Belle Amy
There's no place I can be, since I found Serenity.
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I am a drinker. By instinct and by birth. Just ask my family.
The past week, I have had severe tooth pain. It plagues me, when I don't have health insurance, I'm fit as a fiddle. (What does that mean? How exactly is a fiddle fit?) No pain, no sickness...but as soon as I am insuranceless (is that word?) I come down with strange ailments that baffle family and doctors. And also cause pain. Severe pain.
Long ramble shortened, I have an absess tooth. I'm on antibiotics.
In order to make the antibiotics effective, I've got to lay off the alcohol.
This makes me sad.
So I wake up this morning after sleeping 13 hours. I've got some swelling, but all in all, I'm doing better than I have in days.
I dress in my "I'm really excited to be here!" shirt, something that I purchased because I felt the need to show my sarcasm at my old job. I was, in fact, not very excited to be there. See the wit?
Anyway, after I quit said job, it became a theme park shirt. No sarcasm needed.
My fiance, Bri-guy, dressed in his Mickey ringer. This turned out to be forshadowing for the day.
We sat in the living room on our respective laptops. It's pretty bad, both of us sitting online, showing each other random things online, cursing the Disney website for not updating their Star Wars Weekends page. Bri-guy asks me every once in a while what I'm looking at. I look up over the laptop with a glare that says "Take one guess." It doesn't take a rocket scientist.
I'm on the DisBoards. Nuff Said.
So this morning, we check our emails, I hop on the boards to see if there is anything new and exciting, we both hop on myspace for our daily addictions.
Bri-guy pauses for a few, in deep thought. He looks at me with those eyes that say that he is thinking about suggesting something that may not settle so well with me. (No! Nothing like that!)
"You know where I want to go?!" He smirks, knowing that once he suggests the inevitable, I'm bound to agree.
"Disney?" I ask, knowing that in merely saying the word guarantees my approval.
It's not that I don't want to go. I do, more than anything. But we've also got a big weekend coming up that we're trying to go all out for Bri-guys little sister, Whit. She's graduating this year, and we want to have an unforgettable weekend prepared for her. This in turn costs money....I just didn't want to go all out today and forget about the upcoming weekend.
"Well, we aren't drinking, so that will save money!!!" His eyes pleaded with me.
"Alright, alright, just don't give me the sad eyes." Mr. Potatohead's sad eyes be damned, Bri-guys got the saddest sad eyes I've ever seen. I simply can't resist.
So we get ready and decide that this would be the day we face our greatest Disney challenge yet.
We were going to risk the afternoon crowds at Animal Kingdom. Whew.
We stopped to grab some breakfast at McGreasyD's for the convenience, only to be served drinks that consisted of 99% syrup. So sweet, I thought my lips were going to suck inside my head. Mmmmm...that felt good on the tooth.
We left town about 11:15. On the way, we had some severe issues with Love Bugs. The season is apparently upon us. Big time.
My windshield became fogged with the guts of Love Bugs past. Not Herbie. I couldn't be that lucky.
For those unfamiliar with those wonderful and useless insects that infest Florida for a couple months out of every year, Love Bugs are bred specificly to decrease Florida's mosquito population. Seriously. They were bred to eat the larva or something. Instead, they come in swarms and make "love" to each other in mid air, get smooshed on the front of our vehicles, and generally just swarm you when you walk the streets. Their guts seem to be genetically stronger than superglue. They do nothing that I am aware of, and I don't know where they go in the off season. I just know that they land on me while they are "doing it" and it can be rather odd. They do nothing else.
Bri-guy was hanging his arm out the window on the way and was dive bombed by multiple sucidal love bugs.
"Death on impact!" He started screaming at random moments, while wiping the tacky remains off of his hand.
But the love bugs must have had signaled their insect friends before they attempted their final fly.
We started getting attacked by june bugs, flies and any other species of insect. One flew so quickly in the window, it disappeared. Never to be seen again.
This is what kept us entertained during the drive. Fun huh?
Finally on Disney property, driving under the arch, doing the painfully slow speed limit, a blue Oldsmobile passed us like he was on his own insect suicide mission. Dangerously fast on Disney property? Didn't he see the other family pulled over, like a mile back? What a way to ruin a magical vacation!!
So we pull up to the gate at Animal Kingdom and they have just opened a new booth. I'm the first in line!!
And more importantly, I've beat CrazyDriver! And I didn't even try. We pull in at the same time and round the first corner. Except I'm doing the posted 20 mph speed limit and he's doing at the very least 55 in the parking lot. Yeah, I'm a little ticked off.
I start mumbling under my breath and Bri-guy senses my frustration.
We have a rule that while on Disney property, we refrain from any anger or overexcitement. It is Disney after all. But I feel I have to say something to clear the air.
"I hope a monkey pees on his head!" It was the first thing out of my mouth and Bri-guy paused for a moment.
"What?" He shook his head and laughed. "Only you would say such a thing!"
"I'm done. I shouldn't have said anything. But he's driving like a maniac. And he's only a couple cars ahead of us. Like it mattered." I took a deep breath. "And I'm done."
We hopped out of the car, only to see CrazyDriver pulling his three year old little girl out of the back seat. This aggrivated me more, but now we were officially stepping foot on Disney property, and I knew when to let it go. I did have a fleeting thought of taking a picture of his backside and posting it on the boards. That would certainly show him.
We boarded the tram and made our way up to the security area. Since we never pack a bag, we walked past and into Rainforest Cafe.
This is our best secret. When the lines at the main turnstiles are swamped, we walk to the secret Rainforest Cafe entrance. It only has one in turnstyle and one out. But there is never anyone there.
Once again I beat CrazyDriver. I win.
We walk through Dinoland and see the line for Everest across the water.
Maybe we really were crazy.
We get up to the entrance. Only 40 minutes!! Much less than I expected!
There are still fast passes, so we jump in line to grab two and in the line we go.
The line area for this ride is fantastic. It's one of the most detailed, interesting lines I've ever had the pleasure to wait through.
Here are some pics in line.
This is a room that has hiking equiptment EVERYWHERE...those are mittens and boots hanging from the rafters.
I took a picture of this cause it was funny...rum doodle!!
This was interesting.
For those of you who have seen the evil Bambi topiary at Epcot, I think this is his cousin....from the bad side of the family.
The ride was amazing. We managed to get to sit in the front without even asking. At the highest peak we could see out over the park, the Epcot ball and the Swan and Dolphin. Wonderful.
The Yeti was fast but well done. We were going to attempt pictures, but my fear of losing the camera outweighed the need to have a pic of the beast.
After calming down from the heart racing ride, we wandered around the area, looking for any new theming in the area.
We decided not to wait the three hours until our fastpass and headed towards the exit.
I thought it would be nice to give our fastpasses to an unsuspecting couple on their way to the ride. We wandered through the crowd and didn't spot anyone that Bri-guy deemed worthy of the passes. Moreover we couldn't find any couples.
Closer and closer to the exit, I suggested we give them to the CM at the exit at Rainforest Cafe and ask him to give them to the first couple coming in. Apparently this idea did not interest Bri-guy as he dove towards the first couple that he saw, asking them if they were interested.
At first they looked at him as though he held a bomb in his hand. Why would this random park goer speak to me and jab peices of paper towards me for no reason? Bri-guy repeated his words and said "we're leaving the park and can't use them." The guy took them from Bri-guy with a puzzled look on his face. I suppose we will never know if he knew what he held in his hands.
We walked out through Rainforest Cafe to stop and see if there was any merchandise we were interested in....we do get a 10% discount with our Annual Passes! So we look to see if they have anything of interest only because we could get a discount.
And there it was. A shark-head pinchy thing. A shark puppet biter thing. Whatever it is, we've been looking for it.
Bri-guy's sister, Whit, is a very important part of his life. After Brian's father remarried and had Whit with Bri-guy's step-mom, Bri-guy cherished his little sister. They were 9 years apart and he wanted to be sure that she knew she was protected and loved by him.
When he and his father had a falling out after high school, his chances to interact with her became far and few between. With her still living at home with his dad, he could only speak to her occasionally. He missed a lot of her high school years and important moments.
So when certain events brought him back into his families life, he made sure that he was available for her no matter what.
He would do anything for her. As would I. This was her senior year and we've been involved in every activity possible to make sure her memories include us.
Part of these memories include her softball games. Her high school softball team won State Championships this year, and we were at every game, cheering her and her team on.
During one roadtrip to a weekend tournament in Miami, Whit stopped at a roadside tourist trap and found Snaggletooth, the plastic shark chomper toy. She came home with it and played with it non-stop. It had conversations with every member of the family. It chomped the hair of unsuspecting passersby.
That is, until Bri-guy picked it up.
Things sometimes break when Bri-guy touches them. He doesn't know his own strength. Once, at Epcot, we were in Innoventions, in the Smash Labs, where you can smash a large mallet into a television screen. Good times.
Bri-guy pulled the rope. The head of the mallet flew off.
Bri-guy broke something behind plexiglass. Perhaps with his mind. Perhaps not.
Back to Snaggletooth.
On this particular day, Snaggletooth took his last chomp. Bri-guy broke him.
And felt horrible.
Whit didn't seem that worried. "It was like a dollar at some roadside place." She shrugged.
He began the search. But it's hard to define this toy. See above.
He searched on Ebay. Shark puppet. Shark biter thing. See, we got nothin.
So the search continued.
Until today.
When at Rainforest Cafe, Bri-guy spied another shopper with a Dino version of said Shark Biter thing. We followed him, through the store, with him looking over his shoulder at these creepy people wondering about the toy in his hand. Dude, we just want to know where you got that thing. And what you would call it.
We followed him to the basket which contained a brand spankin new Shark Head Biter thing. Which looked nothing like Snaggletooth. But it was a shark. And it bit things.
So we went to pay for our purchase, excited that we would receive 10% off of said purchase. 10% off of 3 dollars. Girl at register couldn't give us the discount. She didn't know how. Another CM next to her helping a different customer told us that we would receive the discount. Our CM poked him and said "Go get the manager", while he was bagging someone elses purchases. As though she couldn't walk the few feet to the manager. It became completely unworth the 30 cents.
We exited the store victorious. 30 cents lighter than we should be, but victorious none the less.
We decided to move on to Magic Kingdom....
Up next, the search for a graduation pin...Will I not find any helpful CM's today? A carnation for mothers day, for a non-mommy? and walking on to many a ride....
Paging Mr. Morrow, Mr. Tom Morrow...
The past week, I have had severe tooth pain. It plagues me, when I don't have health insurance, I'm fit as a fiddle. (What does that mean? How exactly is a fiddle fit?) No pain, no sickness...but as soon as I am insuranceless (is that word?) I come down with strange ailments that baffle family and doctors. And also cause pain. Severe pain.
Long ramble shortened, I have an absess tooth. I'm on antibiotics.
In order to make the antibiotics effective, I've got to lay off the alcohol.
This makes me sad.
So I wake up this morning after sleeping 13 hours. I've got some swelling, but all in all, I'm doing better than I have in days.
I dress in my "I'm really excited to be here!" shirt, something that I purchased because I felt the need to show my sarcasm at my old job. I was, in fact, not very excited to be there. See the wit?
Anyway, after I quit said job, it became a theme park shirt. No sarcasm needed.
My fiance, Bri-guy, dressed in his Mickey ringer. This turned out to be forshadowing for the day.
We sat in the living room on our respective laptops. It's pretty bad, both of us sitting online, showing each other random things online, cursing the Disney website for not updating their Star Wars Weekends page. Bri-guy asks me every once in a while what I'm looking at. I look up over the laptop with a glare that says "Take one guess." It doesn't take a rocket scientist.
I'm on the DisBoards. Nuff Said.
So this morning, we check our emails, I hop on the boards to see if there is anything new and exciting, we both hop on myspace for our daily addictions.
Bri-guy pauses for a few, in deep thought. He looks at me with those eyes that say that he is thinking about suggesting something that may not settle so well with me. (No! Nothing like that!)
"You know where I want to go?!" He smirks, knowing that once he suggests the inevitable, I'm bound to agree.
"Disney?" I ask, knowing that in merely saying the word guarantees my approval.
It's not that I don't want to go. I do, more than anything. But we've also got a big weekend coming up that we're trying to go all out for Bri-guys little sister, Whit. She's graduating this year, and we want to have an unforgettable weekend prepared for her. This in turn costs money....I just didn't want to go all out today and forget about the upcoming weekend.
"Well, we aren't drinking, so that will save money!!!" His eyes pleaded with me.
"Alright, alright, just don't give me the sad eyes." Mr. Potatohead's sad eyes be damned, Bri-guys got the saddest sad eyes I've ever seen. I simply can't resist.
So we get ready and decide that this would be the day we face our greatest Disney challenge yet.
We were going to risk the afternoon crowds at Animal Kingdom. Whew.
We stopped to grab some breakfast at McGreasyD's for the convenience, only to be served drinks that consisted of 99% syrup. So sweet, I thought my lips were going to suck inside my head. Mmmmm...that felt good on the tooth.
We left town about 11:15. On the way, we had some severe issues with Love Bugs. The season is apparently upon us. Big time.
My windshield became fogged with the guts of Love Bugs past. Not Herbie. I couldn't be that lucky.
For those unfamiliar with those wonderful and useless insects that infest Florida for a couple months out of every year, Love Bugs are bred specificly to decrease Florida's mosquito population. Seriously. They were bred to eat the larva or something. Instead, they come in swarms and make "love" to each other in mid air, get smooshed on the front of our vehicles, and generally just swarm you when you walk the streets. Their guts seem to be genetically stronger than superglue. They do nothing that I am aware of, and I don't know where they go in the off season. I just know that they land on me while they are "doing it" and it can be rather odd. They do nothing else.
Bri-guy was hanging his arm out the window on the way and was dive bombed by multiple sucidal love bugs.
"Death on impact!" He started screaming at random moments, while wiping the tacky remains off of his hand.
But the love bugs must have had signaled their insect friends before they attempted their final fly.
We started getting attacked by june bugs, flies and any other species of insect. One flew so quickly in the window, it disappeared. Never to be seen again.
This is what kept us entertained during the drive. Fun huh?
Finally on Disney property, driving under the arch, doing the painfully slow speed limit, a blue Oldsmobile passed us like he was on his own insect suicide mission. Dangerously fast on Disney property? Didn't he see the other family pulled over, like a mile back? What a way to ruin a magical vacation!!
So we pull up to the gate at Animal Kingdom and they have just opened a new booth. I'm the first in line!!
And more importantly, I've beat CrazyDriver! And I didn't even try. We pull in at the same time and round the first corner. Except I'm doing the posted 20 mph speed limit and he's doing at the very least 55 in the parking lot. Yeah, I'm a little ticked off.
I start mumbling under my breath and Bri-guy senses my frustration.
We have a rule that while on Disney property, we refrain from any anger or overexcitement. It is Disney after all. But I feel I have to say something to clear the air.
"I hope a monkey pees on his head!" It was the first thing out of my mouth and Bri-guy paused for a moment.
"What?" He shook his head and laughed. "Only you would say such a thing!"
"I'm done. I shouldn't have said anything. But he's driving like a maniac. And he's only a couple cars ahead of us. Like it mattered." I took a deep breath. "And I'm done."
We hopped out of the car, only to see CrazyDriver pulling his three year old little girl out of the back seat. This aggrivated me more, but now we were officially stepping foot on Disney property, and I knew when to let it go. I did have a fleeting thought of taking a picture of his backside and posting it on the boards. That would certainly show him.
We boarded the tram and made our way up to the security area. Since we never pack a bag, we walked past and into Rainforest Cafe.
This is our best secret. When the lines at the main turnstiles are swamped, we walk to the secret Rainforest Cafe entrance. It only has one in turnstyle and one out. But there is never anyone there.
Once again I beat CrazyDriver. I win.
We walk through Dinoland and see the line for Everest across the water.
Maybe we really were crazy.
We get up to the entrance. Only 40 minutes!! Much less than I expected!
There are still fast passes, so we jump in line to grab two and in the line we go.
The line area for this ride is fantastic. It's one of the most detailed, interesting lines I've ever had the pleasure to wait through.
Here are some pics in line.







This is a room that has hiking equiptment EVERYWHERE...those are mittens and boots hanging from the rafters.

I took a picture of this cause it was funny...rum doodle!!

This was interesting.

For those of you who have seen the evil Bambi topiary at Epcot, I think this is his cousin....from the bad side of the family.
The ride was amazing. We managed to get to sit in the front without even asking. At the highest peak we could see out over the park, the Epcot ball and the Swan and Dolphin. Wonderful.
The Yeti was fast but well done. We were going to attempt pictures, but my fear of losing the camera outweighed the need to have a pic of the beast.
After calming down from the heart racing ride, we wandered around the area, looking for any new theming in the area.
We decided not to wait the three hours until our fastpass and headed towards the exit.
I thought it would be nice to give our fastpasses to an unsuspecting couple on their way to the ride. We wandered through the crowd and didn't spot anyone that Bri-guy deemed worthy of the passes. Moreover we couldn't find any couples.
Closer and closer to the exit, I suggested we give them to the CM at the exit at Rainforest Cafe and ask him to give them to the first couple coming in. Apparently this idea did not interest Bri-guy as he dove towards the first couple that he saw, asking them if they were interested.
At first they looked at him as though he held a bomb in his hand. Why would this random park goer speak to me and jab peices of paper towards me for no reason? Bri-guy repeated his words and said "we're leaving the park and can't use them." The guy took them from Bri-guy with a puzzled look on his face. I suppose we will never know if he knew what he held in his hands.
We walked out through Rainforest Cafe to stop and see if there was any merchandise we were interested in....we do get a 10% discount with our Annual Passes! So we look to see if they have anything of interest only because we could get a discount.
And there it was. A shark-head pinchy thing. A shark puppet biter thing. Whatever it is, we've been looking for it.
Bri-guy's sister, Whit, is a very important part of his life. After Brian's father remarried and had Whit with Bri-guy's step-mom, Bri-guy cherished his little sister. They were 9 years apart and he wanted to be sure that she knew she was protected and loved by him.
When he and his father had a falling out after high school, his chances to interact with her became far and few between. With her still living at home with his dad, he could only speak to her occasionally. He missed a lot of her high school years and important moments.
So when certain events brought him back into his families life, he made sure that he was available for her no matter what.
He would do anything for her. As would I. This was her senior year and we've been involved in every activity possible to make sure her memories include us.
Part of these memories include her softball games. Her high school softball team won State Championships this year, and we were at every game, cheering her and her team on.
During one roadtrip to a weekend tournament in Miami, Whit stopped at a roadside tourist trap and found Snaggletooth, the plastic shark chomper toy. She came home with it and played with it non-stop. It had conversations with every member of the family. It chomped the hair of unsuspecting passersby.
That is, until Bri-guy picked it up.
Things sometimes break when Bri-guy touches them. He doesn't know his own strength. Once, at Epcot, we were in Innoventions, in the Smash Labs, where you can smash a large mallet into a television screen. Good times.
Bri-guy pulled the rope. The head of the mallet flew off.
Bri-guy broke something behind plexiglass. Perhaps with his mind. Perhaps not.
Back to Snaggletooth.
On this particular day, Snaggletooth took his last chomp. Bri-guy broke him.
And felt horrible.
Whit didn't seem that worried. "It was like a dollar at some roadside place." She shrugged.
He began the search. But it's hard to define this toy. See above.
He searched on Ebay. Shark puppet. Shark biter thing. See, we got nothin.
So the search continued.
Until today.
When at Rainforest Cafe, Bri-guy spied another shopper with a Dino version of said Shark Biter thing. We followed him, through the store, with him looking over his shoulder at these creepy people wondering about the toy in his hand. Dude, we just want to know where you got that thing. And what you would call it.
We followed him to the basket which contained a brand spankin new Shark Head Biter thing. Which looked nothing like Snaggletooth. But it was a shark. And it bit things.
So we went to pay for our purchase, excited that we would receive 10% off of said purchase. 10% off of 3 dollars. Girl at register couldn't give us the discount. She didn't know how. Another CM next to her helping a different customer told us that we would receive the discount. Our CM poked him and said "Go get the manager", while he was bagging someone elses purchases. As though she couldn't walk the few feet to the manager. It became completely unworth the 30 cents.
We exited the store victorious. 30 cents lighter than we should be, but victorious none the less.
We decided to move on to Magic Kingdom....
Up next, the search for a graduation pin...Will I not find any helpful CM's today? A carnation for mothers day, for a non-mommy? and walking on to many a ride....
Paging Mr. Morrow, Mr. Tom Morrow...