Guess what we did at Epcot new years eve, and it was mostly legal sort of

Raulandpinboy

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Okay before we begin and make fun of everybody, let me start by saying I have been to every kind of New Years party there is. Last night was the best one of my entire life and the people I was with made it ten times more memorable, I love you all and thank you for having me there.

Now whoever took my ELP Spinner just return this Friday, and no questions asked. Now lets have some fun.

Well it was me that is Raul, I sat next to the wife Donna, and Ruthie, and then you had Mathew, Lauri, Cynthia, Dom, Kathryn, and Gary. We were at the Rose and Crown in the UK. It was 10:50 pm and the temperature was a chilly 35 degrees. Not bad for Florida.

It all started when Charlie our waitress said let me bring you some nibbles, and I thought she said nibbles with p’s rather than b’s, and I was all for her bringing them out. Gosh I thought you gotta love the British, Well alright lets start the new year off right, bring out the (you know the word) I yelled. Well Ruthie hit me, and Cynthia left the room since she was choking, but yelled that’s it he’s out of the Caballeros, and Charlie the waitress ran away holding up her hands up in the air, and yelling that’s it I can’t handle that one on the end. Lauri Mathew just stared at each other mouths open saying “did he just the N word. They were both at a loss they wanted to moderate, but could not find a keyboard or a mouse.

Mathew told me the next day that Lauri felt she had to do something so she went online and moderated a post I had done 6 months ago.

Then Lauri got cold and made Mathew turn up heat lamp the restaurant provided for us next to our outside table, to next highest setting which was tourist broiler inferno plus two degrees, as the temperature reached 102 degrees I felt comfortable and at peace with the world since summer was back. (Can you believe this, we are in Florida and we had to use upright standing heaters to warm the place up)

The waitress returned and refused to talk to me, kept calling me a naughty boy or something like that, and then she said I deserved a spanking… Before I could even open my mouth all the women are our table yelled out NOOOOOO!!!! All I could do was close my mouth and say WHAATTT!!!.

Then Ruthie went into pin withdrawal (Ex small fish will tend to this when first removed from their little safe environment) and started to shake, we kept showing her pin books but since she had already seem them she just kept yelling “been there done that”, she then got really figidity and started to throw sugar packs at Gary , Kathryn yelled oh my gosh she’s loosing it, quick Ed give her your lanyard.

I put my lanyard on her and she settled right down, she kept spinning my Main street electrical parade spinner… It was kinda creepy though it was like that scene in the Cain Mutiny where Bogart kept spinning the marbles in his hand. “ahhhhh but the strawberry see that where I had them, I knew there was a second key”

Some small fishes leave the pond bypass the lake swim across the ocean and loose it in England. Not our Ruthie AKA Shark hunter trade with me, or die. She rocks and bites sharks for fun.

Then the fireworks began Disney really did outdo themselves this year, the fireworks were so intense and the booms shook the place so hard that two Taliban soldiers hiding under the restaurant came up and surrendered at our table. Since they had no lanyards on them we just turned them over to the headwaiter.

Then both Lauri and Cynthia made the comment “well poor Jazzy Jeff all he gets to do is watch a giant tortilla drop into a bowl of salsa at midnight”, and the hooting and hollering started (sorry Jeff not my fault this time)

Lauri was now warm enough, and we all had awesome tans, so Mathew lowered the heat to the tourist simmer lava rock welder level. Lauri so did the enjoy the fireworks so much every time one would go off she would scream “Woo hoo Who’s your daddy huh”

Illuminations was awesome followed by a solid minute of non-stop fireworks, we were so close we could see everything down to the rocket launcher shooting up the rockets directly at us HELLLLOOO!!!!

At midnight and 2 seconds the first pin trade of the New Year was made… Yes it was made between Donna, and myself, the trade an LE1000 for a rack pin. I’m not worried I know where she live and will trade it back tonight as she sleeps.

Now Dom he’s the quiet one, Dom sat in the end of the table quiet at first until they handed out the party horns, then Dom and the kid at the other table got into dueling party horns… Dom won, but he kept drinking lemonade, which was okay until we left the restaurant, and on our way back to the car he had to hit every restroom between the UK and parking lot. At one point Cynthia was found yelling into a men’s room… that’s it Dom no more lemonade for you ever.

Kathryn then ordered a to go box which was strange because she wanted 5 to go boxes and they all had the 100 years celebration design on them but she had no food left over and kept smiling and whispering this little song

I’m gonna sell you on ebay do da do da. A special 100 years lunch carrrrying tray all the do da day.

And finally Mathew pulled me over to one side and said I was gonna do this later, but Jeff sent this pin with me to trade with you it’s a very limited pin, very rare… it was a diamondback pin shaped like the letter A.

Jeff I know you wanted an LE of 1000 or less for your pin, but the most I could come up with was an LE5000 Electrical Light parade spinner, Mathew scoffed at the pin and refused to trade.

All good things must come an end so as we were walking out of the parks, we were all discussing what to do in the morning sleep in was the consensus, just then my cell phone rings. Can it be… yes LE2000 beauty and the beast pin being released in the morning wristbands being handed out at 7:00am, but its 2:00am now, what’s the point of going home. So we all gathered in a circle started a small fire using old discarded pin cards, and sang pin songs until 7:00am.

Disclaimer:

I am toooo darned tired to fix this post, any misspellings or errors are a figment of your imagination… Note Figment is a trademark of Disney used here with expressed permission of Judy Sue and Mike and friends of figment forever. The events may or may not have happened… you all know me… I seldom exaggerate. Adam West was and will be Batman forever. I do not flirt (much) and if I do its all in the name of science.
 
First let me clarify. I did indeed venture out in the cold dark night in Arizona where the temperatures dipped well below normal to nearly 50 degrees. I was in search of chips and salsa but not just any chips. I was hunting for the Tostidos Tempe Block Party where me and 150,000 of my closest friends gathered to watch a GIANT chip fall into a large vat of salsa at the stroke of midnight. As the countdown began 10-9-8-7..., I could have sworn I saw someone that looked like Raul's evil twin leap from the stage in what looked like an ill-timed mosh pit jump. Unfortunately for the poor dude, he didn't inform anyone of his plans and he fell 6 feet to the ground. Luckily, his fall was broken by 27 bags of Tostidos and a portly woman wearing a Colorado Buffalo's skin-tight jersey. (I am not sure the manufacturer anticipated this being a tight shirt, it just ended up that way after 47 Johnsonville Brauts and a keg of beer.) So as the countdown completed 3-2-1-Happy New Year, the giant chip floated down into the giant salsa bottle and pieces of broken Tostidos rained down on the crowd from Evil Raul's bags exploding, I turned to kiss my wife only to find a large woman with a moustache standing next to me with an Oregon Duck hat on. I was pretty confident that first this was not my wife and second, there had to be some kind of law against kissing escaped side-show circus performers on New Years. I did the only thing I could do, I lied and told the babe that I had a cold sore and was severely contagious. After that near death experience, I quickly found Trina and we decided it would be much safer if we went home.

Hey Raul, it is good to hear that Matthew turned down that trade though; I would hate for you to be taking advantage of me. I mean an Arizona Diamondbacks pin is a terrible thing to waste. I would have had him offer you a New York Yankees pin but those have been destroyed. I hear they were a choking hazard.


Jeff
 
No Ed, what Lauri and I said after that amazing display of fireworks was, "Well, it WASN'T a giant dorita falling into a bowl of salsa, but it will have to do." You know we were all very jealous of Jeff's exciting evening. We even tried to call him to tell him so, but the circuits were all busy.

I also did NOT say you were out of the Caballeros. I think what I said was that Charlie, the waitress, deserved to become one for being able to handle you so well (plus she's blond!) In fact I thought she WAS joining us when she pulled a chair up to the table - VERY close to Raul, mind you - at the end of the evening. If she does make it onto the Wonder in time for the cruise (she's applying for a new job) she will keep all of you pin traders on your toes. Way to go Charlie!

It was NOT that cold either. I didn't even have to wear my winter jacket or hat or gloves. It was a perfect Florida evening, although the heat lamp on my back did feel kind of nice and gave me a wonderful tan.

Pintrader's "to-go" boxes will sell very well on ebay since they are individually colored (signed and numbered, too, aren't they Kathryn?) We all appreciated your helping out Ruthie during her pin trade withdrawal episode. Addiction is not pretty! Waiting for Dom was no problem...god knows he's waited for me enough times. And remember it was me who kept everyone from leaving at 1:00 am when I lost my son - - AGAIN.

I will say you got one thing correct. This was the best New Year's Eve I've ever had, too. Happy 2002!
 

Now you see I was nice and didn't mention the fact that you lost you son, or that we found him partying with those cheerleaders from Miami, and how you literally fainted when you found him.

You were right though those girls were trouble with a capital T… but I told him as we dragged him away kicking and screaming that he would thank you for this someday.

Give him 20 or 30 years and he'll get over it, trust me.

And it was cold HELLO it was below 70 to me that's cold, ask Lauri she'll confirm the cold.

Last but not least if Charlie becomes a caballero what will you guys call yourselves? The four caballeros and Dom???? But if she's in she can wear the Susan Lucci skirt OHHHHHH Yes, and a few Woo Hoo's. (I mean that in a purely scientific way mind you)
 
Makes me wish I was there. Thanks for the wonderful story. (I'm picturing the N word fiasco hehehehe)

Sue Ellen
 
This was our best NEW YEAR'S EVE EVER !!!!!! Thanks to all who joined us. We could not have asked for better seats or better company. I think we could have only laughed more if AZ Jazzy Jeff had been there with us with his lovely Trina.

Not that there was many quiet moments during the whole night. We did think of AZ JJ, Lauree and Malcolm, Tinkerbel129, Leslie-BeautyLLM to share our magical night with. We tried to make calls to all of them and bombed out on them all, but at least we got through to voice mail on most of them.

Even during the millennium celebration we did not we see that many fireworks !! It must have been because of the 9-11 incident or maybe Walt's birthday, but there were more than I have ever seen.

Gary rarely leaves his office or his company. IXC Telecom is his life. So to see him away from the office AND enjoying himself was a real treat for me.

I wish I were a great story-teller, but believe that it was ALL good. It will be great to have 20 of us next year sitting together rather than 10. Start contacting me around October and I'll see how many of us we can get together. :)



OH WHAT A NIGHT !!! THANKS EVERYONE.
 
I will do my best to be there next year!!! This was ONE OF THE BEST NEW YEARS EVES I have ever had!!!! Between Charlie and Ruthie's pin withdrawals we were laughing so hard I had trouble breathing at one point!!! Then when Lauri mentioned Jeff and the falling torilla.......I'm still laughing!!!!!!

Thanks to all for a GREAT EVENING!!!!
 
Boy did we have a GREAT time!

Yes Raul.. I did feel the need to moderate you ;) !

I was dreading the thought of spending over 16 hours in Epcot with my nice comfortable hotel room staring at me in the distance (we stayed at the Dolphin) knowing that I couldn't leave the park for fear of not getting back in. I have to say that the time just flew by and I had a blast!

The fireworks show was spectacular and Kathryn outdid herself getting us those reservations. We couldn't have asked for better seats! Thank you so much, Kathryn, for inviting us to spend NYE with you!

Here are a few pictures from that day :) :

First.. this is a picture of Dom's reaction when we told him he was spending NYE with Ed. We had to lock him in the phone booth so he wouldn't run away :D
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Then we went and did a little trading (indoors since it was FREEZING) at the old Pasta Piazza. As you can see in the picture, Mike (Pinhook), has started celebrating a bit too early and stole Taylor's signature hat! Christy, Jordan and Taylor stopped by and we did a little trading with J & T (thanks for the trades guys!)
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At 10:50 pm it was time for us to be seated at the Rose and Crown. We had a table right on the water with a wonderful view. Since it was approximately 20 degrees below zero (yeah, well it felt like it) they stuck me in between two space heaters. I was still shivering but you can see that some of the others had already shed their coats and were mumbling something about tropical heat waves.
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Ruthie started trembling after she went 30 minutes without trading. Ed let her wear his lanyard with his coveted Wet Paint Artist Proof on it. Seemed to calm her down!
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This picture was taken around 1 am. That is our waitress Charlie sitting next to Ed. I'm not sure, but I think at this point Ed had driven her to drink ;) ! (just teasing! :) )
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Thanks again to Kathryn, Gary, Ed, Donna, Dom, Cynthia and Ruthie - we had a fantastic time on NYE and we are so glad we were able to spend it with you guys! All we were missing was AZ JazzyJ - Jeff, you have to skip the falling snack food next year and come try this out!
 
......no really, Mike, we had nothing to do with Lauri posting that picture of you all lovely in pink! Not that we haven't thought about it :D :D

Nope, this one's on Lauri........yea, that's it......this one's on her......yep that's our story and we're stickin' to it.....:D :D :D

Christy

p.s.--btw, The Hat would go really well with your "I'm only wearing black because all of my pink clothes are dirty" T-shirt....Taylor says you can borrow it any time you like.....:D
 
Now I know what the cool people were doing on NYE!

R&P's story made me need to hit every men's room between the Rose & Crown and the parking lot.

I wish I typed faster.

I feel like I was there with you. All hot and tanned.

Happy New Year everyone!
 
Open invite to you next new years eve. And you will notice all the other tables cleared out guess they just couldn't take the heat from our table.

And you will all notice who Charlie sat next to, unhuh the guy that was the nicest to her that who. Of course Donna was kicking me under the table until she left. Shhhesh those Canadian's can be so jealous
 












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