Disney Nomads ... 3 Resorts in 8 Nights! ALL NEW 9/2!

[nowellsl]

Wow! I'm not worthy but incredibly flattered.

Now these guys in particular are worth joining up for...

http://disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2783378

http://disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2916493

Hey, don't underestimate yourself! I am really enjoying your report, you're a great writer!

 

[appleorchard]

Wow! I'm not worthy but incredibly flattered.

Now these guys in particular are worth joining up for...

http://disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2783378

http://disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2916493

I love Nebo's reports but I go insane because he doesn't add chapter headings so I can find his writing amid all the ...conversation. That said, this report is extremely enjoyable--and thanks for the headings!

 

[jwgm2012]

Yay, you updated! Now hurry and add more!

And I can completely empathize with you on the pool (a.k.a "nah, I'm just gonna read a little instead rather than get in") time... I've heard Hungar Games is addictive so at least it's an excusable book... I think many on here probably gasped when you said you would rather read and then said "oh, ok, Hungar Games, that makes sense"... so see, you're forgiven I'm sure... at least it wasn't 50 Shades of something or other... then you'd really be in trouble!

Can't wait to read more!

 

[laura74]

Hey, don't underestimate yourself! I am really enjoying your report, you're a great writer!

Thanks and i hope you stick around for more conversation!

I love Nebo's reports but I go insane because he doesn't add chapter headings so I can find his writing amid all the ...conversation. That said, this report is extremely enjoyable--and thanks for the headings!

Yeah, I get that about the links which is why I finally read the FAQ about adding them though I'm willing to wade through for Nebo's posts. But there have been other reports where I click and run if I don't see links.

Yay, you updated! Now hurry and add more!

And I can completely empathize with you on the pool (a.k.a "nah, I'm just gonna read a little instead rather than get in") time... I've heard Hungar Games is addictive so at least it's an excusable book... I think many on here probably gasped when you said you would rather read and then said "oh, ok, Hungar Games, that makes sense"... so see, you're forgiven I'm sure... at least it wasn't 50 Shades of something or other... then you'd really be in trouble!

Can't wait to read more!

Ha ha. I actually just downloaded fifty shades to see what the fuss was about and for, you know, purely anthropological reasons. My mother hacks my amazon account and said to me that she noticed that I'd purchased "that" book. I cant get away with anything even at my age (which shall not be spoken). Anyway, so far it's mostly just struck me as poorly written. But I shall persevere.

 

[pkondz]

Ha ha. I actually just downloaded fifty shades to see what the fuss was about and for, you know, purely anthropological reasons...

But I shall persevere.

I'm sorry, I missed that. Did you say you downloaded Fifty Shades... and you shall be perverse? Was that it?

Maybe I mis-heard.

 

[jedijill]

I'm sorry, I missed that. Did you say you downloaded Fifty Shades... and you shall be perverse? Was that it?

Maybe I mis-heard.

Where is the "Like" button on the Dis????

Jill in CO

 

[Kgroo]

Thanks and i hope you stick around for more conversation!




Yeah, I get that about the links which is why I finally read the FAQ about adding them though I'm willing to wade through for Nebo's
posts. But there have been other reports where I click and run if I don't see links.



Ha ha. I actually just downloaded
fifty shades to see what the fuss was about and for, you know, purely anthropological reasons. My
mother hacks my amazon account and said to me that she noticed that I'd purchased "that" book. I cant get away with anything even
at my age (which shall not be spoken). Anyway, so far it's mostly just struck me as poorly written.
But I shall persevere.

My friends and I have all read the series.

That's all I will say about that

 

[Backstage_Gal]

That was another great update, Laura.

 

[smidgy]

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Does she think I need to cut down on caffeine? That we’re soda-in-the-morning people? Or worse yet, that we’re tea people? (I’m sorry to all you tea people, but I was a waitress at one time and tea people are usually a pain the butt to wait on.


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ahem!!!!! ahem!!! I am both a waitress AND a tea drinker!!! sorry, can't stand coffee!!!
I know it is a pain to go get the hot water and the tea bag and the metal container, etc. etc. but.. we tea drinkers are discriminated against!!!!!
we wouldn't BE a pain in the butt if tea was as easily available as coffee is!

soccer meeting? baseball metting? coffee available! school meeting, church meeting? coffee is there! free continental breakfast at the lousy days inn or motel 6? again, coffee!

dare to ask for tea? BIG "SIGH!". eye roll. out for breakfast? Nebo gets "more coffee, SIR?" with a pleasant smile.

I get," guess you want some more hot water " (same old tea bag though...)

at Coronado, they had the coffee pods. I asked a CM if they had tea bags, and he told me, only at siestas or cafe rix, or pepper market, NOT in the room..... he lied.....he just didn't want to bother.. called housekeeping, got a bunch of tea bags.


okee doke Laura, back to your regularly scheduled report!!!

 

[appleorchard]

Smidgy, I've been meaning to ask you or Nebo this forever--well since March anyway--were you guys in Disney between March 3-10? If so, did you stop into POFQ's food court at all? I saw two people there that I THOUGHT looked like your pictures but of course I didn't want to appear like a total nutcase and ask these two normal looking people... "Smidgy??? Nebo????"

 

[smidgy]

Smidgy, I've been meaning to ask you or Nebo this forever--well since March anyway--were you guys in Disney between March 3-10? If so, did you stop into POFQ's food court at all? I saw two people there that I THOUGHT looked like your pictures but of course I didn't want to appear like a total nutcase and ask these two normal looking people... "Smidgy??? Nebo????"

you saw a bald, well built guy with a chunky lady with a big nose and long hair??? wasn't us.

we weren't in WDW until the very end of april.. but if you ever see us again, say hi!!!

actually, someone did "spot" us at a DSA in AK.. and they were right! it was us! well, they had a couple hints.. we had our famous "sunny-D's" and nebo told them what time our "magical Depress" bus was going to pick us up!.

 

[smidgy]

PS. if they were normal looking people.. they weren't US!!!

 

[smidgy]

laure, loved your update!!! forgot to say so (got of on a tnagent about tea!!!) love to read about your antics!

 

[laura74]

I'm sorry, I missed that. Did you say you downloaded Fifty Shades... and you shall be perverse? Was that it?

Maybe I mis-heard.

There's that Canadian spelling again.

Where is the "Like" button on the Dis????


Jill in CO

My friends and I have all read the series.

That's all I will say about that

That was another great update, Laura.

Thanks Marita!

ahem!!!!! ahem!!! I am both a waitress AND a tea drinker!!! sorry, can't stand coffee!!!
I know it is a pain to go get the hot water and the tea bag and the metal container, etc. etc. but.. we tea drinkers are discriminated against!!!!!
we wouldn't BE a pain in the butt if tea was as easily available as coffee is!

soccer meeting? baseball metting? coffee available! school meeting, church meeting? coffee is there! free continental breakfast at the lousy days inn or motel 6? again, coffee!

dare to ask for tea? BIG "SIGH!". eye roll. out for breakfast? Nebo gets "more coffee, SIR?" with a pleasant smile.

I get," guess you want some more hot water " (same old tea bag though...)

at Coronado, they had the coffee pods. I asked a CM if they had tea bags, and he told me, only at siestas or cafe rix, or pepper market, NOT in the room..... he lied.....he just didn't want to bother.. called housekeeping, got a bunch of tea bags.


okee doke Laura, back to your regularly scheduled report!!!

I wondered if I'd get any tea drinkers riled up! All in good fun Smidgy, all in good fun...

What I remember about tea drinkers, besides the above mentioned pain in the butt metal contraption that usually drips boiling water on you as you're carrying it, is that tea drinkers (not you!) tend to be a bit like Meg Ryan in When Harry Met Sally. I don't know why but the tea drinker was always the one with the special orders, the excuse me's, the could I justs.

And there seems to be an infinite number of ways in which to prepare their tea the wrong way. Some don't want the water poured on the teabag, some do. Some want to reuse the teabag and get upset when you bring a new one. Some of them want the teabag in the metal pot before you pour the water in, but if you do that for someone else they are highly insulted. Some don't want a lemon even on the table. How dare could I think they would put lemon in their tea? The list goes on.

But from now on Smidgy I will think twice before disparaging tea drinkers.

laure, loved your update!!! forgot to say so (got of on a tnagent about tea!!!) love to read about your antics!

Thanks Smidgy! Can't wait to hear about your and Nebo's adventures!

 

[jedijill]

What I remember about tea drinkers, besides the above mentioned pain in the butt metal contraption that usually drips boiling water on you as you're carrying it, is that tea drinkers (not you!) tend to be a bit like Meg Ryan in When Harry Met Sally. I don't know why but the tea drinker was always the one with the special orders, the excuse me's, the could I justs.

But when we tea drinkers like something, we really like something.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-bsf2x-aeE

I'll have what she's having!

Jill in CO

 

[laura74]

But when we tea drinkers like something, we really like something.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-bsf2x-aeE

I'll have what she's having!

Jill in CO

This TR has certainly taken a strange turn! First Fifty Shades, now this...

 

[MAGICFOR2]

Hi Laura! I'm loving your TR!

Your family is beautiful, and you are too! Looks like you are off to a fun start! I guess T-Rex sounds pretty much what I expected - wondering if it's too intense for our little grandkids - youngest will be almost 3 next year - a couple of 6 yr olds who are quite sheltered... Might just do RFC to start with.

I love how Monkston so carefully chose her legos!

Remind me to check with you before taking a DVC tour - I need to know the cookie etiquette ala Alice, I guess - and you are so experienced! Looking forward to more!

 

[Thumper_Man]

I've been told that there is cake recipe over here. I had to come and see for myself. I'll have to catch up real quick.

 

[laura74]

Hi Laura! I'm loving your TR!

Your family is beautiful, and you are too! Looks like you are off to a fun start!

Thanks so much!

I guess T-Rex sounds pretty much what I expected - wondering if it's too intense for our little grandkids - youngest will be almost 3 next year - a couple of 6 yr olds who are quite sheltered... Might just do RFC to start with.

It might be too intense if they don't like noise, but RFC is pretty much the same.

I love how Monkston so carefully chose her legos!

I think if it were with our money she'd throw those things in willy nilly.

Remind me to check with you before taking a DVC tour - I need to know the cookie etiquette ala Alice, I guess - and you are so experienced! Looking forward to more!

I think you should do everything the opposite of what I did.

I've been told that there is cake recipe over here. I had to come and see for myself. I'll have to catch up real quick.

Here it is.

 

[laura74]

Finally, FINALLY, we are suited up and ready to head down to our exclusive, need-a-key-card-to-get-in pool. This is going to be amazing! People must be clamoring to get in here! Even the folks next door at the Contemporary aren’t allowed in. Maybe I should go over there and taunt them.

We walk through the cool courtyard area to the pool entrance, and after taking a moment to figure out where the key card goes, we let ourselves in. And there’s a towel on practically every chair.

If I were more like my buddy Sheena, I would just move a few towels and feign ignorance if anyone comes back to claim a chair. I don’t know if I have the nerve. I just hope these pool chair hogs can live with themselves.

For those of you who haven’t been here before, the lounge chairs are set up in rows, like a movie theater, only everyone is lying down. And there’s no tier, so if you get the back row, you just have a view of the back of someone’s head. You’re not gazing at the pretty blue water from there.

And it is in this back row that we find three empty, undesirable lounge chairs. We scatter our belongings over all three, and Monkston and Mr. Squid head to the pool for a swim.

I don’t feel like swimming so I just leave my coverup on because it’s really cute, and truth be told there is no elegant way to get out of it. You kind of have to do a dance to get it over your head and I don’t feel like I know my BLT neighbors well enough to expose them to that. I really should have thought of this when I bought it, but, it’s super cute!

I never claimed to be practical.

Now, back to Panem!

I reach into my bag, take out my iPhone, and sync to where I left off…

And I realize I must look very silly, stretched out on my lounge chair, squinting at my little phone, trying to read in the sun. I wish I hadn’t lost my sunglasses. Maybe I should have bought the overpriced ones at the airport.

I glance to my left and see that my neighbor has brought her iPad down with her. I should have done that! She looks so comfortable and not at all ridiculous. She’s also wearing sunglasses.

I think Mr. Squid will tell me that iPads and pools don’t mix. I’ll have to work up to to broaching that idea with him.

My chair is to the left of the slide so I’m able to see Mr. Squid and Monkston on the stairs. Unfortunately, that’s all I can see. I can only see the slightest sliver of water in the pool. So far, I’m not in love with this pool. It’s very concrete and cold and I really dislike the way the chairs are arranged.

Pluses and minuses of BLT as of this moment:

Pluses
Close to Magic Kingdom
On the monorail
Swanky atmosphere
Nice bathrooms
On a lake

Minuses
Bus service
Miles of concrete
Pool is average
No locks on bathroom doors


After about a half hour or so they come out of the pool and Mr. Squid suggests we go over to the Contemporary pool. Maybe there will be a better spot to sit over there. So we gather up our belongings and trudge through the concrete to the other pool.

The pool over here doesn’t seem all that much different from the pool over there. The slide doesn’t look quite as nice as the other one, and wait, it’s closed for refurbishment! Shouldn’t people staying here get to use the other pool if the slide is closed? And what are these two slide junkies going to do to amuse themselves now?

We find a few spots with a view of the pool and plunk our stuff down. Monkston heads over to play games with the pool entertainers. (Yellow Jackets! Nodding to Nebo.) I don’t really find them annoying because she’s having fun with them but I can see how they would become tiresome if you didn’t have children you needed to amuse.

Mr. Squid heads down to the marina to look into renting sea raycers.

A few years ago, when we stayed at Wilderness Lodge, we rented them and we had the greatest time riding around the lagoon and lake. Originally, our plan was to spend the entire day lounging poolside and renting the boats but then we discovered the gift card problem.

I watch Monkston play games in the pool until Mr. Squid comes back. He tells me that they only rent the boats until 4 and it is now 4:30. He then suggests that we move down to the beach when Monkston gets out of the pool.

“We just sat down,” I say.

“There’s nothing going on here.”

“What’s going on down there?”

“I don’t know. There’s plenty of beach chairs,” he says.

We’re not Disney Nomads for nothing, you know.

Monkston comes back and we gather up our stuff again. We get down to the beach, drop everything on chairs yet again, and Monkston tells me she’s hungry.

“So you want me to walk all the way back up there when we just walked down here?”

Nods head.

“Do you know what you want?”

Shakes head.

I take her by the hand and off we go back up to the pool. I tell myself that I’ll be thankful for all this extraneous walking when my pants are looser at the end of the week. That is the beauty of a Disney vacation. I wish I had packed a pedometer. Oh wait. Never mind. That wouldn’t look cute.

We head over to the pool bar. I’m anxious to see it because surely a pool bar at such a deluxe hotel will be something to behold. I open the door and WOW!

This has got to be the ugliest, most depressing pool bar I’ve ever seen. It looks like the concession area at a bowling alley, a concession area that hasn’t been remodeled since the 70s at that. The only thing missing is a thick haze of smoke.

Monkston looks scared. She tells me wants Cheetos and runs out the door.

There are a couple women ahead of me and I watch as the bartender (let’s call her Marge) very slowly makes their frozen drinks. Marge doesn’t appear to have that Disney spring in her step. She looks beaten down and weary, like she’s worked at this old bowling alley for 30 years.

I look over the menu, trying to decide what to order. I’m not sure I’m in the mood for one of Disney’s $50 frozen drinks. I’d really like a glass of Chardonnay but I draw the line at Sutter Home mini bottles. Maybe I’ll get a Bud lime. That will be easy for poor, tired Marge.

She finishes up with the other customers and with her raspy voice, asks me what I’ll have.

I give her my very simple order and expect to see some relief in her eyes, some gratitude for my thoughtfulness.

She looks up behind her and sighs.

And then I see that the Bud with lime is on the top shelf of the cooler. Marge is not a tall woman.

She wearily walks over to get the step stool, and slowly climbs up to get the beer. I hold my breath, hoping she doesn’t fall because surely I will be blamed. I should have gone for the frozen drink. At least there would be no climbing.

Slowly, slowly, she climbs down…and she’s safe! Phew.

I pay my $167 snack bill, collect Monkston, and head back for our long walk to the beach.

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