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[Sherry E]

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[Sherry E]

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[kaoden39]

You got some great pictures Sherry. Thanks for sharing them.

 

[Sherry E]

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[DizDragonfly]

Does anyone of the current generation even know what "Pete's Dragon" is?

My 12 and 15 year old boys do. I love that movie and the kids have seen it lots of times. They even have warm fuzzies about it because I would sing Candle on the Water to them as a lullaby when they were little.

 

[bumbershoot]

I've only skimmed your report (wanted to see the pictures), but I saw that you felt bad that they did surface streets while driving you home... You're so nice to people when they put themselves out for you. Knowing you you're probably sending them a thank you card!

Hmm...while I've never actually seen that part of the mural, how am I not surprised that you posed in front of Catalina?

Well, it's been a long day and it's going to be a long solo week with me and E since hubby was called away on a last minute work trip to a faraway destination (awesomely, it's on a codeshare airline with Alaska and they are letting him get Alaska miles for it...I'm seeing a good start on a solo DLR trip for him for his birthday from those miles!). I'll come back tomorrow and read the report more thoroughly, do it justice, when I'm not zonked out.

 

[Sherry E]

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[deejdigsdis]

Thanks for the report! In other posts you made it sound like you only got about 4 pictures , so I was pleasantly surprised! Wow, seeing your pictures makes me realize how much I missed and I want to go back even more. We had 4 days in the parks, with hours being 10 - 8 at DL and 10 - 6 at DCA. I thought for sure we would see everything and then some in 4 days, but once I got home I started thinking about everything we didn't get to...like whole sections of DCA that we never even saw. Anyway, back to your TR... I loved the bit about the scarf! I could just picture an older lady eyeing the scarf very closely, trying to decide if it should be allowed in! I would love to see the Main Street ELectrical Parade again. Yeah, I know it's not called that anymore, but that's what I'll always call it. I remember Pete sitting on top of the dragon, getting everyone to count to 3 and the lights on the dragon would go out. Good memories. And that sure was nice of your friends to drive you home! Looking forward to more pictures!

 

[Sherry E]

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[bumbershoot]

Let me guess. HSM was going by? That's the exact expression I get when it goes by. For the 18th time in an hour. Or so it seems.

we always wonder why they don't add in a sort of 'sea breeze' scent when you soar over the ocean.

ewwwwwww. sea breezes generally smell like old kelp to me!

Strangely, bob, of all people, suggested riding alice in wonderland, mr. Toad and pinocchio, so we hit all of those, one by one! We would have done peter pan too, but the line was 30 minutes and we were all pooped by that time. Bob remembered some of these rides from when he was a kid and wanted to relive them.

Awww, Bob got all nostalgic! Sounds like they have fun on the trips, too.

i didn't send jackie and bob a thank you card for taking me home, but i thanked them on facebook, if that counts!

I suppose it does count!

Robert is going to make a solo trip to dlr for his birthday? That should be fun! Can we get him to do a trip report?

I've been trying to gauge his interest in a solo trip. He goes back and forth. I feel very very guilty b/c I said there wasn't any money for his b'day trip (with the funcard waiting for him)...and that was b/c of the Divas trip. And then just two months later we went for E's b'day, then of course we went for my b'day.

But he says he doesn't really *want* to go solo. Since he works outside the home, he doesn't get to spend as much time with E as he wants, but I think the idea of a father/son trip still scares him a bit, for the "just in case" situations, b/c I'm still better at comforting E. Since E can definitely be prone to accidents (just looked up, noticed E being ridiculously dangerous on the back of the couch, ACK) that's a valid concern.

He's generally not the best at non-work-related written stuff. Which is odd, as he is constantly writing the Great American SciFi Novel. Which I haven't read, b/c I don't read things that people I know write. Nor do I go see them if they act or sing. Just a little quirk of mine (and one that helped me lose a friendship). But really, I don't read peoples' stuff b/c I get really critical (which is actually good b/c it's good info) and I guess I don't take peoples' feelings into account (which isn't good), and he's better off without me reading.

All that to say...I doubt we'd get a trip report out of him, though he's getting much better at taking in-focus pictures, so maybe it would be pictorial.

 

[bumbershoot]

Oh that's weird. Did you see how it quoted you? Shows as up as "sherry e" instead of Sherry E".

And I had to fix the pic, b/c the quote took the picture URLs and made them all lowercase instead of uppercase where it was needed. WEIRD.

 

[bumbershoot]

I AM a little annoyed that I could have feasibly squeezed the Christmas pictures onto the same CD with the Halloween pictures and that I ordered the CD before knowing for certain if I was making a DLR holiday trip or not, but it is what it is

That quote came through fine, with your name correct. A mystery!

Anyway, why not hold off on ordering it, just in case you have another trip. Maybe the new year will bring you more opportunities? That way you wouldn't regret it if you did have another trip?

 

[Sherry E]

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[Canyon girl]

Sherry,

Just read your December TR. Such a shame that "friends" can get in those snippy moods. I have a "friend" like that. In fact, I'm not even sure she is a "friend".... Oh, well! BTW, my kids were introduced to Pete's Dragon 2 or 3 years ago. It's hard to believe that kids don't know Pete nowadays. Glad you had a great trip!

Naomi

 

[bumbershoot]

Sherry, I knew it b/c of where she was, that there were other people looking in the same direction, and...I just could tell. And what's funny is that as I type, DS is finishing up watching HSM3, which is on Kids Encore. He spent the whole movie copying Troy's "cool moves". He even went to the sink and got his hair wet so it would look sort of like Troy's.

I swear, HSM follows people around. Well, the thing is, is that they run the floats around just to advertise for the next "show", so it really does come by often. Either that or they run the show every half hour.


As for friends and their artistic endeavours...it's multi-faceted.

I get embarrassed "for" people easily, and I get really uncomfortable. I have the problem while watching sitcoms, I call it the "three's company" problem, where there's a misunderstanding and people get embarrassed, etc etc. Rather than finding it funny, I find it nearly impossible to deal with. DS has a bit of it; he'll run out of the room during scenes like that! Since he's been watching some Hannah Montana, and they do a LOT of that, I'm not sure he's seen the entire episode of some of the shows.

So anyway, I have an overactive embarrassment thing. And for whatever reason, I find it really hard to watch people who are putting themselves into that position. What's STRANGE about it all is that I wanted (ha, past tense is wrong, I WANT) to be an actor, and I was in theater all through high school (interrupting myself to say that DS just restarted HSM3 omg how will I survive?). I had plenty of friends in there. But even in Drama class, I couldn't watch my friends. I would look at the scenery rather than at them. It sucked! But I have tried watching the person and it sucks even more.

I did see one friend in a production; I have a friend who is the youngest son of a now-late bigwig in hollywood, and while I think he's given up his acting dreams (never wanted to use his last name, but never changed his name either), and he was in a local production of one of the "sister" plays to Biloxi Blues. He was good, but I spent the whole time not watching him, worrying that he was going to mess up, etc etc etc.

When friends have given me their stuff to read, they want to share it with me, discuss it, be touchy feely....aughhhhhh, third level of hell for me. Especially poetry, I am NOT into it. I remember this one friend who kept asking me to look at her stuff, she'd stare at me as I read it, watching for every nuance of my expression/feelings. And then if I didn't get it...that was bad. If I got it, but got it "wrong", bad. ETc. She'd want commentary on the deep meaning, and I'd tell her about a typo, or something awkward in a phrase, etc.

After going through college doing that, I gave it up!

Although strangers sometimes think I'm angry b/c of the natural set of my face (and this icky wrinkle that took up residence shortly after starting to plan a wedding), my friends can see *everything* on my face. And I can't lie. And I don't see the point of lying about someone's artistic endeavors...I mean, if your old buddy Brett had made a horrible song and wanted your opinion before releasing it, it wouldn't have helped him if you said it was great, right? And I think that about all artistic stuff.

My friend here in town is part of Revels. Last year she said she was too busy for it so she only introduced the production. (turned out she was REALLY sick with her chronic condition and she had a liver transplant only 3 months later) I went with her that year, b/c she wasn't in it. She was in it, again, this year, and I coudln't go. I don't like watching anyone sing, not really, and especially not choral type stuff, and I wouldn't have been able to enjoy it at all.

The friend that I lost partially b/c of it says I'm immature and need to get counseling to get over it. She might be right. All I know is...it takes an incredible effort for me to do it, and then I don't enjoy things. So if she wanted an empty shell to listen to the music she and her husband made (gag) that's fine, but call me crazy, I think it's better for me to skip it, rather than to just sit there blankly and LIE to her at the end.


So that's my stupid quirk.


HSM3 makes me SO so so so so glad I never had a serious boyfriend in high school. The whole nonsense of choosing college based on where someone else would be....not my cup of tea!

 

[davidsprincess]

And here are a few pictures provided by Shawn, from December 2007:

When I found my knight in shining armor, I latched on to him right away!

This is the same Knight that my DD4 has declared as "hers" ever since our first trip there in October 2007. We have been back in 2008 and 2009 and each time she HAS to have her picture taken with him while she is wearing her Cinderella Dress. It has been very interesting to see the changes each year in her height next to the knight and length of her Cinderella dress. I wonder how many claim him as their knight in shining armor?! thanks for sharing this picture!!