Montana Invades the World! Oct 12-22 (**PICTURES NOW**)

[Ellester]

Another great installment. Enjoy your last day, can't wait for the finale!

 

[Mommy Poppins]

Just wanted to say I am really enjoying your trip reports. I also have a 6 year old and even without the disability he is sometimes frustrating. It seems like you and your wife are doing a great job at dealing with him and maintaining normalcy in your family. I commend you guys! Your kids are really cute too!!

 

[solferino]

Unknown Princess is Belle

Love the reports and it's so fun to see how clearly you enjoy being with your family and how much they're loved.

 

[Montana Disney Fan]

Here is the old lady at the Dino Dig Site (AK). Ain’t she hot?!?!?!

This is DD before Moan Boy loses it. We’re posing before our DVC property.

Test Track & the TTA are the rides we rode the most. Here’s a pic from the TTA.

I gotta toss in a pic of Jasmine. She hot!

Loud Girl diggin’ at the OKW pool. Later she poured the sand into the main pool!

Yes, it’s true. We’re “Poncho People”.

This is where the monkeys hang out prior to Kali opening.

Primeval Whirl. Apparently, my wife is howling like a monkey & the dude in the car with her is appalled!

They came, they saw, they rode. Me and Loud Girl worked on Potato Heads in the gift shop nearby

“If I were 48” tall, I’d rock with Aerosmith too!! For now, I’ll just guard this park map”

“I’m so sick of chicken strips I could puke”

Is it me, or does this horse look bloodthirsty?

The “Annual” tea cup shot. The vacation ain’t complete without this in the scrapbook.

“If I have to smile for one more dang picture so help me….”

Swimming tires you out. Either that, or the odor from this loveseat has killed my daughter!

Come on, let us have it. We know we’re slobs. After 7 days we finally found the vacuum. What we really need now is a Shop-Vac!

 

[Linnie The Pooh]

Ok, here I am again to clear a few things up yet one more time.

The Kali thing-Montana had just taken his poncho hood off and said, "Yay Ponchos!!" 5 Seconds later he got nailed with a slug of water right over his head. Again, a very humorous moment for me, but he came right back and said, "So much for ponchos!!!"

I personally, love the ponchos, although ours are very heavy. I bought them 7 years ago and they're made for Montana weather (where it very rarely rains!! They're really for snow like conditions). So no water gets through them. But they weigh about 20 pounds apiece (the kids ponchos are bought at Florida, as no place in our town sells kid sized ponchos.) Not an easy day packing those things around, but I hate to spend my day slopping around in wet clothing so its worth it, although a little embarrassing when people make comments to us about them....

Primeval Whirl-that picture of me was taken when the ride took off all of sudden, I was not making monkey sounds!!! I was saying, "Whoa!!" The guy next to me was the nicest person I'd ever met on a ride. Pleasure to ride with him. Very friendly and fun-from New Hampshire. And Montana was wrong-the platform getting off of PW does not move so he has no excuse for falling. He's just clumsy. My dad said to me one time, "I see why you married (Montana). He keeps you entertained." That he does. Truthfully, he's fallen on more vacations than I can count. It's a riot.

Today, we did not just barely make the bus-I had to run like I was in a race to catch it. EEK. Not a good site. If you can't tell from my pictures, I'm badly in need of a breast reduction so running without a sports bra can seriously injure those near me. I had to hang to my fanny pack while running so jugs were flying everywhere. Not good.

I love the Starlight cafe. i came up with the line about why is turquoise the color of the future?? It's hideous in there. I think Tomorrowland needs a major update. I loved seeing Space Mountain in the light-WOW!! I felt like we saw Bozo without his makeup. how awesome. That made the whole trip for me. I took pictures-I hope they turn out. It gives me the shivers to think about it. What a neat experience.

A few funny things happened at the water slide today. I'd like to say that I'm super near sighted (won't get laser surgery for a variety of reasons) and I wear contacts on vacation becuase it's humid. In MT, it's super dry so I rarely wear them, opting for my glasses. I wore contacts today, not knowing there was a slide. Usually I avoid these if I'm wearing contacts. But my kids were so excited to do it, I said yes. First, I went down the slide with my kids and things went fine. Great!! So we went again and I tipped over sideways just before I hit the water and KABOOM a huge wave of water hit me in the face and drenched me. I was worried about those ridiculously expensive contacts so even though my kids were crying because they wanted to go on it again RIGHT NOW, I got out of the pool and checked them. They were both there. But my chapstick was gone.

I have this weird swimming suit that I bought at the end of the season this year and it's like shorts and a tank top, but they're connected together and it has a pocket which is odd so I had put my chapstick in there thinking it would be safe. But it wasn't. If I'm in the sun and my lips get sunburned I get cold sores so I try to avoid those at all costs-those of you who get them know what I mean!!! So now i'm stuck w/out a chapstick so I have to go back to the room to get another one so i take DD with me and we get half way to the car and I remember I have one in there, but it is missing its lid (thanks for Loud Girl) so I'm all set. I come back and get in the water again, narrowly missing a BIG BLACK SNAKE on the way in to the pool area. It was actually in the pool area-scared the crap out of me.

So I decided on this time down, I'd slow myself down so I don't get dunked under. Only problem was I slowed myself down too much that I stopped in the middle of the slide and couldn't get myself launched again. I finally inched my way down the slide again and as I got the bottom, I thought Montana would collapse in a heap laughing at me. I couldn't even get launched into the water, just sort of put there. He said there was this big wall of water behind me like a toilet trying to flush a turd, Me being the turd!! I laughed so hard I couldn't get out of the pool-HUGE NERD moment. Kids had to wait to go on the slide again while I composed myself.

then much to my annoyance, I got a major nose bleed so I had to deal with that for several minutes-my kids were not patient so I got it stopped, then dove back in again. It's not easy being me.

We swam around and then I got brave and said "Let's go on the slide again!!" Kids were more than eager so we went to the top where Moan boy went down first. Loud Girl didn't listen to me and went immediately after the boy (before the signal light turned green) so she ended up going on her tummy scaring the sh*t out of me thinking she'd drown before she got to the bottom. She didn't, but was pretty shook up. So we thought we'd try it one more time.

I took them up, let the girl go first. Great!! Then Loud Boy's turn and he went. I peeked over the side and watched for him to exit where Montana was waiting for them at the bottom and he never came out. Eventually, I just decided to go down, wondering what happened to Moan Boy, and half way on my way down, here's Moan Boy making his way back up to the top! I yell, "Go down!! Go Down!!" as I crash into him. We ended up at the bottom of the pool in a heap when Montana decided it was time to leave the pool area. I agreed.

We're having a great time and should leave before Wilma visits the beautiful Orlando area.

Oh, and that picture of me in front of the band-they were good, but not a dancing band. And I don't usually look that mean-that was a pose!! And not a good one!!!

EDIT: by the way, Buzz has posted thru day 8 and is one day behind. He should have a day 9,10, (in the parks) and 11 (the way home). He couldn't post while at our first hotel because they did not have internet access.

 

[fizz13]

Thanks Linnie the Pooh for giving your side to events. Its always good when us girls can correct any mistakes the menfolk might have made. I had heart failure when you said there was a black snake in the pool area!!!! Now I'm not totally nieve, I do know they have snakes in Florida but I just like to think of WDW as a little safe haven away from the nasty things...one more thing to worry about before next year I guess,

can't wait to read more,
Claire xx

 

[Mermaid02]

This has been thoroughly entertaining- I especially like the rebuttals from The Mrs. Thanks for helping the rest of us get our "disney fix"

 

[MazdaUK]

I so love these reports!

We saw 2 snakes at WDW - both on the last day (luckily!!). One was slithering along the walkway as we left the room for the last time - so no worries about not returning! - and one was on the path as we walking into AKL for a nosey - so we were glad we decided not to stay there

Buy the way Linnie, my DH thinks breast reductions are the work of the devil - very hard to find anyone with too-big ****s in his opinion

 

[Tinkim]

These reports have been so fun. I am so glad I work at home though because if I worked in an office my co-workers would surely think I was insane with all the unexplained laughter. My only co-workers here are the two furry ones and they already know I'm crazy but lucky for me the dogs "ain't talking." I'm actually sad that you two are leaving soon and the reports will be all done but glad that you all had such a wonderful vacation. The kids are just adorable!

 

[summersfam4]

Today, we did not just barely make the bus-I had to run like I was in a race to catch it. EEK. Not a good site. If you can't tell from my pictures, I'm badly in need of a breast reduction so running without a sports bra can seriously injure those near me. I had to hang to my fanny pack while running so jugs were flying everywhere. Not good.

Linnie, that made me because I can literally say been there done that. I used to tell my DH that he didn't have to worry about me being attacked, because I could have knocked anyone out with my big guns all I would have to do would be swing around! I finally had a reduction so now I take Tae-kwon-do 3 times a week !

 

[Linnie The Pooh]

Oops, I posted this under my wifes Log In. We're so tired we very confused!!

 

[Montana Disney Fan]

Day 900, I mean 9 : MK & Pool & our fancy meal together

Thursday - Oct 20. (posting the date helps me as I'm very tired and getting more and more confused by the hour. I need a vacation after this vacation )

Moan Boy (who went to bed at 8 p.m. the night before) wanders into our bedroom at….

1:45 a.m.!!! You gotta be kidding me! I grumble at him to go back to bed and he does. He comes back into our bedroom at 2:20 a.m.!! I get up, escort him back to his room, and tuck him in with a kiss on the forehead . I figure, try to be nice and see what happens. My initial reaction was to just start swinging and hopefully hit his butt a few times but I remained calm and he didn’t get back up until 6 a.m.

I made some sort of connection with him though. When I walked him back to his room I showed him the digital clock and asked him what the first number on it was. He replied “2”. I said “good” then I told him to not come into our room again until it said “6”. I was grasping at straws here but I think it might have worked since he didn’t come back until 6:01 on my clock. At least we got SOME sleep

We arrived at MK in time to see the opening which is fun. Not great, but fun. The right hand entrance to MK through the tunnel is completely shut down so that means everyone is funneled thru the left hand tunnel. This is probably why they moved the stroller rental over here. During the opening they invite one family (the McNutt Family with a little baby McNutt… McNutty I think) to ride in on the train with the characters and throw pixie dust on you to open the park. Anyone know how you get selected?

Has anyone ever seen the inside of Space Mountain with the lights on? It’s pretty cool. We rolled thru SM on Monday twice riding the TTA and decided to do so again today. Monday the ride was open and very dark just like always. Today it was not. If you’ve ever been frightened riding SM you should not see this attraction with the lights on! What a rickety mess! They are working on it and it is closed now so when we rolled thru on the TTA we had a good minute of looking at it very closely. Bizarre to say the least. It looks like a big metal junk pile.

Ok, back to MK. We brought this park to its knees in 120 minutes. Arriving at 9 a.m. because we walked to the bus stop just as the MK bus rolled up (lucky!). We bolted to Big Thunder riding it twice again. Then we hit:

The Carousel
Winnie the Pooh
Tea Cups
Pirates
TTA
Buzz
And Stitch.

We were very proud of our accomplishments in such a short period and we also hit all the rides we wanted to hit on Monday but didn’t. Remember, we did all this before 11 a.m. then ate an early lunch at Cosmic Ray’s Starlight Café.

Why does Disney equate turquoise with the “future”? Is this the color we are doomed with when space travel becomes common? Anyway, at the turquoise colored Starlight Café I ordered a couple of nuggets & tater tots for the kids and mom and dad had ribs and chicken. Mmmmmm good! My wife loves the cooked carrots and dad loves the ribs and spuds. I don’t even recognize a vegetable unless it’s breaded. This place is so garish with horrid music that it’s tough to enjoy but the food is top notch. 4 stars.

Remember when I said my daughter is fearless and could ride Rockin Rollercoaster if she were tall enough? Well, we tested this theory on Stitch’s Great Escape. My wife and I have always been big Alien Encounter fans and were bummed to hear about it closing. AE was the very first ride my wife ever went on in Disney way back on our first trip. Anyway, I’ve read where this new improved attraction is a lot less scary but still not very good. Well, we loved it! Kids were crying all around us of varying ages but little Loud Girl told me “I like that little monster daddy” when the lights came on. I was so proud as I marched her out thru the throng of crying toddlers who were sure to be in therapy by weeks end. She’s a tough little monkey.

Moan Boy was starting to “bug” after lunch proving our theory that once lunch is down, he’s convinced we should leave. We left arriving back at our hotel room by noon where I began to write this report. We lucked out once again with the bus today. Must be a sign!

After 30 minutes mom decided we need to all go to the pool so we loaded up and drove to the “main” pool at OKW (too far to walk). What a blast we had at the pool! The new slide is awesome and since my kids don’t swim we rented life jackets and put together our plan so the kids could go down the awesome slide. Mom would take them up and I’d sit in the water at the bottom and grab them as they plunged into the water. The plan worked great until the kids got away from mom and both barreled down the slide together getting all tangled up and nearly drowning their father who waited unaware at the bottom . The life guard was kind of “eye-balling” us by this time but said nothing. I knew we were now on his radar though. “One more time” mom said so the three of them all went up again. This time Loud Girl came shrieking down the slide but Moan Boy never showed up. I panicked a little thinking he’d come down and I’d somehow missed him and he was now drowning under the slide. A few minutes later mom and the boy came down, again, in a tangled mess, and plunged into the water together soaking everyone within a 20’ radius (ok, I’m exaggerating). This time, without even looking at the life guard, we knew it was time to leave. It turns out that Moan Boy had started down but had changed his mind and was climbing back up when mom took the plunge and slammed into him. Nobody was hurt except those nearly drowned by the title wave of water that came out with them.

By 3:30 it was time to vacate for some R&R back in the room. We watched the weather channel tracking the hurricane while the children took the big tv in the living room to watch Dora the Explorer. Tonight is the big family dinner at the Flying Fish and we’re all excited. We love the BW area and want to hang out there before and after dinner.

Dinner capped the "Perfect" day . What a good time. Nobody cried (except me after the spinning from the dreaded Tea Cups) as it was just the perfect Disney Day that we all dream about. We caught every bus, had good service from CM’s, rode the rides we wanted to without wait, and had fantastic meals.

Tonight at the Flying Fish could not have possibly gone ANY better. The kids got the exact food they wanted and ate every bit of it. The wife and I had a perfect bottle of Pinot to compliment our fish dishes (Snapper for me and Scallops for the old lady). We also shared a salad and the crab cakes. Whew! Too bad every meal isn’t this perfect.

Back in the room, the wine is going into the DW while the sippin’ whiskey (JWB) is flowing into dad like gas into a Hummer.

Well, better git. Tomorrow is our last day in the parks and we have a tradition of not planning anything so we don’t know where we’re headed. We’ll make that decision last minute. We have no meals planned either. We also enjoy wearing Montana-type clothing on our last day such as t-shirts that say thing like “I’m with Stupid” and “Help, I’ve fallen and I can’t reach my beer”. Should be a good day!

Summary

Space Mountain w/ the lights on – I feel like I found the Lost Ark of the Covenant. Soo Cool! 5 Stars.

The Slide at OKW Main Pool – The BEST! The kids had so much fun and I enjoyed watching them and grabbing them as they came down. It was really fun and I heard another family say they liked it better than the BW slide although I’ve never seen it.

Starlight Café – Kosher meals for those that want them plus pretty good ribs and chicken. Wife goes “ape” over the carrots. The music is horrible and the turquoise feels like it’s closing in on you. As long as you’re not allergic to turquoise, you should enjoy.

Flying Fish – A new family tradition has been set in stone as we had a great time and wonderful food. Another 6 star (out of 5) experience. The snapper literally melts in your mouth! I highly recommend.

FYI: My wife commented on some of the items in this post because I write them first on "Word" and let her read them. She didn't know that she was commenting on items that you guys hadn't read yet. She's dumb that way

FYI2: For those wondering if these reports will EVER end join the group. I've got Day 10 - One Last Park, then Day 11 - The Trip Home and lastly, The Summary. We head home tomorrow morning so hopefully I'll be able to write up all three sometime this weekend. Today is Day 10 for us and the internet connection ends in like 10 minutes and I don't want to purchase another 24 hours. Talk to you soon and thanks for tuning in.

 

[summersfam4]

Moan Boy (who went to bed at 8 p.m. the night before) wanders into our bedroom at….

1:45 a.m.!!! You gotta be kidding me! I grumble at him to go back to bed and he does. He comes back into our bedroom at 2:20 a.m.!! I get up, escort him back to his room, and tuck him in with a kiss on the forehead . I figure, try to be nice and see what happens. My initial reaction was to just start swinging and hopefully hit his butt a few times but I remained calm and he didn’t get back up until 6 a.m.

We have been through this exact thing multiple times with our 6 year old DD. For some reason though DH and I are the only ones who feel the pain of not sleeping through the night?
Your family is great thanks for sharing your trip with us, I can't wait to read the final 3 chapters!

Kelly

 

[dandee00]

Great report!!! I feel like I'm actually there. I love reading reports. Your family is terrific, but I guess you already know that.

 

[Montana Disney Fan]

Day 10 : One Last Park

(Friday, October 21st)

As noted before, we are now a well oiled touring machine as we wake up early and arrive at Epcot for the “rope drop”. Oh, I forgot to mention. Yes, we all chose Epcot as the favorite park and decided to visit it for the fourth time (almost 50% of our days!) . The kids all love Soarin’ & Test Track and mom & dad were all about the F&W festival (as I’m sure you’re all aware of) so off we went.

Since Moan Boy actually “needs” Test Track for park survival we shot off in that direction once the Grand Opening Show was complete and motored towards his “fix”. We walked right on satisfying his “need” then decided to head towards Soarin’ and get Fast Passes since you can rarely just walk on this ride without suffering through a 40 – 90 minute wait.

As we arrive at the Land we note an abundant of CM’s dressed in Soarin’ costumes outside the pavilion with a lot of park visitors surrounding them. I thought to myself “Uh-Oh, this don’t look good” and walked up to see what all the ha-bub was about. Turns out there is some sort of malfunction with the building. Yes, building. I ask the guy how we get Fast Passes now and he hands us four Fast Passes for both Soarin’ and Living with the Land. We didn’t even have to use our tickets.


As we stand there wondering what to do next, one of the Blue CM’s is talking into a hand held radio then makes some sort of secret Mickey gesture to the others and in unison they turn and walk towards the Land Pavilion without saying a word to anyone. “Hmmm” I think to myself. Something is up.

I anxiously told the wife to park the stroller and get the monkeys out and come with me. We follow the Blue Clad CM’s up the ramp and into the pavilion and around to the “right” (Soarin’ is off to the left) then down the escalator next to the Living with the Land ride then over towards Soarin’. Could we actually be “walking on” to Soarin’ right now? Yes! We followed them all the way to the Stand By entrance and were one of the first few to board. We walked the 670 yard queue area then right on to row 2 and next thing you know, we were flying over California. It was awesome. How often do you get to “walk on” to two major attractions without wait first thing in the morning? Not often would be my guess. Plus we had Fast Passes for the ride later on in the day! Something told me our last day was going to be a good one.

By 9:45 we had completed two of the best attractions Disney had to offer and without waiting at all. We decided to get Fast Passes for TT (Moan Boy could ride this all day long) which was now already a 40 minute wait then we went into the TT store to get Moan Boy some TT cars and signs as his souvenir. Next we went into Mouse Gears as mom wanted a book about Walt Disney (she found one) and also some scrap book material. Not being a very patient shopper I followed her moaning and complaining the entire way while the kids remained well behaved. There’s always gotta be one

We loafed around after that not really having any plans and just snacked and sipped wine and rode a few rides including all the Fast Pass rides we were carrying (three at once!!).

We took some time to eat another bratwurst at the German pavilion. This time I got the name of the kiosk: “Sommerfest”. We love this place. The brat’s and sourkraut are the best! The kids had a soft pretzel and both loved it.

We ended up leaving around 1 p.m. or so and headed back to OKW for a swim. We are seasoned pro’s now at the water slide so while I waited at the bottom, mom and the two monkeys all slid down the slide about 20 times each. By the time we were done, a couple hours later, my eyes were killing me from contact lenses mixing with pool water filled with chlorine, sand and God knows what else. No real funny stories on the water slide today. We knew what we were doing and we got it done.

While relaxing back at the room we were trying to figure out what we wanted to do for dinner on our last night. Secretly, I wanted to go back for Pizza at Giordano’s on HWY 192 but was worried the others would not be so enthusiastic about eating anywhere except on Disney World. I used my old trick to get what I wanted.

I asked, “Hey everybody, how about Pizza again tonight”. Then, before they could answer, I started to chant “Pizza, Pizza, Pizza”. This trick always works the kids into a frenzy and once I’ve got them on my side, I’m unstoppable. It worked! The kids started chanting along with me. I then stopped the chant and asked, “Should we go eat pizza?” Mom said, “Sure”. Loud Girl was still chanting, “Pizza, Pizza, Pizza”. Finally, Moan Boy said, “Test Track?”. It was done, Pizza had won! I know what I'm doing.

The pizza was awesome as usual then we left in a torrential rain storm and headed to fill up the Buick with gasoline. The price of gas on WDW was Cheap!! $2.56 / gallon for regular unleaded. It was $2.87 on HWY 193 and $2.75 back in Montana. I wonder why this is?

The rain was huge band that came all the way from Hurricane Wilma which was still pounding the Yucatan Peninsula which is a 1000 miles away! The rain was really incredible and the windshield wipers could NOT keep up. I almost had to pull over as we couldn’t see anything. It was the worst rain storm I’d ever seen and it was the first rain of our 10 day trip. I’m glad it was on the very last day!

With bellies and gas tank full, we headed for OKW to finish packing and get ready for the flight home in the morning. We checked out now so we wouldn’t have to check out at 6 a.m. and then perused the bill. We had spent a lot of money but it was worth it. We are all ready to head home (except Moan Boy) and the oncoming hurricane and poor weather helped motivate us.

After 11 days in Florida, we are REALLY ready to leave. At home we have a spotless house waiting for us. Before we left we shampoo’d the carpets, made the beds, did fall cleanup in the yard, and put in fresh Glade Plug Ins in all the outlets.

We set all the alarms, left a wake up call just in case, then hit the sack at 9 p.m. We had to get up 5:30 so wanted to be rested.

Summary

Moan Boy & Test Track – We really lucked out with this ride other than that very first Saturday at Epcot. This ride breaks down a lot and Moan Boy just wouldn’t understand if he could not ride it. We avoided complete Melt Down the entire trip and we are grateful for it.

Soarin’ – I love this attraction more each time I ride it. I also notice new smells each time. You want to be in Column “B”, aisle 1 or 2 if possible. This seems to be the best spot. Really though, no matter where you sit, you will enjoy it.

Sommerfest in Germany – Our favorite “counter service” restaurant in WDW. We just love the brats, krout, and beer!

Disney Gas – Why is it so cheap? Do they do this on purpose? The station wasn’t owned by Disney but maybe they regulate it. Also, why are the automatic levers removed on the nozzles? It’s a pain to have to hold the nozzle the entire time while the tank fills up.

Last but not least, The Summary

 

[Alice Sr.]

You guys rock, loved it, loved it! I can't think of a trip report that I have enjoyed more.

Thanks,
Alice

 

[MazdaUK]

Fantastic report! We love US gas prices wherever - if you lived in the UK you'd ride a bike instead

 

[Kristina]

One of my favorite things to do is find great looking trip reports and copy them then go and cuddle down in the sofa and read them. Looking forward to this one, and subscribing to this thread so I make sure I get that all important summary ! BTW the photo's are nice and you have lovely children!!

 

[amwhitaker]

Great reports! I love the rebuttal from the wife. I plan on writing a trip report for my visit in 3 weeks, but I highly doubt I could get hubby to reply. I could just hear the "yeah right". I didn't buy him a Grumpy hat for nothin'! I plan on getting him soused so he will enjoy WDW maybe just a little.

 

[Linnie The Pooh]

Yes, we made it safe and sound, although so much for a spotless house when we walked in the door. Our washing machine threw up some sort of orange colored mystery fluid all over the laundry room floor. Fortunately, the carpet in there is hideous and it sort of blends in with the pattern. I can't leave it though because it has a musty odor so have been working at getting it up as much as i can with my steam cleaner.

No mishaps on the way home except having to wait 45 mins for the bags. DH was freaking out because he wanted me to follow him to the car, (but he didn't tell me that) and Loud Girl yells out, "I hafta to poop!" Everyone in the terminal heard her except Montana (which I didn't realize) so we jog off to the bathroom while MT is going for the car. Kind of confusing there, but we got it all together in the end. I had to hear the comment, "That is why I never check a bag" from Montana so much that he dang near got clocked in the head with the bag that we checked.

I love the comments about the breast reduction being the work of the devil and also the big guns knocking someone out. That is so me-I really need that operation (and btw, Montana sees no need for a breast reduction either).

The snake still haunts me! I think like that too-I know there are nasty critters around there, but I seem to think that Disney has some sort of protective shield around us, keeping us safe from them. Kind of jolts you back to reality when a nasty one slithers in your path.

And Montana DID complain the whole time I was shopping. I wanted to go by myself, but Moan Boy cried whenever I left the group so that was hard. Loud Girl didn't care if I left the group... She was anti-mom on this trip. Every time I bumped up against her she'd yell, "Get away from me!!" Nice.

All in all it was a great trip and I"m glad we're back in Dry Land country up here. I didn't even need to put lotion on in Orlando, back in MT, I've used half a bottle already. But it's good to be home. NOw we can start planning for the 2006 Invasion.

Thanks to everyone who read our posts! Montana spent a lot of time on them. At one point, he got out his lap top and Moan Boy moans, "Oh noooo." Take care everyone.