From Oil Wells to Jingle Bells-Bells,pg.66, See you in September!

[Backstage_Gal]

I'm really sorry this happened to you!

 

[orangecats2]

I'm sorry guys, that really sucks. It's really unacceptable. I hope the rest of the trip is better.

 

[dwheatl]

So sorry this happened to you.
I'm wondering if the second guy said, "You don't have to kick his bum. Look, someone beat you to it." Anyway, glad it didn't come to blows.

 

[Piglets Mommy]

Wow....that really stinks. It's frustrating that Disney allows these things to happen. It really takes the warm fuzzies out of the experience. We like to go in December, and unfortunately, the time that works is Pop Warner time. So far we have been lucky, and haven't had any really bad experiences, but that is probably because we were at WL, where we knew they wouldn't be staying. I really shouln't have to pay for a deluxe to guarantee that they won't be at my resort though...pretty frustrating.

 

[Thumper_Man]

WOW! I'm glad the 2nd guy was able to help at least with the sore loser. So sorry this happened. I'm really bugged along with you, and I wasn't even there. Hope the rest of the trip went well.

 

[TyRy]

I'm not sure what to say...I was losing it just reading it and wanted to cry with Smidy's words.

 

[nebo]

How did Smidgy get that nickname? Don't think I've seen that explained.
I have read all your TR's now except Feeding Nebo so I'm going to go start that now. Wish me luck that I make it out alive.

I'm pretty basic with my cheesecake tastes, I don't like other flavors added and then still called cheesecake.
And if you have been going through all the older trip reports, I believe it may be too late for you, you're probably now beyond thereapy.

I'm so excited!!! I just talked to my son in Germany and he is coming home for x-mas okay it's 245 in the morning I had to tell someone. back to the regularly schedule report

That's terrific WW, I know if it was one of our kids Smidgy would be just as excited as you.

Lol! I like Neebs name for you Okittysquared

I adore Biergardens cheesecake too!

Had for the first time last year In.Cred.I.Ble!!!

The tye dye, imho IS that "dense crap". Me no likey~

Wanna know where my favorite cheesecake is when we go to DisneyWorld? It's at the Publix on 192 in the frozen section, I believe they call it Sarah Lee.

To be, or Tiggerwannabe, that is the question.

So a few years back Mr Silly and I went to Greece. Mainland. I am not so much good at geography, and having lived in California for so long my definition of mountain is a little, well, off. Sort of like people in Texas calling ponds 'lakes' or worse calling rivers 'lakes.'

Anyhow we rented this car. I guess you call it a car still when you can pick it up. With one hand. The tires looked like bike tires. A kids bike.

The roads were so narrow they often dropped down to one lane. Not one lane for each direction, one chicken lane where you just closed your eyes and hoped oncoming traffic swerved enough to miss you. And the grade was unbelievable. Plus no side rails. But there were these cute and helpful road signs that were just a huge exclamation point. Comforting. And there were all these pretty little shrines set up all over the place. There were always a lot of them near the hairpin turns. At some points there were so many they had to be placed behind others.

So those shrines were memorials. For people that died at those points on the road. Comforting.

We really really wished we had gotten our will in order before we left. I was pretty sure we were just going to die.

Haley hates driving over mountains, fast, in tiny cars, where you can't understand the street signs, and they have no guard rails but lots of roadside memorials.

HaleyB, you did a great job adding to the story, I never go back and proof read when I submit a chapter so it was kinda fun to also see what exactly i was spewing in the early chapters. I have no doubt that road would have terrified me too, i remember once driving up to Mt. Evans in Colorado back in '75, it was a littel bit higher than Pikes Peak and there were little or no guard rails back then. Now it's probably a 4 line highway with water parks and mini golf on each side.

Byn the way, it took me forever to figure out KWIM, but I came up empty on DED I thinik it was, help me please.

nothing exciting or interesting about my nickname.

when I was born, my father called me a little "smidgeon".
that's about it! (of course, the name no longer applies, hasn't for YEARS!)
and it stuck, because in childhood, my whole world revolved around the church where my grandpa was the pastor. it had a 4 room school. everyone called me smidge or smidgy, teachers, everyone (I didn't even know my name was Diane until I was about 6 years old)
even in high school. (although this is where some people started calling me Diane) all my family still calls me smidge or smidgy. my grandson calls me "grandma Smidgy". steve never calls me Smidge(except in trip reports). ... (hmmm, I never call him Nebo, either..unless I am trying to yell out to him from a ways away. "nebo" is easier to say loudly and easier to hear..) I won't say what elese I call him.

I still like Dobby.
or Smudgy.

You should know better than to tell people you were called "Smidgeon". That name just might resurface. Especially here on the disboards. Know what I mean, Smidgeon.

I agree, and in print, doesn't Smidgeon look like something from King Arthur's Court?

My dad liked to call me George?!?! or Pete or monkey. I'm female by the way.

Thank you for sharing, George.

 

[nebo]

3 hours?! You've had us waiting 3 days for another chapter now you're going to make us wait 3 more hours?

Ok. Be back in 3 hours then I guess.

Since you are probably mountain time, it might be four hours for you. Great, now you're an hour mad at me.

Okay Alaska time three hours is up

Wow, we were on the same wavelengthe there for sure!

That had to be the strangest encounter at WDW ever! You no speak spanish/portugese. He no speak engleesh. I wonder what happened to the disney magic, too.

No, the strangest encounter comes still later from a cast member, but, no use getting ahead of ourselves.

That was such a sad update. I hope the rest of the trip goes better.
P.S. I loved the Homeward Bound refrence in one of your shout-outs.

Sleeping Asterisk, I did everything possible to keep that chapter from being a total downer, I don't like it when it comes off depressing myself, but I knew that no matter how many dumb jokes I included, sad was going to be the prevailing mood, although I still liked the "checkers" line.

And now I have a tear rolling down my cheek. That is so sad, and so wrong.

Again, I'm sorry. You might want to skip the next chapter too, I'm afraid we aren't done yet.

AAAAH Smidgy I feel so bad for you

Yep, that chapter was a real thigh slapper all right. I wish I could say "April Fools" but I can't, and the torment isn't over by a longshot.

I am so sad.

And I am pretty darned ticked off too!!

Mostly I am sitting here in utter disgust that you had this happen to you at your happy place.

I am guessing that you did talk with management at some point since you mentioned the comp.

Gosh, Neebs, I just can't believe it. You were not kidding at all, were you? It really was *that* bad!

Smidgy ~

Elbow, we haven't gotten to "bad" yet. Stay tuned.

ok,ok, if you want a bunch of pictures of thumbs, and head cut off, I'll resume picture taking!

Last edited by smidgy; Yesterday at 08:37 PM. Reason: I still can't even multi-quote correctly, and you want me to handle a new-fangled camera?

well, my vikes would be eternally gratefull, on second thought...
yeah, I remember your previous forays into photography, as Rosanna Danna Danna or something like that would say, "Never mind."

Wow. Interesting guy, that coach. Not a Disney moment.



Since you don't know what a Weeble looks like...

and a Disney version...

That was terrific for finding that and putting it in here, thank you! I still don't remember them, were these about 4 feet high that you would then punch only to have them pop right back at you? I remember some toys like that, usually clowns. and........

You know I have to do this at least once, just to get it out of my system;
Your name's Darla?
YOU'RE A FISH KILLER!

Sweet mother's love! That was terrible. I'm going to tell you Nebo (and Smidgy)... my husband's family always told me it was such a great place and everyone was always SO happy and treated you SO well... and every time I've gone, it's been no different than say.. a trip to Wal-Mart... except more up and down and loop-the-loops on the way there.
No one ever treated me any nicer and no one ever made me any happier. Last time the only thing that made me happy or when anyone was nicer was A. when my husband proposed and B. when we got the special Mickey ears. But it's not like anyone bent over backwards to make me feel any more special than anyone else... and apparently that had happened to them on numerous occasions.
When I went on the trip with his whole family, they had the same "normal" experience I did... rude people who don't treat you any more special than anyone else. And they were all up in arms saying how terrible of an experience it had been.
I'm sorry yours was as terrible as it was... I've never had an experience THAT bad! But I don't expect anything more than a good meal and pretty fireworks now. Anything happier or nicer than that is icing on the cake.

Rebecca, I will still maintain that there is still something magical about staying at DisneyWorld, if there wasn't we would not keep going back. I have also maintained that to SEE the magic, it should be done right, and we knew going in that this is not the right time to do it, but we foolishly went anyway.

Wow. That was wrong on every level.



How awesome is that?!

You take pictures just like my Grandmom!

You are gonna hafta explain to me one day how you manage to cut entire heads out off...I never quite understood that about her~

Colleen, I have to admit myself that I have problems taking pictures in the daylight now, often times the sunlight just washes out the little lcd screen and I'm just clicking at what I think and hope I have the camera pointed at. That's when I miss the little "viewfinder".

So, I've been stewing over this situation and I had a thought.

I know, I know... shocking.

Anyway, I'll bet that 2nd guy told the 1st guy that you might tell security that he had done that to your leg somehow. Pushed you down or something.

Just a thought as to why he'd be pointing at your owie.


Either way, to steal a quote from Hook ~ BAD FORM!

You know, we hashed this over many a time, over many cocktails even to this day, and that thought never once occurred to us. You're pretty scary, you know that?

ok, finally read the whole chapter (interrupted with a black out, storming here in IL).

yeah, we love Disney. and it's sad when "un-disney like" behavior happens. but, when Disney puts up with it? defends it? well, I won't jump ahead.

prinzie:: I still refuse to expect anything less from Disney than the "magic" I am used to... that Disney itself made me accustomed to.
for that reason, I won't go back in July (and not because of the heat)

Here here! Well said.

 

[nebo]

I'm really sorry this happened to you!

marita, we'll know better from now on, we just may try to rplace it with what we know works, a visit in early December, and no, not stay at a Pop Warner resort.

I'm sorry guys, that really sucks. It's really unacceptable. I hope the rest of the trip is better.

Okittysquared read above, don't you think these memories need replacing too?

So sorry this happened to you.
I'm wondering if the second guy said, "You don't have to kick his bum. Look, someone beat you to it." Anyway, glad it didn't come to blows.

That's pretty funny Danielle, don't you have some last pages in novels to tear out at the library?

Yes, I'm glad it didn't come to blows too, I would just feel terrible if he had to go through the rest of his vacation with a broken hand after my cheekbone hit him.

Wow....that really stinks. It's frustrating that Disney allows these things to happen. It really takes the warm fuzzies out of the experience. We like to go in December, and unfortunately, the time that works is Pop Warner time. So far we have been lucky, and haven't had any really bad experiences, but that is probably because we were at WL, where we knew they wouldn't be staying. I really shouln't have to pay for a deluxe to guarantee that they won't be at my resort though...pretty frustrating.

Here's what I know this year:
Pop Warner, dec. 4 till dec. 11th.
staying at ***, ASmusic, Port Orleans Riverside and Port Orleans French Quarter.

WOW! I'm glad the 2nd guy was able to help at least with the sore loser. So sorry this happened. I'm really bugged along with you, and I wasn't even there. Hope the rest of the trip went well.

Thumper, you're going to be a lot more bugged with the next couple of chapters I'm afraid.

I'm not sure what to say...I was losing it just reading it and wanted to cry with Smidy's words.

Oh please, don't cry, then I'll get started again. But I'm sorry to tell you that we have two, maybe three more chapters until we get out of there.

 

[lovebuzzandwoody]

Elbow, we haven't gotten to "bad" yet. Stay tuned.

I can't watch!
No, I can't look away!
Oh get it over with quick!

You know, we hashed this over many a time, over many cocktails even to this day, and that thought never once occurred to us. You're pretty scary, you know that?

For some reason that part just kept nagging at me ~ and that thought just popped in my scary head.

 

[Self_resqing_princz]

So please forgive me... you are going MUCH too slow for me... so I think I also reading Honey I shrunk the checkbook and Guess who's coming to free dinner! GOOD GOLLY you write a lot! I'm tryin to write a children's book.. I wish I could write that as much/often as you write your trip reports! But gosh if you're not entertaining. You need to give a symposium on TR writing! I need to take it and then write mine for when I come back in October!

 

[OhMari]

Joining the rest and saying sorry this happened.

I just hate to see her sad like this, I moved closer and as we hugged she said a couple times. "Where's my Disney? Steve, where's my Disney?"

Smart man, Nebo. Hugs always helps.

Your my last read for the nite. Going away for 10 days, not southward, but northward-ick. Not my choice of a vacation. Walking the Mackinac Bridge on Labor Day, going to the actual Island of Mackinaw, heading more north for a all day train ride, then to Niagra Falls. At least dh said we are only staying in Niagra Falls to just look at the Falls, no tourist traps. Then heading back around underneath and doing the boring route through your flat land state. I know, I'm mean, can't help myself.

 

[Mickeyorbust]

I bet he thought you were a referee. And a pretty strict one if someone kicked you in the knee with a cleat.

 

[Guatemommy]

Nebo, I am really enjoying the report but so sad to hear (or rather read) the last chapter.

what's Disney if not for the magic?

Now you got to hurry up and get to the good part (which is probably the really bad part) becaue you are killing us with suspense!

 

[ddstratton]

That was terrific for finding that and putting it in here, thank you! I still don't remember them, were these about 4 feet high that you would then punch only to have them pop right back at you? I remember some toys like that, usually clowns. and........

Nope. I think those were Boppers, or something like that. Weebles were a couple inches tall, and had this nifty little treehouse.

I had this treehouse and a bunch of Weebles when I was about 7 or 8. Which would have put them right around 1979-ish. Note the stylish carpet and other decorations.

You know I have to do this at least once, just to get it out of my system;
Your name's Darla?
YOU'RE A FISH KILLER!

Yes, it's good to get that out of your system. Holding it in would just make you explode. Rest assured -- my DD got such a kick out of that the first time she saw the movie.

 

[dwheatl]

That's pretty funny Danielle, don't you have some last pages in novels to tear out at the library?

Sorry. My kind of library vandalism leans towards putting boxers on the naked boy from In the Night Kitchen and halter tops on the topless fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream. It galled me to do it, but teachers were complaining there was too much T and A in my library.

 

[burly]

AACCKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a horrible experience. It probably scarred the kids too. What an idiot, first screaming at the kids, thinking this would "scare" them into playing better. Then freaking out on you and your wife, ex-wife, wife. THAT is probably what will scare them into playing better.
They are thinking....."what if he goes after my parents?"

Once stayed at the Poly for our "honeymoon" well after our actually wedding.
Someone broke into our room and into the safe and stole my jewelry. I only brought a little, but it meant something to me.
Absolutely no help from them. We recieved a "sorry, we will comp your room for one night". My ex is 6'4" tall and after leaving me in the room crying, he came back with a week's worth of free room there for when we return. anytime. doesn't expire. we went again the following year. and were pleasantly upgraded to the Hawaii building. sigh.

sorry to highjack. KIM

 

[Rozz]

What a nightmare! I would have wanted to scream for security but would there have been any security at the resort to hear...

Scary experience Nebo! Thanks for the hug you gave Smidgy. Made me feel better too!

We've actually had a positive experience with a large tour group. Great group of teenagers. They caught themselves being too rambunctious and loud and apologized to those of us in line with them. We all joined in conversation with them and had a great time. I think I even joined in one of their chants; maybe four words chanted a single time and not ear splitting loud.

Who knows what our next experience will be like.

 

[nebo]

I can't watch!
No, I can't look away!
Oh get it over with quick!




For some reason that part just kept nagging at me ~ and that thought just popped in my scary head.

In a little bit, we may just leave you with more to figure out.

So please forgive me... you are going MUCH too slow for me... so I think I also reading Honey I shrunk the checkbook and Guess who's coming to free dinner! GOOD GOLLY you write a lot! I'm tryin to write a children's book.. I wish I could write that as much/often as you write your trip reports! But gosh if you're not entertaining. You need to give a symposium on TR writing! I need to take it and then write mine for when I come back in October!

Ribecca, that first trip report was actually started in July of 06, so you are really talking about over four years worth of work. If you're serious about doing a report, when it's time i'll give you what I hace found out, which isn't much.

Joining the rest and saying sorry this happened.
Smart man, Nebo. Hugs always helps.

Your my last read for the nite. Going away for 10 days, not southward, but northward-ick. Not my choice of a vacation. Walking the Mackinac Bridge on Labor Day, going to the actual Island of Mackinaw, heading more north for a all day train ride, then to Niagra Falls. At least dh said we are only staying in Niagra Falls to just look at the Falls, no tourist traps. Then heading back around underneath and doing the boring route through your flat land state. I know, I'm mean, can't help myself.

Your just calling it the way it is. We liked Niagara, it makes a good one day stop, you should too.

I bet he thought you were a referee. And a pretty strict one if someone kicked you in the knee with a cleat.

Hi Mickey Orbust, welcome to the party. Another possibility we didn't consider.

Nebo, I am really enjoying the report but so sad to hear (or rather read) the last chapter.

what's Disney if not for the magic?

Now you got to hurry up and get to the good part (which is probably the really bad part) becaue you are killing us with suspense!

I'm not sure how far I'll cover, but hopefully be back on it a little bit later.

Nope. I think those were Boppers, or something like that. Weebles were a couple inches tall, and had this nifty little treehouse.

I had this treehouse and a bunch of Weebles when I was about 7 or 8. Which would have put them right around 1979-ish. Note the stylish carpet and other decorations.




Yes, it's good to get that out of your system. Holding it in would just make you explode. Rest assured -- my DD got such a kick out of that the first time she saw the movie.

Boy, you are the Weebles masster! And as for the name, the same in Finding Nemo, can you imagine the ribbing I constantly took just from the trailers? "Where's Nebo, oh, there he is." Funny that it would be the same movie for us.

Sorry. My kind of library vandalism leans towards putting boxers on the naked boy from In the Night Kitchen and halter tops on the topless fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream. It galled me to do it, but teachers were complaining there was too much T and A in my library.

You know, i wasn't aware that Shakespeare came with pictures, or did you draw in the naked fairies in the first place?

Once stayed at the Poly for our "honeymoon" well after our actually wedding.
Someone broke into our room and into the safe and stole my jewelry. I only brought a little, but it meant something to me.
Absolutely no help from them. We recieved a "sorry, we will comp your room for one night". My ex is 6'4" tall and after leaving me in the room crying, he came back with a week's worth of free room there for when we return. anytime. doesn't expire. we went again the following year. and were pleasantly upgraded to the Hawaii building. sigh.

sorry to highjack. KIM

That's a sad story with a happy ending, except for that "ex" part. We've never stayed at the Poly though we've visited many times. One of these days we'll stay at a monorail resort.

What a nightmare! I would have wanted to scream for security but would there have been any security at the resort to hear...

Scary experience Nebo! Thanks for the hug you gave Smidgy. Made me feel better too!

We've actually had a positive experience with a large tour group. Great group of teenagers. They caught themselves being too rambunctious and loud and apologized to those of us in line with them. We all joined in conversation with them and had a great time. I think I even joined in one of their chants; maybe four words chanted a single time and not ear splitting loud.

Who knows what our next experience will be like.

Hi Rozz, I've seen you before. I agree, not all groups are the scum of the earth, that can only be applied to one group, by definition.

This group!

 

[nebo]

Remember when you heard the phrase, "tour groups" at Disney, it brought an image of Japanese men with flowery shirts and shorts with a camera hanging around their neck?

Yes, you still tried to beat them to Test Track if you saw them coming, but they were as polite as could be.
I still remember one time trying to make a BTMR fastpass from Splash Mountain, before we knew they didn't expire, and we were literally running through the exit at SM, a darker area where I don't see well, and I just creamed this little Japanese guy into a wall, who then slid down to the floor, shaken.

As I rushed to him to help him up, he immediately started apologizing for being in my way and making me "knock him into tomollow."

I haven't seen those tour groups there now in a long time.
Perhaps I'm the reason?

Arriving back at Magic Kingdom in the early evening, there was no welcome show to greet us this time.
But there were still a lot of bad feelings that just aren't going away.

My problem with tour groups is this;
People will act entirely different then they normally will once they are surrounded by a group of peers.
Call it Mob Mentality, if you will, but you see it happen all the time at concerts or sporting events. They have that safety in numbers rationale, and since there's more of us than there are of you, we say anything goes.

"What're ya gonna do about it?"

Even the more benign groups annoy me when they have to march through the resorts and parks holding a flag high for all to see, never saw the Japanese groups with a flag.

Halfway down Main Street, USA, a large yellow shirted group with the flag bearer is heading towards the exit, and it's all I can do to refrain from cheering.

I know it's wrong, but at this point, I'm not really caring so much about right or wrong, I only know that my tour group tolerance bar is set pretty low, right around ankle height.

Which I swear was the ridiculous level the had the limbo bar set for me that time when I blew out my knee.

As we watched them leave, we talked ourselves into forgetting what happened back at the resort, the whole thing, and, Dad gum it, we are going to have fun tonight!

Yep, just put it behind us, fugeddaboudit.

Right.

And this would also include you, dear readers.

You don't want us to go about daily Magic Kingdom life, you want me to get to what happened, what else is coming, c'mon, let's go, get on with it!

You see my point?
I can ask you not to think about it for awhile, but it's still going to be there in your mind, too late to ignore it now.

Of course, that's what happened to us that night too.
The was no forgetting, and besides, now I'm back to worrying about the car, even more so.

Before we left, we also made a couple of Sunny D's up, with vodka. The fuzzy cup drink got us to the park on the bus, then handed the baton over to the Sunny D bottles at the turnstyle.

WIth our new found positive attitudes that were in actuality in denial, we headed over to Tomorrowland and use our Buzz fastpasses.

They say that adversity can bring you closer together, and we were no exception.

I stepped on the back of Diane's tennis show causing it to curl under her heel and almost trip.

We did Buzz. We did TTA. We did Casserole of Progress, since forever renamed from an air-conditioning malfunction on a previous trip. And I sang along probably a little bit too exuberantly thinking there's a great big beautiful tomorrow at the Beach Club Villas that won't include Brazilian tour or soccer groups.

We then used our second fastpass for Jungle Cruise, and lately I can't seem to win on this ride. We always seem to get the exchange student from Japan or korea, usually a girl who's so shy and nervous she whispers thoughout the ride. We even held back from getting on the firs boat because I could see the captain was one of them, only to find another one on the next boat.

I'm also embarrassed to admit that I didn't help her any, even ruined things once for her, stepped on her punchline.

As we passed the big python, "Can anybody tell me what kind of snake this is, starts with a P, c'mon....

Nebo: "Plastic"!

I was a jerk, and felt like a jerk.

Next fastpass at Splash, this time there was a bit of a surprise in store.

We have ridden this dozens of times, including this morning. The dryest seat in the boat is the last row, left side.
Last row, right side runs the risk of getting nailed from the water canon when the other boat comes down the chute. The boats themselves make very little splash, it's the timed water canons that make it look that way and get everybody wet.

This morning I was in my usual spot, last row, right side, and the timing was such that I was doomed to get a shot from the water canon tripped by the boat coming down the chute on our right side.

But it fired a dud instead. Fffft.

End of the ride I didn't even have to wipe off my glasses.

Apparently, they fixed that problem during the day.

We had the bad timing thing again, back in our respective seats, and as I was waiting for the litttle, Fffft, it was like this canon to my right was saving loogies and hockers all day, cuz it went off like Mount St. Helens!

I got drenched, Diane got drenched, and so did the rows in front of us, the only ones to escape it's wrath were the people in the front row, who are goint to get wet anyway being in the front on the drop.

From there it was on to Big Thunder again, best seats are in the back, more air time, and it seems a bit faster at night, I've heard because the track grease heats up during the day and thins out.

It wasn't dark enough yet, but we tried Haunted Mansion anyway. No, I could not see a thing, we were even passed the part where the "ghost goes home with you", when i asked if we got to that part yet.

Then we started looking for a spot to watch the parade.
The Main St. Elecrical Parade was playing the first two times we came here, but we barely watched any of it then so we were looking forward to trying it.

While we were walking through frontierland lookinig for a spot since the ropes were already set up, a voice came on the loudspeakers all over the park saying that they have added another parade that night at 11 o'clock, which is park closinig.
We stood there trying to digest this new news, and how to use it to our advantage, when I realized it doesn't mean a thing to us, then we saw some little kids sitting on the ground behind the rope, so we sat down behind them.

I love getting behind liitle kids for the parade, mainly, because, they're little.

It's the standing behind the Chicago Bulls that I try to avoid.

And everybody over here is sitting down, just sprawled out on the concrete so we did the same.

Remember I told you I was wearing shoes without socks because my foot wouldn't fit with them?
And they still felt fine?

Did you ever have a pair of jeans that were your favorite? Even though you have put on a few pounds and they were getting tight, they're still your favorite, and as long as you were standing up or walking, they fit ok.
It was when you had to sit down that they started cutting into you.

Well I didn't realize it but these shoes were doing that to me too, trying to get comfortable laying or sitting on the ground, they were no longer fitting the right way.

But the kids we were sitting behind were great, friendly, talkative,,,
"Hey mister, how do you do that with your knee to make it that big?"

"Son, when you get a bit older, I'll show you sometime."

At nine o'clock it finally got dark, the parade came through about 9:20, and we were disappointed.

Sorry, the floats were not as colorful, mostly white lights and the catchy Spectro theme music of course wasn't there either.

There wasnt much time to get to Main Street for the 10 o'clock fireworks but we did, and already I'm thinking about going back to the resort.

No, my dislike for the coaches, or chaperones has not improved, standing there waiting for the fireworks to start I had a fantasy of the last maniac coach standing in the doctor's office, being given the worst news that a doctor can give you, game over.

And him saying: "So tell me doc, how much time do I have left?"

"10." the doctor replies.

"10?"
"10 what?"
"10 years, 10 weeks, 10 months, what do you mean by 10 doc?"

"9."
"8, 7,,,"

The fireworks were ok, you really don't need to watch them from Main St. cuz they come out from everywhere, but again, the music wasn't catchy, and the story was hard to follow.

And we are headed to the bus stop.

I am breaking off here, I got some of my needed little laughs in here, but it's not going to be funny for the rest of the night, so might as separate the chapters.

i'm going to take a break, and feel if I can continue tonight, hugs, neb