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

[pkondz]

Dunno, I think it'd be cool to see you explode. Whooie! He blowed up real good! (where's that one from, hmmm???)

sounds kinda familiar, gimme a hint.

It's possible that you didn't get SCTV. I don't remember if it was just us Canucks that got it. It was filmed in Toronto I believe. It ran from 1976 -1984. Who was in it? Check out this roster:John Candy, Eugene Levy, Rick Moranis, Martin Short, Harold Ramis and more. The quote is from a recurring skit where two hicks have celebrity guests on their show (Farm Film Report) who inevitably get "blowed up real good". I gotta admit I enjoyed seeing Brooke Shields (played by Catherine O'Hara) explode.

No silly, it's what you say at the start of a trip. "Andyway we go!" (Yes, I know it's "Aaaaaaaaaaaand, We're Off!!!" but it wouldn't work then. )

It would for Jackie Gleason

touché

 

[dwheatl]

Can't believe you don't know the Gumby theme song. Here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhczFRlBT2E

 

[Sandy Mouse]

I could be wrong, but wasn't SCTV Second City TV out of Chicago?

And Nebo, I have to go to WDW 4 years in a row: the first (2010) to convert and indoctrinate daughter #2 to Disneyism (my girls went 20 years ago with my ex and his parents and I don't think she had a good time), then take my older 3 grandkids one at a time. I have to say that say that daughter #2 was very susceptible and converted easily... I'll have to keep her away from other religious cults.

 

[Sandy Mouse]

While in Disney World, I pulled a Nebo. On our last day, it was raining, not hard but steadily, and we were leaving Pop Century to go to breakfast at Ohana, then AK for the day. I had forgotten something in the room and went back to the room (60s buildings - long walk from the car), and as I started running back to the parking lot, I fell down on the sidewalk, bruised my cheek bone, broke my glasses, cut just above my eyebrow, cut, scraped and bruised various areas on my arms and the backs of my hands. I didn't know I was bleeding until I got to the car, so I used one of those washclothes made into a puppy to keep wiping it up. Then I had to go to Classic Hall to replace my room key that had been all scraped along the back. The cast member at the front desk gasped, then replaced my card and gave me bandaids; she also called Ohana to tell them we would be late.
Got to Ohana where I was told that we , in fact, did not have a reservation. I was still woozy and dazed, but managed to pull out the prinout of our reservation. The cast member said if I had had a reservation, then I was late, too, but she simply did not have me on the computer. She could add me in, but we would have to wait an hour. I said okay and when they turned their backs and walked away, went to sit with my family. 20 minutes later, my daughter, Stephanie, and I noticed that everybody else had a beeper and we did not. We both went up to the check in desk, and the cast member told me that I had not been added to their list because I had walked away. I let Stephanie handle them - even bringing up that Pop had already called them. We had a table within 5 minutes.
I'm still so angry that I think I'll have to send WDW an email.
As a side note, I was dressed in a white shirt and very pale khakis, and when I got up off the sidewalk, there was not a speck of dirt on me. That's how clean the sidewalks at Pop are.
By the way, the new glasses are ordered and I'm healing nicely.

 

[jcc0621]

 

[pkondz]

I could be wrong, but wasn't SCTV Second City TV out of Chicago?

Acording to Wiki: Second City Theater originated in Chicago then expanded to several other cities, including Toronto. It then produced TV shows including SCTV which was first shot in and around Toronto then moved to Edmonton. It was picked up by NBC in 1981, then Cinemax. So it was seen in the US... before it blowed up real good.

 

[nebo]

Can't believe you don't know the Gumby theme song. Here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhczFRlBT2E

Danielle, I went to your link and listened to it and it still doesn't sound remotelyfamiliar, I think I was just too old by then to have paid attention.

I could be wrong, but wasn't SCTV Second City TV out of Chicago?

And Nebo, I have to go to WDW 4 years in a row: the first (2010) to convert and indoctrinate daughter #2 to Disneyism (my girls went 20 years ago with my ex and his parents and I don't think she had a good time), then take my older 3 grandkids one at a time. I have to say that say that daughter #2 was very susceptible and converted easily... I'll have to keep her away from other religious cults.

Yes, do keep her away from other cults, I'd hate to get approached by her in a Hari Krishna robe coming off Space Mountain.
You are right about Second City.

While in Disney World, I pulled a Nebo. On our last day, it was raining, not hard but steadily, and we were leaving Pop Century to go to breakfast at Ohana, then AK for the day. I had forgotten something in the room and went back to the room (60s buildings - long walk from the car), and as I started running back to the parking lot, I fell down on the sidewalk, bruised my cheek bone, broke my glasses, cut just above my eyebrow, cut, scraped and bruised various areas on my arms and the backs of my hands. I didn't know I was bleeding until I got to the car, so I used one of those washclothes made into a puppy to keep wiping it up. Then I had to go to Classic Hall to replace my room key that had been all scraped along the back. The cast member at the front desk gasped, then replaced my card and gave me bandaids; she also called Ohana to tell them we would be late.
Got to Ohana where I was told that we , in fact, did not have a reservation. I was still woozy and dazed, but managed to pull out the prinout of our reservation. The cast member said if I had had a reservation, then I was late, too, but she simply did not have me on the computer. She could add me in, but we would have to wait an hour. I said okay and when they turned their backs and walked away, went to sit with my family. 20 minutes later, my daughter, Stephanie, and I noticed that everybody else had a beeper and we did not. We both went up to the check in desk, and the cast member told me that I had not been added to their list because I had walked away. I let Stephanie handle them - even bringing up that Pop had already called them. We had a table within 5 minutes.
I'm still so angry that I think I'll have to send WDW an email.
As a side note, I was dressed in a white shirt and very pale khakis, and when I got up off the sidewalk, there was not a speck of dirt on me. That's how clean the sidewalks at Pop are.
By the way, the new glasses are ordered and I'm healing nicely.

Wow, that sounds terrible, you'd fit right in with us. Can't say I cared for the way they treated you though at Ohana, we've had problems with the check in procedures there too. But even Diane has taken a couple of headers going down at Disney, both times banged herself up pretty good but you sound like you came out of a battle!

Acording to Wiki: Second City Theater originated in Chicago then expanded to several other cities, including Toronto. It then produced TV shows including SCTV which was first shot in and around Toronto then moved to Edmonton. It was picked up by NBC in 1981, then Cinemax. So it was seen in the US... before it blowed up real good.

Diane and I used to go to Second City in Chicago back in the seventies; saw Jim Belushi and George Wendt there. "Norm" played the part of a "large" testical.
no, don't ask.



I'm thinking I might just do one more cut and paste from that other report, if I do it will be lengthy but I haven't come across as a real jerk on this report in a long time and I don't want anybody getting the wrong idea about me maybe being a nice guy.

 

[nebo]

Allright, here you go, after these next two chapters I had about ten women yelling at me for making Diane cry as some of you remember, I'm sure. And I am dying to fix the typos and such,,, I wasn't the best at describing things back then, but no, just gonna leave it as is.

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I have one more thing I have to say about the job thing and then that's it.
I was telling a friend earlier today what was going on, and he said, "Well, at least you'll still get your pension, right?"

pension?
PENSION?
I thought it was the funniest thing I've ever heard, we never had a pension in the first place.
When I finally quit bouncing off the walls and got up off the floor, I said,
"PENSION,? John, you're killing me." "Perhaps you really meant to say TENSION, that, we have plenty of."

I'm sorry, guess you had to be there for that.
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So, we got into our room, ( I don't want to tick Marita off again), and we realized how very fortunate we are to get this room. It came with a great view, was very clean inside, had hot and cold running water, and even indoor plumbing!
Crap, I"m not good at the "not ticking people off" thingy.

No, really, the room was great. Even all the light bulbs worked.

Diane immediately called for luggage help, and they sent some poor shmuck over to carry all of our crap up the stairs, there isn't any elevators at CBR.
( I gave him .50 cents.)

ok, I gave him 5 bucks, that's my going rate.
After getting unpacked, we made a drink and I took the camera looking for "view" shots.
And, I took a bunch from the second floor.
But only one turned out.
Are you ready?
Here they all come atcha!

This was the view from the room, looking at the island and the bridge to town centre, Old Port Royalle.
If the pic I took looking to the left would have turned out, you would have seen a lot bigger body of water.
so,
just try and picture it,
in your minds.

Lovely, isn't it?

Okedoke, here is our dining sitchyashun while staying here.
We have paid for 4 days of the dining plan, with ADR's at Shutters, Coral Reef, Boma's and Big River Grill. Coral Reef is the only one we have tried before.

Tonight, it is time for Shutters.

Adr for 8, so, after lying around a bit, we took a slow walk over there.
Both of us really love the theming here, the best word I can think of to descibe it is "Cheery".

And , low and behold, another pic I took on the way came out.

When we got there, I was surprised by the line. She went up and said our name, we were told about 15 minutes, and handed us a vibrator.
( easy there winkers, leave it alone)

We went back outside to wait, but the durn thing wouldn't vibrate, so we kept checking back in.
After a half hour went by, we asked again, and the girl said now it's ready. And just then the thing went off, I guess that makes it official.

A food critic, I am not, and to be honest, I'll be darned if I can remember what we had for appetizers, maybe Diane can help me here.
I do know that I ordered a sirloin, while Diane had the prime rib.

She said her prime rib was just ok, but my sirloin?
You know how when you go in a movie theatre and you smell the popcorn and it's like WOW!, I gotta have some, and then you get about 2 inches down in the big cup and now it tastes like crap?
This steak was kinda like that. It looked great, and smelled great, and the first bite was just fine. I really don't know what I didn't like about it, but by the 3rd piece, I was already tired of it. I ordered medium, and that's how it came, but it just seemed like I had to do way to much chewing before it was ready to be swallowed. Did you ever give a dog a piece of licorice or a stick of gum and just watch him try to chew it? That's how I looked.

For dessert, we both ordered the cheescake, but brought it back to the room with us and put it in the fridge.
The strangest thing about the restaurant though, which amused me to no end, was, we had a booth next to a wall. And right above the seat on my side was a little wooden door. (shutter?)
So of course I had to play with it.
And I found out that the thing actually opened. So I opened it.
Not 3 feet away I'm looking right at this guy chowing down on his cheeseburger at a table in the food court. This just seemed like the strangest thing.
I felt kind of like the guy in the main door to the Emerald City, that peeks out of the little door in the big door and tells Dorothy, "Well, that's a horse of a different color! C'mon in."

Across the table sat his wife, I guess, but they were oblivious to me.
I should have just quietly closed the door, and left them alone.

Nah!

"Hey!, that burger any good?"

This look of shock and amazement came over him, and he looked behind him and to his right, to the aisle, but not at the wall right next to him, hey, most walls don't talk!
Then he looked up at the ceiling, I think he thought he might be having an epiphany. His wife didn't hear me, so she's looking at him like he's totally lost it, so, my work being done, I just quietly closed the door and left them to figure it out.

Thursday morning, May whatever, a water park day.


Diane didn't ask me this morning if I'm going to live this day like it's my last day.
A good thing too, because I'm running out of lines.

We decided on Blizzard Beach, and wanted to use the early entry.
Now, let me warn you.
This part is not for the squeemish, something really bad happens today, so you might want to put the kids to bed first.
I'll tell it the best way that I can.

We went down to the bus stop, and started our favorite game of "bus watching".
"Nope, Magic Kingdom".
"Nope, Epcot."
Then nothing for awhile.
"Here comes one."
"Nope, Typhoon Lagoon."

I got bored and sat down.

"Oh, here it comes", she says.

I get up and look.
Huh?
"That's not it, what are you talking about?"
She looks back at it, "Yes it is, what are YOU talking about?"
I look again, and turn to her. "Diane, it clearly says Animal Kingdom, have you started drinking already?"

She looks again and her eyes pop open. "You're right, it does say,,,"
And just then the sign switched again back to Blizzard Beach.

We both turned to each other at the same time and tried to do our best Timon, when he couldn't understand how Simba is the king.

"Ohhhh!"

Again, you had to be there.

The bus was pretty empty, only about 10 of us got on from all the stops around. And only two were going to BB.
Us.

The bus driver pulled up right in front to let us off, then told us what number bus stop we need when we leave. I look at my watch, it's a quarter to nine, perfect!
The entire place looks deserted, and I'm thinking that it is going to be great the first hour before they let the hores in.
Hordes.
Whoops.

I was walking very slowly, having one more smoke, when suddenly Diane stopped right in front of me. She turned around, and had the most terrified look on her face.

Now, I'm about to do something, that is 100 percent guaranteed to get me in trouble.
With my wife.

I'm going to switch genders here, and become her, and try to tell this from what I would percieve to be her point of view.
So, as you can clearly see, with me trying to be her, there is not way that I can NOT eventually say the wrong thing.

Oy vey!

Ok, wavy scene change here, slowly fade out, then back in.



(Boy, I couldn't believe that sign kept changing, that was really funny. This time I thought for sure he had over done the vikes.
Oh, one of these types of busses. I don't get it. Why are so many of the busses now just have seats facing the middle? They don't hold nearly as many people as the regular busses with the double seats facing forward.
Oh well.

I guess this seat's as good as any.
Now why is he sitting across the aisle?

Oh well, doesn't matter, we've been married long enough so we don't always have to sit next to each other.
Boy, he sure looks good sitting there.
So handsome.
I'm so lucky to have him.
Even if he doesn't have hair.
But some hair would be nice.
Like on his legs, or his chest.
Oh well.

Wait, what are they saying? Oh, they took the free hopper pass upgrade with the special code. Yeah, I remember we thought about it. But there was no point in it since we already had tickets to a water park from that fiasco last year at Teppanyaki.
And besides, we would have then lost the AAA discount.

OH, THAT"S RIGHT! He gave me some of his pills to hold for him for the ride home. Just so he's not tempted to take them ahead of time. How stupid is that? And they look just like my Immodium pills. Same shape and size.
Oh man, if I was to accidently take one or two of those by mistake, it would just ruin the entire day.
Yep, then I'd definately have to kill him.
When I came to.

Boy, I remember the first couple of times we came with the kids. I was just scared to death being in charge of all the Hopper passes. The responsibility was just too much. It was like carrying 5 hundred dollars worth of tickets in my fanny pack. I like the way they do it now, all on the room key card.
Ok, here we go, wow, the place is empty. (little voice from woman she overheard, "even your water park tickets are on your room key")

Oh, he's having a smoke, no, I don't need one now. ("you can go to Blizzard Beach or Typhoon lagoon. Twice." It's all on the room key.")
We don't need the hopper and water park upgrade, we have Separate tickets for the water parks
we have separate tickets for the water par,,,,

OH CRAP!

Oh he's going to just kill me. ))
____________________________________
Ok, I'm back, and I'm going to guess that it happened something like that.
And, honestly? I wasn't really happy to hear the news.
Although, if I was thinking, I should have reminded her before we left the room. She had those tickets tucked away in a folder somewhere.

Poor Dobby.

goodnight,

 

[nebo]

And the finale of that episode where they all wanted to feed me to the sharks.

Holy cow! Was I stupid today. I mean more than normal. After I went grocery shopping this morning and put it all away, I went out to the patio, and she came down and joined me. It wasn't really hot out, only mid seventies, but I was drenched in sweat. When we came in for a second, I tried to give her a hug and she ran!

Ewww!
Hey, the may trip tan is fading, hadda do sumpin about that.

Well, apparently, I did. From above my head now looks like the "little red planet, Mercury".

And do you know why I'm sharing this with you?
Simple. I really don't want to take up where we left off.
It wasn't a "happy" time, and I'm searching for funny, anything funny in my mind, and shooting blanks.

It would have been nice if I had fallen off the ski lift.
But, crap, no such luck.

Actually, the way I felt, it would have been better if DIANE had fallen off the ski lift!

But, NOOOO, she doesn't even ride it!

Take it easy, I'm just kidding.

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She had the horrified look on her face, and I knew in an instant what it meant.
"You didn't."
"I'm so sorry."

I won't deny that I was unhappy, and I won't go into the ensueing argument that we shared. It quickly turned into, a, "Ok, now what?"

I do remember getting in a , "Barney, you beat everything!" And I took away her bullet.

So we walked away, and went back to the CBR bus stand.

Now, this part of the sojourn gets tricky.

We were dropped off right in front of the entrance, not by the bus stand.
And as we watched, so did a lot of the other busses, do the same thing.

You also couldn't see which resort the busses were coming from, they all had the BB or AK sign lit in the front.

But I knew if we went up front, then the next CBR bus would pull into the bus stop area, and whizz right by us.

They would come from our starboard side, make a Uhey, and leave on the port side. The problem was, how to get them to stop since we son't know if it's a CBR bus or not.

The answer was simple. And I shared it with her.

"All you have to do, is fake an epileptic seizure the next time a bus goes flying by, but you have to do it in the bus lane. "

"They'll be sure to stop."

She said, "But, what if he doesn't, and I get run over?"

"Yes honey, I know there's a risk, but that's a chance I'm willing to take."

Ok, maybe that conversation didn't actually take place, but I was thinking it!

On his way back out one bus driver stopped. Iran over there, expecting him to help us and take us back to our resort.
Nope, he WOULD call central, though, and tell them about our plight.
Fine!

Darn Iranians.

(thought I missed that dintcha?)

But time kept passing, and we still weren't sure what we were going to do.
I thought about just blowing the day off and turning it into a "resort day", maybe rent a couple of boats,,,,, nah, that lake really isn't big enough for that, even though they do rent them.
I looked at my watch one time too many. And Diane started to cry.
Now it's time for me to say, "My bad."

No, actually it's time for me to put my arms around her and say , "I'm sorry, it's no big deal, just a little mistake, we still have the whole day, with a fancy dinner tonight."

Finally a bus pulled up on the way out and the driver yelled over to me, "Are you the stupid moron that forgot his park tickets?"

Well, it sounded that way to me.

So I just bit the bullet, and nodded my head.
Sideways.
Over towards her.

(boy, I can tell I'm not going to get one "positive" post from this chapter. )

We got on, and found out this was a Contempory bus. But,,,,,,,,
Of course he still had to go to Animal Kingdom. So now we have all the Ak er's looking at us strangely.

"Bill, why are they getting on the bus at Blizzard Beach at this time?"
"This doesn't make any sense."

After a while of listening to this I cracked.
I turned to Diane and said, "So, how's your neck?"
"Did sleeping in a tube all night screw it up?"

She caught on right away.

"Not too bad, but, boy, when they say it's closing time, THEY ARE NOT KIDDING!" And she said the last part pretty loud. Everybody heard, and it was all I could do to keep from letting out a huge "guffaw".
Yes, I have been known to "guffaw" now and then.

We eventually got back to the resort, and on the way to the room, passed right by the Santa Fe. And I stopped.
"Ok, run up to the room and grab my car key, it's in the nightstand drawer all by itself, I already took it off the keychain."
She was really happy to hear this. And took off fast.

"Oh, and Diane?"
She stopped and turned around.
"Don't forget to bring the water park tickets."

I'm not allowed here on this site to type her response.
Use your imagination.

A wee bit of history here. In a way, this kind of turned out to be a good thing. Ok, I may be stretching this here, but, really, it was a form of evolving since I didn't have a evolver with me.
You see, in all our previous trips, once we get to Disney, for me it's like, Ok, I'm done driving!
And I like that feeling.

The only time that truckster ever moves mid trip is if we are doing a split stay and it's time to go to the next resort. Now, we had already decided that tonight, we are going to drive to AKL for dinner. Ok, fine. But that's it, no more driving for me!

Then something like this happens.
I'm driving.

We have to drive back now.

Diane runs back down, we buckle up and we are off!
CBR is probably the most centrally located resort on property.
Did you know that BB, way over on the west side, is on the same road?

We were there in about 7 minutes, parked, but now the hordes are there.

Many, many hordes. All in spike heels and garters.

(I'm sorry, I'll stop)

Once we hit the back of the line, I looked at my watch.
It's 9:55. And I stop.

Nope, not gonna happen. We are NOT stopping!

She bullies her way forward, dragging me along with, through this major "throng" of people.

(wow, I had a chance to misspell that and type thong and I blew it.)

No, seriously, she used every trick in the book to get through that crowd, up to the front without getting beaten to death.

"Coming Through!"
"Press."
"Press."
"Blue light sale in Aisle Nine!"
" I HAVE A CHILD!"

Yep, she used it all, but the next thing I know, we are standing in front of the rope, and she holds up her room key card to the cast member, who let's us through.

At two minutes to official opening.

"See?" she said,
"We are still in time for early entry."

Marita, can I borrow your eyes to slap her with?

 

[pkondz]

Hmmmm (or is that him or maybe hymn)... considering I didn't get a few of the references (but nevertheless enjoyed the stroll down memory lane), I do believe it behooves me to sashay over to yonder trip report and peruse it. N'est ce pas?

 

[babynurse1]

Why do I feel as though I am having deja-vu?

 

[babynurse1]

Why do I feel as though I am having deja-vu?

 

[babynurse1]

Why do I feel as though I am having deja-vu?

 

[lovebuzzandwoody]

Loved that bit with the shutter just as much the 2nd time around!

And yep, still a little miffed at you for making Diane cry.

 

[2girlsmom]

Wow, I can't believe I managed to get through this entire report before it ended! (Just found it last week). Nebo and Smidgy, congrats on the new grandbaby, I have enjoyed reading your report a lot, you're both really funny!

 

[lovebuzzandwoody]

I keep forgetting to mention this and then I go to my user CP and get a laugh all over again... so this time I came back to say....

Are you done Yak'n Yeti?

Seriously funny!

 

[orangecats2]

I have all of your trip reports so for me its all review. However, I think the Shutter incident was funnier the second time around!
Drag out the rest of this TR!
You must do a TR for the Sept trip!
Look at my siggie - 1st trip to DL scheduled for Sept 2012. Anyone want to get onboard?

 

[LadyMar]

Hi Nebo,
I have to go way back to the middle of this trip report to catch up. sheesh.
I'm off to Disney in a couple of weeks for a much needed break from real life.
I've missed reading you.
ok , ttyl
nat

 

[nebo]

Hmmmm (or is that him or maybe hymn)... considering I didn't get a few of the references (but nevertheless enjoyed the stroll down memory lane), I do believe it behooves me to sashay over to yonder trip report and peruse it. N'est ce pas?

It might be too frustrating for you Ponzi, not being able to post on it.
I'm not sure why that year was so cool for us when we both end up losing our jobs,, but definately there was a great deal of "middle age'd crazy " going on.
We not only went in May, but we also left 4 days after my company closed down for good and drove down for a job interview in Lakeland, Florida. Of course, since we are so close,,,,,,,,,,,, we stayed at the Dolphin for 3 nights and Pop for 5.
You'd think that oughta do it, right?
We were just warming up!
4 days after we got back it was time for our planned "fly down" free dining trip at Riverside for 9 nights, where we met a mess of Dissers.
Then,,,, on our last day on that trip waiting for Magical Depress to come get us, I talked her into a December trip to see the decorations for the first time.
And finally, before we needed to get really serious in job searches, we went down in Feb. of 08, to scout out where we wanted to live.
That trip ended up a rousing success when we found the manufactured home community, Vista Del Lago,,,,,,,, and of course, that's when the housing market went into the dumper.

Why do I feel as though I am having deja-vu?

Ok, I'm dragging out the ending here, I just like reading about a trip we had when we weren't freezing.

Loved that bit with the shutter just as much the 2nd time around!

And yep, still a little miffed at you for making Diane cry.

I did NOT make up the Shutter's shutter story, I still can't believe you could open them things, wonder if it's still that way. And I didn't make her cry, all I did was look at my watch trying to decide what to do and,,,,,,, oh, forget it!

Wow, I can't believe I managed to get through this entire report before it ended! (Just found it last week). Nebo and Smidgy, congrats on the new grandbaby, I have enjoyed reading your report a lot, you're both really funny!

Well hello Kristy, nice to have you with us, and that's an awful lot of reading! You realize that's time that you will never be able to get back now, right?

I have all of your trip reports so for me its all review. However, I think the Shutter incident was funnier the second time around!
Drag out the rest of this TR!
You must do a TR for the Sept trip!
Look at my siggie - 1st trip to DL scheduled for Sept 2012. Anyone want to get onboard?

What's scary is that not too long after that we went to Boma for the first time, which resulted in me posting the picture of myself in the cow costume being milked by Smidgy. And if there's any chance at all, we'd love to meet you in Disneyland next year, never been there and I'm dying to compare the attractions and parks. Nice to see you again Okittysquared.

Hi Nebo,
I have to go way back to the middle of this trip report to catch up. sheesh.
I'm off to Disney in a couple of weeks for a much needed break from real life.
I've missed reading you.
ok , ttyl
nat

Wait a minute Natalie, you're trying to pawn off living in New Jersey as "Real Life"? Have a great trip, don't forget to bring me something.

 

[Thumper_Man]

I've fallen behind again. I usually try to respond while I'm at work. And wouldn't you know it, I'm having to do actual WORK at work. Haven't had too much DIS time lately. I'm still around and will reply more later.

I have the feeling when I"m done here you wil either find me with behavior disorders, or normal, or someone you are glad doesn't live in your state.

I'm going with someone I'm glad that doesn't live in my state.

Where and why am I going here?

I'l tell you.

I would hope so, or else why bother asking the question.

As you can tell, this current December trip was hardly one of my favorites,,,,, what with the cold, and the back problems,,,,and there is no hiding it,,,, when it comes to retelling it, these really aren't the best Disney memories I've had.

Any memory of Disney is a good memory. Even under the worst circumstances. At least you were in the happiest place on earth.

But I have to try to make them such, or who would want to read it?

Was this a trick question? Umm let me think. All of Nebo's and Smidgy's faithful readers perhaps.

They can, be totally irrational, without logic.

AS I am sure I am sounding now.

You irrational. Never.

My ideal report?
Oh boy,,,,,,, what a report I could write about a Loooooong road trip to Disneyland from Chicago,,,,,,,never been to Disnyeyland, it would be all new, maybe include a stop in Vegas, Carlsbad Caverns,,,,,,, Branson? Hoover dam? and on and on,,,,,,, but just having it be all new stuff would make it incredible to write about.

So when you planning on taking this trip? I would like to hear you write about this trip to.

but I know a lot of you ,,,,Ponzi, Thumper, Bob,,,,,,,Kiersten,,,, would have had a field day with a lot of the chapters,,,,, ;heck, me too if I could have at it again so I guess I'm just giving Still Feeding Nebo a seal of approval if youve nothing to do and are just looking for some laughs.

I got an honorable mention in the same sentence as Ponzi. I feel special now. Don't forget Mrs. T. I'm surprised she didn't throw something at you for not giving her an honorable mention. For the record, we've been reading some of your past trips as well. Kinda hard to read your past trips while you have this one going on. Well at least for me. I tend to forget which trip I'm reading about.

How can a time when we both lose our jobs and careers in two months be a special time in our lives that we look back on with fond reverence?

Can't answer that.

But won't deny it , either.

Knowing you two, Mrs. T. likes to use this quote by Ron White a lot.

"I believe if life gives you lemons make lemonade, then find someone that life gave vodka to and have a party!!!"

Life gave you lemons, you found someone who had vodka and had a party.