If I'm in Florida, it's gonna be hot! This time last year.....

[TEminnie]

YES! this is the Dumbo trip!

As a matter of fact........I got a personal message when she returned stating that she had gotten to ride Dumbo!

So I feel REALLY special!! (you DID PM only me, right???)

 

[sorul82?]

We still had 1 TS and a few CS cedits left, so we went to Artist Palette for some yummy pizzas then we joined DH at whatever the TS place is at SSR. He just had a burger, onion rings, and cheesecake. Ahh the last days of the DDP with the tip and app included. I miss that! Anyhow, since I was not eating, I could use my senses to people watch and spyed an interesting group at the next table. It was quite a collection of Disney higher ups; a New Year's Day gathering of sorts. Now if these Loud Children would stop talking, I could eaves drop in peace. I didn't get every word, but I did hear lots of important stuff....like:

"well, we sure have sold lots of these new plans"
"that one is dumb, what do you get, a bottle of wine?"
and then it got juicy

"so what are they saying on the DIS?"

Huh? Come again?

quiet down kids, mama needs to be rude.

"yeah, those DISers really get bent out of shape"
"one will post about abusing the free refills then there will be 10 pages of people defending saying we are going to remove the free refills"

lots of laughter followed by

"like that will even happen"

Then just random crap about menus and something they ate somewhere. Blah blah blah.

I wanted, soooooo bad, to toss a LGMH on their table and give them an earful....straight from the mouth of Slate....about this new plan of theirs....and my thoughts on Disney getting too big for their britches....and lack of AP discounts....and this fooling with the DDP was going to bite them in the butt.....but I didn't. I remained calm (on the outside). But my thoughts on the many changes for 2008 are for another thread. For this is about happy thoughts.

Afterwards, we went to the pool to let the Loud Children have one last swim. I could feel the winds of change blowing; a cold front was coming; coming just as we were leaving. But for now, it was still 80 degrees. I pleaded with DH to go to a water park, just for a few hours, but he was having none of it. Big Meanie! He remained strong, and good thing. I think I drug my feet as long as I could and at 3:02 give or take, we were in the van, heading North....or whatever direction got us out of SSR.

I4 was quite dead....really dead....skeeery dead. Take a look at my siggie. One would think that a proper sports fan such as myself, would have every bowl locale and time committed to memory, right? Nope, my team was out, I could've cared less. Little did I know, that just over the trees, errr, tall buildings, there was a little game going on.....sorry V, it was a big 'un and we just barely escaped town before the end of the game. SCORE many many points for DH for being a big meanie. If you recall, I had to pick up my mom in about 14 hours for her surgery. An hour later and we would have been stuck in the mother of all traffic jams, and I would have been angry. I love my DH, he is very wise!

With little sleep the night before, I was able to easily fall asleep. I awoke, more like jolted by pokes of the devils pitchfork as we crossed the state line into Georgia. Goodbye Florida. And in those 3 hours, the temp had dropped 40 degrees, count em 40 degrees. Dag blast it! We stopped at McDonalds for supper and met a family from NY who just left WDW as well. They did not have fun because it was crowded. Well, duh, did you do any research? One isn't enough

Not much more exciting. My moms surgery went well, but her recovery was slow. She is doing fine now!

Well, that's it, I completed a TR. I have set the bar pretty high now.

 

[rachel3]

saving my place for later!!!

 

[sorul82?]

saving my place for later!!!

But, but, you're at the end.

 

[TEminnie]

Yeah! you finished it!!!!

Glad you got your swim in too.......If memory serves me..........you took the nice weather with you and left Dawn with REALLY COLD weather that them Texans just can't deal with! (but by gosh.....they'll be first getting on the bus!)

,,,,and then I went on 1/31.........sigh.......wish I were going this year............

 

[sorul82?]

Yeah! you finished it!!!!

Glad you got your swim in too.......If memory serves me..........you took the nice weather with you and left Dawn with REALLY COLD weather that them Texans just can't deal with! (but by gosh.....they'll be first getting on the bus!)

,,,,and then I went on 1/31.........sigh.......wish I were going this year............

I didn't swim. I sat in a lounge chair and sulked about having to leave and not going to a water park. More like I was too tired to move.

We have no plans in the near future either.

 

[cmp1111]

Well, that's it, I completed a TR. I have set the bar pretty high now.

Dear god, you finished???? WTH???

Thanks, S'late. I loved every minute of it, even if we're staring at a year later...

You're fantastic, and I can't wait to see the end of the next two or three...

 

[jcc0621]

Great ending Slate, although I can't believe you didn't throw a lgmh at those guys

 

[KatGarcia]

Holy Crow u finished!!! nice job!

I so would have dropped a LGMH on their table!!!!!

 

[Lauralee131]

Again, details are fuzzy and not important, but somewhere in the MK we took yet another potty break. Our highs from Dumbo had faded and we were pretty much zombified. We entered what i thought would be a routine bathroom trip, me going quickly (goes back to frat house parties where the lines are so long you do you best to get in and get out before there's an accident in the hallway) while DD moves slower than slow. So, I'm pretty zoned out, mid stream (tmi) and I hear the blood curdling scream of all blood curdling screams coming from several stalls away. That scream belonging to my baby, tworse than that of her being stung in the forehead by a wasp. As any mom would do, I tore out of the stall, pulling up pants as I run.......was my child being abducted? Did she fall asleep and fall off the toilet and hit her head? What is wrong with my baby girl?


Shall I leave you hanging?

Ok, that was just mean!!

Glad it turned out to be just TP drama though!

And OMG - I remember you telling us about that conversation you overheard!! Has it really been that long since the trip? I agree with everyone else -you should have flipped a LGMH onto their table!!

Holy carp...S'late finished a TR!!

You're inspiring me to actually start mine now!!

Thanks for sharing another Loud Family trip with us S'late...it was awesome as usual!!

 

[DisneyJo]

Ahhh bless DD with the toilet, why do your toilets flush by themselves and often whilst I'm sitting on them

I can remember that conversation too but now I'm one of them I'll still be a LGMH sporting DISer though

 

[puggymom]

OMG, the strangest thing happened, you know the New Year's Twilight Zone marathon on SCIFI, well I think I found a new episode, it was about s'late finishing a trip report

 

[sorul82?]

OMG, the strangest thing happened, you know the New Year's Twilight Zone marathon on SCIFI, well I think I found a new episode, it was about s'late finishing a trip report

You so funny!

 

[sorul82?]

Dear god, you finished???? WTH???

Thanks, S'late. I loved every minute of it, even if we're staring at a year later...

You're fantastic, and I can't wait to see the end of the next two or three...

I have one more that's not complete and 3 trips that I haven't written about....actually 4.

Holy Crow u finished!!! nice job!

I so would have dropped a LGMH on their table!!!!!

I was soooo tempted.

Ok, that was just mean!!

Glad it turned out to be just TP drama though!

And OMG - I remember you telling us about that conversation you overheard!! Has it really been that long since the trip? I agree with everyone else -you should have flipped a LGMH onto their table!!

Holy carp...S'late finished a TR!!

You're inspiring me to actually start mine now!!

Thanks for sharing another Loud Family trip with us S'late...it was awesome as usual!!

Thank you!!

Ahhh bless DD with the toilet, why do your toilets flush by themselves and often whilst I'm sitting on them

I can remember that conversation too but now I'm one of them I'll still be a LGMH sporting DISer though

Yep, you are one of "them" now. Are you even allowed to talk to us? JK!!

Believe me, if this was happening today and not a year ago, I would be giving someone an earful about basic economics and the fact that the only thing that is perfectly inelastic is an appendectomy. Disney has made some many changes over the past year: some just smart business, some dumb changes, and some for just plain greed. Don't get me wrong, I still love the place; I just can't go as often.

 

[boysmom5150]

YEAH you finished!!!
Im so glad the potty problems DD was having was just those annoying flushing toilets. The poor thing I think we all can feel her pain and frustration .
However it does make a great wedding story
Glad the weather held up for you guys to swim and way to go to DH for getting you all out of there before the traffic.
BTW I try to avoid confrontation if I can always but especially infront of the kiddos BUT i would have tossed a LGMH at them kids there and all
SO happy to hear you mom is doing well