9/24/09 3 Day Wonder - Cruise Meets, and FEs, and Goombays oh my!

[Lilo's Mom]

I love to read, but will admit that no matter how hard I have tried, I just can't get into the Harry Potter Books. I couldn't get past the first one...and I tried three times to read it. Now the movies are a different story, it's been great taking the cinema journey with Harry, Ron and Hermione. It is so cool to see how the actors and actress have grown in real life and their roles. In this movie I especially loved all of the teenage crushes and how awkward everything was, it was so cute and sometimes so funny. I will keep it at that until Karen gets to see the movie.

On a side note, there were probably about 200 people in the theatre...so about half full in the auditorium that was showing the movie. This was by fair the largest midnight showing we have been to at this theater. I would say the audience was 98% female and 2% male. Kelly and my niece Erin said that the women fell mostly into the "Soccer Mom" age bracket (that just cracked me up ) Anyway when the New Moon preview came on the audience went crazy screaming for Jacob (Taylor Lautner). The woman directly behind us was yellling "Oh My God, he is so freaking hot!" Erin turned around and said to her "Get a grip lady he is 17", I thought there was going to be a riot. That's my Erin, she is has a tendency to call them as she sees them!

 

[Lilo's Mom]

Almost forgot....Erin was wearing this shirt at the movie last night.

It was comical the reaction the shirt got. Our house (Bob, my brother and my stepson Allen included) are huge Buffy and Angel fans. Have you guys seen this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZwM3GvaTRM
It's really well done and clever. I know the Twilight fans outweigh the BuffyVerse fans but to me the video is amazing how it put the two things together. Pity the two fandoms can't come together.

 

[m_kasch]

Donna, I love that shirt!! That is very funny. I heard on the radio when I was driving in that some people saw a trailer for Twilight. We had 2 trailers only, one for Shorts, and the other for Where the Wild Things Are. Wish I could have seen the Twilight one!

I'm getting pretty tired here at work...2 hours sleep is just not enough!! I actually am going to go home around 9 or 10, since I got here at 3 and I have to take 8 hours of vacation sometime because the admin in our department screwed up mine and made me have an extra day in march, so now i have to make up for it. Which is fine by me today, because I am crashing fast!

 

[disney honeymooners]

we had like 3 or 4 previews but not the twilight one DANGIT!!! I would have loved to see that one we saw the 2012 preview, shorts, where the wild things are and a new one with steve carrell(cartoon) where his character steals all the national monuments i can not for the life of me remember the title i wanted to see either the Twilight preview or the new Alvin and the Chipmunks preview my mom saw it when we went to see Ice Age 3 but i was getting the drinks so i didnt get to see it she said that they Chipettes are in the movie and they are really cute. yet another movie for me to see this year, our theater was CRAZY!!! they had the movie showing on 16 screens!!! ours was so packed that we had to sit 6 rows from the screen which actually made the view better. But there were people who had been saving seats since 6pm!!! I like HP but not enought to sit there for 6 hours.
I go for my final dress fitting a week from today im gonna get my sis-in-law to take some pictures of me in the dress and i will post them as soon as i can. I cant believe 2 months left

 

[karentan]

hiya! dont worry about spoiling it for me, i´m one of those people who will watch a series, want to see the end then go on the net before the final episode to see what happens!! i did that with dexter!! lol

 

[jenny105]

Am I the only one who thought the movie was a letdown? Don't get me wrong, I did like it, but I don't think it was nearly as good as it should have been. Especially since they pushed it back. Some parts were great but overall, I was disappointed with it. They pushed it back and made everyone wait an extra nine months; it should have been better than it was.

We saw the New Moon trailer. I know he's only 17, but Taylor Lautner IS pretty hot. And I love that shirt Donna!

Oh and stay away from Margaritas on the ship! Wow, I can't believe how much tequila was in that!!!

 

[Lilo's Mom]

I have to watch my intake of alcohol. I had gastric bypass surgery in 2002....so my absorption rate is a lot faster than everyone else. Pretty much one drink gives me a major buzz...one drink that I drink quickly will give me the effect of being knocked down drunk. It's like going from zero to 60 miles an hour in about 10 seconds. The incident at Blue Man Group was before I had the surgery, there is no way I could handle the "Sphinx Margarita" now...probably not even a sip of it. The same thing applies to medication for me....some meds have no effect on me at all because my body can't absorb them, others kick in for me within 10 minutes. I had surgery on my hand last November...the doctor gave me Vicodin for the pain...I would take the pill in within 10 minutes I was wasted. Bob tells me it was pretty funny. Rather than say I felt like I was on a Fluffy Cloud...I kept saying I was on a Fluffy Clown. Apparently that gave him visions of me bouncing off of Bozo. It would appear that I am a constant source of amusement for him!

 

[jenny105]

Well, I know to stay away from the Sphinx Margarita if they have such a thing at Universal!

I really need to pick a resort and stick with it. Beach Club is looking mighty good right now and it would be less than I'm currently paying to stay at WL.

 

[karentan]

its only $100 less and i know you originally had your heart on WL, i´d say stick with WL unless maybe you could do a split stay since you´re paying to add on the DDP anyway?

 

[karentan]

btw i forget (and my list of who´s staying where is on mu computer at home!!), whos coming in and staying at WDW before the cruise? i know me and jenny definately are, who else?

 

[jenny105]

I can't split the stay because part of the requirement to get the TA rate is a 3 night stay. So I can't do 2 and 2. I answered you on my PTR about everything else.

Lainey is staying at the Poly before the cruise.

 

[m_kasch]

Jen, I would go for the Beach Club. That is my favorite area to stay, it is close to both Epcot (walking in close), and to DHS. Stormalong Bay is AWESOME, especially since it will be September and HOT -- you will want to use the pool a lot. The quiet pool at Beach Club is also one of the best. Plus, there is always something to do at night, even if you just walk around the boardwalk area. I really like the WL...but if I had to choose between WL & BC -- no contest for me, I would be BC all the way!!

 

[jenny105]

I'm leaning toward BC. I can get a One Bedroom Villa there for less than the price I'm paying for a regular room at WL. WL may just have to wait til our next trip...

 

[jenny105]

FALSE ALARM GUYS! Lol. I wasn't factoring dining into the price. It would cost more. Way more. I knew something seemed too good to be true!

 

[Lilo's Mom]

We arrive on Wednesday the 23rd at noon. We are staying at the Hyatt in the airport. AirTran changed our original flight from a 2 pm departure to a 6 pm departure...then they gave us the option of changing flight times without paying a fee, so I took the only other direct flight they had open that day. Now we leave Chicago at 8:35 am. Bob and Kelly were initially not too happy about the change because that means having to get up early to be at the airport. After I reminded them that we have an extra day in Orlando...they are now happy.

 

[jenny105]

Does this happen with every AirTran flight? I've heard that they and US Airways have been switching people's flights. You're like the 4th or 5th person on the DIS that I know this has happened to!

 

[m_kasch]

Airtran does that all the time, that's why I fly southwest now! Plus, I like that you can change flights or even days with no fee, not like on Airtran. Once, we were flying on airtran and the price dropped, so I called and the gave me the lower fare...but then they charged me ten dollars EACH for booking on the phone!

 

[jenny105]

Well, that kind of defeats the purpose of trying to save money!

I don't think Southwest flies out of Newark. I've heard their fares have been dropping.

 

[karentan]

well at least you now dont have to make a decision!!
i´m flying back in a couple of hours to cold old england but at least i get to see gary and cerby again!

 

[jenny105]

Aw, your vacation is over so soon? It seems like you just went!