2006 Summer Sanitarium Tour

Sirius just reminded me that we already knew we were in the 70's section, that's why we were in the parking lot labeled, "70's parking." The building in front of us had a "6346" so Sirius went up and tried that door. I'm sure the people in there were a little freaked! Anyhow, I am now wondering why he was trying keys in an 80's building. He said he didn't know it was the 80s....I guess all the Pac Men on the outside didn't give it away? :confused3 Why didn't they just tell us to go to the lime green buildings? That would have been so much easier!

A little side note: I guess we booked our reservation before the 50's and 70's were deemed "preferred." We did not pay extra, but I had requested the first floor, pool facing of the 50's and closest to the main hall. I was assuming Grandma would be using a cane. Anyhow, I knew nothing is guaranteed. I was so freaked out about checking in without the whole party present, that I didn't even ask what was available. I just accepted what they gave me so I could get my hands on those loaded cards. We also were linked under grand gathering and I'm not sure if the grandparents actually did pay for preferred. All I know is that their reservation said preferred, and since we were linked, we were all preferred. However, I did not consider our location to be "preferred." If we had paid the extra $10 per night, I would have been angry (ill for us southerners). Sirius said that if we stay at Pop again that he wants to pay for the extra for the preferred. When I told him that 50s and 70s are now preferred, he just made a strange noise. But, my focus is this: "If we stay at Pop again." Ok, our ressies were already made for the Sept trip, so that means there is yet another trip in our future! :yay: According to Twinkie Mama, this is a binding contract! Thank you TM for helping me with Disney legal matters! :wave:

The preceeding doesn't have much to do with this awesome trippie, but I thought it might be useful for future Pop peeps.
 
Enjoying reading your reports ~ Thanx for sharing.
 
sorul82? said:
Sirius just reminded me that we already knew we were in the 70's section, that's why we were in the parking lot labeled, "70's parking." The building in front of us had a "6346" so Sirius went up and tried that door. I'm sure the people in there were a little freaked! Anyhow, I am now wondering why he was trying keys in an 80's building. He said he didn't know it was the 80s....I guess all the Pac Men on the outside didn't give it away? :confused3 Why didn't they just tell us to go to the lime green buildings? That would have been so much easier!

A little side note: I guess we booked our reservation before the 50's and 70's were deemed "preferred." We did not pay extra, but I had requested the first floor, pool facing of the 50's and closest to the main hall. I was assuming Grandma would be using a cane. Anyhow, I knew nothing is guaranteed. I was so freaked out about checking in without the whole party present, that I didn't even ask what was available. I just accepted what they gave me so I could get my hands on those loaded cards. We also were linked under grand gathering and I'm not sure if the grandparents actually did pay for preferred. All I know is that their reservation said preferred, and since we were linked, we were all preferred. However, I did not consider our location to be "preferred." If we had paid the extra $10 per night, I would have been angry (ill for us southerners). Sirius said that if we stay at Pop again that he wants to pay for the extra for the preferred. When I told him that 50s and 70s are now preferred, he just made a strange noise. But, my focus is this: "If we stay at Pop again." Ok, our ressies were already made for the Sept trip, so that means there is yet another trip in our future! :yay: According to Twinkie Mama, this is a binding contract! Thank you TM for helping me with Disney legal matters! :wave:

The preceeding doesn't have much to do with this awesome trippie, but I thought it might be useful for future Pop peeps.


:rotfl2: POPPEEPS, POPPEEPS, POP-PEEPS! Pop-eeps :rotfl2:
 
:woohoo: I got another cameo! :woohoo:

Yes it is a binding contract! I would throw in a few lawyerish words but I don't know any...... however I do know a few lawyers so I will see what I can do.


Oh- Twinkie Tip: Start throwing "When we join the DVC" into all sorts of conversations......

Like "Sirius Lee, Darling, when we join the DVC we can come down all by our lonesome with no little Louds for (insert whatever event would work the best: Epcot's Food and Wine Festival, MGM Star Wars Weekend) etc etc"

or "When we have a two bedroom condo in our deluxe DVC accomadations we can put the kids to bed early and stay up and watch TV!"
or "When we join the DVC we will have a washer and dryer in the room and this will save money because we won't have to pack so much or buy T-shirts when we run out of clothes"
"Since we are getting APs every year anyway, we could save big bucks by using the current discounts offered by the DVC"

now folks that is FDM (fuzzy disney math) at it's highest- shell out 15 grand to save $100 per AP.......
 

sorul82?

I'm just enjoying your description of how you had to have everything done at just the right time so your entire vacation didn't fall apart. I'm like that, too! I try not to be, but you just have to do it to make the magic go.

Thanks for sharing, and keep up the great work. Longer segments, please!

Marie
 
TwinkieMama said:
now folks that is FDM (fuzzy disney math) at it's highest- shell out 15 grand to save $100 per AP.......
I love FDM! It is also a little scary though ....
 
sorul82? said:
What actually happened was the policeman’s directions were to follow him. Yep, Grandpa got a police escort to Pop Century! How funny is that? :rotfl2: Now Grandpa would never admit to such act. Nope, we heard this tid bit of juiciness from Grandma. :listen: :thumbsup2

Now it’s time for some drama….of our own. Ok, when we checked in, we were given a little card with a number to call to find out our room number. Sirius dials up to have what I think should be a quick conversation. Oh no. He has to give all sorts of info, and based on his responses, I’m not exactly sure that the person he is speaking with actually works for Disney. Of course, I take the phone and proceed to get the info. The following conversation happens:

Me: Have you found our room number yet?
CM: No
Silence
Me to Sirius: Hey, there goes your Grandpa
CM: Ok, it’s rooms 346 and 347

I take a quick, and I mean quick look and notice that an 80’s building is right in front of me with numbers 6###-6###.

Me: Do we know what section? And it looks like within each section, there are building numbers. Do you know what section and building number?
Silence
More Silence
Me: Hello? Do you know which section and building number?
CM: Are you talking to me?

I put my hand to my forehead, and tried my hardest to remember my good southern home training and not use every colorful word that I had ever learned plus a few more that weren’t even discovered yet.

Me: Yes, I am talking to you.
CM: Who me, or the other person?

Thinking to myself, what other person?

Me: You, the friendly Disney CM.
CM: CM?
Me: Huff…Cast Member (I’m sending her a death ray)
Me: I think there is a number missing at the beginning.
CM: 0
Me: Huh?
CM: Your room numbers are 0346 and 0347. You’ll have to check with the front desk to find out the section. We aren’t given that information.
Me: But what building?
CM: I don’t know ma’am
Me: Ok, thanks.
CM: Is there anything else I can help you with today?

To myself: You’ve got to be freakin’ kidding me! You couldn’t even help me with the one thing you were supposed to help me with! This card says for your room information to call this number!!

Me: (With my bestest southern belle manners) No thank you, that’s all.
I don’t even know if I was wished a magical day because I just hung up! That showed her!!

Meanwhile, Sirius had hopped out of the van, ran up three flights of stairs, and was running all through the 80’s looking for our room number. To make matters worse, grandpa takes off.

The next few details are a bit foggy. Either Sirius decided to trot all the way to the main building, or Grandpa drove to the main building, or grandpa stopped to ask mousekeeping……or Sirius asked mousekeeping, who called the front desk.

All I know is that my blood was starting to boil. It was 3:30 afterall, and according to my laid back agenda, we were supposed to go to Beaches and Cream for a Kitchen Sink to hold us over until our 9:35 ressie at O’Hana, and I knew what time the last Millionaire show was, and MIL really wanted to do Millionaire, which had to be today because they didn’t have park hoppers, and thanks to free dining and the need for ADR’s more specifically an ADR at Arkershus for the next day which required a credit card hold which couldn’t be cancelled within the 48 hour window, and if even could, would throw off our entirely planned out ADR’s which had already been reschuffled many times because there weren’t many choices for a group of 11…..breathe….therefore, I was supposed to be in our room 30 minutes ago, decorating windows, more specifically, MIL’s window to surprise her for her birthday, and to get everyone unpacked and settled so we could make our way to the bus stop! Now, I have lost grandpa, again. Sirius is MIA and not answering the phone, I’m burning up precious gas because it is so dang hot, and I don’t want to just start wandering around Pop Century with three children and suitcases.

What did we do? Did Grandpa get mad and go home? Did I get mad and stay off-site? Was Sirius so hot and thirsty that he purchased another mug? Or worse, wasted a snack credit on water?

Oy! I'm a little dizzy after reading this installment. I'm shocked that Chase would question the leather whip at SOB. I would think that would be an everyday common purchase from SOB :rotfl:
 
It was time to take matters into my own hands! I gave up on ever finding my DH…he was lost somewhere and it would take too many decades to find him. Pun intended. :rotfl: I parked the car, got out a few suitcases, and here comes Sirius, back from the past. :teleport: We set out on a mission to find our strange room number. Who knew that the “0” in front of our room number meant building 10? :confused3 Finally up on the 3rd floor, and who do we find? Grandpa. He was none to happy, but I asked where he was parked. “Down there on the curb.” I peeked over the railing and sure enough, he was down there on the curb. Anyhow, Grandpa was angry about Grandma overpacking….saying that she isn’t the one who has to carry all of her heavy bags so far. I have never heard him complain about manual labor. I’m sure you all don’t need all of these details, but later events won’t matter a hill of beans without this background and there is a lot of drama in the next 6 hours and I need to vent a little. The DIS is good therapy. :grouphug: Remember that MIL tried her best to dump Denise and Whiner on us? She asked if they could ride with us. No, we are hitting a park in the am, and they won’t have tickets until Grandpa gets there. MIL: “Can’t you call him and get him to check in sooner?” Me: “No, you call him.” Anyhow, if she was dying for those two to start enjoying the parks, wouldn’t one think she would be at Pop at 3:00 sharp? MIL has trouble with schedules and time. This will come into play…well, the whole trip. I guess it’s about 4:30 when she shows up. After they are unloaded, we take them to the food court so they can get mugs, I show them a few things, and we get ice cream. I was also expecting a package at the front desk: Pop Window Decorating Box #5. While waiting in line, we spot a scooter with rental info on the side. We get the digits and Sirius high tails the info back to Grandpa. Common sense would say, it’s 5:00 on a Friday….make the decision and get on the phone immediately!?! When I get back to the room, without my box, I find Sirius being “entertained” by Grandpa. Grandpa has all 10 of the maps spread out and is going over his exact path in detail in an effort to prove that it wasn’t his fault that he was lost. Grandpa does not like to be wrong, and would never admit it if he was. After much eye rolling and pointing at the time, I interrupt to ask about the scooter. MY dear sweet Sirius has not even mentioned it yet. You’ve got to be freakin’ kidding me! What have you been doing for the past 36 minutes? In a quick 30 seconds, I’m on the phone and the guy says, if you had called 6 minutes ago, I could have had a scooter for you first thing in the AM. Call back at 9:00AM when we open, and it may be tomorrow, or Sunday. Things just aren’t starting out good at all! Oh, and when I get back into my room, the phone is blinking….there’s a message from the front desk saying they have a package for me. Of course I’m not in the best of moods (the mood ring attached to our balcony was appropriately black), but in my best southern manners, I call the desk and politely inform them that I was just there 10 minutes ago, and why couldn’t they find the package, and could they send it up because it is a long walk back down there and I had requested the 50’s building because it IS such a long walk and it’s too far for grandma to walk because she’s 78 and has a cane, and why aren’t the balloons in the room for MIL for her b-day which I was told would be here at check in? Hmm, sounds like someone needs a drink! These events are happening pretty quickly, but when you are typing and reading and trying to get to the last Millionaire of the day, it seems like forever!! It’s maybe 5:50 and finally this group of 11 is heading for the bus stop. Everyone have their cards? WHAT DO YOU MEAN, NO?
 
Love your trip report! It reminds me of what happens in my family when we try to combine branches of the family tree for a trip to WDW!:lmao:
 
OMG! What you are describing is just what I fear the most in planning a family trip - having a perfect and definite plan and having it run asunder by other family members who are not as into the planning as I am. My good temper leaves me when I have to herd cats!

Your Grampa-in-law sounds so much like my Dad was. If he ever made a mistake he had to prove to you (no matter how long it took) that it couldn't possibly have been his fault! Manly older-man thing! (Younger men with more liberated wives have learned long ago that they are rarely right! LOL)
 
Herd cats ... that's great! :lmao:

S'late please tell us you get a drink soon and you don't kill anyone in the frist few hours! It would put such a damper on the rest of the festivities ... :rotfl2:
 
Oy! It sounds like your gonna need a LOT of drinky-poos with that group! :rotfl2:
I laugh now, but I know I shall have the same drama with my family trip. We'll be playing "Where's Waldo?" (grandpa) :confused3 in the MK. Oh the joys of a family trip! :lmao:
 
Disneyland_Mama said:
Oy! It sounds like your gonna need a LOT of drinky-poos with that group! :rotfl2:
I laugh now, but I know I shall have the same drama with my family trip. We'll be playing "Where's Waldo?" (grandpa) :confused3 in the MK. Oh the joys of a family trip! :lmao:

Where would be the worst place to lose an old person at Disney?
 
VaNana said:
OMG! What you are describing is just what I fear the most in planning a family trip - having a perfect and definite plan and having it run asunder by other family members who are not as into the planning as I am. My good temper leaves me when I have to herd cats!

Your Grampa-in-law sounds so much like my Dad was. If he ever made a mistake he had to prove to you (no matter how long it took) that it couldn't possibly have been his fault! Manly older-man thing! (Younger men with more liberated wives have learned long ago that they are rarely right! LOL)

Herding cats perfectly explains it! That is exactly how I felt!!
 
Mikayla,
If I had been able to get Luau for our first night, BIL and I would have definitely been trashed! $50 for food and unlimited beer? It's best we didn't go there!
 
Who doesn’t have their cards? Denise and Whiner? Grandpa has them? :confused3 Nope, when Grandpa checked in he was only given two cards, and didn’t even think about the two cousins. I’m assuming he was so rattled about getting lost. No, problem, let’s just swing by the front desk and pick them up. I assign myself to “help” Grandpa with this task. The patient CM says that the cousins were not on the reservation, yet they knew their names and ages. Ok, when I called back in July to add them, I gave Grandpa’s CC over the phone. I received a confirmation # which I did not have with me. Grandpa had also forgotten his packet of info which is a first for him. I’m sad to say that this man is fading quickly. Side story: Sirius’ uncle got married Saturday on the beach. We were sitting behind Grandpa and he just started waving to someone….out in the ocean….no one was there…no boats, no swimmers, nobody to the left or the right. Sirius and I just looked at each other. I had to quickly put on sunglasses because I thought he was waving to the angels. After a few more “waves” we figured out what he was doing. High tide was coming in, and he was waving to the waves. He may be getting old, but he still has his God complex. I reckon the power of his raised hand was going to stop the wall of water? Ok, BOT: I am seeing more and more sign of this man’s age. He’s 82 for goodness sake, bless his pea pickin’ heart! Back to the story…the other story! Instead of Grandpa just telling the CM to add the cousins and charge his card, he has to tell the whole family history. :rolleyes1 Yep, fun times at the old Pop Century check in desk! Ok, now we have three CM’s helping us, and after an executive meeting, they call reservations to add the cousins, but it will take a few minutes. The CM’s were very kind and patient. They did ask if they were holding us up from a dinner reservation. If so, they were gonna give us something (I don’t know what) but something so we could use the credits to go eat. I said no, just going to a park and our ressie wasn’t until 9:35. Also, while standing there, I inquired about my package. The CM returns to say “we don’t have a package for you.”

So now what happens? Did I completely lose it? Did I rip someone a new one? Did I yell at Felony for trading away some of my favorite pins? :furious:
 
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This is absolutely the most hysterical trippie I've read (no offense to all of my other TR writing heroes!) I desperately needed a laugh today after dropping DS7 off for his first day of school (hey, I like having the kid around all day, so sue me). Anyway - thanks for the funnies. This is no chuckler. I'm laughing OUT LOUD. Sitting here by myself. More, please!!!!
 
Days of Focking and LGMH-making have kept me from the beautiful world of Trip Reports for weeks..... what a hysterical TR to start back up with!
Can't wait to hear more... popcorn::
 




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