Childfree (by choice) Disney Lovers!

[zima-cheryl]

I see you are going to F&W next year!! Where are you staying?

Right now we are booked at Carribean Beach. For such a long trip we opted for a moderate. Looked at a few, but the $$ for a week at a delux was insane. Of course our TA is on the case & if we snag a pin or code that may change. A year is a long time & a lot can happen.

We picked F&W hoping that FIL fiance will enjoy it. She is big into cooking, parties, entertaining, etc. She buys cook books just to read them.
I'm hopeful she will enjoy some of the speakers & events that go on during the week @ Epcot. We insisted on park hoppers so any day she wants to bounce to Epcot for a special event they can.

 

[maddhatir]

Right now we are booked at Carribean Beach. For such a long trip we opted for a moderate. Looked at a few, but the $$ for a week at a delux was insane. Of course our TA is on the case & if we snag a pin or code that may change. A year is a long time & a lot can happen.

We picked F&W hoping that FIL fiance will enjoy it. She is big into cooking, parties, entertaining, etc. She buys cook books just to read them.
I'm hopeful she will enjoy some of the speakers & events that go on during the week @ Epcot. We insisted on park hoppers so any day she wants to bounce to Epcot for a special event they can.

Cool. They might be offering free dining at that time. They are offering it this year excluding the week we will be there. I don't care b/c I have to pay for the DP anyway since I am staying at a DVC. If you want to go during free dining, keep an eye on the black out dates.

Some of the events are expensive

Our BWV/DVC is costing us 161.00 per night Not bad.

 

[onnawufei]

Oops, I totally lost track of this thread. Go go attention span power!

Shyvioletisme I love your kitties, but Coco has me melting. I love that coloring so much! I've told the hubs multiple times that I want a cat with that coloring, but he doesn't like it much.

As long as we're sharing kitties...

Gambit, my 20 pound ball of purr and love. But he's got one of those faces that makes him look like he's always angry or bored. Really he's an incredible scaredy cat and is really sweet.

Gadget, who is DH's baby. I swear the cats know who picked them out because Gambit adores me and Gadget adores Ryan. But if Gadget wants love in the middle of the night she has no problem nudging me awake because she knows I'll cave in and pet her. She's the diva that rules the house. (And she's named after the character on Rescue Rangers!)

Tex, the youngest, is our ninja. She likes to hide in the shadows and attack me when I'm going up the stairs. She doesn't do it to Ryan, just to me! She doesn't meow much, she tends to chirp and making little whining noises, and she's very quick to start purring. She loves cuddles.

And the next two aren't technically mine, but I refer to them as "my kitties that aren't mine". Basically I give them love and water every day, feed them sometimes and all I have to do is walk out my front door and they'll come running. I would gladly take both of them in if I could but alas, three cats are already a handful.

Rose belongs to the people across the street from us but I don't think they give her a lot of attention because she spends most of her time at my house. I love this cat just as much as I love my own.

Charlie is a stray that the neighbor takes care of, which is why I mentioned that I only feed them sometimes. The neighbor does the feeding and I do the playing with and attention giving. Or that's how it seems to work out.

Aaaand I'm done hijacking the thread with cat talk. What can I say, I would totally be the crazy cat lady if given the chance.

 

[tinkrebell]

Welcome!! I see you are in Bucks County. Funny b/c Cheryl asked what everyone was up to this weekend. DH and I will be heading to our favorite place (no, not Disney- our favorite some-what LOCAL place......) New Hope PA. Are you close by?

YES I AM!!! I was just at Sandbar in New Hope on Saturday! We live just south of Yardley - and making the drive north along River Road is probably my favorite activity in the whole area. Can't believe there are CF DISers so close by! I'm originally from Northern VA, but that area is so populated it's positively filled with DISers, and I've been feeling lonely spreading the Disney love all on my own! Again, DH has no idea what he's in for . . . but his default response to why I don't play our favorite computer games at night as much now (WoW, anyone??) has quickly become - "Oh, are you on the DISboards again?"

Apparently, I'm boring when I'm boarding. . . but I can't say I'm complaining!

 

[KittyHellstrom]

^ hi from south philly!

 

[KittyHellstrom]

Just a short introduction since I'm new to the thread!

My boyfriend and I are 29 and 35. No human kids, 3 animal kids! Here's a few pictures of my babies!

Mr. Gizmo Alejandro! I adopted him from the shelter where I volunteer. He's a Rat Terrier mix

Pretzel! He's completely blind and missing one eye but you wouldn't know it watching him run around

Shiva! I got her as a baby a few Halloweens ago from the same shelter.

the kitties together when Shiva was much smaller.

Nice to meet everyone and their fur families
-Kitty

 

[maddhatir]

YES I AM!!! I was just at Sandbar in New Hope on Saturday!

I had to look up the Sandbar b/c I was not sure where it was. I know the place- but did not know that was the name! We walked by on Sat and noticed they put in "grass" LOL.

We were hanging at Havana for a while and then went over to the outside bar at The Logan Inn.

We have been going to New Hope for close to 25 years now. Have you noticed there are children everywhere now? It seems that just this year it happened. Havana is our home base and I noticed on our last visit they now have a sign on the ladies room door- BABY CHANGING STATION! I thought- this is new!

I want the old New Hope back. I prefer to hang with the freaks and bikers. The freaks are gone, the bikers have been replaced with the wanna-be-bikers and now the strollers have taken over the sidewalks I was a bit relieved when we were having a drink at the Logan Inn and in walked 3 older chubby gentlemen dressed as (what seemed to be) Little Bo Peeps I said to DH- "ahhhh, now there is the New Hope I know and love" Most people didn't gave them a 2nd glance and went about their business. Did you see them along your travels through town?

We ended our day with Sopapillas drizzled with honey and a dusting of powdered sugar from El Taco Loco- OMG YUM!!!!!

^ hi from south philly!

LOL! Another local! We love the city. Welcome to the thread!

As long as we're sharing kitties...

Just a short introduction since I'm new to the thread!

My boyfriend and I are 29 and 35. No human kids, 3 animal kids! Here's a few pictures of my babies

Everyone's babies are SO adorable!!!!

 

[tinkrebell]

Oooh! Love Havanas! We just normally take friends new to the area to Sandbar because the cooking is just about as good as Havanas, but they tend to have more taco/drink specials, and the inside doesn't have the stale nightclub feel if we don't want to sit outside - which happened a lot in this summer heat! That being said, NOTHING beats Havanas' fries!!!!

And yes on the kids - strollers, motorcycles and hippies - how in the world did this happen? The last two are institutions, but when did everyone ELSE here decide that bringing babies along was cool? Of course, because I'm CF, maybe I just will get it "eventually" just like I'll "get" the urge to have some of my own in the first place =D Our fault for living in such a pretty area that attracts all those yuppies, I guess!

 

[maddhatir]

Oooh! Love Havanas! We just normally take friends new to the area to Sandbar because the cooking is just about as good as Havanas, but they tend to have more taco/drink specials, and the inside doesn't have the stale nightclub feel if we don't want to sit outside - which happened a lot in this summer heat! That being said, NOTHING beats Havanas' fries!!!!

And yes on the kids - strollers, motorcycles and hippies - how in the world did this happen? The last two are institutions, but when did everyone ELSE here decide that bringing babies along was cool? Of course, because I'm CF, maybe I just will get it "eventually" just like I'll "get" the urge to have some of my own in the first place =D Our fault for living in such a pretty area that attracts all those yuppies, I guess!

Oh the fries! Yes- oh, so crunchy! Have you ever tried the iron pan aged provolone at Havana!?!! Oh dear god, it is to DIE for! It is a must every visit! Ew- I hear you about the inside. We have only eaten inside ONCE in all the years we have been going to Havana. That was b/c it started raining and we had to move inside. We always ask for our regular table outside- right at the edge over looking the sidewalk and the street.

We never tried The Sandbar.

The "kid thing" is certainly something new. Maybe they are all coming from Peddler's Village

Yes- the area is beautiful. I always say I feel like I am "home" when I am in that area. DH and I were very close to renting a very small apt on Ferry Street (before the train tracks) a few years back. It looked out over the little stream. It was basically one huge room- we would just use it for weekends b/c at the time we were living in a condo. But- we put an offer in on a house and we got it- so that nixed the New Hope apt.

I have had my eye on a house for YEARS on River Road (on the PA side facing the DE River- right before the Library of the American Revolution) I call it "my house" when we pass by It is small house with lots of old field stone on it. {{OK! SNAP OUT OF IT!}}

 

[zima-cheryl]

This is wicked funny... but please if you are easily offended, don't watch.
The little squirrel is hysterical IMO, but can be rather rude, crude & obnoxious.

http://www.illwillpress.com/MUZEEMS.html

Please tell me you haven't been in this situation.

 

[lakelandgal70]

Zima that was an awesome video! I totally agree. I don't understand why they can't be quiet in a musuem or library for that matter. Drives me up a wall!!

Hope everyone has been having a wonderful week. I just left my job of 5yrs yesterday. Needless to say things that have been going on just came to a head and I couldn't take it anymore. So I left. And where did I go afterwards?? My happy place of course Disney! hahaha. Went to Animal Kingdom for the afternoon and had a wonderful time by myself. Rode Dino ride 3x in a row lol. Should have hopped on the Everest as the wait was only 5min but wasn't that brave ahahhha. Now mind you I wouldn't have left if I wasn't financially able to. Just been sticking it out because I don't like giving up but enough was enough.

 

[maddhatir]

This is wicked funny... but please if you are easily offended, don't watch.
The little squirrel is hysterical IMO, but can be rather rude, crude & obnoxious.

http://www.illwillpress.com/MUZEEMS.html

Please tell me you haven't been in this situation.

Cheryl! LMAO! Thank you SO much for another hilarious installment of Foamy the Squirrel!!! I love that little guy! I hope you don't mind if I steal this- I am sure you will see it on my wall soon enough I love his suggestion about mixing water and electricity w/a metal object at the kid's museum He is so bad

Zima that was an awesome video! I totally agree. I don't understand why they can't be quiet in a musuem or library for that matter. Drives me up a wall!!

Hope everyone has been having a wonderful week. I just left my job of 5yrs yesterday. Needless to say things that have been going on just came to a head and I couldn't take it anymore. So I left. And where did I go afterwards?? My happy place of course Disney! hahaha. Went to Animal Kingdom for the afternoon and had a wonderful time by myself. Rode Dino ride 3x in a row lol. Should have hopped on the Everest as the wait was only 5min but wasn't that brave ahahhha. Now mind you I wouldn't have left if I wasn't financially able to. Just been sticking it out because I don't like giving up but enough was enough.

god forbid anyone around here sees you sneaking off to Disney without a JOB!!!! Like your finances are any of their business anyway!

Good for you for choosing to be happy! I could not think of a better way to celebrate leaving your job!

TGIF everyone! Enjoy your weekend

 

[lakelandgal70]

Mad LMAO! I know. Should I even mention the strollers?? Those huge SUV ones that you can barely get around. I had a hard time walking around yesterday because of them. Thankfully I am a speed walker and can manuver around them but WOW! Should I also mention we are going way in Nov for 3days to stay on site even though I don't have a job?? HAHAHHHAHA. I read some of these posts and just laugh. But I do love this group for sure!

 

[maddhatir]

Is anyone having a problem getting on Facebook?

ETA- nevermind. I went on Twitter and saw this
Facebook may be slow or unavailable for some people because of site issues. We're working to fix this quickly.
3 minutes ago via HootSuite

 

[RenkonNairu]

Mad LMAO! I know. Should I even mention the strollers?? Those huge SUV ones that you can barely get around. I had a hard time walking around yesterday because of them. Thankfully I am a speed walker and can manuver around them but WOW! Should I also mention we are going way in Nov for 3days to stay on site even though I don't have a job?? HAHAHHHAHA. I read some of these posts and just laugh. But I do love this group for sure!

Not just the strollers but the children in them. Most of these kids I see are under the age of five, they won't even remember going to Disneyland that young, why pay all that money to take them when they won't even remember?

 

[Lillian Gracey]

This is definitely the thread for me! My boyfriend (26) and I (20) are child free! I hope it stays that way, but he wants kids eventually. He has his 3 month old niece tho.

Can't wait for our romantic child free vacation in May! It's gonna be a blast! We will be celebrating our 20 month anniversary and my 21st birthday.

 

[maddhatir]

Not just the strollers but the children in them. Most of these kids I see are under the age of five, they won't even remember going to Disneyland that young, why pay all that money to take them when they won't even remember?

I say that when I am at a hockey game. Why waste the money for a seat when all the child wants to do is get up and down during the whole game. They can care less about the game!

 

[zima-cheryl]

Is anyone having a problem getting on Facebook?

My problem is usually getting off facebook. Esp. once I start playing some dumb game.

I say that when I am at a hockey game. Why waste the money for a seat when all the child wants to do is get up and down during the whole game. They can care less about the game!

We saw that last weekend @ the baseball game. If they were in their seats for 10 minutes I'd be surprised. And then the kids got so tired & cranky they left at the end of the 7th inning. I mean I appriciate that they did... last thing I wanted was a melt down in the seat next to me. But after dropping $50 on tix, plus parking & all the other junk... seems like a waste of $$ to me.

 

[lakelandgal70]

Hope everyone is having a nice childfree week!

 

[lakelandgal70]

Popped in for a couple hours this afternoon. It is still so warm but it was not crowded. Soarin had a 40min wait and Test Track had 20min wait. Every other time I have been in Epcot the wait for Soarin was 120min plus.

Food and Wine is going on and there are a lot of tasty selections. I even tried esgargot for first time. Was ok but doubt I would ever eat it again

Looked like tons of great adult beverages to sample as well. But will have to wait for November when we are on property. Tried the new caramel shop in Germany. The caramels were to die for!!! Too many things behind the counter that looked good. Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!