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

[pkondz]

I am so far behind in responding that it's not even funny.

Oh! Sorry! You said "not even funny".

I started quoting bits a few days ago, and got interrupted. I don't know if I'll have another chance to be that thorough! Instead, I spent time putting together photobooks on shutterfly for family gifts. Now, *there's* a time suck!

I believe you.
Ruby and Elle spent weeks putting a photobook together.

I'll try to at least do the questions...

3 minutes
Via Napoli
cronut and schoolbread
Test Track
Alice

Noted.

I also recall that I should be astonished! And by golly, I sure am!

I knew you would be! You're freaking out now aren't you!!!!!


(aaaaaannnndddd... right about now you're wondering what it was you should be astonished at.)

 

[pkondz]

I've been meaning to post a reply to your update but life has taken over.

Life does that from time to time.
What's with that?!?!?

I'll get to it hopefully sooner than later but I just wanted to get my guesses in before another update!

Okay. Shoot.

Update on transportation time. I'm changing my guess to 43 minutes!

Noted.

1. How long until the next monorail? 6 minutes

2. Where's our World Showcase ADR?
Rose & Crown

3. We get some snacks in Epcot! Two of them, each.
What are they?
School Bread, cronut, some type of German chocolate, and macaroon ice cream sandwich

4. We do one ride in FW. Which one? Test Track

5. We see one character by happenstance. Any idea who? Mary Poppins

Noted.

 

[pkondz]

Well since I actually haven't seen you TODAY, all I can comment on is that I have never seen a more debonair skeleton lenticular portrait than you have displayed for us here.

That's fair.
Accurate, too.

And your wit and charm are unsurpassed, nor is your creativity at stashing Brussel spouts, if it hadn't been for that Darned cat....

That cat had it in for me, obviously.
But what can I say... You're spot on about the wit and charm.

Yes actually.. all the time hand wash only!

Good! I like when souvenirs are actually used for something other than just collecting dust.

You hunt for that "stuff" and I'll hunt for my stuff... win win?

Okay, deal!
(I've actually had cole slaw at two different restaurants last couple of days.)

Maybe not SAVED, but helped you survive childhood?

I suppose.
I'm still here and she's not, so...

 

[pkondz]

Ponzi is out of town, I'm out of town. Hmm maybe we're together. Just don't tell our spouses!!!

Ummm... Except I'm out of town with my spouse.
(Actually, she's here for work. So I suppose while she's working... )

You're just going to leave us all here unsupervised for days? Is that really a good idea??

Apparently... no.

 

[pkondz]

Just remember you asked me to tell you. No complaints if you are scarred by the image this story conjures up.

No scarring... but... it did bring up some not so great memories.
More on that later...

Way back when my oldest daughter was about 12 I made her lunches for school.
Each day she would ask for the same thing: a sandwich.
Now, my sandwiches were works of art, or so my husband tells me… since I also made his lunch for work as well.
The sandwiches were made to the exact liking of the person receiving it.
My daughter’s was two different types of meat, lettuce, cheese, and a little butter.
Each one was carefully crafted to ensure that it would not get soggy before lunch.

Every day I would get up early and make these sandwiches.

Around the middle/end of February my husband and I started noticing some fruit flies in the kitchen.
At first we didn’t think much of it figuring they were just drawn to the bananas on the counter since it was winter.

But each day they got a bit worse and so I finally gave up trying to keep bananas.
I thought that would stop them… it didn’t. We would still find them flying around.

I went online and found instructions to create a fruit fly trap.
I placed the trap in the kitchen expecting to catch what I assumed was a few stragglers and headed to bed.

The next morning I checked the trap… there were no less than 20


I threw the contents of the trap outside and created another one before heading out to work.
I fully expected that I would find the trap empty when I got home… there were at least another 20

At this point I knew we had a problem.
I had cleaned the kitchen top to bottom when the fruit flies first started coming around so I knew they couldn’t be coming from there.

The rest of the house was pretty clean. Maybe not spotless, but certainly not the kind of nastiness that would bring about this kind of infestation of fruit flies.

I started from the basement and worked my way up. I checked under every couch and table. Every nook and cranny. Trying desperately to locate the cause of the problem.

When I got upstairs to the kids rooms I glanced around… everything looked okay.
I typically don’t go invading their rooms but given all the problems I decided that I couldn’t leave any stone unturned so in I went.

The first room belonged to my stepson. It was pretty tidy.
I checked in the closet and under the bed… nothing amiss.

I made my way to my daughter’s room.
At first glance it looked okay. She’s not the tidiest, and there were a few piles of clothes on the floor but nothing extreme.

I stepped inside.

Nothing jumped out at me.
I kicked her clothes around. Nothing
I walked over toward her bed… and I spotted a fruit fly.
Weird.
I bent down and looked under the bed.
There was a garbage bag stuffed under there so I pulled it out.
A few fruit flies followed it out.

The bag was tied shut and to this day I don’t know what I was thinking but I decided to open it…


BOOM!
It was like someone set off a fruit fly bomb.
In seconds the room was filled with them

I stood there for a minute in shock.
Completely dumbfounded.

Then slowly I looked down at the garbage bag in my hand.
I bet you can guess what I found inside…

Sandwiches.

The whole thing was full of them.
The. Entire. Bag.

I removed the offending bag from the house and returned to the room where I eventually found two more bags full of them: one in the closet and one behind her desk.

Apparently, she didn’t really like sandwiches after all.
She had not eaten a single one.
Over 100 days worth of sandwiches all stored in her bedroom.

A veritable fruit fly paradise

It took us weeks to get them all out of the house.

Eventually I did calm down enough to have a rational conversation with my daughter:
“Why didn’t you just tell me you don’t like sandwiches”?
“I didn’t want you to get mad”.
“Why would I get mad? I don’t like sandwiches, I certainly wouldn’t expect you to.”

“Why didn’t you just throw them out at school?”
“The school has a no garbage policy. We have to bring it all home.”
“Okay. You realize you walk by more than one garbage can on your way to and from school. Why didn’t you just throw them out there?”

That no garbage policy is garbage.
It doesn't do a darned thing except waste everyone's time.

But the rest of the story?

Love it!

Criminal mastermind she is not.

Unfortunately, we had a very similar thing happen with our oldest DD.
But not for the same reason.
When she was in... hmmm... I don't remember if it was grade 5 or 6.
About that age, anyway.
She had a best friend whose parents were very strict with what she ate.
Her mom would bake bread because she didn't trust store bought bread.
She would freaking weigh her kid after a birthday party if there was cake.

One day, Ruby was doing something in the basement when...
I don't know if she smelled something or just stumbled on it.
But same thing. A whole pile of discarded sandwiches.

When we asked DD about it, the truth came out.
Her "best friend" was picking apart every thing in her lunch.
And basically telling her she shouldn't eat any of it.
She was also telling her she needed to lose weight
(she didn't. she was very fit, actually.)

We were not amused.

 

[pkondz]

Been enjoying your trip report, especially the way you tell it! Look forward to more.

Hi there! to the TR!
Glad you're enjoying the TR, more coming up... er... well, eventually!

 

[Steppesister]

Look, LOOK!! Another Oregon Girl!! Well, she got the cooler screen name. Do I remember you, @OregonGirl from years ago on my old TRs when I was All7ofUs?? I think maybe. If so, please join me as I make an unashamed pimping for my own PTR.

Oh, by the way, Ponzi, I'm about to get off of here ("of here added for good reason), I hope you get to my post in soon.

 

[pkondz]

Ask and you shall receive. Actually, you didn't ask, I offered. Same, same.

Thanks, Liesa! I enjoyed looking those over!

Hope you're having a fabulous few days away...

Actually, better than expected.

My eyes hurt from so much glittery-ness. There were literally dozens of BLOCKS of gold shops.

I noticed right away that you had your eyes closed.

She sure looks happy.
I have two henna stories.
We let Elle have one when she was about 5 or so.
I think she got a flower on her shoulder.
Unfortunately, her hat had a ribbon.
Said ribbon dragged across the tattoo and smeared it.
We just told her it looked like a butterfly now.

The other story is Kay has done her own henna tattoos.
And she did a very good job too!

That camel looks like he's saying. "Hey, buddy. Wanna buy some weed?"

At the time the world's tallest building. Maybe still is?? (ETA: Just checked. Still is.)

Yep. The Burj Khalifa is still the world's tallest, but not for long.
In about 3-4 years, the Jeddah Tower in Saudi Arabia will surpass it by over 500 feet!

 

[Steppesister]

Yay, now I can go to bed. (J/K, still have a couple more threads to catch up on.)

Yeah, I read that the newest, tallest has been started. Too bad the one in Dubai is barely visible with all the smog.

There are some local henna artists around here that are amazing! Just seeing that picture makes me want to get one again! Maybe I should get one for my trip...

That camel would just as soon spit that wad of cud at you and laugh about it while you wiped that acid out of your eye. Camels are nasty, disgusting creatures. Trust me, I know.

 

[pkondz]

Now that's a short night! I think we have to have 8 hours from an ending time till coming back. Back in my early years as a flexible clerk I left@ 6pm and was back @ 3am. With a 30 min. drive each way. What is depressing was it was winter. So I left work in the dark and came back in the dark!

We sort of are supposed to have eight hours minimum between shifts.
Except we agreed to extend our shifts to 8 hours 34 minutes.
It took us from a six on three off, to a five on three off schedule.
But we also agreed to (aprox) 7.5 hours minimum.
Tack on 30 minutes driving each way + unwind time + get ready time...

I'm quite familiar with the get to work in the dark/leave work in the dark bit!

The most interesting was when I worked in Churchill, MB.
In summer, if you worked the night shift,
the sun set at 10:30pm and rose at 4:00am.
But the cool part is you always knew where the sun was.
You could track the glow on the horizon all night long.
Night wasn't really "night" either. More like twilight.
Picture a cloudless night with a really bright moon.

See I would be scared you could get tired behind the wheel. Can't let anything happen to Pkondz!

Awww... Thanks!

Really it's just a 10 hour day. And I'll be seeing quite a few of these till Christmas during our busiest part of the year. Also scheduled to come in 6 days this week. So, only Sunday off.

Ouch. Rough one.
I'll be pretty busy until the 22. After that I'm on leave until after Christmas. Woot!

Thanks! I forgot about that 'other' comment

No problem!

Hey! Wait, thought you didn't hate me.

I don't!
That's why I'll blackmail you for much less than someone I didn't like.

 

[Thumper_Man]

So my question for you is....
Why is that sign showing a hand pointing...
WITH ONLY ONE FINGER?!?!?

Because if they put TWO, you might get confused on which way to go.

Moments later...

Doesn't it look like it's glowing?
It should. It's the holy of holies of beverages, ya know.
And for the uninitiated...
Do not get a simple Dole Whip.
No, no, no, no.
You have to get a Dole Whip float.
Makes all the difference.

And for those of you daring, get a Dole Whip Float with the Pineapple Vanilla Swirl and Malibu Rum.

Needless to say, I remembered very little of it.
The loading area seemed to be different, but I really don't remember.
Kay wanted the front seat, so we asked for (and got) that.
Which may have been a mistake.
I had told her that it was a coaster in the dark.
But afterwards she said she was disappointed because
from her front seat, she could see the rails
and always knew where the turns, etc. were.

Next time, ride this with a pair of dark sunglasses on. That will make it nice and dark to where you can't see the tracks.

Still had fun though. But I'll take BTMRR over it any day.

And I'll take Space over BTMRR.

Thumper_Man - 16 points

It's very possible that I missed someone here this time.
Please double check your scores and let me know if you've been missed.

There should be an additional 1 in front of the 16.

Bonus questions, round 8!

Since I missed the last round of guesses (scheduled job interviews, mandatory unemployment benefits workshops) I'm consulting with Lady H (as she decorates the Christmas Tree) on these guesses. If allowed, I will put my guesses and her guesses. If not, then I'll see if I can get her to log on when she's not so busy. Let me know if this acceptable. We're both so far behind, no chance of catching up, but we'll continue guessing for fun.

1. How long until the next monorail?

T_Man: 3 minutes
Lady H: 10 minutes

2. Where's our World Showcase ADR?
(Hint: It's been guessed at least once before.)

Looking at previous guesses, I think it comes down to 3.
T_Man: Rose & Crown
Lady H: Teppan Edo

3. We get some snacks in Epcot! Two of them, each.
What are they?
(ie: pick 2 snacks)

T_Man: School Bread and Cronut
Lady H: Eclair and Cronut

4. We do one ride in FW. Which one?

T_Man: Sum of All Thrills
Lady H: Test Track

5. We see one character by happenstance. Any idea who?
(Major hint. Not a princess. But a face character.)

Good luck!

T_Man: Aladdin
Lady H: Aladdin

 

[pkondz]

I understand now. Didn't know why you were making such a big deal about a sign. Aren't you just a bag full of information!

Yep. You'll learn more here than any dumb ol' school.

OH My Gosh! So remember this! And Jim was always in the middle of things

My first child was on Dec 22. Best Xmas gift. Little drama & straight to C-section. Doctor felt pulsating vessels. Delivering could cause pressure on them and baby may lose oxygen or burst and bleed out

Whoa. That's pretty scary, too!
And then you forget.... when they're evil and you want to throttle the little monsters.

Scary! Makes a person thankful

Yep.

 

[pkondz]

Look, LOOK!! Another Oregon Girl!!

DISmeet in the near future????

Oh, by the way, Ponzi, I'm about to get off

All right Liesa!!!!
That's a definite change from studying yourself to death!

of here ("of here added for good reason),

Oh.


Nevermind.
(Borrrrring!)

I hope you get to my post in soon.

Okay! Okay!


There. Happy?

Yay, now I can go to bed. (J/K, still have a couple more threads to catch up on.)

Nah. This is the only one your really need to keep up with.

Yeah, I read that the newest, tallest has been started. Too bad the one in Dubai is barely visible with all the smog.

Oh? You'd think it'd be above the smog...
Hmmm... maybe it is. You'd still have to look through it.

There are some local henna artists around here that are amazing! Just seeing that picture makes me want to get one again! Maybe I should get one for my trip...

Sure! Why not?

That camel would just as soon spit that wad of cud at you and laugh about it while you wiped that acid out of your eye. Camels are nasty, disgusting creatures. Trust me, I know.

Ew.
Check. Pass on the camel cuddling.

 

[Steppesister]

Okay! Okay!


There. Happy?

Getting there. I had an AMAZING day at work today. I really made a difference for a patient, and that made me feel really great! I'm really doing it! And feeling so much more confident. And to think I get PAID for doing something I love. Gotta say it, I'm a big fan of career changes later in life. I'm old, but not too old to make a difference.

 

[MAGICFOR2]

Hey there! I'm still alive, although sometimes this past couple of weeks I really wonder. Work has been horrible. Makes me wonder why I went on vacation, or IF I did. We actually had to fire one key employee for being absent too much and a no call no show, when our lead receptionist also disappeared. Turned out she ran off to Vegas with her new boyfriend for an undetermined time and left her kids with the ex. Didn't see that coming - right in the middle of flu season. I can't even begin to catch up on my work because I have been so busy helping out where I can and getting hiring done, and putting out fires.

I see I totally missed an update - I even read the questions while out on vacation, but I was using my hotspot on my phone for internet at mom's, and waited to get home to post - then had no energy to do so.

I did want to comment on the velocity of a swallow. Sometimes you can swallow quickly, if you are swallowing a liquid like water. Other times it takes longer because the peanut butter is stuck to the roof of your mouth....

Congrats for letting your Beauty sleep. I guess she needed it.

I always love the Japanese store too. We lived in Okinawa for 3 years, and I miss some things. I do spend too much time there without a purchase, too. The last time, I was on a mission to get some "cow soap" with a particular scent I have not found anywhere. Turns out they had it, but it was the unscented version. I came home and found it on Amazon.

Ok my guesses:

2 minutes on the Monorail

4 Parks - you are going for a personal family record, since Ruby is not there to be reasonable about the amount of activity to be done in one day.
You consume a pretzel, nachos, caramel and gelatto.

ADR at Via Napoli for old times' sake

You ride Test Track

You run into Alice, but you do not knock her down.

Too funny about the fruit flies! I also found a science experiment in Mark's room when he left to get married. I thought the smell was coming from his baseball socks which he refused to wash as long as they were winning.They were undefeated. turned out to be food scraps and trash under his bed.

 

[pkondz]

Hey, Mike!
How's the job hunting going? Any luck yet?

Because if they put TWO, you might get confused on which way to go.

How about if they put "too"?

And for those of you daring, get a Dole Whip Float with the Pineapple Vanilla Swirl and Malibu Rum.

That's available at AK, right?
pkondz does not like rum, so I guess I'll have to pass on that one.

Next time, ride this with a pair of dark sunglasses on. That will make it nice and dark to where you can't see the tracks.

Ha! I just might do that, too!

And I'll take Space over BTMRR.

Really! Huh. You're the first.

There should be an additional 1 in front of the 16.

Sure! I'll just slide it in horizontally, like this -16.
How's that?

Since I missed the last round of guesses (scheduled job interviews, mandatory unemployment benefits workshops) I'm consulting with Lady H (as she decorates the Christmas Tree) on these guesses. If allowed, I will put my guesses and her guesses. If not, then I'll see if I can get her to log on when she's not so busy. Let me know if this acceptable. We're both so far behind, no chance of catching up, but we'll continue guessing for fun.

Sure! No problem.
But only if you say "Hi" to her for me, okay?

T_Man: 3 minutes
Lady H: 10 minutes


Looking at previous guesses, I think it comes down to 3.
T_Man: Rose & Crown
Lady H: Teppan Edo


T_Man: School Bread and Cronut
Lady H: Eclair and Cronut


T_Man: Sum of All Thrills
Lady H: Test Track

T_Man: Aladdin
Lady H: Aladdin

Noted... X 2!

 

[pkondz]

Getting there. I had an AMAZING day at work today. I really made a difference for a patient, and that made me feel really great! I'm really doing it! And feeling so much more confident. And to think I get PAID for doing something I love. Gotta say it, I'm a big fan of career changes later in life. I'm old, but not too old to make a difference.

You'll never know how happy what you just said makes me.
It's people like you who make all the difference in this world.

You go girl.
And I mean that.

 

[OregonGirl]

Look, LOOK!! Another Oregon Girl!! Well, she got the cooler screen name.

I think I DO remember you! One of the perks of joining the DIS such a long time ago was my pick of cool screen names. Do you remember WDW4Adults or MousePlanet? Before the DIS that is where us cool kids hung out. It's funny, a month after I joined DIS in 2010 I started the Singles Seeking Singles thread which is still going strong! http://www.disboards.com/threads/th...-singles-dating-thread-profiles-only.2411855/

DISmeet in the near future????

I LOVE DIS MEETS!!!! My next planned trip is March 2016 but.... thinks are sort of bleak for me right now so we shall see if it can still happen.

- Carey

 

[Steppesister]

I think I DO remember you! One of the perks of joining the DIS such a long time ago was my pick of cool screen names. Do you remember WDW4Adults or MousePlanet? Before the DIS that is where us cool kids hung out. It's funny, a month after I joined DIS in 2010 I started the Singles Seeking Singles thread which is still going strong! http://www.disboards.com/threads/th...-singles-dating-thread-profiles-only.2411855/

I thought your name sounded familiar. I had to drop off the DIS while I re-established my life after moving back to the US (finding one's center after being gone for almost 10 years is NOT very easy and it took me a LONG time. I chose to go back to school and take up a brand new career and it's taken me 4 long years to reach that goal and I'm not done yet.

I LOVE DIS MEETS!!!! My next planned trip is March 2016 but.... thinks are sort of bleak for me right now so we shall see if it can still happen.

There is a growing DISMeet coming together for October, 2016 when I go to celebrate my graduation from Nursing School. We'd LOVE to you have you join us!! Think about it! 10-20th

 

[pkondz]

Hey there! I'm still alive, although sometimes this past couple of weeks I really wonder. Work has been horrible. Makes me wonder why I went on vacation, or IF I did.

Sounds like you're being worked to death there, girlie.

We actually had to fire one key employee for being absent too much and a no call no show

Good.
You do that you should be fired.
I am so sick and tired of people constantly coming in late with zero repercussions.

I try to always show up early. Not on time... early.
And there are some who are never on time.
Drives me nuts.
And nothing's ever done.
Oh, once every few years, they tell the employee not to be late.
Whatever.
I keep threatening to come in an hour late... because I feel like it.
Doubt I ever will, though.

Sorry. Rant over. Bit of a sore spot.

when our lead receptionist also disappeared. Turned out she ran off to Vegas with her new boyfriend for an undetermined time and left her kids with the ex.

No way! I thought stuff like that only happened in the movies!

Didn't see that coming - right in the middle of flu season. I can't even begin to catch up on my work because I have been so busy helping out where I can and getting hiring done, and putting out fires.

Sorry to hear that Tammie.

I see I totally missed an update - I even read the questions while out on vacation, but I was using my hotspot on my phone for internet at mom's, and waited to get home to post - then had no energy to do so.

I remember you mentioning that.

I did want to comment on the velocity of a swallow. Sometimes you can swallow quickly, if you are swallowing a liquid like water. Other times it takes longer because the peanut butter is stuck to the roof of your mouth....

Okay Tammie. I'll give you points for that one.

Congrats for letting your Beauty sleep. I guess she needed it.

I don't know if she needed it. But she wanted it, so...

I always love the Japanese store too. We lived in Okinawa for 3 years, and I miss some things.

You lived there?!!? Cool!
I'd love to go.... someday.
Who knows.

I do spend too much time there without a purchase, too. The last time, I was on a mission to get some "cow soap" with a particular scent I have not found anywhere. Turns out they had it, but it was the unscented version. I came home and found it on Amazon.

Ok my guesses:

2 minutes on the Monorail

4 Parks - you are going for a personal family record, since Ruby is not there to be reasonable about the amount of activity to be done in one day.
(That was last round Tammie. The answer was two.)
You consume a pretzel, nachos, caramel and gelatto.

ADR at Via Napoli for old times' sake

You ride Test Track

You run into Alice, but you do not knock her down.

Noted. (And... at "knock her down")

I also found a science experiment in Mark's room when he left to get married. I thought the smell was coming from his baseball socks which he refused to wash as long as they were winning.They were undefeated. turned out to be food scraps and trash under his bed.

Well, of course. He's a boy. There has to be food (and dirty clothes) lying around.
It's a rule.