Dancing around the world~One pole at a time~~~Return of the prodigal trip reporter...

[joy13]

First off congrats on the new puppy! So cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope your other dog starts to come around.

I love the pole dancing picture this time around - picturing the guys coming around the corner only makes it better Djay had to be in stitches!

 

[kde175]

She's absolutely adorable!!! What a lucky puppy to have found a great family like yours.

 

[winkers]

Kicked out of the house...again? What are they doing now?

they had to put some sort of sealer where the mold was, about half the basement. It's oil based and too strong to be in the house with it. It still is pretty strong, sorta smells like I'm in a containter of lighter fluid.

Great update Cherie! Awesome update as usual. The tree dancing was a riot. Those desserts looked awesome! I’ve been looking forward to the “Taxi” story since Jordan first mentioned it.

Can’t wait for more.

hopefully my telling lives up to the hype!

First off congrats on the new puppy! So cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope your other dog starts to come around.

I love the pole dancing picture this time around - picturing the guys coming around the corner only makes it better Djay had to be in stitches!

She is doing better today. No whinning she is just attached to me.

I'm not sure if he was amused or wondering if this was cause to have me commited.

She's absolutely adorable!!! What a lucky puppy to have found a great family like yours.

she is and has a cuter personality to go with it. We are all in love with her and hopeing we don't get a call that someone is claiming her.

 

[happy place]

Great update - made me really want to try Le Chefs.

So does anyone know what that little thingy above the e is actually called? And whats it supposed to do, anyway?

It's an accent aigue, if I remember my french correctly it just indicates where the emphasis is supposed to go for the pronunciation.

honestly profiteroles is not hard to say - you just need to hit each syllable. and so tasty with chocolate sauce

cute puppy -kudos for taking in a stray! hope he becomes a permanent family member

Wonder how many years before I can convince hubby to go to disney without the kids??? something to aspire to

 

[carrieannie]

See I told you he was the enabler

NOW,,I get the Enabler references!

Funniest thing that happened TODAY? My Lifeguards found someone's Mary Jane ( yes you read that right) in the pool.
.

you'd think the owner of the mary jane would notice they were missing a shoe.

I have a feeling she was talking about a differant sort of Maryjane. No?


I`m caught up until your morning in the AK. seems like a nice morning just wandering and relaxing. sorry about your gross heartburn, glad it got better though!
I`m reading Jordans TR at the same time and the schedule is screwing me all up! I keep thinking you should be at Epcot with Jordan stalking down Cherie (blue)

 

[kmpprg]

Hi Cherie, I have been waiting for the taxi story too.

 

[winkers]

The original plan was to stay up for when Jordan would get in that night around midnight...by 9:30 I knew that wasn't going to happen. I was tired and as excited as I was to "meet" him I just couldn't keep my eyes open.
It sounds odd to say I'm just meeting someone who has carted around a picture of me and I've done the same with a flat jordan....maybe I do need to see the therapist my family keeps suggesting.

The next morning we had a late adr for breakfast at Kona with Jordan. I called him in the morning to see when he wanted to meet up but he didn't answer......he called back to tell me he had been "occupied".

We met up in the lobby at POP and then headed over to get a taxi to the poly since it's a pain transfering from one resort to another. We piled in the taxi, told the driver we were going to the Poly and off we went. I'm not sure at what point we realized something was wrong but Jordan turned and looked at me and mentioned my track record with taxis.....

Instead of explaining it ...here's the adventure from my first tr and my first ride in a taxi EVER....


Instead of some cute little yellow cab (hey, they're always like that in the movies) we had a huge van. We hopped in and were on our way. I figured it would be about 10 to 15 minutes............................I forgot that's how long it takes just to leave disneyworld property.

I was a complete bundle of nerves.

Wavy dream sequence like sounds as we travel into the mind of Winkers as she is in the taxi, the following will make no sense and be utterly foolish........................................... .............................................


Oh my heck I'm leaving my kids at a hotel thousands of miles from home all by themselves.....................................I'm a horrible mother.

Hey, this will add some intrest into my trip report, what can I title this chapter??????????

Oh my heavens, what if we get in a wreck and both of us die, or kids will be all alone in florida. How would the police know where they are, or that we had kids, or where we are or, or, or............stop it!!!

Dear Lord, please don't let me die!

Holy S@#$$$$$ this crazy lady is going to kill us! Does she even know where she's going????

Thank heavens, I have such a great husband. How can he be so calm. He should be a mess like me!!!

This is going to hurt like h e double hockey sticks!

How can we afford this???

Hmm, what's another title for my trip report?

Are the kids ok? I'm horrible, I should have left D.Jay there.

Oh, look at all the pretty palm trees?

What we're just now leaving disney world???

Crap, lady, where did you learn to drive???

No, you're the driver with the address you're sopposed to know where it's at!!

Good grief the 3 blind mice could have seen the sign!!!

When i get out of this cab, I'm kissing the ground!

Oh, no we're here.

What's the dentist going to do to me?????????????????

Dang, why didn't I bring the camera so I could get a picture???? How can I scrapbook this without a picture??


We get out of the cab, which we had booked for round trip, but she said she couldn't come back but if we paid her the full price someone else would come and pick us up. I think we had "newbies" writen all over us. The heavens smiled down upon us, because right before this happend an angel from heaven opened the door to the dentists and heard this conversation. She was apppalled that the cab driver was charging us $80. They then had a little discussion in spanish, why did I take german in high school anyway?, and then the angel said that they would call us another cab when we were done. She was so disgusted with the driver trying to take advantage of us she went on about it for 5 minutes.

She escorted me to the front desk where I told her what was going on, and rambled for way too long. I think I gave her my whole history along with the history of the world part 1. When I'm nervous I tend to ramble uncontrolably. She let us know that the cost would be at least $150 depending on what needed to be done and that they didn't take any kind of insurance. Crap. I then gave a dna sample, signed away my first born grandchild and nearly crapped my pants.

I was shaking so hard my signature would never hold up in a court of law. It looked like a 5 year old having a seizure signed it. The angel then escorted me to the room and said that after she took an x-ray D.Jay could come back with me.

Again we enter the scary world of Winkers' mind........................................

Great an x-ray, that should add another hundered to the bill...........

Hmmm, he went to dental school in ................

is that a real degree or one from an online place............

the sign said Dr. Hugo Chavez, isn't he a south american dictator???

Great just my luck, he's going to call me an ugly american and spit on me then yank out my teeth one by one without novicaine or gas................

why do they call it gas? I always want to giggle when they ask me if I'd like some gas.........................................

as a matter of fact I do, that's why I ate the chili cheese burger before my apointment................................

where's d.jay???????//

how are the kids?...................

oh look, there's cartoons on the ceiling..............yeah, like I can forget I'm near death.

great now I have to explain how long it's been since I've seen the dentist and why.

It's because I'm scared of them! It's like paying someone to torture me.

hmmm, if I lied and said I go in every 6 months would he believe me????

back in the real world............

Angel #2 walked in.

"Hi, I'm Dr. Chavez and I'm here to pull out your teeth one by one and then we'll start with your fingernails and go onto your toenails, if you're still alive , I'll"..............

Oh wait real world,

"Hi, I'm Dr. Chavez. I can't believe you're having such bad luck. Let me have a look and see what we can do for you"

After poking around with a sharp metal object in my mouth and consulting the x-ray he decided it's wasn't the broken tooth after all. it was a tooth behind it and it needed a root canal.

Just hearing that word makes my toe nails curl! I was never scared of dentists untill I had to have 3 of those. Luckily he said he could give me an anti biotic and pain killer and it should last untill I got home.

I leapt out of the chair and kissed his feet!
Ok, realy the muscles in my body I didn't know were tightened, suddenly relaxed and I nearly wet myself with relief!!

He gave me my prescriptions and I was on my way back to the waiting room, where D.Jay was relaxing reading a magazing. grrrrr.

To my relief the $150 included the x-ray. There went my souvenier money, but it was well worth it. Plus we had travel insurance so were hoping to get some of it refunded. Angel #1 who I think is the dr.'s wife called us a cab to take us to wal-mart so I could get my prescriptions filled. They were certainly answers to my prayers. We found out that somehow the insurance company got ahold of him at home and he came and opened his office just for me!! And they were the nicest people. The Dr. told me that the pain would probably get a little worse before it got better but within a day I should be feeling ok.

We got in another cab, who drove us to wally world. We turned in the prescriptions and then had an hour wait. I wanted to get back to my kids so bad, but d.jay had called them and they we're doing fine. We found some cute , cheap disney shirts there to bring back to them. Looked around and waited, and waited, and waited, and finally my meds were done. So we called cab # 3 and then waited another 20 minutes for one to show up. We were scheduled to see Spectro that night and I really wanted to get back in time for it. I popped my pills and then the taxi came.

I think I could have gotten us back to the hotel safer and in alot less time. It made me so mad watching the meter tick away as he made wrong turn after another and then delivered us to the disney sports complex? What the heck??? We said All star Music, numb nutts!!! We got to the hotel, paid him $43 bucks and again I nearly kissed the ground.
Is a total lack of ability to drive a requirement for driving a taxi?
Anyhow, we walked (I practically ran) up to the room and thanked the Lord that I had survived and the kids were allright.
The tylenol 3 was kicking in and I was feeling alot better. I think alot of it was pshycologicaly just knowing I was going to be ok, and the pain would soon be gone.


It was not a fun experience in the least...I also had another encounter with a mis-directed driver on our second family trip. I had sworn off taxi's untill last year when we succesfully made 2 trips in them...no wrong turns, swerving or stomping on the brakes...

So when Jordan made the comment, I laughed and cringed a little praying this would be a smooth ride. Silly, silly me.

Jordan asked the driver if he realized we were going to the Poly right about the time I noticed signs for Animal Kingdom...the driver said yes he knew where he was going....as we entered the sign that said AK it was apparent the guy didn't have a clue where he was, he was even trying to look for directions.

The entire time I was watching the meter go up as we got farther away, by the time we finally made it to The Poly a ride that should have cost no more than $15 was well over $30!

Jordan mentioned that we really shouldn't have to pay that much and I think he gave him $20.....I was too busy worring about the curse comming back to pay much attention.

I'm having a hard time remembering the whole taxi ride so I need Jordan and D.Jay to help out....what I remember most is laughing...we did a lot of that!


up next.....pink puke and other delicasies...

 

[carrieannie]

I love it Rosie!!! I might have to buy this print!!!

 

[winkers]

It's an accent aigue, if I remember my french correctly it just indicates where the emphasis is supposed to go for the pronunciation.

honestly profiteroles is not hard to say - you just need to hit each syllable. and so tasty with chocolate sauce

cute puppy -kudos for taking in a stray! hope he becomes a permanent family member

Wonder how many years before I can convince hubby to go to disney without the kids??? something to aspire to

thanks for the info!
I'd need to know where the syllables are to hit them.

I have a feeling she was talking about a differant sort of Maryjane. No?

ok, that makes more sense...

Hi Cherie, I have been waiting for the taxi story too.

I'm afraid it isn't as good as everyone was expecting..

 

[carrieannie]

I was thinking, what if she mistook one of DeVine's legs for a pole! I could just see you arrested for molesting a CM
.

FUNNY!!!

Cherie created a monster! That's the funniest chicken I have ever seen. Because it is French, does that mean it has a worse attitude than the regular chicken?

You have not seen my chicken dressed up as Cinderella! Chickens have personality's and cute antics. no bad attitudes. unless you let a hen out of the yard and the Rooster gets upset and nervous.

 

[carrieannie]

The next morning we had a late adr for breakfast at Kona with Jordan. I called him in the morning to see when he wanted to meet up but he didn't answer......he called back to tell me he had been "occupied".

NOW!!! The timing and days make sense to me!

Back to reading the story..

 

[jordanyosh]

NOW!!! The timing and days make sense to me!

Back to reading the story..

Glad one of us has it straight now.....

 

[carrieannie]

I remember that taxi ride and Dentist visit.

Way to go Jordan for only giving the driver $20!

Your new Doggie is adorable!!! Congratulations!

 

[carrieannie]

Glad one of us has it straight now.....

only until I read the next update or someones next day at Disney.

 

[winkers]

I remember that taxi ride and Dentist visit.

Way to go Jordan for only giving the driver $20!

Your new Doggie is adorable!!! Congratulations!

me too...

Jordan was very polite when he talked to the guy too, a lot of people would have been upset....I was just laughing and thinking it would be a good chapter for the tr..

Cassie is adorable...she has now adopted d.jay's pillow as her bed.

 

[jordanyosh]

I'm glad you re-posted that post of your tooth/cab disaster...too funny...

As I recall, we left Pop and then we just started gabbing away. I think I turned around just as we were getting to AK and I remember looking at you and saying I'm never getting in a cab with you again.... Then I asked, you asked? DJay asked? if he knew where he was going and he said defiantly "YES" as he pulled out his map as he drove around the AK parking lot. He then said he got turned around and indeed he went the wrong way. The rest of the ride was uneventful other than us giggling about your luck with cabs...

He said he turned the meter off...which I don't believe for a second. 31 dollars! No way. I said 20 and I gave him the 20 and walked away....

 

[All7OfUs]

How hard can it be going from POP to POLY?? It's not like Disney doesn't have about 40 billion signs telling you EXACLY which way to go!!

Nice move- the $20 chuck move- You need to move to Crapistan! We do that all the time!

 

[kmpprg]

I thought the taxi story was very funny. Not your pain of course, but all of the conversations in your mind-hysterical! You should probably stay away from taxis!

 

[jordanyosh]

How hard can it be going from POP to POLY?? It's not like Disney doesn't have about 40 billion signs telling you EXACLY which way to go!!

Nice move- the $20 chuck move- You need to move to Crapistan! We do that all the time!

Winkers said I was polite...I was mad inside...so I just gave him the money and walked...didn't even look to see his expression....normally, I'm kind, but he was still gonna charge me for his mistake....

 

[eandesmom]

31 dollars????

I could get to the airport from my house for that!

What did he do, give you and MCO surcharge on top of it? that's insane

I would NOT have been nice...but then again I did live in Chicago for 10 years and rode in too many taxi's. With some scary drivers.

the tooth story.

Holy cats. Makes me reconsider that whole travel insurance thing...which I NEVER get.

But inside Winkers mind? Sounds a lot like mine.