CSE-- Pg. 74 SATAN'S HAMMER, Ch.18, pg.160 "Goodnight Sweetheart" epilogue

[mmeb144]

Another vote for combined. Hmmmm...how about "Coronado Springs eternal in our Disney quest"?

Good one!

 

[Backstage_Gal]

Combined. We get easily confused as it is, with Nebo and Ponzi, et all, so keep it simple for us please.

 

[Backstage_Gal]

Combine the trip reports! I have a couple sample titles:

Coronado Springs Eternal, Nebo's No Spring Chicken

Coronado Springs Forward, Nebo Falls Back

Take your pick...

This one gets my vote

 

[Millie12591]

So sorry about the back, I know all about those issues. Since losing some weight it's made dealing with it a whoooooole lot easier.

I can't imagine having to deal with it in WDW, the closest I've come to dealing with back issues while there was the same day I was leaving. Thank goodness.

I'm all for going from one report right into the other.

Hope y'all have a great trip and that you don't leave this time with a bad back, or any other injuries for that matter.

 

[shan23877]

I say combine them, we're all here already.

Sorry you had such a rough night. I'm really starting to worry for Smidgy wondering what will happen when you run out.

Stroller as battering ram. I'll have to remember that next time someone makes me mad...

I have to agree about the treadmills. You're at WDW!! Do your walking the old fashioned way.

How about Coronado Springs Eternal, But Not Enough To Keep You Cool In August?

 

[laura74]

Should I start over when I get back or just keep plugging along and I'll continue the next trip on this same channel? This would be like the one report that strted out "Oil's well that ends well,, and turned into "From oil wells to jingle bells."
Ok, your thoughts always appreciated.

I'm with the rest of the bunch. Combine them.

The worse thing about standing for the long drive to MK?

The problem is that when you stand,,, in order to hang on I have to have my Sunny D in my pocket,,, and the pocket is much hotter than NOT in the pocket,,, which means the ice will melt that much faster.
Nothing worse than a room temperature or higher Sunny D and vodka.

Only you would say the worst thing about standing on a 20 minute ride would be that your contraband is getting warm.

There was no real plan tonight, but for the first time in years, we have now returned to a park in th evening WITHOUT a single fastpass, I felt kind of naked, like going to class without your pen and notebook.

Hate the new fastpass policy.

However,,, the back was really bothering me,, and teh crowd level wasn't helping at all.

That's terrible. It's hard to have fun when you're in pain.

The train ride was nice,, and I'm alwyas surprised at how quickly you travel from station to station. (read, surprised at how small the actual park is, even going all the way around it without shortcuts)

I know it's not as big as the other parks but I'm usually surprised at how big it is because in my mind it's much smaller. Like those park maps with the exaggerated building size.

We were about to take a ride on Jungle Cruise with a 20 minute wait,,, but for some reason,,, the fastpass time was only a half hour from now,, so we grabbed them instead and forced ourselves to sit tthrough Tiki Birds.

Ha ha! That's funny that you made yourselves sit through an attraction you don't like.

Using our fastpasses, we got on Jungle Cruise.
Well,, Smidgy did it the normal way,,, I kind of just "fell" into the boat, trying to carefully step down into it.

If you ever decide to work at Disney World, jungle cruise operator would be the perfect job for you.

first time,,,,
It was closed down!

It was down every time we went to go ride it last March.

I stopped briefly to see if she was coming with me, she had paused, then started after me, and when I turned back around I got creamed by a M-1 Abrams 50 milimeter tank stroller!
She bounced off my shins briefly, stopped, then reversed course to try the battering ram effect once more; "Hey, it worked at the Battle of Helm's Deep!" in Lord of the Rings.
I stood my ground, but she pulled hard to port at the last second and went on her way, now I REALLY need to get out of there tonight. I just absolutely could not believe,,, I STILL can't,,, how crowded it was that day/night.

She didn't apologize? Some people are so rude.

Back in the room, I start to really think about how the dining plan is just killing us.
Heck, I'm not even getting the snacks I had made lists of to take advantage of.
But I did hit the safe though.
I am now down to 12 total, after 3 went away, not good.

Uh oh. How many days are left?

Ok,, I pull out my card,,,
"Excuse me while I whip this out!" (sorry, I love that line)
which is from?

Sounds like it's from "Airplane!"

But now that we are inside the building, we can see some guys going to town on the treadmills and nautilus equipment.
( I'm sorry,,, do you really need to have to keep in shape on a frigging treadmill of all things in DisneyWorld?) Your are not walking enough?

The convention people aren't in the parks all day.

"How dry I am,
How wet I"ll be;
If I don't find,
The bathroom key.

I found the key,
but where's the,,,,,,,,

g'night all

Great chapter Nebo!

 

[margymas]

The quote is from one of the favorite movies in our little, politically-incorrect household. Let's keep the fun going. It was spoken by Cleavon Little and it preceded one of several other great exchanges in that same movie, to wit, "A man drinks like that and he don't eat, he is going to die!" Pause, and then the reply," "When?".

 

[MHSweb79]

Could it be the same movie that I used for a neighborhood Christmas-swap, where I wrapped up a can of beans, an air freshener and the DVD?


Edited to add: Most of the party-goers knew what the DVD was going to be, but the recipient- believe it or not - had never seen the movie. The rest of us had grown up in the '70s, when finely-tuned, elegant humor was all the rage.

 

[OhMari]

My vote is to blend.
Didn't think I was around yet, again.
I am.

 

[Worfiedoodles]

One TR, Two -- doesn't matter, I'll take my Neboesque reflections any way they are presented!

Maria

 

[Thumper_Man]

I'm in the combine them crowd. Lady H and I will be in DL next month ourselves.

 

[pkondz]

Guess what? I need your help here.

Down the hall, second door to the left. Don't forget to flush.

I'm just about out of time on this report before we leave again, so i'm thinking of doing a , as they said in school, a "consonent blend", or in this case, at "trip report blend" like I did two years ago. I hate starting from scratch, but I also know it can get unwieldly when you do a double report. But I don't really see a good alternative.

Oh! That's what you need help with.

I'm so embarrassed.

I vote for ending this one before you go and starting a new one.
My reasons?
1. Ending this one will impose a deadline on you and force the chapters out that much faster.
2. You've already stated that you hate starting from scratch... and anything I can do to increase your pain... I'm all for it.

Okay, okay. Kidding aside, my first thought was two reports. A clean break between the two... but then I remembered how much I enjoyed "Oil's well". I think the thing most people want is a Nebo report, in whatever form it comes in. So my vote is no vote, I'll be happy whichever way you decide to go.

A double also gives the appearance I'm trying to pad the numbers, but any report will get high posts or hit counts if it goes on long enough. So what say you?

I say, if you do continue it, I'll just tell everyone the reason your numbers are higher than mine is because it's a double report. But for quality, they know where to go.


Laura's, of course.

That Tuesday, after I looked like an idiot singing Kung Foo Fighting at the what was supposed to be, "quiet pool",

You didn't look like an idiot because you sang Kung Foo Fighting... it was in addition to singing Kung Foo Fighting. You don't have to sing silly songs to look foolish, it's just an enhancement.

Once again our sippers ended up outside the little wall,

So nice of you to provide a nesting area for lizards and insects. How was the last litter doing?

but this time the bus was packed, SRO.

Everytime you post that, it takes me a second to cull through the memory banks of DISboards acronyms... only to go

SaRatOga Springs?
Shades ROf green? What’s a rof? No that’s just silly…

Oh.

Normal acronym. Nevermind.

We both got to stand all the way to MK.

I just can’t stand it when you stand all the way to MK, eh?

The worse thing about standing for the long drive to MK?

Being a midget or kid and being adult armpit tall?

Ho ahead, anybody?

That’s not Disney, that’s Vegas.

The problem is that when you stand,,, in order to hang on I have to have my Sunny D in my pocket,,, and the pocket is much hotter than NOT in the pocket,,, which means the ice will melt that much faster.
Nothing worse than a room temperature or higher Sunny D and vodka.

The bus collided violently with the truck that had swerved into its lane. Several passengers who had been standing on the SRO bus were thrown through the windows. Some landed as far away as Shades ROf green and SaRatOga Springs.
An off duty paramedic raced over towards the carnage.
“Please! Please, somebody help my babies!”
The paramedic immediately ran to the stricken man. “Where are your children, sir?”

“No, not my kids. My Sunny Ds. Could you move them out of the sun and into some shade? Wait, bring one to me now,” the man said while fumbling in his left pocket. “And then put the other one in the shade… you wouldn’t happen to have any ice on you, would you?”

See, there are worse things.

we got there just in time to catch the "parade/show wannabe" Move it, Shake it, Shove it or Lose it.

Did get a couple pics of it though:

<sigh> typical Disnyholic. May not like something, but will take pictures of it anyway.

“Oh, that? Can’t stand it. Hate it with a passion… where’s my camera?”

There was no real plan tonight, but for the first time in years, we have now returned to a park in th evening WITHOUT a single fastpass,

I wonder how many people are getting caught with that.

“Okay, honey, we’re all stocked up on fastpasses. Let’s head on back to the hotel and relax. We’ll come back later tonight and use ‘em up. We won’t have to stand in line like all those other suckers! Ha!”

I felt kind of naked, like going to class without your pen and notebook.

Ooh, that’s not good. All you’ve got is a recurring fidget to keep you company.

For us though,,, we have had pretty much the same routine at MK at nighttime for quite a while now,,, and without even talking about it we just kind of let instincts take over and we followed them.

Kind of like buzzards circling a dehydrated critter in the desert.

a round trip on WEDWAY,

That’s the right way to say WEDWAY, eh?

….didn’t I already do this rhyme?
It was just as lame then as it is now, too.

and some air conditioning in what was once in December, "The Casserole of Progresso", but today was almost chilly.

I like a good chilly casserole.

no pills with me.
I had taken a few back before we left the room

You should’ve taken them with you to the park instead of taking them back. They’re not going to do you any good back there.

but now I feel as if I wasted them on the standing room only ride here.

Ah yes. You’re using your back muscles to keep you from bumping into other people while standing on the bus. I wonder if you’d managed to sit down for the ride if your night might’ve been different.

Then I had a great idea to do something and kill time also,, we got on the train and rode that around,,,

I don’t know if I’ve ever been on that train. If I did it was back in ’87...
or earlier.

but not until we had bought a Sprite and split it with our little bottles that up until tonight had been going for the ride just to be ignored late on.

I don’t know what’s worse. Being ignored or being taken for a ride.

the fastpass time was only a half hour from now,, so we grabbed them instead and forced ourselves to sit tthrough Tiki Birds.

“We could relax and watch the world go by… perhaps even sip from these poor ignored and lied to bottles. OR. We could do something that we hate and be miserable.”

Check.

AND,,, I'm sorry, the new and improved Tiki Birds is even more boring than the last version was, The Old and unaproved Tiki Birds and,, a LOT more boring and I don't care if Walt would have like this better!

You know, I get the whole “This is the way Walt saw it” thing. But I also think he would be quick to embrace new things, too.

But with each passing minute, my back was going downhill, I can't believe I even considered golng to a water park today!

Well if your back was going downhill, the rest of you might as well have gone too.

Yeah,,, that would have worked well, it would have been the first time you heard somebody scream from the immense buffetting waves that are created in the Lazy River.

I’ve always thought that if they really wanted to make things fun, they could’ve seeded the lazy river with piranha.

Too much?

Using our fastpasses, we got on Jungle Cruise.
Well,, Smidgy did it the normal way,,, I kind of just "fell" into the boat, trying to carefully step down into it.

And doesn’t it seem that the more you try to be careful, all you really do is tense up even more and make it worse?

And for about the tenth time I check my left pocket again, no, it still hasn't learned how to germinate new vicodin seeds yet.

That right there is the future, folks. Some drug dealer somewhere will find a way of keeping his ‘clients’ happy by keeping their pockets filled with an unending supply of illicit drugs.

The pharmacists won’t be far behind.

Ok now, do you want to guess what else can happen to me when I have to deal with this crappy back for an extended length of time?

Dunno. Attacked by a gator?

That's right, I get crabby.

That’s worse than a gator.

Oh, I try my best not to, but eventually I will crack.
But usually only after great, extreme provocation, constant bullying or just constant, belligerent badgering by outside forces that really don't understand all the pain I am going through!

Here's an example:
When we got off the Jungle Cruise;

"Well Honey, what do you want to do now?"

See what I mean?

Inexcusable! Uncalled for! What were you thinking, Smidgy?

How can Pirates break? Did the water dry up?

George decides when and if Pirates will work, didn’t you know that?

As they say, this was the end of the line, the final chapter, the last straw, the walk-off homer.

The coup de grace.

She wasn't happy but she understood. I just turned around and headed back towards Main Street.

Gee, dude. I’m trying to keep it light, but I feel for ya. I really do.

I stopped briefly to see if she was coming with me, she had paused, then started after me, and when I turned back around I got creamed by a M-1 Abrams 50 milimeter tank stroller!

Cause the back just wasn’t enough. You had to up the ante, didn’t you?

I stood my ground, but she pulled hard to port at the last second and went on her way,

She probably noticed the look of pain on your face and realised her job here was done and went off in search of other unsuspecting victims.

Hey! I wonder if all these reports of stroller assaults are all caused by a small core (or corps) group of stroller strikers?

Back in the room, I start to really think about how the dining plan is just killing us.

No, it’s your back in the room that is killing you.

My problem now is that I feel like I am wasting the night, totally.

That’s how I feel if I’m not doing something while on vacation. Gotta get my money’s (and time’s) worth.

Since I was feeling a bit better, we made somewhat of a touristy like walk through the Casitas, which we both love to do at night,,, it's so pretty, but made another discovery that didn't exactly make you want to smile.

What? Are you trying for some kind of record of misery or something?

Ok,, I pull out my card,,,
"Excuse me while I whip this out!" (sorry, I love that line)
which is from?

That line needs to be followed by a group gasping in shock and trepidation (or anticipation? Hmmm…) A few people beat me to it. See below… uh… that might not have been the best choice of words…

But now that we are inside the building, we can see some guys going to town on the treadmills and nautilus equipment.
( I'm sorry,,, do you really need to have to keep in shape on a frigging treadmill of all things in DisneyWorld?) Your are not walking enough?

I never thought of that! You’re right. “Well, I’ve just walked over 52 miles today… guess I’ll hit the gym and walk off some of these…. developed muscles?”

We each headed for our respective bathrooms.
And each respective bathroom was locked!
No, this time there is NO key card slot,,, locked is locked!

Did you look for a hidden camera? Maybe somebody wanted to watch you do the pee pee dance.

Disturbing, but great chapter, dude. :

 

[pkondz]

Coronado Springs Forward, Nebo Falls Back

Take your pick...

I pick that one. Seems appropriate to mention the back.

If you ever decide to work at Disney World, jungle cruise operator would be the perfect job for you.

As an anchor. :

Could it be the same movie that I used for a neighborhood Christmas-swap, where I wrapped up a can of beans, an air freshener and the DVD?

What a great idea! My DW’s favourite scene in that movie.

My vote is to blend.
Didn't think I was around yet, again.
I am.

Shh!! The boss is around! Everyone look busy!

 

[buzz1121]

IMO combining would be great! If you break it down enough, we could potentially have a Nebo report into 2013!! Woo-hoo for all of us!!!

We always, and I mean always, seem to have terrible timing entering the MK during an evening parade. I have become pretty adept at manuevering through the crowds, but once or twice I feel like I could almost claim unintentional intimate knowledge of the person in front of me due to tight spots. Yikes!

I gotta touch base with you Nebo. Our time is flying and we need to connect via the "ringy-dingy". I don't want to call you too late. What will work for you and Smidgy?

Oh yeah, by the way, DH and I always find a chance to hum "Kung Fu Fighting" in the World as a tribute to you.....that and eating Ohana shrimp in your honor......sans tails of course!!

 

[buzz1121]

Oh yeah, we found out the sex of little Buzz today. We're trying to decide if we should tell the kids or let them be surprised. Any thoughts oh wise fellow Neboites?

 

[buzz1121]

Smidgy, you are so right! That baby picture of Nebo is icky!! I can't quote it because heaven forbid we see it again. I was just kidding about any pictures, but that picture looks "coquettish" to say the least. And the word "fae" isn't entirely imappropriate either. Insert shudder here.

 

[Sandy Mouse]

Oh yeah, we found out the sex of little Buzz today. We're trying to decide if we should tell the kids or let them be surprised. Any thoughts oh wise fellow Neboites?

Tell. There is no good reason not to.

 

[Sandy Mouse]

Combine, start a new one... Either way is ok with me. I'm just along for the ride. But do keep in mind how we all ran amok on your last TR while you were in WDW.

 

[laura74]

Oh yeah, we found out the sex of little Buzz today. We're trying to decide if we should tell the kids or let them be surprised. Any thoughts oh wise fellow Neboites?

Forget the kids. Tell us!

Just kidding...sort of.

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[Backstage_Gal]

Forget the kids. Tell us!

Just kidding...sort of.

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What do you mean, just kidding???

Inquiring minds want to know!

Oh yeah, about the kids... Hmmm....