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[mommytothreeboys]

Hi!

I've recovered from the excitement of the armadillo and I'm all caught up! (The joys of being a teacher on school holidays!)

I've sooooo enjoyed reading about your escapades and can't wait to read some more! Although my heart lurches every time one of your boys loses something!

Yay for being caught up!

I believe we are all done losing things...once I appeased the "god of all lost things" with my Tink watch we did pretty well holding on to our stuff!!

 

[mommytothreeboys]

Okay so ya'll go ahead and laugh at me all you want but somewhere I have missed something. What's this talk about birds and grape soda?

Hi Lisa!!

I'm sure you are aware of my F.O.B. (FEAR OF BIRDS!!) Anyway...Julie was just sharing with me (go back a few posts) a great tip about how birds don't like the chemical in Concord grapes! LOL! So either I take stock in grape soda or I carry grapes wherever I go!

Hope you're having a GREAT day after your less-than-great one yesterday!

 

[mickeystoontown]

Hi Lisa!!

I'm sure you are aware of my F.O.B. (FEAR OF BIRDS!!) Anyway...Julie was just sharing with me (go back a few posts) a great tip about how birds don't like the chemical in Concord grapes! LOL! So either I take stock in grape soda or I carry grapes wherever I go!

Hope you're having a GREAT day after your less-than-great one yesterday!

I guess I missed or forgot the whole fear of birds phobia. Maybe you can find some grape scented body spray at Bath & Body Works. Spray that stuff all over you and you'd be good to go!

About 4 or 5 years ago, maybe longer, we were eating outside at the Electric Umbrella (in Epcot). Hunter dropped a french fry on the table and was about to pick it up and eat it. (Boys will be boys and the 10 second rule still applied.) Lacey grabs it off the table and puts her hand in the air with the french fry. A big black bird dive bombs her and grabs the french fry out of her hand. Lacey goes nuts and we start laughing hysterically. I guess the bird spotted the fries in front of John because he flies back over and lands on John's shoulder. John starts trying to shoo him away but, of course, is laughing so hard it doesn't do much good. The bird is scrambling around trying to get a foothold on the back of the chair when I finally hit it with the tray and it flew off. Needless to say, the bird didn't come back.

So, the moral of the story is....either get some grape body spray or carry a food tray around with you. The birds are sure to stay away.

 

[mousescrapper]

I'm furious!!! LOL! Grape soda, huh? Well, I can handle grape soda on occasion, but I think I may just make it a habit to have a handful of Concord grapes with me at all times!! Thanks for the tip, Julie!

You could make a necklace of them and wear them around your neck....

Okay, that is just and even more is the fact that it made you think of Missy!

And, yes, Missy. I am laughing at your expense. Sorry (well, no, I'm not really).

Now somebody tell me how THAT is a "hidden secret of WDW" (and you can laugh at MY expense)

Ok so in this book, every few pages or so the author inserts these little interesting facts and that was what the "birds don't like grapes" thing was...she just had talked about how there are deternets on the Effiel Tower to keep birds from landing on 'cause otherwise it would look all out of proportion....

sorry Missy

 

[mommytothreeboys]

I guess I missed or forgot the whole fear of birds phobia. Maybe you can find some grape scented body spray at Bath & Body Works. Spray that stuff all over you and you'd be good to go!

Now THAT sounds like a GREAT idea!!

About 4 or 5 years ago, maybe longer, we were eating outside at the Electric Umbrella (in Epcot). Hunter dropped a french fry on the table and was about to pick it up and eat it. (Boys will be boys and the 10 second rule still applied.) Lacey grabs it off the table and puts her hand in the air with the french fry. A big black bird dive bombs her and grabs the french fry out of her hand. Lacey goes nuts and we start laughing hysterically. I guess the bird spotted the fries in front of John because he flies back over and lands on John's shoulder. John starts trying to shoo him away but, of course, is laughing so hard it doesn't do much good. The bird is scrambling around trying to get a foothold on the back of the chair when I finally hit it with the tray and it flew off. Needless to say, the bird didn't come back.

Oh my goodness...ON HIS SHOULDER!!??? I would have been so busy freaking out that I would never have had the presence of mind to hit it with a tray! I would have been screaming like a little girl and running from the scene!


So, the moral of the story is....either get some grape body spray or carry a food tray around with you. The birds are sure to stay away.

I did Flights of Wonder this trip...but only because I love my family and they wanted to see it! Jeff sat with his arm around me the whole time. That whole "birds flying all over the theater" thing really freaks me out!

Just a thought...if I get grape body spray to keep the birds at bay...will the bugs find me even more tasty??

 

[mommytothreeboys]

You could make a necklace of them and wear them around your neck....

With the crazy stuff that passes for fashion these days I just might be able to get away with that!

 

[hhockman]

Is it weird that you guys are making me hungry with all this talk of lunches and grapes?

Hmmm...or maybe I was already hungry.

 

[mommytothreeboys]

Is it weird that you guys are making me hungry with all this talk of lunches and grapes?

Hmmm...or maybe I was already hungry.

Now that you mention it, I'm hungry too! I'm going to go see if there is anything left to eat in the house after the boys ate their lunch!

 

[longing2Batdisney]

now it might explain why our parrot won''t eat grapes when we give it to her!
yes, we have a beautiful parrot (sorry Missy) best part is she likes me the best and I really have a fear of birds, dogs, don't care for cats we had a small NOISY parrot finally got MIL to take back the noisy bird that screamed everytime I opened my mouth!--my MIL has over 100 birds; needless to say I DO NOT GO IN HER GARAGE AVIARY!

about the bugs we use "Listerine" to keep the squitos away! here in LA

so you can maybe mix your GRAPE body spray w/a little Listerine and you should be go to go!!

ya'll have a great lunch!

 

[mommytothreeboys]

now it might explain why our parrot won''t eat grapes when we give it to her!
yes, we have a beautiful parrot (sorry Missy) best part is she likes me the best and I really have a fear of birds, dogs, don't care for cats we had a small NOISY parrot finally got MIL to take back the noisy bird that screamed everytime I opened my mouth!--my MIL has over 100 birds; needless to say I DO NOT GO IN HER GARAGE AVIARY!

about the bugs we use "Listerine" to keep the squitos away! here in LA

so you can maybe mix your GRAPE body spray w/a little Listerine and you should be go to go!!

ya'll have a great lunch!

Remind me not to visit your MIL!

And it's gonna look awfully silly when I buy up all the listerine and grape soda at the grocery store!

 

[KathyRN137]

Such great pictures, Missy! Fantastic shots of everyone!

Kathy

 

[orangecats2]

All this talk about birds, bugs, grapes and Listerine is making me

 

[mommytothreeboys]

Such great pictures, Missy! Fantastic shots of everyone!

Kathy

Thanks Kathy! My boys are so used to me snapping pics all the time...they humor me! And in Isaiah's case...he encourages it!

All this talk about birds, bugs, grapes and Listerine is making me

Oh yeah...we are an entertaining group all right! Aren't you glad you came out of lurkdom??

 

[Sunset Cliffs]

I have to ask...what is school bread? I had heard about the bakery in Norway and we went in there as well, but I've never heard of the school bread. Is it sweet? BTW, we loved our pastries from there too!

 

[mommytothreeboys]

I have to ask...what is school bread? I had heard about the bakery in Norway and we went in there as well, but I've never heard of the school bread. Is it sweet? BTW, we loved our pastries from there too!

Ok..someone else can chime in if I don't describe this right. School bread is a pastry that is filled with a sweet custard/pudding. It is covered in a sweet glaze and topped with coconut and another dollop of custard on top. Very delicious!

 

[hhockman]

Ok..someone else can chime in if I don't describe this right. School bread is a pastry that is filled with a sweet custard/pudding. It is covered in a sweet glaze and topped with coconut and another dollop of custard on top. Very delicious!

Okay, so what's the story behind why it's called "school bread"? Sorry...you know I always gotta know the back story.

 

[orangecats2]

Oh yeah...we are an entertaining group all right! Aren't you glad you came out of lurkdom?? [/QUOTE]


Do I have to answer that right away?
I had the school bread last year and I was not impressed. Of course when I got back from my trip and got on the Dis people were saying it had changed and that it used to be better. So who knows?

 

[mommytothreeboys]

Okay, so what's the story behind why it's called "school bread"? Sorry...you know I always gotta know the back story.

Ok..I've been looking and have yet to find anything that tells me WHY it's called school bread. All the descriptions of it seem to fit what I described though.

Oh yeah...we are an entertaining group all right! Aren't you glad you came out of lurkdom??

Do I have to answer that right away?
I had the school bread last year and I was not impressed. Of course when I got back from my trip and got on the Dis people were saying it had changed and that it used to be better. So who knows?

LOL! No...you can defer that answer to a later time!

I liked the school bread...I don't think it was as AMAZING as I've heard it described here on the DIS though. It's possible that it has changed a bit...but all the recipes I see online look about like what I bought in Disney. Who knows...maybe some batches are better than others!

 

[mommytothreeboys]

For those of you keeping up, our “we don’t have a touring plan” plan for the day was to enjoy the WS until afternoon then head out to the resort to enjoy the pool for a few hours. Then we would make our way back to Epcot to eat in the WS and take advantage of Extra Magic Hours until midnight. So....it’s now around 3:00 and we have done 2 KP missions (Norway and Mexico) and visited China, Norway, and Mexico. We also picked up Soarin’ FP’s on our way in so we are now headed out of the WS and back to FW to take a ride over beautiful California before boarding the bus for POR.

Just a pretty picture of SSE as we take our walk.

We get to Soarin and enter the FP line. The posted wait time for stand-by was over an hour so we were glad to have picked up our fastpasses earlier! As we waited in line, we noticed that it was really taking a L-O-N-G time....longer than I’d ever waited in a FP line for any other attraction. We were standing trying to be patient when we heard an announcement that the FP side of the ride (I think they call them concourses?) was not functioning at all. DUH...no wonder we were waiting and waiting! The decision had been made to empty the stand-by line and turn all of us FP holders around and send us to the other concourse. Those in the stand-by line were told that the ride was shutting down....bummer. All of us FP people literally just did an about-face and headed the other way...it works because the lines are literally directly across from each other. Now that the stand-by line is empty they just start loading the ride with FP holders as fast as they possibly can. I know what you’re thinking....mainly because I was thinking it too. If the line does an “about face”, the people in what WAS the front of the line are now in the back. Yikes! Yeah..well this little fact did not go unnoticed by a woman who had the unfortunate luck to be in the “used-to-be” front. She went directly to the CM trying to make the best of a bad situation and UNLOADED on him about how unfair it was. The saddest thing is that she had her 10-12 year old daughter in tow. She kept insisting that there had to be another way...and God bless him...that CM just continued to calmly explain to her that they were doing their best to accommodate all riders as fast as they possibly could.

UGH!! Now..don’t get me wrong...it would stink to wait that long, just to now be in the back. But come on...when it all boils down, it’s a RIDE at a THEME park! Is it really worth all that?? (Don’t throw food at me...I know Disney is not just ANY theme park and Soarin’ is not just ANY attraction.) But really. If she was that upset, she could easily have gone to the CM at the FP entrance and I’m sure they would have given her FP’s to come back at another time. I really was disturbed at her behavior and that she was setting such a poor example for her daughter. There is a time and a place to complain, know what I mean?

ANY-who......we eventually got to see the always funny Patrick Warburton who kindly reminded us to stow our Mickey ears and we boarded our hang-glider. I LOVE THIS RIDE! It never gets old to me...I love the beach scene where I can almost touch my toes in the Pacific Ocean, I love the airplanes and the way they shake the glider, I love flying over Disneyland and being IN the fireworks! Such a great attraction! And well deserved after all the DRAMA!!

That accomplished we made our way to the bus stop to head back to POR for a little pool time. (I have no idea how long we were actually in that line, but my next pic at the pool at POR is time stamped at 5:21 and we headed to FW at 3:20...you can do the math!)

Once we jumped into our suits it was time to hit the pool! One of our goals on this trip was to spend more time at the resort enjoying the amenities. Last trip we had only visited the main pool one time. Such a shame...it’s a great pool! This time we were ready to just hang out and enjoy our pool time! I got something fruity and delicious from the pool bar, Jeff got a beer , and we pulled up our lounge chairs to watch the boys play!

Some pics from our late afternoon pool adventures!

Jonah doing a cannonball!

And Jeff following right behind!

Not my favorite picture, but I was too relaxed to care at that point!

Isaiah is pretty relaxed as well!

When we were all sufficiently water-logged, we headed to the room to change our clothes. We took the long way back and wandered through some parts of the resort we had not seen before. We scoped out some buildings we might like to stay in and really just enjoyed our little walk.

A pretty shot of Riverside Mill on our scenic walk back to the room.

It was about 7:00 by the time we were back at the room. We showered, watched some TV, snacked a little to hold us till dinner and changed our clothes to get ready to head back to Epcot for some more WS fun! Our plan was to go straight to Morocco to get dinner to go at Tangierine café for Jeff and I then head to the UK to get fish and chips for the boys. We were not planning to see Illuminations this night, so we hoped to find seats in the UK where we could eat before continuing our WS journey in Canada.

According to my timestamp, we arrived back at Epcot around 8:10 to this beautiful view!

Up next....our first PM EMH at Epcot!

 

[longing2Batdisney]

Wonderful update! Missy
glad ya'll were able to get on Soarin' and enjoy the pool! if it is warm enough to enjoy a pool (I know they heat them) we will certainly try! the rain kept us out this past time.
looking forward to your next installment
your shots of epcot are great!