Honey, I Shrunk the Checkbook, Really final, some Feb shots, 7-27, pg82.
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and I'll NEVER again do a survey on nebo (yeah right, I'll never promise anything!
) but thanks for all your votes for the bruce willis look!!!
why do men not realize that bald is VERY sexy!!!!??
Jaimiee, nebo has to drive me to work tomorrow night BEFORE he digs out your car!!!!! then you BOTH can come pick me up..... SNOW!!!!
and I'll NEVER again do a survey on nebo (yeah right, I'll never promise anything!
) but thanks for all your votes for the bruce willis look!!! why do men not realize that bald is VERY sexy!!!!?? Jaimiee, nebo has to drive me to work tomorrow night BEFORE he digs out your car!!!!! then you BOTH can come pick me up..... SNOW!!!!
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Hi, we're going to get right to this tonight, call-outs tomorrow.
When we last left this dysfunctional group, us and out new good friends were getting ready to head on back to MGM, sorry, DHS for the evening.
John had suggested that since out room was closer to the bus stop, we ought to meet there, and so they did.
Clever, that John, isn't he?
Cost me 3 ice cold beers out of the cooler.
Jill then handed all of us these flashing necklaces for us all to put on, turned out to be a great way to find each other.
On the bus we all sat near the back door, all of us except John. He sat up front by himself, but soon had an audience of kids and old ladies alike, regaling them with legendary stories of his management duties at work.
I think he even led a few sing a longs too.
John LIKES beer.
In the park, since I still had a couple of fastpasses left over for TOT, Kim said she'd guide me through it and ride with me. Diane and Jill went to wait at the smoking section,,,
John went in search of Beer.
Kim by the way was magnificent! She skillfully guided me through the pitch black lines into a pitch black seat without even once ramming me into a post or wall like someone else we know likes to do occasionally.
She makes a great guide dog.
Only better looking.
WHEW!
( Just keep digging, Just keep digging)
As we waited in line, I then regaled her in the story of my incredible act of amazing skill and dexterity that time I caught that guy's room key card in midair, in the middle of the drop. Hey, you guys want to hear about it again? You see it's like this, I was sitting by,,,,,oh, ok, never mind, I can't even remember what trip report that was in.
The computer is scaring me right now, running really slow, anything but blazing fast.
More like blazing saddles.
We joined back up, and John still hadn't found a beer yet.
John was morose.
They hadn't done the Ok Movie Ride yet, so since there was nothing Diane and I really wanted to do, we joined them.
Again.
And it was a half hour wait.
You know, that is one job I could never do there, be the host of the "train".
I'd just feel too stupid.
When they have to throw off the cloak and run down to the train in the Indy Jones set, I would probably have to add to the line; "It's me everybody, now please, just shoot me!"
This was one of those times when you walk out and you're surprised to find it's now gotten dark out, like "What Happened?"
And John was now on a vendetta to find beer. As we all headed over to the smoking area by The Brown Derby, he went over to a trailer nearby that sold beer. I thought of joining him, at least until I saw the line.
Evidently, vendettas were cheap that day, everybody wanted a beer.
15 minutes later, it was nearing time to go see Fantasmic, and John had moved up all of two spaces in line, so we all left the area.
This was absolutely the most crowded I have ever seen this park, and the first time we have been there when they show a double feature of Fantasmic.
We have all read that the second show is the one to see, less crowded.
Could have fooled me!
At least for the first show you can go in and get your seats, then decide how you want to kill the time waiting. For the second show, THEY tell you how you're going to kill the time.
You are going to stand in line.
As we were all grumbling standing halfway up the walkway, I tried to console a still beerless John with an airplane bottle from my pocket, but, no, he's just a beer drinker.
I was even dissapointed at the end with "The running of the bulls" escape from it, but the park was so crowded yet that it was more of a "sneaking of the snails", escape.
When we could breathe again I finally got the camera out on the way over to see the Osbourne Lights. Here is our motley crew, Di, Jill, John and Kim.
Ok, my bad. I THOUGHT I had taken one a bit earlier when it was still light out.
Once we got near the backscenes for the Lights, they were only letting in groups at a time, it was that crowded.
We only waited about 5 minutes, but I was totally and completely blown away.
I was again, Aghast, agape, and,,,, well, you know.
And I started clicking away immediately, not having any idea if the shots were turning out. I'm just going to string them all together now.
That should give you an idea of what they look like. Just Amazing.
I mentioned to Jill that I can't believe they came from a guy in Black Sabbath's house, but she just gave me a funny look.
What was also funny was the necklaces we wore to help find each other.
First of all, it was packed on those "streets", secondly, you get in "awestruck" mode, and the next thing you know, you're all by yourself just wandering and staring.
And thirdly, um, how well do you think a flashing necklace would have stood out in that environment?
Somehow, we did meet up again, it was almost 10:30 and we told them that we're heading on back to the resort. They were going to stay a bit longer, something about John finding a beer.
heh
And then it happened.
Trust me, this was not pretty.
I had mentioned in the last chapter that it was very important to notice the arrangement of the bus stops, and it came into play tonight.
Normally, the All Stars resorts have great bus service, second only to Coronado.
Hoo boy, "Your Honor, can I have that sentence back?"
Again, the sign says "All Stars" number two, makes you think that they are right up front, doesn't it?
Au' contraire!
It was like they started their numbering from the back of the parking lot and then worked forward. Numbers 1,2,3 were all by themselves off on a different path.
Earlier in the day when we left the first time, I noticed that 1 was Epcot, 2 was All Stars, and 3 was blank.
Never, in all my trips to the parks and then the bus stops, did I ever see the mob scene that awaited us there. Believe me, we have always used the bus system, part of the Disney on site experience and it wasn't until recently that I started actually driving some of the time to the parks.
But we have never seen anything like this.
The extensive lines were all filled, with approximately another 150 people in a "no mans land" area, in a pack near the back of the line.
And these folks were mighty cranky by now.
A bus pulled up and some from the back just headed for the doors. I really expected a riot to break out, there was no point in getting in line, since there wasn't one.
As I stood there wondering what to do, I saw a bus heading for us, and I knew.
I didn't care if it was an All Star bus or not, I grabbed Smidgy and went over to number 1 where 3 people were in line.
"Guess what honey?" "We're going to Epcot!"
Sure enough, it was an Epcot bus, and I hoped nobody saw us get out of the mob and head over there. To be honest, I wasn't sure if this was a good idea or not, Illuminations was over now, and that can get to be super crowded over there too after the show.
But I didn't care, all I knew was we had to get out of THERE!
Amazingly, only about 15 of us got on that bus, and NONE of us wanted to go to Epcot!
One guy yelled out "Hey, how bout we all pitch in 2 bucks for the bus driver so she can take us right to All Stars?"
By the way, our bus driver was scared to death.
She had seen the mob scene, and didn't know what to do.
But she knew she had to go to Epcot, and she also heard that guy and was on the verge of tears. She yelled over her shoulder " I have to go to Epcot, there's no choice in the matter!"
At first I was with that guy, everybody started chanting "All Stars, All Stars", but when I heard the crack in her voice, suddenly I felt like "Mr. Christian."
And I could tell she was afraid of a mutiny.
Or a bus-jacking.
Disney totally dropped the ball on this one, they knew it was going to be crowded enough to schedule 2 Fantasmic shows plus the Osbourne Lights, but didn't have the busses for the people. When we got to Epcot, we ran back to our bus stop over there.
Ten minutes later we were on the road and heading home. At least when we got back there wasn't any Pop Warner punks to deal with, but I wondered about what happened when John and Jill and Kim left.
Turns out they were about 45 minutes behind us, and only waited around 15 minutes or so. Apparently, Disney sent out the re-inforcements.
Besides the incredible Ozzie Lights, there was a happy ending to this story tonight.
John did eventually get his beer!
When we last left this dysfunctional group, us and out new good friends were getting ready to head on back to MGM, sorry, DHS for the evening.
John had suggested that since out room was closer to the bus stop, we ought to meet there, and so they did.
Clever, that John, isn't he?
Cost me 3 ice cold beers out of the cooler.
Jill then handed all of us these flashing necklaces for us all to put on, turned out to be a great way to find each other.
On the bus we all sat near the back door, all of us except John. He sat up front by himself, but soon had an audience of kids and old ladies alike, regaling them with legendary stories of his management duties at work.
I think he even led a few sing a longs too.
John LIKES beer.
In the park, since I still had a couple of fastpasses left over for TOT, Kim said she'd guide me through it and ride with me. Diane and Jill went to wait at the smoking section,,,
John went in search of Beer.
Kim by the way was magnificent! She skillfully guided me through the pitch black lines into a pitch black seat without even once ramming me into a post or wall like someone else we know likes to do occasionally.
She makes a great guide dog.
Only better looking.
WHEW!
( Just keep digging, Just keep digging)
As we waited in line, I then regaled her in the story of my incredible act of amazing skill and dexterity that time I caught that guy's room key card in midair, in the middle of the drop. Hey, you guys want to hear about it again? You see it's like this, I was sitting by,,,,,oh, ok, never mind, I can't even remember what trip report that was in.
The computer is scaring me right now, running really slow, anything but blazing fast.
More like blazing saddles.
We joined back up, and John still hadn't found a beer yet.
John was morose.
They hadn't done the Ok Movie Ride yet, so since there was nothing Diane and I really wanted to do, we joined them.
Again.
And it was a half hour wait.
You know, that is one job I could never do there, be the host of the "train".
I'd just feel too stupid.
When they have to throw off the cloak and run down to the train in the Indy Jones set, I would probably have to add to the line; "It's me everybody, now please, just shoot me!"
This was one of those times when you walk out and you're surprised to find it's now gotten dark out, like "What Happened?"
And John was now on a vendetta to find beer. As we all headed over to the smoking area by The Brown Derby, he went over to a trailer nearby that sold beer. I thought of joining him, at least until I saw the line.
Evidently, vendettas were cheap that day, everybody wanted a beer.
15 minutes later, it was nearing time to go see Fantasmic, and John had moved up all of two spaces in line, so we all left the area.
This was absolutely the most crowded I have ever seen this park, and the first time we have been there when they show a double feature of Fantasmic.
We have all read that the second show is the one to see, less crowded.
Could have fooled me!
At least for the first show you can go in and get your seats, then decide how you want to kill the time waiting. For the second show, THEY tell you how you're going to kill the time.
You are going to stand in line.
As we were all grumbling standing halfway up the walkway, I tried to console a still beerless John with an airplane bottle from my pocket, but, no, he's just a beer drinker.
I was even dissapointed at the end with "The running of the bulls" escape from it, but the park was so crowded yet that it was more of a "sneaking of the snails", escape.
When we could breathe again I finally got the camera out on the way over to see the Osbourne Lights. Here is our motley crew, Di, Jill, John and Kim.
Ok, my bad. I THOUGHT I had taken one a bit earlier when it was still light out.
Once we got near the backscenes for the Lights, they were only letting in groups at a time, it was that crowded.
We only waited about 5 minutes, but I was totally and completely blown away.
I was again, Aghast, agape, and,,,, well, you know.
And I started clicking away immediately, not having any idea if the shots were turning out. I'm just going to string them all together now.
That should give you an idea of what they look like. Just Amazing.
I mentioned to Jill that I can't believe they came from a guy in Black Sabbath's house, but she just gave me a funny look.
What was also funny was the necklaces we wore to help find each other.
First of all, it was packed on those "streets", secondly, you get in "awestruck" mode, and the next thing you know, you're all by yourself just wandering and staring.
And thirdly, um, how well do you think a flashing necklace would have stood out in that environment?
Somehow, we did meet up again, it was almost 10:30 and we told them that we're heading on back to the resort. They were going to stay a bit longer, something about John finding a beer.
heh
And then it happened.
Trust me, this was not pretty.
I had mentioned in the last chapter that it was very important to notice the arrangement of the bus stops, and it came into play tonight.
Normally, the All Stars resorts have great bus service, second only to Coronado.
Hoo boy, "Your Honor, can I have that sentence back?"
Again, the sign says "All Stars" number two, makes you think that they are right up front, doesn't it?
Au' contraire!
It was like they started their numbering from the back of the parking lot and then worked forward. Numbers 1,2,3 were all by themselves off on a different path.
Earlier in the day when we left the first time, I noticed that 1 was Epcot, 2 was All Stars, and 3 was blank.
Never, in all my trips to the parks and then the bus stops, did I ever see the mob scene that awaited us there. Believe me, we have always used the bus system, part of the Disney on site experience and it wasn't until recently that I started actually driving some of the time to the parks.
But we have never seen anything like this.
The extensive lines were all filled, with approximately another 150 people in a "no mans land" area, in a pack near the back of the line.
And these folks were mighty cranky by now.
A bus pulled up and some from the back just headed for the doors. I really expected a riot to break out, there was no point in getting in line, since there wasn't one.
As I stood there wondering what to do, I saw a bus heading for us, and I knew.
I didn't care if it was an All Star bus or not, I grabbed Smidgy and went over to number 1 where 3 people were in line.
"Guess what honey?" "We're going to Epcot!"
Sure enough, it was an Epcot bus, and I hoped nobody saw us get out of the mob and head over there. To be honest, I wasn't sure if this was a good idea or not, Illuminations was over now, and that can get to be super crowded over there too after the show.
But I didn't care, all I knew was we had to get out of THERE!
Amazingly, only about 15 of us got on that bus, and NONE of us wanted to go to Epcot!
One guy yelled out "Hey, how bout we all pitch in 2 bucks for the bus driver so she can take us right to All Stars?"
By the way, our bus driver was scared to death.
She had seen the mob scene, and didn't know what to do.
But she knew she had to go to Epcot, and she also heard that guy and was on the verge of tears. She yelled over her shoulder " I have to go to Epcot, there's no choice in the matter!"
At first I was with that guy, everybody started chanting "All Stars, All Stars", but when I heard the crack in her voice, suddenly I felt like "Mr. Christian."
And I could tell she was afraid of a mutiny.
Or a bus-jacking.
Disney totally dropped the ball on this one, they knew it was going to be crowded enough to schedule 2 Fantasmic shows plus the Osbourne Lights, but didn't have the busses for the people. When we got to Epcot, we ran back to our bus stop over there.
Ten minutes later we were on the road and heading home. At least when we got back there wasn't any Pop Warner punks to deal with, but I wondered about what happened when John and Jill and Kim left.
Turns out they were about 45 minutes behind us, and only waited around 15 minutes or so. Apparently, Disney sent out the re-inforcements.
Besides the incredible Ozzie Lights, there was a happy ending to this story tonight.
John did eventually get his beer!
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Wow, am I first to post? Everyone else must have a life.
Anyways, interesting take on the 2nd show. I have never been there when 2 shows were offered so I wouldn't have thought of that drawback to the 2nd show.
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Good job sharing Nebo
Good idea
WHo might you be speaking of
Need a hand
So
unds like a good planOne guy yelled out "Hey, how bout we all pitch in 2 bucks for the bus driver so she can take us right to All Stars?"
John did eventually get his beer!
ANother great update Nebo. I have only seen the Osbourne lights once. I was pregnant and so tired I couldn't really enjoy them. I definitely want to go back to see them!
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Wow, only three of us have found this tonight so far? Everyone must be hiding Easter eggs and sneaking chocolate early!
The Osborne lights look amazing; don't know if we'll be seeing them or not now. Our trip may turn into a trip to Calif. when my aunt moves there, and that means Disneyland isntead, I just don't know when this year.
That poor bus driver, so glad it didn't turn into a re-make of Speed!
The Osborne lights look amazing; don't know if we'll be seeing them or not now. Our trip may turn into a trip to Calif. when my aunt moves there, and that means Disneyland isntead, I just don't know when this year.That poor bus driver, so glad it didn't turn into a re-make of Speed!
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Great Update, Nebo!!!
Aren't Ozzie's lights pretty????
We missed them this past trip, but they were amazing when we saw them (and that was before they had Rythm
) It was mobbed then too...the most crowded i had EVER seen WDW, even though the rest of the trip seemed like the crowds were very light.
Aren't Ozzie's lights pretty????
We missed them this past trip, but they were amazing when we saw them (and that was before they had Rythm
) It was mobbed then too...the most crowded i had EVER seen WDW, even though the rest of the trip seemed like the crowds were very light.
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Enjoying your periodic reporting. Glad your daughter in law is doing better.
I'll be at DS the first nite they turn on the Osborn Lights, Nov. 13. And I read they only do it for an hour. We want to see the lights then high tale it over to Fantasmic, do you think we will make it?
Oh, we are road trippers too. I like getting off of 65 out of Indy and going over to Cincinnati and catching 75 and going down. Do you know what is even better, go over more to the East and go through and down West Virginia. Those mountain roads are wicked, especially the one that leaves Charleston.
The worst route to take is down the middle of IL, OMG, I think it ends just north of TN Nashville, our kids almost went anarchy on us.
I'll be at DS the first nite they turn on the Osborn Lights, Nov. 13. And I read they only do it for an hour. We want to see the lights then high tale it over to Fantasmic, do you think we will make it?
Oh, we are road trippers too. I like getting off of 65 out of Indy and going over to Cincinnati and catching 75 and going down. Do you know what is even better, go over more to the East and go through and down West Virginia. Those mountain roads are wicked, especially the one that leaves Charleston.
The worst route to take is down the middle of IL, OMG, I think it ends just north of TN Nashville, our kids almost went anarchy on us.
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I don't think it was that Osborne. He was the prince of darkness remember??
3 beers>2 lighted necklaces.
I think they owe you.
Go Green!!!!!
3 beers>2 lighted necklaces.
I think they owe you.
Go Green!!!!!
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Happy Easter everybody!!
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Note to self: Find out where beer is sold at the studios in advance.
Sounds like a fun but CROWDED night. Was it EMH?
The Ozzie lights look awesome! I HAVE to see that one of these days!
RE: the OK Movie Ride...I feel the same. Can do without it. Same goes for Fantasmic.
HAPPY EASTER TO THE NEBO FAMILY!
Sounds like a fun but CROWDED night. Was it EMH?
The Ozzie lights look awesome! I HAVE to see that one of these days!
RE: the OK Movie Ride...I feel the same. Can do without it. Same goes for Fantasmic.
HAPPY EASTER TO THE NEBO FAMILY!
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Another great update, Nebo!
Amazingly, I HAVE seen the Osbourne lights (i know, you are fainting right now, sorry), but it was many years ago, and they have added a lot since then. Great pictures!
Never have seen Fantasmic, but not for lack of trying (sniff). A couple of years ago we booked the dinner package, went out there, had dinner, and just before the show, it was cancelled because a tropical storm (just short of a hurricane) was moving threw.
Amazingly, I HAVE seen the Osbourne lights (i know, you are fainting right now, sorry), but it was many years ago, and they have added a lot since then. Great pictures!
Never have seen Fantasmic, but not for lack of trying (sniff). A couple of years ago we booked the dinner package, went out there, had dinner, and just before the show, it was cancelled because a tropical storm (just short of a hurricane) was moving threw.
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Nebo, sorry to hijack your thread... But, OhMari, has the 13th been announced as the start of the Osbourne lights? I think that the first MVMCP is the 10th and my sister was hoping that the lights would be starting on the 10th also since my trip with her and her kids ends on the 11th.
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And what happened then? Well, in Disney they say that Nebo's heart grew three sizes that day. And then the true meaning of Christmas came through, and Nebo found the strength of ten Nebos plus two!!
Very uncomfortable situation to be in. Things are not supposed to get weird at Disney But it's all good
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That's so cute, but the Grinch is at Universal...
Did you and Smidgy see Universal over Christmas at all??? The new Grinch stage show is really really cute~
Great episode, as usual...
Your stories are a nice way for me to end a long day of studying
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