only trail (exit) leading to home, had only to venture past one false trail, a steel dragon moved over into HIS lane! wanted to be exactly where he was! the valiant Nebo had no choice but to enter the rough terrain on his right (grass) and in order to stop from stalling in the gulley of despair had to keep moving! found himself on the afore mentioned false trail (exit ramp to I90) heading east. next exit: Chicago! 20 miles
not to be deterred, Nebo drove all the way to Chicago, exited, turned around about 4 times, found the NEW trail (entrance to I90 west) and drove another 20 miles back to where he needed to be (thus thwarting death from the nasty steel dragon) albeit adding 40 miles to his drive time.
AH! success! he finally makes it home to his fair maiden, Diana,:bride: who asks:
"WHERE HAVE you been? WHAT took you so long?!:mad:"
prince Nebo "Chicago... don't ask!" :laughing:[/QUOTE]

HMMM this sounds familiar........ seems to me we have done the "missed the exit to Rockford ended up in Madison before you can turn around thing" ourselves. Well at least I was asleep & it was Chuck that did it. At that's my version:rolleyes1

dwheatl

05-03-2009, 02:30 PM

The same thing happened to us (twice) in Philadelphia. We ended up in NJ, and PA charges you to come back!

TigerTown

05-04-2009, 12:13 PM

Kyle, you're gonna hate me for this I guess, but I don't know what Garret popcorn is! I'm a "what's on sale and throw it in the microwave guy now, although I was pretty darn good at making popcorn on the stove in a pot with Crisco Oil.

We discovered Garretts on our trip to Chicago last summer. We were staying downtown and walked by this little shop with a line out the door. We decided that it sounded good so we would stop by later when the line wasn't so long. The problem with that logic was that every time we stopped by the line was always out the door. After the fourth try we decided to wait. Wow was it great popcorn. We are now hooked but a little one gallon bucket is $39 to get shipped here. I love that popcorn but no popcorn is worth $39 bucks :).

Oh, by the way, what happened to you my man? WOW, from Steven Wright quotes to Dave Ramsey? The same financial guy who believes you shouldn't start living until your at least forty? "Don't buy a car until you have the money to buy it outright, don't buy a house until you have 80% down, never ever use a credit card. Yeah, I can't argue with his logic, but it's just not realistic in most cases, unless you have rich parents. Kinda like a doctor saying "Don't ever get sick!" Yes, I know Dave Ramsey, and I think I might have more hair than him. Either that or he's saving it to sell later to a wig company.
Sorry Kyle, I'm just kiddin, I'm sure something made you switch to a Ramsey quote over Stephen Wright.

"I figure I have enough money saved up right now to last me the rest of my life. Unless I ever have to buy anything!" : a bum on the Dick van **** Show.

What can I say, I'm a complex individual..."There's a lotta things about me you don't know anything about, Dottie. Things you wouldn't understand. Things you couldn't understand. Things you shouldn't understand." (sorry the kids just made me watch Pee Wee Herman :lmao:)

Anyway we have really done well with some of Dave's advice. You just have to pick and choose what is right for your situation. ;)

Underdog369

05-05-2009, 01:13 AM

Hmm, I was hoping for some feedback on my Spaceship Earth idear, if you don't know what I'm talking about please read the last post, previous page.

Better yet, on the way down, have a quickie of startrek, sg1, starwars, etc. with your face in place of the actors. You would specify whether you were male, female, good or bad, and which side of the force you might want to use.

Ok, I have no idea how this is going to turn out, or how hard it will be to explain it all, so pour yourselves a glass and let's just have some fun.

Mountain Dew poured.... Ice Cold..... ready to go. :surfweb: (Hey, that's the strongest drink I drink.:cheer2: It doesn't make me super :yay::yay:)

Once upon a time in a Century long ago lived a lad named Nebo, who's five year mission was to explore new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to BOLDLY go where no man has gone bef......

whoops, wrong narration

Nope. Great start. Then you went to the Brothers Grim side of the fairy tales... :sad2:

I made the drinks, then ran down to my yo yo for a quickie.
(easy winkers)

I saw you move. Whadda ya mean RAN????? The fastest I saw you move was when I wanted to take a pic of you and smig and you decided to rearrange your food and drink.

If you are scoring this at home, I started on 4, down to 2, up to 3, up to 4, down to 2, down to 1.

I figured out what the problem was. You have a disease. No, really, you just won't admit it yet. The disease is.......

HandsFullNoFingeraAvailableForUpDownButtonofobia!! !!
Yes, that dreaded disease where you have the fear of spilling your drinks because you have to press an elevator button when your hands are full. I really hate it when that happens. Nebo, now you know what it is, you should admit it so that you can move on with your life. You can also anticipate having to drink twice as much because of the other fobia you have.......

H2OSpiritPoorDrinkophobia. The fear of watered down drink.

THE MORAL OF THE STORY IS TO ALWAYS PRESS THE BUTTON!

:laughing::scared1::happytv::rotfl::confused3:lmao :

:sad2::sick:

UNLESS you have HandsFullNoFingeraAvailableForUpDownButtonofobia!! !!

:rotfl2::lmao::rotfl:

mmeb144

05-06-2009, 09:30 PM

Better yet, on the way down, have a quickie of startrek, sg1, starwars, etc. with your face in place of the actors. You would specify whether you were male, female, good or bad, and which side of the force you might want to use.

Mountain Dew poured.... Ice Cold..... ready to go. :surfweb: (Hey, that's the strongest drink I drink.:cheer2: It doesn't make me super :yay::yay:)

Nope. Great start. Then you went to the Brothers Grim side of the fairy tales... :sad2:

I saw you move. Whadda ya mean RAN????? The fastest I saw you move was when I wanted to take a pic of you and smig and you decided to rearrange your food and drink.

I figured out what the problem was. You have a disease. No, really, you just won't admit it yet. The disease is.......

HandsFullNoFingeraAvailableForUpDownButtonofobia!! !!
Yes, that dreaded disease where you have the fear of spilling your drinks because you have to press an elevator button when your hands are full. I really hate it when that happens. Nebo, now you know what it is, you should admit it so that you can move on with your life. You can also anticipate having to drink twice as much because of the other fobia you have.......

H2OSpiritPoorDrinkophobia. The fear of watered down drink.

UNLESS you have HandsFullNoFingeraAvailableForUpDownButtonofobia!! !!

:rotfl2::lmao::rotfl:

:worship: I have a FearOfNotBeingFunnyEnoughToPostAReplyOPhobia!

ChelleinNC

05-06-2009, 09:51 PM

smidgy

05-07-2009, 12:51 AM

Smidgy, my dh did the same thing coming home from work when he first moved to Asheville. Well, he didn't get all the way to Chicago, but was on the wrong interstate nonetheless! :laughing: Men.

ok, I better clear this up before I get into trouble. (i know, trying to make it sounds like a fairy tale only made it confusing.) Nebo didn't accidentally get on I90east, he was forced on to it by another car (steel dragon) that moved right into nebo's lane, almost into nebo! he had no where to go but off the road into the grass. the only place to go from there was the entrance to I90. he narrowly excaped death!

at least in the elevator, bieing forced to go where he didn't want, the only thing dying was his ice cubes.

ane I'll let him tell the stories from now on!:rotfl:

cjsteiger

05-14-2009, 04:50 PM

[QUOTE=nebo;30673947]
No, I didn't do anything strange with it in the bathroom. No, not like the time I accidentally had the tip of my cigarette fall off into my pants and start them on fire while sitting there.
Or the time I multi-tasked sitting there and put my shoes on and tied them with my shorts puddled around my feet and accidentally tied my shoelace around my belt.
I still remember standing up and yanking up my pants and almost knocking my teeth out with my knee! [QUOTE]

:lmao::lmao::lmao::rotfl2::rotfl2::worship::worshi p::rotfl::rotfl:
I wish I had had something to drink so I could have spit it on the computer, that was just that funny. You are just the funniest!!!!

Cheryl:)

Yes, I'm a little behind in my reading but I'll catch up soon.

Backstage_Gal

05-14-2009, 08:00 PM

Umm, Nebo, Smdigy, I was gone for a whole 2 weeks, where are you?

jcc0621

05-14-2009, 08:08 PM

DId they go to WDW and not tell us?????:confused3

cjsteiger

05-14-2009, 08:09 PM

I sat all afternoon and read the rest of the TR. I laughed so much my kids wanted to know what I was doing.... "READING, sometimes things I read are funny!!" :laughing:

Keep up the good work and now I'll be upto date.
Cheryl:)

monymony3471

05-15-2009, 09:24 AM

Hi Nebs! Miss me? Let me introduce you to a few of my friends....

http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090515/i/r103319759.jpg

ChelleinNC

05-15-2009, 09:26 AM

Hi Nebs! Miss me? Let me introduce you to a few of my friends....

http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090515/i/r103319759.jpg

Love your friends! :banana::cool1:

monymony3471

05-15-2009, 09:43 AM

FYI-I printed out the installments I was behind in reading and while the chitlins are out enjoying the sunshine, I'll be sitting on the swing catching up.

This is gonna be a fun series, don't cha think? AND a little surprise is on it's way, I promise today it will be in the mail.

monymony3471

05-15-2009, 09:52 AM

Aw sucks, here's the whole gang!

http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090515/capt.9a540aa4a98b4d6784e1995fcb9e6f48.ducks_red_wi ngs_hockey_mico114.jpg

TigerTown

05-15-2009, 03:53 PM

Aw sucks, here's the whole gang!

That was such stressful game.:scared1: I did love the outcome though......GO WINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

monymony3471

05-15-2009, 07:55 PM

Thought you'd like to know, I'm all caught up.

School is over for the summer and I gots me some free time to hang around your report and have some fun.:cool2:

winkers

05-15-2009, 08:39 PM

If I saw the elevator seen in a movie I wouldn't believe it! You really have the worst luck!!

monymony3471

05-15-2009, 09:42 PM

Just some thoughts going through my head from the reading........

Isn't it: No gnews, is good gnews with Gary Gnew?

Sure I trudge through a typhoon to get my picture taken in Nebo's chair after asking the pregnant woman to give it up for said shot and you won't because it's only 53 degrees in the sun......tsk tsk, waa waa, violins, and cry me a river. Something like that.

Back in december when we stayed at Pop, we were in the 50's building facing the lake, 3rd floor, rooms 2343 and 2342. We had the big juke box right on our building. The bowling pin pool was in our court. Loved it, especially when the fireworks would go off and we would walk out the door and watch MK's and Epcot's.

I don't smoke (anymore) and I wouldn't care if someone did out on the balcony, but how nice of you to go all the way to the Duncan. I had a white one with a fake diamond on it.

nebo

05-16-2009, 07:46 PM

Hi Y'all. Yes, it's been a rough couple of weeks. To start with it would appear, (so to speak), that I have some more eye difficulties. Not sure if it's a retinal detachement again or blood vessels breaking through on the retina, and once again, here comes that no insurance thingy back into play again. We are hoping to have that fact rectomized soon, but in the meantime since it's not real bad right now, I guess I hold off a tad longer to have it checked out.
Man, I need a Disney fix with REAL WEATHER! Not that fake crap they piped in when we were last down there.

Ok, for anybody still reading, gonna do some callouts now, let's see who's in the magic mirror today!

ALl I can say is :rotfl2::rotfl2::lmao::lmao::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl2: :rotfl2:

I see Janet found out about the two for one smiley sale.

Love the accidental elbow bump that closed the doors. Some people are so a)clueless, or b)plain rude (there's your multiple choice quiz).

Danielle, that whole elevator story was mind boggling, you really had to be there. By the way, the names were not changed to protect the rude, they were in fact probably changed because I can't remember what their real names they used were. I think the kid was Betty, but Donna could have been Wanda for all I was paying attention at the time.

Your killin me.
So you are one of them.
Illinois :cool2: people.

No, I am not Illinois people, just people that live in Illinois. Illinois people head to Wisconsin, I always head south.

instead of laying out in the sun, it's called "tanning bed".

Mari I have never had any luck in a tanning salon. I tried it once about 7 years ago when we first went back to Disney and I didn't want to get fried. But I think I got more of a tan from the Osbourne Lights.

I just had to read that one out loud to my DD and DH. We are all :rotfl2::rotfl::laughing:

Great! Mission Accomplished.

Well, I made it through all the trippie so far. Whew! That last bit with the elevator was hilarious!

I went looking for the fish poem from the earlier trip report and here it is, in all its radiant glory:

Ode to a Giant Fish

I do not know from whence it came,
With one lone appendage, it appears to be lame.
I will not, can not eat it, I say--
If I do, I fear I will spray!

Just gimme a beer and I'll kick back.
For getting in predicaments, I have a strange knack.
Sympathy is all I ask because starving I'll be;
Now where's that damn bottle of Sunny D?

Well worth the time to look for. I think Jamie (Whogirl's mom) posted this? I can't remember.

Welcome back, and nice job researching. Yeah, that's Jamie who was checking out the power of manhattans.

now, unbeknownst to Diana, as prince Nebo was approaching the only trail (exit) leading to home, had only to venture past one false trail, a steel dragon moved over into HIS lane! wanted to be exactly where he was! the valiant Nebo had no choice but to enter the rough terrain on his right (grass) and in order to stop from stalling in the gulley of despair had to keep moving! found himself on the afore mentioned false trail (exit ramp to I90) heading east. next exit: Chicago! 20 miles
not to be deterred, Nebo drove all the way to Chicago, exited, turned around about 4 times, found the NEW trail (entrance to I90 west) and drove another 20 miles back to where he needed to be (thus thwarting death from the nasty steel dragon) albeit adding 40 miles to his drive time.
AH! success! he finally makes it home to his fair maiden, Diana,:bride: who asks:
"WHERE HAVE you been? WHAT took you so long?!:mad:"
prince Nebo "Chicago... don't ask!" :laughing:

HMMM this sounds familiar........ seems to me we have done the "missed the exit to Rockford ended up in Madison before you can turn around thing" ourselves. Well at least I was asleep & it was Chuck that did it. At that's my version:rolleyes1[/QUOTE]

Hey Coffeemom, I think everybody has that kind of story, and I can't even correct Smidgy on what she wrote, it was pretty much right on.

The same thing happened to us (twice) in Philadelphia. We ended up in NJ, and PA charges you to come back!

I remember being on a driving trip with my folks when I was younger, no, it wasn't in the model A DJ, but we were on the NJ turnpike, and I remember my dad doing the Clark Griswald thing, " I can't get off! They just won't let me get off!"

We discovered Garretts on our trip to Chicago last summer. We were staying downtown and walked by this little shop with a line out the door. We decided that it sounded good so we would stop by later when the line wasn't so long. The problem with that logic was that every time we stopped by the line was always out the door. After the fourth try we decided to wait. Wow was it great popcorn. We are now hooked but a little one gallon bucket is $39 to get shipped here. I love that popcorn but no popcorn is worth $39 bucks :).

What can I say, I'm a complex individual..."There's a lotta things about me you don't know anything about, Dottie. Things you wouldn't understand. Things you couldn't understand. Things you shouldn't understand." (sorry the kids just made me watch Pee Wee Herman :lmao:)

Anyway we have really done well with some of Dave's advice. You just have to pick and choose what is right for your situation. ;)

Hey Kyle, I have since talked to a couple of people who are just like you, they love that popcorn, some day I'll have to at least try it.

And I hope you all weren't watching Pee Wee when HE goes to the movies.

mmeb144

05-16-2009, 08:57 PM

Hey, nice to "see" you again!

Are you waiting for a job to get the health insurance that you need to have the eye looked at? Yikes! :scared1: I hope that you have some leads. (I hate this economy! :headache:)

jcc0621

05-16-2009, 09:04 PM

I see Janet found out about the two for one smiley sale.

Hey I'm always up for a good sale:thumbsup2

Sorry about the eye...hope it's better soon:hug:

lisalonglash

05-16-2009, 10:01 PM

I feel you have been remiss in your duty to forewarn others of the potential risk of electrocution due to beverages being expelled onto computers due to uncontrolled guffawing and chortling. I could have been killed while reading your latest update and subsequent posts! :scared1::lmao::rotfl2::rotfl:

Backstage_Gal

05-17-2009, 12:23 AM

monymony3471

05-17-2009, 08:38 AM

I think bubble wrap would be more appropriate. Then you could hear him coming.

debsters41

05-17-2009, 10:06 AM

I think bubble wrap would be more appropriate. Then you could hear him coming.

:lmao:

nebo

05-17-2009, 06:37 PM

Ok, this is what I like about a DJ post,,, he makes me work for it!

Better yet, on the way down, have a quickie of startrek, sg1, starwars, etc. with your face in place of the actors. You would specify whether you were male, female, good or bad, and which side of the force you might want to use.

Ok, not a bad Idea. Cept for one thing. You are mixing up an inferior star wars product with a vastly SUPERIOR STAR TREK! Don't make me drive all the way over there!

Mountain Dew poured.... Ice Cold..... ready to go. :surfweb: (Hey, that's the strongest drink I drink.:cheer2: It doesn't make me super :yay::yay:)

Well, yes it does. Mountain Dew has the most caffeine in any soft drink, outside of Jolt Cola. Wonder if they still make that?

Nope. Great start. Then you went to the Brothers Grim side of the fairy tales... :sad2:

Hey, I started out this report saying it was a fairy tale trip. Grimm.

I saw you move. Whadda ya mean RAN????? The fastest I saw you move was when I wanted to take a pic of you and smig and you decided to rearrange your food and drink.

No comment, your honor.

I figured out what the problem was. You have a disease. No, really, you just won't admit it yet. The disease is.......

HandsFullNoFingeraAvailableForUpDownButtonofobia!! !!
to drink twice as much because of the other fobia you have.......

H2OSpiritPoorDrinkophobia. The fear of watered down drink.

If you want to drop that sentance off tomorrow, I can have it shortened by tuesday.

UNLESS you have HandsFullNoFingeraAvailableForUpDownButtonofobia!! !!

:rotfl2::lmao::rotfl:
Great stuff Mr. Winkers, I'm wishing we didn't live so far apart.

:worship: I have a FearOfNotBeingFunnyEnoughToPostAReplyOPhobia!

Marie, don't feel that way, that alone get's you two free fastpasses on this thread.

:lmao::rotfl:

Ah, a Smidgy fan. Who apparently went to the same school of typing as Janet and Tiggerwannabe.

nebo

05-17-2009, 07:03 PM

ok, I better clear this up before I get into trouble. (i know, trying to make it sounds like a fairy tale only made it confusing.) Nebo didn't accidentally get on I90east, he was forced on to it by another car (steel dragon) that moved right into nebo's lane, almost into nebo! he had no where to go but off the road into the grass. the only place to go from there was the entrance to I90. he narrowly excaped death!

at least in the elevator, bieing forced to go where he didn't want, the only thing dying was his ice cubes.

ane I'll let him tell the stories from now on!:rotfl:

That is correctamundo! I narrowly escaped death! Come to think of it, isn't it funny that we/I, have driven down to Disnyey now 11 times, flown down 3 times, and in all those miles never had even one really scary moment driving down. Just shows what the difference in rush hour is like.

[QUOTE=nebo;30673947]
No, I didn't do anything strange with it in the bathroom. No, not like the time I accidentally had the tip of my cigarette fall off into my pants and start them on fire while sitting there.
Or the time I multi-tasked sitting there and put my shoes on and tied them with my shorts puddled around my feet and accidentally tied my shoelace around my belt.
I still remember standing up and yanking up my pants and almost knocking my teeth out with my knee! [QUOTE]

Hi Cheryl, welcome back! Glad you are enjoying. That's what I'm here for.

:lmao::lmao::lmao::rotfl2::rotfl2::worship::worshi p::rotfl::rotfl:
I wish I had had something to drink so I could have spit it on the computer, that was just that funny. You are just the funniest!!!!

Cheryl:)

Yes, I'm a little behind in my reading but I'll catch up soon.

Don't feel bad, I'm a little behind too, but I did just finish "Go Dog Go!"

Hi Nebs! Miss me? Let me introduce you to a few of my friends....

http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090515/i/r103319759.jpg

Love your friends! :banana::cool1:

Really funny Monica, and yeah, you guys won the first game, but nobody expects the Kidhawks to do much against the reigning champs, so I'll just take what I can get. and.....

Hey Chelle? What in the heck do you care? Your from NC for crying oout loud! And you are rootin for the Red Wings? You do know that we had a player here for a long time who also had the nickname "Chellie". Chris Chelios.
Kyle, help me here. No wait, I don't need another Red Winger on my case.

FYI-I printed out the installments I was behind in reading and while the chitlins are out enjoying the sunshine, I'll be sitting on the swing catching up.

This is gonna be a fun series, don't cha think? AND a little surprise is on it's way, I promise today it will be in the mail.

monica, I hope the surprise will be that I can finally balance my checkbook without having to hurt my brain and go back 5 months! Thanks, we appreciate it. :yay::rolleyes::flower3:

ChelleinNC

05-17-2009, 07:33 PM

monymony3471

05-17-2009, 09:23 PM

Hey Chelle, me too. Growed up in Warren, moved a little north to Chesterfield.

If you don't mind sharing.....it's nice metting neighbors.:goodvibes

ChelleinNC

05-17-2009, 09:52 PM

Hey Chelle, me too. Growed up in Warren, moved a little north to Chesterfield.

If you don't mind sharing.....it's nice metting neighbors.:goodvibes

I grew up in Clawson :thumbsup2 Lived there till I was 16 and then moved to the Grand Rapids area for a few years. Finished high school in Lowell and went to Davenport College of Business in GR (now Davenport University).

smidgy

05-18-2009, 02:16 AM

well, see now, chellie and mony mony are old friends now, neighbors! all because of nebo's thread. and.. a common enemy.. blackhawks!!! (I'm pretending now that I EVER followed hockey:lmao:) GO! CHICAGO!:dance3::cheer2:
I DID just finish the third book in the twilight series, and am #44 on the waiting list at the library for book 4. but I guess SOME of us are more tenacious than others!!!:lmao: ahem!

we did try to wrap nebo in bubble wrap... but...it didn't work. I just can't resist popping those bubbles!:confused3:laughing:

monymony3471

05-18-2009, 06:50 AM

I'm glad the UPS store was closed when I got there on Friday, now I can add a second surprise to the box today.

TigerTown

05-18-2009, 11:50 AM

I grew up in Clawson :thumbsup2 Lived there till I was 16 and then moved to the Grand Rapids area for a few years. Finished high school in Lowell and went to Davenport College of Business in GR (now Davenport University).

I'm still here. Grew up in Canton and I've lived here most my life (except the year I lived in Japan). :thumbsup2

Unfortunately it seems like a lot of folks are moving away. It's depressing to see what's is happening to this area. :sad1:

TigerTown

05-18-2009, 11:53 AM

... I DID just finish the third book in the twilight series, and am #44 on the waiting list at the library for book 4. but I guess SOME of us are more tenacious than others!!!:lmao: ahem!

You should see if it is available on http://swaptree.com. I have been getting a lot of my books and videos there lately.

ChelleinNC

05-18-2009, 12:00 PM

I'm still here. Grew up in Canton and I've lived here most my life (except the year I lived in Japan). :thumbsup2

Unfortunately it seems like a lot of folks are moving away. It's depressing to see what's is happening to this area. :sad1:

I've been gone from MI for almost 18 years. My dad and 2 brothers still live in MI. One brother is in Novi, Dad & baby brother are in GR area.

It's neat with Facebook, that I've been able to catch up with friends that I went to kindergarten with. I've seen/heard a lot of what's happening. It really is sad, but I see somethings that are good. Clawson still holds their 4th of July parade, festivities in the park and fireworks. That's what I miss the most. It's a beautiful state, really friendly people but the weather down here is much nicer :thumbsup2 I just don't do 'cold' anymore.

monymony3471

05-18-2009, 01:13 PM

Alot of us, don't "do" the cold, but we have no choice. :lmao:

ChelleinNC

05-18-2009, 01:26 PM

Alot of us, don't "do" the cold, but we have no choice. :lmao:

I know, my Dad would love to move down here and get out of the cold but can't. DH was in the Navy when we met, so we've moved a lot since then. Did a few years in Saratoga Springs NY, then Hampton Roads VA. We were all set to move back to MI when he got out of the Navy, went "home" in October to house hunt and it snowed :scared1:. As we drove back to VA, we decided to look at other options:laughing:

nebo

05-18-2009, 07:02 PM

This is gonna be a fun series, don't cha think? AND a little surprise is on it's way, I promise today it will be in the mail.

My dear Mony, no, I don't think it's gonna be a fun series, I think the Wings will kill us. These kids are just too young. But next year? ???
Surprise in the mail? You mean I finally won the Publisher's clearing house Sweepstakes? About time. Wait, that would mean that Ed Mchahon is coming back from the dead. Wow! Can't wait to see what he looks like now!

Aw sucks, here's the whole gang!

http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090515/capt.9a540aa4a98b4d6784e1995fcb9e6f48.ducks_red_wi ngs_hockey_mico114.jpg

Yep, looks like a giant blood clot to me, very impressive. And please don't get me started on Twilight. Diane is now reading them and I've had to run all over looking for the "next" book for her, only to find out it's not in soft cover yet, and ended up going back to buy the hard cover. THEN, she makes me watch the first movie with her, and THEN I hear the next one is coming out in September. Oh, woe is me!
I liked Robert Pattinson better when he ended up DEAD, in Goblet of Fire.

That was such stressful game.:scared1: I did love the outcome though......GO WINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OH please, don't you start in now too.

Thought you'd like to know, I'm all caught up.

School is over for the summer and I gots me some free time to hang around your report and have some fun.:cool2:

How can school be over already, it's still mid may? Crap, I had to go always until the middle of June.

If I saw the elevator seen in a movie I wouldn't believe it! You really have the worst luck!!

Yes, yu would have believed it, if I had been playing the part in the movie.
You got me thinking about that now, and I can picture a Mr. Bean episode doing it perfectly!

Just some thoughts going through my head from the reading........

Isn't it: No gnews, is good gnews with Gary Gnew?

Sure I trudge through a typhoon to get my picture taken in Nebo's chair after asking the pregnant woman to give it up for said shot and you won't because it's only 53 degrees in the sun......tsk tsk, waa waa, violins, and cry me a river. Something like that.

Back in december when we stayed at Pop, we were in the 50's building facing the lake, 3rd floor, rooms 2343 and 2342. We had the big juke box right on our building. The bowling pin pool was in our court. Loved it, especially when the fireworks would go off and we would walk out the door and watch MK's and Epcot's.

I don't smoke (anymore) and I wouldn't care if someone did out on the balcony, but how nice of you to go all the way to the Duncan. I had a white one with a fake diamond on it.

Ok, number 1, who's Gary Gnew?
and B, the last time we were at Pop, we went over to that building to watch the fireworks also. Funny now, I'm glad the lake is there, I love the walkway around it, the smoking sections along, and feeding the birds, but I would rather have a pool view now there then a lake view. Just not a pretty site to gaze upon, not so bad from the ground, but the higher you are, the more you can see the bland construction across it.
and 3, I never said I didn't get a rocker picture in, just havent' gotten to it yet. ALthough I did enjoy your drowned rat picture immensely.

Hey, nice to "see" you again!

Are you waiting for a job to get the health insurance that you need to have the eye looked at? Yikes! :scared1: I hope that you have some leads. (I hate this economy! :headache:)

Marie, I hope to be able to comment about that sooner rather then later, please trust me that it's all I can give right now.

nebo

05-18-2009, 07:39 PM

Hey I'm always up for a good sale:thumbsup2

Sorry about the eye...hope it's better soon:hug:

Thanks Janet, the way I look at it is thusly, it will just make the next trip down to Florida that much more exciting!

I feel you have been remiss in your duty to forewarn others of the potential risk of electrocution due to beverages being expelled onto computers due to uncontrolled guffawing and chortling. I could have been killed while reading your latest update and subsequent posts! :scared1::lmao::rotfl2::rotfl:

Way cool, a guffaw and a chortle in the same post. (Sniff), I'm so proud of you!

I hereby ask for a collection to be started to wrap Nebo in cotton. He can't be trusted on his own.
And the weather in Florida is just fine, mid to high 80's.

I think bubble wrap would be more appropriate. Then you could hear him coming.

:lmao:

Yeah, yeah. Actually, Tiggerbell probably said it best, I should be protected in that little plastic ball that Rhino is inside in "Bolt".

Please don't wait too long, these things have a tendency to get really bad when you put them off. My MIL also doesn't have insurance and has been feeling lousy for months. We had to take her to the ER on Mothers Day and she's still in the hospital a full week later. She has a UTI and kidney infection that major doses of IV antibiotics can't knock out and who knows what else because they can't figure it out.
My point is, don't wait too long :hug:

I live in NC and have for 10 years, BUT I was born and raised in Michigan. Grew up in the Detroit suburbs and am a life long Wings fan.

Chelly, sorry to hear about your mother in law, hope she get's better soon. I'm not sure what UTI is but if it's a uterine infection I don't think I have to worry about that. I'm sorry, don't mean to make light of the situation, it's what I do when I don't know what to say, I make dumb jokes. You oughta here me at a wake. And yes, your right, I do have to make an appointment right soon, I'm just not sure which "specialist" to make the appointment with.

Hey Chelle, me too. Growed up in Warren, moved a little north to Chesterfield.

If you don't mind sharing.....it's nice metting neighbors.:goodvibes

Ok, anybody else from that God forsaken state of Michigan? Come on, time to come out of the outhouse and admit it.
I remember driving up there once with my folks and taking a ferry to Mackinaw Island.

They hadn't even invented the automobile there yet!

But they did have great fudge, I remeber that.

And Monica, how come you have a "Hoppin at the Pop fridge swap " in your siggy? Gotta nudder trip in mind?
hmmm?

winkers

05-18-2009, 07:41 PM

Actually, I think Mr. Bean would be an excellent choice to play you in a movie....just the funny parts!

Yes, that's a compliment....I love Mr. Bean!

ChelleinNC

05-18-2009, 07:50 PM

Chelly, sorry to hear about your mother in law, hope she get's better soon. I'm not sure what UTI is but if it's a uterine infection I don't think I have to worry about that. I'm sorry, don't mean to make light of the situation, it's what I do when I don't know what to say, I make dumb jokes. You oughta here me at a wake. And yes, your right, I do have to make an appointment right soon, I'm just not sure which "specialist" to make the appointment with.

Ok, anybody else from that God forsaken state of Michigan? Come on, time to come out of the outhouse and admit it.
I remember driving up there once with my folks and taking a ferry to Mackinaw Island.

They hadn't even invented the automobile there yet!

But they did have great fudge, I remeber that.

UTI, Urinary Tract Infection
She's doing better, they let her out of the hospital this afternoon but she's not 100% yet. After a week of IV antibiotics, they prescribed another weeks worth and she has to go back for another CT scan in 2 weeks.

MMMMMM fudge :worship:

monymony3471

05-18-2009, 09:48 PM

I wish I had another trip brewing, but no. It's a refridgerator swap I run, so us poppers can have a free mini fridge in our room and coffee pot and toaster.

I went to the ups store and got there at 6:40 and he closed the store early, the sign said it closed at 7, so when Tim gets home from Denver tomorrow, I'd head to the Post office. It's the next box of stuff for the grand daughter and something for you and something for Diane. Wink Wink.

Underdog369

05-19-2009, 02:13 AM

Ok, this is what I like about a DJ post,,, he makes me work for it!
Originally Posted by Underdog369
Better yet, on the way down, have a quickie of startrek, sg1, starwars, etc. with your face in place of the actors. You would specify whether you were male, female, good or bad, and which side of the force you might want to use.

Ok, not a bad Idea. Cept for one thing. You are mixing up an inferior star wars product with a vastly SUPERIOR STAR TREK! Don't make me drive all the way over there!

Drive away. Just don't get in an ask-a-dent on your way over.

Mountain Dew poured.... Ice Cold..... ready to go. (Hey, that's the strongest drink I drink. It doesn't make me super )

Well, yes it does. Mountain Dew has the most caffeine in any soft drink, outside of Jolt Cola. Wonder if they still make that?

Yes, Jolt is still in production, you just have to look for it. Yes, Mountain Dew does have the most caffeine. Itttt rrrreaalllly dooooeeeesnsnnn''''tt afffffeeccccttttt meeeee ttttttttttooo bbbaddllly.

Nope. Great start. Then you went to the Brothers Grim side of the fairy tales...

Hey, I started out this report saying it was a fairy tale trip. Grimm.

Grimm, but I think your rendition is more scary than their version.

I saw you move. Whadda ya mean RAN????? The fastest I saw you move was when I wanted to take a pic of you and smig and you decided to rearrange your food and drink.

No comment, your honor.

You may now bow and kiss my .... ring.

I figured out what the problem was. You have a disease. No, really, you just won't admit it yet. The disease is.......

HandsFullNoFingeraAvailableForUpDownButtonofobia!! !!
to drink twice as much because of the other fobia you have.......

H2OSpiritPoorDrinkophobia. The fear of watered down drink.

If you want to drop that sentance off tomorrow, I can have it shortened by tuesday.

NOPE. That's biteMoreThanYouCanChew syndrome. I refuse to add yet another phobia to your .. I mean my list.

UNLESS you have HandsFullNoFingeraAvailableForUpDownButtonofobia!! !!

I think it would be cool to have a meet where we didn't have to hear yodlers and consistent yelling over the yodlers cause you CAN'T HEAR YOURSELF TALK!!!!:idea:

castmemberb4

05-19-2009, 12:24 PM

OMG ! Nebo has a trip report and I didn't know !!!!
How did I miss this ???? For three MONTHS!!!!
I'm blaming it on those two weeks in Key West back in March, aparently I killed more than two weeks worth of brain cells! :hippie:

I've just gotten up to the travel part, I live just north of Atlanta stop my here for a cocktail then drive through downtown after rush hour. Better yet spend the night and leave at 4am there won't be anyone on 75. Seriously I'm inviting you and Smidgy. Or as an alternative to staying with a stranger and possible stalker have you ever taken 285 around Atlanta?

Okay back to reading your TR, in a way I'm lucky I've got a whole lot to read without waiting for updates.
Lynn

kath1210

05-19-2009, 11:05 PM

Ok, anybody else from that God forsaken state of Michigan? Come on, time to come out of the outhouse and admit it.

Since we're playing True Michigander Confessions here - I was born in Detroit, grew up in Livonia and Brighton, but moved to Maryland after college. My Dad lives in Canton - "Home of IKEA" - and my brother and his family live in Grand Blanc.

Summer and Fall in Michigan are awesome :thumbsup2 - Winter not so much. :(

I do prefer the milder Maryland climate, not to mention the ocean and mountains.:goodvibes

TigerTown

05-20-2009, 09:25 AM

"Home of IKEA"

Traffic on Ford Road was a nightmare before that store opened. Now it's almost impossible. I don't go anywhere near it. :scared1:

tiggerwannabe

05-20-2009, 10:24 AM

Not a Michiganer here but hubby's godparents live there and we have had the pleasure of tasting some Frankenmuth Fudge! Itsa nice place if you are into strange weather patterns : /

nebo

05-20-2009, 07:26 PM

Actually, I think Mr. Bean would be an excellent choice to play you in a movie....just the funny parts!

Yes, that's a compliment....I love Mr. Bean!

We do too, I especially love the episode where he tries to stay awake in church.

I wish I had another trip brewing, but no. It's a refridgerator swap I run, so us poppers can have a free mini fridge in our room and coffee pot and toaster.

I went to the ups store and got there at 6:40 and he closed the store early, the sign said it closed at 7, so when Tim gets home from Denver tomorrow, I'd head to the Post office. It's the next box of stuff for the grand daughter and something for you and something for Diane. Wink Wink.

Ok, let me guess; bubble wrap for me, and a life insurance policy on me for Diane. Am I right? Monica, thanks for the package, we appreciate it. Will you THEN cash the check so I can balance the checkbook finally? :rotfl:

We rented a fridge once at the Pop, I'm not sure if the fridge swap is something we'd like to do, sounds like a lot of hassle to me. I forgot, what is it, ten bucks a night to rent one?

I think it would be cool to have a meet where we didn't have to hear yodlers and consistent yelling over the yodlers cause you CAN'T HEAR YOURSELF TALK!!!!:idea:

Dj, most of your post didn't transfer somehow, but great post. Yeah, the best meets we've had is when you end up staying at the same resort, surprising how much you run into each other then.

OMG ! Nebo has a trip report and I didn't know !!!!
How did I miss this ???? For three MONTHS!!!!
I'm blaming it on those two weeks in Key West back in March, aparently I killed more than two weeks worth of brain cells! :hippie:

I've just gotten up to the travel part, I live just north of Atlanta stop my here for a cocktail then drive through downtown after rush hour. Better yet spend the night and leave at 4am there won't be anyone on 75. Seriously I'm inviting you and Smidgy. Or as an alternative to staying with a stranger and possible stalker have you ever taken 285 around Atlanta?

Okay back to reading your TR, in a way I'm lucky I've got a whole lot to read without waiting for updates.
Lynn

Hi Lynn, long time no see. Thanks for the offer. For years we used to take the alternate around Atlanta, but that was just as nerve wracking so now we've found it's better to just stay on 75, it helps having the "two people or more lane" now. By the way, for future reference, when is the worst morning and evening time for rush hour there? So far in Georgia we've stayed in Atlanta, on the way back when we stopped at Six Flags, stayed in Stockbridge twice, on the Macon bypass a couple times, in Perry a few times and once in Ashburn.

Since we're playing True Michigander Confessions here - I was born in Detroit, grew up in Livonia and Brighton, but moved to Maryland after college. My Dad lives in Canton - "Home of IKEA" - and my brother and his family live in Grand Blanc.

Summer and Fall in Michigan are awesome :thumbsup2 - Winter not so much. :(

I do prefer the milder Maryland climate, not to mention the ocean and mountains.:goodvibes

Maryland isn't big enough to have "mountains". Maybe, A mountain.

Not a Michiganer here but hubby's godparents live there and we have had the pleasure of tasting some Frankenmuth Fudge! Itsa nice place if you are into strange weather patterns : /

To this day I don't think I have ever had better fudge then from Mackinaw Island. I remeber salt water taffy was big up there then too.

Ok, I'm all caught up.

When's the next installment?

kath1210

05-20-2009, 11:30 PM

Maryland isn't big enough to have "mountains". Maybe, A mountain.

OK, I guess they are more like big hills, but they are called mountains - South Mountain, Braddock Mountain, etc. :confused3

monymony3471

05-21-2009, 07:32 AM

Hassel for who? I do all the work, the people just meet up and exchange the fridge. Usually.

Sometimes it's left with LuggageWeSometimesHaveNoClueWhereWePutTheFridgeBut ItsThere Assistance.

You just need to keep asking until you find the right person. You know, like Disney Travel. I think I got that philosophy from you.......heh.

The package was sent off on Tuesday. I went to the post office and I had Miss No personality to help me, it was more like I was asking her to actually work instead of pushing buttons. She was not happy with my box. I taped it up, I don't understand what her issues were, but it's on its way. I'm very curious to see if my box makes it to your place without harm. Cause she was so sure it wasn't gonna make it. I had a side bet going with the customer behind me.

Underdog369

05-23-2009, 02:41 AM

Dj, most of your post didn't transfer somehow, but great post. Yeah, the best meets we've had is when you end up staying at the same resort, surprising how much you run into each other then.

I didn't split up the quote like I normally do. I got lazy and put the text in red in your response. It will not show up again if I put the text in your quote instead of after.

By the way, caffeine!!!!!:surfweb::surfweb::surfweb::surfweb: NNNOOOOPPPPEEE,,,,, NNNoooo efffffffeeccctttttttt ooonnn mmmmeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!

Sorry, fell asleep with my fingers on the ! key. :rolleyes1

nebo

05-23-2009, 10:39 PM

monymony3471

05-24-2009, 08:22 AM

I wasn't expecting much until after the series anyways. That was a gimme the other night, by the way...............:)

Underdog369

05-26-2009, 02:23 AM

Hey JD,,,,(sp)?

According to my little on screen time clicker over by here on the middle coast, yuou just posted at the ripe early hour of nineteen minutes until two.

IN THE MORNING

Yep, I can see that the caffeine isn't having any effect on you.

nothining wrong with that, mind you.

Monica, I'll get to you next. Right now, too tired. BJ used up all the caffeine.

Ok, new installm ent hopefully tomorrow, monday at the latest. Honest Injun.
(can I say that?)

JD, BJ, Hey you... Which one is it? The world will never know.

I may have taken all the caffeine, but it works for me. I get HUGE headaches if I don't have some caffeine each day. I go through withdrawls really bad when I don't have any.:headache:

castmemberb4

05-27-2009, 03:11 PM

Hi Lynn, long time no see. Thanks for the offer. For years we used to take the alternate around Atlanta, but that was just as nerve wracking so now we've found it's better to just stay on 75, it helps having the "two people or more lane" now. By the way, for future reference, when is the worst morning and evening time for rush hour there? So far in Georgia we've stayed in Atlanta, on the way back when we stopped at Six Flags, stayed in Stockbridge twice, on the Macon bypass a couple times, in Perry a few times and once in Ashburn.

I still haven't figured out how to quote just part of a post
Actually I'm not the best one for that information I live and work in the suburbs. I think rush hour starts about 8am (7:30?) and last till about 10.
Don't have a clue what time it starts in the afternoon, except on Friday it starts about 2:00 !!! I'd also bet that our regular traffic feels like rush hour to most of you. Even in the middle of the day it's still pretty heavy. When we have to fly out we usually book an early morning flight b/c we have to get through or around downtown, there's no one on 285 at 6 in the morning.
I am serious you CAN stay with us. I've invited Jaime and Rhonda before, they probably think I'm a stalker too :laughing:
Lynn

tiggerbell

05-27-2009, 03:31 PM

Ok, new installm ent hopefully tomorrow, monday at the latest. Honest Injun.
(can I say that?)

Apparently you can say it, but you don't really mean it.

Hope all is well. :goodvibes

castmemberb4

05-27-2009, 04:35 PM

Okay I'm all caught up now, via a little backtrack. I somehow missed the elevator post and had to go back. I have to say

1) I like you Spaceship Earth ending much better than theirs.
and
2) Have you gotten that eye cheked yet??? you can go blind due to a detached retina you know.

carry on

nebo

05-27-2009, 07:30 PM

JD, BJ, Hey you... Which one is it? The world will never know.

I may have taken all the caffeine, but it works for me. I get HUGE headaches if I don't have some caffeine each day. I go through withdrawls really bad when I don't have any.:headache:

I hear you DJ, I am the same way, I just need it in the morning though, and I need it in the form of coffee.

Apparently you can say it, but you don't really mean it.

Hope all is well. :goodvibes

You know, there was a time when I sometimes used to feel guilty about going to Disney so much.

Then I met Jaime.

I don't anymore. If anything, I feel like I'm still a newbie. Hi Jaime, all is well.

Okay I'm all caught up now, via a little backtrack. I somehow missed the elevator post and had to go back. I have to say

1) I like you Spaceship Earth ending much better than theirs.
and
2) Have you gotten that eye cheked yet??? you can go blind due to a detached retina you know.

carry on

Lynn, bless you for at least commenting on my ending for Spaceship, and as far as the eye, it would appear that I had a series of migraines, for days in a row, each one came with and aura and let me tell you, when I get an aura with a migraine, it rivals Illuminations, except no music.

Monica: we all thank you for the baby clothes.
Mony mony sent us a box of stuffage for our granddaughter, and included a couple of surprises for us.

Diane squeeled when she saw Breaking Dawn was in there, and there was also a small package for me int there.
A Detroit Red Wings jogging outfit for a 12 month old.

Monica, it's a little bit small for me right now, unless you have me mistaken for Benjamin Button and I will fit into it in about 53 years. :laughing:

It has been so long that maybe I should do a refresher.
In summary;

It's Saturday, we have been in Florida for a week now, driven down, and froze our keisters off all week, this is the first warm day of the trip. We will check out tomorrow and head over to the Boardwalk Villas for 5 more nights and hopefully more warmth, and less pain.

Since I reinjured my foot last fall it has been really giving me a problem this trip. On top of that, Smidgy didn't want to be left out, and fell down and really screwed her hand up at AK a couple of days ago.

Between the cold and hoping that Diane's pain will subside soon, we have been trying to book 3 more nights anywhere on property, so far to no avail.

In the last chapter I told you all about the wonderful quality time spent in an elevator, and I may be scarred for life now, and have to spend every trip at Fort Wilderness Campgrounds.

After I re-read it after posting, it ocurred to me it was just like being on the Tower of Terror, it had the computer controlled random drop generator going that I had no control over.

THe only thing missing was Rod Serling.

By the way, if you want to read about the first time I found out about migraines and auras it's in the first trip report, "If it's Tuesday, this must be Epcot".

Heading over to Magic Kingdom saturday night, I was in a good mood.
Mr. Grumpy Gills was finally MIA. Warmer temperatures have that effect on me plus I"m also excited about staying for the first time in the BWV.

And for 88 bucks a night!

ssshhhhhh !!

YEah, those kinds of savings will always get me excited.

Ok, arriving at MK on a saturday night, we now have ourselves a quandry.
It's about 5 pm, and since this is our first time here today, we have not one single fastpass stockpiled for nighttime use. This is what we normally do since we have stopped buying hopper passes and can't hop.

Oh we walk and we run and we do it for fun,
We'll skip to my Lou and stumble a lot too

But we don't hop.

Our usual routine is rope drop, pool time, cocktail time, and nightime park time. In the mornings we gather fastpasses to use later when the park is full at night. Works like a charm.

And there are a lot of things I prefer muchly to do at night.
A lot of them for "seeing" purposes, indoor dark rides and shows I can't see during the day because my eyes don't adjust for a long long time.

examples;
Haunted Mansion
Dinosaur
Peter Pan
Snow WHite
Space Mountain
Spaceship Earth

That's just a sampling, but all those it's a waste of time for me to do during the day. Then some others a just better at night, like BTMR, EE, and Test Track.

But there was not Rope drop today. Just pool time, elevator time, cocktail time, cocktail time, and cocktail time.

Even with the extended cocktail hour, that still didn't stop me.

Tonight I'm packing!

We have our good ol Sunny D's, plus I have a couple of little replacement rum bottles in my pocket.

Plus a couple of my "little friends" made the trip in the other pocket tonight.

Hey, I've been good with them this trip, but as the days are adding up, my foot is starting to look like if you took one of those rubber surgical gloves and blew it up. And going from all the really cold days to upper seventies played havoc on it too.

Yep, the "Incredible Amazing Weather Foot" was back.

And I couldn't turn it off.

Upon entering Diane handed me her Sunny D while she went through customs for her fanny pack, while I just walked right on past the security with enough ammo to put Mickey in a 30 day rehab.

Reminded me of the time we checked in Wilderness Lodge and the guy at the guardhouse asked me if I had any weapons.
I looked up at him and said "Whatdaya need?"

Yeah, that wasn't the smartest thing I've ever done either.

Inside we headed right to the time board at the end of Main St. As we stood there gathering info, we saw it wasn't going to be too much of a problem tonight, fastpasses were still available for all but Space Mountain and times weren't horrendous, everything a half hour or less.

As we stood there, a cast member came up to us.
Now, this doesn't happen often with me, I think the bald head and moustache scare them away, but Raphael asked if we needed any help.

"Nope, just checking the wait time for Dumbo."

Do you know how the last two years promotion in Disney has been "The year of a million dreams"? I think we had 7 trips during that time, and not ONCE did a "Dream Member" or anybody come up to us even once and offer us anything.

That's over now, this year it's "What do you want to celebrate"?

So of course ol' Raphael hands us each two blank fastpasses with his siggy on them, to use anywhere.

Two for each of us, problems solved.

Right away went and used one on Buzz, then wanted to ride the TTA, but it was down, this is a first for me, don't think I've ever seen the People Mover down before.

Ok, we'll do Laugh Floor, see who get's picked on, but it turned out to be one of the few times that neither one of us got singled out for anything, which was fine by me. Then we did something I would regret for the rest of the trip.

We hadn't done it in quite a while, since it's probably the lamest attraction Disney has to offer, right up there with Journey into Imagination.

What am I talking about?

Stitch's Escape, of course.

It's still stupid, it's still boring, and I still can't see in there.

You know how when you waste time in a movie theater that you didn't like you can't get out of there quickly enough? Well, that's what happened to me.

When that stupid harness that traps you in your seat finally lifted, I couldn't get out of there fast enough.

Dumb, dumb dumb.

Dum, de dum dum.

I couldn't see the concrete steps they have in there, my foot came down right on the edge of one, and I surely would have gone down if I hadn't swung my right foot around as hard as I could for balance.

This is my bad foot.

Bad foot met bad concrete stair, with all my might.

As the pain overwhelmed me, all I could do was stand there and stare. I just couldn't believe I just did that.

And all for Stitch.

Whom I don't even like!

This was not like when I hurt Laurel and Hardy running into the railing at AK.
WHile that was painful, I knew it would go away.

This I knew was going to join me for the rest of the trip. It was actually my big toe that I hit, and I knew there was no point in looking at it, besides, I'd probably never get my shoe back on.

Diane saw what happened, again, but I said I'm ok, I just need a sitdown and a smoke right now so we headed over by Space Mountain to a smoking area there.

Remember what I said earlier about how we seldom hop? Well I half hopped on the way over there!

Diane got a pop from the Lunching Pad, and we replenished our Sunny D's sitting right there on the bench.
My little friends said hello and goodbye.

I know what you're thinking, "You know, if maybe you'd lay off some of the drinks, these things wouldn't happen", but honestly, I was far from inebriated, the time passage and walking around prevents it.

Besides, I'm a professional.

Diane led the way all the way to Haunted Mansion, as it was starting to get dark, with me limping along behind yelling, "Mr. Dillon, Mr. Dillon."

Then we used our last fastpass on BTMR. You know, in all the dozens of times I have ridden this, I have yet to see the cowboys playing poker in a building somewhere while the town floods.
Oh well.

Spectro was coming, and we grabbed a couple of good spots over by Westward Ho refreshments.

Ok, photo gallery coming up:

http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n126/nebo100/popboardwalk/spectrofish.jpg

Yep, that was the photo gallery. Hey, when you are still on dial up with an 11 year old puter, that counts!

After Spectro, which we dearly love, with my foot we barely made it all the way down Main St. to where we usually watch Wishes in time for the show.

It just killed me after Wishes was over to have all these people passing me up on the way to the bus stop, and nothing I could do to stop them except try and trip them as they went by.

Off the bus we went right to the food court, we were both starving, then back in the room it was still time to pack up yet.

I started, but I think I fell asleep with the suitcase on my chest.
Heck with it, I'll finish tomorrow. :lmao:

tiggerbell

05-27-2009, 08:18 PM

smidgy

05-28-2009, 02:29 AM

I'm glad the UPS store was closed when I got there on Friday, now I can add a second surprise to the box today.

monica wins the Philanthropist of the Year Award!!!!!:dance3: she sent us yet ANOTHER big box of clothes for our little granddaughter!!!! DIL and I had such fun going through them.. and little Kaylie is small for her age, so alsmost all of them will fit her now or in the future! thank you SO much!!!:cheer2:
PLUS!!! Mu surprise was... Breaking Dawn!!!:yay: stayed up way too late last night reading it, didn't know that Id' be subbing at the VFW tonight, tending bar. (and when i sign off, I am NOT picking up the book. I'll end up staying up way too late!

According to my little on screen time clicker over by here on the middle coast, yuou just posted at the ripe early hour of nineteen minutes until two.

IN THE MORNING :scared1::scared1::scared1::scared1:

. Honest Injun.
(can I say that?)

DJ, nebo thinks anyone who keeps dif. hours than he is abnormal. don't you know that people who stay up late and sleep late in the morning are morally inferior than those who go to bed early and get up early?

(and, honey, you can say "honest Injun" as a person of Cherokee descent I can assure you that we are nothing but honest.)

smidgy

05-28-2009, 02:50 AM

I think nebo couldn't stand it that someone else besides him was injured. "hurt your hand? I'll show you one better!":lmao:
NEBO:
It just killed me after Wishes was over to have all these people passing me up on the way to the bus stop, and nothing I could do to stop them except try and trip them as they went by.

it killed me too! he kept apologizing to me, cause he knows how much I enjoy the "running of the bulls". It's become a quest to see how fast we can make it to the bus after wishes, fantasmic, or, the coup de etat (sp?) of the contest, illuminations. (actually, running is not allowed in the parks, which makes it all the more of a challenge.. to beat the crowds with fast walking, coupled with plenty of dodging and swerving. ).. I must admit, I'm a master of the art.;)

ChelleinNC

05-28-2009, 07:23 AM

I think we're going to have to hold a science competition to see who can find a way to protect Nebo :idea: you know like the ones they hold to see who can drop an egg without breaking it :laughing:

OhMari

05-28-2009, 07:35 AM

Thanks for the refresher, and sorry about your foot.
I've been to WDW and back and finished my TR.
I was going to give you grief,
but I forgot you drag your TR's out foreverrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

winkers

05-28-2009, 01:13 PM

I think we're going to have to hold a science competition to see who can find a way to protect Nebo :idea: you know like the ones they hold to see who can drop an egg without breaking it :laughing:

:lmao::lmao: My 5th grader just had one of those 2 days ago.....judging from the results, Nebo should be wrapped in 20 layers of bubble wrap, placed in a shoe box ,with 10 helium baloons on top.:rotfl:

Steve, with you and your sunny d's isn't it cocktail hour...all day?
Thanks to you, whenever my kids ask for a sunny d..I get suspicious.;)

I laugh till I cry every time you mention the Laurel and Hardy "incident".:laughing:

Diane....I see you've come over to the "dark" side! :wizard:
I was very sceptical about the whole Twilight thing, ok I was a little snobbish about it. I love Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, so why would I like a teen vampire book?

Well, one day out of boredom I picked up my daughters copy, and I had it finished by the time she got home from school! I love that dang series!

Underdog369

05-30-2009, 01:29 AM

DJ, nebo thinks anyone who keeps dif. hours than he is abnormal. don't you know that people who stay up late and sleep late in the morning are morally inferior than those who go to bed early and get up early?

I used to work from 10:00pm to 7:00am, go to school until 3:30pm, sleep for 4 hours, wake up and start all over again. Sometimes the 4 hours would only be 1 or 2 hours because of work at the high school theater.:scared1:

Backstage_Gal

05-30-2009, 01:35 PM

My 5th grader just had one of those 2 days ago.....judging from the results, Nebo should be wrapped in 20 layers of bubble wrap, placed in a shoe box ,with 10 helium baloons on top.:rotfl:

ITA!!

Diane....I see you've come over to the "dark" side! :wizard:
I was very sceptical about the whole Twilight thing, ok I was a little snobbish about it. I love Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, so why would I like a teen vampire book?

Well, one day out of boredom I picked up my daughters copy, and I had it finished by the time she got home from school! I love that dang series!

I think Breaking Dawn was the best book of all of them. I almost gave up with the first one, I found it pretty boring. But I had my kids take me to the movie as a christmas present last year. Well, their company at least, I paid for it, LOL.

Nebo, I am in an office building right outside the studios now. I can hear the TOT screams outside, and parade music. But too much frigging work to go in the park........

Underdog369

05-31-2009, 10:43 PM

Heading over to Magic Kingdom saturday night, I was in a good mood.
Mr. Grumpy Gills was finally MIA. Warmer temperatures have that effect on me plus I"m also excited about staying for the first time in the BWV.

And for 88 bucks a night!

ssshhhhhh !!

YEah, those kinds of savings will always get me excited.

Ok, arriving at MK on a saturday night, we now have ourselves a quandry.
It's about 5 pm, and since this is our first time here today, we have not one single fastpass stockpiled for nighttime use. This is what we normally do since we have stopped buying hopper passes and can't hop.

Oh we walk and we run and we do it for fun,
We'll skip to my Lou and stumble a lot too

But we don't hop.

I really don't know what we would do without hopping. We had several ADR's in another park. Hopping is fun unless you have a million year wait for a bus that is completely packed when it shows up at the stop.

Our usual routine is rope drop, pool time, cocktail time, and nightime park time. In the mornings we gather fastpasses to use later when the park is full at night. Works like a charm.

I can't see during the day because my eyes don't adjust for a long long time.

examples;
Haunted Mansion
Dinosaur
Peter Pan
Snow WHite
Space Mountain
Spaceship Earth

That's just a sampling, but all those it's a waste of time for me to do during the day. Then some others a just better at night, like BTMR, EE, and Test Track.

I don't know about anyone else, but if I don't have sunglasses, and even with them, I have a hard time adjusting to the dark rides too. I usually get my vision back about when the t-rex attacks you, there's a bright flash, and my night vision is gone again.

But there was not Rope drop today. Just pool time, elevator time, cocktail time, cocktail time, and cocktail time.

Even with the extended cocktail hour, that still didn't stop me.

Tonight I'm packing!

OH NO!!!! Not another Elevator!!! Did you make sure it was empty before you entered it?

We have our good ol Sunny D's, plus I have a couple of little replacement rum bottles in my pocket.

Plus a couple of my "little friends" made the trip in the other pocket tonight.

Hey, I've been good with them this trip, but as the days are adding up, my foot is starting to look like if you took one of those rubber surgical gloves and blew it up. And going from all the really cold days to upper seventies played havoc on it too.

Yep, the "Incredible Amazing Weather Foot" was back.

And I couldn't turn it off.

Upon entering Diane handed me her Sunny D while she went through customs for her fanny pack, while I just walked right on past the security with enough ammo to put Mickey in a 30 day rehab.

Reminded me of the time we checked in Wilderness Lodge and the guy at the guardhouse asked me if I had any weapons.
I looked up at him and said "Whatdaya need?"

Yeah, that wasn't the smartest thing I've ever done either.

Smidgy: Isn't it great having someone else bring in something you could get in trouble for??? :rotfl::lmao:

Inside we headed right to the time board at the end of Main St. As we stood there gathering info, we saw it wasn't going to be too much of a problem tonight, fastpasses were still available for all but Space Mountain and times weren't horrendous, everything a half hour or less.

As we stood there, a cast member came up to us.
Now, this doesn't happen often with me, I think the bald head and moustache scare them away, but Raphael asked if we needed any help.

"Nope, just checking the wait time for Dumbo."

Do you know how the last two years promotion in Disney has been "The year of a million dreams"? I think we had 7 trips during that time, and not ONCE did a "Dream Member" or anybody come up to us even once and offer us anything.

So of course ol' Raphael hands us each two blank fastpasses with his siggy on them, to use anywhere.

Two for each of us, problems solved.

Right away went and used one on Buzz, then wanted to ride the TTA, but it was down, this is a first for me, don't think I've ever seen the People Mover down before.

It must have been really weird not hearing the overhead announcements as you passed under the TTA. Imagine how quiet that area would be. HMMM.:rotfl2:

We hadn't done it in quite a while, since it's probably the lamest attraction Disney has to offer, right up there with Journey into Imagination.

What am I talking about?

Stitch's Escape, of course.

It's still stupid, it's still boring, and I still can't see in there.

You know how when you waste time in a movie theater that you didn't like you can't get out of there quickly enough? Well, that's what happened to me.

When that stupid harness that traps you in your seat finally lifted, I couldn't get out of there fast enough.

Dumb, dumb dumb.

Dum, de dum dum.

I couldn't see the concrete steps they have in there, my foot came down right on the edge of one, and I surely would have gone down if I hadn't swung my right foot around as hard as I could for balance.

This is my bad foot.

Bad foot met bad concrete stair, with all my might.

As the pain overwhelmed me, all I could do was stand there and stare. I just couldn't believe I just did that.

And all for Stitch.

Whom I don't even like!

This I knew was going to join me for the rest of the trip. It was actually my big toe that I hit, and I knew there was no point in looking at it, besides, I'd probably never get my shoe back on.

Diane saw what happened, again, but I said I'm ok, I just need a sitdown and a smoke right now so we headed over by Space Mountain to a smoking area there.

I agree about Stitch, ut my daughter really loves him, so we went too. Ditto, Ditto, Ditto, Ditto, Ditto, Ditto, Ditto, Ditto, Ditto.:mad: Sorry about the toe. Nothing like a negative to bring back Mr. Grumpy. Although, I really do like Grumpy from The Seven Dwarves. He's my favorite Disney character.

Then we used our last fastpass on BTMR. You know, in all the dozens of times I have ridden this, I have yet to see the cowboys playing poker in a building somewhere while the town floods.
Oh well.

Spectro was coming, and we grabbed a couple of good spots over by Westward Ho refreshments.

After Spectro, which we dearly love, with my foot we barely made it all the way down Main St. to where we usually watch Wishes in time for the show.

It just killed me after Wishes was over to have all these people passing me up on the way to the bus stop, and nothing I could do to stop them except try and trip them as they went by.

Off the bus we went right to the food court, we were both starving, then back in the room it was still time to pack up yet.

I started, but I think I fell asleep with the suitcase on my chest.
Heck with it, I'll finish tomorrow. :lmao:

I can just see it now:

On your marks, Get set, LIMP, LIMP, LIMP, C'mon honey, I'm not getting a wheel chair just to exit the park... HURRY UP WILL YA?!? Limp faster!!!! I don't care how much you are hurting, I'm not going to stand on that long bus ride home!!!!!!! Wait, didn't we drive????:scared1::lmao::rotfl::lmao::rotfl:

Can't wait for more....popcorn::

nebo

06-01-2009, 02:44 PM

I feel for ya, man...

No, really - the doctor says I sprained my ankle...

Wanna know how???

I sat on a couch for 364 days, then thought I could be out on a dance floor for 3 straight hours.

Turned out, I COULD.

But I'm paying for it... with a left foot the size of Cuba!

Ok Jaime, I am sorry about your foot, we seem to be kindrid spirits when it comes to feet, but in the immortal words of Mike Ditka, "Who you crappin?"

How can you say you "sit around 364 days a year", when you are walking around DIsney every other month for a week? Hey, say hi to Rhonda for me.

I think nebo couldn't stand it that someone else besides him was injured. "hurt your hand? I'll show you one better!":lmao:
NEBO:
It just killed me after Wishes was over to have all these people passing me up on the way to the bus stop, and nothing I could do to stop them except try and trip them as they went by.

it killed me too! he kept apologizing to me, cause he knows how much I enjoy the "running of the bulls". It's become a quest to see how fast we can make it to the bus after wishes, fantasmic, or, the coup de etat (sp?) of the contest, illuminations. (actually, running is not allowed in the parks, which makes it all the more of a challenge.. to beat the crowds with fast walking, coupled with plenty of dodging and swerving. ).. I must admit, I'm a master of the art.;)

No argument here, she is the best! Even dragging me after her, she can go from Illuminations to the bus stop before the last firework has settled into the lagoon.

I think we're going to have to hold a science competition to see who can find a way to protect Nebo :idea: you know like the ones they hold to see who can drop an egg without breaking it :laughing:

Chelly, there is no way. They tried packing me in styrofoam peanuts once and I choked on one.

Thanks for the refresher, and sorry about your foot.
I've been to WDW and back and finished my TR.
I was going to give you grief,
but I forgot you drag your TR's out foreverrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Again, can't argue here either, I have been dragging them out lately. This puter on dial up is getting slower and slower, and it doesn't help when the web sites get fancier with more animation and pictures now, since NO one else is on dial up anymore. I'd get a new puter but I dread the idea of having to transfer all the files I want to keep, and all the new puters come with Vista, which is about to be replaced since it sucks so much.

:lmao::lmao:

Diane....I see you've come over to the "dark" side! :wizard:
I was very sceptical about the whole Twilight thing, ok I was a little snobbish about it. I love Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, so why would I like a teen vampire book?

Well, one day out of boredom I picked up my daughters copy, and I had it finished by the time she got home from school! I love that dang series!

While I will admit to reading every one of the Harry Potter books, uh uh, no way am I joining the Stephanie craze, I was forced to watch Twilight, and I could take it or leave it.

I used to work from 10:00pm to 7:00am, go to school until 3:30pm, sleep for 4 hours, wake up and start all over again. Sometimes the 4 hours would only be 1 or 2 hours because of work at the high school theater.:scared1:

yeah yeah, and uphill both ways too, I'm sure.

ITA!!

I think Breaking Dawn was the best book of all of them. I almost gave up with the first one, I found it pretty boring. But I had my kids take me to the movie as a christmas present last year. Well, their company at least, I paid for it, LOL.

Nebo, I am in an office building right outside the studios now. I can hear the TOT screams outside, and parade music. But too much frigging work to go in the park........

Marita, I"m sad. I was hoping to meet you agian at "Beaches and Cream". So, now do we meet in an automat and for coffee and a bag of chips?

LadyMar

06-01-2009, 08:33 PM

Hi! I have been so out of the disney loop.:guilty: Going back to read all your fine stories. It's good to be back...I missed ya

Backstage_Gal

06-01-2009, 09:05 PM

[quote=nebo;32082351]quote]

Hey, I can still got to B&C. Just send the word. Hopefully I will less pre-occupied with work stuff next time. Last time I was really distracted

ChelleinNC

06-01-2009, 10:46 PM

They tried packing me in styrofoam peanuts once and I choked on one.

Of course you did :laughing:

With the way you drag these reports out, I should miss much while I'm gone this week right? ;)

lovebuzzandwoody

06-01-2009, 11:16 PM

Hi! I have been so out of the disney loop.:guilty: Going back to read all your fine stories. It's good to be back...I missed ya

Me too! I must have left off waaaaay back at the beginning somewhere. Don't write too much for a few days Nebo... give Lady and I a chance to catch up! ;)

Underdog369

06-02-2009, 12:45 AM

yeah yeah, and uphill both ways too, I'm sure.

YUP. For sure. I just refuse to tell everyone that there's a downhill in the middle somewhere.... Oops..:confused3

smidgy

06-02-2009, 02:00 AM

LADYMAR and LBAW!!!! welcome welcome!!!

and.. Underdog: even if nebo isn't "impressed" polly purebread here gives you props!

monymony3471

06-05-2009, 02:17 PM

winkers

06-10-2009, 01:08 AM

hello???

anyone? anyone?

OhMari

06-10-2009, 08:09 AM

Maybe the cold weather down in IL, is keeping them bundled up in their home and under the blankets, because it is totally against everything we stand for, to turn our furnances on in June. So they are hybernating like bears and sleeping and they refuse to do anything till the temps get to at least 70.

lovebuzzandwoody

06-10-2009, 02:08 PM

hello???

anyone? anyone?

:tiptoe:

shhhhh i am not caught up yet.

Backstage_Gal

06-10-2009, 10:26 PM

:tiptoe:

shhhhh i am not caught up yet.

Speak for yourself! Nebo? Smidgy? Bueller?

winkers

06-13-2009, 03:29 PM

I hope everything is ok......I worry when my imaginary friends don't talk to me.

nebo

06-13-2009, 05:54 PM

I know, I know, "Nebo, you got some 'splainin to do!"

And I will try.

A little.

The best that I dare to right now.

Ok, there's a reason I haven't kept up much with the report, or even been on line at all recently. Actually, quite a few reasons.

One is that my family is turning on me. It would appear that my times to smoke don't seem to co-incide with the others times to smoke. It's like this, the puter is upstairs in the hallway, and right outside of my son who has now returned, his room, and steps from our bedroom door, where Diane is usually.
They both hate smoke in the morning, or somebody pounding on the keyboard right outside there doors.
There is also the grandson clause, we don't smoke when my son has him for the weekend, at least not in the house.

If you know me, to write a chapter I have to have my smokes next to me, along with a beer or a manhattan, otherwise I'm useless, and no fun to read.

At the least it's not as much fun writing.

But these are not the main reason, which I, unfortunately can't really go into right now. I'm probably being paranoid about it, but when posting stuff on line you never can be too sure. About all I can say about it is that I don't want to tie up the phone line at all, this thing is important to both of us, and may eventually expedite our moving to Florida with a better conscience.

There is a chance I can get answers in a couple of weeks, but more likely it will take longer, when I do, you will be the first to know.

Don't you hate it when I speak in riddles?

I just signed on to find I have 338 emails, that's how far behind I am, but I do see time to spend on the computer coming more easily in the very near future. I'm sorry for those of you that have trip reports going that I haven't checked in on, as you can see I'm not doing my own much justice either, though I hope this will change soon.

Thank you for those that have stuck with me, call outs and a new chapter will be coming very soon, and please, if you think you have guessed what I am alluding to above, don't mention it here on this thread, ok? hugs, neb

mmeb144

06-13-2009, 06:09 PM

Well, whatever it takes to get our, er, your trip report back on track. I've been enjoying it. I understand that life sometimes gets a bit out of control. We all do what we gotta do.

I hope that things get better for you.

winkers

06-13-2009, 06:28 PM

I think you're going into the witness protection program..............either that or you were abducted by aliens and they're coming back for you.;)

I'm glad to know everything is ok!

nebo

06-13-2009, 06:55 PM

I really don't know what we would do without hopping. We had several ADR's in another park. Hopping is fun unless you have a million year wait for a bus that is completely packed when it shows up at the stop.

We grew up on the hopper passes, it wasn't until recently that I got a lot cheaper, and justified it with the very clever tactic of stockpiling fastpasses, which you can't do when you hop. I'm also finding it more common for us now to drive to certain parks, which can also negate some of the benefits of hopping. The only parks I haven't driven to are MK, for obvious reasons and Epcot, mainly cuz at Epcot, I'm lucky if I can find the bus stop, much less trying to find my car.

I don't know about anyone else, but if I don't have sunglasses, and even with them, I have a hard time adjusting to the dark rides too. I usually get my vision back about when the t-rex attacks you, there's a bright flash, and my night vision is gone again.

Ahem, that is not a T-Rex, but a Carnotaur, and yeah, just when you look up at him screaming at you they take your picture. It seems there are more of us that have trouble adjusting to dark then I thought, Tiggerbell mentioned it too, I believe.

Smidgy: Isn't it great having someone else bring in something you could get in trouble for??? :rotfl::lmao:

You are right! I''m being taken for granted.

It must have been really weird not hearing the overhead announcements as you passed under the TTA. Imagine how quiet that area would be. HMMM.:rotfl2:

I said the ride was down, not the audio, that was still going. "Paging Tom Morrow."

I agree about Stitch, ut my daughter really loves him, so we went too. Ditto, Ditto, Ditto, Ditto, Ditto, Ditto, Ditto, Ditto, Ditto.:mad: Sorry about the toe. Nothing like a negative to bring back Mr. Grumpy. Although, I really do like Grumpy from The Seven Dwarves. He's my favorite Disney character.

I think they need an eighth drarf, "Hurting".

I can just see it now:

On your marks, Get set, LIMP, LIMP, LIMP, C'mon honey, I'm not getting a wheel chair just to exit the park... HURRY UP WILL YA?!? Limp faster!!!! I don't care how much you are hurting, I'm not going to stand on that long bus ride home!!!!!!! Wait, didn't we drive????:scared1::lmao::rotfl::lmao::rotfl:

Can't wait for more....popcorn::

Holy Cow! That pretty much hit it right on the head! It's like kyou were there! All except the driving part. :happytv:

Hi! I have been so out of the disney loop.:guilty: Going back to read all your fine stories. It's good to be back...I missed ya

Missed you too LadyMar, please check in with us again more often.

Not like me.

[quote=nebo;32082351]quote]

Hey, I can still got to B&C. Just send the word. Hopefully I will less pre-occupied with work stuff next time. Last time I was really distracted

Marita, next time we want to meet at Victoria and Alberts, did I mention you're buying? :rotfl:

Of course you did :laughing:

With the way you drag these reports out, I should miss much while I'm gone this week right? ;)

Wow, this was your lucky week.

Me too! I must have left off waaaaay back at the beginning somewhere. Don't write too much for a few days Nebo... give Lady and I a chance to catch up! ;)

Ok, you got it! I'll make sure not to write anything last week. Welcome back Lbaw, I missed you!

YUP. For sure. I just refuse to tell everyone that there's a downhill in the middle somewhere.... Oops..:confused3

You know, for some reason I never thought of adding the downhill part. Very good, I like it!

jcc0621

06-13-2009, 07:01 PM

We'll be waiting patiently!:goodvibes

nebo

06-13-2009, 07:13 PM

You are soooo incredibly lucky mister!!!!

I am a big fan of Lost, the tv show, and I hate when they have a recap show. Why, because I am a big fan and I watch the show and I know this stuff already. But at least you threw some updated stuff in there. Like I said, lucky.

.

You know, we gave up on lost after the second season, sorry, I want answers and I want them now! And I didn't think even the writers had any answers, they were making it up as they go, I think, and I don't like that making things up as you go, as you can tell by my well thought our trip reports. :rolleyes1

Maybe the cold weather down in IL, is keeping them bundled up in their home and under the blankets, because it is totally against everything we stand for, to turn our furnances on in June. So they are hybernating like bears and sleeping and they refuse to do anything till the temps get to at least 70.

Marie, you are oh so correct, I had the heat on until almost the end of May and that killed me. Even today would have been a chilly day in DisneyWorld, IN JANUARY!

Well, whatever it takes to get our, er, your trip report back on track. I've been enjoying it. I understand that life sometimes gets a bit out of control. We all do what we gotta do.

I hope that things get better for you.

Oh Marie the Librarian, things could get a lot better in the upcoming weeks, unfortunately I'm in a waiting mode right now.

I think you're going into the witness protection program..............either that or you were abducted by aliens and they're coming back for you.;)

I'm glad to know everything is ok!

"Hello boys, I'm baaack!" You know, actually that's what I need to be put in at Disney, the "Witless Protection Program". Thanks, I like that and it seems to fit.

Backstage_Gal

06-14-2009, 03:02 PM

Marita, next time we want to meet at Victoria and Alberts, did I mention you're buying? :rotfl:

V&A's huh? Well, if you dream, might a well dream big, LOL!

Hope that whatever your mystery situation is works out for you.

ChelleinNC

06-14-2009, 03:09 PM

Nebo, thanks for making sure I didn't miss anything :laughing:

hope you get your answers soon :hug:

nebo

06-15-2009, 08:16 PM

Allrighty now, tonight we're going to get right into it because we have a really big shooow planned for you all, stories, songs, TOYS!

But first, a message from our Smidgy.

Well, not really from her, but about her.

You all know that I have a really strange sense of humor, and I think that's why you love me so.
Well, at least like me.
Ok, ok, won't spit on me at the first meeting?

Now, I admit this is in bad taste, but I can't help it, it struck me really funny, so of course I'm going to share it with you. By the way, I sent it into a columnist at the Sun Times, thinking he might publish it in his "Today's Chuckle", but he sent me back a "No, I didn't find it funny, but thanks for writing."

And Reader's Digest said they'll let me know if they publish it.
YEah, right, and the check is in the mail.

Ok, every now and then Diane fills in as a bartender, and she was called in to do so recently.

She told me this the next day what she had said, and I thought it was gold.

Here is the editted version that I sent in, so please, don't hate me, and don't hate Smidgy, these things happen.

When my wife showed up for her bartending shift recently, she noticed a couple of empty bottles sitting in front of a couple of empty stools. When inquiring about the status of the bottles to the previous bartender, she used a phrase common among bar folks; "Are these a couple of dead soldiers?"

Unfortunately, it was Memorial Day.
And REALLY unfortunately, she works at a VFW!

And there you have it.

Sorry, I still think it's funny. But I'm the guy that thinks giving blind people pointy sticks so there would be less litter in the world is funny too.

Back to the report.

When we last left this callous moron, he had just tried to put his big toe through a concrete stair in Stitch's Escape, and felll asleep on the bed packing up to leave in the morning.

Sunday morning bloomed and I felt pretty good, and then I remembered we are going to be checking into rich people territory at the Boardwalk Villas, and I felt even better.
After throwing the suitcase off of me, I even got my hopes up that I might actually for the first time be able to wear shorts today.

I sprang out of bed, took two steps and almost went down. Landing partly on "She who must not be disturbed's" bed, this of course disturbed, the she.

I couldn't believe how much my foot hurt, and especially my toe. I still haven't looked at it yet. Making it to the bathroom, I could see why. It was huge, and already turning a whiter shade of purple. Diane asked through the door if I was alright, and all I could think of saying was, "Yeah, but the clot thickens."

After a bunch of ibuprofens I could walk on it, really wasn't much choice, and I'm saving the vikes for later, just need to take care of business first and get checked in at the Boardwalk.

I threw on a suit, pulled shorts up over it and put my sneakers on without socks, no way are the foot AND socks fitting in one shoe.
Diane then made the coffee and tea run, and to see if she could latch onto one of those folding carts, which she did, while I went down to say goodbye to my old friend, Duncan.

This is the first time I ever got misty eyed talking to a yo yo, but we had been through a lot in the last week.

From there we said goodbye to POP, and I drove to the Publix on 192.
Did you know there was a liquor store right next door?
Well I did, and I picked up a small bottle of whiskey, you know, for the pain.

In Publix we picked up a couple of things, one item was these fuzzy styrofoam/paper/plasic dixie cups, that we have found to be excellent in the past for keeping cold drinks cold. We also picked up a box of chicken to eat in the room.

Then it was back into the land of the purple signs, and on to the Boardwalk.

After pulling up in front and getting the vehicle unloaded, I asked the attendant where I should park. He looked at the plates and said back home, you won't get much closer. And then he pointed, and way off in the distance I could see what looked like the Epcot parking lot, then he cackled and walked away.

Thanks.

Smidgy offered to go and park, but I wanted to know where it was so we both went. Kind of near the front is a small lot that he didn't mention, but it had a "Lot Full" sign on it.

Uh uh, I'm from Missouri, show me, and I pulled in anyway to check it out. Sure enough, there was and empty and I pulled in faster then Mr. Bean.

With a clothes bag, a huge book bag, a snack bag with pop, and some other junk, we headed in for the check in, for the first time as DVC guests.

Even with the foot it was with a song in my heart and a skip in my step that we approached the lobby.

Or is that a sting in my step and a skip in my heart?

Inside we walked right up to an open window and came face to face with;

Nurse Ratchet!

No "Welcome Home!" No "Welcome to the Boardwalk", just a "Yes?"

And a glare.

Great, of all the great Disney Cast Members, in a situation that we are unfamiliar with using someone else's points, now we get stuck with Lizzy Borden.

On the way in, we had noticed a lot of construction on the end of one wing to the left, and I prayed that with all the scaffolding they aren't still renting out those rooms.

Things went ok after ID's, no problem, then she told us our room isn't ready yet, but it will be first floor.

Diane's heart sank a bit and she said that we really wanted a balcony.

Lizzy just stared, didn' t say a word!

Finally she said, "This is it."
You just know, "Take it or leave it" was going to be the next line.

I asked where the room was, and she pulled out a map and very roughly showed us the area.

Uh oh, this seemed to be right where all the construction was going on, and I asked her about it.

"There's no construction."

Great, here we go again, just like the employee at Epcot that said, "What fountain?"

I told her there is 3 stories of scaffolding along one end of that building, and if it's not scaffolding, there are going to be a lot of lawsuits from those monkey bars.

This time the glare was for me. Dang, seems like I got a lot of the "glare" this last week. After getting her to pin it down a little closer, we finished up and went to check the situation out.

Trudging down the halls it dawned on me this is pretty stupid. Unless you are Superman with x-ray eyes, a hallway is just a hallway, yoiu can't see inside the rooms to see what is outside the window. But we did get the feeling that we wouldn't be too close to the monkey bars.

And yes I did think of using my joke, how Disney has taken out all the monkey bars because liitle kids shouldn't be drinking with monkees anyway, but I knew Nurse Ratchet wouldn't see the humor in it.

In the hallway, a family was just checking out, and approached Diane with a bag saying they didn't want to take it on the plane so here, you can have it.

Cool, free gifts, maybe something good in there. Diane thanked her, and when they were out of sight we inspected the goodies.

Yeah, right.
Two bottles of water, one bottle of Coke Zero and a bottle of skim milk. There might have been a couple of pistachio nuts in there but I had lost interest.

Still exploring the hallways, I remembered how a couple of years ago we came here just to see if we could get into the Luna Pool, which we did and spent an hour in. But first made sure to come out to the pool from the inside, like we were staying there and in walking the hallways that time, we got lost.

I remember trying a door that opened to a stairway, and inside the stairwell was another door that had a sign on it, "This door to remain closed at all times."

And I remember thinking how ridiculous that was.
If a door can't be opened and must remain closed at all times, then it ceased to exist as a door.
It then becomes part of the wall.
Walls don't open either, they're always closed.
So, it becomes a pretend door, a "just lookin at" door, since all you could do was look at it.

Now, back then, I had to find out if it indeed was a pretend door, or not, and I opened it. No sirens went off, but there were stairs that went down, down into what looked and sounded like a boiler room, I went partway down, came back up and I was satisfied.

"Ha, it's still a door, no matter what the sign says."

Well, this time we found a stairwell, but I couldn't tell if it was the same one so I opened the door and went inside.

Yep, just like the other one, or maybe the same one, and there is the pseudo door, right there.

But no sign on it.
I guess it was back to being a door.
I grabbed the door knob, slowly turned it,,,,,,
and nothing happened, it was locked.

Guess they figured out that signs aren't always enough, and just went to locking things to keep prying eyes away.

I was so proud that I finally had an influence on Disney!

Finally we were satisfied, and went to kill the time till our room was ready by the pool.

This was a real treat for me today. The last time we interloped our way into the pool, I felt like a street rat, with guilt written all over my face.
Every five minutes or so I would say in a very loud voice, "So honey, when did they say our room would be ready?"

This time with all the bags and crap we're carrying, we look like street rats.

We picked out a spot near the entrance to the slide, and right next to the hot tub, this pretty much ended up being our spot every time we came to the pool.

After stashing all our stuffage by a couple of loungers, I went 'splorin.

I found that if I walk cockeyed, I can keep most of the weight off my toe, and I needed to find a smoking area , bad.

After checking out the outside, it turns out our room will be right in between the main pool and the quiet pool, actually not a bad location.

I want to give thanks here to Tracy, aka TYRY on the Dis. She had sent us information that her husband Mark had extensively researched concerning all the quickest routes to take navigating the Boardwalk Resort.

After about 3 hours a waiting, our room was ready, and it turned out to be well away from the construction, and about as centrally located as you can get. Everything was not too far.

Not too far to the quiet pool, the main pool, the smoking area, and the bus stop. The main lobby was quite a walk though, as well as actually getting to the boardwalk.

Kudos to Mark and Tracy, your information was spot on!

Even though your Alabama route left a little to be desired.

Ok, coming up, BW pics and dinner at Cape May. :woohoo: