DISmoms 3! If the Tiara fits... 5/13-5/17/11 Complete! 11/8!

[karajeboo]

Now we know the real story!

Your Farfegnugen looks delish! No pic of your hottie?

Remind me to bring my depends if I ever come with you ladies - Evie sounds like a hoot!

Oh, poor chivalrous Ship! He probably found another job after meeting the DISmoms!

Oh, I'm so glad to see that coming up the DISmoms FINALLY get a drink!

Yes, Ship was very chivalrous.... not sure if the brewery ALOWED him to keep his job after we got through with him! And yes, glad you noticed we will finally get a drink!

What a fun evening at Epcot! Love the photos of your single rider's dance and the photopass ones!
I can only imagine HOW MUCH fun those trips must be, but you make me LOL here at home, thousands of miles away, too!

Can't wait for more updates (and more trips!)

All the single riders, all the single riders...... put ur hands up......

Why did evie and I get home so fast? I cannot remember--was it for me time? Blankinh out on that one. I have an update to add too. Just as soon as minnesoader stops prentending to be Kansas and having bad weather. Just saying...

Ah yes, "me" time......

My turn!

I did love the Italian atmosphere at Tutto, the only thing that I was disappointed in was how people dress when they are in a sit down place. It was very casual. Guess I'm crazy but I think even though you are at WDW you should look put together when you go to dinner. Oh well.

See? I am enamored with my new Hottie McHottness. Or was it Senor Hotness? Or just ole fart hottness?

But before we knew it we were off, trotting around the globe. Well some of us trotted, others shelpted, limped and meanandered. Evie I didn't think I would make it at times. Did we see Henry the VIII that night?? It is blurring to me. LOL.

Nope, Henry VIII I am I am was another night (I have pics of that performance by Evie..... )

Love Love Love test track. If I am not mistaken my tummy was upset before we got on in the cool single rider line. We flew thru that line. And yes Kara was so concerned about my tummy she just had to ride with me.

Thank you for proving me not crazy! So I DID jump out at the start of the barf fest, right?

It was great. We thought up the illness thing as we were coming out. I had to run to the potty and Ellen starts in about how ill I was and the mess and that the ride was shut down. I stepped in just to fill in all the details. of we can tell a tale. Poor Lonnie and Evie, they were so concerned. I meanwhile was nearly dying of laughter. I do think I actually snorted I laughed so hard, thank goodness for poise! Seriously I don't know when those to picked up on the story. It was convincing.

So we started to head back to the spot we wanted to watch illuminations from. But we needed to stop in jolly ol' england first. I think I may have been the one of the few to pass on a drink. I was too excited to watch illuminations. In all of my trips to WDW I have NEVER seen it. Kids are too young, hubby hates the crowds. I know crazy, huh? So after meeting some nice american boys, who also were enjoying the refreshments of the pub, we wandered back to Canada to catch the show. Guess what...I cried. Yup just the start of my tears. loved it. I know my kids will too when they go back in 3 YEARS! It was special spot to watch the show. Very sentamental.

I still don't know how Evie and I got ahead of everyone one. Seriously was I even there...LOL I do recall needing "me" time so that may have been why. I do miss getting to see the secret entrance.

It was a late night but we stayed up until 2:30 chatting and giggling. Just like a sleep over.

I forgot about Illuminations that night!!!! So basically, we got back around 9:30 (well, those of you that weren't cuffed and thrown in the back of the WDW paddywagon.......) and still stayed up that late! So much for an "early night!"

I can't believe you've only been there one day! But i've found about 10 new reasons to go back to epcot!

1. The Ditch
2. Ritas
3. Pimms
4. Ritas
5. Vodka slushies
6. Ritas
7. Ritas
8. Ritas
9. The Ditch
10. Ritas

If you learn nothing from this TR, young grasshopper, at least you've mastered the basics.......

 

[WannaBeADisMom]

Just wanted to pipe in here....Flashback two years ago, I'm again in Nebraska, I found a computer out in the barn and am seriously having a Depends moment, or rather a series of Depends moments as I read this TR..... (Only this time, I'm not responding to accusations that I "think" I'm Mary Poppins!) Gosh, I miss you ladies, miss our crazy times, heck, I even miss the hot waiter at Tutto Italia...er, ok, I guess I just miss Ship, the man with about 15 jobs, and just as many degrees! That Big Un was quite funny! My only question is, since Evie and Lonnie don't read the TRs (or do they and just don't respond?), do they STILL think Laura got sick on TT?

Carry on, Ellen....I can't wait to re-live more of our adventures from out here, perched in the hayloft (or should I say on an island.....man, there is a LOT of flooding out here in the Omaha area!!!!)....Miss you, my dear friend!

 

[karajeboo]

Just wanted to pipe in here....Flashback two years ago, I'm again in Nebraska, I found a computer out in the barn and am seriously having a Depends moment, or rather a series of Depends moments as I read this TR..... (Only this time, I'm not responding to accusations that I "think" I'm Mary Poppins!) Gosh, I miss you ladies, miss our crazy times, heck, I even miss the hot waiter at Tutto Italia...er, ok, I guess I just miss Ship, the man with about 15 jobs, and just as many degrees! That Big Un was quite funny! My only question is, since Evie and Lonnie don't read the TRs (or do they and just don't respond?), do they STILL think Laura got sick on TT?

Carry on, Ellen....I can't wait to re-live more of our adventures from out here, perched in the hayloft (or should I say on an island.....man, there is a LOT of flooding out here in the Omaha area!!!!)....Miss you, my dear friend!

I miss me some Joan!!!!!

 

[WannaBeADisMom]

I miss me some Joan!!!!!

Yay, the giant panda brought you back....I miss me some Kara Jean too
Hey, I hear I may see you this summer...please tell me it is true!

 

[kid-at-heart]

I’mmmmm backkkkk. Sorry for the delay in updating DISmoms’ Groupies. My daughter (13) and I just returned from a 5 night/6 day WDW trip. She discovered roller-coasters and boys on this trip. Both have not been of importance before now. She has decided we must always stay at OKW because many hot boys stay there. I did not tell her that there are hot boys at all the resorts – because it is summer and we NEVER travel in the summer. Too hot!

Now how to I add the DISmoms' icon to my sig???

DISmoms’ Groupies:

kid-at-heart - MI (Kate)
Wicket’s Mom - OH
Disneybuckeye – OH
dvc4life – IA
MAGICFOR2 - OR (Pre-DISMom Groupie)
tinytreasures – MN
Disney before Sally – MD
Dizneeat – Austria
Beth D – OH
OhMari-WI
anewmac- CA



Did I miss anyone?
Are there other DISmoms’ groupies out there?

DISmom’s Groupies - “NotDISMomsButStillCool” ladies (or men).

 

[kid-at-heart]

I just LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this thread!

I wonder if I qualify for your first International DISMom Groupie?

Absolutely!

 

[burly]

OOOOOOOOOOOOO a dismoms tr, yes.


KIM

 

[elizabethswan]

count me in. total groupie here. ellen, i always love your TR's and this one is so much fun. thoroughly enjoying. you girls rock! you give hope to all of us out here. we can DIS vicariously through your wild and crazy romp thru wdw wish i could beam myself to the ditch right now

 

[MAGICFOR2]

Laura, sounds like your Lemony drink of whatever kind was REALLY a good one! "Did we see Henry VIII?"

Joan! So glad you could pop in from the Hayloft! Is there a cute cowboy in there or what? Hope you can paddle home!

Kate, I'm electing you president of the DISmoms fan club!

 

[CRdisMom]

Joan hope you don't float away. I know there is more water headed that way. Crazy!

I miss all my Dis moms.

 

[JKSWonder]

Hey Darlin-

Pimms is a gin based liquor that has some quinine and herbs in it- it's VERY different from Gin, but still in that family- it's not well known here in the US, but popular across the pond. This one was mixed with sprite and had fruit on top- but a Pimms Cup is kind of like Sangria- oranges, lemons, cucumbers and sprite and Pimms with a bunch of mint- it's YUMMY!!! I hope you will try it and let us know what you think!!

Oooo, Sangria-like? I'm in. We always stop at the R&C for DH who works up a need for a beer fix in the time it takes us to walk from Germany to England!

 

[kid-at-heart]

Laura, sounds like your Lemony drink of whatever kind was REALLY a good one! "Did we see Henry VIII?"

Joan! So glad you could pop in from the Hayloft! Is there a cute cowboy in there or what? Hope you can paddle home!

Kate, I'm electing you president of the DISmoms fan club!

Funny lady! I think you need an assertive personality to be president and I am a wimp. Thanks though. I will try to keep the list going providing we are not annoying the DISmoms.

 

[kid-at-heart]

count me in. total groupie here. ellen, i always love your TR's and this one is so much fun. thoroughly enjoying. you girls rock! you give hope to all of us out here. we can DIS vicariously through your wild and crazy romp thru wdw wish i could beam myself to the ditch right now

How do I add the DISmoms' icon to my sig???

DISmoms’ Groupies:

kid-at-heart - MI (Kate)
Wicket’s Mom - OH
Disneybuckeye – OH
dvc4life – IA
MAGICFOR2 - OR (Pre-DISMom Groupie)
tinytreasures – MN
Disney before Sally – MD
Dizneeat – Austria
Beth D – OH
OhMari-WI
anewmac- CA
elizabethswan – from some island with hot pirates perhaps????


Did I miss anyone?
Are there other DISmoms’ groupies out there?

DISmom’s Groupies - “NotDISMomsButStillCool” ladies (or men).

 

[saintstickets]

Wrong gender here to be a DisMOM but definitely a fan. Love the TR.

 

[kid-at-heart]

Wrong gender here to be a DisMOM but definitely a fan. Love the TR.

Ahh, but you can be any gender to be a groupie.

Are you in LA? Opps, just noticed, you are in MS.

 

[MEK]

Uh Oh - Test Track sounds like it may have shook some things up a little. Loved reading about your dinner and the happy birthday video was great.

 

[podsnel]

I know all of you groupies have been waiting patiently for an update...we have all been swamped, and I promise to update this week! Here's a little bit about what I've been up to-

In June, Pods & I celebrated our 25th anniversary- we had dinner planned (booked a month prior) at Po in NYC- one of my favorite restaurants ever! Tim had a baseball game, Ty's was cancelled due to rain (still can't figure that out, why one was p[laying and the other wasn't, but whatever....) and Pods & I took the train into Manhattan (it's 2 trains from here because we don't have a direct line, but it takes just under an hour). We then took the subway to the West Village, then walked to find our favorite drink spot, through Washington Square Park-

We were looking for a watermelon tini- but, unfortunately, they had closed, so we just went across the street.We ordered our first drink, I had some sort of bizarre tequila drink-

Don't I look happy?

Yea...well....then I checked my phone. And all hell broke loose. Timmy had been hit in the head with a bat- he seemed fine, except for the 1/2" gash below his eyebrow. Which would require stitches. Which he would be going to the hospital for. Because of baseball insurance. WHich he would be taking an ambulance to. Also because of baseball insurance.

So we called the car service to pick us up 4 1/2 hours earlier than we had planned- sat in an hour of traffic getting through the Holland Tunnel (even though we were within walking distance) and went to Overlook Hospital in Summit, NJ.

Where Timmy was sitting on a gurney with my friend, Cindy, waiting for a plastic surgeon.

Gooooood stuff.

We thanked Cindy (& Darraugh, our other friend who drove to the hospital to bring Cindy home, and deliver our anniversary dinner of lays potato chips) profusely, and at 11:30 pm Timmy got 8 micro teeny stitches from a very nice plastic surgeon. Tim was a trooper, and his team mates were calling him constantly- which was so nice.

But what. a. CRAPPY. Anniversary.

So Pods & I went out to dinner in Kenilworth, NJ the next night at Le Rendezview, which was nice, but it was no Po. We brought our own wine, so that was nice.

Happy 25th- Round TWO-

My favorite champagne-

The BEST Pinot Noir-

Have to run- back in a few-

 

[kid-at-heart]

Ahhh, you guys look so nice in your photos. I am sorry Timmy and youse had to experience the hospital on your anniversary. However, your "second" (not potato chips) anniversary meal looks delicious.

Off now to paint the bathroom. Stripping is finished, (molding in the bathroom, not me stripping ), woodwork has been stained and varnished, now I am painting the walls and rehanging the woodwork. Next year we will PAY someone to do the other things which need doing in the bathroom. We only have been working on this particular project for about ten years.

 

[podsnel]

We were very lucky this past Sunday to get to go to the beach- there actually were NO baseball games and NO practices between the two boys!!! A miracle!! Evie had mentioned something about going down to her house 4th od July weekend, but we had no sitter for Sean (unfortunately, he can't go to Evie's because she is on the bay side and we are too afraid of Sean running into the main BLVD-). But this week, we were able to ask Sheree. And she was happy to.

For those of you who are new, Sheree is my cousin, who, along with her DH Henry, has helped us out more times than I can count by taking very, very good care of Sean while we go with T&T to do other family things that Sean either would not ber interested in, or would not be able to do (like a cruise- he doesn't understand safety issues). They have provided respite for us for years, and we love them dearly.

Sadly, this past April, Henry passed away very unexpectedly- he had a burst blood vessel and a brain bleed that could not be stopped. It was sucha bad time. And Sheree is devastated. So, for now, we are all keeping her busy with other things- she comes here for overnights alot, or for other family events, goes out to PA to visit family- that kind of thing. But we are all going to be greiving for a long time.

ANyway, Sheree will be staying with Sean when we go on a cruise next month- and this was a good way for her to spend a night here with him to see how it would go.

And they did great, of course. Sheree is wonderful with Sean, and he loves her a great deal.

Sooo...even though Evie & Tom could not go to the beach, she VERY generously gave us the keys to their beach house and said, "GO!"

Typical Evie.

Anyway, here are some pics frtom the past couple of days from Long Beach Island (North Beach, specifically), NJ-

Lucky, lucky us - we have so many wonderful, kind and generous friends in our lives.

I'll be back later with some DISmoms stuff....

 

[podsnel]

Just wanted to pipe in here....Flashback two years ago, I'm again in Nebraska, I found a computer out in the barn and am seriously having a Depends moment, or rather a series of Depends moments as I read this TR..... (Only this time, I'm not responding to accusations that I "think" I'm Mary Poppins!) Gosh, I miss you ladies, miss our crazy times, heck, I even miss the hot waiter at Tutto Italia...er, ok, I guess I just miss Ship, the man with about 15 jobs, and just as many degrees! That Big Un was quite funny! My only question is, since Evie and Lonnie don't read the TRs (or do they and just don't respond?), do they STILL think Laura got sick on TT?

Ya know- I really am not sure! Evie??? Lonnie??? Do you know?????

Carry on, Ellen....I can't wait to re-live more of our adventures from out here, perched in the hayloft (or should I say on an island.....man, there is a LOT of flooding out here in the Omaha area!!!!)....Miss you, my dear friend!

I missed you, to Joanie!

I’mmmmm backkkkk. Sorry for the delay in updating DISmoms’ Groupies. My daughter (13) and I just returned from a 5 night/6 day WDW trip. She discovered roller-coasters and boys on this trip. Both have not been of importance before now. She has decided we must always stay at OKW because many hot boys stay there. I did not tell her that there are hot boys at all the resorts – because it is summer and we NEVER travel in the summer. Too hot!

Now how to I add the DISmoms' icon to my sig???

DISmoms’ Groupies:

kid-at-heart - MI (Kate)
Wicket’s Mom - OH
Disneybuckeye – OH
dvc4life – IA
MAGICFOR2 - OR (Pre-DISMom Groupie)
tinytreasures – MN
Disney before Sally – MD
Dizneeat – Austria
Beth D – OH
OhMari-WI
anewmac- CA



Did I miss anyone?
Are there other DISmoms’ groupies out there?

DISmom’s Groupies - “NotDISMomsButStillCool” ladies (or men).

Ahhh...rollercoasters and boys- a FINE combination! Good luck, Mama!

OOOOOOOOOOOOO a dismoms tr, yes.


KIM

Hey Kim! Thanks for joining us!

count me in. total groupie here. ellen, i always love your TR's and this one is so much fun. thoroughly enjoying. you girls rock! you give hope to all of us out here. we can DIS vicariously through your wild and crazy romp thru wdw wish i could beam myself to the ditch right now

Thanks so much!! I wish I could beam ALL of us to the Ditch right now!