ABCs of Trip Reporting, Pt. 2-Life Can Be Crappy and Then You Move On (3/7)

[All7OfUs]

Ooooh!!! I love Les Mis and the live performances are wonderful! Yay for Liesa!

Unfortunately, I"m selling off my tickets... I have 3 left... hint, hint.

LOVE LOVE LOVE Les Mis! they had a PBS show with the singing - I stayed up till 2am watching it - then of course it was repeated over and over again!

I'm behind again - good thing 3p quoted all that -

I have to say shhhhh on the hidden gem upstairs eating - soon everyone will know that secret - and I wont be able to get a seat there!! I'll have to share a picture of our last trip and the seat WE got!!

It's totally worth staying up til 2:00 AM to watch... IMHO, it's the best music score still running.

I know; we DISers have bad habits of sharing some primo info... and we all hope it stays secret! HA!

Now that you put THAT out there, how can I ever sit on that ride again? My feet always go up

My Asparagus recipe olive oil - and sesame seeds roast in oven - yum! Or just roast, and after they are just right, drizzle a bit of 18year old Balsamic Vinegar (18 yr is sweet - anything younger is sour!)


I've heard that - but where are the houses going?
Last time we went we did the Mickey Mouse Tour - our guide pointed out so many little details in Mickey's House...

It's instinkt to put them up- we can't help ourselves.

My parents always buy "antique" balsalmic as well, and believe it, or not, they actually drizzle it on ice cream!! I"ve not personally tried it, as I can't afford 18 year old stuff, but it sounds like something I'd love to try!

Perhaps they are taking bids over at MouseSurplus?? I dunno, maybe a museum? Archived in a warehouse?? Who knows!

The houses have sadly been demolished.

I have to admit, I personally am not too sad, but do know what it feels like to have a favorite attraction get relagated to the annals of history- Mr. Toad was one of them for me.

I don't know why, but that story made me tear up! How sweet!

I confess I got choked up too... In a good way.

Yummo! My favorite CS meal at MK!


My favorite meal was a Dole Whip And yes, I did make it a meal the night before!

That's always been my favorite scene from the TTA. LOVE Walt's vision of the community of tomorrow...

Anything that smacks of Walt is GREAT in my book!

For the record - I too think your pedi looks great! I seem to remember some weirdo at the airport that agreed, no?

Yes, the pervert who thought cute feet were something to comment on.

 

[All7OfUs]

I love CHH. Never had the Anchors Aweigh sandwich though. I like tuna fish, but there's so much variety in what will be in it that it makes me nervous to order it. I like those tables that overlook Fantasyland.

The little girl dancing with the trolly show sounds really cute. I bet she added a lot to the performance.

It's pretty inocuous tuna, plenty plain enough with mostly mayo as the mix- I can't remember if there's relish or not in it.

Aren't those table divine?!

she was just adorable! Costuming was spot on, and her dancing impeccable- she had long blonde curls to boot!

I read that as I don't need to resubmit my answers, is that right?

I'm confident that my responses from a year ago are just as good as I could do right now. Yep, that's how confident I am.

Nope, I have your answers, and honestly, I don't think you'd do any better- it's mostly a wild guess sort of game...

Were master predictor responses originally submitted via PM, or in super secret spy white text??? It has been quite a while but it seems like I submitted answers right towards the end when I was new to your thread so way behind and didn't have a clue so they were purely guesses. I checked my PM send box with no luck, so if that was the method I guess I will just have to, well, GUESS again!!! Otherwise I will try searching your PTR threads and see if I get lucky and find my original response......

Via PM. Maybe if you go back far enough in either your sent items, or your inbox as a reponse from me you could find them. But I'll take these too. That was for the first time! I put the questions up again as the TR started.. maybe they are in Pt. 1 of the TR???

Hey Liesa, I PM-ed you my answers I sent a LONG time ago but revised them with the more correct answers

Got em.

Bummer! Hope you can find someone to buy the tickets!



Yep, that's my theory too!

I have tentatively sold 2 now. 3 to go.. I really hope they go, or I'm out abou $200 bucks!

i dont know if i ever guessed on these or not...but ill give it a shot again even if i did.

and i take it the ones in red are ones that we should not answer?

or if they were revealed, i will just guess anyway im to lazy to look back and i have a terrible memory, i already forgot your two kids names.

I think you did, Dan, but I pulled a moron move. You're good, though, I'll take these, and they look like you've just as well as if it were the first time.

Yes, RED ones have already come up in the TR! So you you get #1 wrong, you haven't been paying attention!!!

Andrew and Rebekah- Guess I"m not so bad at memory afterall.

 

[englishrose47]

Evening Liesa !!Sooo glad you have my all correct answersCuz I am too tired to think up new ones !!!

 

[marvali]

Via PM. Maybe if you go back far enough in either your sent items, or your inbox as a reponse from me you could find them. But I'll take these too. That was for the first time! I put the questions up again as the TR started.. maybe they are in Pt. 1 of the TR???

I already checked all the old PMs. Unfortunately a few days ago I was deleting a whole lot of old stuff since I wanted to make room in case I use PM for some upcoming Contest answers. Checked Pt. 1 of the TR with no luck. Probably not worry about it anymore since the guesses I just sent are probably as good as the guesses I made the first time around....

 

[All7OfUs]

Evening Liesa !!Sooo glad you have my all correct answersCuz I am too tired to think up new ones !!!

We shall see, Rosie dear, we shall see.

I already checked all the old PMs. Unfortunately a few days ago I was deleting a whole lot of old stuff since I wanted to make room in case I use PM for some upcoming Contest answers. Checked Pt. 1 of the TR with no luck. Probably not worry about it anymore since the guesses I just sent are probably as good as the guesses I made the first time around....

Yes, I hate to say it, but likely they are. It's pretty much a crapshoot sort of game.

 

[Sleepingbooty]

I'm glad you still have my answers! I usually don't get in on the games because I'm always late to the party - good to know I'm still a player!

 

[Sandy321]

2010 for Marathon Weekend, on Friday we went to MK, our favorite place to eat is CHH - well, I got in line took everyone's orders, and they went to get "our table" A cm came over (she had a clipboard! I thought, we are in so much trouble NOW!!)

nope - she saw our buttons, loved the kiss dh gave me and decided we were the "Family of the Day"

so we got this table!

DD was thrilled!
Honestly - the table was roped off, and the CM's took our order, and then brought it to us - we had real plates and silverware - and all the drinks we wanted!!

Great memories!!

 

[mom3sonstt]

2010 for Marathon Weekend, on Friday we went to MK, our favorite place to eat is CHH - well, I got in line took everyone's orders, and they went to get "our table" A cm came over (she had a clipboard! I thought, we are in so much trouble NOW!!)

nope - she saw our buttons, loved the kiss dh gave me and decided we were the "Family of the Day"

so we got this table!

DD was thrilled!
Honestly - the table was roped off, and the CM's took our order, and then brought it to us - we had real plates and silverware - and all the drinks we wanted!!

Great memories!!

Thats so cool! We ate at Cosmic Rays one time and there was a table that was roped off and had a table cloth and confetti - but nobody ever came and sat at it while we were there.

 

[All7OfUs]

I'm glad you still have my answers! I usually don't get in on the games because I'm always late to the party - good to know I'm still a player!

You were one of the lucky ones who happened to get saved. It's almost like my spreadsheet should and quite possibly DID have a 2nd page to it, but maybe forgot to get saved ast some point??

Anyway, you're still very much still in the game!

so we got this table!

DD was thrilled!
Honestly - the table was roped off, and the CM's took our order, and then brought it to us - we had real plates and silverware - and all the drinks we wanted!!

Great memories!!

Such a neat blessing to enjoy!

I wonder though if it is randomized somehow. I guess if I were a manager, I'd throw in some Year of a Million Dreams technique and set up a "next family that walks in after 7:30, with anniversary buttons on" or "the first family with 2 boys under 5" gets to be the FotD. Makes it less subjective, and since it's already been done that way, I wonder if this is sort of carry-over.?

 

[All7OfUs]

I am almost done writing the next update and will post it in a few hours; this is your LAST CHANCE to get your guesses in for Master Predictor in! They can go either in the thread or to me by PM. Hope you're having a wonderful day so far!

 

[KatMark]

I sent mine by PM earlier this morning.

 

[chloe770]

I know I should play but I'm gonna pass on this one. Next time.

 

[marvali]

I am almost done writing the next update and will post it in a few hours; this is your LAST CHANCE to get your guesses in for Master Predictor in! They can go either in the thread or to me by PM. Hope you're having a wonderful day so far!

Hmm, did you by chance steal this "reminder" idea from anyone???

Actually, didn't you say the same thing months ago when you originally posted the Master Predictor game???
(so is that scrutinized enough for you???)

 

[All7OfUs]

The afternoon came blistering on. Yeah, it was hot, but that’s not what I was referring to entirely. Let me, for a moment, expound upon the bane of blisters. You know when you work in the yard and forget your gloves? A pesky little water-filled beauty slowly appears to give you annoying grief for a day or so. It’s amazing how a little piece of raised flesh, tucked into a tender spot can give some much grief! Now imagine a mega-sized bubble the magnitude of say, a dinner plate sitting strategically on one’s heel. Ok, now imagine 2 of them, one on each side, just to make things symmetrical. These are large enough that the width of a typical band-aid won’t contain its hideousness. Children see them and run screaming; parents run frantically away to find Beverley as a strong curative potion for their shock at the sight; for the blistered each painful minute passes with nothing to do, and he prays for relief, but none will come. Such was the situation of my existence for the last 48 hours, crescendoing to a climax not long after this.

Now that the stage has been set for afternoon, and on into the evening hours, let’s listen in on a phone call from LeeAnn at 4:15:

Liesa: “Hi LeeAnn, where are you?”

LeeAnn: “ We’re just taking off from Minneapolis!”

Liesa: “OH! That’s great you got a flight out tonight.”

LeeAnn: “It’s a 3 and a half hour flight. I don’t think I’ll make it for dinner.”

Liesa: “Well, the check-in guy rescheduled our ADR for 7:30, we can check in then and explain you’re on your way and see what happens.”

LeeAnn: “OK, but please don’t wait for me to eat. I’ll be there when I get there.”

Liesa: “We’re excited and waiting! Bye!”

LeeAnn: She’s polite too, so she said good-bye back.


5:00 rolled around, and MK had played itself out for me. Tate had had some hilarious kicks and giggles, Main Street provided more than enough entertainment, and I shamelessly propped my feet up on the TTA- at least I didn’t crazy dance. I had one singular objective in going back early… to see the Tiki Lighting Ceremony…

So, I hopped on the monorail- Lordy, I love the Poly!- and went back “home”…… and was promptly informed that they didn’t do that on this particular day- whatever day of the week that was. I don’t even remember now, because this TR is THAT ancient. Thoroughly deflated with visions of meat skewers floating as apparitions in my growing appetite, I asked myself, “ What could I possibly fill my time up with then until Mary showed up at 7:00? Hmmm… how about get a little artsty…

and a little bit silly? (Yes, this was BEFORE my 2 drinks.)

By the time I had wandered around pestering CMs and guests alike to have fun photoshoots of yours truly, gasping in shock at the prices in the Wyland Gallery, and asking myself how much longer I’d have to stave off my craving for my Lapu, it was finally time to head to the Tambu and meet Mary. It was now 7:00, and we still had not heard from LeeAnn that she had landed. Can you feel the drama??

The Tambu was a groovin’, hip-hopping, if not Island vibin’ place… that had no seating to be found when I got there. So like an opportunistic teenager who is always looking for his next pizza fix, I hungrily scoped out who might be leaving next and sidled on up and waited. Soon, Mary showed up and we swooped in (well, she commandingly wheeled in) on a table we’d share with a nice little family and eventually get sloshed with. Well, ok, we didn’t really get sloshed, but by the time LeeAnn showed up, (oops, I’m supposed to be maintaining some semblance of suspense here, aren’t I? My bad.) we were pretty juiced up. At least I was, because, I’m telling you- that Heaven in a Pineapple was strong and guuuuuuuuuuuuud!

Tate enjoyed choosing his libation as well

and recommended a Midori Sour for Mary, which she ordered.

She’ll have to give her own critique, but I think she applauded the Tambu’s efforts. In the end, Tate just ended up stealing a few sips of mine, and agreed it was one of the best drinks on the planet. Not quite as good as the apricot sour at HBD, but exceedingly tasty nonetheless. I can tell you, I wasn’t the only one who thought so!

True to Continental’s flight time estimations, LeeAnn did land at 7:30. Right on time for our scheduled ADR. But would Disney work with us? Could I pass off my tears over blisters as tears over missing our opening dinner because Continental forgot to change an oil filter making my friend late?? LeeAnn called from the ME bus, telling us she was on her way, and would come straight to the lounge. I went to the check-in desk and explained our situation, and they told us that although they couldn’t guarantee immediate seating when she did come, that we should just tell them when she arrived and they would give us a buzz when they could. I was pretty sure the Tambu was already taking care of that.

Did I mention that Lupus are tasty? So nomilicious, in fact, that one was simply not going to cut it. And ladies and gents, I am here today to pass along Disney Touring Tip #412. Do not order another full Lapu at $14, or whatever ridiculous price it was. My server, who was WAY too chatty, by the way (one of those hanger-onners, like a pesky piece of TP on your shoe kind), informed us that a more economical way (does Disney even KNOW the meaning of that concept?) to get more liquor is to order an $8 Mai Tai, and dump it in the fruit. Not exactly the same thing but close, and hey, after a Lapu, who’s really going to know the difference? About the same time my re-fill arrived, so did LeeAnn. It was bliss to finally all be together around 8:00- a full 3 hours later than when she first had been scheduled to get to the Poly. In the grand scheme of things, though, that really wasn’t too bad for having to completely reroute, layover and all that jazz. And as a celebration, I handed her my drink. I had only had one sip, and was certain after such a crappy day, she’d want it without further delay. And being in a celebratory mood as such, I promptly ordered up another for myself from Mr. Chatty himself.

Around 9:30, we settled up the bill at the bar and got buzzed. This time with a buzzer/flasher…

Next up: P is for Portions of Pork and Potstickers

 

[All7OfUs]

I sent mine by PM earlier this morning.

Got it, Kathy! Now that I have the update done, I'll be writing down answers.

I know I should play but I'm gonna pass on this one. Next time.

IT's ok, we all only have as much time as we do. And I"m sure there will be other times to play along

Hmm, did you by chance steal this "reminder" idea from anyone???

Actually, didn't you say the same thing months ago when you originally posted the Master Predictor game???
(so is that scrutinized enough for you???)

Truthfully, no. I got on, posted this, then went to your thread, read and commented, then read Barry's. It IS funny though that they practically said the same things verbatim! And now that my update is done, I'm coming over to see if your is....

And yes, when I posted that about the game, I did have to chuckle to myself and wonder if it'd be YOU or Glenn who'd say exactly that. Do we all know each other too well, or what?

 

[marvali]

Truthfully, no. I got on, posted this, then went to your thread, read and commented, then read Barry's. It IS funny though that they practically said the same things verbatim! And now that my update is done, I'm coming over to see if your is....

And yes, when I posted that about the game, I did have to chuckle to myself and wonder if it'd be YOU or Glenn who'd say exactly that. Do we all know each other too well, or what?

Yeah, that is why we are all like one big DISfunctional (Glennism) family that when we ever get to meet in real life, it is like we have known each other forever!!! That is what I love about all the threads and friends I am a part of here. We pick on each other mercilessly at times and laugh at ourselves and each other. But when all is said and done, we are all probably closer to each other (not actually having met each other in most cases) than tons of people who have known each other their whole lives!

 

[jenbear123]

I can't believe I stayed at the Poly and never tried a Lapu Lapu! Oh, the humanity! I know... okay well you just drank one for me, right Liesa? Maybe I can find time in Aug to get myself one. Love the cute Tate pics

 

[All7OfUs]

Yeah, that is why we are all like one big DISfunctional (Glennism) family that when we ever get to meet in real life, it is like we have known each other forever!!! That is what I love about all the threads and friends I am a part of here. We pick on each other mercilessly at times and laugh at ourselves and each other. But when all is said and done, we are all probably closer to each other (not actually having met each other in most cases) than tons of people who have known each other their whole lives!

Beautifully said- so very true!

 

[All7OfUs]

I can't believe I stayed at the Poly and never tried a Lapu Lapu! Oh, the humanity! I know... okay well you just drank one for me, right Liesa? Maybe I can find time in Aug to get myself one. Love the cute Tate pics

That is shameful. But then again, I've never eaten at Le Cel. So I guess we're even.

 

[marvali]

parents run frantically away to find Beverley as a strong curative potion for their shock at the sight;

Now that's what I call painting a verbal image!!!

Nice update! Love the artsy pictures, and your "Jeanie" pose.

I sure hope somebody carded Tate before he got to order his drinks!!!

And looks like my SWAG theory for Master Predictor contests is off to a resounding thud!!!