An Inconvenient Truth: happyhaunt Style! (New... pg. 113!)

[patrokls]

and I sit in the stroller.

Guess why?

THE stroller? Does it involve alcohol or poor footwear choice?

 

[sheridac]

The happyhaunts proceeded to blow off Epcot for the day.

You may get flagged for this. just sadin'.

We were in such a hurry we forgot to bring BEER. To the pool.

WHAT????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I went to the bar. Instead.

Mai Tai have a cocktail???

NOW.........

Now... the following two pictures are two of my favourites. From this trip.

Look at them. And tell me if my beautiful baby girl has OUTGROWN the magic.

I think not. She's almost twelve years old. And the magic shines through. Her.

A Disney Moment. TFI.

I think not. Most definitely. And she won't ever. Not with you as her mama.

Melly!!!!

All the pics were FABULOUS!!!!

 

[Libade]

Mel,
2 new installments YAY!!!

I finally figured out why your camera date stamps your photos in the future. Is that a Canadian thing? What time zone ARE you in?

My kids eat their kaki gori's just like yours. So, I took their clothes. away. from them. Until they were done. Is that wrong?

Thanks again - I'll be sad when you finish!

 

[DisneyNutMary]

Mel....
Softball Game....
Good Luck

 

[Frickles]

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While I got in line to get autographs from these characters.

I was FIRST. In line. For autographs. Waited for a while. Then gave up and returned to the table.

bless your little heart

 

[princesslibby]

This is my favorite picture. It's sweet the way Beth is holding Tommy's hand.

I'd tell you all about it but I have to run now. To a softball playoff game.

Wish us luck!!!

Luck!

To be continued. Up next: The rest of the evening. Fireworks. And all that.
Calvin gets in trouble and I sit in the stroller.

Guess why?

Inappropriate footware?

 

[__disneygirl]

Great installment. Such cute pictures of the kids with the characters!! Can't wait for more

 

[jamal]

Melly!!

Can Beth please marry my A? He's 12 years old, loves Disney, and hugs every character with passion. They are a match made in, well, Florida, and I know they could live happily ever after.

That pic of her with her hand on Tommy's made me choke up a bit. The one of you with Tigger? Not so much.

We love CP!! It's always the kids first request.

Oh, luck. TFI.

Jam out.

 

[WDW LOVR]

Another good installment. Of course, I bout choked up (not with tears) with the CP pictures.

Few years back DS#2 got something bad there and ZZUB'd all over the park (and the boat dock, and the boat dock at FW, you get the picture). The restroom at Liberty Tree Tavern was his favorite deposit zone. You know, the one parents sing in? Except there was no singing...well maybe you could compare it to some of those American Idol wannabe's.

So now, we don't do CP. It causes groans when we walk by. Too bad, got some pictures similar to yours before the dark times and everyone was having fun.

Can't wait for more!

 

[bdg100]

Great report. Thanks for sharing.

 

[trvlnut]

Beer is simply the best. It's better than all the rest.

Ahhh. Another Tina Turner fan. YES.

 

[EllaBella]

Thanks so much for sharing! The picture with Beth & Tommy that's been talked about, she looks a lot like Reese Witherspoon in that pic. You have beautiful children!

 

[Jennifer48]

I was gone for a week and I figured this TR would be over....I guessed wrong! I only missed 2 installments.

All caught up, please proceed....

 

[GOOFYsince71]

Thanks for such a downright funny TR. Me(l)
Your are really killin' us with the sandal stories.
Oh. also,,,puttin' on Beths Bottoms!!!!Only you
could pull that off,,,I mean On....oh.

We leave in 2 Days.....and got "The Phone CAll"from WDW Yesterday!
I was in tears!!!!

 

[Lil' Grumpy]

...ha,ha!. .you & your special wit..& insights...made me
cringed..over the lil gp..farm..we have now!..[7]....i've been bush-
wack!..by my wife & daughter..we were supposed to have just one..
them they schemed how lonely..she was..so i said ok to 2..then
bingo! ....i would love to give'several away...but my lil girl would be
heart broken.....sorry...really!

we were supposed to been "downsizing" ..we lost our 2 cats & golden
reteriver...[old age]..next thingy..my one son brought home the jask
russ..before that...a silky..and our really old sheltie..16y/o..keeps on
going & going..still have an old kennel to give away...it was so funny
when my son told me he had a surprise..in the back of his truck..i looked
& he jumped out..went right into..our house...we advesterized 2 weeks
but no one claimed him... ..some one called that had lost a female..
they were offering a $500..reward..for her..hope they got her back! p.s.
i left my favorite shoes out..they 're now all chewed up!!!

your the best..for redirecting the magic toward your lil
family...often..i am bursting from the seams! tell the general
..does she know you're making her famous...and are you sure you
don't edit.. before sharing with you husband?..just sayin.."manbride...



have a magical day!

 

[mikymouse]

I feel a bit better now that you have confessed to making inappropriate footware decisions. This would not have been necesasry to admit if your pictures were not as well centered. I thought I had perhaps missed some great thread on park strategy, that would allow you to tour the parks in really cute shoes and not obtain blisters. Some sort of invisable people mover sidewalks only accessible to people with over 500 posts. Loved your update and the pictures. Can't wait to hear more about the adventures of the happy haunts!

 

[1000thhappyhaunt]

So... now it is time to rate our Crystal Palace dinner on the PeptoB. Scale.

It was a BIG FIVE happyhaunt thumbs UP! Way up!

No indigestion. No ZZUBing. No BUZZing. No Pepto needed afterwards. No... Nothin'. Except a mid-meal trip to the washroom, there, for Tommy.

He was excited. By all the characters. Especially Tigger. And he, therefore, had to go. Plus... he informed Me(l)... he wanted to "make room for dessert".

Heh heh.

That cracked me up.

Also... grossed me out. A wee bit.

And, actually, made some modicum of sense. In the end.

So... he was the one who put the "poo" in Pooh. And in "Poot". Which is how he likes to refer to it, sometimes. BTW.

And... I was the happyhaunt who put the "pig" in Piglet. And pig-out.

Actually, we all thought the food was very good, there, and we all managed to eat a tremendous amount.

Plus... I had two Diet Cokes. Mellyman had two regular Cokes and water. And the kids all had milk. I insisted because they had been having WAY too much soda. For my liking. So far on this trip.

I'll tell you what we had.

I started with some of the DELISH flavoured butter. And a roll. At the front of the salad bar. It was a sort of sundried tomato and herb(?) butter... I think. Anyhow is was SO good. I wanted to have more. With more bread. But you must be cautious. With pure FAT... foods. You realize the word "butter" is mostly... butt. No surprise there. It works in a reverse fashion, too. And butter will also put the "bu" in bum.

Gee. This ain't working. Today.

Sorry, folks.

But... I'm leaving it in. As I don't give half of a crap.

Moving on... I had some wonderful salad of romaine lettuce and bleu cheese. Which is TREMENDOUSLY GOOD. But... only if you like bleu cheese. TFI.

Otherwise it is... "smelly and gross". According to Calvin.

He passed. On it. When I offered him a taste.

And shoved my fork away from his face so hard that it almost flew out of my hand and impaled Mellyman who was sitting on the other side of me.

No-likey-the-bleu-cheesy. I guessy.

I informed him that a simple "No thank you" would have sufficed. In the delivery of that message.

And that "bleu cheese" does NOT smell like "dirty feet".

Actually... it does. But... in a GOOD way.

Then I had some ordinary peel and eat shrimp. Dipped in the sundried tomato butter. Too. I wasn't THAT concerned. TFI.

Then some salad with shrimp, mango and black beans. Which was also quite nice.

THEN... some prime rib which was awesome. And pretty rare. Some mashed potatoes which were chunky and tasty.

And some of the BEST salmon I had eaten in a while.

Much better than the salmon Mellyman had at Capt. Jack's our first nite. At DTD.

It was ancho-rubbed. Which was sort of spicy but not too spicy. But I had quite A LOT so... it was enough to put the "snap" in crap.

Heh heh.

That's better. I think.

I had some veggies. And some pasta which had mushrooms and chicken in it.

And ONE lone chicken finger. Just for good measure.

Whew.

Mellyman ate SO MUCH prime rib that I was concerned for his heart.

That man can eat some RED MEAT. When the mood strikes him.

The kids ate lots of everything. Sampled bits and bites of this and that.

It was all good.

And THEN... dessert called. Quite loudly. Which was a change. For me. It called all the happyhaunts.

All of us... except for Mellyman. That is. Who was looking bloated and uncomfortable by this time.

The spread was quite nice.

I FINALLY FINALLY got to try what is called "Red Velvet Cake".

Pretty good. If I do say so.

The brownie was good. As was the key lime pie.

The kids went crazy with the ice cream. And brownies.

WE WERE DONE. I think.

I would have gone back for a deviled egg. To top it all off. If there had been any.

Sadly... there were NOT.

Not that there is anything wrong with that. Actually, it was. Wrong. It was a crime that there were NO DEVILED EGGS. There.

Deviled eggs: The perfect beginning AND ending to every meal. TFI.

We paid and tipped and left.

Walked outside and realized that it was pretty close to fireworks time. In the MK.

We decided to try and find a spot right beside the entrance to the Crystal Palace.

Because that's where we were. Right then.

And didn't want to walk any further. We were really too full.

And my feet hurt.

We moved down by the little bridge thingie.

And found a spot by the railing.

Stood and waited. Waited and waited.

Until I decided to sit down and wedge myself into the stroller. Because I was tired and full.

AND MY FEET HURT.

I fit and the stroller, STILL, did not give up the ghost.

The bent wheel did not give out. Nor did the frame shudder and collapse.

People stared at me.

And, yet, I could not have cared less.

Although THIS conversation proved to be a little strange:

Tommy: Can I sit in my stroller?
Mellyman: No. Because YOUR MOTHER is in it.

(that falls in the category of things you think you'll never have to say in your life. Like: "CALVIN! Don't flush mandarin oranges down the toilet!")

Tommy: Why is Mommy sitting in MY stroller?
Me: I'm tryin' to be cool.
Mellyman: She's a little odd, Tommy. And she may be hobbling home down Main Street with that hooked on her butt... if we're lucky.
Me: Heh heh.
Mellyman: Heh heh.
Tommy: I can't see.
Mellyman: Up...up... up on my shoulders. Before your mother thinks of it.
Me: Where the heck is CALVIN?

He was standing up on the lightpost. Way up. On the side of the bridge. There. Perched up on the post. Holding onto the light.

Mellyman: GET DOWN!
Calvin: No.
Mellyman: Pardon?
Calvin: I said no. Didn't you hear me?

(and so began the pre-magical fireworks fight)

Nothing you'd want to wish for. TFI.

Nothing like a fight to put you in the mood. For the stirring and emotional nightly display. At the Magic Kingdom.

Mellyman won.

And, still, we were slightly crabby. After all that. Effort.

Calvin is stubborn. And he doesn't give half of a crap, sometimes.

I think it put a damper on the evening of the other people standing around us.

Marvelling at what kind of morons. We were. Up on a lightpost and in a stroller.


Then... it was time to go. With the rest of the great unwashed hordes trying to get out of Dodge.

In a hurry.

We did this little thing we do. At such times.

We took the RESORTS MONORAIL. Instead of the one to the Ticket and Transpo. Center.

It goes there, too, btw.

Shhhh. Don't tell Mellyman I told you all. That little trick.

But... it works wonderfully. MUCH smaller line and wait. To get on.

We got to the car and the kids all fell asleep on the ride back to the BWVs.

Thoroughly baked.

That's when I realized I forgot my sunglasses at THE CRYSTAL PALACE!!!

CRAP!!!!

One more thing. For Jami.

You're right. That picture was terrible. Of Me(l).

I looked for a better one from that night but all were pretty bad. It was a bad face day. For me. I think.

This was the best:

I could find.

So... here is a little teaser for ya. Instead:

{Second Fake Image. Imaginary Pic.#2: Insert photo of Me(l). Cute 'lil aqua halter top. Little pink flowers on it. Sunglass. Big smile. Normal looking face. Non-scary. Or distorted. Looking LIKE A MILLION BUCKS!!!! Well... a buck. Anyhow. Well... a least not looking... distorted. Or... older than The Queen of England. No offense to queenmom. Intended. TFI. End of Fake photo image} Heh heh.

Just because I'm flirtin' with ya.

I think.

Cheers, Mel.

TGIF!!!!!!

 

[GeorgiaAristocat]

Dang girl. I think you just made a bunch of men really happy.

You know.

With the description of the red meat.

 

[PaulDavid's mom]

Love the swim suit. It's cute. Glad you enjoyed the meal. Great report.
Okay that's all I got right now. I'm tired.

 

[bdg100]

Mel:

Great report. Thanks for sharing.