VWL Groupies & Lovers Thread (Special Collectors Edition 2.0) updated 21 June 2023

:love::love::love:Happy Thanksgiving Groupies
May God Bless each and
everyone of you and yours

This year Mr teapot and I are Thankful
For our first grandchild
It's a Boy a healthy and happy 7lb 5oz bundle of love
Born last Monday morning
As my dear mother in law would say
I'm a Happy Women !
Congrats! And Happy Turkey Day to all Groupies! Let the drinki. . .er, eating begin!!
 
Happy Thanksgiving to all of my groupie friends. I cannot recall the last time I posted anything. It has been too long then I suppose. Twenty-six days until we arrive at the villas. I am thankful for that. Thankful for a whole host of blessing in my life. I intend to try to linger around the table a little longer this year. One never knows what the new year brings. I hope all enjoys their family and friends this weekend. God bless you all.

Mrs. Teapot, you are especially blessed with the joy of a little one. New life is God's greatest blessing. Good for you!
 
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:thanks: To all the Groupies!!! :thanks:



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:love::love::love:Happy Thanksgiving Groupies
May God Bless each and
everyone of you and yours

This year Mr teapot and I are Thankful
For our first grandchild
It's a Boy a healthy and happy 7lb 5oz bundle of love
Born last Monday morning
As my dear mother in law would say
I'm a Happy Women !
Congratulations tea pot!!!! What a great Thanksgiving for you!
 


I hope it's so quiet here because everyone has been enjoying their holiday with friends and family, or if not that then out getting some great Black Friday deals! :banana: Tv's were on our list - time to upgrade a bit from the old tube TV's we still have around although it still bothers me a bit to (hopefully) get rid of tv's that are working perfectly fine. Decided it would be nice to have the HD content actually display in HD though. ::yes::
 
Kathy...we had an old projection big screen tv that we replaced this year finally. But I know what you mean...the tv was still functioning and I remember what we paid for it several years ago. :scared1:

I will say that moving up to HD finally was nice. We certainly can live without it but it is a nice upgrade, mostly because the picture now fills the televisions we have without the black strips top and bottom. :)

I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving and is enjoying the beginning of this Christmas season. :santa:
 


I hope it's so quiet here because everyone has been enjoying their holiday with friends and family, or if not that then out getting some great Black Friday deals! :banana: Tv's were on our list - time to upgrade a bit from the old tube TV's we still have around although it still bothers me a bit to (hopefully) get rid of tv's that are working perfectly fine. Decided it would be nice to have the HD content actually display in HD though. ::yes::
There is a distinct and very noticeable upgrade in picture quality with an HD over regular SD. The first time you watch a National Geographic special, it will blow your socks off. I'm so used to HD now that SD quality content (which we get with our Roku mostly) annoys me. Hope Turkey Day was good for all.
 
I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

It was quiet here. We made a ton of food. Hopped about in the afternoon on Black Friday to pick the bones of what was left. I'm not into getting up early to face cold weather and crowds. I grabbed a kindle for my daughter for traveling with instead of lugging her laptop along, and a few other small items as gifts, but nothing much.

KAT, I swear we run parallel lives, LOL. I've had HD television sets for years, but other than BluRays, have not used it for television. Saw an antenna for over the air HD content as I refuse to upgrade and pay the cable company for anything that should be free (also been playing with the idea of dropping cable.) The antenna however needs the input the cable box is using. Now I need to make a trip to Comcast for an upgraded box that uses the HDMI input. Always something! :)
Three-day countdown to our WDW-Jambo House visit, daughter and I leave Thursday.
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My son decided he is staying home this trip. I'm a bit nervous, but at least we live in an age that he can call or text me, and when I bug him about the condition of the fur-babies he can send proof of them being fine via pics :) Considering teasing him with a few star wars launch bay pics too.
 
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Sorry to miss telling everyone to enjoy their Thanksgiving, which I hope you did.

I have been busy cooking, thinking about packing for the cruise Thursday and going to doctor's offices.

Hope everyone got stuffed. . . . and didn't go too crazy on Black Friday.
 
There is a distinct and very noticeable upgrade in picture quality with an HD over regular SD. The first time you watch a National Geographic special, it will blow your socks off. I'm so used to HD now that SD quality content (which we get with our Roku mostly) annoys me. Hope Turkey Day was good for all.
You can really notice it too when watching sports. I can't stand to watch in SD anymore cause it looks so grainy and out of focus.

So is anyone tired of turkey leftovers yet? LOL
 
Happy "start of the holiday season" everyone. LOL glad to hear that everyone had a great holiday.

Our family Thanksgiving tradition means the Macy's Thanksgiving day parade, window gazing and the theater.

Back in the prehistoric days, growing up in NYC there weren't any "malls", so around Christmas time the big department stores all had really fantastic Christmas "windows". Huge, brightly colored decorated "windows" that you would go to see. Usually someone enterprising soul in my family would be drafted to take all the kids downtown to see them, leaving the host folks the ability to cook. LOL.

This year Macy's is celebrating the 50th anniversary of "A charlie brown Christmas" which is the perennial favorite Holiday special in my house. LOL, Tiffany's made the entire outside of their store to look like, what else but Diamonds. If you ever get a chance to get to the Big apple, check it out.

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TeaPot & Mr. TeaPot - Congratulations on such a wonderful event in your lives. It must be the best parenting experience because we call it the GRANDparenting experience; Best wishes and prayers to all in the family.

Happy "start of the holiday season" everyone. LOL glad to hear that everyone had a great holiday. . . . . . . .

Back in the prehistoric days, growing up in NYC there weren't any "malls", so around Christmas time the big department stores all had really fantastic Christmas "windows". . . . . . . .

Wow, great memories!

Yeah, DiznyDi & I, too, have great memories of going to see all of the beautifully decorated windows at the major department stores in downtown Cleveland in the early 60's. We felt it was important to let our kids have that same experience, so we drug them to Cleveland to see the department store windows in the mid 80's (at least the ones still around) and to visit Care Bear City, a huge light show in the city square. And as any NE Ohioans know, it wouldn't be a complete experience without going to see Mr. Jing-a-Ling (Keeper of Santa's keys for those that don't know). Mr. Jing-a-Ling was one of Santa's elves that was on TV on a Cleveland Channel every night after Thanksgiving until Christmas eve from ~4:55 to 5PM from Haley's Seventh Floor when I was a child, reminding us all to keep being good and sharing stores of keeping Santa's keys to all of the places in the North Pole. I was surprised to see Mr. Jing-a-Ling still active in Cleveland after seeing him 30 some years earlier when I was little. Haley's was no longer in business when visiting with my children, but one of the last department stores (sorry, forget which one) in downtown created a place for him (the original!) and the line was long!

As we stood in line, my children wanting to know who this Mr. Jing-a-Ling guy was (no longer on TV - so obviously just a draw for parents!), along came Mr. Jing-a-Ling walking down the line heading for his big chair. I saw him, stuck out my had to greet him, and said "Mr. Jing-a-Ling - do you remember me?" And sure enough, being the great memory he was, shouted back "I sure do!". DD and DS were amazed; I was heart happy!

Mr. Jing-a-Ling
How you ring-a ling
Keeper of the keys;
On Haley's Seventh Floor
We'll be looking for,
You to turn the key!

Man, am I Old

Thanks Eliza for stirring those old memories. We all have them, but sometimes they just need to be stirred up from the bottom.

And to all - Enjoy these coming days with family and friends; forgive those that need it, forget when you can. And may you be blessed.
 
:love::love::love:Happy Thanksgiving Groupies
May God Bless each and
everyone of you and yours

This year Mr teapot and I are Thankful
For our first grandchild
It's a Boy a healthy and happy 7lb 5oz bundle of love
Born last Monday morning
As my dear mother in law would say
I'm a Happy Women !

Congratulations Teapot! That's fantastic news. Enjoy your first grandson! :littleangel:

Hey groupies! Remember me? I do well keep up for brief bursts then fall right off that rocker & can't get back up! I hope everyone is doing well. I kept seeing various Lodge/WDW pictures on Di's FB page so I wondering if perhaps they were there now. But it appears it's just a case of pre trip excitement unless the vacation calendar isn't updated. I'll be looking forward to seeing Lodge photos & reports on how it is staying there with the construction going on. I'm looking forward to popping over for a couple visits. I may just avoid the area behind the villas completely & pretend nothing is happening.

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!
 
Eliza & DDad...thanks for the pictures and the memories. We had several department stores with the Christmas windows as well that my Mom used to take us to go visit during the Christmas season. I recall how elaborate they were...lots of motion and even some crude animatronic kind of things (we're talking about the 60's here folks). It was really a wonder.

Horselover...Julie know you know you are always welcome here no matter what the frequency of appearance may be. :)
 
New things, for us, we're doing this coming WDW vacation.

1. New Sci-Fi Dine-In breakfast.
2. Morimoto Asia dinner
3. Be Our Guest breakfast.
4. Jock Lindsey's Hangar Bar.
5. Osborne Lights with special viewing glasses.

Other cool things (not new to us).
1. Trader Sam's Grog Grotto.
2. Top of the World Lounge at Bay Lake Tower.
 
Eliza & DDad...thanks for the pictures and the memories. We had several department stores with the Christmas windows as well that my Mom used to take us to go visit during the Christmas season. I recall how elaborate they were...lots of motion and even some crude animatronic kind of things (we're talking about the 60's here folks). It was really a wonder.

Horselover...Julie know you know you are always welcome here no matter what the frequency of appearance may be. :)

Thanks Granny! :hug:

New things, for us, we're doing this coming WDW vacation.

1. New Sci-Fi Dine-In breakfast.
2. Morimoto Asia dinner
3. Be Our Guest breakfast.
4. Jock Lindsey's Hangar Bar.
5. Osborne Lights with special viewing glasses.

Other cool things (not new to us).
1. Trader Sam's Grog Grotto.
2. Top of the World Lounge at Bay Lake Tower.

Fun! I've done 1 out of 7! What are the special viewing glasses for Osborne lights? I would like to try Trader Sam's this trip. TOWL should be easy enough since we'll be at BLT. That was the one thing from your list I've done.
 
5 more sleeps for us until we're back in the world. :dogdance: With our early onset of winter this year I don't think I'm sorry that I spaced out on the day I needed to cancel this trip. It was originally booked to see the Osborne lights for the last time but we lucked into an early preview of them on our Oct/Nov trip - but the day we saw them was the same day I needed to cancel for the points to not go into holding and my brain did not process that until the next day. Oops! I did shorten it up but we'll do our last Osborne light visit, take in the CP once or twice and finally make it to a Member Mixer. :santa:

New things, for us, we're doing this coming WDW vacation.

1. New Sci-Fi Dine-In breakfast.
2. Morimoto Asia dinner
3. Be Our Guest breakfast.
4. Jock Lindsey's Hangar Bar.
5. Osborne Lights with special viewing glasses.

Other cool things (not new to us).
1. Trader Sam's Grog Grotto.
2. Top of the World Lounge at Bay Lake Tower.

Sounds fun wilderness Dad! We've done the Star Wars breakfast at Sci-Fi which was great and I think the menu is supposed to be similar so I hope you enjoy it too! Morimoto - haven't done that. Be Our Guest - I've done lunch and dinner but not breakfast. Jock Lindsey - I bowed out the night my nephews and niece went over there but we'll make it sometime. Osborne lights - definitely doing that and will try and pick up some of the AP glasses which I think you're referring to. When I was at Lowes a couple of weeks ago they had several glasses there and I almost got one of those since they were $1-2 dollars and different design that what I've heard the AP ones are but decided we'd just wait and see if they have any left. I've done Trader Sam's at DL but not WDW and we've frequently done TOTWL! Tip Top Colada - yum! The Monorail Yellow is pretty tasty too. Have fun!!!
 
Thanks Granny! :hug:
Fun! I've done 1 out of 7! What are the special viewing glasses for Osborne lights? I would like to try Trader Sam's this trip. TOWL should be easy enough since we'll be at BLT. That was the one thing from your list I've done.


Here's the quote on the glasses.

"This year marks the grand finale presentation of The Osborne Family Spectacle of Dancing Lights. And as a Passholder, you can marvel at their beauty, music and magic all season long.

PLUS, as an exclusive Passholder treat, if you visit to enjoy the lights on Mondays and Wednesdays, you can pick up special “spectacles” to wear—so the lights will sparkle and dance even more brightly!

To pick up your complimentary pair, simply stop by Sid Cahuenga’s One-of-a-Kind at Disney’s Hollywood Studios (directly to your left upon entering the park, just beyond Guest Relations). Offer valid after 5:30 PM on Mondays and Wednesdays during the final season of Spectacle of Dancing Lights, which runs from November 6, 2015 to January 3, 2016. One per Passholder while supplies last—Passholder card and photo ID required."
 
Oh, I forgot one more new thing I want to try. The Ganachery over at Disney Springs. They open on Dec 15 and we'll be at Disney Springs on Dec 16. I've pretty much cut out processed sugar, but I'm going to cheat just a bit this coming vacation. Vivoli gelato and Ganachery dark chocolate caramels come to mind. As does the chocolate milkshake at 50's.
 
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