Orlando Smackdown: Dis vs. Uni. Ch.16 Japan Hates me, Just Hates me 7-13

[smidgy]

I am just pleased as punch to be a grandma!!!

 

[Thumper_Man's Wife]

I am just pleased as punch to be a grandma!!!

What a proud moment for a grandparent. Congratulations to your grandson. Prayers and good thoughts for his next match!

 

[Xclusive2WDW]

Wow, very well worded,,,you're half smart, arent' you?

Awww thanks Nebo, I'm only one half smarter than you buddy

I kid, I kid

just wanted to add that our grandson, travis,a senior, just made "state" in the wrestling tournament, with a record of 38 - 7. he competes in the state tournament next weekend.

his twin brother Dylan has won many medals in tennis, and is looking forward to his season coming up!!!

That is wonderful Congrats to him and here's to a great season for them both Grandma's are the best, so I am sure they love having you for a grandma

 

[dvc at last !]

I am just pleased as punch to be a grandma!!!

That is great news - Congrats to Travis, Dylan and the proud
grandparents, too !

 

[smidgy]

when I think that a year ago, I didn't know I would be reunited with them.... and I prayed all these years... and here they are!!! 10 miles away!!!!! and good students! Christians! Athletes! and willing to be part of our lives! my savior, Jesus , answers prayers!!!!

 

[Backstage_Gal]

That's awesome, Smidgy, so happy for you!

 

[buzz1121]

Great chapter Nebo! The cackler appearance was perfectly timed for me as DD1 just recently watched "The Wizard of Oz" for the first time and loved it. I think she has seen it at last 5 times now, but the Wicked Witch of the West's laugh is pretty fresh in my mind. I think I will take being labeled as a giggler any day over being labeled a cackler. Cackler - that word just sounds bad, you know?

We always look for lizards and frogs at Disney too, even though we have plenty of both here at home. The kids love looking for them.

And I have to say that the quality of grits depends on who makes them. Trust me, when my Granny was living, she could make grits that you would dream about. They were always the perfect consistency(a key to really good grits) and they had the best flavor. She also made the best biscuits, with no recipe of course, and though I watched her a million times as a child, I have never been able to replicate them.

 

[buzz1121]

when I think that a year ago, I didn't know I would be reunited with them.... and I prayed all these years... and here they are!!! 10 miles away!!!!! and good students! Christians! Athletes! and willing to be part of our lives! my savior, Jesus , answers prayers!!!!

What a blessing Smidgy!

I am so happy for you and Nebo!

 

[buzz1121]

Sorry didnt get to read the chapter sorry a little busy.... But about to board a space cruiser and kick some more DH booty!

Would you please come along on the next Buzz family trip? DH is crazy good at TSMM. I have never, ever even come close to giving his score a run for its money.

 

[shan23877]

Smidgy (and Nebo) it sounds like you have a LOT to be proud of, and you are truly blessed to have been reunited with them. And, they have been blessed by having such awesome grandparents in their lives.

 

[shan23877]

OK, move over all you folks in the handbasket, that one cracked me up.

Also had to laugh about the lizards - we were at the World from 1/22 - 1/29 (POR and Yacht Club) and the first few days it was kind of chilly, like low to mid 60's. No lizards! I looked everywhere for them - I paid my fee, I want me some lizards! But then it warmed up and they all came back out again and all was right with the world.

As for the PIN code, I've never gotten one, even one where they took it back (can't you say to the CM "no takesies backsies? That would work on me, but then, I'm nice that way) so I don't have anything to offer. But yeah, I would be ticked off. Royally ticked off, since it's Disney.

Oh I'd fight for that code with everything I got!


One thing I have noticed is the water. Tastes great in HS and EPcot but the change hasn't reached MK yet.

Heading back for some pool time! Taking Smidgy's advice.

Shan, I would ABSOLUTELY send an email/fax to Disney customer service. CM's and their managers are frontline employees, which means they are to do everything they can to protect the companies interest and maintain good customer relations. The code was probably sent to you in error as they said or misprinted or something like that, however that is not your fault as the consumer. But, as the frontline, they are supposed to try and "fix" the mistake. It's a tough position to be in for them, but that still doesn't change the fact that you were solicited by Disney with a promise and Disney needs to honor it. I would contact customer service as they may have a little more leeway and it probably would not hurt their metrics one way or another to honor your code, where there may be backstage metrics we don't know about preventing the CM's from giving it to you. I hope you get it I am sorry you had to go through this. Good for you for moving forward and not letting anything, including Disney, to get in your way of a wonderful time at Disney World

I really appreciate the feedback and support guys. I am going to give it a few days, but I probably will email. All I wanted to know was what the code was worth so that I could consider changing dates, and in the end I felt like they thought I had my hand out begging for a deal. I'd give the 10% back over and over to have never felt that way. Thanks again!

 

[Xclusive2WDW]

when I think that a year ago, I didn't know I would be reunited with them.... and I prayed all these years... and here they are!!! 10 miles away!!!!! and good students! Christians! Athletes! and willing to be part of our lives! my savior, Jesus , answers prayers!!!!

That is an awesome thing and yes He sure does answer prayers and work it all out in the end How wonderful for all of you!

 

[jedijill]

Congrats Nebo and Smidgy! You have a lot to proud of with your grand babies.

Jill in CO

 

[monymony3471]

Would you please come along on the next Buzz family trip? DH is crazy good at TSMM. I have never, ever even come close to giving his score a run for its money.

I would live too!

Like Smidgy I have gotten the 999,999 score on a previous trip, but thus trip I didn't. I had to settle for this:

We are waiting to board "Magical Depress".

Last night was fun it is true love week at MK, they had hearts on the castle and these on the ground as you left the park.

They had photo opts with princes and princesses. But I already found my prince.

Not gonna spoil anything for Steve to write about but Fantasy land was fun. I noticed that the CM's in this part have a special look to them. The fit the theme. There was one who could have been a dead ringer for Prince Eric.

When we got off the Little Mermaid ride, this big burley and ever so good looking young man with the prettiest blue eyes...... Hang on.........pant pant..... Ok.........

Says to me in the deepest voice,"How did you like your swim down in the water?"

Totally flustered I giggled like a school girl and blushed.

Bad Mony! Bad!

Yep, will never for get that magical moment.

I hope we land in time I have a school music program to catch and my daughter has a part!

That's for letting me post Nebo, it was fun!

Let's plan Cedar Point this summer for real!

 

[pkondz]

No, I'm not gonna, you just ignored my egress response!

Response? You were right! What more do you want?


Oh.

You're one of those people that need to be told when they're right, huh?


okay


you were right.

happy now?

Drinking around the world in Epcot!


Got a job call and can't be there for the interview tomorrow so I am drinking my sorrows away!

Sorry 'bout the missed interview.... but you're in the right place to make yourself feel better!

You know, when I got up this morning and after I got done brushing my tooth, I realized this report is in trouble;

Right there is when the chill went down my back.

Oh, carp. He means me. I'm ruining his report.

But then logic prevailed.

I enhance the report in a totally awesome way.


what?

yes, I can get quite wordy.

oh? Hadn't noticed. It's not like you sit there typing away about snakes and stuff.

Yes, the word verbose should only be used once a trip report.

bombastic, circumlocutory, fustian, gabby, garrulous, grandiloquent, loquacious, palaverous, periphrastic, talkative.

Does that help? Need more?

I am nothing if not helpful.

Believe me,,, when I started doing this,,, I had no idea that the score would be so lopsided. Yeah I had a hunch that it would be in Uni's favor,,, but ,,,well,,,

Doesn’t bother me one iota.

Disney has something that you can’t quantify. Doesn’t matter if the final score is 100 to zip. ‘Cause what are you going to say at the end?

We’re going to DisneyWorld!!


So pblttttt….

(crap,, here goes the annual passes as well)

Well since you aren’t going to be using it… might as well ship it up here.

From Sue's Land we walked on back to the resort.

Litigious land?

saw what we wanted at Hogwarts

You wanted to see nothing???


ok

I'm sad.

Don't cha want to know why?

In the interests of keeping this thing going….


Why Nebo? Why are you sad? Do tell.

So far,, I have seen ONE stinkin lizard this whole trip!

Heh. I’m from even farther north… and I know exactly how you feel

ANd IT was being eaten by a crane at the time!
A pink crane.
A Bird Pink Crane.
A hungry Pink Bird Crane.
Lizard all gone.

I’m pretty sure you’re alluding to something here… but I have no idea what.

Sorry,, us from the great NOTH,,, love southern type things,,,grits, Disney, hush puppies,,,,um, did I mention grits?

Yes


And no

I’ve never had grits… nor do I have any desire to try them.

So you can have mine.

Or you can kiss my grits

A whole TV series based almost entirely on one line.

and seeing , lizards being one of them,,

Are you saying you’re a lizard here or you’re a Buddhist and want to be one with everything… including lizards.

and if I'm coming all the way down from Chi-Town,,,, I WANT LIZARDS! I want gators,,, I want snakes,,,,

Here’s the plan. We go down to Florida and start at the Gatorland Zoo and work our way through any and all other such places we can find.

ok,,, maybe hold off on the snakes,,, at least the venomous ones. I don't seem to do so well lately with antibiotics,,,,
got a feeling that I can put Anti-venin in the same group!

You’ve got no anti-venom…
Whoa, no anti-venom
You’ve got no anti-venom
Now he's gone...gone...gone...wooooooh.

And you can't just go and buy it anywhere, Publix doesn't carry them,,,

Try Walmart or Target


Those places have everything

"And please don't say Coppertone, I have my reasons for that."

Hello? Did someone just call my name?

Remember,, red yellow, kill a fellow,, red black, venom lack."

Being from a land of pretty much nothing but garter snakes, my rule is, “If it’s south of the Mason Dixon Line… avoid it.

"Ok, How about,, give me a beer, and there's reason to cheer,, give me a shot,,,, and,,, uh oh,,,

there's reason to cheer!"

woot!

Anyway,,, be very carefull in Florida,,, there are 4 major venomous snakes indigenous to the area,, the Copperhead,, which is a rattler type,,, the Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake which is REALLY bad news to be bitten by,, the Cottonmouth Water Moccasin,,,,don't ever come near a snake near a pond,,,, and of course, the Coral Snake,,, which is little,, seems harmless,,, very pretty,,, and carries the same venom as a COBRA!

Hello? Hello? Anybody still there?

You kidding? This is better then Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom.

We were changed and down by the pool and it wasn't even 11:30 yet.

Nebo? Yeah, he’s changed, man. He’s a changed man.

A cool thing by the Royal Pacific pool is that there are stations set up around that contain large urns of ice water with lemons and oranges in them, free for the taking.

Gotta admit, I’ve never heard of that before. Whole, sliced or wedges?

We loaded up and then found I nice spot in the sun by the pool's edge.

I don’t like it when a pool’s on edge. They’re totally unpredictable then.

But first, we are going to take a slight commercial break,,,

First? What was all that stuff earlier????

I took the pictures, I uploaded them, and by golly you are going to see them!

Hah! Jokes on you! I’m closing my eyes so I don’t have to see ‘em!

nnnnghhh…… dang it! Now I can’t see the rest of the TR.

Wait.

Fringe benefit?

Oh all right. I’ll look.

Ok, that's right, on the way out of the park I saw my second lizard; I think he's sitting on the rock

Yep. He’s still there… or a reasonable facsimile thereof.

Two families,,,, about 4or5kids total,,,and two women that didn't know how to laugh.

Did you tell them your charming Florida snakes story?

one woman sat next to Diane and took some chairs there,,,, and the other sat at a table behind me.
Since they are not together,,,, now they have to talk EXTRA loud so they can hear each other.

See they’re just being considerate. Such scintillating conversation should be shared amongst the lowly masses… in this case, that means you and Smidgy.

Their words, not mine.

Smidgy is not lowly.

Ten minutes later and I was willing to give them a twenty to go and join their husbands.

Totally worth it.

Ok, what can you do; you can pick your chair and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your lounger neighbors.

Did it not occur to you that if you had picked your nose, in the most interesting and explicit manner possible, that you could in fact have ensured a paucity of lounger adjoiners?

I went back to my paper and tried to ignore them, a couple of the kids went in the water.

Oh I know this one! A priest, a Rabbi and a couple of kids went in the water…

Ummm…. I don’t think I like where that’s going.

Moving on……

No, not a laugh, not a chuckle or a chortle or even a guffaw,,,, this was a full, Wicked Witch of the West, cackle!

Which then begs the question.

Are you “Her Pretty” or one of her flying monkeys?

Well, you don’t like flying, so….

A third time water sprayed me,,, this was followed by a rucus behind me with the everpresent cackle. Now, I'm looking back coyly,,, and she picks up the Nerf football that she can't catch which promotes the cackling, and tosses it back to her son in the pool.

I am very rarely surprised at the lack of common sense in people.

This time when pool kid wound up to throw the "sponge" to mommy,,,who is already cackling in anticipation of missing it again,,,,I simply stood up from my lounger with a leg on each side, intercepted it about head high and yelled out "confiscated!"

Never antagonize dumb people. You never ever win.

I had kind of planned on yelling out like a football announcer,,,It's intercepted!, but instead "confiscated" is what came out.

Whoops!

That small change in verbage immediately morphed me from a victim to a bad guy,,, in a heartbeat.

How dare you take the ball away from little Billy? That boy’s a saint! The apple of his mother’s eye.


sorry

Poison apple of his mother’s eye.

The third planet from the sun stopped dead in it's orbit.
Australians and Chinese flew off into space.
I'm sorry,, "Frew" off into space.

Deck the halls with boughs of horry!

Kids stopped yelling and playing in the pool.
No more cackling.
The crickets stopped cricking.

Cricking?

cricking. I’ll buy that.

I could sense the change, and it wasn't going to be good, they were all ready to turn on me.

After all that? Even with your diminished senses… I hope so!

I grabbed the ball underneath me,,, stood up and yelled into the pool for the kid to "go deep", and threw it well out there, everything was then back to fine in the world.

Brilliant.

We started to orbit again,,life went back to normal,,, well, except for those Chinese,,,

What about the Aussies??

It gets dark early this time of year,, and I'm thinking of trying Forbidden Journey tonight before closing.
yeah,,FJ at night,,, I can't wait!

hmmmm…. No comment.

Thanks for the chapter! :

My question is this Neboites (and Marita in particular if you don't mind)-what do I do now? Do I email or call Customer Service to explain that this happened to me? (and of course risk being treated again as a couponer) Or, do I let this go and hope that the memory has faded by the time we go on this trip?

Personally, I’d let it go. Everyone can make a mistake… even Disney. They said it was sent in error… fine. You got a token $100 off as an apology… fine.

And you know, brushing your tooth really goes well with combing you hair.

Whats that mob of people heading this way, and why do they have torches?

‘Cause it’s dark? How thoughtful.

Here's a little song I wrote, you might want to sing it note for note, so don't worry, be happy. When you worry your face will frown, and that will bring everybody down, so don't worry, be happy. Don't worry be happy.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xv6dao_bobby-mcferrin-plays-the-audience_music#.URqkQJGoAT0

Ponzi, please don't do what I think you're going to do.

Yay for pics! And speaking of pictures, I haven't seen the Coppertone picture in a while...

So that’s one vote for and one vote against. I will acquiesce to the majority. Nebo’s vote doesn’t count. Smidgy’s does.

You're supposed to eat rolls, not be on them.

Ba dum dum… He’s on a roll folks!

Uhhh… wait.

I'll get you my pretty, and your little Nebo to.

Ah. So I wasn’t sure if he was the “pretty” or a flying monkey… you’ve got him as the dog.

I gotta add the cackler, couldn't decide where she wanted to sit, so she kinda commandered 3 loungers. one behind us, one next to us, and one she turned sideways in the aisle between the 2 rows of loungers. and she kept moving from one to the other to the other.

it was kinda eerie. you never knew from which direction the cackle was going to come from. if you lied there with your eyes closed, it was behind you.. no next to you, no...I kept expection to open my eyes and have her standing right over be, cackling in my facing looking like Kathy Bates in Misery

Great addendum Smidgy! Although I think Kathy Bates in Misery isn’t nearly as scary as Kathy Bates in About Schmidt. I mean… Holy Schmidt!!

I like the arrrrrr! Sometimes there's a wail/scream thrown in there for dramatic good measure as well.

And is the wail/scream coming from Buzz or Buzzette????

 

[pkondz]

anyhoo, I saw the first lizard of our trip! and I reached down to grab it. ... and got it's tail. and it ran off, and I had the tail in my hand..... I felt so bad...

Thanks for the de-tails.

just wanted to add that our grandson, travis,a senior, just made "state" in the wrestling tournament, with a record of 38 - 7. he competes in the state tournament next weekend.

his twin brother Dylan has won many medals in tennis, and is looking forward to his season coming up!!!

Wow! Color me impressed.

They had photo opts with princes and princesses. But I already found my prince.

Well technically we haven't met yet. Just on the boards.


:

 

[MHSweb79]

Reader's Digest arrived yesterday and one of the humorous anecdotes was the following (paraphrased):

HOTEL GUEST: There are lizards in my room!
CLERK: I'm sorry about that, sir.
HOTEL GUEST: I didn't pay all this money to have lizards in my room!
CLERK: OK, sir, I'll add them to your bill.

 

[pkondz]

Reader's Digest arrived yesterday and one of the humorous anecdotes was the following (paraphrased):

HOTEL GUEST: There are lizards in my room!
CLERK: I'm sorry about that, sir.
HOTEL GUEST: I didn't pay all this money to have lizards in my room!
CLERK: OK, sir, I'll add them to your bill.

 

[Disneybuckeye]

Thank you Nebo. I needed a laugh this week. I am sad that my DLR trip is over and our next trip to DW is so far away. Your trip report was just what I needed.

I would love to have seen the face of the mother when you confiscated the football. I am sure it was priceless.

We never did make it to the pool when we stayed at RPR. The pix look great. Might have to spend more time there during our next trip to the dark side.

 

[nebo]

once we were at a Walgreens in florida (and I do believe we have visited more Walgreens than we have amusement parks..)

I have just been put down,, right? But did you know they sell Vicodin at Walgreens? I do.

um this one was on apopka/vineland road, north of buena Vista drive, we were in search of some sort of sling for Nebo's shoulder/neck, which was killing him. ......( now, which trip was that, I know nebo was wearing that sling at Gatorland?)

September 7, 2007 trip,,, we drove down for a 5 night stay at Pop,, then a 3 nighter at the Dolphin,,,,,and yes, it was at Gatorland that the bug flew away with part of my forehead.

anyhoo, I saw the first lizard of our trip! and I reached down to grab it. ... and got it's tail. and it ran off, and I had the tail in my hand..... I felt so bad...

you wouldn't believe how much those tails are going for on EBay!

Great chapter Nebo! The cackler appearance was perfectly timed for me as DD1 just recently watched "The Wizard of Oz" for the first time and loved it. I think she has seen it at last 5 times now, but the Wicked Witch of the West's laugh is pretty fresh in my mind. I think I will take being labeled as a giggler any day over being labeled a cackler. Cackler - that word just sounds bad, you know?

Yes,,, Giggler,,, good,,, Cackler,,,, bad.

We always look for lizards and frogs at Disney too, even though we have plenty of both here at home. The kids love looking for them.

Seen plenty of turtles down in Disney as well,,and I don't mean the ones in masks.

And I have to say that the quality of grits depends on who makes them. Trust me, when my Granny was living, she could make grits that you would dream about. They were always the perfect consistency(a key to really good grits) and they had the best flavor. She also made the best biscuits, with no recipe of course, and though I watched her a million times as a child, I have never been able to replicate them.

Anybody else hearing Alan Jackson singing "Where I come from"?

Would you please come along on the next Buzz family trip? DH is crazy good at TSMM. I have never, ever even come close to giving his score a run for its money.

trust me,, I know the feeling,,, we are usually close going into the last scene,,,, but when its all said and done,,, it's Nebo,,,,101,000,,,, Smidgy,,, 132,000,,,no matter what approach I take,, I end up with the same score,,,go for the big targets,,, go for the high value targets,,, doesn't matter,,,,I'm getting a hundred thousand and that's it!

Smidgy (and Nebo) it sounds like you have a LOT to be proud of, and you are truly blessed to have been reunited with them. And, they have been blessed by having such awesome grandparents in their lives.

Wll thanks Shan,,, um,, you're talking about the lizards again, right?

I would live too!

Like Smidgy I have gotten the 999,999 score on a previous trip, but thus trip I didn't. I had to settle for this:

We are waiting to board "Magical Depress".

Last night was fun it is true love week at MK, they had hearts on the castle and these on the ground as you left the park.

Ok,,, where do I sign up for the "fake love" week....that's some of the best kind!

Ruh roh,,, I can just feel my approval rating dropping,,

They had photo opts with princes and princesses. But I already found my prince.

Lotta good that does us this far apart....oh,,, uh,,, never mind.

When we got off the Little Mermaid ride, this big burley and ever so good looking young man with the prettiest blue eyes...... Hang on.........pant pant..... Ok.........

Says to me in the deepest voice,"How did you like your swim down in the water?"

Totally flustered I giggled like a school girl and blushed.

Bad Mony! Bad!

Oh brother

Yep, will never for get that magical moment.

I hope we land in time I have a school music program to catch and my daughter has a part!

That's for letting me post Nebo, it was fun!

Let's plan Cedar Point this summer for real!

As I have always told you,, my thread is yours,,, thanks for all the updates.