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[shan23877]

Your hair looks nice!!!!

phew! That was close!

 

[Backstage_Gal]

I usually only like trip reports with lots of pics, but I have to say, you have changed me! When I got about half way, I found myself bypassing through your pics just to keep reading your report! and hysterical, so thank you for the crack-ups this evening! Subscribed.

If you only read the ones with lots of pics, you miss the best ones. The best ones are those that tell a story, paint a picture of the situations with words, the people, the funny thoughts. We all have seen the pictures a million times, who needs another picture of the castle? Others can probably frame this up better, words are not my strong suit, lol.

I highly recommend the Nebo and Ponzi reports as well.

 

[laura74]

Your hair looks nice!!!!

phew! That was close!

Ponzi, you crack me up.

You never DO know where a trip report(er) will take you.

Too funny!

I usually only like trip reports with lots of pics, but I have to say, you have changed me! When I got about half way, I found myself bypassing through your pics just to keep reading your report! (Mind you, nothing personal, you have an absolutely beautiful family and I did enjoy them after reading!) You are such a clever writer, and hysterical, so thank you for the crack-ups this evening! Subscribed.

Thanks so much and welcome! Feel free to join the fun!

If you only read the ones with lots of pics, you miss the best ones. The best ones are those that tell a story, paint a picture of the situations with words, the people, the funny thoughts. We all have seen the pictures a million times, who needs another picture of the castle? Others can probably frame this up better, words are not my strong suit, lol.

I highly recommend the Nebo and Ponzi reports as well.

Hey wait a second Marita. Aren't you MY chief marketing officer?

Seriously though, you should check out Nebo and Ponzi. The are truly funny. Here are the links for you.

Here's Nebo's plus he has a bunch more in his signature.

Coronado Springs Eternal

Ponzi's

Just a silly little TR

Also, here are links to a few of my favorites over the years:

Mrs. The King's

Sweet Mother of Fudge!

A Cockroach Bit My Butt

Hucifer's

Hucifer does the solo thing...sort of

Who can forget RigLee?

My first trip to WDW and DH's first time being arrested

I know there are many more clever ones but those are the ones I remember off the top of my head. Anyone else want to share their favorites?

 

[jenaemmaFL]

Thank you so much for linking those reports. Too funny, I found Nebo's last night and was up until roughly 3:30 this a.m. reading "CS, Eternal"..I just couldn't put it down (yes, felt like I was reading a book, you guys could sell these and make a killing through Amazon, I swear) Again, thank you so much! Looking forward to your next installment...

 

[laura74]

Thank you so much for linking those reports. Too funny, I found Nebo's last night and was up until roughly 3:30 this a.m. reading "CS, Eternal"..I just couldn't put it down (yes, felt like I was reading a book, you guys could sell these and make a killing through Amazon, I swear) Again, thank you so much! Looking forward to your next installment...

We would be in the Disney trip report section?

Thanks. That's very flattering!

 

[cp'ersmom]

I think those glow cubes are intended for grown-up drinks, you know, the alcohal will kill the germs! The clip-ons are for the non germ killing beverages.

Is this the TR where someone posted about Casa Di Amore? If it is, I just sent my big Brooklyn Italian family there and they loved it, so thanks for the tip!

 

[Backstage_Gal]

Hey wait a second Marita. Aren't you MY chief marketing officer?

You didn't retain me, so there you go!


Those are all great reports.

And who can forget Zzub????

This is the last one, but there are several. You will laugh and you will cry.


http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1960843&highlight=zzub

 

[laura74]

I think those glow cubes are intended for grown-up drinks, you know, the alcohal will kill the germs! The clip-ons are for the non germ killing beverages.

Right, but they plunk them in the kids drinks anyway. Does anyone know how they package those things? Marita?

I didn't think of it at the time, maybe because I was drinking germ-killing wine.

Is this the TR where someone posted about Casa Di Amore? If it is, I just sent my big Brooklyn Italian family there and they loved it, so thanks for the tip!

Hmm. I didn't post about it but that doesn't mean it couldn't have happened here.

You didn't retain me, so there you go!

Oh man! You drive a hard bargain!

And who can forget Zzub????

This is the last one, but there are several. You will laugh and you will cry.

Ah yes. Zzub's was really great too!


http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1960843&highlight=zzub

 

[Backstage_Gal]

Right, but they plunk them in the kids drinks anyway. Does anyone know how they package those things? Marita?

I didn't think of it at the time, maybe because I was drinking germ-killing wine.

I have no idea how they are packaged, but I can find out if I remember to ask. Meanwhile, it's safest to stick with the germ-killing beverages

Seriously though, Disney is extremely focused on food sanitation, so I wouldn't worry too much. Plus state inspectors show up all the time on top of that.

PS: I had my daughter pick up "that children's book" for me today. I need to stay up with current events, don't ya know? Although I probably won't start reading it till vacation,or maybe while getting an oil change tomorrow...
Hey, she asked what book I wanted with her 40% discount, OK?


PPS:

Who can forget RigLee?

My first trip to WDW and DH's first time being arrested

Now this is a novel of a TR if there ever was one. I just started reading it again cause there was nothing better to do, still as great as the first time around.

PPPS: How funny we read so many of the same reports but never, ummmm, "met" before

 

[laura74]

I have no idea how they are packaged, but I can find out if I remember to ask. Meanwhile, it's safest to stick with the germ-killing beverages

Absolutely! We have to watch our health.

Seriously though, Disney is extremely focused on food sanitation, so I wouldn't worry too much. Plus state inspectors show up all the time on top of that.

Good to know.

PS: I had my daughter pick up "that children's book" for me today. I need to stay up with current events, don't ya know? Although I probably won't start reading it till vacation,or maybe while getting an oil change tomorrow...
Hey, she asked what book I wanted with her 40% discount, OK?

LOL. Yes, you must stay up on current events for the good of this thread Marita.

PPS:

Now this is a novel of a TR if there ever was one. I just started reading it again cause there was nothing better to do, still as great as the first time around.

I'll have to take another look. Maybe she'll come back.

PPPS: How funny we read so many of the same reports but never, ummmm, "met" before

I'm ashamed to say I was a longtime lurker but recently decided to join in the fun and everyone has been very welcoming.

 

[nilla]

(sigh) Ok, ok, but nobody ever talks about real books on the Dis, for ages all I heard about was Harry and the Twilight series,,,,, and Nilla threw me off, I think he's clueless too.

Oh, that book...

Of course, I have all kinds of opinions about that book (which I haven't read). Most of them are unfit to say on these forums, but I will say that a certain publication named after the top floor of a hotel has been putting out books like this for decades. There are stores dedicated to these selling these types of books. I don't see what the hubbub is about this one. Guys have been reading crap like this forever and have been called awful things for it, so what's the deal?

 

[nilla]

Finally caught up and I'm loving this TR! Self-deprecating sarcasm never ceases to amuse me. Having said that, I now have to think of something different to post on nebo's TR, but there it is anyway.

 

[laura74]

Oh, that book...

Of course, I have all kinds of opinions about that book (which I haven't read). Most of them are unfit to say on these forums, but I will say that a certain publication named after the top floor of a hotel has been putting out books like this for decades. There are stores dedicated to these selling these types of books. I don't see what the hubbub is about this one. Guys have been reading crap like this forever and have been called awful things for it, so what's the deal?

Frankly, I don't see what the fuss is about either. It's really poorly written and I'm having trouble getting through the first one BUT it's great for comedic purposes and for teasing Nebo.

Also, I think it's a bit more mild than what you're talking about. It's more Sidney Sheldon "good parts" than top of the building forum letters.

Finally caught up and I'm loving this TR! Self-deprecating sarcasm never ceases to amuse me. Having said that, I now have to think of something different to post on nebo's TR, but there it is anyway.

Aw, thanks Nilla!

 

[jedijill]

Also, I think it's a bit more mild than what you're talking about. It's more Sidney Sheldon "good parts" than top of the building forum letters.

And how would you know?

Jill in CO

 

[laura74]

And how would you know?

Jill in CO

Hmm... I um.... hmmm... I'm in a pickle here, aren't I?

I think someone told me about them or something...

Thanks Jill.

 

[nilla]

By the way, I'm glad you're enjoying my TR as well. Even if it's not one of your favorites.

 

[laura74]

By the way, I'm glad you're enjoying my TR as well. Even if it's not one of your favorites.

Aw Nilla. I just forgot.

Everyone go visit another one of my favorites.

I Knew You Would Eventually Get Tired of Disney World - April '12 TR

 

[laura74]

Ed Note: I forgot that Mr. Squid and Monkston went to the Magic Kingdom after our trip to the Top of the World Lounge. I guess if it didn’t happen to me, it didn’t happen, right? Mr. Squid is no help because he can’t remember anything they did but I think I can guess that they stuck with the little rides in Fantasyland and Tomorrowland. These two are afraid of anything with a hill so that leaves out most of the headliners.

Monkston and I decide to visit the Magic Kingdom but Mr. Squid is tired (see Ed Note above) and wants to head back to the room for a bit. We leave him on the monorail and head over to the gate.

I love that Monkston is ten but still wants to hold hands. We give each other’s hand a little squeeze, hand hugs we call them.

“Monko, what do you want to do?” I say.

“I think I just want to go shopping and look around at stuff, Mommy. Maybe we can play that new game too.”

(Record screech.)

Josh from easywdw.com: This is going to be the boringest Disney trip report ever!

Laura74: Boringest is not a word Josh and she wants to go shopping. Am I going to force my child to go on Splash Mountain just to put some zing in my report?

Josh: Have it your way but fast passes are only 3 hours out on Buzz.

Laura74: Do you have a real job?

Remember the confusion with our passes when our fingerprints somehow got switched and the cast member told me I’m Monkston and she’s me? Well there is more confusion because our fingers still don’t match and we have to try several combinations before we can get in.

Mr. Squid told me they had trouble getting in the night before because she had her pass and not mine and it took a bit of explaining and cajoling before they were let in.

Monkston decides she wants to go to the Emporium to buy a Perry the Platypus something or other.

I’m going to have to give up another super secret, real identity for the good of this report. Monkston shares a name with the platypus.

You may be thinking, hmmm, that’s not a very feminine name. And why would they name her after a platypus? Well smarty pants, a. there’s a story behind the name, and b. she came before the platypus.

Way back when, when I was pregnant, Mr. Squid and I knew we were having a girl and we could not agree on a name. For the longest time we called our little peanut Chop Chop because I happened to be cutting vegetables and was adamantly saying, “WE” [chop] HAVE [chop] TO [chop] COME [chop] UP [chop] WITH [chop] A [chop] NAME [chop] FOR [chop] THE [chop] BABY [chop]!

Silly, I know, but isn’t that how a lot of nicknames start, with ridiculous premises that only the people involved find amusing?

I gravitated to romantic names like Emma and Mr. Squid preferred outdated 50s carhop names like Rhonda. I kid you not! RHONDA! I read baby naming books, visited baby name web sites looking for a name that we could agree on. Every name I suggested was met with an are-you-kidding-me look.

Now, my sister, who had two boys at the time, had the name Perry on reserve if she ever had a girl. Perry is the surname of our natural father who died when I was three, and she was just a baby. She thought it would be a cool way to honor him and it is.

She generously gave up her claim to the name and we happily took it. Luckily her third child was a boy so I didn’t have to feel any guilt.

I can’t imagine another name for Perry now. Except Monkston, Monko, Monkeroo, Sweetie Beans, Baby, Sweetheart, Honey. Ok. I guess we have a few names for her.

My mother pointed out to me that my natural father’s last name was Benedict when he was born. His name changed to Perry when his mother remarried but I pointed out that Benedict would be a REALLY silly name for a girl.

Monkston has had some complaints about her name. She used to say she’d rather be Stephanie or Emma. And when the platypus came along and the kids started calling her “Perry the Platypus” she was really angry with our baby naming skills. We explained that that really wasn’t such a terrible tease but she was still very upset about it.

But in the last year, she’s embraced the name and even likes that that platypus shares it! She bought a Perry the Platypus shirt for school and I was thrilled that she could now see the humor in it.

Lucky for her that she likes this guy now because there is a ton of platypus merchandise--platypus hats, slippers, shirts, pins, mugs, pajamas. This should keep us occupied for a while because we all know Monkston does not make a spending decision easily when it’s her money she’s spending.

This a day for meandering anyway. No fighting crowds to run to the fast pass machines, no running back and forth across the park to fit everything in. We’re just going to soak up some Disney atmosphere. We’re going to stop and smell the cinnamon buns and popcorn.

After much deliberation, she decides to buy a t-shirt. I tell her she should go to the register and pay for it herself. I just love watching her carefully open her wallet, deciding whether to use her gift card or hard earned cash. She decides on the gift card. I suddenly remember that we get a discount with our annual passes and go over to work that out with the cashier.

Monkston whispers to me that she wants to change into her new shirt and could we go to the restroom after this. I ask the cashier if he can cut the tags off her shirt so she can wear it and he tells us she can change in the little fitting room right next to us.

Here she is with her new shirt.

We head across the street to look at the art. Monkston has gotten it into her head that she wants to buy a picture. I point out that she doesn’t have much room on her walls with all the Tiger Beat posters and kitten photos. Some tough editing decisions would have to be made. She ponders this and says she’ll have to think about it.

I see her lovingly caress a Dooney & Bourke bag and dash her dreams of luxury handbag carrying by showing her the price tag. She picks up the wallet.

I don’t think so Monkston.

I suggest we play the new sorcerer’s game so we head out in search of it. I cannot for the life of me remember where it starts. I know it’s somewhere on Main Street. I’ll have to ask someone for directions.

I do that a lot. Ask for directions. Neither Mr. Squid nor I have any sense of direction and we have found ourselves in many a pickle while traveling. We have most of our arguments in the car, fighting over who got us lost.

(Record screech)

Josh: Have you learned nothing from my web site? That’s www.easywdw.com for anyone interested.

Laura74: Stop advertising your site in my report!

Josh: This wandering around the Magic Kingdom aimlessly is really getting on my nerves. Where’s your touring plan? What are you doing? This is a Disney World vacation. You can’t just walk around relaxing.

Laura74: You know, you’re all full of bravado but I don’t notice you actually going on any of the rides. You just walk around taking pictures of wait boards and fastpass return times.

Several years ago, our first trip with Sheena and family, and their first trip to the World, I actually created spreadsheets of our touring plans. It was during Easter week and I was getting nervous watching the park hours changing. Magic Kingdom had extra magic hours everyday at 7am and they were open until 1am every evening (morning?).

I made Sheena very nervous handing her the spreadsheets. In hindsight, I guess I did act like a crazy person, planning out every minute of our day, rearranging schedules after every change in park hours. Sheena doesn’t roll that way. She likes to stroll, take in the details.

Today we are touring the Sheena way.

After getting directions, we head back across the street to the fire station. The cast member asks us if we’re going to play together and I answer yes. But here’s a tip. You get more cards if you say you’re playing separately. I didn’t know that was important until later.

We study the clues and it looks like we have to head over to the store with the expensive handbags. We find the window with the sorcerer symbol in front of it and hold up the card and…

Nothing happens.

Hmm… this looks like the right store to me. I run in ask the man at the counter, show him the clue, and ask him if he knows where the sorcerer’s window is.

Now this is what I love about Disney. He says he thinks he can help us and then takes the time to lead us to the correct spot. And he does it with a smile! Like he lives for playing Sorcerer’s Apprentice with clueless blondes. I live in New Jersey. I’m not used to this kind of service. If this were in my town, he’d just point in the general direction or shrug his shoulders.

As we’re playing the game, a woman in her 60s (let’s call her Helga) gets behind us and asks to see our cards. She’s a pleasant looking woman, dressed more formally than most park goers, and wearing her hair in an old fashioned up do. She looks like a Citizen of Main Street, except for her outfit, which while dressy, is modern.

“Um, ok,” I say.

“I’m still missing a couple,” Helga says.

She then pulls out a large book with plastic sleeves filled with sorcerer cards.

This strikes me as a rather unusual hobby for a woman her age. I bet she has a closet full of beanie babies too.

“You don’t have any rare ones,” she says.

“Rare ones?”

Who knew? That crazy Disney… always coming up with new things for people to obsess about. I STILL don’t understand Vinylmation.

On the other side of me is an older gentleman, maybe about Helga’s age, and a young girl of about seven talking to a cast member with a clipboard. I try to eavesdrop and get some snippets of his answers. I can’t make out much, but what I do hear is that this is his daughter and he has an even younger one at the hotel.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that. I waited a while myself, but this is a bit extreme. I wonder if he has grown children somewhere, possibly with kids of their own. Are these two happy accidents? Did he wait until 50 to get married for the first time? Maybe he was a Trekkie that spent his youth in his mother’s basement before hitting the dating scene. Maybe this is his second marriage and their mother is his former secretary.

Maybe I’m just reading too much into this.

We get the next clue and head to the art shop where the Sorcerer window is inside the store this time. And I kid you not, there is a woman playing the game, and her pre-school age son is sleeping on the floor. Not in a stroller, just flat out on the floor. I’m too chicken to tell her I don’t think this is a wise idea so I just silently worry and keep an eye out for any strollers heading his way.

I turn around and there’s Helga again. We must be on the same circuit. I watch as she strolls over to some other people in line, takes out her book and asks to see their cards. They all dutifully hand over their cards and I wonder if they think she works here. That she’s performing some sort of Sorcerer card quality assurance.

We stop at the next Sorcerer window, Helga not far behind us. Monkston is having a great time and I love watching her face look so earnest as she carefully holds her card up to the magic window to get her next clue. Her face lights up when the cartoon pops up, and she sees that she’s found the correct window.

After we’ve vanquished whoever it is we’re supposed to vanquish, we stop to watch the parade go by.

“What do you want to do next Monko?”

 

[nilla]

We were in Minnesota a few years back, and Kristin asked me, "why is everyone saying 'hello' to us?" I told her, "we're no longer in the Northeast."

Another guest told us the way to tell the rares from the uncommons from the commons in the Sorcerer's cards, but I forget what it is. I'm sure it's online somewhere. He told us as a service to keep us from getting bilked from people looking for a trade. I can all but guarantee that Helga would've gladly traded for one of your rares without letting you know. Some people are just ugly like that. I bet she's from the Northeast.

Thanks for the TR plug, btw. I suppose people could've just looked at the signature of my whiny post to get the link, but it's much more fun calling someone out on her own TR

 

[Kgroo]

On the other side of me is an older gentleman, maybe about Helga’s age, and a young girl of about seven talking to a cast member with a clipboard. I try to eavesdrop and get some snippets of his answers. I can’t make out much, but what I do hear is that this is his daughter and he has an even younger one at the hotel.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that. I waited a while myself, but this is a bit extreme. I wonder if he has grown children somewhere, possibly with kids of their own. Are these two happy accidents? Did he wait until 50 to get married for the first time? Maybe he was a Trekkie that spent his youth in his mother’s basement before hitting the dating scene. Maybe this is his second marriage and their mother is his former secretary.

Maybe I’m just reading too much into this.

Hey Laura -

Great update!!!

I find myself doing this all the time. I will sit and look at someone and basically have rewritten their entire life in a few minutes. It's really fun to do in WDW in a line

You and Monkston are so cute together.

Sorry - my quoting skills are a little rusty