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

[smidgy]

Great installment




And if you stuck around for the credits, you got to hear Smidgy sing "These boots were made for walkin' "

oh spiffy! JUST spiffy! now they all will hear me embarrass myslef. I hadn't okayed nebo to post that yet,. didn't know you could see it!!

Just got back last night now I am all caught up.
Thanks Nebo and Smidgy for the wedding wishes.
the screen name is actually a milder form of one I have been using for years (shudupu) started on a news group back in the nineties that was just a bunch of Red Sox and yankees fans giving each other a hard time.
My wife (1st time in print) turned me on to Disney and now she thinks she has created a monster.
We returned from a weekend away but we are not calling it our honeymoon that will be in November -- 5 nights at the Grand Floridian.
I was thinking about doing a trip report and combining the honeymoon with our August trip when I proposed . I'm not sure if I have the writing chops for it and I'm not a big picture taker.

Great update great room.
I just realized you don't have to be miserable to entertain me.

I take it back it may have been a little bit more entertaining to me because I was watching the game while I read it. I guess the Lions are for real.

you will love GF. never stayed there, but we did use their pool (as we were at BLT on points). but I just wanted to post that I am so happy that is your newfound marital bliss, and realizing that WE don't have to be miserable to be funny, you felt the need to remind us about the Lions' victory over the Bears mon. night

(to add insult to injury, on the board at the vfw.. amusement only... for some reason I only bought one square.. my numbers? 8-8)

 

[smidgy]

Ok, time for the perspective police to check in.
IF this is true, I left the door open, it was only for, or going to be, a matter of maybe ten minutes, so to say you were worried about the car starting because a little dome light was on for ten minutes goes WAY beyond excess hyperbole and stretching it, to "give me a break, you compare this to when you left the passenger side door open for 2 days and we did need to get a jump?"


SIGH! even bigger SIGH!!!!!!. it IS true,and it was more like 20-30 minutes, you STILL left you r door wide open, for all in the world to steal all our worldly goods (cause you know I bring everything but the kitchen sink on a trip). but , folks, you are all my witnesses. this is as close as Nebo ever gets to admitting he did something wrong.
and always with a caveat, or excuse, or "it didnt' matter, becasue..."


which (oops, now I am foolishly confessing) is the main reason I didn't tel him at the time.. not so altruisitc after all. I knew he would find some reason to blame me, or say why it didnt' matter anyways, and I just didn't want to get in a fight! however, by putting it off, I gave him the option on denying the whole thing.. aren't I such a thoughtful wifey? right honey? Honey????? you there?

 

[smidgy]

please make that spike photo go away!!yuk! really scary.

bad.. bad..

what pic did you take that from?

 

[pkondz]

please make that spike photo go away!!yuk! really scary.

bad.. bad..

what pic did you take that from?

Do you really want it gone? More than happy to oblige. It's your TR.

 

[buzz1121]

Wow Ponzi what a graphic!! I was wondering if you would be able to resist the siren call of creating Spike Nebo.

Spike Nebo really needs to brush and/or file those teeth stat! And what in the world is he thinking, munching on a gingerbread man's head when he has a date with the dentist coming up?

Nice Army of Darkness quote Nebo! I am too lazy tonight to edit the quotes so please excuse the somewhat disorganized stream of conscious post.

Smidgy, I tried not to watch the other video clips, hoping that I could wait until they were posted in the TR, but I couldn't resist the teases in the thread about your song. I thought you sounded great, no kidding! You knocked their socks, and boots off!!

Nebo, keep us posted on the developing eye story. DH has coincidentally had an eye issue going on this past week. He has two corneal ulcers and has been using antibiotic eye drops every two hours around the clock. It's nothing compared to what you have been going through though.

Maybe you should go to the MD specialist and the dentist all in the same day? Go ahead and leap into Dante's inner circle of hell and then hopefully have a nice long breather?

 

[pkondz]

When it comes to checking in, for some reason we either get Ghandi behind the counter, or Nurse Ratchet.

I swear this is the truth. I'm right in the middle of watching One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Haven't seen it since the last Millenium but it holds up pretty well.

But no matter who, 95 % of the time we score a good room, at least, a good room for us, and our needs.

You're gonna have to tell us your secret. Of course if it's "Drive through a hurricane", then I'll pass.

We briefly discussed his replacement room and accepted it.

Knowing what you got, I bet that conversation was brief!

There's a Lubbage window counter right outside there,
and after telling them our situation, they told us we can
call when we get in the room and someone will meet us
later in the parking lot.

Nobody else seems to have commented on this, but... where else but Disney will they send somebody out to the parking lot to help you with your zut alors cases.

Now, an astute observer from old reports knows just what is going to happen right about now, and they would be correct!

Even my trip reports are getting predictable.

( Yeah, my mind can never decide whether it wants to use luggage or baggage so it always comes out in combination form.)

That's okay. I think suit cases which begets zoot suit cases which morphs into zut alors cases.

I looked around for a couple minutes, then went into the bathroom to
change into my suit

Now I'm picturing you in a zoot suit... which is better than the alternative, reality.

And one morning the sun rose and created a stunning "dawn" right when Magic Kingdom closed for the Halloween Party.

Only Disney could make the sun rise in the west. What will those Imagineers think of next?

By the time I got out of the bathroom, they had already brought up the stuff and she had already tipped, Conan, the Bellhop.

So that's what Ahnold's been up to since the scandal. I gotta admit I'm a little surprised Disney would hire him... but whatever.

I never did get to see his muscles and I forgot to ask her.

Got a pic right here:

A little bit about the area:
Martinique is the grouping next to Old Port Royale, the main center of the resort that you will be walking to, a lot.

There are 2 buildings along the promenade by the lake, and one building behind these two, these are "preferred rooms" and cost more cuz they are closest to the main pool and food court and stores.

On the other side of building 3 is the pool with building 4 behind it, and next to the pool on the other side are buildings 5 and 6.
6 is almost in the Barbados section, or the Banderas section for you Antonio fans.

We are in building 4, second floor, and once again we chalk up gold with a highly desired corner room. We also
could not get closer to the food court and main without paying the upgrade.

For those who're wondering...
http://www.wdwinfo.com/resortmaps/cbrmap.htm
Nebo, do you mean #24 on this map?

they always seem much bigger due
to the fact they also have a large, side window. This is almost always
where the table and chairs are located and it's
so much more pleasant to sit there looking outside.

Good info, thanks!

But this room is an enigma, as far as views go, it's got it all,

So was the room a riddle wrapped in a mystery too?

you need to have the sound on to hear my lovely voice in the narration, and click on
the picture to start it, I believe.

I try really hard not to comment on spelling errors ‘cause I’m sure I make my fair share… However, Smidgy tried to find definitions for dolce and dolcet. The word is ‘dulcet’ as in ‘dulcet tones’… Well I don’t know about the dulcet tones part but I did not imagine Nebo’s voice like that. Don’t know what I expected… yes I do… I thought your voice would be deeper. No idea why. Just did.

No, I don't believe this video is going to go viral over on u-tube.

Ya never know… you got a lot of followers here.

If I don't unpack enough underwear, I'll just use Smidgy's.
(just to see if you're paying attention)

1. I’m paying attention.
2. I don’t think you’re kidding.
3. Crap! Now there’s another image that I don’t want stuck in my head!

We grabbed a table and pulled up a couple of lungers next to it.

You’re lucky you already noticed this one!

But my mind was still racing from all the resent events

Ditto!

Uh oh, pause for a second.
Boy, Ol' Siggy would have a field day with me on two different occasions just a couple of sentences ago.
First:
No, not lungers… But then I was thinking about the "resent events" that brought us here.

See.

I took a picture of our room looking up from the pool, again, ours is the corner on the left.

Did I mention ours is the corner room up there on the left?

No! The corner you say?

For one thing;
I'm not that big on having to be in the pool.
I am usually happy just to be by it, reading, soaking up the
sunshine

I hear ya. Nice to look at but don’t touch.

and just plain soaking up the atmosphere until I end up really soaking in sweat that I go in.

Well… It was nice to look at. But hey! Thanks for the new visual!

In the past, whenever I got antsy I'd walk over to the designated smoking area,
it was something to do, and sometimes I'd strike up a conversation with
some strangers, for some reason it felt like I was accomplishing something.

Yup, I know a few people who are well known/liked because of the brotherhood of the tobacco. AKA the semi-windy, usually cold smoking area. That seems to be one of the biggest complaints. No more chatting during smoke breaks.

Before I got the hearing aids, I used to dread it cuz I wouldn't hear them.
But now It's really cool, I no longer run away from situations that used to terrify me because I couldn't hear.
And I go and ruin it all by quitting smoking!

You could always remove the hearing aids! Ummm… nevermind… I said, “Nevermind!”

No, it's not the same now, without smoking.
Even if I did walk over there, I don't want to smell it, I'll only want one,
and you look and feel like a perv hanging around a smoking area
when you aren't a smoker.

Unh huh. And you don’t look like one, sitting staring at everyone in the pool. Check.

This is the part you won't like, this will be the last
chuck from the Photobuck, the Bears are about to start or
did already.
see you all real soon, neb

I’ll be waiting! Thanks for the update!

 

[nebo]

Somehow, I read this as Nebo doing a Smidgy voice impersonation.

You weren't buying it, huh, Marie? Dang, i thought I was pretty close.

If you really love to read (like I do) I would recommend getting a kindle. You can make the font pretty large, which is nice (kind of like the large print readers digest) you just have to turn the page (or push the page button) every other word See how much easier that is, to read?????

Well, yeah, but now I just wet my pants so I don't really see something being gained.

[QUOTE And it wasn't just "cheddarwurst" or cheddarwurst, or "suasage and cheese" or "smoked sausage and cheddar" it was,,,,,,,,
drum roll please............................................ ........................................ "Beddar With Cheddar" by Johnsonville.
Where I by it, it is now 2.99 per package, the price is getting up there. If you do pop for them, theygo best with a soft poopy seed bun, and a little bit of either a yellow mustard, or yellow mustard with some mayo, oniions will overpower the sausage taste that you are paying for.

Have you ever tried green onion sausage? It could be something that is just available down here (I had never heard of it before moving here) but it is wonderful.[/QUOTE]

Sandy, oniions are one of those things that we both are shying away from more and more, unless it's absolutely required in the recipe, like, "onion rings", lately, we have been leaving them out.

At least once a year in my class. I teach kindergarten, and some of the 4-year-olds are just not ready to get themselves to the bathroom on time. The worst was when I was the school librarian, and a fifth grader stood up, and "it" rolled out of his pants leg and across the floor. We all just stood there staring at it. It reminds me of Seinfeld - "That's a pretty big matzo ball hanging out there!"

Danielle,I was "this' close to sharing a story with you concerning a little boy I am very well familiar with who had his own "matszo ball " story, but prudence came knocking and I realized that Identities may become misconstrued and I came to my senses of keeping my fingers shut.

"guess nebo ,in our rush to grab some stuff and get to the room, forgot to close his door. but, nothing was stolen, the car started, all was ok, so I saw no need to "needle" steve with this news. what good would it do?"

Oh Smidgy, you let him slide on that one after the seat belt in the door a few trips back???? you are too too nice.

yeah, ok, alright, I left it open. for awhile, but we hasd to come back and unload the thing anyway so it wasn't the end of ;the world,,,, like, say, ,,, oh , never mind.

We had that last spring at the middle school that I worked at in the morning. Scary stuff. We at first thougt it was our drill. Policy is that secuity gets to be the last ones inside after checking that all the doors are locked. I walked around the corner to see a cop gun drawn asking me why I was out there. My response was "all this for drill?" His respose "betsey get under cover"
then the chopper started buzzing us. No real threat just a prank call but
Makes me kind of glad I have changed jobs and now am back in a classroom. Pull that memory out when we have a screaming type of day.

Okk Bets, sounds like you have a pensieve on property,just call up the memories that you want tat the time, boy, how cool would that be?

Wait a minute Shannon, your from Chicago, so you can't tell by the voice if someone else is from chicago, right? And what is pure Chicago?

Oh, no my friend, I'm from a bit further down state. My husband's family is from Chicago. I can recognize that accent from a mile away. Though the longer I'm married to him the more "Chicago" I sound too.

Chicago is my favorite city, so pure Chicago is pure compliment!

Shan, I can't tell and accent from us here.
Not saying we don't have one, jsut that I can't tell one.
We have friends that live just across the border in Wisconsin, and to me, they sound like they come from the deepest bayou in Louisianna.
One thinh I have learned though, is,,,, if a northerner goes and spends any significan't time in the south, he/she will eventually start sounding like they have lived in the south for years.

And the opposite holds true, too.

If a southerner spends any amount of time up in the north, all those in the north that this person has come in contact with will start to sound like they grew up in Baton Rouge!

Back-back-posts by Shannons! (It's an invasion-- watch out!)

I have been reading your TR's for years now, and this one is action-packed. I'm anxious about the ominous Beast foreshadowing. Dun dun dun dun DUNNN.


We are headed to WDW on Sunday (via the Aluminum Tube of Death) and I am so excited that the weather looks to be clearer than in weeks past. And by clearer, I mean I won't have to wear my scuba gear to the MK.

Great writing thus far Nebo & Smidgy!

Luv my boys! Hey, Cool, Havent' seen you in a few years. Welcome back!
I have checked my Incredible Amazing Weather Foot and it says that you will have just a picture perfect trip as far as weather goes.

I went away for nearly 2 weeks and this tread has 19 new pages!?!?! 19! REALLY!?!?!

nope, just your imagination

Anywho . . .

What a terrible trip down! That is why I am afraid to try driving. I hate long car rides anyway and with my luck everything that could go wrong will.

Hey, it already did, it just gets curiouser and curiouser...

Glad that you finally made it through all that (without smoking too!) and are in paradise though!

I know better than to expect the beast to quietly rest. It will be back with a vengence!

You and the beast know something you're not telling?

 

[nebo]

Wow Ponzi what a graphic!! I was wondering if you would be able to resist the siren call of creating Spike Nebo.

Nice Army of Darkness quote Nebo! I am too lazy tonight to edit the quotes so please excuse the somewhat disorganized stream of conscious post.

Nebo, keep us posted on the developing eye story. DH has coincidentally had an eye issue going on this past week. He has two corneal ulcers and has been using antibiotic eye drops every two hours around the clock. It's nothing compared to what you have been going through though.

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Ponzi, great work on the picture,,,, now none of us will sleep for the next three nights.

Buzz, I did love Army of Darkness, another movie I put in the same category of weirdness is Starship Troopers. If you havent seen it don't let the title throw you off like it does most people, the references to Nazi Germany are hilariious, and it's a lot more like " An Officer Meets a Gentelman Meets a Grasshopper!"

Ok, still catching up, I do hope though, to get a another chapt up tomorrow night, even if it means drinking all day, but that's the kind of guy I am and am willing to sacrifice for you.

 

[McDisney]

oh spiffy! JUST spiffy! now they all will hear me embarrass myslef. I hadn't okayed nebo to post that yet,. didn't know you could see it!!

Smidgy, if I thought it was bad I would not have said anything or drawn attention to it. On the contrary I thought it was very good and was impressed. I haven't been to a karaoke session that had anyone that was any good at all. I am sorry if I embarrassed you by mentioning it.

 

[MHSweb79]

However, Smidgy tried to find definitions for dolce and dolcet. The word is ‘dulcet’ as in ‘dulcet tones’…

Thank you, thank you, thank you for posting this! (can't find your name but I will edit later) My mother calls me the Grammar Nazi and I've been biting my tongue (fingers?) not to correct oh, like a million posts here on the DIS over the years, including offering up the above "dulcet." (Once in the grocery store, a kid was putting up a sign that said, "BROCCOLI RABBI" instead of "BROCCOLI RABE." So I went up to him and asked if it was kosher. He said, "I don't know, ma'am but I'll ask the manager." My mother dragged me away spluttering.)

Topic: I'm hoping to score a great room at POFQ in a couple of weeks, so I'd also be interested in learning the Nebo system of scoring such a thing.

Edited to add: It is pkondz who is my fellow Grammarian. Shall we form a club? (Or just risk getting beaten by one?

 

[GrandBob]

you will love GF. never stayed there, but we did use their pool (as we were at BLT on points).

Ditto. Never stayed at the GF, but went there to take DGD to the character meal at 1900 Park Fare. But we checked out the lobby while waiting. And danced with DGD, who was 5 at the time, to the piano playing "The Way You Looked Tonight". Magical! I hope your stay there is as magical as our brief visit.

Here's a pic of DGD in Cinderella's carriage in front --

 

[smidgy]

no, no you don't need to take the picture out. I was just saying it's creepy.

but it's not my TR, it's Nebo's. it's his choice. (maybe he thinks it's an improvement?

 

[jakeybake]

Smidgy, if I thought it was bad I would not have said anything or drawn attention to it. On the contrary I thought it was very good and was impressed. I haven't been to a karaoke session that had anyone that was any good at all. I am sorry if I embarrassed you by mentioning it.

Smidgy, I have to admit that I peeked at your pics and your version of "These Boots Are Made For Walking" when I clicked on Nebo's video link.

I thought it was awesome, I really did! Much better then that Nancy Sinatra chick and a million times better than my latest "Summer Wind" attempt

Maybe we could do a group thing like Peter Paul and Mary.

Nebo, Jay and Smidgy

I think it has a nice ring to it don't you?

Jay

 

[sewmess]

I am about to leave work for my trip to the world and had to check the Nebo TR one more time. I wish your amazing weather forcasting foot could be making the journey with us: my weather forcasting shoulder is just not as accurate - or maybe I just haven't had enough experience to 'read' it rightly.

Can't wait to come back and read the 19+ pages of new posts (possibly some actualy TR)

One note: not everybody gets the northern/southern accent just by living there. I sometimes sound Canadian and have never lived there and I've met people who've lived in the south all their lives and sound like they're from the midwest. For some people it has more to do with who they learned to talk from. me, for example. I can be southern (I have lived here for. . .2+2+1+1+2 uhm, 18? years) but if I'm tired/stressed/annoyed/lazy and I talk about dogs, august and coffee, I sound like I'm from Joisey City (Dat doig jus drank dat coiffee and it's oigust) because I learned those particular words from my Dad.

Have lots for me to read when I get back. I'll think of you, Nebo, while I'm not swimming in the pool at CBR.

 

[orangecats2]

Ditto. Never stayed at the GF, but went there to take DGD to the character meal at 1900 Park Fare. But we checked out the lobby while waiting. And danced with DGD, who was 5 at the time, to the piano playing "The Way You Looked Tonight". Magical! I hope your stay there is as magical as our brief visit.

Here's a pic of DGD in Cinderella's carriage in front --

She's beautiful! And such a special memory with a special person.

 

[orangecats2]

Nebo - aren't there union laws against working on a Friday night? Just kidding, get out those chapters whenever you feel like it.

Sewmess - have a great time! Think of all of us who don't get to go till next year in September and haven't been since September of 2009. Ok, so technically I'm just talking about myself but you get the idea.

 

[GrandBob]

She's beautiful! And such a special memory with a special person.

Awww, thanks 2 Cats Orange! Yep, one of my bestest memories. I had already determined that, 20-some years from now, I want to dance with her at her wedding to the same song. Hopefully, while playing the video that dear step-son took of us dancing in the lobby of the GF.

-Bob

 

[orangecats2]

Awww, thanks 2 Cats Orange! Yep, one of my bestest memories. I had already determined that, 20-some years from now, I want to dance with her at her wedding to the same song. Hopefully, while playing the video that dear step-son took of us dancing in the lobby of the GF.

-Bob

That will be awesome! I wish I had my dad or grandfather at my wedding. I walked down the aisle alone. But it was ok, my wonderful husband was waiting for me at the alter.

 

[Thumper_Man]

Take a little vacation and I'm already 6 pages behind. Off to catch up real quick, fast and in a hurry.

 

[nebo]

I swear this is the truth. I'm right in the middle of watching One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Haven't seen it since the last Millenium but it holds up pretty well.

It's been a millenium for my too, but I don't even have to think hard at all right now to see who I'd match up with,,,,,,CHESWICK! "I JUST WANT MY CIGARETTES!"
I think tht was his name.



You're gonna have to tell us your secret. Of course if it's "Drive through a hurricane", then I'll pass.

Room secret ins no secret, just throw yourself at the mercy of the check-er-in-er, they like you acknowledging they have the power and by doing so, they usually try to become the "benevolent" type of ruler and bend over backwards for you.



Knowing what you got, I bet that conversation was brief!

At first we wern't sure, I'm not aslways that trusting and I've seen some "pool views" that really amount to "somebody else's roof" view.


Nobody else seems to have commented on this, but... where else but Disney will they send somebody out to the parking lot to help you with your zut alors cases.

Huh? I hate it when the closed captioning goes on the fritz.




That's okay. I think suit cases which begets zoot suit cases which morphs into zut alors cases.

ohhh

Now I'm picturing you in a zoot suit... which is better than the alternative, reality.



Only Disney could make the sun rise in the west. What will those Imagineers think of next?

how about power washers with mufflers?



So that's what Ahnold's been up to since the scandal. I gotta admit I'm a little surprised Disney would hire him... but whatever.



Got a pic right here:

How much fun that mjust be to get to a pool and take off your shirt in front of a big crowd of people.



For those who're wondering...
http://www.wdwinfo.com/resortmaps/cbrmap.htm
Nebo, do you mean #24 on this map?

You know, I've been meaning to check that out. I was going by what he told me but it seemed to me that our building was really the third one in, which would then make our building one of the preferred ones. It was definately building 24, I even got the room door number in the video so I'm at least right on that part.
This makes more sense now based on how excited he was to give us this room, that's an extra 15 bucks a night for preferred, I guess technically they couldn't classify it as a water view, that would have been another 15 bucks a night so our deal was even better than we thunked it was.
Atta way Brian. And nice catch Ponz though I'm not sure that's where you were going to.





I try really hard not to comment on spelling errors ‘cause I’m sure I make my fair share… However, Smidgy tried to find definitions for dolce and dolcet. The word is ‘dulcet’ as in ‘dulcet tones’… Well I don’t know about the dulcet tones part but I did not imagine Nebo’s voice like that. Don’t know what I expected… yes I do… I thought your voice would be deeper. No idea why. Just did.

Ah, clear as mud.
Dulcet Tones and the Larynx of Doom!

No! The corner you say?

Yes it was, our room was right on the end, making it a "corner" room.
Did I tell you this already?

I hear ya. Nice to look at but don’t touch.

I'm just always afraid of getting fall sweated up and jumping in the water ony to be met with a fatal heart attack. Then Smidgy woulld have to drive ALL the way home by herself and probably wouldn't talk to me the entire way.





Unh huh. And you don’t look like one, sitting staring at everyone in the pool. Check.



I’ll be waiting! Thanks for the update!

Thank you, thank you, thank you for posting this! (can't find your name but I will edit later) My mother calls me the Grammar Nazi and I've been biting my tongue (fingers?) not to correct oh, like a million posts here on the DIS over the years, including offering up the above "dulcet." (Once in the grocery store, a kid was putting up a sign that said, "BROCCOLI RABBI" instead of "BROCCOLI RABE." So I went up to him and asked if it was kosher. He said, "I don't know, ma'am but I'll ask the manager." My mother dragged me away spluttering.)

That's a funny story. One time when I was an apprentice I had to go and hand deliver a mess of Christmas Party invitations to companies in the area with the invite and then directions on how to get to the Banquet Hall. Halfway through my list one of the envelopes wasn't totally sealed and I got to finally see just what it is that I'm delivering.
My boss had drawn by hand a rough map, and where you had to go under a bridge he drew and arrow pointing to it, and just above the "bridge" he wrote, "Viaduck".
It killed me to deliver the rest of them thinking how it made our company sound, or even worse, that somebody may have thought I was the one that wrote the directions.
Of course that night at the party everybody asked everybody else if they came there, Via Duck, or if theyy drove instead.

Topic: I'm hoping to score a great room at POFQ in a couple of weeks, so I'd also be interested in learning the Nebo system of scoring such a thing.

Edited to add: It is pkondz who is my fellow Grammarian. Shall we form a club? (Or just risk getting beaten by one?

I'm not sure it's wise to ask the person who was voted in high school, "Most likely to be bludgeoned to death" fquestions about clubs.
But again, be as nice as you possibly can be without seeming too fake. Diane always pleads with them saying how far we drove and how the VERY LAST thing in the world we want to see for awhile is another car and if you give them the chance to show just what they can do for you, usually they will come through. A lot of times you won'lt really know until you get there, but I have gone back just ot thank them, in front of other guests checking in.
One time, we did get the complete jerk, and he was the manager, too. We wen't and checked out where he said we'd be, and it sucked. Since it wasn't ready yet anyway, we waited a bit, then went back and got a different person who gave us the exact room we were requesting.

Ditto. Never stayed at the GF, but went there to take DGD to the character meal at 1900 Park Fare. But we checked out the lobby while waiting. And danced with DGD, who was 5 at the time, to the piano playing "The Way You Looked Tonight". Magical! I hope your stay there is as magical as our brief visit.

Here's a pic of DGD in Cinderella's carriage in front --

Bob, that's a great picture, I'm looking forward to going with our grandkids,,, it's starting to sound like next summer bmay be a possibility for at least one of them.

Smidgy, I have to admit that I peeked at your pics and your version of "These Boots Are Made For Walking" when I clicked on Nebo's video link.

I thought it was awesome, I really did! Much better then that Nancy Sinatra chick and a million times better than my latest "Summer Wind" attempt

Maybe we could do a group thing like Peter Paul and Mary.

Nebo, Jay and Smidgy

I think it has a nice ring to it don't you?

Jay

Jay, it sounds like an excellent idea to me. And we can perform, "Puff, the Magic Kingdom" in all the Designated Smoking Areas.
or.....
"I'm Leavin', on an Aluminum Tube of Death".

I am about to leave work for my trip to the world and had to check the Nebo TR one more time. I wish your amazing weather forcasting foot could be making the journey with us: my weather forcasting shoulder is just not as accurate - or maybe I just haven't had enough experience to 'read' it rightly.

Can't wait to come back and read the 19+ pages of new posts (possibly some actualy TR)

One note: not everybody gets the northern/southern accent just by living there. I sometimes sound Canadian and have never lived there and I've met people who've lived in the south all their lives and sound like they're from the midwest. For some people it has more to do with who they learned to talk from. me, for example. I can be southern (I have lived here for. . .2+2+1+1+2 uhm, 18? years) but if I'm tired/stressed/annoyed/lazy and I talk about dogs, august and coffee, I sound like I'm from Joisey City (Dat doig jus drank dat coiffee and it's oigust) because I learned those particular words from my Dad.

Have lots for me to read when I get back. I'll think of you, Nebo, while I'm not swimming in the pool at CBR.

Ok SewerRat, you have a great trip, hope you remembered to bring the little bottles with you so you can add to the Margaritas at the Mexico Pavillion.

Awww, thanks 2 Cats Orange! Yep, one of my bestest memories. I had already determined that, 20-some years from now, I want to dance with her at her wedding to the same song. Hopefully, while playing the video that dear step-son took of us dancing in the lobby of the GF.

-Bob

Um, Bob? you want him to play back the video he just took 20 years from now of you and your Granddaughter?

Ok, I gotta ask for the heck of it, when was the last time you hooked up your old 8-Track player and stuck in Master of Reality or Tommy?

See ya all later, I hope.