Not so much a savings, more like reallocating where the money goes (Part 20 pg14) NEW

[jamal]

Help, Mr. Silly!!! I don't know what a Samosa is, even after 19 mentions!!!!!!!!!

 

[Mr. Silly]

Help, Mr. Silly!!! I don't know what a Samosa is, even after 19 mentions!!!!!!!!!

Samosas are an Indian snack/appetizer. They look like this:

They are made with a mix of potatoes and peas and spices that are wrapped in dough, shaped in a triangular form, and then deep fried. Lots of Indian grocery stores sell them, and you can get them at most Indian restaurants. Usually you get mint or tamarind chutney with them that you dip them in as you eat them, though not the DisneyWorld ones. Being basically deep-fried carbs., they are not exactly heart-healthy, but they are really quite delightful to eat, even if each one shaves a few minutes off your life expectancy.

 

[jamal]

Soo...Indian chips?

I think I can skip that cart! Thanks for the info, Mr. S.

 

[Mr. Silly]

Soo...Indian chips?

I think I can skip that cart! Thanks for the info, Mr. S.

They are not really chips. They are fairly large compared to chips, the sides are usually two or three inches long. And the filling in them stays soft, so you have a fried crispy dough exterior, with a gooshy, savory, spicy really good potato mix interior. If you like Indian food in general you probably would like them. If you don't, then probably not.

 

[sheridac]

Hmmm. Not so much a trip report, more like a Winter Solstice!!!!!

 

[GeorgiaAristocat]

Haley ~
I have been seriously slacking, but just caught up on your trippie . . .

Fabulous, as always.

Except for Max losing his glasses. And you waiting forever and a day to find out for certain that Max lost his glasses.

It is, incidentally, one of my fears. Because I only have one pair myself. When the boy broke mine this summer I walked around with only one earpiece for 2 weeks.

Which is far better than walking around without any.

Can't wait to read the rest. And this year's pre-trippie. Which are you writing first?

 

[HaleyB]

Last edited by GeorgiaAristocat : 09-18-2006 at 02:45 PM. Reason: hahahahaha. I slay myself. I know you're going to finish. And you're miles ahead of me. I didn't even write a report last year.

I think miles is an overstatement. I may be a tiny bit ahead of you though.

Current plan is to write a pretrip but post it after we return. I am trying hard to remember exactly how this next trip went from a "let's get a quote" to a done deal. It might have had something to do with me floating the idea of a meet

 

[HaleyB]

Hmmm. Not so much a trip report, more like a Winter Solstice!!!!!

Hey! It is not even winter yet!!!

 

[HaleyB]

I wanted to comment on the trippie, but instead I have to comment on Tink's lack of a dog

And to point out the new bling - But you can call me Commander for short

But I never call you short...

 

[HaleyB]

Part 22 and epilogue all in one Maybe.​

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It got worse.

So by the time we find out we will not be getting Max’ glasses back it is about 30 minutes before our PS (ADR).

For lunch with the Princesses.

In Epcot!!! We had a much sought after, very hard to secure ADR for the Storybook Lunch in Norway. It was our last meal in WDW, or it was going to be. It was also the only Princess meal we were able to book for this trip.

So the CM at Space Mountain says not to worry. Go to guest relations on the way out of the park and they will call ahead for you. It will be fine. Oh, and while you are there ask them how to file a lost item report with lost and found....

Great. We are running late and now we have another stop to make. But we really need the glasses, Max does not have a back up pair and he can’t see without them. He missed a week of school to be in WDW. So we go to Guest Relations. There is a line.

Guess who is working at guest services.

Helen Helpershoes, Suzie Helpershoes’ useless sister-in-law. So Helen Helpershoes tells us how lost and found works. And it doesn’t sound wonderful. Everything found gets sent off to one central lost and found office. At the kennel (????). And it takes a day for things to make it there sometimes. And there is no way to check for anything until it gets to L&F. Helen Helpershoes also has a form for us to take to lost and found. Only she keeps talking and never gives it to us.

Also she calls ahead to the Akershus Royal Banquet Hall. And no one answers. Several times, even. But she is sure if we just go there and tell them why we are late, they will seat us.

Ok. Sounds good to me. Thanks Helen Helpershoes, for all your, um, help.

We make a mad dash for Norway. We made it in record time. Walking with purpose to the Akershus Royal Banquet Hall (It is kinda fun to type that) AKA The Storybook Lunch. We were only about 25 minutes late. Except there was a long line at the podium.

And we will call the evil one at the podium, W. For wicked witch, of course. Not WW, that might confuse people. So W asks for our name, SS#, dob, weight, mother’s maiden name, credit card number, bank account statement, life insurance company, and brokerage account information. Then she tells us “You are late”

TFI, Her real name was Stacy MeanPants. The “Storybook” is apparently Grimm’s, with out the Disney modifications. Funny that.

Thanks W. Insightful as always. So I explain our trapped at Space Mountain, lost glasses, called more than once and no one answered tale of woe.

W is not impressed. But she does not turn us away. She tells us to check back in “a little while” with her. So I let the troops know we have to wait and they decide to ride Maelstrom! (it is a fastpass!!!) via the 20 minute standby line. I opt out. I want to keep an eye on W.

Which reminds me of something cute Sophia did the other day. I sometimes sit in my car, on my driveway, after we get home from school. I am listening to NPR. Sometimes I am also looking at the mail. So the other day, Sophia made a sign and put it on the windshield. From the outside of the car, over where I was sitting. (that could be worded better but I really need to get this done NOW) It said "I have my eye on you" and had a huge roundish eyeball on it. She must have been able to tell that I didn't get it (sometimes I am slow that way) because she came back out a few minutes latter with another sign. It sad "Monster's Inc."

After about 20 minutes I ask again if we can be seated. Again she tells me, not right now, but come back in 20 minutes. Three times we play this game. That is an hour. TFI. I ask to speak with a manager and W tells me “He is not available” (maybe her real name was actually Natalie NoClue-Liar, I am always getting people’s names wrong).

I have watched them seat other people that were late for their PS time AND who arrived way after we did. I am way past mad. I am in a full on Zzub rage. But I try to hide it, because W is the gate keeper.

But, just as I was about to go postal on W who is the most incompetent CM I have ever seen. Also a public relations nightmare. And stupid. Which is a personal attack. Which is bad form. Except it also happens to be true. I see another CM, with a clipboard!!!! We all know she MUST be important. With a clipboard and all.

So I walk right past W and speak directly to Clipboard Girl. I make sure she is aware of how long W has strung us along. Clipboard Girl is clearly a real Disney CM. She tells me they will have a table ready for us in five minutes. They called us to our table in under four.

I am normally a mild mannered person. I am calm. I am hard to offend. To a fault even. I don’t like confrontation. Except if it involves one of my kids or dear friends. Then I am surprisingly combative. You don’t make my baby sad and you don’t mess with my friends. So, yes, Disney did hear about my run in with W. I think she may now work in the lost luggage room at MCO. That may just be an unfounded rumor though.

Lunch was uneventful. And also not very filling. We didn’t really like Norwegian food so much, as it turns out. They didn’t even have deviled eggs on the cold buffet.

We saw Princesses, and Sophia was happy. So I was happy. Actually we all were happy. And a tad relieved, because Sophia is a force to be reckoned with when she is upset. So really everyone was happy that Sophia was happy. Even people that didn’t know us.

After lunch we decide that we just can not let that be our final event in WDW. So we spend some time shopping. Because we had a little left over money. We hadn’t spent all of Sophia’s college fund yet.

I think this is when we found a gift for Ryan. Unless I already said this happened on another day. Then I am definitely right, so you can ignore this. In China we found a Mou tee-shirt .for sale. We were amused by this and all the implications of Mou’s image being used for profit. Ryan liked it, TFI. He was amused by it too.

We also purchased some lucky bamboo for Max. Because he felt he needed it. Too bad we had not bought it earlier in the trip.

The afternoon wore on and we could not delay any longer. We had to start for home. We had a long drive ahead of us. Very long. Extremely long. Longer than the walk from the bus stop for Pop Century to the front gates of Epcot. Even.

Only maybe we can drag our feet just a little bit longer.

Can’t we stay just a little bit longer
Can’t we try just a little bit harder
Can’t we give just a little bit more
Can’t we try to understand
That it’s fun we’re fighting for
Can't we try just a little more passion
Can't we try just a little less pride
Cause I love WDW so much
That it tears me up inside

So I use my perfect logic to explain to Mr. Silly that we have to use our left over credits before we leave. It is our duty. Or else I ‘splain nothing and just drive back to Pop. Because I know where the Mickey treat heads are there.

So we lock everything up in the car (did I mention that Mr. Silly packed the car last night? Details, details, anyway, he did. We had already checked out and everything, long ago. We used express check out. That way I didn’t have to actually know what the final bill was. Not that it was final yet, really).

Reason for edit: Parenthetical abuse. Also space-time continuum.

So we purchased, with our free credits, Mickey heads, Hot dogs, various sodas, and some chips. This took about 1.5 hours.

Now we are ready to go. Home.

So remember what Max had acquired in Epcot? No? Go back and look.

We can wait. Really.

Seriously. Go look.

Well it was not so lucky after all. And you actually can kill it, TFI. Which I had. Or we had, it was a group effort. Mostly me, though. Thank goodness it wasn’t Sophia’s. We would have needed to go back into Epcot, to the far side of the World Showcase. But Max is more reasonable than that. We just pinky promised to get him a bigger, better lucky bamboo when we got home. Which I did, tfi.

Yes, it is still alive. Thanks for asking. Also I have a cactus I have kept alive a whole year and a half. Almost two really. It is a good thing I am better at keeping humans alive than I am with plants.

And so, we left the Happiest place on Earth. For home. Which was looking pretty good by this point. Except that it was 4pm. And we had gotten up at 7am. And we had a long drive ahead of is. 18 hours, give or take. Or infinity minus three. Something like that. With no hotel rooms available in the middle part. So off we drove, into the sunset.

And that, my friends is the end.

Except for the post script. The backward glance. The epilogue. The I have one more thing to say part.

Despite some minor setbacks, and some somewhat major bumps in the road, we had a wonderful 9 day vacation. That 10th day, not so much. But I can now say with some authority that a bad day in WDW is better than a good day almost anywhere else. Because we still got to be together. And we had fun. Even if I did get a really bad song stuck in my head.

This has been brought to you by the letter ‘b’ and the number ‘5’.

















P.S.S.- We’re going back in less than a week!!!!!













P.S.S.S.- Some of this report may be, as someone I know likes to say, inside jokes layered upon inside jokes, with an enigma with a little riddle sprinkled on top. So if you need clarification on anything just ask, I am not trying to exclude anyone with my inside jokes. I just hope to bring a smile to a few faces. Plus they crack me up, and if you have read this far I am sure you have figured out that it is allaboutbeinghaley.






















You thought I was done, didn’t you?

The drive home took 24 hours with naps at a tiny bit scary though large and well lit rest stops. We are flying this year.

Now I am done(ish)

 

[Grammyof2]

Hallelujah

You finished.................and funny to the end.............and see ya next week



Because they are associated with me






And I forgot to check the spelling of that big word, oh well

 

[NAB]

Great job Haley, did Max ever get his glasses back? I never think to pack spare glasses with us. I can see with out mine, hubby no. He is blind as a bat.

Can't wait to hear about the next trip.....

 

[jw50]

Haley,

Are you picking up Max's glasses from the Lost and Found next week?

 

[HaleyB]

Oh carp. I forgot to wrap up the glasses story.

So I wasn't kidding when I told you that Lost & Found is now at the Kennel. It is. With poor and unhelpful signs and with exactly one person working there.

Ring the bell for service.

ring. wait. wait. wait. wait. ring. wait. wait. wait. wait. wait. wait. wait. wait. ring. ring. ring. ring.ring. wait. wait.

L&F dude: Can I help you?

Sillys: Yes. We lost a pair of glasses. How do we file a report?

L&F dude: When did you loss them?

Sillys: Today.

L&F dude: Well it is really too early to file a report.

Sillys: (even Sophia knew this was an odd response)

Sillys: Well, we are leaving today. Now. Five minutes ago, actually.

L&F dude: (holds up a huge bag that is a jumbled mess of glasses. Had to be 200 pairs in the one bag) We get a lot of glasses. Write out a description. Be as descriptive as possible. (Hands us a card) Call us in a few days to check.

Sillys: Ok, thanks. I guess.

We are a sad Silly family. A dejected Silly family. A without much hope Silly family.

But. But. Butt. (tee hee). We did call. At first there was no soup for us. But then a miracle happened. A Disney miracle. We called. And L&F dude asked us what they looked like. And I remembered to add that they were small, child sized glasses. And guess what.


They were there, right on top of the heap o'lost eyewear. And they mailed them to us. So Max did not have to wear his old glasses for more than a week or so.

They did not, however, ever find Mr. Silly's stuffed kola bear. You should ask him about that.

 

[HaleyB]

That was the faux trip report, the real trip report is...

 

[tink38]

Great report, Hayley. But now I'm wolley. Because it's over.

And you are leaving next week and I won't have anyone to keep me out of trouble on the CB! Or help me GET into trouble!

Ok, Mr. Silli - fess up, dude. Inquiring minds want to know. About the koala.

 

[tink38]

My edit cracked me up, TFI.

 

[sheridac]

And we will call the evil one at the podium, W. For wicked witch, of course

Oh, yes!!!! I am sure that’s what it stands for!!!!! Hahahahaha!!!!!!

I see another CM, with a clipboard!!!! We all know she MUST be important. With a clipboard and all.

Not only IMPORTANT but POPULAR too!!!!!!

 

[horsegirl]

I am normally a mild mannered person. I am calm. I am hard to offend. To a fault even. I don’t like confrontation. Except if it involves one of my kids or dear friends. Then I am surprisingly combative. You don’t make my baby sad and you don’t mess with my friends.

and this is what I love about you the most!

So, yes, Disney did hear about my run in with W. I think she may now work in the lost luggage room at MCO. That may just be an unfounded rumor though.

No it is true. But she was canned from that job when it was determined that she was hurling insults at even the lost luggage.

Reason for edit: Parenthetical abuse. Also space-time continuum.

I so get you!

Yes, it is still alive. Thanks for asking. Also I have a cactus I have kept alive a whole year and a half. Almost two really. It is a good thing I am better at keeping humans alive than I am with plants.

me too!

The drive home took 24 hours with naps at a tiny bit scary though large and well lit rest stops. We are flying this year.

And we don't get to hear about that?

You got Max's glasses back! Amazing!

Haley, this was a great ending! You are so esoteric and I so get all of it. And I love that you listen to NPR, but you knew that already....


Thanks for finishing, woman! I loved reading about you and the sillys from your unique perspective. See ya' in a week!

 

[kpk89]

Haleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey!

You did it!!

You're done!

It rocked!

And rolled!

Now you have to start packing, because you leave in a very few days!!



(Where's your pre-trip report?)


I am very happy that Max's glasses were found. But very sorry they couldn't have been found about a day sooner. Or never lost at all. Then you could've avoided the encounter with W.

Who, incidentally, I hear is on "scrape the jujyfruits off the floor" duty at the local cineplex.