April 2010 ABD Backstage Magic : California Here We Come!!!

[TheTXTaylors5]

Bill finally arrived home early Saturday morning around 1:30 am. He was suppose to land around 9:35 pm on Friday. However, his plane had to return to Seattle after being airborne for about 35 minutes. His plane had to do an emergency landing due to a malfunction with the plane. He is fine, but was a little hesitant to board the replacement plane.

Here's a news story on his flight ...

By KOMO Staff

SEA-TAC AIRPORT -- A Dallas-bound flight turned around shortly after taking off from Sea-Tac Airport on Friday afternoon.

American Airlines flight 1832 turned around some 35 minutes after taking off around 3:45 p.m. due to what officials described as a warning light with a symptom.

The nature of the emergency was not immediately known, but the plane landed safely. There were no reports of injuries.

Jennifer

 

[katscradle]

Glad he landed home safe and sound!

 

[TheTXTaylors5]

Glad he landed home safe and sound!

Thank you!

Bill has been a VERY lucky man in his life. A month before our wedding, Bill got into an accident with an 18-wheeler on the highway. His pick-up truck was totaled. He came out with only minor scratches and pains. Most people don't survive those types of accidents. He almost made me a widow before even getting married.

Jennifer

 

[stenogoddess]

Thank you!

Bill has been a VERY lucky man in his life. A month before our wedding, Bill got into an accident with an 18-wheeler on the highway. His pick-up truck was totaled. He came out with only minor scratches and pains. Most people don't survive those types of accidents. He almost made me a widow before even getting married.

Jennifer

I'm not sure if I don't want to ride with Bill, or if I want to sit as close to him as possible! Glad he's okay!

 

[TheTXTaylors5]

I have to say (or rather write) DVC Owners are very diligent about booking their points. They are worse than the mother of a five year old girl booking an 8:05 am ADR for CRT breakfast. It looks like we won't be able to attend DAP this year. There are zero DVC openings except at SSR for the whole week. We could piece together a night here and there, but nothing continuous for the whole week. As much as I like SSR, I am NOT giving up a two-bedroom savanna-view room at Kidani Village for SSR. I will give Bill credit, he tried pretty hard and was on the phone a few times with DVC. Maybe next year (if they do it) ...

Jennifer

 

[TheTXTaylors5]

In case y'all haven't heard, there are going to be some exciting changes to Fantasyland at the Magic Kingdom over the next few years ...

Here's the Disney press release on the MK expansion:
WALT DISNEY PARKS AND RESORTS CHAIRMAN JAY RASULO UNVEILS NEW ATTRACTIONS AND EXPERIENCES AT FIRST D23 EXPO

Here's a link to the Orlando Sentinel with an artist's rendering and blueprint of the "new" Fantasyland. It looks amazing!!!!:
Fantasyland Expansion (from Orlando Sentinel)

Check out the links and let me know what you think.

Personally, I think the new princess cottages and castles are trying to compete with the new Harry Potter section at Universal? They look kind of similar. To me, the new section looks like a "Princess World Showcase". I thought Disney was hard up for cash and their earnings were down. What's with all this spending lately? I assume we can see the ticket prices going up and up and up for many years to come.

Jennifer

 

[TheTXTaylors5]

I have to tell you about a funny thing that happened this past weekend ...
It has been raining here in the Dallas area for about four days now. I'm looking out my home-office window and it is still raining! Yesterday, I took a drive out with my Mom to her new house to see the progress. Smartly, I stayed in the car while she hopped out wanting to take some pictures. She carefully walked into the house stepping in mud puddles along the way. When she came out, she wanted to wash off her sneakers. So, she looked for a big semi-clean puddle to rinse off her sneakers. Okay, this is the point where I wish I had my video camera (AFV would have loved this!). My Mom slowly put her foot into the puddle and instead of dipping her foot in and rinsing her shoe and taking it out, she stepped into the puddle to the bottom with all the mud and guck. It was the funniest thing I had every seen. She was knee-deep in this puddle. It was a sight!

Jennifer

 

[klam_chowder]

Hey all...been away from the boards a bit and just stopping in to say Hi!

Heather - fab you could join our group; looking fwd to mtg you!

I gotta say that Alaska is without a doubt the most incredible place I have ever been. Definitely will have to get back at some point.

This is a trip DH & I have talked about a lot...it would be the podcast cruise 3.0 was to Alaska!!

We're back from a quick WDW trip (9/2-9/6) and I wanted to pop in and say hello!

How was the trip Dodie?

I'm still searching for good (preferably non-Asian) food in Vancouver.

I've had quite a few good meals in Vancouver...most recently at The Market, Shangra-la.


Did anyone in our group get to D23? Any reports?


cheers,

 

[OKW Lover]

Hey all...been away from the boards a bit and just stopping in to say Hi!

I've been wondering where you've been. Still planning on F&W next month?

 

[katscradle]

I have to say (or rather write) DVC Owners are very diligent about booking their points. They are worse than the mother of a five year old girl booking an 8:05 am ADR for CRT breakfast. It looks like we won't be able to attend DAP this year. There are zero DVC openings except at SSR for the whole week. We could piece together a night here and there, but nothing continuous for the whole week. As much as I like SSR, I am NOT giving up a two-bedroom savanna-view room at Kidani Village for SSR. I will give Bill credit, he tried pretty hard and was on the phone a few times with DVC. Maybe next year (if they do it) ...

Jennifer

Well that sucks, I was really hoping to get to meet you and Bill at DAP.

 

[klam_chowder]

I've been wondering where you've been. Still planning on F&W next month?

Hi Jeff - I was on the west coast for 3 wks and then a couple of nites after I got back, we had a bit of a

In the middle of the nite, DH had basically collapsed in pain and altho he could barely breathe, resisted my request to take him to the ER. Well, eventually I got him there. He's never been to a hospital before and has a clean medical history so it was a bit of a surprise to both of us. The short story is after being tormented (only cuz staying at a hospital and getting poked, prodded, punctured and prognoses is a downer - the heathcare providers were all excellent ), for the better part of week they finally agreed to discharge him only ruling out what it wasn't but unable to say what it was. He's back at work this week and we have some ideas of what it could be (esophagus spasm, etc.) and are not on alert anymore

Too bad y'all won't be on this adventure with us - it'd be a blast! We'd to do F&W one year but our next encounter with the Mouse won't be till DLR in Dec. We'll think of you as y'all raise a glass - pass along to Val too!

Catching up on stuff and podcasts - Lynne it was fun to hear your pkg get opened

cheers,

 

[ADP]

Hope you all have a great time in April.

 

[TheTXTaylors5]

This is a trip DH & I have talked about a lot...it would be the podcast cruise 3.0 was to Alaska!!

Now that DCL is venturing north to Alaska, we have seriously considered an Alaskan cruise with DCL. On every past cruise, I put on the comment card "Take us to Alaska!!!!!!" and now they are. Glad DCL listens to their guests.

Did anyone in our group get to D23? Any reports?

We're not D23 Members. However, I believe the news of the Fantasyland renovation and the new Star Wars attraction at DHS were announced at D23.

Jennifer

 

[TheTXTaylors5]

Well that sucks, I was really hoping to get to meet you and Bill at DAP.

Same here. However, if I am selected to the Walt Disney World Moms Panel (long shot! ), Bill said he would extend the vacation (at Disney's expense of course ). I will take all the pixie dust you can send me.

Jennifer

 

[TheTXTaylors5]

Toy Story Mania comes out on Wii today!!!!!!

Anyone else going to be playing tonight? Bill pre-ordered it months ago. He picks it up at Toys R Us on his way home. Tonight, I am making a quick dinner and we are going to gather around the tv as a family and pretend we are at DHS.

Anyone else?!?!?!?!?!

Jennifer

 

[katscradle]

Same here. However, if I am selected to the Walt Disney World Moms Panel (long shot! ), Bill said he would extend the vacation (at Disney's expense of course ). I will take all the pixie dust you can send me.

Jennifer

Sending you lots of pixie dust!

 

[katscradle]

Toy Story Mania comes out on Wii today!!!!!!

Anyone else going to be playing tonight? Bill pre-ordered it months ago. He picks it up at Toys R Us on his way home. Tonight, I am making a quick dinner and we are going to gather around the tv as a family and pretend we are at DHS.

Anyone else?!?!?!?!?!

Jennifer

We waited until after the boys went to sleep to play it.
They have school tomorrow and would never have gone to bed.

 

[klam_chowder]

Jennifer - thx for getting DCL to cruise to Alaska

I went to check out the itinerary and am disappointed that it's a return cruise - I know it will be easier for Disney fans who don't have to arrange one-way airfare - however, we were plannning on a one-way cruise so that we could head to ports further north, and spend some a week or 2 pre-trip checking out Denali National Park, Kenai Fjords, etc...remember I said we'd been talking about this?

Getting excited about ABD Still planning to arrive early, not sure how early tho. Any "single-types" have plans they'd like to share? It'd be fun to do Universal or together

cheers,

 

[stenogoddess]

Hey Klam! We're not single types, but we are planning on doing the Delux Universal tour that Pete talked about in the podcast. We're also hoping to do the VIP Warner Brothers tour as well. Also on the short list is Peterson's Automotive Musem and possibly Griffith Park. If we can "sync our schedules" that would be cool with us!

 

[tmli]

We are also planning on the VIP warner Bros Tour, I wonder if we could get a group rate if there were a few of us? We are considering the Universal tour, just not sure if time will allow both.

I am going to try to get Ellen tickets as well!