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Proud Disney Pixie Dust Snorter
- Joined
- May 23, 2008
Welcome to my very first DISboards Trip Report! While many Disney fans already know my family well, allow me to introduce us.
First off is me, Merlin Jones.
(click here to skip the nonsense and get to the darned baby gorilla photos already. or don't click here and read on instead. please? thanks.)
Midvale College student by day, scientist by night.
This is my lovely wife, Jennifer:
She does a bit of it all.
And, of course, who can forget the real star of the show...my nephew, Stanley.
He's a real ape of a guy. You could say I'm kind of a monkey's uncle ("Uh huh, yeah yeah!")
Wait, who said that? Brian Wilson, is that you?
...
.
Anyway, if you haven't figure it out yet, those pictures are NOT us. I mean, it would be AWESOME if it were, but it's not. And it's not my first Trip Report. It's my fifth. Anyway, here we are, in our less-cinematic forms:
Me. Jon. nilla. Software developer. Minnesota Vikings fan. Gorilla lover. Proud Disney Pixie Dust Snorter (see, the avatar wasn't lying!). And Trip Report writer.
Here's my wife, Kristin. Stay-at-home mom. Planner extraordinaire, and the reason we're going.
Then, the boy. Dylan. Age 4. Pokemon lover. Budding video game junkie. Loves outer space.
And, finally, Emily. The baby. 8 months. Still colicky. Does not like to sleep for long periods at a time. Not fun.
Join us as we and Kristin's mom take our first-ever trip to Walt Disney World together, staying at the beautiful Port Orleans Riverside resort!
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...
.
Ok, you know that's not right, either. Well, that WAS right, 9 years ago. When our love for Disney blew up. It's been all Mickey balloons and pixie dust and fairy godparents ever since then.
Except now Disney's got guy stuff, so we get Light Sabers and Web Shooters and stuff now, too. Yay, corporate carnivore Disney! Buy more things I love, so we can have them all in one place!
Alright, here we are now. With friends. Similar bios, except Dylan's 13, Emily's 9, and I have facial hair. Kristin's a teacher and a Perfectly Posh consultant now. And we REALLY love Disney now.
I still love gorillas, by the way. And monkeys. For the purposes of this Trip Report, we will continue to go by the "1960s Walt Disney Company's Official Biological Classifications of Primates".
1. Humans
This one is pretty obvious.
2. Gorillas
Also what you think.
3. Monkeys
Absolutely every other kind of primate. This includes macaques, baboons, proper monkeys, and chimpanzees. This includes chimpanzees wearing little human-made dresses. See them made, live, only at Disney's Hollywood Studios!
Ok, if you can't tell, this TR is going to be quite monkey-centric. Or maybe I'll get bored of that after tonight and move on to something else.
Nonetheless, we come to you with perhaps the most vitally important fact you may ever learn:
A smile means friendship for everyone...
...except monkeys.
They view it as a sign of aggression.
Now that we've concluded that PSA, let's get to the baby gorilla photos!
First off is me, Merlin Jones.
(click here to skip the nonsense and get to the darned baby gorilla photos already. or don't click here and read on instead. please? thanks.)
Midvale College student by day, scientist by night.
This is my lovely wife, Jennifer:
She does a bit of it all.
And, of course, who can forget the real star of the show...my nephew, Stanley.
He's a real ape of a guy. You could say I'm kind of a monkey's uncle ("Uh huh, yeah yeah!")
Wait, who said that? Brian Wilson, is that you?
...
.
Anyway, if you haven't figure it out yet, those pictures are NOT us. I mean, it would be AWESOME if it were, but it's not. And it's not my first Trip Report. It's my fifth. Anyway, here we are, in our less-cinematic forms:
Me. Jon. nilla. Software developer. Minnesota Vikings fan. Gorilla lover. Proud Disney Pixie Dust Snorter (see, the avatar wasn't lying!). And Trip Report writer.
Here's my wife, Kristin. Stay-at-home mom. Planner extraordinaire, and the reason we're going.
Then, the boy. Dylan. Age 4. Pokemon lover. Budding video game junkie. Loves outer space.
And, finally, Emily. The baby. 8 months. Still colicky. Does not like to sleep for long periods at a time. Not fun.
Join us as we and Kristin's mom take our first-ever trip to Walt Disney World together, staying at the beautiful Port Orleans Riverside resort!
.
...
.
Ok, you know that's not right, either. Well, that WAS right, 9 years ago. When our love for Disney blew up. It's been all Mickey balloons and pixie dust and fairy godparents ever since then.
Except now Disney's got guy stuff, so we get Light Sabers and Web Shooters and stuff now, too. Yay, corporate carnivore Disney! Buy more things I love, so we can have them all in one place!
Alright, here we are now. With friends. Similar bios, except Dylan's 13, Emily's 9, and I have facial hair. Kristin's a teacher and a Perfectly Posh consultant now. And we REALLY love Disney now.
I still love gorillas, by the way. And monkeys. For the purposes of this Trip Report, we will continue to go by the "1960s Walt Disney Company's Official Biological Classifications of Primates".
1. Humans
This one is pretty obvious.
2. Gorillas
Also what you think.
3. Monkeys
Absolutely every other kind of primate. This includes macaques, baboons, proper monkeys, and chimpanzees. This includes chimpanzees wearing little human-made dresses. See them made, live, only at Disney's Hollywood Studios!
Ok, if you can't tell, this TR is going to be quite monkey-centric. Or maybe I'll get bored of that after tonight and move on to something else.
Nonetheless, we come to you with perhaps the most vitally important fact you may ever learn:
A smile means friendship for everyone...
...except monkeys.
They view it as a sign of aggression.
Now that we've concluded that PSA, let's get to the baby gorilla photos!
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