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

I think the facade fits in so well with the Fantasyland theming- and it's such a shame that the one in Orlando is so "coverered up", and all hidden.

It is so odd how once is ENOUGH!! :laughing: too much of a good thing, I guess.

It definitely does. And I know right! They really need to get a little more creative with the FL in Orlando, good thing they are having the expansion :thumbsup2

It is so odd how once is ENOUGH!! :laughing: too much of a good thing, I guess.

Exactly :teeth:
 
I've just recently reached the point where I'm better than I was presurgery and am glad I had it done. I'm able to walk without a cane, or any help, so that's definitely an improvement. I am a school secretary and I love it. I worked in a high stress, high paying job for 30 years, walked in one day and was told my job was being eliminated effective immediately. After the shock wore off, I decided to find something that I would enjoy doing instead of being stressed and miserable and ended up in an elementary school. I absolutely LOVE it. The money isn't very good, but the benefits are great and I am much happier than I ever was before. this job gives me plenty of time to spend with my family, especially my grandson, who picture is my avatar.

Terri

That's awesome you are better now than before! Hurrah!

And even better you LOVE your job- sounds like a massive improvement, Terri!
Sometimes the benefits and enjoyment more than make up for the wage :)

And you can't put a price tag on the time with family- especially that cutie pie!

There is a LOT to be said for LOVING your job !!!:cloud9:I love mine and infact work in the same field for 2 different agencies :hug:

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I'm just glad I'll still have the baby at home with me after I drop the older two off so it'll hopefully make the transition easier on all of us. Yeah my kids do know a lot about Disney. Now to teach my son all about Walt and why Disneyland was created. But I do have to say he is pretty smart with out anyone telling him anything he's started telling us that Walt is Mickey's Dad. :lovestruc Kind of cute if you ask me.



You mean 1 bottle, right? :lmao: I know everything will go fine it's just the stress of no one bothering to call to say if they are going to make it or not. It get's very frustrating.


Baby steps is a good strategy!

That's hilarious about Walt being Mickey's dad! :lmao: Logical for sure!

Oh, why yes; I did mean a bottle- silly me! I do understand the frustration, REALLY, I very much do!:headache:
 
Liesa, what a great update!! A potato as a skipper who then has to witness his (her?) relatives being fried!! :lmao::lmao::lmao:

I am glad that you enjoyed Beaches & Cream, I really hope that we will manage to go there at least once for a treat, even though it won't be much of a treat for Katharina to watch me eat ice cream which she can't have... I hope they have rice dream there for her!!!
 
Falling asleep every hour? No, that was from waiting for an update on your TR. :rolleyes1
Or waiting on you to "man up" and ride ToT, or anything more dangerous than Cindy's Carousel????? :rolleyes1
I lived to tell about it. I may be a bit nuttier for it, but I am here to retell my tale. :eek:
Oh don't try blaming THAT on IASW!!! :sad2:
There is a LOT to be said for LOVING your job !!!:cloud9:I love mine and infact work in the same field for 2 different agencies :hug:
Oh, you WORK there Rosie??? :confused: I thought you were the ORIGINAL English Patient!!! :rotfl2:



Nice update Tate, although I'm worried about this afternoon tryst at the pool concept. I think you've been influenced by a certain someone's infamous greeting and wanton nature with which they freely administer it!!! :scared1:

And sorry about the dicey way some establishments treat your potential kin, although that HM glob of ketchup could certainly distract you from the morbid display of the hacked up tater parts lying there like so many openly displayed slab occupants in the local morgue. :eek:

I'm surprised your three travelling companions didn't take the opportunity to clean out the kitchen sink since there were four of you there to share it, after all!!! :confused3
 

The skipper asked if I’d like to try my hand at piloting our craft, and being a rather confident tater, I gave it my best shot. By the end of our journey, I was an expert at navigating the waterways and should you ever have need of a skilled spud you know who to call.

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Turn around Tate! Turn around! Aaaaaaghh!

I successfully docked our boat (very unlike the new woman skipper later in our trip who took a full 10 minutes to dock out boat at POR)

We had one like that once too.

Pretty soon, the burgers came (along with the fries); LeeAnn and Liesa split one, for there were other artery-clogging items slated for later in the day….

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Hidden Mickey!!


Nice report Tate!
 
I see Tate was on his best behavior that day. ;) I'm sorry he had to be subjected to such torture as to watch his peeps be fried and eaten tho. :lmao: But, they were served with a hidden Mickey. That makes it ok, right? :lmao:

Beaches and Cream looks like fun. We are hoping to try it out on this trip. We may ever go for the kitchen sink :rolleyes1
 
Great Update "Tate" !!Imagine the Horror of seeing your friends fried !!:scared1: I have yet to try this famous establishement , but in October plan on 10 of us tackiling the Kitchen sink!!!:banana:
 
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Wonderful update, Tate. Glad to see you enjoying yourself, despite the "frying of your kin."
 
Liesa, what a great update!! A potato as a skipper who then has to witness his (her?) relatives being fried!! :lmao::lmao::lmao:

I am glad that you enjoyed Beaches & Cream, I really hope that we will manage to go there at least once for a treat, even though it won't be much of a treat for Katharina to watch me eat ice cream which she can't have... I hope they have rice dream there for her!!!

Tate will likely be your hostater for the next couple of updates, as he was quite an integral part of that day's doings. Glad you're enjoying his narrative.

I would certainly think they'd have another option for the no-can-do-dairy folks. I mean frozen treats are really WHY you'd go there, since the food is marginal at best. The burger we had was actually quite ONLY OK, nothing special at all. So, yeah, I'd say I'd say it's a safe bet they'd have something there for her.

BTW, my parents just called from Norway. They said that they are REALLY enjoying themselves, and that they were surprised that 90% of the other tourists were Germans. They were guessing that that is the place where there is still a bit of disposable income?? What's your guess about that??

Nice update Tate, although I'm worried about this afternoon tryst at the pool concept. I think you've been influenced by a certain someone's infamous greeting and wanton nature with which they freely administer it!!! :scared1:

And sorry about the dicey way some establishments treat your potential kin, although that HM glob of ketchup could certainly distract you from the morbid display of the hacked up tater parts lying there like so many openly displayed slab occupants in the local morgue. :eek:

I'm surprised your three travelling companions didn't take the opportunity to clean out the kitchen sink since there were four of you there to share it, after all!!! :confused3

Well from one taterhead to another, you really should try the nighttime pool thing. One night, really late, LeeAnn and Liesa came crashing in after some splish-splashy fun, and as far as I know, they both kept ALL their clothes on. In fact, I think I saw a picture that I can show you in a couple of updates. You do have a special someone who could do a late swim with you, right??

I got over it; Liesa made vague promises to let me sip off her nightcap later on, and with the continued threats of holding my parts as extortion, I had no choice but to keep the horrific scene I was encountering all bottled up inside. I think I'm over the trauma of it all. Liesa's pretty creative, isn't she? That HM blob was all her doing; I think she's become an expert at distracting her kids after having 5 of them. You know the kind you do when your kid's about to have a serious meltdown in the Cracker Barrel and you quick do the straw wrapper worm trick? Yeah, that kind. She saw I was beginning to hyperventilate over my hacked up counterparts and grabbed the ketchup bottle to appease me temporarily. ;)

Nope, they had their sights set on other lucious venues.....


Turn around Tate! Turn around! Aaaaaaghh!


Truuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuust meee....


We had one like that once too.



I can't think of any situation that I got more impatient for, and wished I could just take the wheel and try myself. Of course, I might have just rammed us right into The RiverRoost, but at least we'd BE THERE! :laughing:

Hidden Mickey!!


You like that one- that was Liesa's very own creation.

Nice report Tate!

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I'm glad you (or Tate I should say) had a great time at B&C despite the fact his fellow spuds were sacrificed for the experience. I've never had a burger from there. How was it? I find B&C to be much busier later in the day. I'll have to make a point to go there at lunch during less busy times.
 
I see Tate was on his best behavior that day. ;) I'm sorry he had to be subjected to such torture as to watch his peeps be fried and eaten tho. :lmao: But, they were served with a hidden Mickey. That makes it ok, right? :lmao:

Beaches and Cream looks like fun. We are hoping to try it out on this trip. We may ever go for the kitchen sink :rolleyes1

No, it was the promise of a sip or two later that night that made it all ok. The HM was a ploy to get me to pipe down. I could see right through it. :laughing:

I can tell you that kitchen sink was GINORMOUS!! There were like 8 people at that table and it came with individual dishes and spoons; after they were done serving reasonable portions up, the KS was STILL rather full!

Great Update "Tate" !!Imagine the Horror of seeing your friends fried !!:scared1: I have yet to try this famous establishement , but in October plan on 10 of us tackiling the Kitchen sink!!!:banana:

10 would be a good number to try to tackle that thing. Any fewer and you won't even come close.

Hey here's a concept; use Mr. Potato Heads to serve ice cream sundaes in! Maybe fewer fries would be eaten??

Wonderful update, Tate. Glad to see you enjoying yourself, despite the "frying of your kin."

Well, actually, I'd rather see the frying of my KIN than of my SKIN!! :rotfl2::lmao::rotfl2:
 
I'm glad you (or Tate I should say) had a great time at B&C despite the fact his fellow spuds were sacrificed for the experience. I've never had a burger from there. How was it? I find B&C to be much busier later in the day. I'll have to make a point to go there at lunch during less busy times.

The short review is that the burger was actually very mediocre! There was nothing really special about it at all, and was commensurate with the price. It wasn't all that expensive as I recall, and had we not KNOWN we'd be getting dessert later on, it might not have been enough. I mean it was OK, but not spectacular food. I'd say the main attraction here IS the soda fountain/ice cream parlour aspect. The atmosphere is fun, and perfect for the resort. It'd be fun sitting at the counter if you there was a small group (2 or 3), and the price is right for what you get.
 
The skipper asked if I’d like to try my hand at piloting our craft, and being a rather confident tater, I gave it my best shot. By the end of our journey, I was an expert at navigating the waterways and should you ever have need of a skilled spud you know who to call.

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Turn around Tate! Turn around! Aaaaaaghh!

Truuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuust meee....

Cue the music: ♪ ♪ ♫ "There's got to be a morning after...." ♪ ♪ ♫
 
Oh wait, they don’t let people swim in Disney water anymore if it doesn’t’ have chlorine or duck poo.

Did you see those reports of brain-eating amoebas in Virginia? Suddenly, I don't blame them. :eek:

The skipper asked if I’d like to try my hand at piloting our craft, and being a rather confident tater, I gave it my best shot.

Did you keep hitting the center rail? :confused3

Frankly, I was more impressed with the high class act of this resort. Even the flowers must cost around $200 a shot! And that my friends, is a dinner for 4 at California Grill!

$200 for flowers?! Is there a TV in there?

Amazingly, the water came and Liesa did not nearly spill it on anyone’s lap.

And hopefully there was no chlorine or duck poo in it, either. :crazy2:


and was horrified that they were serving up large portions of my kinfolk!! Hacked to a horrible death, then deep fried, I wasn’t sure I could deal with this sort of macabre massacre of my kind.

:eek:

You know, I had thought Tate might be a cannibal. Guess I was wrong!

Pretty soon, the burgers came (along with the fries); LeeAnn and Liesa split one, for there were other artery-clogging items slated for later in the day….

I know, you're trying to bait me into posting Homer again. Well, it's not going to work! Do your worst!

Although I do enjoy the fare at B&C.

See that sweet lady up above?? Her name is Maria, and I think I’m in love! She has the grace of a swan, and has worked at B&C for 22 years!!! Can you imagine loving your job THAT much?!

No, but the place I work is decidedly NOT Disney. Let's hear it for wonderful CM's! :yay:

Oh! What’s this?? What could possibly take the attention of 4 servers?? Let’s see what all of the hullabaloo is:

Uh oh...

Some people pack the kitchen sink when they go to Disney World, others just order it and Beaches and Cream:

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Uncle! UNCLE!!

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Or waiting on you to "man up" and ride ToT, or anything more dangerous than Cindy's Carousel????? :rolleyes1

Dude, I did ride it. I'm just not dumb enough to get back on it.

Hidden Mickey!!

Good eyes! But I think Marv spotted it first. :rolleyes1
 
Nifty update Tate.

My condolences on your dearly departed spuds.

Let this be a lesson to you. If you see Liesa carrying a jug of Canola, you might want to hide out a while.
 
Tate is so right, the Beach Club looks so nice (: I totally would love to stay there, especially having the ability to walk to EPCOT and enjoy Stormalong Bay. And the lobby looks so nice :goodvibes

Oooo... Beaches & Cream! It does look a lot smaller than I've seen from other pictures, good thing you guys got in before a busier time. :thumbsup2 The food looks so good and I really want to try a Kitchen Sink, it looks a lot more tasty than the average Kitchen sink ;) And I can't believe that CM Maria has been working at Beaches & Cream for 22 years, wow, she must really like working there A LOT! ::yes:: And that's great she gave LeeAnn some bubbles for you guys to play with :D Very cute (:

Can't wait to read more! :mickeyjum
 
True, but I didn't see his post...so at least I did it without help. Now, question for you: what movie was I referencing with the lyric in my post two posts above yours???

The Poseidon Adventure...but I totally had to "research" that.
 
Heads up Liesa, "my version" of our meet is coming up. After the next episode of "Mother of the year" . :laughing:
 













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