Nothing to See Here...

[mariezp]

Oh yeah, Sherry... I liked your idea of telling your friends "I'm going to DLR at this time, on this day, for this long...and if you want to meet up, you can find me here." that you had posted on the Disney at Christmas thread. It may work like a charm! Or something else that might work.... don't let them even think you are making plans. Then they will probably come looking for you wondering why. Wouldn't that be nice for a change!

And, BenA81, I LOVE your California letter photos in your siggie! Cool idea! I feel some inspiration for new photos on our next trip! Here's hoping they are still there in November!

 

[Sherry E]

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[BenA81]

And, BenA81, I LOVE your California letter photos in your siggie! Cool idea! I feel some inspiration for new photos on our next trip! Here's hoping they are still there in November!

Thank you! It was a lot of fun taking these pictures. We were there early enough that we didn't have too many people to contend with. My wife only had to crop/photoshop out 1 or 2 people.

BenA81 - Congratulations on the 3rd baby arriving soon! Yes, I can see where travel isn't going to be in the game plan for a while. You definitely need to make a point of visiting Catalina in your 5-year-plan!! They are currently undergoing a kind of renewal on the Island - one that I hope will not detract from the natural charm of Avalon. I think the recession hit Avalon kind of hard too (as it has hit so many people hard), so they have lost business and tourists over the last couple of years. Their master plan is to add in all these new adventure-ish tours to bring people back to the island. For example, they just added in a Zipline in the last month or two, and they are going to be doing some more underwater adventure-type things. They have revamped and remodeled some of the old hotels and they have replaced old restaurants with new ones. Of course, this gives them an excuse to charge more money for everything now that it's shiny and new, but I guess they feel people will come back to the island, despite the flailing economy, to eat at the new restaurants, try out the Zipline, stay at the new hotels, etc.

Anyway, with all of the changes to Catalina recently, hopefully it will still seem like the same quaint, small-town place that it has always seemed to be. Some things should be left alone. But by the time you get to the island, all of its new attractions should be in full swing!

And there's golf there too - both regular golf and miniature golf!!

That's a shame they've lost a lot of tourism $. Let's hope they don't change things too much, from your pictures I can definitely tell the island possesses a lot of natural beauty.

 

[kaoden39]

Sherry, I may not comment but I am still around. And I would bet Courtney is too.

 

[Sherry E]

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[Belle Ella]

I wont abandon you Sherry!! Where else will I get my long post fixes? (Even if this is only a one-liner)

 

[kaoden39]

For so long with me I had trips that fell through and it became kind of hard to read all the trip reports. You know?

 

[Sherry E]

I wont abandon you Sherry!! Where else will I get my long post fixes? (Even if this is only a one-liner)

Woo hoo! Long posts!

For so long with me I had trips that fell through and it became kind of hard to read all the trip reports. You know?

It is rough when you begin to plan and things keep falling through for various reasons. Eventually you just get frustrated and don't want to deal with TRs in general - your own or anyone else's!


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I'll tell you guys another problem I am having with TRs in general, and have been having for a while, is a technical one! I don't know if it's my stupid computer or if it's the DIS or maybe a lethal combination of both. But I have been having a terrible time trying to log in here for quite a while now. Or when I click 'Quote' or reply or whatever, it takes 9 years for the page to load. Then when I click Submit Reply, it takes another 9 years - to the point where I have to keep hitting Refresh. It gets to be so frustrating - and it happens on the main forum too, and not only here in the TR - that I sometimes just read the forums and don't even log in!!

I remember Laurie was saying something about having this same technical issue. It's really annoying. I think my old PC probably doesn't help matters any, but I think part of it may have something to do with the DIS.

 

[BenA81]

I'll tell you guys another problem I am having with TRs in general, and have been having for a while, is a technical one! I don't know if it's my stupid computer or if it's the DIS or maybe a lethal combination of both. But I have been having a terrible time trying to log in here for quite a while now. Or when I click 'Quote' or reply or whatever, it takes 9 years for the page to load. Then when I click Submit Reply, it takes another 9 years - to the point where I have to keep hitting Refresh. It gets to be so frustrating - and it happens on the main forum too, and not only here in the TR - that I sometimes just read the forums and don't even log in!!

I remember Laurie was saying something about having this same technical issue. It's really annoying. I think my old PC probably doesn't help matters any, but I think part of it may have something to do with the DIS.

I've noticed a little bit of slowness in the past week, but haven't had any other issues.

 

[Belle Ella]

It's not just you Sherry! Parts of the day the DIS is running fine for me and then at others it is slower than molasses! I absolutely can't stand it when it takes 20 minutes to get the thread you wanted loaded and another 20 minutes to post. I could have touched base on all of my pet projects and then some, but noooooooo. I hope it doesn't become a forever ongoing problem! I can't imagine trying to write up my next TR and have to put up with it. I did a little bit when doing the '06 back-track and it was bad enough to get that out.

 

[kaoden39]

It has done it to me a few time recently too.

 

[Sherry E]

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[bumbershoot]

Courtney abandoned her own TR!!! She is nowhere to be seen in this TR section. She left all of us to fend for ourselves. She didn't even do a TR for her last DLR trip, which is to bad since her TRs were fun.

Where did she go?


Gosh I only got the debit card last August, you'd think I would remember. But for me, the deal was "use it x times, get 25 in your account". Oh hey, I just looked up my past statements.

Yes, by the first statement after we switched the card over, I had 3.45 earned in rewards dollars AND I had the 25. So a total of 28.45 was shown as "available to transfer to a DISNEY REWARDS card".



I've had little $10 visa rewards cards...honestly i can't remember if I used them online. But you could always use it for something else you would buy already, and then put $10 in your pocket to turn into a disney card later. Or see if you can use them to buy a disney giftcard at a local grocery store (our Fred Meyers, a Kroger store, sells them, and I hear that Walgreens sells them too). If your store will let you, that is. The trick to using them is to use them for something that's more than the amount, and tell them specifically to use the amount, and then you'll pay cash (or whatever) over it.

 

[Sherry E]

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[Sherry E]

I changed my TR title temporarily. I thought it was fitting, since DL, Catalina and Bret have all been big parts of my life in some way or other in the past (or present, as in the case of DLR). I'll change the title again as a new DLR trip plan comes to fruition - or probably before that, depending on my mood.

I wanted to use different words for things or phrase the title slightly differently, but I ran out of room. So I have to figure out how to squueze in what I wanted to say in the title line!!

 

[BenA81]

I liked it when you had the "(1972-2009)" in the title.

Something like, "Trip Reports and & a Trip Down Memory Lane (1972-2010) - Disneyland, Catalina, and Bret Michaels!"

Of course, just a submission for the suggestion box. It is your thread

 

[Sherry E]

I liked it when you had the "(1972-2009)" in the title.

Something like, "Trip Reports and & a Trip Down Memory Lane (1972-2010) - Disneyland, Catalina, and Bret Michaels!"

Of course, just a submission for the suggestion box. It is your thread

I wanted to leave the years in the title as well - it wouldn't all fit this time around!! I have the years in my signature, as you can see, but it wouldn't fit in the Title when I removed the "My Life" part and tried to leave in the years. I removed exclamation points. I removed extra space. I moved words around. I used '&' instead of 'and.' No space, darn it!

Oh well, it will keep changing, depending on the day or my mood! I'll either keep playing with variations of the same thing, or I will change it to something totally different so it looks like a whole new trip report!!

 

[kaoden39]

I have also heard that Harry Connick Jr is being considered as a judge. Either way I would be pleased.

 

[Sherry E]

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[kaoden39]

Sherry, you hit on the perfect person to replace Simon. I don't like him, but Gene Simmons would be the perfect replacement. Wow, I wonder if they thought about him? He rubs me the wrong way, Simon may be abrasive but he isn't repugnant, there in is the difference.