4/29/06 Eastern Magic...We're Going!!!!!

[ohsodisney]

I am actually going to be bringing Goldschlager on board. It comes in pretty sizable airplane bottles and I saw it the other day, and thought, hmm, that would be good to pack! Sorry!
(lushes of the world)

Funny you should mention Goldschlager , I was thinking about bringing that. I use to drink it camping and we have a bottle downstairs. GOOD STUFF!

If you give a test CG , I'm so going to fail. Remember the blonde thing?

 

[BLBCB]

Barb , I couldn't help to think it but , are you guys on the run? . I know you said before you moved many times.

With this last move, a friend of ours said that if he didn't know us better, he would really think we were on the run from something! No, it's just bad luck I think. My husband is an electrician, and used to work in the contruction department of the company. He would be building a station or something for a year or so at a time, so we moved with him. Once our oldest started school, I moved back to the home town we both grew up in, and he would come home most weekends depending on where he was working. We moved into the country while we were there, but the kids were in the same school. We kept thinking the job would get better, but it just got worse. He didn't make it home all July & August that summer and we finally had enough. Another move meant him being home every night, but it was waaaaaay up north. We stayed there for 2 years and the job we've always waited on came up. He was 2nd in line for the position, so we took another southern job and moved. Who knew that less than 1 year later another job would open up where we had been waiting for!! He got the job this time, but it meant another move. We are now living where we have always wanted, and it is the closest posting for his company to our home town (only 1 hour away). We have lots of family close by now, (which makes it great when you are renovating). My dad is coming out again today for a few days to help with the basement. Don't know what I would do without family. I really missed that when I was up north.

To make a long story short (probably too late for that!). We have moved over 20 times, but the kids have only been to 4 different schools. I can tell you stories about Manitoba that nobody else would even know. Shortest time living in a place was 2 months, longest was 2 1/2 years. I keep telling him the next move I make better be either Florida or an old-folks home!

Barb

 

[partypat]

We will now take a moment of silence for Dreamfinder and Figment.......

Funny you should mention Figment. When I went to WDW in 1987 that ride is the one I remember most at Epcot. I still have Figment on my spare bed. The stuffed one, of course. Every time I spy Figment I think of what my son (7 at the time) learned. It was his favorite too.

 

[rubysmom]

Hi guys, checking in!

My weigh-in went the wrong way this morning...UP 0.4 lbs!! We canNOT have that kind of thing going on. Remember my splurge last wknd w/the movie popcorn, steak, KFC, and DQ Blizzard? (What was I thinking?!?) Well that will NOT be happening this weekend let me tell you. I treadmill faithfully, like actually running, every morning and to have it be for nought is just too much.

Okay done ranting now.

Sorry we'll be missing y'all at Great Bay Beach. Looks like the perfect way to spend a port day. The dolphin thing leaves at 7:30 am or some crazy thing (I wonder how that works when we don't even disembark until 8 am?) and takes pretty much all day. Then I think we better get back and get ready for Pirate Nite. It will take me awhile to get all cinched up in my Wench outfit! (The crisscross cording in the bodice ties at the bottom which means you've got to kind of hold things up while you're threading the cord downward, and...well anyway it'll be interesting!!)

We're really looking fwd to CW/Coki Beach, though, so come one come all and join us!! BTW, CG, I much prefer the 2nd Coki pic...can we have THAT beach and not the other one? pretty please?

I did read that trip report by cadburysmom. Great report and OMG--the airport runway?!? You all should read it if you haven't already...esp you, Partypat & your long lost sista --this fun gal and her teenheartthrob son may just have you beat, at least in sheer craziness. I love the adventurous spirit, though!

I'm about to post a new file on the other site for everyone to look over and please PM me with corrections or comments. Hope it helps everyone with our meetngreets and everything. Been in the works for a week or so now, so enjoy!

 

[mketting]

I didn't get back on the computer last night because I was "packing" I got out all the kids clothes and mine and started to organize them. Of course my pile and Meghan's was 3 X's the size of Jared and that didn't include shoes. I watched the DCL DVD while I did it.

Tux- For those of thinking of renting we bought Kirk a tux at Penneys for $100. That didn't include the shirt, tie and cumberbund ( He has those) but this way he will have one to keep instead of spending about the same to rent

I LOVED Figment too. We went to WDW last Feb., the kids first trip and I was so disappointed with the figment ride. It is one of the vivid memories I have from when I was child and went with my family. Over on the boards someone posted a question wondering if anyone remembered Circus World. Did any of you ever go there? Once again I have some great memories of visiting there with my family.

Great Bay Beach- Topless ladies isn't exactly the cultural experience I had in mind but it will be interesting to see Jared's reaction if any stroll by. One time he had a friend over and they were playing in the basement. I heard them suddenly start to gigggle hysterically. Jared came upstaris and in a disgusted voice said "Mommy! I found this in the dress up box!" He was holding a bright red bra of mind (or braut as Jared calls them) I have no idea how it got mixed up with the play clothes.
A poster on the cruise board said they bargained with the guys at the beach and for $45 got 2 chairs, 30 min. jetski and 2 kids on the water Trampoline.

Barb- My Dad and Kirk and BIL will be heading to Northern Canada this November to hunt caribou, it will be my Dad's second trip. I cannot remember exactly where they will be, but remember my Dad said it is about 1000 miles north of Toronto.

 

[mom2cobysyd]

Rubysmom- Your spreadsheet looks great! Thanks for putting the time into it. I will be sure to print it before we leave.

Here is a picture for all you Figment admirers (I too was a big Figment fan when I was younger). They definitely ruined that ride!

Picture of DH and Sydney at Epcot in 2004 with Figment

 

[Belle&RellasMom]

 

[Belle and Rella's Dad]

Getting ready to head out for the day, Lindsey was asked to play two games today with the team who is a year older than she is. So the girls will be bigger quicker and stronger, but it is a great opportunity for her. Those games are only about an hour drive away, then Sarah has a game back in Lansing at four, so 3 games across the snowy state of Michigan.

Great news on Great Bay, as you can all tell we are very much looking forward to St. Maarten, it would be great to have a drink and a cigar with all that Tuesday (Suzie I will take your drink and cigar for you).

Gotta go and put another 50 in the gas tank.

Tom

 

[suziemva]

Awe! Cute pic!! You know, I have to tell you, every time we see the pic of your DH on the other site and this one, my DH and I swear he looks like someone we know! It's really quite strange! We haven't seen this friend in quite a while but it's how we remember him!

We never saw full sized Figment! WOW! What a great memory!

 

[The Roses]

Where is everyone?

Castlegazer, what a slug I am! I *just* sent your check in the mail. Well, actually I just put it in an envelope. Let's see how many days it takes before I finally get it in the mail! Man, sometimes I am so unorganized...

The Pirate had to go into work for a few hours and I am stuck at home cleaning my kitchen. My redneck brother sent me a recipe for "Beer Butt Chicken". This was a surprise, since my brother really is my very own Homer Simpson, and I wasn't sure anyone without opposable thumbs could type... Anyway it was odd to get a recipe from him instead of the normal jokes that I am hoping I remember to tell some of you when we have all had a few and it gets to be that part of the evening. But I digress. Anyway, it must have been the beer that attracted him, so naturally we had to try it.

The premise is this: you take a chicken ("dead", in case there are more of you like my brother out there), and put it on the grill straddled over a can of beer. The theory is that as the beer heats up, it bastes the inside of the chicken, keeping it moist. Seemed easy enough to us, the only problem being that we didn't have a chicken. It would have been easy enough to run out and get one, but oooohhhh nooooooo, we looked in the freezer and found that we had two perfectly good cornish game hens. Chicken shmicken! Who needs them when these fine birds will do!

So then we go in search of a grill. Being the cold and rainy northwest, we decide this is going to have to be an inside job. So cursing my brother who lives in the sunny south and is grilling outside in his shirtsleeves as we speak, we are left to improvise with a convection oven and a cake pan.

And now for the beer. What type of beer shall we use? My brother recommends Hamms, of course, and I find myself singing the "from the land of sky-blue waters" theme song and missing my friend the Hamms Bear, but the "hiney" part of Heineken seemed more appropriate, so there you have it.

Keeping with the original name of the recipe, being "Beer Butt Chicken", we find "Beer Butt Cornish Game Hen" to be a bit problematic. The uh, size of the chicken's uh, "posterior" is considerably bigger than the game hen's. So we improvise once again and cleverly rename our concoction "Empty V-8 Mini-Cans-Now-Filled-With-Beer Butt Game Hen".

In theory, this is a good recipe. We think it was invented by a drunken sailor who didn't know what to do with his empty beer can and decided to stick it up a chicken's butt, and has been famous ever since. But for us, we found that V-8 and Heineken basted inside cornish game hen in a 350 degree convention oven wasn't quite as exciting. Which explains why I am spending my Saturday trying to get the beer smell out of my kitchen.

Palo can't come soon enough.

The Roses

 

[partypat]

My redneck brother sent me a recipe for "Beer Butt Chicken". oohhhh nooooooo

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I can picture it now....... but how did it taste?

 

[The Roses]

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Hey! That's what it was supposed to look like! Now picture it much smaller, hunched over a can of V-8, and three times as greasy....

Great pic! I'll have to send that to my brother.

The Roses

 

[partypat]

Heres my version of Figment thats been hanging around my house for the last 18 years. A few weeks ago I thought of taking it and putting it on Justins bed in his stateroom. He'd probably freak, as this was what he hauled about the "Big Red Boat" last time he was on a cruise at age 7.

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Can't wait to have our picture taken with the REAL one. Hope we can find him.

Tricia, thanks for the spreadsheet. it says it all I'm sure it will come in handy in the days to come.

 

[partypat]

Now picture it much smaller, hunched over a can of V-8, and three times as greasy....

Right now, I truly look like this guy Your a wench after my own heart. Can wait to meet you, Sue.

 

[rubysmom]

I just got on line to send something to hubby's laptop in yonder Rochester, NY and thought I'd see what's up tonite, and what do I get? Beer Butt Chicken Redoux by Sue! Can we have storytime at that meetngreet? I gotta hear more like this!

Anyway it was odd to get a recipe from him instead of the normal jokes that I am hoping I remember to tell some of you when we have all had a few and it gets to be that part of the evening. But I digress.

Don't you worry yer pretty little head about THAT! We'll be reminding you when it does get to be 'that part of the evening'.

...The premise is this: you take a chicken ("dead", in case there are more of you like my brother out there)...

...My brother recommends Hamms, of course, and I find myself singing the "from the land of sky-blue waters" theme song and missing my friend the Hamms Bear, but the "hiney" part of Heineken seemed more appropriate, so there you have it.

"...Hamms, the beer refreshing, Hamms the beer refreshing, Haaaaaams!"

...Keeping with the original name of the recipe, being "Beer Butt Chicken", we find "Beer Butt Cornish Game Hen" to be a bit problematic. The uh, size of the chicken's uh, "posterior" is considerably bigger than the game hen's. So we improvise once again and cleverly rename our concoction "Empty V-8 Mini-Cans-Now-Filled-With-Beer Butt Game Hen"...

...Palo can't come soon enough.

Amen to THAT! (BTW, I gotta ask, do you remember the Rainier commercials w/the Rainier Deer and the ones w/the motorcycle? Raaaaaaaineeeeer Beeeeeer...)

 

[The Roses]

BTW, I gotta ask, do you remember the Rainier commercials w/the Rainier Deer and the ones w/the motorcycle? Raaaaaaaineeeeer Beeeeeer...)

We haven't been here long enough to know Rainier beer. But I did grow up with the Lone Star Beer commercials.

Lone Star Beer.
Lone Star Beer.
Lone Star Beer. (repeats over and over and over and over...)

Then you hear a door open and a voice says "I'd like a case of Lone Star beer and a bag of peanuts, please"
Shopkeeper voice: "You must be having a party"
"No, I just like peanuts."

Lone Star Beer.
Lone Star Beer.
Lone Star Beer....

We are easily amused, the Pirate and I. Now that we have the Lone Star Beer jingle in our heads, there's no room for anything else. Might as well call it a night.

The Roses

 

[Belle&RellasMom]

 

[BLBCB]

I just got home and checked out the "master data base" list. It's great!!

After I downloaded it and saved it, questions came up though. I realise with all my rambling on here that I haven't really given very much useful information. How do I fill in all of our info? Then, if the list is being updated all the time, how do I have the current information? Do I just keep downloading and resaving over the old one? I keep telling myself that I'm going to go back over the last 3000 or so posts and start making notes, but now someone else did it for me! thank you

It's finally getting close! I originally started planning for our DCL cruise back in Oct '03, and made the booking in Mar '04 for the cruise in Jan '05. Moved yet again and plans fell through, so rebooked for this cruise. I have been planning this for over 2 1/2 years. Kids are older now, so it's funny to see all the plans I made for back then, that just won't work now.

Barb

 

[BLBCB]

I actually got to go shopping in real stores yesterday and I came across this long shirt with the greatest Disney print. It was Mickey, Minnie, Goofy & Donald and they were all surfing, sitting on beaches, under palm trees, etc. I loved it. I thought I might be able to pull it off as a bathing suit coverup, the pattern was so perfect. My sister told me "NO", it is a scrub top, you will look like a dentist or something walking around. If I hadn't met anyone on here, I might have tried it anyway as nobody would know me. I didn't buy it and put it back. But it soooooo coooooool. I wish I could find the fabric somewhere. I've been looking for some kind of tropical Disney print fabric since '03 when I started thinking about booking a cruise. Just can't find any. Even did a search on here at one time, nobody could find any. I still think I could have taken it in a bit and revamped the design to make it work. I loved the material. Anybody else here sew?

Maybe I should just go get a job in a medical office somewhere so I can wear that shirt!!

 

[ohsodisney]

Hi everyone , we all all sick here today so I have to make this short and sweet. I'm not sure BLBCB if either of these would work for you but they are on EBay

Back to bed for me . Oh yeah I lost all the weight I needed and actually an extra pound ! I should be happy but I'm feeling too lousy today to celebrate . I went into work for 2 hours and had to leave . Poor Holly had it yesterday and McKenna and I have it today. I slept from 4:00 yesterday to 8:30 this morning.