orangecats2
Stitch Lover
- Joined
- May 6, 2008
Not soon enough...
I definately want to get in the soaker tub! I'm sick again!!!
I definately want to get in the soaker tub! I'm sick again!!!
lolThe Moose didn't make a Pooh! He's Canadian, he's much more polite than that. He's sitting with a small Winnie the Pooh! And the three tsum tsum's are Baymax, Alien and Tigger. I have $10 at Amazon so I'm probably going to get a Dumbo tsum tsum.
Quick update.
The next update is pretty much written...
But what's going to take a while is tabulating the bonus points.
I doubt I'll get to it tonight... maybe tomorrow... but I'm pretty busy.
Gotta put the pool to bed for the winter.
Yes, I know my harem of mermaids need a pool,
but I do have a large soaker tub, so we're good.
So... a day... maybe two? Possibly three?
But soon, grasshoppers, soon.
That's the only reason that I found out you need a note as a solo travelling parent. I got grilled coming home about "where was my note" by a cranky local customs clerk on our return from a 2 week holiday in England visiting my uncle.
I gave him a "mom look" - seriously, my husband is 400 yards away at the baggage carousel waiting for us buddy. You're giving me crap about bringing my kids back? Sheesh.
Not soon enough...
I definately want to get in the soaker tub! I'm sick again!!!
awwww come on you're killin me smalls
hey is this harem of mermaids in need of an old mermaid ya know even us desert dwellers like to jump in the pond too
awwwww so I get home from a quick trip to the Original House Of Mouse and dash to my computer, dare I get my hopes up? a few pages there since my last visit... perhaps the new chapter is up but alas but still had a blast reading all the comments so that saved the day
You replied and got my hopes up...noooooooo the agony
Spending some last few precious moments where I like to be most (and on one of my favorite threads even) before I hit the road running in the morning. Hope you're well, Ponzi!
Oh, BTW. Carrie, while I'm running the bath
(takes a while to fill, ya know. It's big.)
How am I supposed to get to Winnipeg to get in the bath?
I wanted to ask how the anniversary dinner was?
It was good, I had sauerbraten with mashed potatos and spaetzel. However, the service was terrible! Even DH only left a 10% tip and he hardly ever does that. Afterwards we went to the big candy store. I got a four pack of different odd sodas. I got two Peach Nehi, one key lime pie and a cherry one. Also got a ring pop. Then I got sick. Had to go home. We were supposed to go see a band but I had to skip that.
And how are you doing with the stitches in lieu of tooth?
The stitch only lasted about a day. I called the dentist office and they said it would be okay as long as t he skin flap didn't open up. It was hard eating for awhile but it's better now. Although I can't cut up food on that side of my mouth now, I may have to get implants one day.
Hi Tracy!
(You know I reserve that particular wave just for you, right?)
How many minutes in TOTAL did we wait for Disney transportation this trip.
The total should include minutes waiting for DME, busses,
boats, monorails, rickshaws, whatever.
It does not... repeat NOT include travel time on said transportation.
Only the time waiting for it to show up.
Example: If we waited 15 minutes for a bus and then waited 2 minutes to board,
waited 3 minutes before it left and it took 25 minutes to get to destination...
The correct answer for that one trip would be 15 minutes. i.e. The wait time.
To help you narrow it down, I'll provide you with the following information:
We took DME twice, once from and once to the airport.
We rode Disney transportation an average of three times (rounded) a day for five days.
I will allow guesses up to and including the second last day (August 25th) of the trip.
But! Guesses made later will be worth fewer points than guesses made earlier.
Guesses may be changed up to and including the second last day (August 25th) of the trip.
Person who comes closest wins 40 points.
Points will be reduced by 5 points for every "day" of the TR that you guess or re-guess
after the the first (August 21st) day.
I'll even give you a hint!
The correct answer is somewhere between...
0 and 570 minutes.
Normally, I would plan to hit rope drop and have my FPs lined up for that morning.
And as the day wore on, I'd add FPs until they were gone.
This time, I tried to figure out when Kay would wake up.
I'd then add an hour or an hour and a half to that time and make FPs based on that.
Except I'd try to schedule something that we didn't really care about for the first one.
If she slept even later, it wouldn't matter if we missed the first FP.
Or hope that we could at least make it in the last few minutes
of the one hour FP window.
Ruby works in a building that is on airport property,
even though her job has nothing to do with the airport or airplanes.
Conversely, I do not work at the airport or on airport property
and my job has everything to do with airports and airplanes.
Go figure.
Around lunch time, I grabbed some fruit,
a banana, a peach and some raspberries.
Why not? I wasn't likely to have much fruit over the next few days.
Might as well try to fend off scurvy now.
I then missed the turn off for the airport parking.
I had to go allllll the way around the airport to get back to square one
and the entrance to the parking lot.
Oddly, she didn't seem amused when I mocked her and
told her I was going to Disney World while she was staying behind to work.
She's weird that way.
We had some time and since neither of us drinks coffee,
we made a bee-line for Starbucks.
We each got our favourite, a Vanilla Bean Frappuccino... double blended.
Vanilla, milk and ice. With whip cream... of course. No coffee.
mmmmmmmm...
Now you know the routine.
You ask a question like that and you'll get a robotic "Don't worry, you'll be fine" answer
which does absolutely nothing to alleviate your concern.
But not this time.
But I'm not sure if it was better.
Madison screwed up her face like she'd just bitten into a lemon and said "oooh."
This did not instill confidence.
Customs agent: "Do you have a letter from the mother allowing the child to travel with you?"
I felt a cold chill as if Death himself was dragging his nails down my spine.
After almost 15 years of solo travel with a kid, I was finally being asked for THE letter.
And I didn't have one.
Me: "Uh, I don't have one."
He became completely still (so did I), looked me square in the eye
like a jackal sizing up a particularly tasty hunk of flesh and said:
"You don't have a letter? I can't let her into the United States without a letter."
Thoughts of catching our connection were rapidly fading from my mind.
Me: "Uh... Do I really need one?"
Jackal... er, Customs agent: "Yes you need one. You're taking a minor into another country.
You have to have a letter from the mother allowing her to go."
Death began to play a concerto along my spine.
I started to sweat.
What the HECK (although I didn't use that word) was I going to do???
How am I supposed to get to Winnipeg to get in the bath?
It was good, I had sauerbraten with mashed potatos and spaetzel. However, the service was terrible! Even DH only left a 10% tip and he hardly ever does that. Afterwards we went to the big candy store. I got a four pack of different odd sodas. I got two Peach Nehi, one key lime pie and a cherry one. Also got a ring pop. Then I got sick. Had to go home. We were supposed to go see a band but I had to skip that.
The stitch only lasted about a day. I called the dentist office and they said it would be okay as long as t he skin flap didn't open up. It was hard eating for awhile but it's better now. Although I can't cut up food on that side of my mouth now, I may have to get implants one day.
It's Monday, I'm waiting!
Awwwwwwwwwww And you KNOW how much I love it, right?!
Wow, I'm sweating I'm so panicked about your situation at Customs - the suspense is terrible!
Even though we all know you made it... I'm anxious to hear how much of an ordeal it was (and I'm hoping it wasn't!).
Also, my guess for wait time is 224 minutes, though for your sake I'm hoping that's high!
WOOHOO! I am finally getting in on one of your TR's before it's already over! That calls for a dance party!
Also...I must say...you look a lot less like Beyonce than I had originally pictured
NO ONE TOLD ME THERE WAS GOING TO BE MATH INVOLVED...Math gives me anxiety!!
I am still completely and utterly lost
Ok, I guess 569 minutes!
That sounds like a wonderful plan in which nothing could go wrong
That makes all the sense in the world
Fruit IS the best preventative for scurvy so good thinking on that one
Should have used GPS
This happens to me too. I don't get it...I mean, obviously it's hilarious when you mock someone for not getting to go to WDW, why wouldn't they be amused by that?
I am the same way! The only thing I drink from Starbucks is tea and the vanilla bean or strawberries and cream frapp. No coffee! I only drink coffee one in a blue moon
WHAT KIND OF MONSTER LEAVES OFF ON A CLIFFHANGER LIKE THAT??? The humanity!!!
Please update immediately
Sorry... Oh, no! I did it again!
NO ONE TOLD ME THERE WAS GOING TO BE MATH INVOLVED...Math gives me anxiety!!
Well, I think I have gotten through the withdrawals...
I swear I am not clicking refresh constantly...
Nobody said there would be waiting....
Okay, get a grip on yourself, it's just a Trip Report...
Yea, I am okay, it'll be fine, oh no it's still not here...
Did pkondz forget about us...
NOOOO...
I digress, I look forward to the next chapter, and I hope you don't think I am too weird.
And I'm delurking soon enough to actually guess at the contest at the beginning, even though we are at page 10.
Amazing.
Oh, you wanted the guess? I'll guess 175 minutes.
And I'm still waiting to see how you did with the letter.
Oh, you mean I was supposed to guess about that, too?
Umm...you called Ruby, but it took so long that you missed your flight and had to leave that evening and got in very, very late.
Your room was ready when you *finally* got there.
Was there something else I was supposed to guess about?