Canadian Buffoon's Disney With a Teen Vacation - 08/13 - The Wrap

[Mrs T 2009]

Yep. Just mentioned that to Danielle.
When I was a teen, a friend's sister had a rabbit.
Let it run around her room.
Pebbles all over her floor.
So gross.?

SO SO GROSS

Oh, man! Should have done that!
Yelled right back in their faces.
"I think that's her bag! OMG! That's your bag!!!"

That would have been so funny! Maybe they would have been taken aback, for a little bit, at least.

Nope! Not bummer. Hysterical!

Yeah, for her though, sad. The mother in me does find it funny, too!

Why do you think I did?

Always love a good soak! I don't blame you one iota!

That was our only guess.
"Self cleaning auto feature?"

Very odd, especially happening at night.

 

[Heluvsme]

Those bunnies are nothing, I have dust bunnies bigger than that!

Great update Typhoid Ponzi, Hope the throat gets better before your return flight home!



Dawn

 

[irene_dsc]

Can anyone say "tangent!"

Tangent! Co-sine! Sine! Co-tangent!

We have now exhausted just about everything I remember about trigonometry...

She really doesn't.
She spilled the sauce on her shirt, her pants,
the inside of the fridge (three levels! bonus points!),
the inside and side of the fridge door, the top and outside
of the freezer door and thankfully, to complete the ensemble,
the inside of the freezer.
I'm still not sure how she managed that last one.

That is a quite impressive mess.

Having kids to help with the chores
sounds great in theory.
Practical application is a whole other story.

And some help is the kind of help is the kind of help
That we all can do without...

But I'm pretty sure that if the plane's not there,
they're not going to be boarding right away.

Call it a hunch.

Ooh, and now that I'm reading this on a computer and not my phone, I can read the sign!

Does it not look like the bag is telling you to recycle?

Again, another bit that made so much more sense when I could really see the photo detail!

But at that point, I was giving the little heathens
the benefit of the doubt.

I shouldn't have.

That was your first mistake.

The look on Elle's face!
She looked so... deflated.
It took everything I had to not laugh at her.
She looked like a kitten that had just been dunked in water.

Awww...poor Elle! But, yeah, I would've had a hard time not laughing, either.

Around 1:00am, I bolted up in bed.
I couldn't breathe!
My throat was on fire!!

Uh-oh...

1. Do we make our original scheduled flight?

2. When we do get going, name one movie I watched.
(But how could we know that?)
Easy. Someone (not me) already posted a picture from it.
It's between this update and the last.

3. Where do we eat breakfast?
OMG. We're Canadian. I've already told you where Canadians go!
And no. Not Starbucks.

4. Did you see it? Bonus points if you did.
No? Might want to look again.

5. What's our first real meal in Hawaii.
(Hint. Ruby did not partake.)

1. Yes (I hope!)
2. Inside Out
3. Tim Horton's! Why yes, I have been paying attention
4. Yes - once I could see it on a big screen
5. Wild guess here...something with Spam...since at least I can spell it!

 

[orangecats2]

Can anyone say "tangent!"
(Say it. Bonus points. 'Nuff said.)

Tangent! I need those bonus points since I did so bad on the first set of questions.

Nice room but it only has 2.5 bathrooms. How many does your house have?

1. Yes you make the flight
2. Inside Out
3. Timmy's
4. I did see it, Fly your airline
5. Pulled pork

 

[KathyM2]

Oh no....throat on fire...that sounds ominous!!

I know there's a lot more going on...but I have to comment on...the bunnies....only because...I bring my dog with me when we fly to Florida to see my parents (not to WDW of course lol) But anyway...every time I do it, I get a stern talking to from the flight attendants telling me that under no circumstances should I allow the dog out of the carry bag during the flight. (I think it has to do with that cat on the loose a while back that got into the innards of the plane or something?) So...I'm quite surprised that the bunnies on your flight got let out...(or maybe no one noticed....) but I would suspect it wouldn't be that hard for two bunnies to hop into some trouble on a plane lol...yeah I know..tangent lol

Loving reading about the trip...you probably know me well enough by now that you know...I give up on contests..but love your TR's and commentary

 

[seashell724]

Loving your Maui report and you are not even there yet. Finally reading something by someone from my own city is exciting b/c I can actually relate to so many small things.

 

[DonnaBeeGood]

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[pkondz]

I can't wait until you get to the sunshine in Hawaii and become a tan gent!

Clever!

I enjoyed your recap of the safety lecture.

Once you've seen one a few times... gah.
"Really? That's how you latch a seatbelt?"
"We should exit the plane... through the exits???"
(And not that huge hole in the fuselage??)

I know it's a requirement, but...

Awwww! Rabbits!

We have a dwarf lop (Cuddles) that summers at our farm. Some people have summer homes in the Hamptons. Apparently bunnies long to spend a few weeks at a kids' summer farm camp.

Maybe they just don't feel like picking up the doo-doo pellets for a while.

Funny story of the baggage pick up. I have twice traveled with large (100 plus) groups of teens. We don't let them check their bags for a few reasons- your experience makes me glad about that. Of course, that means they are doing carry-on only so they are competing with other passengers for above-seat storage. As if it isn't bad enough to be on a plane half-filled with teens.

Funny thing was we didn't even notice the teens.
Didn't notice them before or during the flight.
Weird.

Yikes on no tv!

Yep. What are the odds that it would only be our TVs?

At least it wasn't on the flight to Maui.

This flight was only 3 hours.
However... The Maui flight is a bit different.
Not good or bad, just different.

What a rip off that you couldn't get the discount train tickets! And all you got for a consolation prize was a Penthouse Suite.

That's so unfair!!!

Totally ripped off! Unfair!

Fire-throat does NOT sound good!

It doesn't, doesn't it.

Next round:
1. Do we make our original scheduled flight? Yes

2. When we do get going, name one movie I watched.
(But how could we know that?)
Easy. Someone (not me) already posted a picture from it.
It's between this update and the last.

Inside Out

3. Where do we eat breakfast?
OMG. We're Canadian. I've already told you where Canadians go!
And no. Not Starbucks.

Tim's!

Saw my first Tim Horton's a few weeks ago on our way to northern Maine looking at college for my son.

4. Did you see it? Bonus points if you did.
No? Might want to look again.

Yes. Well, no, but I am going to go back now.
(ETA: Still no. Am I too late to the party?)

5. What's our first real meal in Hawaii.
(Hint. Ruby did not partake.)

Sushi

Noted. And... you could just look at everyone else's answer.

 

[pkondz]

Ok... not sure if you care much at all for college football, but this reminds me of a Mike Gundy press conference a few years ago...

No. Don't follow college football at all,
but the gist came through loud and clear.

Target!
Tangerine!
Tannerite!

TANGENT!!!

Fourth time's the charm!

Mmmmm... lasagna.

Ok... trying to follow along. Is this a side note to a tangent off of a tangent to another side note?

Don't be silly.
It's a side note to a tangent off of a side note.

He knows of what he speaks.

Knew it.

How comfortable is the couch?

No danger there.
She knows my cooking is better
and more importantly,
she knows hers sucks.

An example.
I was away on a course and she's on the phone.
"I made that dish, but it didn't taste the same as when you make it.
What's the ingredients in that recipe?" She asks.
I tell her.
"Oh. We used tomato soup instead of tomato sauce.
Would that make a difference?"

Spaghetti, tomato sauce and a meat. You really can't go wrong.

That's what you call a staple.

That's impressive. If you're gonna make a mess, go big!

Doesn't that always seem to be how it works though? You're in a hurry to get ready and go somewhere when Murphy's Law kicks in and something crazy like this happens.

All. The. Time.

Yikes! Definitely a lucky break!

I seriously have no clue what we would've done.

Better to laugh at your suffering than our own. Thanks for sharing.

You're welcome. I think.

Well, that just makes all kinds of sense. I guess that they did it that way so that the chaperones could get away from the kids and leave them roaming the hallways.

I never thought of that.
They were doing us a favour!!

Well, that's going to make it hard to fly.

And my arms were already tired from carrying the suitcases.

This kind of makes me think...

Yep, the hurting has finally stopped.

But there has to be a fine line and only a select few people who are smart enough to read, yet dumb enough to...

You definitely deserved it.

Never try to grab someone else's cookie.


That sounds vaguely dirty.

Yeah, I can definitely relate. Overhead space is at a premium.

Especially now.
With airlines charging for checked bags, and not measuring carry-ons.
I almost (almost... not quite) wish they'd charge everyone a flat $20
and then have no charge for checked bags.

And yes. I know what would happen.
"Let's charge everyone $20 for baggage."
"Great idea! But keep charging them extra, when the check bags, too."

Yeah, because being enclosed with them all in a metal tube with recirculated air isn't going to expose everyone anyway.

I'm calling you on this one.
If you're on a plane, and you hear someone with a wracking cough,
don't you thank your lucky stars that you aren't sitting beside them?

But if you take that cigarette that you aren't supposed to be smoking to begin with, and light it and put it in your mouth before you put that oxygen mask on over it... I bet you could make something pop!

I actually thought about writing that exact thing.
But then I thought I'd already terrorized my readers enough.


Apparently, no.

Yeah, I'd have actually appreciated the humor of it. I mean, what can the flight attendant do about it anyway? Nice of them to at least offer some snacks.

Yeah, it was.
Plus, with their electronics, they weren't bored.

I didn't think the Easter bunny was supposed to look so evil!

I know, right?

Makes sense. I hardly trust them to get them there to begin with. I don't want it to be in the airline's possession any longer than necessary!

I always breathe a sigh of relief when the bags show up at the other end.

Well, it saves about 30 seconds over waiting on the far side of the carousel and waiting for the bag to come all the way around.

Oh, fine, Mr. Mathematics.

RUN!

To the other side of the carousel?
I ain't got no 30 seconds to spare!

I might have missed something, but did her bag ever show up?

She's lucky I didn't stuff her in it.

Did you have to wrestle it away from any kids who thought it was theirs?

Nope. They're pretty unique looking.

That stinks though. Sorry they got screwed by some wannabe D list celebs.

That's exactly how I felt.
Ah, well. We quickly learned not to give a rat's patootie.

Ok... Kay goes with you and you don't wait for Disney transportation. Kay is with you checking into this hotel and you get a Penthouse Suite.

I'm beginning to think Kay is your lucky charm.

Huh. But I don't want to always take her!

And you used every one of them, right????

Well... uh....

Ok, I'll bite. What was the first?

Mandarin Oriental Las Vegas.
Just... wow.

You make fun of her cooking, your forget her Diet Coke... you run off to Disney World without her. How does she put up with you?

I shovel the snow.

Salt??? No! Whiskey.

Dang! Now you tell me!

See... should have had some whiskey.

Don't rub it in.

Yes

Well, this should be easy. It's got to be one of about 15 possibilities. I assume it is probably something family friendly if it is a movie offered on a flight so I'll go with Inside Out.

Timmy!

Spoiler: The airline held together with rubber bands and duct tape!

Um... um... seafood?

Noted.

 

[GoofyIsAsGoofyDoes]

Vancouver

Gastown!
You should be right at home.

Before we begin our next installment,
a little house-cleaning is in order.

And I don't mean real house-cleaning, of course

Well tough…
The animals are still expecting to get paid.

(I am, however, married and therefore whipped.
You can disregard that whole "I'm a man!" comment.)

Never regarded it in the first place…
I know better.

But what I mean, in this instance, is a reference
that has been made a few times that many of you
were not privy to.

Is that a one story privy or the two story deluxe model?

But the joke's on her. I've already cleaned it.
Now who's the man?

Well. It’s certainly not…

Feel free to not answer that.
Seriously.

Ohhhhh, all right.

um.
Can anyone say "tangent!"

A straight line or plane that touches a curve or curved surface at a point, but if extended does not cross it at that point.

That’s the concept we’re ruminating at this juncture; the abstraction being pondered, as it were.

In other words, it’s the point when everything basically goes flying off the rails.
That last moment of contact with the previous reality and the instance where what was and what could be would collide were it possible for them to do so. Here’s a good demonstration of the notion…

See… it presents one with a new perspective… a “fresh challenge”. Of course the way in which we choose to deal with these new realities is completely subject to one’s own propensity to interpret the facts at hand. So each experience is relative as well.

And speaking of relative, it’s entirely possible that relativity isn’t quite as subjective as we think, and maybe it isn’t even applicable to this dissertation.
Maybe we need to test that theory as well…

Oh my bad, it seems that it is relative…
Good thing our scientists encountered that tangent or we might still be discussing these theoretical process and might never actually get back around to the telling of the story. And that would be a worrisome thing because it would mean that I’d gotten you off on another tangent again and I’d hate to have to bear the responsibility for such a potentially disastrous occurance.


Ok… I’m done here. You can carry on.




Oh wait!

“Tangent”.


There now I’m done.



For now…



I think...

The story was (briefly) mentioned on FB.
It was my first and (to date) only post there.

I missed that…
But I’m not certain where you might be lurking out there on The Book of the Face.

I’ve a suspicion, but no confirmation.

So herein I reveal the details.

Oh good, I can catch up with everyone else, then.

(And you are curious. I know. I can feel it.
Or maybe that's just the lasagne I ate. Whatever.)

Wait…
You brought lasagna…
And you didn’t being enough for all of us!

Side note.

Side note?
Would this qualify as another one of them there tangent type thingies?

If you do a chore that first time... it will always be your chore.
"Honey, could you take out the garbage?"
It's a trap!

Shall I regale you with the story
of the first meal she cooked for me?

I shall.

Oh look!
Another one of those – what’ch ya’ call ‘em – dang, the word is right on the tip of my tongue.

I was younger, so... you know. Stupider.

We know…

(Please note I said "Stupider". I'm still stupid. Of course.)

We know…

Back to our story that has nothing to do with
this part of the TR that has nothing to do with the main TR.

Cool!
This is almost like a Bonus Feature, then.

Chicken and spaghetti.
Want the recipe? Sure.
Take some chicken, chop. Throw in pan with spices.
What spices? I don't care. Pick something.
Cook. Add tomato sauce. Serve over spaghetti.
Sounds lame, but it tastes okay.

Sounds similar in concept to what in my house is referred to as “Fake Parm”.

My best dish? Well, no. But easy? Yep. Quick? Yep.

and that’s the precise merits of Fake Parm.

but give her an inch and she'll take an unlimited license to
procrastinate until there's no way it'll ever get done.

And this sound’s mysteriously like a teen.

(Takes after her Father. I couldn't be more proud.
Just don't tell Ruby. It drives her nuts. So do I.)

We never figured you for someone that would actually grow up, so this checks out as well.

Now I'm not completely heartless.
(Mostly, yes. But not completely.)

Nice little bit of clarification, there.



A bit like the disclaimers tagged onto the end of a pharmaceutical advertisement.

What was even odder...
is "odder" a word? Seems... well... odd.
Oh, sure. I can use it in a sentence.
"That d'er motor's gonna blow. You odder get it fixed."
or
"Mommy! In the water! An odder is swimming by!"

Works.

I love your stories…
Each one of is better than the next.

She spilled the sauce on her shirt, her pants,
the inside of the fridge (three levels! bonus points!),
the inside and side of the fridge door, the top and outside
of the freezer door and thankfully, to complete the ensemble,
the inside of the freezer.
I'm still not sure how she managed that last one.

The girlz got skilz.

(Thankfully she wasn't wearing her band clothes at the time.
Her white shirted band clothes.)

Yep…
Band Clothes and chicken spaghetti aren’t particularly compatible.

Come to think of it, I believe that band clothes are actually an attractive force for chicken spaghetti. It’s one of Earth’s more fascinating natural occurrences.

The dishes were still sitting there waiting for me.

Waiting?
Son, let’s be clear hear. Those dishes were mocking you.

Having kids to help with the chores
sounds great in theory.
Practical application is a whole other story.

It’s another one of those relativity type of things…
Maybe we should test that one farther as well.
I’ll turn it over to our crack theory testing duo.

Now where were we...

washing dishes, I do believe

Ah! Right.
The suitcases had just been eaten at the airport.
Hopefully we'd see them again in Vancouver.

And hopefully they won’t be covered in tomato sauce.

The competition was at the River Rock Casino Resort.
Which made perfect sense.

Of course...
Kids – Casino – it’s a natural fit.
Just ask the cruising industry.

and Kay drew the short straw and had the pullout in the living room.

You say short straw, maybe she was thinkin’: yeah, but I don’t gott’a share with anybody.

It then offered me a bunch of expensive add ons.

Wow… it is like Disney.

We hustled over to the gate and...

Well just look who’s running this ramshackle outfit…
No wonder the plane ain’t there yet.

But I did tell her that her cookie would have to go,
so I reached for it.



She bit me.

Your own fault there…
you should have known better

And Ruby decided that since I was sick,
we shouldn't subject me to strangers any more than necessary.

Wrong answer…
Shouldn’t have been subjecting family to such.
The strangers were foolish enough to get on the plane in the first place.

And thus prevented me from fulfilling a life-long dream.
Sort-of.

But I'll get to that later.

You sure about that…
You’re missing a fine opportunity to go off on a tangent, here.

Eventually, a young couple came and sat down.
They each had a padded cage with them.

Not relatives of Jack Hanna, I hope.
Things could get very interesting very quickly.

First. The safety dance.

Also known as: Making an “S” out of yourself.

"If the plane is about to crash
and we're all going to die horrible deaths,
please don your oxygen masks which will keep you
in your seats so identifying the bodies will be easier."

Sound’s perfectly reasonable to me.

Of course then they tell you that the stupid
oxygen bag may not even inflate,
so you can't even amuse your fellow passengers
by slamming your hands together on it making a loud
exploding sound when the bag pops.

It’s all just a distraction anyway.
While you’re grumbling about that stuff, you forget to complain about the prices required to obtain a bag of stale peanuts

Totally takes the fun out of dying.

And we wouldn’t want that.

Plus.
No smoking in the bathroom.
But everybody knows that smoking ain't allowed on planes.

…or in school.

At least that’s what the members of Brownsville Station would have us believe.
(or Motley Crue for you younger folks that had no clue they were covering an older tune)

And that brings up another point…
It seems that the lyric of that tune was the result of “everybody's gettin' on your case, from your teacher all the way down to your best girlfriend”

“Best Girlfriend”?

What, he had bunches of them?
Kind’a like your harem, I suppose.

Or was it a comparison over time.

Just imagine what his “case” would’a looked like when his worst girlfriend took to stompen’ on it.
I just wonder what kind of vice he’d have turned to in that moment.

That might have made for a rather different song, now wouldn’t it?


Sorry, what were you talking about?

"We're all gonna die!"

Oh, riiiiiight…
That’s it.

Well then you might as well light one up.

Doesn't that just smack of favoritism for the sharks
as opposed to the bottom feeding crabs and such?

The sharks have better agents.

Wait. They have to make sure that if there
are any French speaking people on the plane
that they are just as terrified as the rest of us.

The nerve!
Were this Disney, then they just say:

“por favor mantengase alejado de las puertas”,
and be done with it.

Everyone's TV was working.
Except for four.
Our four.

That was written into the fine print of that VIP-Bus package you purchased a while back.
It’s one of the off sets they use to defray the costs.

At least Ruby could watch whatever Jack Hanna’s grandkids were watching.


But I must also note at this point that apparently it’s been a looooong while since I’ve last flown on an airplane, because I can’t say as I’ve ever seen where every seat had its own screen in the first place.

I remember that there was one overhead for about every five rows.


And that it didn’t work either.
That… I remember.

Pretty soon, the flight attendants starting serving drinks and snacks.
I told her about our TVs not working.
She claimed to not be aware of an entire row being broken.
Really, what else could she say?
"Ha! I know! Sucks to be you!"

Actually, that would've been pretty funny.

Well, not at the time
But most certainly later on as you were regaling us with the blow by blow details in some other venue like – say – a TR or some other such atrocity.

Ruby and I declined, but the monst... uh, kids…

It’s all right…
For the most part, we’re all parents ‘round these parts.
You can speak the truth.

Around this time, Ruby's seatmates decided to check on their animals.
They pulled out the cages and opened the doors.



Good Lord! What sort of evil fiends are they transporting?

Ooooooo…. Hasenpfeffer!

Kay is animal crazy.
She loves anything that moves that isn't human.

Good, then you might not have to worry about her and boyfriends for a while yet.

Do you have any idea how long I've waited
to be that close to a bunny????

I think this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part.


And you’re just the guy to do it.

I then place myself near, but slightly downstream from
the barf chute.

Barf Chute?
Nice… I like that one.

It was like a Christmas miracle at the orphanage.

Bless their hearts….

I knew, from that trip, that the best way to get
from here to there, was via the SkyTrain.
(Vancouver's answer to the monorail.)

And a direct cousin of the of the Fake-o-Rail

Or. If you happen to know this.
You can go one level down to the 7Eleven
and get a booklet of 10 tickets for $21.

Now there’s a handy bit of information to have.
Best not be sharing that trick with too many others though…
You wouldn’t want the Airport bean counters to figure it out.

"Can I get a 10 pack of FareSaver tickets." I asked.
"Sorry. We don't sell those anymore." She replied.

Too late…

Turns out the cheapest way (and fastest, too!)
is to take a cab.
"$20 flat rate." One of them said.

So that's what we did.
Even with tip, it was still cheaper than the train.

So, avoid the fake-o-rail…
Ok, got it!

All the memories from Elle's first competition
came flooding back.

Was it anything like the scene back there at the airport baggage-go-round?

And I remembered how it had been a travesty.

Oh, I see it was actually the adults that were acting like yard-apes that time.
Human mayhem seems to be a reoccurring theme for you in Vancouver.

"How would you like an upgrade to the Penthouse Suite?"

Now that makes up for a lot of the days challenges.

Easily the second nicest hotel room we'd ever stayed in.

Really…
You just gonn’a leave it there?
In an update dedicated to the proposition that there is no side trip too small or insignificant to be a factor in dissuading you from offering up an additional six paragraph elaboration, you’re just gonn’a leave it at that?

Diabolical, sir…
Truly diabolical.

It was right around here that I remembered something.

Oh sure…
You’ll interrupt the story to head off down that rabbit hole, but…

But…

Hummm… Rabbit… hasenfef…

Errr….

Wait, what were you talking about?

mmm.... noodles.....

Noodles?
Are you sure that was it?
Well, Ok… sounds tasty, actually.

Nah... throat's not that bad.
Not great... but not bad.

Blatant foreshadowing, eh?

Plus... bubbles.
Some of them were even from the jets.

Tol-dja…

I knew you’d be at home in that town.

Around 1:00am, I bolted up in bed.
I couldn't breathe!
My throat was on fire!!

Nooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!

Contest!

1. Do we make our original scheduled flight?

Yes

2. When we do get going, name one movie I watched.

Need’s to be something semi-recent and probably not R rated…
Oh, and just maybe something Disney…
Inside Out

3. Where do we eat breakfast?

Timmy’s!!!!

4. Did you see it? Bonus points if you did.
No? Might want to look again.

Well I just hope you chose a different airline for the rest of the trip.
And that’s all I’ve got to say about that.

5. What's our first real meal in Hawaii.
(Hint. Ruby did not partake.)

Hummm, trying to remember what she dislikes.
Seafood, perchance?

 

[6travel]

Can anyone say "tangent!"

Tangent!

Having kids to help with the chores
sounds great in theory.
Practical application is a whole other story.

I should have talked to you before we had 4 kids.......

We hustled over to the gate and...

You have your own airline? Impressive

She screamed "THAT'S MY BAG!!!" over and over again.
There's no way anyone could not know which bag was hers.
You, at home, may have heard her.

1. Do we make our original scheduled flight?

2. When we do get going, name one movie I watched.
(But how could we know that?)
Easy. Someone (not me) already posted a picture from it.
It's between this update and the last.

3. Where do we eat breakfast?
OMG. We're Canadian. I've already told you where Canadians go!
And no. Not Starbucks.

4. Did you see it? Bonus points if you did.
No? Might want to look again.

5. What's our first real meal in Hawaii.
(Hint. Ruby did not partake.)

1. Yes
2. Inside Out
3. Tim Hortons
4. Fly pkond airways!
5. Seafood

 

[pkondz]

First: TANGENT!

Congratulations on your first tangent!

Second: Oh my, that is quite the kitchen incident. I have had some come pretty close to that, but not THAT bad.

It was one of the better (i.e. worse) ones I've seen.
Can't think of one off the top of my head that was worse.

Third: I hate traveling. Don't get me wrong. I love GOING places. But the airport and security and the hooplah of it all, YUCK.

And yet... once you get to where you're going...
Yup. I get it.
There's definitely something to be said about just hopping in the car and going.

Little tough to do that to Hawaii, though.

And finally.
1. I think your flight will be on time, because you are lucky like that.
2. Inside Out
3. Tim Hortons, which I only knew about because I watched 'How I met your Mother'
4. No (Do I get points for being honest?)
5. Um, I dunno, macadamia nuts? That's a hawaiian thing right?

Noted.
And re #4.... hmmmm.... Maybe.

 

[pkondz]

Aloha Ponzi! So glad to have an update with pictures!

I knew it! No pictures = no reading.
Am I right? Or am I right?

Tangent.

Duly noted. But that's another story.

This is so true!

Oh, I know.

To be honest, you set yourself up. I remember when we were first married. I had just graduated and was looking for a teaching job. We had an apartment on the third floor and the laundry was in the basement of the apartment building. I trucked our laundry up and down those steps twice a week. Once a week I set up the ironing board and ironed a weeks worth of work clothes for my DH. I set up for the day making sure I had some good daytime tv to keep me occupied for the hours I was about to endure of ironing. I used starch and water and really put a lot of effort into it. Well one day out of no where he pulls out a pair of perfectly ironed pants and shows me a spot where he felt I missed the iron line. Upon further inspection it did look about a millimeter off. I was so livid. Since that day I have not ironed a single thing for him. In fact he does all the ironing.

I will never ever question the Mrs. on her ironing. Nope. Not going there.
And good job on getting him to do all of it.

He also is responsible for cleaning the toilets, but that's another story altogether.

Me too.
Except...
The first time I did it, Ruby told me I did a lousy job.
"Didn't your mother ever teach you how to clean a toilet?"
"Nope."
So she did. And now I do.

Funny how when I criticized her cooking,
the same thing didn't happen.

He was young and dumb back then. He actually still says and does some stupid things. I just give him the wife look. He usually drops it, but sometimes he goes there. I wonder when he'll finally get it.

Never.
We don't get smarter. Just older.

Ahhh! Not fun! Sometimes when the kids "help" they do more harm than good.

Sigh. Yeah. Let's just drop it.
And not the sauce.

Just fly on Pkondz. I'm sure it's completely safe! I hear their are recliners for seats!

And a licensed masseuse for foot rubs for every three passengers.

What's the odds of that?

I don't know.
It would be easy to figure the odds for any one TV,
or even any four TVs...
But those particular four where we're sitting?

I love that you're a dance dad. Our DD has been asked to join the ensemble team. She's five, turning six in May. She wants to do it, but the cost is crazy expensive. I'm sure we'll make it work.

Sixteen years of it.

You'll pull your hair out, you'll complain,
you'll throw your hands up in exasperation.
You'll spend money on lessons, extra lessons,
costumes and competition and convention fees.

And you'll be glad you did every time you see her on stage.

Oh no! I hope you feel better before your excursion. Since you said being sick factored into your excursion can I change my guess to snorkeling by an underwater volcano. I think I read that was an excursion on Mauii. If it's hard to breathe I'm sure snoring would be hard.

Noted.

Yes!

Inside Out

Timmy's. Tim Horton's.

Haha. Yup! Air Ponzi to the rescue!

Spam Burgers? What is it with Hawaii and spam?

Noted.

 

[pkondz]

Gah! Pull up, airman, pull up!

Whew. I thought we were going to see a spectacular crash 'n burn there.

It was a close one.

TANGENT!!! Followed by a curve. (Road engineer humor)

You had to go there.
If you're going to mention curves,
than a picture of dangerous curves would've been nice.

Except I believe it's already been decided that only the women
can post those pictures.

I see the great Admiral Ackbar has already been invoked here.

Here, on the other hand...

That guy gets around.

Well, why didn't you say so? Maybe I can squeeze Winnipeg onto the itinerary....

Door's always open.

You win! I'd cook more but I can't stand having to clean up afterwards. So I just go with microwave dishes and takeout.

And I'm okay with that.
I never turn down a free meal.
"Sorry, I'm just serving Mac n cheese."
Me: "YES!!!!"

That is some expert-level mess-making there. Baby Drew would approve.

I saw that FB photo.

I often wonder how the kids can just completely ignore piles and messes for months, and then my wife reminds me which side of the family that comes from.

Woohoo! Date night!

Except we had two starving DDs to feed.
So we cut it short after 5-6 hours.

I just want to say, I saw it right away. Then I wondered if I needed to scan the rest of the photos closely.

Nah. I'm not that mean.
(i.e. I don't have the time to do that.)

Nobody! Oh, sorry, I'm injecting myself into your TR, and nobody wants that.

Truest thing you've said so far.

My precious....

Does look like that.

They're Balrogs.

I'm sensing a theme here.

Stupid airlines. Just making the whole experience miserable.

I'm going to bring my own bags to pop next time.

Darn right. It'll cushion the fall.

Good point.
Safety first.

Come on, how do you expect me to get through a flight without a heavily-edited crappy movie?

There's always the mile high club.

Best scene in the whole movie.

Dang it! You're proofreading this as you write, aren't you?

But of course.

Barf chute! Totally stealing that.

Trademark pending.

Oh my goodness. All the restraint in the world...

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.

Yep. That was them.

Will there be bunnies? Oh, sorry, wrong suite. I mean, woohoo!

"Mommy? Where'd Daddy go?"

Geez. The economy these days, it's hitting everyone hard.

I know. I was rather miffed.

Ok, I'll bite: the nicest?

Mandarin Oriental Las Vegas.
Just... Wow.

Oh, man. Part of me would feel terrible, and part of me would be going, "HA HA!"

I was exactly that way!
Except for the "feel terrible" part.
But the "HA HA" part? Bang on.

And you survived????

I think she figured that I was sick and tired (note: not a euphemism)
so she gave me a pass.

NOOOOOOOOoooooooo....

yup.

Sure. Because I'm assuming you got there.

Inside Out. You mean we have to pay attention between chapters too?

Tim Hortons for the win!

I did! Pointed it out above. But I saw it in the second photo, too.

So it's not Maui Onion Chips? And not the Krispy Kreme by the airport? I'm guessing that's not a real meal?

I dunno. Fast-food cheeseburgers?

Noted.

Finally!

I mean, uh, Yay!

Hey!

EDIT: I had meant to comment on that judging fiasco, but I don't see the quote I pulled. Anyway, it deserved a nice Whiskey Tango Foxtrot comment, if nothing else.

 

[pkondz]

SO SO GROSS

Yep. Even as a slovenly teen, I thought so.

That would have been so funny! Maybe they would have been taken aback, for a little bit, at least.

Heh. Maybe I should have.

Yeah, for her though, sad. The mother in me does find it funny, too!

But I'm a dad... so...

Very odd, especially happening at night.

According to Alison, it's the normal "clear out the lines" process.

 

[pkondz]

Those bunnies are nothing, I have dust bunnies bigger than that!

Wait... remind me to pass if you ever invite me over.

Great update Typhoid Ponzi

Thanks, Dawn!

Hope the throat gets better before your return flight home!

Wait and see.

 

[pkondz]

Tangent! Co-sine! Sine! Co-tangent!

We have now exhausted just about everything I remember about trigonometry...

Please... don't mention co-sine.
I have two DDs who eventually will be buying cars
and wanting me to do that.

That is a quite impressive mess.

Funny. Impressive isn't the first word that came to mind.

And some help is the kind of help is the kind of help
That we all can do without...

Ooh, and now that I'm reading this on a computer and not my phone, I can read the sign!

What's your sign?
What's your co-sine?

Again, another bit that made so much more sense when I could really see the photo detail!

Actually seeing the picture I'm talking about helps.

That was your first mistake.

Won't be my last.

Awww...poor Elle! But, yeah, I would've had a hard time not laughing, either.

Took everything I had not to point at her and guffaw.

Uh-oh...

Oh, yes.

1. Yes (I hope!)
2. Inside Out
3. Tim Horton's! Why yes, I have been paying attention
4. Yes - once I could see it on a big screen
5. Wild guess here...something with Spam...since at least I can spell it!

Noted.

 

[pkondz]

Tangent! I need those bonus points since I did so bad on the first set of questions.

And I was soooo disappointed in you.
I thought you knew me!

Nice room but it only has 2.5 bathrooms. How many does your house have?

2.
3 if we ever finish the basement.

1. Yes you make the flight
2. Inside Out
3. Timmy's
4. I did see it, Fly your airline
5. Pulled pork

Noted.

 

[pkondz]

Oh no....throat on fire...that sounds ominous!!

Queue the theme music from Jaws...

I know there's a lot more going on...

There is????

but I have to comment on...the bunnies....only because...I bring my dog with me when we fly to Florida to see my parents (not to WDW of course lol) But anyway...every time I do it, I get a stern talking to from the flight attendants telling me that under no circumstances should I allow the dog out of the carry bag during the flight. (I think it has to do with that cat on the loose a while back that got into the innards of the plane or something?) So...I'm quite surprised that the bunnies on your flight got let out...(or maybe no one noticed....)

Well, they only poked their noses out.
Either they weren't seen, or the flight attendants
didn't worry about it.

but I would suspect it wouldn't be that hard for two bunnies to hop into some trouble on a plane lol...yeah I know..tangent lol

Your tangential writing has been noted.

Loving reading about the trip...you probably know me well enough by now that you know...I give up on contests..but love your TR's and commentary

Thanks Kathy and yes... I know.

 

[pkondz]

Loving your Maui report and you are not even there yet.

So.... I can stop now, then?

Finally reading something by someone from my own city is exciting b/c I can actually relate to so many small things.

I noticed the little comment about circling the airport
got your attention.

Plus I can say "Forks" and not get "ooooh! Twilight!", back.

Tangent. *sigh* Time change. *double sigh*

Noted.

And.... yeah...