"OUR BIG, FAT DISNEY VACATION!" Ch.26 NEW! 2/11 pg. 121 "And they lived happily ever&

[MyTalula]

Now I was sweating from every pore. Made it to the comfy over-stuft couches, which are probably just gorgeous, if the room would stop spinning …and the tunnel vision...heart pounding...sweating…..couch...darkness!!!

Oh that used to happen to me all the time they tested and tested me for blood sugar, but it wasn't the problem. It still happens sometimes, and I can't be touched, if I lay down, the spinning and tunnel vision stops, and just maybe I don't pass out, if I lay down fast enough. Sometimes I drop like a stone though. LOL Fun fun times I say. NOT

Jordan waited with Norah and I took Dallen and Riley excitedly through the line for the ride. Where there was a red-haired young pimply CM in a mood. He directed us to just any line and I nicely said, “No, we want to ride without feet in our view. Could you tell us where to go for that?…” NOT an unreasonable request. One he should have graciously directed us to our footlees-view line. That would have been easy for him. Oh nooo! He got an attitude and subtly yet obviously rolled his pretty blue eyes at ME! And pointed to another CM with a drama queen sigh, “UGHHhhhh…JUST GO WHERE EVER YOU WANT!” he said to me! I stood there. Maintained eye contact disturbingly long. He blinked (I won the staring contest) and I said, “Are you finished?” He didn't stammer. “Uh, YES.” I narrowed my eyes just a little and glanced noticibly down to his name tag..."Wow, I just was askin'! Is the attitude necessary, BRAD??” (not his real name). He looked uncomfortable and apologized. So I left with, “Please don’t take out any bad moods on people who just ask a simple question”

Right ON UMA don't take any slip from that pimply faced CM!

I wrote the following down in my TR notebook and it frustrates me to this day:

"I look up and I am not exagerating at my family's actions: DH is cutting his buttered bread stick with his steak knife and fork with his used napkin on the table. He keeps saying it's because his hands are too big to hold his knife and fork properly...I'm troubled why he isn't picking up his bread stick with his fingers. DS17 is busily slurping the last precious drops of his smoothy with his straw loudly... he looks up at my "Tsking" and whispers, "WHAT?". DS8 has two breadsticks impailed on his pointer and "tall man" fingers and is making them edible finger puppets, DS6 is spitting back his ice into his glass. NO ONE is taking my guidance(nagging). No one has his napkin on his lap. No one is even USING his napkins...sleeves again..." I just tried to focus on my plate and my primadonna manners...

See? I was pissy. I was being hateful when I should have been enjoying our meal we had waited for. I want a do-over!!! I want to practice and nicely educate my family on which fork to use and how to hold a knife. Our meals at home are loud and manners-optional. But my family was having a great time. Until my nagging! I totally ruined our meal. At least for me.

Why on earth would you be short on patience at 8:00PM after being in the parks all day, dealing with a sugar episode, lost camera, heat, rude CM's... ???
Cut yourself a some slack, and try not to dwell on it, I'm sure all of your famdamily has EXCELLENT memories from their trip. LeCellier included!

 

[UtahMama]

you see when it is not your kids this is HIL-AIR-EE-OUS!!!

I'll tell you what- we will co-ordinate our next trips and I will sit with your family and you can sit with mine- DH will be obsessively compulsively removing things like fake bacon bits and chives and making them into little piles, DS12 will order the most expensive drink, appy, entree and dessert and down it all and critique it loudly as if he was raised on Le Cell-ee-ay instead Le Mac-en-cheese, DD4 will use the tablecloth instead of the napkin or her sleeve to wipe her face, other DD4 will share her special secret "I tinkled in my panties so I am NOT wearing any..hehehe" with the ENTIRE population of said restaurant and DS1 will run over to meet your kids and learn how to make puppets out of breadsticks.... we will both laugh because it isn't mortifying when it is someone elses kiddos

Let's try to get our ADRs now!

Ohhh! Wife-Swap in the same restaurant....NICE!

BUT! does your DH recognize the difference between a bread plate and a dessert plate? Does he hold his knife like a caveman? Does yous DS12 teeter back on two legs of his chair? Order Ketchup with his steak? Does DS 16 mo.(yummybaby) decide NOW would be a good time to fart loudly? (ok, HE's exempt...even his farts are cute!){look away tag fairy!}

I think I was just putting high expectations on my rednecked fam-dam-alama...but!!! I say if we're gonna coordinate vacations....let the DH's take allllthe DK's to Whispering Canyons! And we'll dine with our pinkey's in the air...and pretend we wouldn't rather be yelling for ketchup!

 

[SweetSally]

Sorry to hear about your sugar episode. I just keep thinking I'm so glad you were able to make it to a lobby couch and didn't have to lie down on a bench or on the grass of the BW green (that would have been interesting! ). I'm the same way when I don't feel well - don't like extra attention, just let me get through it in my own way

I'm happy you were able to enjoy BW (once you were feeling better) - my most favorite place . It's our "home" and the location and atmosphere can't be beat.

Way to go on putting the Soarin' CM in his place. I'm not that witty, but sure wish I was sometimes

Your family's actions at Le Cellier sound perfectly normal to me, although I must agree with Twinkie - it's always funnier when their not your own.

Looking forward to more, keep it comin'

 

[samc]

Some of you have hesitated to belive me about our red-nekkid-ness. I am about to remove ALL doubt and proudly proclaim my spot in the social pecking order.

you aren't even close to red......jus sayin

No one has his napkin on his lap. No one is even USING his napkins...sleeves again..." I just tried to focus on my plate and my primadonna manners...

ummm....what's a napkin??

 

[TwinkieMama]

Ohhh! Wife-Swap in the same restaurant....NICE!

BUT! does your DH recognize the difference between a bread plate and a dessert plate? Does he hold his knife like a caveman? Does yous DS12 teeter back on two legs of his chair? Order Ketchup with his steak? Does DS 16 mo.(yummybaby) decide NOW would be a good time to fart loudly? (ok, HE's exempt...even his farts are cute!){look away tag fairy!}

I think I was just putting high expectations on my rednecked fam-dam-alama...but!!! I say if we're gonna coordinate vacations....let the DH's take allllthe DK's to Whispering Canyons! And we'll dine with our pinkey's in the air...and pretend we wouldn't rather be yelling for ketchup!

Yes DH knows the difference between a bread plate ane a dessert plate... he uses the bread plate for the little piles of fake bacon bits and the dessert plate for little piles of any veggie like substance touching his beloved meat and potatos. (and yes, sometimes I call him Rainman)Yes to everything about DS12... and don't forget my little curly haired princess annoucing to the World that she is going commando...

but let us just all go to Whispering Canyons and ask for a table for 12 (!).... we can say that we are running an exclusive private boarding school for deprived children......that will explain any lack of etiquette and charm....

 

[UtahMama]

We had the same problem with getting things delivered!!! It's crazy!! Great Installment!! Sorry about your "sugar thing" as we call it in my house. I feel your pain!
Kimba

Edited to Add!! I'm first!!! OMG!! That never happens!!

I think they CAN deliver, he did manage to have a snack cake (individually wrapped disney snacks in a HUGE cake shape wrapped in cellophane) delivered. Maybe just stuff that can melt or spoil?


Most of the snacks have too much sugar. Have to share eith the kids!
I hate the sugar-thing....YET it's very handy to have to keep me "good"!!

 

[UtahMama]

you aren't even close to red......jus sayin



ummm....what's a napkin??

Ok, so we dont have Christmas lights up all year with Mary Christmas spelled on the Roof of my double-wide...but still

No I dont have fishing lures hanging off my earlobes!

There are degrees of red nekkedness! I'm just dark pink!
A napkin is something found on the table or on the floor by us AND on MY lap!

 

[UtahMama]

Sorry to hear about your sugar episode. I just keep thinking I'm so glad you were able to make it to a lobby couch and didn't have to lie down on a bench or on the grass of the BW green (that would have been interesting! ). I'm the same way when I don't feel well - don't like extra attention, just let me get through it in my own way

I'm happy you were able to enjoy BW (once you were feeling better) - my most favorite place . It's our "home" and the location and atmosphere can't be beat.

Way to go on putting the Soarin' CM in his place. I'm not that witty, but sure wish I was sometimes

Your family's actions at Le Cellier sound perfectly normal to me, although I must agree with Twinkie - it's always funnier when their not your own.

Looking forward to more, keep it comin'

Thanks Sally!

LOVE your avatar by the way! Do you have pin striping on your bumper too?

YES! Boardwalk is a hidden treasure-trove! Next time I'd love to explore alot more! THAT would make a great DVC home! Especially since I cant express in words how much I LOVE World Showcase! Very Convenient!

I truly loved the vintage appeal of a by-gone era.

I know my family is "normal" (but tacky!) and I love em...it just seemed that the other people in Le Cellier had SOME manners training! I should relax. I probably wont book VERY nice ADR's till I'm able to get a sitter for them or have a date with DH!

 

[UtahMama]

Oh that used to happen to me all the time they tested and tested me for blood sugar, but it wasn't the problem. It still happens sometimes, and I can't be touched, if I lay down, the spinning and tunnel vision stops, and just maybe I don't pass out, if I lay down fast enough. Sometimes I drop like a stone though. LOL Fun fun times I say. NOT



Right ON UMA don't take any slip from that pimply faced CM!




Why on earth would you be short on patience at 8:00PM after being in the parks all day, dealing with a sugar episode, lost camera, heat, rude CM's... ???
Cut yourself a some slack, and try not to dwell on it, I'm sure all of your famdamily has EXCELLENT memories from their trip. LeCellier included!

Thanks! I really needed that!

It never occured to me that I was pissy after all that. Funny, though, I glance over all the GOOD stuff because the bad stuff and horrible moments make better reading! Mostly we get along and have a fun time, really!

I didn't used to be capable of nicely putting people in their places! I just grew tired of people who are employed at whatever place we're a customer at...being rude. I dont think I'm rude back, just firm.

 

[UtahMama]

Another great installment, UM. You never fail to impress me.

THANK YOU!!!!

 

[UtahMama]

I am sitting here, home sick, curled up (literally) on the couch with my nice warm laptop thinking what better way to spend my second sick night but to get caught up on my TR reading. I knew I was behind but 34 pages?!?!?! At least you had posted the last update before I got there...
I love your realness (we all fight at some point don't we?) your adorable family and your kindness to all who reply. Glad Norah is doing better!

I expected to catch up on more but I really need to sleep again soon. And rest my injured muscles. I never expected to have a bellydance injury - after 5 years of dancing I have managed to pull ALL my abdominal muscles - this has been ALMOST as bad as recovering from the C-section during ragweed season.

Thanks for all the laughs - I hope my DD gets to do the Kim Possible secret mission - she is being KP Cheerleader for Halloween. She did get a KP pin in the spring tho!

WOW!!! Belly Dancing sounds like FUN! I would like to take lessons someday!

Sorry about your stomach! OUCH! I've had 4 c-sections...I know what it's like to TRY not to cough or sneeze!

The Kim Possible thing isn't being done anymore for some reason. I think we were one of the last ones. Sorry!

KP rocks! At least we still have ONE pin to show for it!

Thanks for catching up and reading!

 

[UtahMama]

Oh my gosh, you celebrated Festivus in September? I love the airing of grievances! And if you really think you're a redneck, please allow me to invite you to the hill-billiest family reunion ever in June 2007. You will feel right classy after that affair!

Happy Festivus!!!!!

Ok, YES! We are rednecks. I can list dozens of examples of our White Trashedness! Did I mention I smuggled diet Pepsi into Le Cellier???????

I call it Classy Rednecks. There IS a redneck pecking order.

 

[UtahMama]

Cool, Twink! I am a transplanted Californian too! My sister still lives there, but she moved to the desert. Family lived in the Hollywood Hills before we moved to Texas when I was in KG and on and on and on from there. My Mom must have been a gypsy, I swear. We moved back to Redondo Beach when I was in the 5th grade, but that only lasted about 8 months. How I ended up land-locked is weird when I think about it.

Redondo Beetch! I spent all my teen summers in Newport with my BFF who's RICH divorced dad spoiled us to death with sailing and hanging out at Balboa Beach...NO RULES

 

[pilferk]

WOW!!! Belly Dancing sounds like FUN! I would like to take lessons someday!

Sorry about your stomach! OUCH! I've had 4 c-sections...I know what it's like to TRY not to cough or sneeze!

My wife just had her 3rd (and last) c-section. She came home from the hospital and promptly contracted a cold...who's primary symptom was a NASTY cough. Poor kid. I thought it was going to just about kill her. Between the pain at the incision line and the pulling of internal stitches.......if she was standing and coughed it just about dropped her to her knees. Not nice.

 

[UtahMama]

Another great installment. Can't wait to read about the dirty laundry

Laundry day! Very Interesting indeed. VERY!

Thanks You for that!

 

[aGoofyMom]

My wife just had her 3rd (and last) c-section. She came home from the hospital and promptly contracted a cold...who's primary symptom was a NASTY cough. Poor kid. I thought it was going to just about kill her. Between the pain at the incision line and the pulling of internal stitches.......if she was standing and coughed it just about dropped her to her knees. Not nice.

If she still needs it - a pillow to hug while coughing/sneezing really helps (I popped internal & external stitches with the Ragweed) to hold everything together.

Sorry to hijack - still lovin' the TR!

 

[samc]

No I dont have fishing lures hanging off my earlobes!

.....I can't believe you mentioned those.......I really, seriously used to have some.....and wore them.....and thought I was cool......aahhhh the good ole days............wonder if I still have them????????

 

[UtahMama]

Ah ha - girl, it's about time you got back!! I've been waiting...and waiting...do you know how much popcorn I've eaten... reading EVERYONE ELSE's posts here?!?!

So all in all, what'd ya think of LeCellier? I was thinking of making ADR's for there on a night when our DS will be at the Neverland Club...worth it?

And where do you sit on Soarin' so you don't see feet?? I've read that a few times in different TR's...we came THISCLOSE to getting on it in February, but it broke down and we waiting (STUPIDLY) for nearly 2 hours before giving up and we had to go...I'm sooooo looking forward to riding it in December!!

It's either the front or the back...I ask for this spot every time but everytime I forget. It makes sense when you're there...Just ask! But NOT the CM whos name rhymes with PISS...He's WAYYY to good to give you a simple answer!

I WONT go to Le Cellier with my family again. I'm too controlling to put myself in that environment again. I want to go. But I dont want to remind about elbows or forks...or straw noises!!!!!!! We'll stick to the food courts and WCC.

 

[UtahMama]

Welcome back UMama! We missed you!

So sorry to hear about your "sugar issue". Glad you came out of that ok.

Also glad that UtahDaddy found his camera! He has taken such beautiful pictures. It would have been a shame to lose those. I'm sure that was a Utah Panic Moment!

Can't wait for your to air your dirty laundry with all of us.

Thank YOU!!!!

It's cool he got his camera back! It was expensive ($300 is expensive for us!) and it had all our photos on it! ONLY in WDW would we be that lucky!

He WAS very paniced! He had bought the thing JUST for this trip! BUT! near the very end it was dropped and broken beyond fixing...pretend to be surprised at that part of the TR!

Thank You SO much for reading! And for being patient! I post as soon as i can...it takes like a whole day!

 

[UtahMama]

I am so glad there was a post today. I really needed the pick me up. Although I will probably regret it in the morning since it is almost midnight here! We love Le Cellier - favorite! Did you think it was too crowded?

Glad to help!

I didnt remember it being too crowded!
I was a very nice restaurant. TOO nice for us.
The food was pretty good...so it's worth it.