P.O.T.C. On Stranger Rides! The Missing Chapter,,Final Thoughts,, Preview Thoughts.

Yeah ! I found Nebo !
Will have to read later this evening - gotta go say bye to niece leaving for college this evening.
Get this - Daughter engaged over the weekend. Planning a July 2012
Wedding - Yikes. Good thing we have DVC or would not have the Wedding and a Disney vacation the same year.
Only 36 days till BCV !
 
:worship:I'm here and so excited for the Nebo/Smidgy PTR and TR! We aren't going until 10/5 - 10/10 (only 5 1/2 days technically :eek:) BUT we will be back in June 2012, so I'm trying not to freak out here....

My expections are now high and looking forward to your fantastic PTR and TR. KEEP ME ENTERTAINED!!!!

I'm so proud of you and Smidgy quitting! I wish I could get DH to quit, but this year is sister will be joining us and she smokes more!!!! So why even try....but you'll be missing some serious partying on our end!

Where do we place the wagers on you forgetting something important??? Is it a higher pay out if it's the bathroom bag again??? What are the odds????:3dglassespopcorn::

By the way....I will take nothing personal about your "crappy" December trip....:sad1:

Thanks for the warning by the way!!!!
 
By the way, just the other week I was looking for your next PRT/TR!!!!! You read my banana peel brain!:banana:
 
Hey cool, lots of ol friends back in the mix.
Hi's to Heather, Dawn, Connie and Randy, Marie, who thinks she might get hurt if she came with us, Danielle, Lisa, and Babynurse who's still searching for Captain Jack's booty call.

I mean booty.

There's a couple of other screen names I recognize, just don't know the real names, hi to you too.

Nowellsl, you posted a picture of a pretty girl, then said it's not you?

Can we do this?
Use stunt doubles?
From now on I'm looking for pictures of Brad Pitt at Disney World and using them instead of myself.
( I still can't believe he and Jolie named their kid Shiloh, how long will it take in grammar school for some clever, rotten kid to realize he's struck gold if he switches the first letters of Shiloh's first and last name around?)

Tracy, you are now giving yourself a shot every week?
Definately worth a cruise!

Which brings us to the title, and yes, you won't like this.

Remember when I said it will be a "stranger ride" cuz I've got to do the drive with one eye?

Well, tomorrow is another appointment, and believe me, I'm not looking forward to it. Since this happened to my left eye back on New Years I'm running abnout 50% with having to get an injection when I see him.

I wake up in the morning sad.
By the time we get in the car I'm whimpering.
Half way there I start bawling,
and by the time we arrive she has to drag me out
screaming and pry my hands off the steering wheel.

My last visit last month started out benign, the OCT pictures are no problem, but then he wanted a batch from the OPTICAL CANON, (tm GrandBob, I believe).
This was followed by more pictures only with dye running through my arm up to my retina.

20 minutes later lookinig at the pics he was,
"Uh oh, yep, it's leaking through again, time too meet Mr. Needle again."

That was when I hit him.
"Yeah it's leaking, if you hadn't injected the dye in me it wouldn't be in the eye in the first place!"

Made sense to me.

Come to think of it, the medicine injected is in fluid form,
seems to me that's just adding to the fluid that's seeping through my macula, shouldn't we be trying to suck some fluid out, not add more to it?

Let's see, we've got 7 pounds of fluid in a five pound eye,
(substitute proper word), let's inject another 3 pounds and make it an even ten!

You realize I'm going to show you a picture, don't you?

I'll start off nice though.

Here is from just two days before the last eye doc visit,
our oldest son, Todd, made the wisest choice of his life and married Kim, I was required to rent a tux since they new last year that it was going to be an outdoor wedding in the sun and was going to hit 93 degrees that day.

The wedding was about 30 miles away,:confused3
so most ofo us stayed at a nearbye Hyatt that had shuttle service. You know how we are big on the "room views" all the time when we check in at Disney?
I had to do it, take a picture of our room view at this Hyatt in Lisle, Illinois.

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Ha ha, that makes the dreaded parking lot view at Pop Century seem like a Magic Kingdom view from the Poly.

now, here's me getting ready to leave the room, not knowing how long we will haveto shake and bake in the sun for pictures before and after the ceremony.

That big smile?
Iwas thinking open bar, manhattans, don't have to drive.

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up next is youngest son standing on the left, with grandon Jackson:

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Remember those manhattans I mentioned?

Smidgy and I after I trained the bartender how to make them correctly.

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speaking of bartenders, don't I look like I should be behind the the bar meeting Crazy Gugenheim?

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For those of you wondering, yes, the moustache fell off again not too long after the last December trip, I never know when it's gonna come or go.

But, now did you catch the overall theme?
Lotsa smiles, lotsa smiles not knowing what's coming two days later, although I think my left eye had a
bad feeling someting was coming again, it's already in protective mode in the last picture.

Lean back from the monitor and approach cautiously:











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I wish I had been the one actually taking the picture, I would have loved to see how it came out on the "Fireworks" setting.:lmao:

I loved going up to people while wearing dark sunglasses and asking them if they minded looking to see if there's something in my eye as I whisked them off. For some reason some people didn't find that funny.

Andyway, you will forgive me my manhattans tonight as I prepare for tomorrow's meeting.

Next installment, we'll get back on Disneytrack, honest.

Oh, and really, you don't have to respond to the eye thing again, we did all that last report and I appreciate your concern, I'm not the only one with problems and I don't handle sympathy well.:rotfl:

hey, I missed one down here:


They're back - yeah! :cool1: Let the action begin... Can't wait for a new PTR/TR from my favorite trip writing duo!! I am trying to convince hubby that we need to get away from it all Disney style the week of Sept. 12th -- I have not gotten a definate no - but still no yes either - I will have to work harder on that now, knowing you guys will be there! I hope I don't sound like a stalker :scared1:!

It's the NewJoisey Tinkerbell mom, wow, it appears to me in your signature that you were just there a month ago, and want to go back already? You truly are a Disser with the incurable disease.
Sure, show your hubby the picture of the close up of my eye and tell him you want to meet this guy!
that'l work. :laughing:

night all, it's thirsty out
 

Nowellsl, you posted a picture of a pretty girl, then said it's not you?

No, not me. That's my daughter and favorite Disney buddy. Most people spot her first, I just kind of blend into the background :goodvibes I like it back there!

I had to scroll by the eye pictures really fast, they kindof made my stomach do a little flip flop :scared1:
 
Nebo, your eye! God bless you, drink a Manhattan or two or ten. Isn't alcohol an astringent? Maybe it will help with showing less eye leakage. At this point, what could you lose?

You and Smidgy look great all dressed up. Congratulations to your son and new daughter in law!
 
Just a quick post. (oh stop cheering or the next one will be twice as long and three times as painful as... well... a shot in the eye.)

Nope not gonna give you any sympathy since you don't want any. Besides you already know what I think. But gotta say I love the eyeglasses/thing in my eye routine! I would so do that!

Also wanted to say you guys both looked great all dolled up for the wedding. Yes, even you Nebo. (I'm giving out platitudes instead of sympathy. Clever, no?) Smidgy, beautiful as always. (not a platitude, just the truth.)
 
Smidgy and Nebo, looking good! Congrats on the nuptuals!

I'll skip the eye thing, but yikes!

Since you are all a bunch of Dissers here, I thought I'd post this for you to tide you over:

For my DIS friends:
Toured the Disney Laundry facility today (sheets, towels, pillow cases, not restaurant linens or costumes, they have seperate plants).
Some amazing statistics:
- If you were to launder all they do in ONE day 24 hours in your home washer, it would take 52 YEARS!
- The water used in one day would fill 27 swimming home pools
- Sheets in one day would stretch from Orlando to Key West
It's also frigging hot and humid and noisy there, but the engineering is amazing, all about automation, except for towel feeder people that feed machines that fold the sheets and towels, then the stacking into Metro people, the loading to truck people, the delivery drivers, and the guys that unload and sort the dirty linen coming in. (talk about some sucky jobs!!) How would you like to feed towels into a machine at the rate of about 10 or 12 or more per minute for 8 hours? Talk about sore arms!
Amazing operation, and I think the 3rd largest in the world (as in earth, not WDW)
 
ok, once again, nebo insists on posting pictures where he looks good, I look like garbage. there WERE pictures taken in the hotel room where my hair looked really nice, before standing outside in 95 degrees, and I look like a sweat hog, (hmm, "someone" doesn't have the problem of humidity ruining "thier" hair....:confused3;):lmao:)


see, I "set" my hair at least once a year (or decade) whether I need to or not) I have the most boring hair on the planet. I have changed my hairstyle once in the last 30 years, I gave myself bangs inthe 80s.
I'm not one to "primp". the only reason it takes me so long to get ready is it takes me forever to dry my long hair (course, if we EVER got AIR conditioning....this new-fangled invention.. it wouldn't take so longto blow dry my hair when it's 95 DEGREES!!!!. but.. I digress)

so..I bring my hot air curlers to the hyatt(believe me, of ALL the MANY things I cram into the Santa FE for our disney trips, the hot air curlers NEVER make the cut!:lmao:)
I stand in front of the mirror.. trying to stretch my arms as far as they can, to include all my hair into these stupid little curlers... with pokey little spikes in them, and the curlers are HOT, and I'm only half way to my head with a big glob of hair, and it's falling all over the place.. definfitely NOT cooperating, and then you have to jab these horseshoe shaped "thingamajobs" around the curler, with an intensity somewhere between "trying to CAPTURE all that hair tight enough to the scalp" and "I really don't want to puncture my scalp and go to the ER 2 hours before my son's wedding". and then, there are the 2 curlers closest to the ears. which however you try to set them, BURN your ears.... OUCH! try again! no OUCH again, reset it.. Man that hurts. OK OK it's curly enough!"
and people wonder why I have had the same late 60's early 70's hairstyle all my adult life.. sheeesh!
but!!! I DID bring along an old curling iron, just for those last minute touches...

well, Nebo said, "if we hurry, we can grab a drink in the lobby lounge before we grab the shuttle" my ears (burnt as they were) perked up. I managed to untangle my hair from the instruments of torture, spray a little hairspray on my head, take a few pics and off we were!! smidgy was a happy camper. (I really could use a drink)
after we signed the loan papers for our "lobby cocktail" and headed out to the entrance, we spotted my baby brother and his wife. we shared about 20 minutes on the shuttle..upon arrival at the golf club (reception) , theywere directed to the long, winding, 95 degreesin the shade 110 degrees in the sun path to the walk through the soggy lawn (hope you didn't wear heels) to rows of chairs in the heat and humidity, (and grab a bottle of water... we'll be with you .. soon... )
WE, however, had FASTPASSES!!! into the air conditioned building!!! cause WE are members of the BRIDAL PARTY!
then we gathered in the golf club "pro" shop, for about a half hour or more.:confused3 the bride's dad was fuming, cause there was a glitch with the music, etc.
both our sons managed to get ahold of me. to ask me to hold on to their cell phones. now, normally I have a purse big enough to hold a whole newspaper. but, at disney, I wear a , yes, I admit it, a dorky fanny pack which can fit an AMAZING ton of stuff! but this little "bag" I borrowed from my neighbor fits almost NOTHING! so I have 3 cell phones jammed into this stupid little good for nothing worthless "bag"...(if you haven't guessed by noiw, I am NO "fashionista") (good thing we quit smoking, cause the smokes would have made the list before the cell phones)
our grandaughter was there, (the flower girl only 3 years old, looking so cute,(daughter of the best man) and behaving so well, as well as our grandson, 5, Jr. groomsman,(son of the groom) so handsome, etc etc. waiting, waitng, knowing all the guests are out there , dying in the heat., sweating
ok, FINALLY, the glitches have been resolved. no more delays, everyone get in line. time to finally PROCEED (you'd think it was PRince charming and Aurora!)
me(thinking): "gee Kaylee's hair looks so cute (our grandaughter). Laura (our DIL) did a great job with her hair! how did she Do that? I know NOTHING about hair, I'm such a clutz! kaylee looks like she just got out of Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique! wonder is Laura used a curling iron... um.... curling iron.. umm ooops uh oh!! yikes!!! steve!!!!!!!!

oh NO!!! I never used that curling iron, NOR did I unplug it!!! and it's old.. really old, no auto shut off. I'll burn down the hyatt.. what do I do now? we're about to FINALLY do the "processional" call the hotel.. what's the number?how do I know? dial 411 on my phone.. aargh! phones are falling out of this stupid little "bag", all jammed in! cell phones flaling all over the floor. steve looking at me like "what's wrong?"
well, why not let HIM worry , too? "I FORGOT TO UNPLUG MY CURLING IRON!"
I'm sure any steam coming out of the curling iron couldn't hold a candle to the steam coming out of nebo's ears!
wow.. I'm worried again just retelling the story.

anyhow. I managed to get the hyatt's # called the front desk told them about the curling iron,and they unplugged it.

what a relief.. it was SUCH a sinking feeling.... you know,... like that feeling when the bus drops you off for early entry at a water park and pulls away, and you realize you left the tickets in the room... (not that I would know anything about that) .....:rotfl:



ps.
nebo forgot to mention, but the guy doing the rabbit ears over his head is our oldest son, the groom, Todd. Jackson (jr. groomsman) is todd's son. (standing in front of his uncle, Jeremy, our youngest)
 
As you can see by my join date I've been on here a while, but have very few posts. I am the ultimate lurker. I read the boards just about everyday and have read all your reports. You guys are great. We have something in common too. After many years of smoking, I too quit several years back. Wasn't easy, but definitely woth it. I may not comment often, but will follow your trip closely. Have fun. Peanut
 
ok, once again, nebo insists on posting pictures where he looks good, I look like garbage.

Nope. You look great.

I have the most boring hair on the planet.

Cool! Did you win an award? Were you on TV? "Today on Extra, we have Barack Obama with his state of the union address, the civil war in Syria and the woman who has the most boring hair on the planet." I bet all the girls were jealous. ::yes::

I have changed my hairstyle once in the last 30 years, I gave myself bangs inthe 80s.

You rebel, you! :rotfl:

I stand in front of the mirror.. trying to stretch my arms as far as they can, to include all my hair into these stupid little curlers... with pokey little spikes in them, and the curlers are HOT, and I'm only half way to my head with a big glob of hair, and it's falling all over the place.. definfitely NOT cooperating, and then you have to jab these horseshoe shaped "thingamajobs" around the curler, with an intensity somewhere between "trying to CAPTURE all that hair tight enough to the scalp" and "I really don't want to puncture my scalp and go to the ER 2 hours before my son's wedding".

So is it weird that I'm a guy and I know exactly what you're talking about? And no, DW doesn't use 'em. Now that I think of it, DDs don't either.

well, Nebo said, "if we hurry, we can grab a drink in the lobby lounge before we grab the shuttle" my ears (burnt as they were) perked up. I managed to untangle my hair from the instruments of torture, spray a little hairspray on my head, take a few pics and off we were!! smidgy was a happy camper. (I really could use a drink)

So you could soak your ears in it to cool 'em off?

WE, however, had FASTPASSES!!! into the air conditioned building!!! cause WE are members of the BRIDAL PARTY!

Only a true Diser would equate that to fastpasses! :lmao: Bravo, Madam, Bravo

then we gathered in the golf club "pro" shop, for about a half hour or more.:confused3 the bride's dad was fuming, cause there was a glitch with the music, etc.

I could be completely wrong here, but I get the impression that even if you'd caught the reception hall on fire (with the curling iron, no doubt) you'd be pretty laid back about it. Can't see you guys getting too worked up about "a glitch with the music".

Smidgy, "Oh look honey, our son and new DIL's wedding is going up in smoke."
Nebo, "Is the bar okay?"

at disney, I wear a , yes, I admit it, a dorky fanny pack which can fit an AMAZING ton of stuff!

Yah, me too. Body glide, band-aids, park tix, sunglasses, Jimmy Hoffa, ponchos, drink powder for water... that stuff's gotta go somewhere!

but this little "bag" I borrowed from my neighbor fits almost NOTHING!...our grandaughter was there, (the flower girl only 3 years old, looking so cute,(daughter of the best man) and behaving so well, as well as our grandson, 5, Jr. groomsman,(son of the groom) so handsome, etc etc.

Did they get along, there, inside your bag? Just wonderin' :confused3

wonder is Laura used a curling iron... um.... curling iron.. umm ooops uh oh!! yikes!!! steve!!!!!!!!

uh oh

I managed to get the hyatt's # called the front desk told them about the curling iron,and they unplugged it.

phew. :scared: okay never mind about staying calm if you burnt down the reception.

ps.
nebo forgot to mention, but the guy doing the rabbit ears over his head is our oldest son, the groom, Todd. Jackson (jr. groomsman) is todd's son. (standing in front of his uncle, Jeremy, our youngest)

Ah! I thought to myself, "Boy, that bartender's got nerve. Wonder why Steve isn't ticked at him for ruining the pic?"

Smidgy, looks like you have a very nice family... which seems to be a rarer and rarer thing these days. Thanks for the update! :goodvibes
 
Diane and Steve, you both looked great!! And your sons and grandson---so handsome!

Diane, I got nervous right along with you, reading about leaving the curling iron plugged in. I mean, who here hasn't done that right?!! One time I was on the road a good 2 1/2 hours driving toward San Francisco when I realized I had left my curling iron plugged in, in FRESNO, oh man.... and no front desk to call to have them unplug it! I cussed all the way back home! AT MYSELF! LOL!

Thanks again for bringing us all along!

~~Dawn
 
Loved the update Smidgy! Congrats on surviving the nuptials!
 
Yay! I am so excited to find you again Nebo! What? You don't know me? Well, I confess, I am a lurker. But I have read the past couple of trip reports of yours and they are hilarious. I am looking forward to your next, and I know you are looking forward to your trip as well. We will be going next March so until then, I will be hovering over the boards hoping that will somehow appease me. Hey to Smidgy!
 
My last visit last month started out benign, the OCT pictures are no problem, but then he wanted a batch from the OPTICAL CANON, (tm GrandBob, I believe).

Steve, I'm touched and honored that you remembered! :thumbsup2 But how did that tidbit of information slip past all those banana peels? :confused3 :rotfl2:

Not gonna comment about the eye thing, and that picture! Not gonna do it, not gonna do it...

Oh, okay. :scared1: :scared1: :scared1: :scared1: :scared1:

The wedding was about 30 miles away,:confused3
so most of us stayed at a nearby Hyatt that had shuttle service. You know how we are big on the "room views" all the time when we check in at Disney?
I had to do it, take a picture of our room view at this Hyatt in Lisle, Illinois.

OK, small world time. The land that the Hyatt Lisle is situated on? Every last square inch (and then some) used to be my uncle's farm. Had lots of fond memories of going there as a kid. He and my aunt used to do a huge corn roast at the end of every summer. He picked the corn about an hour before everyone arrived, and threw the ears into barrels of salted ice water. Then they were roasted in the husk over BBQ pits made from barrels split down the middle. Best corn I ever tasted!

Going back further in time, part of his farm was taken under eminent domain for the East-West Tollway that goes right past there.

Sigh... good memories. OK, sorry for the tangent. We now bring you back to the previously scheduled "Ophthalmic Horror Stories". Enjoy!

-Bob
 
Nebo/Smidgy. I had forgot you had a wedding coming up (well not yours personally, but we might not put it past you two. :lmao:). Congratulations to your son and new DIL. Here's hoping they have a long a happy marriage together. :drinking1
 
ok, once again, nebo insists on posting pictures where he looks good, I look like garbage. there WERE pictures taken in the hotel room where my hair looked really nice, before standing outside in 95 degrees, and I look like a sweat hog, (hmm, "someone" doesn't have the problem of humidity ruining "thier" hair....:confused3;):lmao:)

Nebo dressed up, no tank top, no shorts, no clip clops...Now that's a sight to see...(or not see in your case).

Both of you looked terrific! Congratulations again on gaining a DIL. You have a beautiful family.



WE, however, had FASTPASSES!!! into the air conditioned building!!!

Oh good...At least i'm not the only one that uses the word "fastpasses" when referring to every day things.

is Laura used a curling iron... um.... curling iron.. umm ooops uh oh!! yikes!!! steve!!!!!!!!

oh NO!!! I never used that curling iron, NOR did I unplug it!!! and it's old.. really old, no auto shut off. I'll burn down the hyatt.. what do I do now? we're about to FINALLY do the "processional" call the hotel.. what's the number?how do I know? dial 411 on my phone.. aargh! phones are falling out of this stupid little "bag", all jammed in! cell phones flaling all over the floor. steve looking at me like "what's wrong?"
well, why not let HIM worry , too? "I FORGOT TO UNPLUG MY CURLING IRON!"
I'm sure any steam coming out of the curling iron couldn't hold a candle to the steam coming out of nebo's ears!

I'm just glad nobody panicked...:eek:



a relief.. it was SUCH a sinking feeling.... you know,... like that feeling when the bus drops you off for early entry at a water park and pulls away, and you realize you left the tickets in the room... (not that I would know anything about that) .....:rotfl:

I was going to say something here and got distracted by work of all things...and now...whatever it was just flew out the window...:headache:

"Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?”- Winnie the Pooh


Oh well...Hopefully whatever it was, was funny and clever and will reappear during my afternoon walk...
 
Diane, I got nervous right along with you, reading about leaving the curling iron plugged in. I mean, who here hasn't done that right?!!

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say. Nebo probably has never left a curling iron plugged in. Clothing dryer, oven, stove, clothing iron, oh heck... just about everything else that'll start a fire? Oh sure. But a curling iron? Nahhh...
 
smidgy; so I have 3 cell phones jammed into this stupid little good for nothing worthless "bag"...(if you haven't guessed by noiw said:
Did they get along, there, inside your bag? Just wonderin' :confused3

OH MAN!I dangled my participle .. good catch, ponzie!! (I usually berate others for such folly)
when I read your post I jsut cracked up!:lmao::rotfl2:
 
, and Babynurse who's still searching for Captain Jack's booty call.

Suddenly this TR takes an interesting turn. *fist pump*



Nebo and Smidgy: Yous guys cleans up real nice. (in spite of the close up eye pics)
 





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