MAY 12th-19th!! THESE ARE THE MAYS OF OUR LIVES! Part 2

[DisneyMommyMichelle]

 

[DisneyMommyMichelle]

I am sooo excited! and i have to agree with the person that said i think it's time to get seriously packing!!! ::yes: we need to organize!!

 

[EllyLovesDisney]

Yay May!

 

[DisneyMommyMichelle]

PEOPLE SHIPPING!

Anyone shipping a box down, nex saturday-monday is the best time to do it! It gives you enough time to make sure it got there and PLENTY of time to re-send again if something happens to it!! we're getting our box ready to go out!

 

[DisneyMommyMichelle]

Let's Stay in May for it's the ONLY WAY!

GOOOOoooooOOOOOooooo MAY!

 

[EllyLovesDisney]

So 1 month from now...will be my last full day
We have lunch planned at Plaza and dinner at Rose & Crown. We will most likely spend the morning at MK and try to fit in some pool/resort time and we ALWAYS spend our last night watching illuminations. Since we are leaving the next day, I will also be getting my shopping on

 

[Disneyanajc]

Our sunny weather has become a little liquidity today...so no outside fun and NO just a lot of
JC

 

[Disneyanajc]

Katiebell...

thank you for sharing your story from DL...
JC

 

[JoBird]

My coffee just doesn't taste so good today...

Dh thinks I had food poisoning! Ewwww!

Anyway, I am enjoying the stories from DL. They make me

Jo

 

[Disneyanajc]

Hi Jo...I'm with your DH I would have guessed you had food poisoning too...just take it easy today...and do some Disney dreaming...
JC

 

[SpaceMinnie]

I'll be the one who has a bag full of park maps (tee hee hee!) I collect them...lol probably have like 20 of each or more!

 

[JoBird]

My big memory was from when I was two, on my first trip to the world...

That was back in the days of everyone crammed into a car driving 800 miles and no one gave it a second thought. No portable DVD's...only the alphabet game, the license plate game, oh and of course the BEAVER!!! game. Being two, I did none of the above, just crawled all over the car because no one wore seat belts. My uncle was driving, my cousin and aunt were in the front seat and me, mom, and my other cousin were in the back.

The windows were down, of course, because air conditioning was a true luxury. My uncle was smoking a cigarette and flicked his ash out the window. Well, it came back into the window and landed in my eye. I cried and he cussed me out for sitting there. This was way before people knew they could actually harm children with second hand smoke AND cussing.

We got to the hotel and I kept bugging Mom to get in the pool. She said "It's over your head" but I wouldn't stop. So she got tired of hearing me and said "well, go ahead!" and I jumped in. Unbeknownst to Mom, I had the room key in my hand when I jumped in and lost it somewhere beneath the surface. I sputtered and flailed and almost drowned and Mom just reached down and plucked me from the depths. I didn't ask to go in again.

We went to the tea cups and I got sick from spinning and my cousin got the cutest miniskirt with Minnie Mouse on it, but I didn't, because we were poor. And I was jealous, but lived through it without much scarring. She also got Pretty Tinkerbelle earrings, but I didn't have my ears pierced, so all I got to do was look at them.

We saw Pooh and I went to hug him, but he stood on my foot and I cried instead of being happy. Now when I see Pooh, I head in the other direction.

And there you have it, therapy style. My first trip to the World has never faded and I will forever be searching for the "perfect" trip because the first was such a trauma. (At least that's what I tell myself anyway...)

Ah, the horrors!

On with MAY!!!


Jo

 

[SpaceMinnie]

Well, the night before we leaves I somehow can't fall asleep. It's always like "Did I forget something?" time until 9pm when I pull my blind and get some shut eye!

 

[JoBird]

JC-

Thanks...

I think we are going back to look at one of the houses we looked at once before. The realtor e-mailed me and said we could probably "name our price" because the owners are almost desperate. It's been on the market a year and the Husband has moved to Canada without the fam. Interesting, but I feel their pain. Been there before!

Jo

I am so excited about the trip I can't stand myself...Tee-Hee. I keep giving DH the countdown every morning and he's so sweet. He keeps saying that I deserve this vacation with all we've done in the past year. He wishes we were going to be on a beach somewhere...umbrella drinks in hand. Next year, I suppose.

 

[DisneyDarc]

Hi Mayers! I joined the board yesterday and I am a HARDCORE Disney Park lover LOL we ALWAYS go in May!!! I hope to see some of you around on this trip It will be me and DH I cant wait for the rest of this month be over with!! May 14th where are you!!!!!!!!!

Darcie

 

[Disneyanajc]

Jo..though your memory at two was not a happy one...I'm so glad it did not turn you off of Disney I'm glad you have been able to make happy memories for you and your family.
You brought a smile to my face with part of your story....being crammed into a car with smokers...no seatbelts or ac....going as fast as you can and hope the car doesn't start to smoke...or having to pull over to fill the radiator with water...AaaaHhhh the memories...my mother never traveled without cans of 7up... for three carsick kids...
JC

 

[Disneyanajc]

to all the new MAYers...hope to see you all in the parks...now got to go shopping....see you later.
JC

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Great story JC.

I have a few favorite Disney stories, but today I will share only one. One of my clients is an animator over at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank. So I surprised my sons with a private tour of the animation division. They were totally blown away when I drove up to the front gate and gave them our names and we let in. My friend met us and took us around animation department and showed us how the put together a animated featured film. We saw various story boards, models and drawings of different projects they were working on. But the highlight of the day (it was a Saturday!) was when my friend introduced my boys to Andreas Deja. He is the guy who animated Mickey Mouse, Jafar, Hercules, Scar, etc. My oldest (he was 15 at the time) wanted to be animator and just loves to draw was so excited to meet someone who had inspired him to draw. Andreas was very cordial and spent about 15 minutes to speak with the boys and show them a few things. It was a day to remember for them and myself.

To say the least...I was the dad of the century that day.

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Hi all...it's so quiet on there today.....

So with this quiet day, and with Disney on my mind….I decided to share one of my favorite memories with my Mayer friends….in 1993 while staying at DL, and before there was a Downtown Disney... the Disney Hotel had a shopping area called the Plaza Building, it had shops, boutiques, etc… and while shopping in the variety store on this trip…. who do I see in the store…Annette Funicello!...I grew up watching the Mouseketeers…I WANTED to be a MOUSEKETEER…and here was Annette…WOW!...what to do…..do I go over and talk to her? or not interrupt her visit???... Yes! I go over and talk to her…and so happy I did…the nicest most gracious lady I have ever meet…I still think about this time and how wonderful it was to meet this person…remembering all those times I rushed home from school so I could see her and the Mouseketeers.
Yes! This does date me a little….
So do any Mayers have a fond memory of a visit to Disney?…come on share it…it’s a slow day!
JC

 

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JC, I loved the Annette Funicello story. Here's one of my favorite DL stories...

We were sitting on a bench in the shade at Fantasyland, across from the Matterhorn, just resting our tired feet. A HUGE group of Japanese tourists comes wandering up -- all men, many of them in suits, gazing in awe at the huge fake mountain, and kind of mulling around, breaking up their group. So the tour guide calls out to them, and waves a little flag -- I guess it was his way to signal them that they should all gather around him. So they start wandering back, and out of nowhere, here comes Alice in Wonderland. She walks right up to the tour guide, and says in her little clipped British accent, "Oh, are we having a parade, then?" He just blinks at her, not sure what to do. So she grabs his flag and says to the confused group, "Well, come along then, follow me," and she starts marching around them in a big circle. They just stand there astonished, maybe not understanding what she's saying...and I realized, probably more than half of them have absolutely no clue who she is, and may think she is just some crazy, bossy American girl in a blue dress and white pinafore. She stops, puts her hand on her hip, all exasperated, and says, "I said, come along then!" and starts marching again. The men looked at each other and then obediently lined up behind her, totally seriously, marching away, making sure to lift their knees as high as Alice did, pumping their arms enthusiastically, with completely deadpan, straight faces. We were laughing our heads off, and wishing like crazy we had a video camera...

I love the Japanese people at Disneyland. I always like to take pictures of them or get into their pictures. They do the funniest things.

 

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22 Days until WDW!