Just back. Sorry to OKW owners for....

[spearenb]

There were a few noticible droppings on the car. It could be from it.

 

[rigsby25]

What was the one-bedroom room number? I want to avoid it like the plague. Who knows how that room smells now.

 

[Deesknee]

ha ha! you are making me laugh.... maybe the eagle will eat the patriots?

Hey no need to get personal! lol


I too am sorry to hear of your terrible trip. Glad the rooms were nice though.

We're due to go "home" in June bringing a frien (will have his own studio), hope things go better for us. We have never traveled with anyone else. I'm starting to get nervous. No other kids though. Who knows maybe he'll be talking that way about our kids. I pray not.

 

[Nanajo1]

They usually stay under our names don't they? And use our membership cards and the room key has our names on it....

At last a great reason for individual names on the room keys!

 

[MomsGoneGoofy]

We will be staying in a GV at OKW in August. Maybe I should call and add a request to my ressie "Any GV but 4922"!!!! LOL

 

[Disneyrsh]

We had my husband's sister fly down to meet us on one trip. Grown adult, mid twenties, highly educated, no kids, no significant other. My then 4 year old came down with strep throat and she started running a fever about 1 hour after we got into Universal (she wanted to try 'something else besides Disney-that should have been my first warning).

My husband said to her, we're going to run Isabel back to the hotel and see what's going on, do you want to come with us or stay at the park and we'll pick you up in a few hours? She says she'll stay at the park. We get back to the room, take Isabel over to the doc in the box where they set her up with some antibiotics (she's had it before, we knew the drill) and she's got some motrin in her and sleeping in the room, we figure in another 24 hours she won't be contagious, she'll be feeling better, and we can pick up where we left off.

I went to pick up the SIL at the park and she gets in the car and says, "I called and changed my flight, I'm going home." I looked at her, totally shocked, and said, "why?!" and she replied coolly, "It's no fun to be on vacation with a sick kid." I was steaming. I did make her take a taxi to the airport, though, I explained that we needed to stay with Isabel. Needless to say, we didn't ask the SIL on the next trip down.

One addendum to the 'where to puke' theory. I agree with the get it all out in one spot, UNLESS it's in a queue line. We stood in a bus queue for the all star around midnight a few months ago RIGHT IN FRONT of a huge pool of barf. People had to jump over it, moms had to have help getting kids out of the strollers to lift the strollers over it, etc. It was *bad*.

And the worst part was, the kid that did it was about 5 feet from a convenient set of bushes! It was so bad it actually caused a few cases of collateral retching-we were like, argh, keep it down, get on the bus!

Now back to your lunches....

 

[lenshanem]

Oh, that stinks. I'm sorry you had a bad time.

I must say though the kids getting the stomach bug and potty training woes are not really things to blame the kids or parents for. Being sick can also put you in a grumpy mood! I highly doubt they wanted their kids to be sick on vacation!

Regardless, I hope your next trip is better! Glad OKW was nice.

 

[spearenb]

Oh, that stinks. I'm sorry you had a bad time.

I must say though the kids getting the stomach bug and potty training woes are not really things to blame the kids or parents for. Being sick can also put you in a grumpy mood! I highly doubt they wanted their kids to be sick on vacation!

Regardless, I hope your next trip is better! Glad OKW was nice.

Yes, it did stink. Bad.

The stomach bug reasoning I sort of agree with. I only have assumptions of what happened to start the cycle and I can only confirm that the niece hasn't been sick since - including today.

The potty training? No way. The kid can go, I've seen him do it - in pants and in toilet, and, in fact, in some bushes at the end of the Safari ride. If the kid has problems, i.e. childhood diabetes, I will let up on him to some extent because the frequency would be much greater. I would also blame the parents more for being in denial to the fact he has a problem. But to just let him get away with it is just irresponsible and puts others in bad positions when he does it. There is no excuse for that!

 

[spearenb]

One addendum to the 'where to puke' theory. I agree with the get it all out in one spot, UNLESS it's in a queue line. We stood in a bus queue for the all star around midnight a few months ago RIGHT IN FRONT of a huge pool of barf. People had to jump over it, moms had to have help getting kids out of the strollers to lift the strollers over it, etc. It was *bad*.

And the worst part was, the kid that did it was about 5 feet from a convenient set of bushes! It was so bad it actually caused a few cases of collateral retching-we were like, argh, keep it down, get on the bus!

If it is that convenient, go for the bushes!

Another puke story or two

When my DD was 2 we were eating at a packed TGIF at Cedar Point. DD starts puking at the table before we ordered (but we had our drinks). My wife starts telling me to get her to the bathroom but I put up a menu to hide her as much as possible from other customers. After we were sure she was finished, I took her to the room while my wife stayed to pay the bill. I thought it was the right idea to stay in one place. Later, I asked my wife how much the bill was and she said it was a few dollars. I asked her how much of a tip did she put down. She thought for a few seconds and realized she had forgotten to put one down.

I reminded her the first time my son got sick in an Applebees to leave a tip. I've never seen that look on her face before...