10 Days in October: Argle-Bargle or Foofarah? UPDATED: POSTS #984 & 995!!!

[oybolshoi]

Totally familiar with the mentally ill inducing job - that's why you take mental health days!

Glad you're doing okay and just a busy, busy, gal. Take your time in updating - I'll still be here!

Thanks, Twingle - I appreciate the moral support! And if I didn't have a vacation scheduled I might very well have taken a mental health day.

OK, I have caught up after a wonderful trip to WDW and our first cruise!

Some thoughts:

On our way to Orlando, the flight attendant had the nerve to demand that my kids wear headphones to watch the Simpsons. Um...how can all three of us hear then? It's the Simpsons! Everyone wants to hear!

Briarmom, welcome back! So glad to hear that you had a good trip.

I am appalled that anyone would suggest that you couldn't share the Simpsons love! What airline did you fly? I may have to boycott them just on principle.

I saw 3 different women who reminded me of Grimmie on my cruise. Two of them were at various alcohol tastings (how can you be unhappy tasting likker?) and another was at the adult pool. They were Grim. Grim Grimmies.

Oh my...the grimness spreads - this is a disturbing development. I don't know how anyone can be unhappy at an alcohol tasting...unless that person doesn't like the booze. But, now that I think about it, the navigators provide specific information about the type of alcohol (wine, tequilla,etc.) being featured so that's no excuse. Obviously those women share some sort of genetic link with my mother.

Also, I saw that you used the word 'wang' in a part of your pantsless escapades. Wang and no pants. In a DIS~friendly manner. I believe that earns you 8 million points.

Thank you for noticing! I was a little surprised that only one other person commented on that.

Awww You're not dull.

Thanks, Lori.

A Chernabog costume might have been nice.

Never would have happened. Personally I would have liked to have seen her dress up like a playing card or maybe a gambling chip but I admit that it would have been awkward to move around in. She's never been one for really cutting loose - too uptight I guess. She needs to start drinking port more often.

The Dilbert tie! He looks like a mad scientist, and Plankton was a result.

Jon looked great, didn't he? I give him full points for playing along. When we first boarded the bus to the MK the bus driver saw him and said, "How ya doin' Doc?" Jon loved it!

Yes, I went to the party in 2005, and I was able to enter the park on my hard ticket after 4pm. I went in the park early, got a bite to eat, and I was in a "holding pen" in Adventureland before the party opened.

When we attended Halloween Horror Nights over at USO / IoA in 2005 they did the same thing and it worked really well. The park actually cleared in about 30 minutes and by 6:30 they allowed all of us to start heading to the different haunted houses. It was great because we got a head start on all the guests who were piling up at the gate for the 7PM official start.

I probably sound like an old grouch, but I don't like the idea that someone who hasn't paid for a special event can circumvent the system and stay to experience all of the stuff that the rest of us had to pay extra for.

We really felt like it was a money play on Disney's part - God forbid they close the MK for one hour and lose some revenue. And in all fairness I can understand how it could be confusing to someone who might be new to the WDW game, because it's difficult to hear those announcements and most people don't pay attention to them anyway.

Oh, the Entitlement Family! Those who feel the rules don't apply to them! I'm glad that CM stuck to her guns.

There's always one in the crowd, isn't there? I was really glad to see that the CM held her ground, too. I'm sure it couldn't have been easy - who wants to tell a little kid "no" at the MK? Shame on mom and dad for putting the CM in that position in the first place.

You know, some pictures are just made perfect with his pose. Anything he can plunder...take a pic. It works well for him.

Another fun installment.

Thanks for reading and for all of your comments, Lori! I'm looking forward to some serious F&W discussions in the next few weeks.

I love the Buzz Lightyear photo! Classic.

Thanks Erica - it is pretty funny, isn't it?

That is one determined look on your face Brenda. So, who really did win?

I really wanted to win, or at least make a good showing. No luck - Jay won, he always does. He's got decades of video game experience behind him.

I also know where the "Entitlement Family" lives. Right here in Wisconsin! I ran into them this morning at breakfast. This time they were trying to talk the manager into letting the kids eat free because they were all under 10 and not very hungry anyway. We sat next to them and watched the kids devour more food than the 4 lumberjacks sitting next to us on the other side.

Amazing what some people will do, isn't it?

Thanks for the laughs Brenda. You never cease to entertain me.

(Good luck tomorrow, I'm thinking about you )

Thanks for the kind words and the hugs, Nancy. You're the best!

Die!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I take it this means you liked the picture?

 

[oybolshoi]

Loved this installment... as I have loved all the others. My favorite part (besides the Buzz Lightyear pic):

There's a custodial! Right in the middle of the pic! Ah, be still my heart!

No, I really enjoyed this and your costumes and Plankton looks so cute with the candy! Can't wait for more!

Thanks for reading Lamagique; and now, thanks to your new tag, I have to fight the urge to type llama geek!

And until you pointed him out, I didn't even realize we'd included a custodial worker in the pic! Now every time I see this I'll think of you.

I get soooooooooooooooo competitive on this ride i WONT EVEN LET MY 6 YEAR OLD WIN

I AM a super space ranger

Karen, remind me never to ride Buzz Lightyear with you.

There's never a dull moment with you Brenda! Another great installment and I love that Jon dressed up - holding Plankton really gave him that edge to go from scientist to mad scientist.

Thanks so much - I really appreciate that. And you're right - Plankton made all the difference with Jon's costume.

All the best with whatever medical hurdles are on the track ahead. Oh, and I tried a kiwi mojito (or three) last night, couldn't help but think of you

And thanks for the medical good wishes.

Now, I am not a big fan of mojitos, but I admit that your drink sounds rather tasty. I'm going to write it down in my handy-dandy travel notepad and see if I can find one at WDW to try. Thanks for the idea!

I sat down today to catch up on reading, and I don't know how it happened, but I was ELEVEN pages behind!

Hee hee hee... pants!

Hi Crystal, it's nice to hear from you! I hope you're feeling better - I know from your pre-trippie that you were having some issues of your own for a while there.

Glad you liked the Brenda-no-pants installment!

And don't be sad about all the pirate costumes and MNSSHP - if you stop to think about it, none of us are very original if we show up dressed like Disney cartoon and movie characters. What choice do we have when they put all kinds of restrictions on the type of costumes we can wear?

I think Jason is a dead-ringer (pardon the expression!) for Leon Trotsky but there's no way we could take him to WDW with a fake ice pick sticking out of the back of his head.

Also also: Did you know that you get to go to Disney World very soon?

I do, don't I? Thanks for reminding me, you're awesome!!

I was so excited to see an update when I logged on this morning! DH was snoring so much, I've been up since, 5 a.m., and sorely needed something to cheer me up! Love your pics of MNSSHP; we're going for the first time this year and I'm trying to decide on a good "costume theme" for me, DH and DD6. Don't worry abou the rude CM (maybe he needed a little drinkypoo for the evening! ). Your costumes were classic!!

Thank you! I wish we had taken more pictures but we still have issues with our camera at nighttime. And Grimace hated it when we would stop to try to take a picture or have our picture taken. Cranky and cold does not a happy Grimace make!

You will have so much fun at MNSSHP - it really is a cute evening.

Hope everything goes well with the medical stuff today!

Thanks so much for thinking of me, I really appreciate it.

Thanks for another fun installment, Brenda! (Even though you weren't drinking when you wrote it, and I wasn't drinking when I read it, it was still fabulously enjoyable )

Well that's good to know! I just wasn't in the "zone" when I wrote it, but I really wanted to get that day finished off. I was worried that it was a piece of crap, quite honestly.

I'll have to remember to plan on maybe a cold day or two on our October trip, as that's something I wouldn't have thought of. I keep telling my mother how HOT it's going to be (she's not a big fan of 90 degree weather) and at the same time reminding her I gave her the option of going in December instead. I'm really looking forward to our first Halloween Party. It looks like a lot of fun.

Prior to this trip it would never have dawned on me to take some warmer clothes, just in case. Not in October...that's still hurricane season...it's not supposed to be cold. Lesson learned.

Do you think your mom and my mom might have something in common? We could try to schedule a play-date or something.

And you will love MNSSHP - I promise!

Good luck today, Brenda!

Thanks so much for the good thoughts, Lori!

Yay - loved your description of MNSSHP! Pictures were great as usual. I definately need to make sure we get some of the "Disney" pictures. We've never purchased those, and they're very fun!

Thanks, Twingle! Since this was the first time we ever went to MNSSHP in costume it was also the first time we paid attention to the fact that they had some really cool photo opportunities set up. And the price of our costumes from Jay's mom was pictures - lots and lots of pictures.

Good luck and pixie dust to you today (really, and every day. Who couldn't use extra pixie dust? )

Thanks so much Twingle, I really appreciate that!

Love the pics, Brenda! Looks like y'all had a great time, even though it was frosty.

Hi Paige! Glad to see you're still here. We did have a lot of fun despite the cold. As long as we kept moving around it wasn't too bad, but standing still for the parade and Hallowishes...then we really noticed the cold and the wind.

You could never be dull Brenda!!!

Thanks, that's very kind of you!

Your costumes look great and that was so thoughtful of your mother-in-law to do that for you. Sorry it was so cold for you at the Party - you can never count on the weather in Florida unless it's summer! Can't wait for more.

Jason's mom was really nice about making those costumes for us. She actually did mine about 2 weeks before we left - I'm still amazed that she was able to that in such a short period of time.

And oh my yes, have I learned my lesson about Florida and weather.

Hope you're feeling better and that the tests went well. When you're feeling up to it, we can't wait to hear some more!!!

Denise

Hi Denise, thanks so much for the kind words. I'm going to try to get an update going this evening if all goes according to plan.


Thanks again to everyone for reading, posting, lurking, laughing, and most especially for your good wishes during those pesky tests. You're all a great group of DISers!

 

[cntkg1]

I'm waiting...

(That's a long 1/2 hour B)

 

[oybolshoi]

Wednesday, October 25th - Next Time Take the Grumble Out of Your Mouth When I Ask You a Question.

Way back when, sometime that was close to this time only last year, a time that was not so nice, warmer and more stressful - in a different way than now - and ... stop! stop! stop!

I seem to have misplaced my English... excuse me for a moment.

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OK, let's try this again.

Ahem.

Cracks fingers...flexes wrists...considers an alcoholic beverage and declines, again.

Last year while planning ADRs for this trip and explaining the Dining Plan to the parents for the 87th time, I happened to mention that we could use our table service credits for a character meal.

"I like character breakfasts," said Grimace, sounding a little like that creepy kid from A Christmas Story. You know, the one wearing the aviator cap and goggles that Ralphie stands behind while waiting to see Santa at Higbee's Department store...yeah, she sounded a little like him.

Encouraged by this spontaneous offering of lukewarm enthusiasm for our upcoming trip I said, "Well, we have a lot of choices for character meals; which one would you like to try?"

"Oh, I don't really care. Just something different from the one we did the last time."

The "one we did the last time" was Chef Mickey's which was a lot of fun and provided a great variety of food, almost none of which I was able to eat having been released from the hospital three weeks earlier from a most nasty Crohns flare-up that I guarantee you do not want to know the details of. **I just ended a sentence with a preposition! I may have no choice soon but to go make a drink.** My point being that I would have liked to have returned to Chef Mickey's in order to actually eat some of that food this time around, but if Grimmie wanted something different then I was going to try to make her happy.

I hear the groans and the warnings out there in the cyber-audience: Don't do it, Brenda! You're just being set up for failure - again. Fool you once and shame on Grimace; fool you for 37 years and sweetheart, you're just painfully deluded and quite possibly stupid to boot.

My goodness you have been paying attention, haven't you? Well, I don't want to spoil the fun, but I will give you a teaser... in this installment you're going to discover how Grimace earned her nickname. Isn't that exciting?

Anyway, I gave considerable thought to the whole character breakfast decision - where it was located, what they served, which characters were featured. And I eventually chose Cape May Cafe because it was convenient, received consistently good DIS-reviews, and Goofy would be there. Who doesn't love Goofy? Don't answer that.

Knowing that some of us might be tired from our exertions at the previous evening's MNSSHP, I made a breakfast reservation for 9:30AM. Everyone could sleep in and take their time getting ready before the grueling five-minute walk through the Beach Club lobby to Cape May.

For any of you who haven't tried this restaurant, breakfast is the only character meal offered here and the last time I checked it's usually referred to as Goofy's Beach Club Character Buffet. There are fewer character appearances here - only Goofy, Minnie, Chip, and Dale are featured - but the restaurant is really quite charming. The characters all dress in their beach attire and the restaurant is open on three sides to the Beach Club lobby and the walkway between the Beach Club and Yacht Club which gives it a very airy, bright feeling. There is no music or dancing or napkin waving like they have over at Chef Mickey's, so it's a more quiet, laid back experience.

The buffet is laid out in a central island with four sides and features standard buffet fare, although I was surprised to see steamed aspara-goose available. Cape May also has a separate Yogurt Bar, but it's tucked off to the side and easy to overlook if someone doesn't point it out. I'm not really a big fan of yogurt so this was no real loss as far as I was concerned, but I'm just throwing it out there for those of you who may be going to Cape May for breakfast some day and who might want to make yourselves a nice bowl of yogurt with some granola and fruit.

How about some food porn, even if it is typical American breakfast slop?

Alright, maybe this last picture isn't standard fare. I actually don't know what the heck that thing is supposed to be. Could be bread pudding...could be some sort of biscuit-and-gravy casserole thing...could be good but we'll never know.

Those other items must be some kind of breakfast pizza. If I were to offer some constructive criticism to Cape May it would be this: How about you place an informative little placard out here on the buffet so we know what some of these mystery dishes are? I can't speak for anyone else but if I know what something isn't, I might be more tempted to give it a try.

Oh, and I almost forgot to include that perennial breakfast buffet favorite...the miniature Mickey waffle!

I don't like these small guys because they're always cold and that's no way to eat a waffle. Jason and I usually go to the Yacht Club Galley for breakfast on one day of a WDW visit so that I can order a full size Mickey waffle - a big, hot, honking Mickey-head dripping with butter and maple syrup. If you're gonna eat Mickey's head for breakfast you might as well do it up right!

Ooooooh, look! Here's Minnie!

I think she had a bit of a crush on Jason because she kept coming back to the table to get her picture taken with him. Doesn't she look cute in her bathing suit?

Be still my heart...it's my one true Disney-love, and my lovey hubby!

Goofy has always been my favorite Disney character. This may be an admission that may send even more people fleeing in horror from my trippie, but if I were ever to consider faking my own death and running away to start a new life with a technicolor cartoon character, it would be with Goofy.

So, ummmmm...have you noticed anything odd about this installment yet? I mean other than the fact that I just recently admited that I harbor a deep, possibly unhealthy attachment to a cartoon dog?

Yep, that's right...Grimace isn't in any pictures. In case I forgot to mention it earlier or in case I mentioned it months ago and you quite understandably forgot, my mom doesn't really like pictures - she does not like being in them, does not like taking them, and does not like other people taking or being in them.

Apparently she wasn't really enjoying the breakfast, even though she was the one who had requested that we book a character meal. Turns out she was disappointed that Mickey Mouse wasn't going to make an appearance.

*Sigh*

If she'd told me that having breakfast with Mickey was what she wanted I would have booked something different, but she was the one who said "Just pick something different from the last time," and oh my God it's begun - parent/child role reversal! It's just like the cheesesteak incident, isn't it?

Now I admit to being a tad disappointed that Chip and Dale were too busy perfecting their new dance routine with that family of 25 on the other side of the restaurant to ever make it over to see us, but that's the way it goes sometimes. There's no reason to sulk about it, especially when Goofy and Minnie visited many times.

A Legend Is Born...

This picture just cracked Jay and me up when we saw it, and because of it and her mood that morning we immediately dubbed her The Grimace (secretly) for the rest of the trip. In all fairness I think Jay just caught her mid-chew, but the effect is priceless! And the nickname has stuck ever since.

Coming soon - a visit to MGM; did you say your name is Brenda; escape from the grim grimness of Grimace, Beaches and Cream, and more!!!

 

[cntkg1]

Thanks for not making me wait too much longer. Well worth it though. That picture of Grimmie had me laughing aloud and Kristin rolling her eyes into the back of her head again. Oooooh, now there's a picture! She just doesn't understand my obsession with your TR's.

Fantastic, as usual Brenda. Are you planning on finishing up with Falalalalalafofarah before leaving for Shrubbery? If so, you have my permission to take the next few days off from the bank to finish up.

I'd be such a good boss wouldn't I?

 

[Giggle]

I don't like these small guys because they're always cold and that's no way to eat a waffle. Jason and I usually go to the Yacht Club Galley for breakfast on one day of a WDW visit so that I can order a full size Mickey waffle - a big, hot, honking Mickey-head dripping with butter and maple syrup. If you're gonna eat Mickey's head for breakfast you might as well do it up right!

I've had hot mini waffles at 'Ohana. Perhaps because the food is brought to your table in a large skillet instead of on a buffet.

Love your report and your sense of humor!

 

[disgrits]

There is one common thread in all of your pics. You and Jay are positively glowing! I know I've said something like that before, but that's what I think every time I look at them. Pure joy...now that's a wonderful feeling, isn't it?

BTW, my Alex (7) just loved your Buzz ride pic. I asked him if he thought you were concentrating, and he said, "She must've won!"

Thanks for another entertaining trippie!

 

[oybolshoi]

Thanks for not making me wait too much longer. Well worth it though.

I try not to make anyone wait too long on purpose but some days my brain is tired and I just can't summon the energy to write anything. And I strive for quality...is that what this is?

Glad you liked it.

That picture of Grimmie had me laughing aloud and Kristin rolling her eyes into the back of her head again. Oooooh, now there's a picture! She just doesn't understand my obsession with your TR's.

Poor Grimace...she really would run me over with her car if she knew that I had posted this picture for the world to mock.

Was Kristin rolling her eyes at you or was she suffering from hysterical convulsions brought on by the genius that is my work? It's getting thick in here now...

Fantastic, as usual Brenda. Are you planning on finishing up with Falalalalalafofarah before leaving for Shrubbery? If so, you have my permission to take the next few days off from the bank to finish up.

I'd be such a good boss wouldn't I?

There is no way that I can finish this before we leave - too much to do and not enough time to DIS. I'm going to try to get in another update or two but sadly I'll have to leave everyone hanging.

You'd be a great boss. Time off to finish a chat board trip report? With pay? Sign me up!!

I've had hot mini waffles at 'Ohana. Perhaps because the food is brought to your table in a large skillet instead of on a buffet.

You hit the nail on the head - waffles don't stay warm tucked into a napkin covered basket on an open buffet. It's a law of nature or something.

Love your report and your sense of humor!

By the way...woo hoo for Giggle, our newest reader and poster!!

Thanks for reading - I'm glad you're enjoying our trippie.

There is one common thread in all of your pics. You and Jay are positively glowing! I know I've said something like that before, but that's what I think every time I look at them. Pure joy...now that's a wonderful feeling, isn't it?

Awwww, thanks Paige. We like being together and we especially like being together on vacation so I guess it shows.

I'd post a picture of how we look while living in the real world but it would scare a lot of people.

BTW, my Alex (7) just loved your Buzz ride pic. I asked him if he thought you were concentrating, and he said, "She must've won!"

Thanks for another entertaining trippie!

Your son is too cute! I should have won, considering the look on my face, but I'm hopeless.

Thanks for reading - always good to hear from you.


MAPiglet Fan...are you still here? I was thinking of breaking form and posting the backstage train tour for you before leaving for WDW next week. I know you've got it booked and will be leaving soon for your own trip - would you like to read about our tour before you go? Let me know!

 

[Twingle]

Brenda - totally OT, but have a big favor to ask of you - okay to send you a PM? Thanks

Again, totally OT, but right now the ad on top of the page is for a "killer pancake recipe". I immediately thought, how would those pancakes kill? Syrup guns? Too big of a bite getting stuck in your throat?

OMG, being too silly. I better get more coffee!

 

[tigger536]

Great updates! And the grimace photo is just too funny!

We are staying at the Beach Club next trip, hmm, might consider doing Cape May for breakfast one morning, although we are doing several other breakfasts. (Did I mention I like to eat a lot when in WDW? ) Did they have an omlet station? I love the omlet stations...

Anyway, I'm really enjoying your TR. I love the halloween costumes too. And the Buzz photo is priceless. I go to WDW with my mother - its nice to have these mother daughter trips as an adult to get to spend more time with her. Anyway, my mom has the same Buzz expression. She is not the grimace type by any means, and normally not very competitive, but get her on Buzz and wooo boy! She really gets into it. And the photos always show her with this look of pure concentration. I every time. With her, not at her of course.

Can't wait for more! Thanks for sharing your trip with us.

 

[punkin413]

"I like character breakfasts," said Grimace, sounding a little like that creepy kid from A Christmas Story. You know, the one wearing the aviator cap and goggles that Ralphie stands behind while waiting to see Santa at Higbee's Department store...yeah, she sounded a little like him.

thanks for making me spit my coffee all over my desk!!!!! i could just hear grimace saying this in my head in that creepy kid's voice!

 

[Jennifer48]

"I like character breakfasts," said Grimace, sounding a little like that creepy kid from A Christmas Story. You know, the one wearing the aviator cap and goggles that Ralphie stands behind while waiting to see Santa at Higbee's Department store...yeah, she sounded a little like him.

"I like the Wizard of Oz" Classic, Brenda! You are too good at this!

 

[nts4wdw]

All caught up again! Miss two weeks, miss alot! Gotta say, the Grimcae picture explains it all. Her eyes almost look like they could smile.... but the mouth just doesn't know how to do it. Bless her heart!
Enjoyed it as usual! Now, on to Shrubbery!!

 

[zweihund]

A Legend Is Born...

I sincerely did not know it was possibly for the corners of someone's mouth to reach such depths!

 

[oybolshoi]

Brenda - totally OT, but have a big favor to ask of you - okay to send you a PM? Thanks

Anytime...

Again, totally OT, but right now the ad on top of the page is for a "killer pancake recipe". I immediately thought, how would those pancakes kill? Syrup guns? Too big of a bite getting stuck in your throat?

OMG, being too silly. I better get more coffee!

OK, now you're starting to worry me...just a little...

Personally, I like the syrup gun. Just make sure the syrup is warm so that I'm comfortable when the pancakes kill me. Otherwise I might try to retaliate with my high-density waffelator.

Great updates! And the grimace photo is just too funny!

Thank you very much!

We are staying at the Beach Club next trip, hmm, might consider doing Cape May for breakfast one morning, although we are doing several other breakfasts. (Did I mention I like to eat a lot when in WDW? ) Did they have an omlet station? I love the omlet stations...

Don't we all like to eat too much at WDW?

No omelette station at Cape May - it's a no frills kind of buffet even though I think it's comparable in price with the other character breakfasts.

If you want a really good omelette go have breakfast at the Yacht Club Galley. They also make a mean cafe mocha (I wish I was drinking one right now).

Anyway, I'm really enjoying your TR. I love the halloween costumes too. And the Buzz photo is priceless. I go to WDW with my mother - its nice to have these mother daughter trips as an adult to get to spend more time with her. Anyway, my mom has the same Buzz expression. She is not the grimace type by any means, and normally not very competitive, but get her on Buzz and wooo boy! She really gets into it. And the photos always show her with this look of pure concentration. I every time. With her, not at her of course.

Can't wait for more! Thanks for sharing your trip with us.

Again, thanks for reading and for posting. I'm so glad you're enjoying the trippie. I'm sure you will not be surprised to know that Grimmie didn't even want to ride on Buzz Lightyear.

"I don't like shooting things."

Jason's response: "Pacifist! You're un-American!!"

thanks for making me spit my coffee all over my desk!!!!! i could just hear grimace saying this in my head in that creepy kid's voice!

Hi Dawn! Thanks for popping in and thanks for the wonderful compliment! I love it when I can make a reader spew.

"I like the Wizard of Oz" Classic, Brenda! You are too good at this!

Hey Jen! Thank you, thank you! I'll be here all summer - really, you're too kind.

All caught up again! Miss two weeks, miss alot! Gotta say, the Grimcae picture explains it all. Her eyes almost look like they could smile.... but the mouth just doesn't know how to do it. Bless her heart!
Enjoyed it as usual! Now, on to Shrubbery!!

Hi Lynn! Thanks for taking the time to catch up - I know it's a lot. Yeah..you're right - somewhere in there was the feeble beginnings of a real smile, but we lost it around the nose.

Thanks again for reading.

I sincerely did not know it was possibly for the corners of someone's mouth to reach such depths!

And it was practically effortless! Amazing, is it not? Poor Grimmie...I love her, I really do but sometimes she's just too easy to poke fun at.

Have I mentioned before that I'm not really a very nice person?

 

[jeminni]

Brenda,

that picture of the grimach is priceless.

 

[BriarRosie]

Be still my heart...it's my one true Disney-love, and my lovey hubby!

Goofy has always been my favorite Disney character. This may be an admission that may send even more people fleeing in horror from my trippie, but if I were ever to consider faking my own death and running away to start a new life with a technicolor cartoon character, it would be with Goofy.

Back off, babe! Goofy is MINE! When he took my hand and kissed it in
the hub at the Magic Kingdom, I would have run off with him, myself.
Is it hot in here? Yet another reason why we're part of some type of
Disney Borg Collective.

The Grimace picture just KILLED me. Of course she set you up for
failure! You're offering another cheesesteak and she's getting a Reuben for
your trouble.

And the breakfast pizza looks awesome. I could go for some of that. Mmmm.

 

[Karen Mouse]

A Legend Is Born...

This picture just cracked Jay and me up when we saw it, and because of it and her mood that morning we immediately dubbed her The Grimace (secretly) for the rest of the trip. In all fairness I think Jay just caught her mid-chew, but the effect is priceless! And the nickname has stuck ever since.

 

[jakenjess]

The "one we did the last time" was Chef Mickey's which was a lot of fun and provided a great variety of food, almost none of which I was able to eat having been released from the hospital three weeks earlier from a most nasty Crohns flare-up that I guarantee you do not want to know the details of. **I just ended a sentence with a preposition! I may have no choice soon but to go make a drink.**

Ooooo, I LOVE that reasoning for a drink! I hate it when something comes out of my mouth (or my writing) that is so grammatically incorrect it makes me cringe, so I think making a drink would be the perfect cure!

If I were to offer some constructive criticism to Cape May it would be this: How about you place an informative little placard out here on the buffet so we know what some of these mystery dishes are? I can't speak for anyone else but if I know what something isn't, I might be more tempted to give it a try.

I agree, I really need to know what I'm eating before I eat it! It did look pretty good, though, or maybe I'm just hungry.

Goofy has always been my favorite Disney character. This may be an admission that may send even more people fleeing in horror from my trippie, but if I were ever to consider faking my own death and running away to start a new life with a technicolor cartoon character, it would be with Goofy.

My whole family loves Goofy, and he's the extra special favorite of my dear Disney-loving BIL. So really, you're fine.

If she'd told me that having breakfast with Mickey was what she wanted I would have booked something different, but she was the one who said "Just pick something different from the last time," and oh my God it's begun - parent/child role reversal! It's just like the cheesesteak incident, isn't it?

Don't you wish they'd just say what they mean, instead of making us guess and then making us all crazy because it wasn't really what they wanted in the first place?!


A Legend Is Born...

Classic!!!

Great installment to start off my day, Brenda. Yesterday work completely got in the way of my DIS-ing (how dare it!), so this was a good way to get my Friday started!

 

[lamagique]

grimace ftw! haha, jk.

you're great! thanks for the fun update!