And the Rain, Rain, Rain Came Down, Down Down - or Oy, Fay! Updated 10/1. The End.

[jcc0621]

..........I anticipate an upcoming reduction in the number of TFW sheriffs..............

 

[Redbudlover]

Settling in for a good one...

 

[princessjv]

I love the blurry 1st Focker encounter. Awesome that you got a better room. I hope it is awesome! What a trooper, ponchos in hand and you were outta there!

 

[sorul82?]

I know! I'm so excited! We should start planning the shower!!!

Or do you think she would prefer a drought?

 

[TEminnie]

Or do you think she would prefer a drought?

That's true.....she's probably had enough rain!

 

[marianas00]

I'm in! I'm in! Already sounds like a good one. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Muffinygood]

Ce? Where are you?


MEL

 

[Goofyluver]

You and T make very pretty blurry blobs!!!

Get on with it. This is taking forever.

 

[KatGarcia]

Where the heck have I been? I guess I never checked the links on the 86'd thread for TR's...but I'm here now and all caught up!

 

[LurrrvtheDuck]

Thank goodness you didn't get delays!

What an awesome first meet!

on scoring a better room. Awwww AKL


Ok all caught up you may continue now....

 

[jcc0621]

CE, girlfriend where are you? Did the boys start school today? Is that why you aren't here

 

[Nutz4Dsny]

Can't wait to have enough time to catch up and read all about your vacation.

 

[HomeschoolMama]

Hello? Where are you today? With all the health issues your family has had lately you have me worried.

 

[cmp1111]

I`m here CE!! I loved the picture in the airport! even though it was blurry, it still captured the excitment!

I think we were just moving that fast!

Subbing! can't wait to read more!

Thanks so much for reading!

Settling in for a good one...

Thanks for coming by!

- One of you was from Joliet? I grew up in the Champaign area and have a couple of college buddies from Joliet.

I love the blurry 1st Focker encounter. Awesome that you got a better room. I hope it is awesome! What a trooper, ponchos in hand and you were outta there!

Oh, yeah - Fay wasn't stopping us!

I'm in! I'm in! Already sounds like a good one. Thanks for sharing.

No, thank YOU for reading!

Ce? Where are you?

Yesterday I was at a lake all day. Today I was just busy.

You and T make very pretty blurry blobs!!!

Get on with it. This is taking forever.

Aww, thanks. And how long has yours been going on?

Where the heck have I been? I guess I never checked the links on the 86'd thread for TR's...but I'm here now and all caught up!

Pshew, I just figured you were still busy getting back to "real" life.

Thank goodness you didn't get delays!

What an awesome first meet!

on scoring a better room. Awwww AKL


Ok all caught up you may continue now....

OK, maybe later tonight. Thanks for reading, Z!

CE, girlfriend where are you? Did the boys start school today? Is that why you aren't here

Nope. I played tennis, went to Target, got my hair cut, went to the grocery store, then did spelling words and showers for the kids. (Well, I read the spelling words - I can already spell them. ) It's just been a crazy day! They are going to bed in a half hour, then I'll be back for a good long session.

Can't wait to have enough time to catch up and read all about your vacation.

Hi, thanks for reading!

Hello? Where are you today? With all the health issues your family has had lately you have me worried.

Sorry, kiddo. I was just doing mom stuff. Didn't mean to worry you!

 

[cmp1111]

*I have to apologize for a dearth of pictures on this update. It was raining. Getting the camera out was hard, and also dangerous to the camera's life.

Ponchos on ($4 ones, from Wal-Mart. Where I tend to NOT shop, but Target didn't have enough...), baggalini on board (making me look particularly like a nice blue hunchback ) we headed off to the park bus stop at AKL.

For some reason, it didn't strike me as being as far as I remembered. I still don't know why - they have not changed it - but hey. Better is good.

We were down there by about 11:30, and had relatively no wait for an MK bus.

We arrived at MK in decent time. I sent D & the boys through the "guests with no bags" line, whilst I tried to extract myself from the Baggalini without getting too wet. I now probably LOOKED like I was wrestling an octopus under the poncho - fun!

We asked the boys about their first ride of the year. In the pouring rain, why, it's Splash Mountain!

We walked on - no wait at all - then headed for BTMRR. It's kind of cool in the rain! Again, a walk-on. So we'd been in the park for about 20 minutes and walked back to Frontierland and done two rides. Score!

Maybe this Fay thing won't be so bad after all...

We were all a little hungry - breakfast had been several hours away back at the airport - and so we decided to hit Pecos Bill's. It's not my fave, but it's got good kid options on the DDP, so in we went.

I think Buzz had a "cheeseburger with no cheese" (I don't know where I went wrong with this kid...) and Woody had a cheeseburger. D had something - a taco salad, I think. I had the veggie burger.

Despite the "wheatish" buns (I, like many others, like wheat buns, but these are just weird) we had a good lunch. The veggie burger was probably kind of blah, but I topped with grilled mushrooms, and possibly some cheese sauce... and it was fine. In true good DIS fashion, we entered from the Frontierland side, and had NO line, whilst the lines on the side coming in from the Adventureland tunnelish area were huge.

Buzz, as I mentioned, is a tad more timid on rides. He was happy enough to do Spl. Mtn. and BTMRR, but those had been Woody's picks. I asked Buzz what HE wanted to do next.

"The Tiki Room".

Huh? How does he even KNOW about this?

But, OK.

No wait, right into see the birds.

I hadn't seen it since it was "under new management" and it was cute enough, and hey, it wasn't raining inside!

Next up, my fave, PotC.

I know the ride's not that exciting, even with the additions. But something about that weird coolness, and musty smell, just says "Disney" to me. I LOVED the ride at DLR growing up going to my aunt's house, and I just love it.

And we sing.

Since we were over that way, we wanted to do HM. When we were there in May last year, it had not yet been updated. I had talked it up big to my kids as being "silly, not scary", citing the line of "happy haunts" for back-up.

I was excited to see the changes, and they were subtle enough that the kids still weren't scared, but enough to make me happy that they'd done something.

We were commandoing, and with NO lines, so we just headed on to Fantasyland.

They both wanted to ride Pooh (that phrase just makes me giggle) and it was probably the longest line we'd seen all day. Here I am (covered queue, with a bit of time, so the camera came out) with my flat Focker friends:

Flat Katt is on your left, Flat Rachel on the right.

Here are the boys, all ponchoed up:

We then headed to Dumbo. I feel like I waited in line with them whilst D maybe went to the bathroom, but he joined us for the ride. Again, maybe it was a 15 minute wait, at 3:00 p.m. Not bad, not bad at all.

Dumbo is, however, not so much fun in the rain.

Still moving on, we hit Buzz's favorite ride, Buzz! (No wait!) I performed pathetically, but still won.

Next was a new ride for us, Astro Orbiter. I will say that I enjoyed it more than I figured on.

At this point, it was time to leave the park - we had to get our dinner on, people!

We stopped for a quick classic pic:

Hey, it must not have been raining so much - Woody's out of poncho!

And D likes to take crowd pictures, so:

Main Street at around 4:30 - unbelievable!

But before we go to dinner, let's recap: We were in the park for roughly 4 hours, and got all that done, plus lunch. I am LIKING Fay!

Next up: Dinner with the big guy!

 

[HomeschoolMama]

Oooh! Am I first?!

The boys look so cute in their ponchos.

Riding Pooh makes me giggle too!

 

[cmp1111]

Oooh! Am I first?!

Were the crowds down becuase of Fay?

The boys look so cute in their ponchos.

Looks like! Woohoo!

I think they must have been small at least because of the rain, if not particularly the tropical storm. Though I do know that FL schools (and the midwest ones, too) were in session, etc. and it wasn't supposed to be THAT crowded, anyway. I'll take it, either way!

And thanks!

 

[sharkB8HooHaHa]

Page 12? Seriously? I'm never going to catch up with all of you, am I?

Was this last day Thursday? Or Friday? We did MK in the eve on Thursday and it POURED!!! BUCKETS!!!! MANY of them!!!!! But had a blast in the rain.

I really like the picture in front of the castle.

 

[cmp1111]

Page 12? Seriously? I'm never going to catch up with all of you, am I?

Was this last day Thursday? Or Friday? We did MK in the eve on Thursday and it POURED!!! BUCKETS!!!! MANY of them!!!!! But had a blast in the rain.

I really like the picture in front of the castle.

Hi, Kate!

This would have been Wed. 8/20.

Thanks about the picture - we are wet, but having fun!

I'm just noticing you can see me on the far right of the crowd picture, and you can see my poncho just billowing away. So there may have been a lot of wind involved, too.

But no thunder, which was pretty cool!

 

[HomeschoolMama]

Looks like! Woohoo!

I think they must have been small at least because of the rain, if not particularly the tropical storm. Though I do know that FL schools (and the midwest ones, too) were in session, etc. and it wasn't supposed to be THAT crowded, anyway. I'll take it, either way!

And thanks!

I guess that was a dumb question. I deleted it, but you busted me!