MAY 12th-19th!! THESE ARE THE MAYS OF OUR LIVES! Part 3

[Momof2Disneyboys]

Thanks for answering my many, many questions about your trip Huggie!

I have heard that early-mid December gets more crowded every year. That's a bummer! Yet it's still "value season". I can never understand how they determine those seasons. When we went in October 2005 it was value season, but it was so stinking crowded we couldn't hardly stand it! Minimum wait times were 40 minutes. Most were more. We could never get a spot for the parades. Then last May was "regular season" and we never waited more than 20 minutes for anything, and always got a good spot for the parades. I sure hope it's the same this year! I'm sure it didn't hurt that we avoided the parks with EMH each day!

I wonder if mid November would be a better time to go see all the Christmas decorations???

 

[seacrestpromo]

Hi All!

Thanks for video kudos. Had to ride the coaster twice because I accidently hit stop switch in the middle of the ride. You can see the new Toy Story Mania building at 2:34 on the video. The new TSM ride is underneath the rollercoaster!

Mari: Too bad you have to start *really* working soon. LOL

Jo: Very funny dog story

NewCrew: Hope your dieting goes well!

Huggie: Now that you have used the new camera on a trip, how well does it travel? Is it heavy? Awkward? Would you recommend it to others?

Lake: Some cold, wet and snowy weather is coming into California the next few days. Did you send that form Canada?

Shelly: Sorry to hear about the ear ache - hope you feel better soon!

 

[Momof2Disneyboys]

Morning my Fellow Mayers.... YAY one day closer to Disney.......

Hi Mari! I've been wondering where you've been! Hey, we hit the 4 month mark next week!! And we will be at 100 days by the end of this month!!

 

[Momof2Disneyboys]

Hey Seacrest - Great video, as always!!

 

[Momof2Disneyboys]

JC - Whhhheeeerrrreeee aaarrreee yyoouu??????????????????? How was your Christmas? How are things going with the house?

Stop lurking and come out to play!!!! (Or chat!!)

 

[Momof2Disneyboys]

Has anyone gotten airfare yet???

AirTran's UNspecial "web special" went from $109 to $114!
And Southwest still hasn't released rates past May 9th.

I'm getting a little anxious here!

 

[huggiebear23]

Mornin MAYers

Before long, you will be walking down Main Street USA! How fun!

The birthday was fun! I got a neat cake. I'll post pics in a bit. Beau GAtor kept trying to tear into my presents, LOL. What a dumb dog.

Let me tell you what he did to my SIL at Christmas...
SHe got a new Vera Bradley piece of luggage. He got a bone. He went and hid his bones in the Vera Bradley bag! It smelled like beef jerkey! Needless to say, she was NOT happy with her Nephdog, LOL.

Seacrest. Awesome video. I don't know how I missed that post!!!! I showed the kids first thing this morning and they were very impressed. Off to school they went with roller coaster visions dancing their heads.

Cleaning day here. Would someone please come help a MAYer out? I have so much to do and I am lazy, lazy lazy!

Jo

Oh my goodnes that is too funny.

sat as in Jan 12th. If so I will book, i will email your mom later today with all my info and tell her to book it on that saturday.. I told the DH last night that we will not stay in coronado that we will stay in POP he said ok. In Dec when we go we will be staying in my parents timeshare. We will probably only go to acutal WDW 4 days out of the trip but i'll take that.... all we have to pay for then will be airline tickets....

Sounds like a plan, my mom is off today but I told her you would be emailing her. Are you going preferred? I am not going to and try for the same room again. It was great.

I am excited that you will be at Pop we will have to get our kiddies together. They will have a blast and we could have a cocktail together. Fun Fun Fun

Also are you doing the Pirate Princess Party? We are going the 13th. I made reservation at BBB at downtown disney for the afternoon and an early dinner at 1900 park faire before the party.

 

[seacrestpromo]

OMG - Around 11:00 p.m. last night I hear sirens and helicopters in the distance. At first I thought it was a car chase - we have them about every other week it seems - but then I get a phone call from a neighbor friend and he tells me it's the Britney meltdown part duex. He works for one of the entertainment rags and got the scoop from one of the photogs that follow her all over town. I hope she gets the help she needs soon. Crazy!

 

[huggiebear23]

Hi All!

Thanks for video kudos. Had to ride the coaster twice because I accidently hit stop switch in the middle of the ride. You can see the new Toy Story Mania building at 2:34 on the video. The new TSM ride is underneath the rollercoaster!

Mari: Too bad you have to start *really* working soon. LOL

Jo: Very funny dog story

NewCrew: Hope your dieting goes well!

Huggie: Now that you have used the new camera on a trip, how well does it travel? Is it heavy? Awkward? Would you recommend it to others?

Lake: Some cold, wet and snowy weather is coming into California the next few days. Did you send that form Canada?

Shelly: Sorry to hear about the ear ache - hope you feel better soon!

I like the camera. It is heavy and I didnt bring the extra lens. It travels ok. I need to buy a new bag for the camera and camcorder. I have a big one but it is just to bulky to walk aroung with. I do love my camera.

Has anyone gotten airfare yet???

AirTran's UNspecial "web special" went from $109 to $114!
And Southwest still hasn't released rates past May 9th.

I'm getting a little anxious here!

I am sure southwest will open up soon. I am not in any rush. I am actually going to wait to buy my tickets. I still have another 250 credit for this may.

OMG - Around 11:00 p.m. last night I hear sirens and helicopters in the distance. At first I thought it was a car chase - we have them about every other week it seems - but then I get a phone call from a neighbor friend and he tells me it's the Britney meltdown part duex. He works for one of the entertainment rags and got the scoop from one of the photogs that follow her all over town. I hope she gets the help she needs soon. Crazy!

I heard about that I am going to go over to tmz and x17online to check it out. She is crazy, I feel so bad for the kids.

 

[huggiebear23]

Ok, going to head out. I need to get Dh some longjohns. He has to work this weekend and go to new Hampshire for a Hillary Clinton rally.

Be back later

 

[seacrestpromo]

I feel sorry for the kids too. I don't trust her to drive anyone in the state of mind that she has been in the last year or two. Between her, Lindsey, Nicole and Paris - the roads are not safe in LA if they are in town.

When LL got out of rehab in Sept/Oct (can't remember) she came by my son's work. She had the monitor on her leg and all. My son got a picture with her and the poor girl looks like she has aged 10 years older that she is. I will have to post it. She seems to be doing better the last few weeks thankfully.

 

[lakehead92]

Hello MAYers! Happy Friday!

Not feeling so well here. We've all had this stupid cold on and off since about Thanksgiving. Just as I was starting to feel better I got a bad ear ache. It's been hurting since Tuesday night. I keep taking Tylenol and putting heat on it, but nothing seems to help. . .

Sending wellness thoughts.... I hate to hear when one of my mayers isn't in top form.

 

[lakehead92]

So just out of curiosity...and because Huggie brought up Hilary Clinton.
Are any of you happy, surprised, worried, about the outcome in IOWA last night.

From a Canadian perspective.
We hear a lot more about Romney's campaign than Huckabee, ( probably because Romney has done a lot of campaigning in Michigan, and we see all the commercials here when watching NBC and ABC ect..)and I was surprised to see Hilary in third.
But too me the demacratic race...is very interesting to watch.

American politics is so interesting to me, our nomination and voting process is so different here. Plus watching it all, keeps all the political science I crammed into my head in University alive.

 

[lakehead92]

Hi All!

Thanks for video kudos. Had to ride the coaster twice because I accidently hit stop switch in the middle of the ride. You can see the new Toy Story Mania building at 2:34 on the video. The new TSM ride is underneath the rollercoaster!

Mari: Too bad you have to start *really* working soon. LOL

Jo: Very funny dog story

NewCrew: Hope your dieting goes well!

Huggie: Now that you have used the new camera on a trip, how well does it travel? Is it heavy? Awkward? Would you recommend it to others?

Lake: Some cold, wet and snowy weather is coming into California the next few days. Did you send that form Canada?
Shelly: Sorry to hear about the ear ache - hope you feel better soon!

Nope... that's not from me...gulf streams don't quite work that way..... which makes me wonder if the the miserable weather we have been having so far, has been coming from you...hahahaha

We are supposed to head into warmer temperatures next week...so I will hope for the same for you.

 

[JoBird]

Hello MAYers! Happy Friday!

Not feeling so well here. We've all had this stupid cold on and off since about Thanksgiving. Just as I was starting to feel better I got a bad ear ache. It's been hurting since Tuesday night. I keep taking Tylenol and putting heat on it, but nothing seems to help. . .

Nurse JoBird says to please take your franny to the Doctor ASAP... a bursted eardrum is not fun. Sorry you feel yucky, take car of yourself.

So just out of curiosity...and because Huggie brought up Hilary Clinton.
Are any of you happy, surprised, worried, about the outcome in IOWA last night.

From a Canadian perspective.
We hear a lot more about Romney's campaign than Huckabee, ( probably because Romney has done a lot of campaigning in Michigan, and we see all the commercials here when watching NBC and ABC ect..)and I was surprised to see Hilary in third.
But too me the demacratic race...is very interesting to watch.

American politics is so interesting to me, our nomination and voting process is so different here. Plus watching it all, keeps all the political science I crammed into my head in University alive.

Honestly, I don't like anyone running at all. Not one of them is "Presidential" in my book. So I just don't know what to think. At this point, nothing surprises me, as far as the Iowa thing, but i do know that things change quickly. Who knows?
Lake, how are your elections done?

Jo

 

[seacrestpromo]

Lake: Trying to blame your bad weather on me eh? eh? EH?

 

[seacrestpromo]

I don't know why, but that made me laugh.

Nurse JoBird says to please take your franny to the Doctor ASAP... a bursted eardrum is not fun. Sorry you feel yucky, take car of yourself.

Jo

 

[NewCrew42]

How much protein are you getting while dieting??? up your intake, it might help. Protein shakes are good to keep on hand. If they don't help, excedrin is always a great thing! Hope you are doing better.

J~

It was a 3 excedrin headache. I had taken 2 advil liquid gels (which usually work very fast with 2 sudafed just in case it was sinus.) The stupid headache didn't budge. So I added an excedrin, waited 30 minutes... no change. Took another, waited 30 minutes and I was starting to feel a little relief so I took another and voila... Headache gone. I felt so much better!

It is still lurking if you know what I mean.

I probably do need more protein. I am trying to drink muscle milk on occasion to up my protein. That stuff tastes great (for a protein shake.)

I don't know how people survived before excedrin. I think that is a miracle drug.

 

[lakehead92]

Nurse JoBird says to please take your franny to the Doctor ASAP... a bursted eardrum is not fun. Sorry you feel yucky, take car of yourself.



Honestly, I don't like anyone running at all. Not one of them is "Presidential" in my book. So I just don't know what to think. At this point, nothing surprises me, as far as the Iowa thing, but i do know that things change quickly. Who knows?
Lake, how are your elections done?

Jo

Hmm..looks like I have started a political discussion... we'll I know we havent done this before.

Well first of all. We have municipal, provincial and federal elections.
When it comes time to vote, everyone across every province in the entire country vote in the exact same way, for the exact same thing. We put a x next to the name we are voting for. ( this way there are no disputes, and no confusion over different voting policies and styles.

In a federal or provincial elections we vote for a representative in our riding ( each province is broken up into electoral ridings). Each candidate is nominated and runs for their particular political party. For example.

john A - is liberal
bill B- is conservative
mike C - is new democratic
hank D - is the green party


When the votes are counted and if John A wins... then your riding has become a liberal seat in parliament. Now if the majority of the country also votes liberal... then the leader of the liberal party becomes the prime minister of the country. And what ever political party comes second... then their leader becomes the leader of the opposition in parliament. We have more that two political parties so different views are always expressed, and two parties can join together on bill voting ect...
There is no popular and electoral votes.... who ever ends up being most popular is the elected party.

The same is for provincial elections, only the winning parties leader is premier of the province. (similar to your governor)

So we have MP - members of parliament ( federal)
and MPP - member of provincial parliament.

When a new leader of a party is being chosen it is more of a two month campaign, ( not a two year one) ending with a leadership convention. And votes come from members of that particular political party at the convention. Who ever wins, is the party leader.

The prime minister can also serve more than two terms, and elections can often happen before the end of a term if there is call for it. Terms are usually 5 years.

We have Senators too... but that's a whole other story....hahaha

I hope that this is not too confusing.

 

[NewCrew42]

Lake - that was very interesting. I had no idea how elections were held by our neighbors to the north. Thanks for the lesson!

Shelly - I hope your ear ache gets better. And I am with Jo. You might need to take your franny to the doctor. I never had an ear infection as a child but get them now as adult. Go figure!

Mari - We loved POP! My kids don't want to stay anywhere else now. I think you will have a good time there. We did not stay preferred either but had a nice location in the 60s.

Seacrest - Keep those videos coming!

Well I am off to the mall with my kids. I am full of tricks like "Hey kids let's go to the mall." which really means... "Hey Chris! We are going to get your hair cut!"

I may need another excedrin!