"Do You Mind?" - Disney Adventures with Teens August Trip Report

[DisneyJen]

Your Goldens are beautiful!

We have two Goldens who have to be near each other at all times ... especially when riding in the car

Enjoying your TR!

P.S. I just started reading your PTR and see that one of your Goldens is from a Golden Rescue too! Our youngest Golden is from the Triad Golden Retriever Rescue and is one of the sweetest and loving Goldens we have ever had!

 

[irene_dsc]

Welcome back! The live updates were a great preview.

So sorry to hear about Paxton - but so glad you could see her one last time before you left, and that she is out of pain at last.

Glad to hear Magic is doing great!

I'll be heading over to your TR...

 

[SwansLoveDisney]

Subscribing!

You myspace face is too funny!

 

[irene_dsc]

Ok, I'm here now! (We got back on Friday, but I haven't had internet access until today!)

Can't wait to read more!

 

[MRYPPNS]

I lurked on your PTR but I totally all in for this TR....great start!

 

[Marshay]

Part I, Chapter 1
Friday, August 8
And We’re Off…​

At that time

which at the time were at a high price (roughly $400 each).

Or so we thought .

But, as with all things, Murphy’s Law (what can go wrong WILL go wrong) entered into the equation.

or so I thought (again).

I love your introduction! I'm a huge planner too, so can totally relate to all of this!

26,000 tunes??? Wowzer!

 

[winkers]

I love the title! And if it's refering to teenagers..........I'm sur they do mind!

I can feel your pain of an 11 hour road trip.........I make that about twice a year with 4 yes FOUR kids!

 

[swwake]

Haha Myspace face, i know what youre talking about lol! But youre missing the weird camera angles and kissing face!

I know. You're right. I don't think I'm supposed to be smiling. I'm supposed to suck in my cheeks and pretend to be Emo.

I'm in! I can't wait to read more and I agree 100% about the no make-up during a 11 hour drive. With my luck, I would fall asleep leaning against the window and have foundation smears all over, lol.

and nice to meet you! Foundation smears are not a pretty sight!

Oh I can't wait to read mroe

More is coming soon. Tonight, I hope.

Your Goldens are beautiful!

We have two Goldens who have to be near each other at all times ... especially when riding in the car

Enjoying your TR!

P.S. I just started reading your PTR and see that one of your Goldens is from a Golden Rescue too! Our youngest Golden is from the Triad Golden Retriever Rescue and is one of the sweetest and loving Goldens we have ever had!

Glad to have you along. Thanks - we love our goldens. Magic is show quality from a breeder. Harry, our rescue, is a little anxious. I think he's finally comfortable that we're not going to take him to aNOTHER "forever home"! I will PM you Harry's rescue success story. If anyone else wants it, let me know! (Not sure about posting outside links publicly here ) Rescues are the best! I don't think we'll ever buy from a breeder again.

Subscribing!

You myspace face is too funny!

and thanks for joining! Fasten your seatbelt!

Ok, I'm here now! (We got back on Friday, but I haven't had internet access until today!)

Can't wait to read more!

Irene! Glad you're joining us here. Where did you end up going? Did you have a great trip?

I lurked on your PTR but I totally all in for this TR....great start!

and thanks for coming out of lurkdom. You were probably lurking to figure out the back and forth between my and Jen's PTRs, weren't you? They were quite parallel.

I love your introduction! I'm a huge planner too, so can totally relate to all of this!

26,000 tunes??? Wowzer!

Thank you! Yep. I just checked. I underestimated. I have 29,316 songs. But I just deleted 15 duplicates tonight, so I had 29,331 on the trip! I am such an accountant!

I love the title! And if it's refering to teenagers..........I'm sur they do mind!

I can feel your pain of an 11 hour road trip.........I make that about twice a year with 4 yes FOUR kids!

Well, it's not really referring to the teens as in whether they mind. That story will come later and you'll understand. Wow! 4 kids on a road trip! I admire you!

And by the way, Honored to have the esteemed winkers here!

 

[swwake]

Part I, Chapter 3​

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Friday, August 8
Ease On Down The Road​

Continuing our eastbound journey, not much had changed by 9:45am. Girls were still sleeping. Dogs were still sleeping. I was DISing (using my cellular adapter card on my computer), which my DIS friends appreciated as I posted live updates . Mom had awoken and was working on her newest hobby:

Yes, she is latch-hooking. Do you remember this fad? From the 70s? Yes, the 70s! It’s her new big thing. I think she is now on Project #5 or 6. She vows to decorate her house in latch hook mosaics of her creations.

By the way, I forgot to mention that it’s Mom’s birthday. August the 8th. She turned 67. and say “, Grandma Bonnie!!” We will celebrate later in the week.

Around 10am, the girls woke up. At this point, they finally opened the goody bag that I had put together for them. In my “crazy Mom” planning mode, I sometimes forgot that the girls are 15 and 16. Or maybe is it that I sometimes secretly wish that they are younger. In any case, I was hoping to harness their inner children when I assembled the bag. Katie had eyed it on Thursday night, but I wouldn’t let her open it. I packed it in the car, thinking that they would jump right on it first thing in the morning.

It slipped my mind (again) that they are 15 and 16 and at this age, top priority is a 5-letter word: S-L-E-E-P. Silly me.

So, inside the bags, they found the following items:

Yes and Know book. I used to love these for road trips as a kid. I really liked “Baseball” and “Battleship”. I later borrowed this book on the airplane, only to find that the one and only Baseball game had been played, and Battleship wasn’t as much fun as I wanted it to be. Most of the rest of the games had been completed, so I am assuming they enjoyed this one. Just a guess…

Disney character and princess invisible ink books, which I found at the Palm Springs airport on a business trip back in January/February. I knew they were too old for these, but thought they would be light-hearted fun anyway. I was a little disappointed in these. I expected them to be like the old water color paint books, where you could use the invisible ink pen to fill in the outline of the character and it would fill in colors. Well, not exactly. There were vague outlines of “blobs”, which, when hit with a touch of invisible ink, caused character outlines to emerge. Guess I should have included colored markers in the bag. You live and you learn.

Princess Putty. This is similar to Silly Putty. I don’t think they opened it. They gave these (and some of the other remnants) to our friends’ Troy and Jen’s kiddos Saturday morning when we left Memphis. Still, I thought it was cute. Maybe I shoulda brought a newspaper so they could lift the comics like I used to do. Ahh the nostalgia. Why didn’t they have Princess Putty when I was little?

Princess goody bags. I have no idea what was inside these. I picked them up at Party City in March, when I was making a run for pots ‘o gold and chocolate coins as employee gifts for St. Patrick’s Day. I think the girls opened these, and then gave them to Troy and Jen’s kids. Must have been quite entertaining!

Meant for Dude, a pirates goody bag. Not sure if he ever even saw it. This was given to Troy and Jen’s boys Saturday.

We all remember Mad Libs. As I mentioned in my live update in my PTR, this was a bust. I think to enjoy Mad Libs you have to be drinking heavily. And none of us were. Needless to say, this book was hard to get rid of. We couldn’t even GIVE it away to Troy and Jen OR their kids. Maybe we should have offered it with a bottle of vodka.

Next, we stopped at Wendy’s for deliciously unhealthy fare. Pit stop for the doggies, and ease on down the road.

Next up: A visit to the hospital

 

[Charleston Princess]

So far, so good!

 

[vdarrell]

Part I, Chapter 3​

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​

Friday, August 8
Ease On Down The Road​

Continuing our eastbound journey, not much had changed by 9:45am. Girls were still sleeping. Dogs were still sleeping. I was DISing (using my cellular adapter card on my computer), which my DIS friends appreciated as I posted live updates . Mom had awoken and was working on her newest hobby:

Yes, she is latch-hooking. Do you remember this fad? From the 70s? Yes, the 70s! It’s her new big thing. I think she is now on Project #5 or 6. She vows to decorate her house in latch hook mosaics of her creations.

By the way, I forgot to mention that it’s Mom’s birthday. August the 8th. She turned 67. and say “, Grandma Bonnie!!” We will celebrate later in the week.

Around 10am, the girls woke up. At this point, they finally opened the goody bag that I had put together for them. In my “crazy Mom” planning mode, I sometimes forgot that the girls are 15 and 16. Or maybe is it that I sometimes secretly wish that they are younger. In any case, I was hoping to harness their inner children when I assembled the bag. Katie had eyed it on Thursday night, but I wouldn’t let her open it. I packed it in the car, thinking that they would jump right on it first thing in the morning.

It slipped my mind (again) that they are 15 and 16 and at this age, top priority is a 5-letter word: S-L-E-E-P. Silly me.

So, inside the bags, they found the following items:

Yes and Know book. I used to love these for road trips as a kid. I really liked “Baseball” and “Battleship”. I later borrowed this book on the airplane, only to find that the one and only Baseball game had been played, and Battleship wasn’t as much fun as I wanted it to be. Most of the rest of the games had been completed, so I am assuming they enjoyed this one. Just a guess…

Disney character and princess invisible ink books, which I found at the Palm Springs airport on a business trip back in January/February. I knew they were too old for these, but thought they would be light-hearted fun anyway. I was a little disappointed in these. I expected them to be like the old water color paint books, where you could use the invisible ink pen to fill in the outline of the character and it would fill in colors. Well, not exactly. There were vague outlines of “blobs”, which, when hit with a touch of invisible ink, caused character outlines to emerge. Guess I should have included colored markers in the bag. You live and you learn.

Princess Putty. This is similar to Silly Putty. I don’t think they opened it. They gave these (and some of the other remnants) to our friends’ Troy and Jen’s kiddos Saturday morning when we left Memphis. Still, I thought it was cute. Maybe I shoulda brought a newspaper so they could lift the comics like I used to do. Ahh the nostalgia. Why didn’t they have Princess Putty when I was little?

Princess goody bags. I have no idea what was inside these. I picked them up at Party City in March, when I was making a run for pots ‘o gold and chocolate coins as employee gifts for St. Patrick’s Day. I think the girls opened these, and then gave them to Troy and Jen’s kids. Must have been quite entertaining!

Meant for Dude, a pirates goody bag. Not sure if he ever even saw it. This was given to Troy and Jen’s boys Saturday.

We all remember Mad Libs. As I mentioned in my live update in my PTR, this was a bust. I think to enjoy Mad Libs you have to be drinking heavily. And none of us were. Needless to say, this book was hard to get rid of. We couldn’t even GIVE it away to Troy and Jen OR their kids. Maybe we should have offered it with a bottle of vodka.

Next, we stopped at Wendy’s for deliciously unhealthy fare. Pit stop for the doggies, and ease on down the road.

Next up: A visit to the hospital

You got me curious.....a visit to hospital
Love your dogs
Your gift bag idea sounds like something I'd do my boys (who are older than your girls) are constantly shaking their heads at me for doing such things at Christmas and other holidays.I seem to buy things that they used to like when they were little boys.

 

[vdarrell]

I agree re: DH, Katie, and Caitlin and I have indeed been a princess three times in my life. But that's another story for another place and time.

I must confirm that I have not changed a bit in 45 years! I have no idea who that gray haired old lady in your pictures is, but she looks a lot like the one who shows up in mirrors whenever I'm around. I don't know who she is. She doesn't even begin to look like me. I know that I am still the petite flaxen-haired contact wearing fashionable size 5 gal that I have always been.

I think I heard at least 260 of those songs. Maybe just parts of them when you were playing "Name That Tune."

Grandma Bonnie...What grey hair What glasses
Size 5???? I could swear you were a size 3:

 

[MRYPPNS]

I am so buying a couple of Yes & Know books for my trip....I don't have to share the baseball game

 

[DisneyJen]

...

Glad to have you along. Thanks - we love our goldens. Magic is show quality from a breeder. Harry, our rescue, is a little anxious. I think he's finally comfortable that we're not going to take him to aNOTHER "forever home"! I will PM you Harry's rescue success story. If anyone else wants it, let me know! (Not sure about posting outside links publicly here ) Rescues are the best! I don't think we'll ever buy from a breeder again.
...

Please do PM me Harry's story... It took our rescue, Ginger, about a year to realize this is her FOREVER home! Agree on rescuing again versus a breeded.

To keep us on topic ...

Had to chuckle about the goody bags for the teens!

 

[Grandma Bonnie]

Grandma Bonnie...What grey hair What glasses
Size 5???? I could swear you were a size 3:

Vdarrell, Now you're my kind of mousketeer! colorblind and myopic.

 

[anbouk]

Vdarrell, Now you're my kind of mousketeer! colorblind and myopic.

Grandma Bonnie....you sure look GREAT for celebrating your 67th at WDW. Many more happy, healthy, birthdays to you!

Susan, I just needed to mention this to Grandma Bonnie! Gotta get ready for our trip, Friday am!!!

 

[heaven2dc]

First of all, Happy belated Birthday, Grandma Bonnie!!! (I seriously think you need to take another look at your birth certificate - you don't look a day over 50!!)

I loved the goodie bag stuff you packed - I would have been ecstatic but then I'm not 15 or 16 either lol But still, what a nice surprise!

Am really enjoying your trip so far - am anxious to see how the rest of the road trip goes and your time at WDW (my DBFF's daughter & grandson were there 08/06-08/12/08 at BCV and haven't heard from them how they enjoyed their trip - there was a big snafu on the son's park tickets. somehow they did a charge-back on my credit card for his ticket and they had to purchase another one at check-in. I paid for most of the trip for them since she could only afford half but it was their first visit and I wanted it to be special )

Will sit here waiting to read more! (btw we were there for a grand gathering in March 1997 - how did you like the castle decorated as a cake? I was so disapppointed cuz that was our first visit)

 

[SwansLoveDisney]

I still love mad libs. But it has to be played with the right (drunken) group for sure.

Happy Birthday, Grandma Bonnie!

Those car goodie bags were so cute!

 

[Mickey'sMainMami]

I'm on board! Can't wait to hear more!!!

 

[Grandma Bonnie]

Part I, Chapter 3​

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​

Friday, August 8
Ease On Down The Road​

Mom had awoken and was working on her newest hobby:

Yes, she is latch-hooking. Do you remember this fad? From the 70s? Yes, the 70s! It’s her new big thing. I think she is now on Project #5 or 6. She vows to decorate her house in latch hook mosaics of her creations.

I must take a moment to defend my latchhooking. I can't stand not multi-tasking. (Guess I'm the original ADHD kid.) Anyway, I like most crafts....jewelry making, embroidery, knitting, etc....and latch hook. I have determined that latch hook is the best one for traveling because it doesn't take much thought.