Disney Wonder Sept 3-7, 2006 Part 3

[LCTsMom]

How are the evening temps in Florida been lately? Here in NJ, it has been very cool in the evening's high 60's...I am planning on doing some swimming at AKL when we come home from the parks...I hope its not cooling off there also...

It's hot, Bill. It stays in the (mid to high) 70s. You can definitely swim.

 

[LCTsMom]

Gotta run, Conor just called, he's in the cliinic sick! Here we go...it starts already!

Bye for now.

(We got our docs! We got our docs! We got our docs! We got our docs! We got our docs! We got our docs! We got our docs! We got our docs! We got our docs! We got our docs! We got our docs! We got our docs! We got our docs! We got our docs! We got our docs! We got our docs! )

 

[NJBILL]

My travel agent called this a.m.....

OUR DOCS ARE IN!!!!!!!!!!!

Called DCL:



Mine Shipped Friday and are in a brown truck (UPS) somewhere between Florida and NJ

 

[lunamum]

I am glad you had a good B-Day and here you go:

hardy har har har

thanks a lot!

 

[Blackunicorn]

I don't think the house will fit in my luggage. I gott find a new large suitcase. The kids killed our other one. So, now I'll be off some time today to find a new to me suitcase.

We got a wonderful set at Bed, Bath and Beyond! They nestle inside each other, so I can take extra suitcases in case of souvenirs! Everyone thinks I'm completely nuts for saying that! But I know my family, and I'd rather take home an empty suitcase than have to ship stuff home!

Dawn

 

[lunamum]

well, i think there is still a way you can enter it. hang on let me check my email real quick... it says if you still want to do it you can visit the 'groups and charities' page on the website
http://disneyworldsports.disney.go.com/dwws/en_US/marathon/listing?name=MarathonEventListingPage2
i'm not entirely sure what all would be involved with that. but there's the link in case you wanted to check it out and see if maybe you wanted to do it that way!

Cool! I will check that out too... I noticed you responded to my goofy run hysteria also, so is there a 5k and I'm just not seeing anything about it on the website?

thanks for the info...

 

[Blackunicorn]

Oh those are not spiders...those are TARANTULAS!!! There was one in a jar in my AP biology class once and I was like ahhhh there's a tarantula! My teacher said it was a wolf spider. There was no way you could call that thing a spider!

We live next to a field, so we get a lot of different spiders. The house was empty for a long time when we moved in so there were a LOT of spiders and mice! One day I saw little black dots all over the dining room wall, and I went over and looked, and it turned out that an egg sac in the fuse box had HATCHED and they were everywhere! We also had one of those spiders that carries the babies on their backs, and the babies jumped off and ran around...I thought I would die! And one night, when my husband worked nights, I woke up and there was a spider on my EAR!

I had to live "alone" during the week here for a year before my husband quit his job in another city, and I've got to tell you, spiders sure made me appreciate him...that alone will save our marriage! "Honey, I don't want a divorce, I'm too scared of spiders!"

Dawn

 

[PirateCutie05]

We live next to a field, so we get a lot of different spiders. The house was empty for a long time when we moved in so there were a LOT of spiders and mice! One day I saw little black dots all over the dining room wall, and I went over and looked, and it turned out that an egg sac in the fuse box had HATCHED and they were everywhere! We also had one of those spiders that carries the babies on their backs, and the babies jumped off and ran around...I thought I would die! And one night, when my husband worked nights, I woke up and there was a spider on my EAR!

I had to live "alone" during the week here for a year before my husband quit his job in another city, and I've got to tell you, spiders sure made me appreciate him...that alone will save our marriage! "Honey, I don't want a divorce, I'm too scared of spiders!"

Dawn

Oh my gosh that is SO scary. I would have passed out if I saw that many spiders...and I've never fainted before! I'm scared to death of them...I don't care HOW big they are...they're freaking CREEPY! *shudders*

 

[lunamum]

ok... i have a story about this. about a REAL spider. not these sissy little spiders that heidi screams about and runs away. some of them, yes it's ok to be scared of them... and some (even fewer) it's ok to scream at. but i'm guessing the one heidi saw was not scream or scare worthy. not until you've had this experience...

so, this past april my dad was away for business. and hayley and heidi are at school. so it's just me and my mom. hanging out, having a girls night. we ordered wedding date off of the renter thing on our satellite and we were sitting in the basement with a quart of baskin robbins and spoons just getting out of the bucket. about 15min into the movie i see this thing scurry out from under a basket and stand in the middle of the room. it was HUGE. literally. probably a good 5 inches around. and i just look at it. i'm like uh there's a spider. and my mom was like holy crap. so we decide we're going to try and kill it. ice cream is gone so i go to rince out the container to trap it. i come back my mom is getting ready to throw my high school graduation video at it (which we just managed to acquire... colin powell was our speaker ) and i was like NO YOU CAN'T USE THAT! so i'm standing on the coffee table trying to catch it with the ice cream bucket. but it moves so fast and every time it moves we jump and scream. so then we decide screw the ice cream thing just throw videos at it. we threw about 3 and kept missing cause it would move at the last second (if you could have seen me hovering over the spider... man!) so then it crawls on a dance dance revolution dance pad. and we think, ok, maybe we can get this out the backdoor. but we can't see where it is on the pad. so i move it and it comes running up the pad. i scream and drop it. now it would have been easy if my dad had been home, he could have just done it. we're like, what do we do. so i look at the time. it's about 11pm on a friday. and i think to myself, mr bowles just told me the other week that they eat really late on fridays and saturdays. i bet he's still up! (mr bowles, our neighbor across the street is also my boss...) so we go upstairs to find that my dog has thrown up EVERYWHERE. and it's disgusting. (we figured out later that she ate a whole bag of candy corn and that's what it was and why it was so gross). so my mom is trying to clean that up, while i run across the street to get my boss. now i think at first he was like what is wrong with these people. until he saw the spider himself and was lik oooooh you've got a good one. he tried catching it. it didn't work. so he eventually got it with the vacuum. although for the rest of the weekend i was scared to go by the vacuum because i thought it was going to crawl out and come get me. the scary thing is... if there's one, that means there's at least one more.... i have yet to see another one. but when i go near the basket it came from, i get chills...

Eww! Spiders don't freak me out, but the whole dog barfing up candy corn is completely nasty. My dog at least gives me some warning when she's about to hurl or I would probably be right there with her!!!

but, umm... thanks for sharing?

Now, wanna freak me out?.... talk about snakes! *shudder* Sometime when it is slow on here (ha ha, thats never gonna happen) I'll tell a story about a snake scaring my friend nearly to death....

 

[Ker-Bear]

hahaha... yesterday at breakfast my mom was saying something about wondering what our dinner rotation was or something along those lines. no, it was, i wonder what restaurant we'll be in twice. when i answered her she just looked at me. and then when i said i knew the order we were going in she got really confused and asked how i knew. i said well, cause we're sitting in the same area as the other dis people. someone did a whole seating chart and everything. she says yeah, well how do they know or how do they do that? i said don't you remember, you can call and ask for a specific server if you want? she was really confused. it was funny. i actually thought she might freak out when i said that we were sitting with everyone (she has this thing about some of these 'discussion boards'... mostly the MINI ones i post on. so far she's been good about this one though!)

hahahaha...that's funny. now lets hope I get what I asked for

 

[Ker-Bear]

Holly that's so funny My dh thinks I'm crazy for talking to people on line. It drives him crazy. He thinks you could all be mass murderers or something I'm like yea right they try to get your info and then go on the DISNEY cruise to get you pleeeez Anywho I didn't link dining so he wouldn't freak out but I'm going to try to (unknowingly to him) get on the same rotation "oh look honey all my dis friends are in the same restaurant wow who would've thunk it"

Suzanne, how many in your party? I haven't sent the stuff in yet(doing it wednesday) and I have an 8 top that would complete one of our stations??

How could my new BFF not sit in our area

 

[lunamum]

We live next to a field, so we get a lot of different spiders. The house was empty for a long time when we moved in so there were a LOT of spiders and mice! One day I saw little black dots all over the dining room wall, and I went over and looked, and it turned out that an egg sac in the fuse box had HATCHED and they were everywhere! We also had one of those spiders that carries the babies on their backs, and the babies jumped off and ran around...I thought I would die! And one night, when my husband worked nights, I woke up and there was a spider on my EAR!

I had to live "alone" during the week here for a year before my husband quit his job in another city, and I've got to tell you, spiders sure made me appreciate him...that alone will save our marriage! "Honey, I don't want a divorce, I'm too scared of spiders!"

Dawn

too funny!

ummm... some spiders carry their babies on their backs? I think that was a little piece of info they left out of Charlotte's Web... seems significant and would be useful to know

 

[NJBILL]

My wife was wondering what a pack of cigarettes are selling for in Florida? In NJ they are about $6 a pack...I wonder if they mark them up" at the Disney Resorts?

 

[Blackunicorn]

too funny!

ummm... some spiders carry their babies on their backs? I think that was a little piece of info they left out of Charlotte's Web... seems significant and would be useful to know

Well, I did some web searches, and it appears that the wolf spider is the one that carries the babies on the back for a few days after hatching. I've got to tell you, if you're at all arachnophobic, DON'T do a web search. There were pictures.

Dawn

 

[NJBILL]

Just in case the window "slips", there could be delays getting to Port on Sept 3

Atlantis is delivering to the space station a 35,000-pound, 45-foot-long addition that includes two solar array, wings that eventually will provide a quarter of the power on the completed station.

NASA managers will decide whether to give final approval for the launch at a meeting set for next week at the Kennedy Space Center. Some engineers had expressed reservations about the last shuttle flight over concerns about the design of the foam on the tank, but the success of that flight put to rest many of those worries.

The launch window is from August 27 to September 13, but NASA managers want to launch in the early part of the window to avoid a scheduling conflict with the Russian space agency, which is set to launch a Soyuz vehicle to the space station in mid-September.

 

[LCTsMom]

My wife was wondering what a pack of cigarettes are selling for in Florida? In NJ they are about $6 a pack...I wonder if they mark them up" at the Disney Resorts?

Bill, I'm probably not the right one to ask. I asked my mom, she's a smoker. She buys them by the carton and they're $36. She usually just brings her own up to WDW when we go so she doesn't how much they are there. I'd be safe to assume they're marked up, most things are. Sorry I'm not more help.

 

[Ker-Bear]

Just in case the window "slips", there could be delays getting to Port on Sept 3

Atlantis is delivering to the space station a 35,000-pound, 45-foot-long addition that includes two solar array, wings that eventually will provide a quarter of the power on the completed station.

NASA managers will decide whether to give final approval for the launch at a meeting set for next week at the Kennedy Space Center. Some engineers had expressed reservations about the last shuttle flight over concerns about the design of the foam on the tank, but the success of that flight put to rest many of those worries.

The launch window is from August 27 to September 13, but NASA managers want to launch in the early part of the window to avoid a scheduling conflict with the Russian space agency, which is set to launch a Soyuz vehicle to the space station in mid-September.

Thanks for the info Bill! We would have to leave a lot earlier if it launches 9/3

 

[taeja71]

YES! I'm starting to get scared!

Dawn

me too.

 

[LCTsMom]

Eww! Spiders don't freak me out, but the whole dog barfing up candy corn is completely nasty. My dog at least gives me some warning when she's about to hurl or I would probably be right there with her!!!

but, umm... thanks for sharing?

Now, wanna freak me out?.... talk about snakes! *shudder* Sometime when it is slow on here (ha ha, thats never gonna happen) I'll tell a story about a snake scaring my friend nearly to death....

I guess I've really been through it all. When Logan was little, he once smashed a spider on my wall and it was carrying a sac of babies. It was terrifying.

About 4 years ago, I had a big black snake in my house! It slithered from my dining room, to my kitchen and wedged itself between my stove and my cabinet. It's head stuck out and it was doing that tongue thing that they do. I thought I was going to die! I was here alone with DD who was asleep at the time. It went under my stove (while I was heating a bagel). I had nobody to help me so I ran outside in my pajamas and found a landscaper whom I dragged in to help me. He brought another guy with him and they managed to get it wrapped around a rake and they threw it out my front door.

I've also seen a rat in my shed and in my grill. Way too much wildlife around these parts if you ask me. Between snakes, roaches, rats and wolf spiders you'd think I lived in the woods somewhere. It's awful!

On a side note, I have a dog and an (OLD) cat who do some pretty gross things around my house. I can handle MOST of that far better than the roach/spider thing. AACCK!

 

[taeja71]

whoops, double post....