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[punkin413]

i have no flippin idea.

 

[glennbo123]

Hi Liesa! I finally made it over...my brain hurts from your last clue. I have no idea!

 

[winkers]

ummmmm....nope, no idea.

 

[pipersmom]

Either you guys are thinking too hard about this one, or I'm going to be really proud of myself if I actually got it!

 

[reelmom]

I have absolutely no idea.

 

[eandesmom]

Ok I'm going to go with my original thought since you haven't announced it yet but after the last clue it doesn't feel right!

Biergarten

 

[All7OfUs]

I’m back- finally, after a horrible night’s sleep. My allergies kept me awake most of the night, and when I was sleeping my rest was riddled with macabre and terrifying nightmares. Let me give you some background information before I give you some of the details. Most people travel by train around here. It is affordable, safe, (10 years ago they would pump sleeping gas under your doors, then break in and rob you blind.) and mostly on time. That is one of the perks of living in an ex –Soviet Union country; they really pride themselves on their on-time train schedule. So, I was doing well, after I was finally able to get back to sleep after my full-on snot-a-thon, but then I have this bizarre dream.

For some reason I was travelling by train with 4 of my kids, and was going to somewhere to get married? If that’s not weird enough, I felt compelled to buy some pants for all of us. In our trains they allow all kinds of peddlers to board for a short time (like one or two stops) to sell all kinds of stuff: food, clothes, amulets for the evil eye, and toys and magazines. I thought I needed some pants, but after I bought them they ended up being these Thai-style pants that are wrap around, tie-at-the-waist jobbies. By the way, don’t EVER wear these. One time I was wearing a pair I have at church (which is really like a small gathering in someone’s living room) and by golly, if the tie didn’t get stuck in the couch crack. I stood up and those darn things just came right OFF in front of like 10 people!! They had quite a peep show of pasty white butt with my skivvies in all their glory. OK, now where was I? Oh yeah! I bought a pair of pants like these, but that was not the worst of it. They ended up being made of some weird sort of see-through fabric- not very becoming AT ALL!

So, it was finally time to get off the train, and my oldest daughter gets off with me, and we go to try to find a taxi. Please, don’t ask me why I didn’t take all my kids off the train with me? This is a dream; odd things happen in dreams. I come back to the train, and holy crap! It’s leaving!! I scream and the conductor stops it, but doesn’t understand me, and waves it on again. I can see my crying kids in the window, and I do this funky hand motion/charades to tell them I’ll pick them up at the next stop (hours away).
I won’t bore you with more except to say, it all turned out ok in the end. A co-worker drives me to the next stop, we get the kids, blah, blah, blah, but not before some other kooky stuff happens like my oldest son racing down the track after the train Superman style and diving onto the train to be with the kids (he wasn’t anywhere in the dream up til now), parading through the town with my see-through, Thai pants on, and doing a rehearsal for my wedding with my mom.

Now that I have all that off my chest, I can get back to the task at hand- revealing Rations Drop Clue #2. Honestly, I thought this was a very easy clue, and I’m surprised only 4 of you got it right!!

Get your Little Teapots on, and sing-along:

I’m a tasty restaurant
Full of benches,
Here are my horns
And here are my wenches

When you eat at me
These guys you’ll hear,
Dance the polka
And drink some beir!!!

Besides Mickey’s Backyard BBQ, this is the only place on property that you sit on benches. Did you guys see my auxiliary clue?? Maybe you missed that!

So, congratulations to Piper’smom, that’snice, SleepingBooty, and Rosie!! Yay!!!! OOPS, I see Cynthia just squeaked in with the right answer, too!!

Next clue will be easier I promise it will be soon!

 

[eandesmom]

I SWEAR we sat on chairs. I KNOW we sat on chairs!

I would have remembered benches!

here is my horrible low light picture.

And may I just say...you MUST have the bavarian cheesecake. Get the raspberry saucy stuff and pour it on top of the cheesecake.

OMflippinG

YIKES on the dream. That can mess you your whole day!

 

[All7OfUs]

OK, then my memory must be having Alheimers Issues. I read on someone's TR that they sat on benches. Seriously, I'll give everyone a point if I'm wrong- which is highly possible, as I've never been here, and my brain cells are in limited supply these days.

Help me out here!

By the way, THANKS! for adding the pix!! I wanted to add a photo for every line, but the person whose TR I was wanting to use didn't have a TOC, and I don't have time to sit and look at the whole thing trying to find them. I already lost my work once this morning, and would have had that update up at 10:00, but after I had the whole thing typed, (1/2 hour of work) my power went off. How typical!

 

[eandesmom]

OK, then my memory must be having Alheimers Issues. I read on someone's TR that they sat on benches. Seriously, I'll give everyone a point if I'm wrong- which is highly possible, as I've never been here, and my brain cells are in limited supply these days.

Help me out here!

It could be, in the lower part of the restaurant, I don't know! I just know we were on chairs.

 

[glennbo123]

Here's a shot from my TR showing the seating used at Biergarten. Don't worry about it Liesa....I probably wouldn't have gotten it even knowing it should have been chairs instead of benches.

By the way, how are people posting their answers without showing their answers?

 

[glennbo123]

OK, then my memory must be having Alheimers Issues. I read on someone's TR that they sat on benches. Seriously, I'll give everyone a point if I'm wrong- which is highly possible, as I've never been here, and my brain cells are in limited supply these days.

Help me out here!

Here's a link to the Biergarten installment of my TR, if you'd like to read-up on the treat you're in for!

Oh, and in response to your earlier post...thanks for the info. on those pants....I'm making a note: no Thai-style pants that are wrap around, tie-at-the-waist jobbies. Got it.

 

[All7OfUs]

OK, major mess up!! I"m really sorry, and will do better next time!! But glennbo, that's a great photo, and makes me seriously more excited to eat here!!

Glennbo, they are highlighting their answer and choosing white color, so you can't see it. To view it you just highlight it- so if you want to, you can even see everyone's answers. We jsut work on the honor system

Cynthia, I am so getting that cheesecake!!! I don't like Black Forest Cake at all, (I've heard they took it out anyway), but this sounds heavenly!! I love kraut, sausages, pototoes, yum!!!!!

 

[All7OfUs]

Parting ways with sweet and gentle Minnie Moo and Co., we made our way back to the home on wheels. Supper was ready, which brings me to another general memory of the trip I feel compelled to share--- the subject of eating. In one word, it was weird.

My parents are foodies. They love to eat; well and often. We do too, but being that we were poor tightwads, we just couldn’t afford to do that, causing a strange and uncomfortable dilemma for all involved. On the one hand, I could tell they wanted to eat more often at restaurants along the way, but for some inexplicable reason, Mom had some phobic-like aversion to cooking in the RV. Ummmm, hello, Mom, this thing has a dishwasher and more counter space than your average urban home. This was just so odd to me! It was as if when they wanted to eat out, and did, they resented the cost of their choice; yet when they chose to eat in, they resented the cooking and cleaning associated with it. I know that the trip itself was costing about 5 camels and 3 sheep in gas alone, so it seemed prudent to me to just cook in the place provided. I distinctly remember one heated disagreement over this issue at the 30th Burger King we stopped at. Wasn’t a tuna sandwich and chips good enough?!

Anyway, I just couldn’t afford back then to eat in the parks, so each day we ate dinners back at the ranch, but tried to either pack lunches, or pick up a CS wherever we were. Funny, this same issue reared its ugly head during our 2008 trip too. Some things never change.

Meanwhile, back at the Ranch, with another tension-filled meal out of the way, it was time to find the pool! By the time we arrived at the Meadows Pool, by way of trusty WDW Transportation Diesel Stagecoach, it must have been 8 or 9. The swimming hole was completely abandoned, and I remember thinking that even if the pool was closed, we were still going swimming. Call me Jesse James if you want, but we had arrived, I was hijacking that pool! So what if it was 50, we were goin’ in! I can tell you now, it lasted approximately 3. 58 minutes. Shivering, we tucked our tails and returned to our pad. But not without some excitement! Saddle up your diapers, ‘cuz the Goobers just got their first glance at… wait for it….










AN ARMADILLO!!!

Stop it! Stop laughing right now! You’re all thinking “so what- it’s an armadillo!” OK, so I don’t think seeing camels or yurts, or eating boiled sheep’s heads is all that exciting anymore, but you might. You might even leak a little to see the dromedaries standing in the bus stops! When I tell you that we got pretty excited over an armadillo, I really mean it. There you have it, another confession. We liked the armadillos at the Fort. We thought the little bunnies, lizards, wild turkeys and cranes we cool too! Maroo, wanna go for an armadillo hunt one night? It’d be like a Snipe Hunt, but even more fun! You can see Spectro anytime; armadillos you cannot.

All swum out, after our 3.58 minutes, and armadillo excitement behind us, it was time for bed. DH got himself all snuggled down in his little hovel under the motor home, and the rest of us tucked in wherever we could find room inside. Yup, you read that right; he brought a sleeping bag, rolled it our under the RV and slept right there. He knew it’d be crowded on the inside, but I guess he was worried it might rain in the night. Whatever…

That night I fell asleep to the sound of the ferries and launches blowing their merry horns on the 7 Seas Lagoon, eager to know what tomorrow would hold when our little posse crossed over to the Land of Magical Adventures.

 

[pipersmom]

Call me odd, but I'd much rather have a tuna sandwich than BK any day, lol. I completely understand the budget thing, we go out to eat once a month, and when we do, we make a major production about it, I think it makes it more fun! I would have been all excited about seeing an armadillo as well..I can still remember the first time I saw one and had I not had a young, unstretched 16 yo bladder, I prob would have leaked a bit too. So funny your hubby sleeping in a sleeping bag under the RV! I'd rather be cramped I think than worrying about the snakes coming under there at night to warm up!

 

[that's nice]

DH got himself all snuggled down in his little hovel under the motor home, and the rest of us tucked in wherever we could find room inside. Yup, you read that right; he brought a sleeping bag, rolled it our under the RV and slept right there. He knew it’d be crowded on the inside, but I guess he was worried it might rain in the night. Whatever…

LOLOL That is great. Are you sure he stayed under there all night? Maybe he had a room at the GF.

BTW I would still like my points for guessing correctly!

 

[All7OfUs]

Call me odd, but I'd much rather have a tuna sandwich than BK any day, lol. I completely understand the budget thing, we go out to eat once a month, and when we do, we make a major production about it, I think it makes it more fun! I would have been all excited about seeing an armadillo as well..I can still remember the first time I saw one and had I not had a young, unstretched 16 yo bladder, I prob would have leaked a bit too. So funny your hubby sleeping in a sleeping bag under the RV! I'd rather be cramped I think than worrying about the snakes coming under there at night to warm up!

Holy Balogna, me too!! I like a BK, but only about twice a year, and NEVER over a tuna sandwich!! I guess it came down to a totally different mindset. We dont' eat out often, they eat out ALL THE TIME. Not special at all.


Armadillos are cool. That's all.

I never thought about snakes under there. He might have a had an interesting bag mate!

 

[All7OfUs]

LOLOL That is great. Are you sure he stayed under there all night? Maybe he had a room at the GF.

BTW I would still like my points for guessing correctly!

Not a chance. He's (still) way too much of a tightwad to have gone there. HoJos off prop. maybe. Never GF!

I mentioned you, right?? At the bottom.... gotcha covered!

 

[that's nice]

I’m a tasty restaurant
Full of benches,
Here are my horns
And here are my wenches

When you eat at me
These guys you’ll hear,
Dance the polka
And drink some beir!!!



Love the poem! I always say there is nothing better than wenches & beir... unless that wench is a beir wench. (well I don't always say that but it does sound good!)

I did see that you gave me my points.

 

[All7OfUs]

Sounds good to me! I'll let you know how the wenches and bier (no, no, not the beer, beer is wretched gross!) are in Sept.

Apparently there aren't any benches either. So, I"m all wet.

My poem sounded good, though.

Next clue coming in the AM.