Biscuit's Grand Adventure 2 - Adventures in Opposites *TR NOW ACTIVE!

[GreatBiscuit]

I'm baaaacck!!!!

We will see how long it lasts.....miss everyone!!!

Howdy Bro! Welcome back! That is AWESOME of you to stop by! Hope it lasts a nice long while.

I KNOW!

 

[jordanyosh]

Now I just have to catch up.

 

[MaryAz]

Joining in!! Loved your last TR. Not sure if I posted or not but I am this time. I also have a 4th grader who does this. She is my older one though



And my younger one does this



Not cheer, T&T but also jumping way in the air!!!

We went to Disney 2 summers ago right before July 4th, it was hot but not awful...Yay for adding on days at the WL!! Hope you got all the fps you wanted. Our next trip is a month away

 

[MaryAz]

I'm baaaacck!!!!

We will see how long it lasts.....miss everyone!!!

JORDY!! Wow!! SO excited to "see" you!!!

 

[winkers]

As usual I'm late to the party.

I haven't kept up with all the new fastpass+ changes.....it makes my head hurt just thinking of it.

I think you're insane for going over July 4th, but I'd go too if it was the only time possible.

 

[Steppesister]

Super busy... moreso than I'd like to be. But in the end it'll all pay off and equal more trips.

 

[Steppesister]

Jordy, WELCOME BACK!!!!!

 

[Curiouser&curiouser!]

Just found this!

I read your first trip report . . . which started shortly before I found out DH and I were expecting our first bouncing baby boy. More than 5 years (and another bouncing baby boy later), you can certainly count me in for your rambling tale!

 

[GreatBiscuit]

Now I just have to catch up.

That seems to be my problem as well.

Howdy and Joining in!! Loved your last TR. Not sure if I posted or not but I am this time. I also have a 4th grader who does this. She is my older one though



And my younger one does this



Not cheer, T&T but also jumping way in the air!!!

We went to Disney 2 summers ago right before July 4th, it was hot but not awful...Yay for adding on days at the WL!! Hope you got all the fps you wanted. Our next trip is a month away

Awesome! My youngest is starting T&T this year as well. She is very excited about it.

JORDY!! Wow!! SO excited to "see" you!!!

What she said.

As usual I'm late to the party.

I haven't kept up with all the new fastpass+ changes.....it makes my head hurt just thinking of it.

I think you're insane for going over July 4th, but I'd go too if it was the only time possible.

Howdy & How's life in the PNW? Glad you stopped by and checked in! I think we are a little crazy too. Maybe a whole lotta crazy.

 

[GreatBiscuit]

Super busy... moreso than I'd like to be. But in the end it'll all pay off and equal more trips.

More Trips = Nifty.

Jordy, WELCOME BACK!!!!!

Just found this!

I read your first trip report . . . which started shortly before I found out DH and I were expecting our first bouncing baby boy. More than 5 years (and another bouncing baby boy later), you can certainly count me in for your rambling tale!

Howdy and Congrats on the family expansion! Glad to have you along for the ride!

 

[GreatBiscuit]

Hey all!

It is writing week for this year's Project 168 film and we roll cameras on Friday. My past couple of weeks have been filled with paperwork, phone calls and logistics and my next two will be filled with production and post. It was starting to make me crazy so I wanted to stop by and check in and enjoy a little mini mental vacay.

A minor bit of Disney PTR news. My BIL and his family are on the dining plan. We are not. While it made economic sense in 2009 (the cost was under a hundred bucks a day for the 4 of us), it does NOT make sense in 2014. (The cost would be $240 a day for the 4 of us this summer.)

One of the places that they wanted to eat is O'hana. I loved that place the last time, truly I did. But I don't love it $220 worth. Which is what it would cost me for 4 "adults" (still kills me) at peak season with tax and mandatory gratuity for a party our size. Plus I've since found Fogo de Chao and sorry to say it, but I like their skewered meat better.

Here lies the boggle. The four of them are heading to O'hana after a day at AK. The four of us have to find an alternative dining option that won't kill the bank. IE - It will need to be counter service to fit the budget. Here are the two things I've come up with. 1. Head to AKL, eat at Mara and check out the savanna OR 2. Head to the Pop and visit our favorite food court, then check out Art of Animation. OR possibly DTD and grab some Early of sandwich and then top it off with bread pudding at Raglan Road which I am told is on par with what they serve at O'hana.

OR none of the above.

If you had to come up with a non-park counter service meal, where would you go?

While you ponder that, I will close with a brief tale of woe and doom that occurred at my office. (And yes...this actually happened a few weeks back.)

It began as any other normal day. I clocked in and headed to my office wholly unaware of the calamity that was about to transpire. I got myself all settled in with a nice cup of coffee and was filling out a surplus form at my desk when I felt a disturbance in the room. A dark evil was hovering about my head, watching silently as I worked. Soon this unseen force made itself know.

It was a wasp.

A brown one.

If you read my last TR, you know my deep felt disdain for that species.

The creature landed and stared at me with its beady little eyes that it kept polishing with that creepy insect hand licking move. The winged demon soon claimed my desk lamp as its own and began flying patrol patterns to protect it. Unwilling to let this incursion go unanswered I sought out the custodian that I might procure a can of shock and awe.

Coming up empty handed, and in the process learning that Wasp Spray is considered a “dangerous chemical” that cannot be stored on campus, I knew I would be forced to deal with the enemy by own devices.

Entering my room again, I saw the horrid beast rubbing his poison filled butt on my pen dispenser. Taking inventory of my supplies I discovered two weapons which might have the distance to mount a suitable artillery assault; lemon furniture polish and WD-40.

Armed with a can of each, I slowly approached the battlefield. In a taunting maneuver the enemy combatant flew to the shelf and crawled up the side as if to waggle its thorax in my general direction.

Sliding as silently as a short fat man in dress shoes can slide, I maneuvered into range. Unsure of which weapon would be the most effective, I raised both, took aim and unleashed the full fury of my aerosol arsenal.

The results were immediate. The beast spiraled to ground and I shouted “Freedom!” to no one in particular. Yet my celebrations were pre-mature for as I approached the fallen creature I could see that he was merely stunned and working to right himself. I knew then what had to be done. I could not let him take flight, lest he seek to take revenge. Raising my foot and drawing on the full force of fury within me, I slammed my shoe down in a full forced Bubba stomp.

I discovered something at that moment in time.

When you slam your shoe down in a full forced Bubba stomp upon an enemy that is coated in WD-40, your foot flies across the floor with approximately the same velocity as an F-16 being shot from the deck of an aircraft carrier.

In an instant physics took over.

I learned immediately that when your foot flies across the room with extreme velocity, the body attached to that foot is compelled to follow. In a series of slips, collisions, impacts, warbles, bobbles and general fat flinging, I immediately came to understand that mind over matter is stinking lie. No amount of mental prowess could regain the sudden loss of equilibrium invoked by such an event.

When the cloud of dust settled, the reverberations and shockwaves subsided, and the building settled back onto its foundation, I found to my great relief that I was still alive and the wasp was not.

As to my general condition, nothing was damaged in any great detail aside from my pride and my permanently WD40-stained britches.

Thus concludes my tale of battle.

I await your dining recommendations.

That is all.

 

[winkers]

That is hilarious!!!!
I'm sorry you fell, but I thank you for your selfless move for the benefit of my amusement.



Oh, and I have no dining recommendations....I'm still too busy chuckling

 

[Sorsha]

GB...

I am sorry that you had to experience such calamity with the wasp but happy that you came out the victor (britches notwithstanding).

And now I have laughed so hard I have tears running down my face and would like to sincerely thank you for lightening my mood on a morning when I have to go to work and don't want to. You're my hero.

 

[glennbo123]

Dude, you just smack 'em with some rolled up paper or a notebook or somethin'.

Oh, but the first shot's pretty important, so just don't miss.

 

[PrncessA]

That is hilarious!!!!
I'm sorry you fell, but I thank you for your selfless move for the benefit of my amusement.

I needed that laugh today!!

As for dining, I completely agree with you. When the dining plan no longer makes economical sense for us (most likely after next March) then shelling out $220 for a meal will become a NO as well. I am shocked at some of the prices such as the Akershus breakfast!

I think that heading to AKL sounds like a lot of fun and a new adventure! We have never ate at Wolfgang Puck, but people rave about it at DTD.

 

[PrincessV]

Oh my!!! Yeah, I laugh, but I can relate... let's just say there was a teeny-tiny scorpion on my child's bed and a can of extra-hold hairspray, several layers of Kleenex and a hammer were involved. FREEDOM!!!

If you had to come up with a non-park counter service meal, where would you go?

We actually do this quite often, out-of-park counter serve meals. AK is at the top of our list, for sure! Mara is always yummy and the resort makes for such a nice visit. I'd give it top billing, for sure.

We also love Roaring Fork at WL, if you feel like staying Home. And the counter serve at SSR is always a winner - I particularly like the variety there. I'd avoid DTD altogether this summer - the construction there is making a mess of things.

 

[Curiouser&curiouser!]

I think all of your options are good, but I am somewhat partial to going to AKL after a day at AK. It has a nice symmetry to it.

Wow. That sounds nerdy.

P.S. The wasp got what he deserved. Not so sure about you though . . .

 

[shannn]

Non-park counter service:

I've been hearing a lot of negative about the construction at DTD, but we do love going there. My counter service choices would be Cookes of Dublin or Wolfgang Puck's. (I love the idea of trying the Raglan Road bread pudding!)

Another choice would be to head to the Boardwalk -- our favorite place to stroll in the evening. You can get dinner from the Bakery or the Pizza window. And then get dessert from Seaside sweets or the Bakery.

Here lies the boggle. The four of them are heading to O'hana after a day at AK. The four of us have to find an alternative dining option that won't kill the bank. IE - It will need to be counter service to fit the budget. Here are the two things I've come up with. 1. Head to AKL, eat at Mara and check out the savanna OR 2. Head to the Pop and visit our favorite food court, then check out Art of Animation. OR possibly DTD and grab some Early of sandwich and then top it off with bread pudding at Raglan Road which I am told is on par with what they serve at O'hana.
OR none of the above.
If you had to come up with a non-park counter service meal, where would you go?

 

[DexLabDeeDee]

So glad you got the wasp!

Love love love the pizza at Wolfgang Puck Express. While half of our family gets something from WPE and sits down, the other half go and pick up sandwiches from Earl of Sandwich and join the rest of us at WPE. Not entirely sure that it is kosher but no one has stopped us yet!

However, construction might be a limiting factor.

If it is, then I would definitely do Mara and AKL though I do also like the symmetry of going to AK and then AKL, so maybe it should be first choice. We usually do AK and then Boma but that is definitely expensive at summer prices! Thank goodness the animal viewing is free! I haven't eaten at Mara yet but we will this next trip!

I'm sure you'll enjoy whatever you choose!

 

[MaryAz]

Oh my, I am glad you survived and the wasp did not. We actually had the Bee Man come to our house today to get rid of a large hive.

I am right there with you on the "adult" dining. My 10 yr old eats less than my 7 year old.....

AKV is our home DVC resort and in my humble opinion there is no place like it anywhere. I love everything about it.