(That's the Prospector's voice on the Big Thunder Mountain ride, just before you take off!)
HOLY Shnikey! Holy Guacamole! Great Horny-Toads! Sufferin' Succotash!
Tis Septemer the First, In the year of our Lord, 2006.
This marks the historical day of the OFFICIAL PRE-TRIP of "OUR BIG FAT DISNEY VACATION"(!) by your friend and mine, UtahMama!!!!!
(me)
Miraculously, this poor thing has awoken(?) from it's coma and is RARIN' to get a move on!
The Stolen multi-color Mickey Mouse head paint chip countdown calander (Curtesy of the Salt Lake Home Depot. Shout out to Bob in the paint dept!) now says 3 MORE DAYS! Much to my kids' delight!!! And mine, truth be known.
My dining reservations have been slightly modified due to DISpeer pressure! On the 13th (my birthday) we're going to Wolfgang Pucks instead of Coral Reef. No explanation...go to any CR dining review! And on the 12th we'll be going to the Concourse SteakHouse instead of the Maya Grill. Because you get to paint your own mickey cookies. Again the peer pressure. So much for my love of contraversy! (So much for my IN YOUR FACE attitude.) Which I really do love, but I'm hoping we'll have snooty CM's or servers to deal with somewhere along the line. Who WILL be dealt with swiftly (they wont see it coming!). Once they find out WHO I AM! A Trip Reporter for The DISboards, Readership 140,000! (Unless they are a 16 year old boy, the scene probably wont involve tears).
My Alien Green Laminated Mickey Head paint chips are decoratively affixed to a TREAT you can ONLY get in this loverly state or by me in the World. Only 25. First come, firstserved. If I run into you in the parks or at a resort (We resort pool hop and bring our last year's refillable mugs with us...) you may have one! Two if your kids are with you.
I have bought all the DISessentials, BodyGlide (to avoid chaffing you-know-where and blister prevention), Lime green shirts, double sided tape to decorate my resort window (if this is normal, I dunno), Tylenol, spray on sunblock, Flap Happy hat for dd2 who'll be riding the stroller ride for 9 days straight. Extra cam corder battery, extra memory card, tri-pod (Dh is determined to take a good castle picture during WISHES since last year's were iffy). (see
in post #216)
GardenGrocer.com is all set to deliver to our door with a bright shiny face, a truck load of Diet Pepsi and Mtn. Dew, and water, and Tide. I'm going to pay for my vacation selling boot-legged Pepsi products
to pepsi-starved tourists (DONT tell them they can call GardenGrocer too!). I dont like to waste snack credits on water and dietCoke when there's mickey head ice cream bars to buy.
My cats are on their own. They are diva toliet drinkers who ignore the fresh water I set out. I'll put a bunch of catch-ow out for them. A darling trusted neighbor will stop in a few times to check on them.
My two Golden Retrievers (Clifford the Big Red Dog and Amber ) are going to the Creme de la Creme of doggie resorts- "Chez Grandpa". Where they'll be spoiled beyond all reason. OT: My dogs are the siblings of Roma Downing of Touched By An Angel's dog, Ruby. (I KNOW).
The pins we plan on trading were bought in-bulk from e-bay. Yes, in case your lighting your torch to flame, they are official "disnee" pins made in a sweat shop by orphans. (They ARE official and are heavy metal ones...nothing questionable about them).
We are in the process of eating all of our perishables and cleaning out and sanitzing so we'll return to no funky odours. Like the sippy cup with what used to be milk in it I just found behind the loveseat. Or the soggy foodstuffs at the bottom of the garbage can. Would you like to read this PTR with Smell-o-Vision?
This week I also managed TWO Princess birthday parties! DD turned 2 and we had a brilliantly done party with all her little friends with a 16 inch high castle cake!!! AND... a boring stick in the mud...is-family-fun-over-yet Party
(YOU BET-CHA!)Starring "the" most negative bunch of glass half empty family members EVER assembled! The same party. Two different groups. I am SO smart to do two parties, though. Because it is a scientific fact that bad moods are contageous. The first one ROCKED the castle!
Also this week I fought off a KILLER flu (?) that included a fever, stiff neck, sore throat, aches and pains. It only really lasted about 2 days thanks to Zicam nasal swabs and Airborne and vitamin C and Hot tea and honey. Thank God! I hate being sick on "holiday".
Yes, I am a family of 6 and we so far have 4 massive suitcases (dont worry they dont weigh 50 lbs.)and 2 biggish dufflebags for all our DisCrap. NO liquids or gels are in my carry-on, or the diaper bag or my purse. I will be Lip-Glossless for the duration! OH THE HUMANITY!!!!
That should be interesting, eh????
I'm one of those "I think I'm low maintenance but am really a high maintenance" kind of girl! 
She's probably out trying to get someone to refill her WDW refillable mug. 
