Happy belated birthday! Ahhhh I'm so sorry about your ankle!!!
Ahhh thanks!!! I'm always hurting myself somehow so it's all good.
At least someone captured the fall on film so it's all worth it
Oh my goodness. I would honestly be terrified of those old Mission: SPACE loving folks. I'd probably cry or something. THEN THEY'D BE SORRY.
You're too funny!!! YES!!! ...crying is how we will bring them down!! TAKE THAT OVERLY ENTHUSIASTIC ELDERLY COUPLE!!!
Your stories never fail to crack me up!!! WHAT? What the heck is a mongoose?! I honestly have never seen one!
Wow, those people on Mission Space. Don't get me wrong, I get into the rides, but not to the extent that they did. I could just see them freaking out at you for not pushing the button....
It was crazy!! I was actually scared for my life. So much intensity in such a small enclosed space!! It's ok my friends, it's not real...
I don't think I've ever noticed the gut-fishing boy on Maelstorm before! I've been on that ride a million times; I can't believe something like that has passed me by. Where's he at???
You have to look for him next time!! So creepy!! He is in the big mural when you are boarding...seriously can't miss him once you know he is there. Gahhhh just don't look into his eyes...
I can't blame you for skipping IllumiNations and going back to the house. It can get so hot in Disney.
I am thinking that your headware was rather fabulous actually and not ridiculous at all.
Awh thanks!!! I wore it for pretty much the whole week. Needed to get my $6.75 worth from it.
Poor Josh and Club Cool, I feel ill just thinking about all that sugar in that heat. And then not being able to find the car.
Yeah, he was not in a good way at all poor boy.
But at least he learnt his lesson about chugging copious amounts of foreign soda on days over 100 degrees.
UGH.
Nice lizard speaking moment. Way to roll with it though!
Haha thanks, totally putting down lizard whisperer on my CV from now on...
Dead guppy. Ick.
OKAY SO! I was scrolling up to read your latest update, and I came across the photo of the creepy fish-gutting child and immediately thought, "OMG, if she even brings up how creepy this little boy is gutting the fish with that smile on my face, I will die." Main reason is because I ALWAYS point that out when we go on Maelstrom! Sure enough, you did and so basically that just makes you awesome and yeah, I just had to share that with you.
YAYYY!!! It's seriously the first thing I think of when I think of Maelstrom!!!
YOU my friend are awesome for fully appreciating creepy fish gutting boy!
Like, I showed it to Matt (my husband) and he laughed.
High fives for Matt!!
ANYWAY.
Um, I'm literally laughing out loud over here to the point of tears about the old couple screaming at you on Mission Space. Like, I just can't even imagine what I would do in that situation!
I didn't know what to do!! What can one do when that happens??
You can't smile and slowly back away when you're stuck in a pod!!
OH SCHOOL BREAD. My favorite Disney snack. It's so magical.
And now I'm sad because you can't eat it. Wompwomp.
So sad!!! I totally make people eat things in front of me and describe them to me in detail when I can't have them. A bit weird but it takes away some of the pain
Still laughing at the Maelstrom boy. I for some reason thought I was the only person who noticed him and his creepiness. Matt always points out the ridiculousness of a cruise director being on the mural. Like clearly, that cruise director is going to make you REALLY want to visit Norway. I don't really understand that mural, the more I think about it.
Yay lets talk about him some more!! Why is he enjoying gutting the fish so much?? What is he thinking behind those cold soul-less eyes?? Why can't he be more like his serious cutting friend next to him?
Gah I've never noticed the cruise director, too busy with fish gutting boy but it sounds like some very silly placement!!
THE MURAL MAKES NO SENSE!!!
Hahaha your dead fish photo, nooooo. Why are the most ridiculous things happening on this trip? It's kind of amazing... Okay that sounded way worse than I meant it... Dead fish aren't amazing.
This is my favourite paragraph ever!!!
Nope, things just get more hilarious with your friend John in Ontario. It just never ends.
I love new friends, especially the onces I make while trying to converse with lizards...favourites!
I can't watch the guy in France; I get so nervous something will go wrong and he will fall to his death. I just can't handle it and basically run away.
Yeah I'm a bit like that but he is so tiny and light that I am sure if he started to fall I could spring into action and catch him with one hand.
Ok that was a lie... all lies. But he is pretty freakin small!
Can't wait to hear your next update. Obviously I sang "HIT ME WITH YOUR PET SHARK!" over here.
Subscribing!
I was going through my trip report and found your comment on one and remembered I bookmarked your TR but never got to reading it! Well I have!
Totally utterly hillarious!
Love it!
Update soon!
AGGGGHHHHHHomg i almost peed my freakin pantsURE BACK!!!!!!!!bahaha I love the old man on the bench too funny!OMg YIKES!!!!He lives in my province ha even better!Oh Sally ure so silly I've missed you,don't you ever dare ;leave these boards for spo long again it's just not the same without your antics LOL
Just found this TR and love it! You had an interesting road trip to say the least!
Yayyy! Welcome!!!
I know it was crazy!! And the way back was pretty insane too!!
I just about spit my coffee out on the part about the creepy fish boy on Maelstrom! I know exactly where he is on that big mural.
No no! Never doubt your googling skills. I'm sure it WAS a mongoose, I've just never heard of one before!
Those sunset pictures are SO pretty! Wow.
Wait... are those ladies serious? WHO does that? Wow... I feel so bad for him! I bet the whole ride was a joy with them. Geeze. At least yall made the most of it, which is basically all you can do!
I'm so glad your back! Loved the update, including all the great pix of the safari. I am recently back from my own trip to the World (Jan 3-11) and we had the best safari ride we've ever had. We were stopped twice for animals, once for giraffes (I have a picture I took of a giraffes that was literally three feet away from me sooo cool) and for a really long time for an ostrich. I've done the safari ride a ton of times and have never been stopped before so it was something to get stopped twice. We weren't stopped as long as you were either time but it was still really fun!
Welcome back...you were missed!
What a beautiful sunset...Disney sunsets are somehow just BETTER!
Thank you...I will be singing "Hit me with your pet shark" for a long, long time!
Beautiful sunset pictures!
Thanks!! It's not hard to get good ones at Disney. Dang magic skies...
Oh, I hate to read about rude people like your lovely ride-mates on Kali...that's just not right. You've got to share, people! And since that ride loads while on the move, you had no option to alert a cast member or try to get another raft.
Yeah rude people are no fun! But it didn't really get us down too much. Just makes you realize how 'fun' some peoples lives are if that is how they act on vacation!! Next time we will do a raft switch for sure... actually hopefully there wont be a next time!!
Your "hit me with your pet shark" reminds me of my lyrics for Cyndi Lauper's Girls Just Want to Have Fun. Towards the end of the song, the words are: "Digest an iguana, digest an iguana-a-a!"
Aussiesalad said:AHhhh that is amazing!!! I have always enjoyed Creedence Clearwater Revival's 'There's a bathroom on the right'
That's a good one! That song featured prominently in "An American Werewolf in London" and now it makes so much more sense.
I am a bit shocked that the CM's working the ride didn't "make" him put it in the covered thingamajiggy, thereby overriding said crabby ladies. That's supremely annoying.
Yeah I dont think he saw. Tim had lifted the flap and started putting it in as we were rounding the bend and because we didn't make a fuss I guess the CM didn't notice? Crabby ladies win this round, but they lose at life so YAY for us non crabby folk
Chili's.
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and double ICK!
Ugh I know!!! It was awful!!!! When you are travelling to another country everything sounds so exotic and exciting... IT"S ALL LIES! Well not all of it but I did eat some disgusting horrible food while I was in the states simply because I had seen it in TV shows and movies
So sorry