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

[Self_resqing_princz]

You know what always struck me as funny or ironic? After all that came out,
Mr. Woods was no Tiger, he was a Cheetah!

I have to say... your jokes are like my dads... we call 'em sigh shakers... because all you do is sigh and shake your head. Maybe an eye roll or a "wow, dad, that was bad..."



I'm taking a little hiatus. My husband and I are purchasing and moving into our first house this week. We close on Thursday morning and we move on Sunday. I usually read your updates on weekends (while I'm at work and there's not much going on)... but obviously I'll be really busy next weekend. Please think good thoughts for us. We're both nervous and excited!

 

[dwheatl]

It was time to act in any pathetic way that I could to insure my domestic tranquility:

"If you're planning on staying here, I think you should know
that those ducks are feral."

Hey, that's all I had.

A couple of the adults looked at me, then said something among themselves and they all walked around the pool and out the beachfront entrance.

Whew! That was close.
Can ducks be feral?

Do you think they were afraid of the feral ducks, or the feral man warning them about the feral ducks?

We had a couple of Mai Tais this time, nothing too strong though and around 4 o'clock or so we went down to the car.
But before we did, I took a really stupid picture:
I thought I'd chronicle my "tanning" progress, I've got a good start now so I'll take a picture and then take one later at the end ot the trip and see the difference.
Here now is where never taking your watch off comes in handy for "tan checking".
No, I'm not going to go and look for a dog to come up behind me and pull down the back of my bathing suit like the old Coppertone commercials with the little cartoon girl.

When I was a little girl, our parents took us to DL every summer, and the trip always started when we got on the freeway and I saw the Coppertone sign with the girl and the dog. It was even mechanized, so the girl's suit moved up and down a little bit. To this day, that ad screams "vacation" to me.
And at least you tan. I go from white to red and then back again.

But what was even worse was now the group in front of us, since they are away from the booth and the booth cops now, are letting the little kid whack away to his heart's conent too. Then we'd have to wait for them go go and find the "yellow" ball that is in the bushes 5 holes away up against the perimeter fence.

I thought maybe it got lost in the "yellow" snow.

I caught her on the 17th hole, I had learned the tricks to how to line things up better, and the 18th hole is just the "ball grabber"

I had a smart aleck remark to make, but it wasn't family friendly.

We passed,and rumbled our way back to the resort.

Did anyone comment "Nice!"?

Thanks for letting me bust out the snark. I teach kindergarten, and I have to hold it in a lot! Sometimes I have to let it "rumble" out.

 

[OhMari]

Hello

Been here since six.

It is almost 10.

Happy belated birthday Diane, Nebo if you were my dh, I probably wouldn't have talked to you all day. Sorry about your dad too.

I know you made it home, because you are posting, but am wondering how.

You have me sold on Caribbean, just don't want a pirate room, which I would end up getting.

 

[smidgy]

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um, you left out a bit. like, I didn't see you ,you saw me, but didn't yell out or anything
now, in trips past , like at POFQ, you were to meet me at the pool, weren't there, I looked all over.. only one pool, looked at the food court, went around to all the DSAS, finally found you back at the room, I think?

so this time I wasn't sure.. ok, he's NOT at the Jamaica pool. maybe he went over to the aruba pool. I walked over there.. no nebo... (at least I didn't have to look for the dsas this time (oops guess I did, since you were checking them out anyway.
I went BACK to the jamaica pool, considered walking back to the main pool, maybe you changed your mind.. finally you decided to make your presence known!!!
nebo, you REALLY need a cheapo prepaid phone for our trips!!!!!![/COLOR]


I don't care that we're going over to Bay Lake Towers, I like it here and I have that dreaded feeling I am wont to get that the trip is just flying past. How can this be?
We just checked in?
this is one of the cons about split stays. when the trip is "segmented",once one segment is over, you feel the trip moving along too quickly. and, if you have 3 resorts, you actually have 3 "last"nights.


And I really have this feeling that I'm not going to like BLT much except for it being walking distance to Magic Kingdom.

you decided months ahead of time that you weren't going to like BLT!!!



As you may have seen in the picture from DD I took of Smidgy, her cheeks were pretty red form the sun and she's constantly moving her chair around because of the sun.
I quit trying to keep up with her so some times we were facing 180 degrees apart. Hey, it may have looked stupid, but at least nobody could sneak up on us!

Actually, she just looked like she was in a snit:

I was facing the lagoon! to "view" the water!!


They take off for the first hole, and I try to hang back a bit until we pay and get started cuz we wanted to try the same side as them, the Christmas side, but wouldn't you know it, a young couple is now coming up behind us so we use our buy one get one voucher and wait for the big group in front of us.
um, BOTH sides are Christmas, honey.. one is summer, the other winter. so the summer side has christmas decor around camping, rvs, etc.
there's really not a lot of color here like you would think there would be for a Disney Mini Golf, well, there is if your favorite color is white! I'll show you.
um, white,.. snow.. cuase we chose the "winter" side??





Her revue?
It was edible, but I won't get it again.
sigh! it used to drive me nutz! when Nebo would refer to the show at Ft. Wilderness as the Hoop De Doo Review. (in fact, tons of people call it that... aargh! honey, It's REVUE, like a SHOW, not a commentary ABOUT a show, not a review!!
so NOW? when I am giving a "review", a ctitique, if you will, of my burger, he makes it sound like I broke out in song and dance,( top hat and cane included)! with a giant piece of lettuce and tomato (not to mention plantain) on my head! a carribbean burger REVUE! (Carmen Miranda, eat your heart out)
night

nighty night. have a good nap.

 

[winkers]

I would qoute and paste..and all that facy stuff but I can't figure out how on my iphone....


I think I'd be a little worried seeing a man near the pool with uncl john's BATHROOM reader...or at the very least check the pool for floaties.

Fore....well, I'm not even going to touch that one!

I'm always amazed at how oblivious some people are to others around them...I would have liked to hear your response to bug eyed lady when she said what ever she was thinking!


At least you CAN tan! I have 2 colors flourescent white and lobster red. I'm so white that Casper the ghost looks tan compared to me.

Plantains on a hamburger?? That's just bizarre!

 

[MHSweb79]

De-lurking to say that I'll be at POFQ next week ( ) and now I'm starting to get worried about those pesky yellow jackets! We stayed off-site on our last trip in May (couldn't beat a $99/ night 2 BR suite since we had my MIL along) so we haven't been subjected to this torture yet.

Next week we're bringing along my DH's 80 year old aunt, who is a full-time (exhausted) caretaker for her sister. This was supposed to be our old-lady-free trip, just for us (my reward for nicely going along with the MIL idea) but the poor woman really needs a break. She & I like to sit quietly and read by the pool so you can see why I'm getting nervous. I wonder if yellow jackets are scared of feral ducks? It's worth a try.

Also Nebo, thanks for the picture of the Bathroom Reader. My brother-in-law is also an Uncle John, and I think his kids would get a kick out of me giving him the Reader for Christmas (perhaps from Santa....) Off to Amazon right now!

Edited to add: I just noticed the little icon guy kind of looks like a yellow jacket leading a cheer

 

[mmeb144]

Her revue?
It was edible, but I won't get it again.
sigh! it used to drive me nutz! when Nebo would refer to the show at Ft. Wilderness as the Hoop De Doo Review. (in fact, tons of people call it that... aargh! honey, It's REVUE, like a SHOW, not a commentary ABOUT a show, not a review!!
so NOW? when I am giving a "review", a ctitique, if you will, of my burger, he makes it sound like I broke out in song and dance,( top hat and cane included)! with a giant piece of lettuce and tomato (not to mention plantain) on my head! a carribbean burger REVUE! (Carmen Miranda, eat your heart out)
night

Now, there's an image I won't be able to get out of my head anytime soon!

 

[PirateKate]

It's taken me three days, but I've finally gotten caught back up. Next time, I'll have to plan my Disney trips so they don't come right after yours causing me to be hopelessly behind when I come back.

CBR looks so beautiful! We were going to stay there and then I changed my mind and now I wish I hadn't. That picture of the sunset was incredible! I actually love plaintains- I've always thought of them as the bananas' sophisticated cousin. It does sound kind of strange on a burger, though.

 

[buzz1121]

Nebo, may I please borrow the invisibility cloak? The kids have worn my name out over the weekend!

As several other folks have said, there is no tanning for me. I'm either pale white or scary tomato red. DH is the same way and our kids, bless their hearts, are almost translucent! I joke that we are vampires with the ability to day walk a little.

That feral duck joke is making me think of "Lord of the Flies" again. That book is so creepy and unsettling.

Smidgy, your explanation of review/revue is absolutely hilarious! My only thought is now that Nebo knows it bothers you, he will be sure to use it incorrectly from this point forward. I'm sure he already knew, hence the revue of food, but now that it's in print, heaven help you! DH and I have a friend who would respond in like fashion. It's so hard never to be able to say anything!

 

[nebo]

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. Oh, wait... pool table with umbrella, few clouds... never mind.

Pool table with umbrella? Are you reading someone else's report and now you'r going to comment on it here?

Peaches. One state north please. You hafta use oranges in Florida. So things were going orangey, go on... and thank you're lucky stars you weren't in Hawaii!

would things be macadamialy?

Right up to this point I thought you were talkin' 'tour groups'.

yes, yellow shirts are a bad fashion choice no matter who is wearing them.

Well if you took your hearing aids out at the pool like you're supposed to, it wouldn't be a problem for you now, would it? Of course Smidgy's a whole other story.

You are right, and that's exactly what I did most of the time.

Oh yes! One of those stories that gets repeated often.

Often reapeated, but never duplicated! At least until I run out and need something.


You're not gonna let this one go, are ya? Sometimes you just gotta let go of the sausage, man.

No, I guess you're not gonna let it go.

No, it's still way too soon.
Hey, wanna watch me bring up the "seatbelt in the door" shtick again?




Noooooooooo! My favorite store! I loved going there and watching the magic demos. Bought two myself.

yeah, sorry about that.

drizzle, showers, rain, pouring gangbusters, sheets or here's Noah?

cats and dogs

No cheeseburger is worth that… unless of course it’s an angus burger.

I don't know if angus does it either.

Gotta agree with you on this one.
“Your beluga caviar and foie gras, monsieur. Will there be anything else? Champagne perhaps?”
“Nope. Just some cheese and bacon and I’m good.”

Wait, hold it, aren't beluga whales? Don't they give birth live? But you found a way to eat whale's eggs?
What's for dinner tonight? Monkey omlettes?




Got ‘em up here, too. Great idea. Actually, there has been some movement up here to get rid of pennies altogether.

they've talked about it here too for the last 20 years, I hate the dang things, I never take them.

Dunno, did you check at Dinoland?

Yes and even the Cretaceous Trail isn't that impressive.


And how thrilling that moment will be
When the prints of your dreams comes to thee

Ok, finally, you were the only one to comment on that line, I couldn' even get a groan from anybody.

Not to contradict you, but I did spot some clouds. I’ve taken the liberty of indicating them on your photo. I guess with your eye issues, you could miss a little thing like that, so you’re forgiven.

No, I don't see any clouds or anything amiss in the photo.

So what is with you guys and pool/landscape cleaners? Last time, this time… next time?

That's a great question, it all started at the Hippy Dippy Pool back in Sept. of '06 when I met the pool cleaner guy,,,,,,wow, that was 5 years ago when we did the Dr. Suess bit that Kay made up.

Yes it does! Too bad you can’t actually swim there.

nope, it's just "lookin at water."

That’s our Nebo, always thinking of others…

Thanks for the great update!

Thanks Ponz, say hit to Dustin and Andrew for me.

Sorry, I'm in Bloomington. If you're ever down this way though, let me know

Ah, Bloomington/notNormal. Back in '73, I was down at ISU and got to see a young comic perform the 7 words you can't say on tv there, when he was still mainly unknown.

As mentioned earlier, my DW has the same birthday as Smidgy. My DSis is in October. Our anniversary is in October. And of course the most important birthday in the world is in October.

No, mine is next month.

You know what always struck me as funny or ironic? After all that came out,
Mr. Woods was no Tiger, he was a Cheetah!

I have to say... your jokes are like my dads... we call 'em sigh shakers... because all you do is sigh and shake your head. Maybe an eye roll or a "wow, dad, that was bad..."



I'm taking a little hiatus. My husband and I are purchasing and moving into our first house this week. We close on Thursday morning and we move on Sunday. I usually read your updates on weekends (while I'm at work and there's not much going on)... but obviously I'll be really busy next weekend. Please think good thoughts for us. We're both nervous and excited!

Wow, have I just been slammed?
Yeah, I think so, it got so quiet in here you can hear a pun drop!

Becca that's great, I know a lot of people that live in houses and they love it, good luck.

 

[nebo]

Do you think they were afraid of the feral ducks, or the feral man warning them about the feral ducks?

And don't forget, if you take the letters of feral and swithc them around you get, ralfe.
no, I don't know what it means either


When I was a little girl, our parents took us to DL every summer, and the trip always started when we got on the freeway and I saw the Coppertone sign with the girl and the dog. It was even mechanized, so the girl's suit moved up and down a little bit. To this day, that ad screams "vacation" to me.
And at least you tan. I go from white to red and then back again.

I do remember that, it is so true, the Coppertone billboard was on the expressway,,,, and it did have a movable diaper on the little girl. I remember as a little kid saying to the dog that he probably didn't really want his mouth on that right now.


I had a smart aleck remark to make, but it wasn't family friendly.

Yeah, I missed that one at first, good thing everybody here on this thread only has the purist of thoughts.


Thanks for letting me bust out the snark. I teach kindergarten, and I have to hold it in a lot! Sometimes I have to let it "rumble" out.

Just for the record, my kindergarten teacher was named Miss Jean.

Hello

Been here since six.

Hi Marissa

It is almost 10.

Ok, that means one of three things, either you don't trust me and had to make sure we are all ok here, or,
it was just such compelling reading you couldn't put the monitor down, or three,
you still haven't mastered phonics and never took the Evelyn Woods Speed Reading course.


I know you made it home, because you are posting, but am wondering how.

I wish I could say I exaggerated the drive, but I didn't, it was actually worse than I could convey.

You have me sold on Caribbean, just don't want a pirate room, which I would end up getting.

Na, don't think you will get one unless you ask for it.

]

nighty night. have a good nap.

Hmm, ok, nothing shows up. Well, just want to say thanks for the great post, I need to show you a bit more on quoting. But I DID NOT make up mind ahead of time to dislike BLT, I have nothing to gain doing that.

I would qoute and paste..and all that facy stuff but I can't figure out how on my iphone....


I think I'd be a little worried seeing a man near the pool with uncl john's BATHROOM reader...or at the very least check the pool for floaties.

You need to get DJay one for Christmas.

Fore....well, I'm not even going to touch that one!



At least you CAN tan! I have 2 colors flourescent white and lobster red. I'm so white that Casper the ghost looks tan compared to me.

Plantains on a hamburger?? That's just bizarre!

You didn't seem all that lilly white to me when we met, of course there wasn't any light in the restaurant so I'm still not sure that was really you we met. Say hi to Mil for me, I still owe her a couple vikes.

De-lurking to say that I'll be at POFQ next week ( ) and now I'm starting to get worried about those pesky yellow jackets! We stayed off-site on our last trip in May (couldn't beat a $99/ night 2 BR suite since we had my MIL along) so we haven't been subjected to this torture yet.

Next week we're bringing along my DH's 80 year old aunt, who is a full-time (exhausted) caretaker for her sister. This was supposed to be our old-lady-free trip, just for us (my reward for nicely going along with the MIL idea) but the poor woman really needs a break. She & I like to sit quietly and read by the pool so you can see why I'm getting nervous. I wonder if yellow jackets are scared of feral ducks? It's worth a try.

I don't believe we have encounter the yellow jackets at FQ,,, but my guess is they will be there, it's the 1-4 hours you need to avoid, and FQ only has the one pool, so you are probably doomed!

Also Nebo, thanks for the picture of the Bathroom Reader. My brother-in-law is also an Uncle John, and I think his kids would get a kick out of me giving him the Reader for Christmas (perhaps from Santa....) Off to Amazon right now!

Edited to add: I just noticed the little icon guy kind of looks like a yellow jacket leading a cheer

Go for an older one, the most recent is always the most expensive.

Now, there's an image I won't be able to get out of my head anytime soon!

What, the Carmen Smidgy Miranda? Then you will love it when I post the video of her singing.

 

[nebo]

It's taken me three days, but I've finally gotten caught back up. Next time, I'll have to plan my Disney trips so they don't come right after yours causing me to be hopelessly behind when I come back.

CBR looks so beautiful! We were going to stay there and then I changed my mind and now I wish I hadn't. That picture of the sunset was incredible! I actually love plaintains- I've always thought of them as the bananas' sophisticated cousin. It does sound kind of strange on a burger, though.

You know, I just sat here trying to think, "hmm, what was PirateKate's name again?" I don't like it when I scare myself. And now I forgot what I was going to say. Oh well, as my mom would say, "It must not have been very important."
Wait.
Um.
Can I help you?

Nebo, may I please borrow the invisibility cloak? The kids have worn my name out over the weekend!

As several other folks have said, there is no tanning for me. I'm either pale white or scary tomato red. DH is the same way and our kids, bless their hearts, are almost translucent! I joke that we are vampires with the ability to day walk a little.

That feral duck joke is making me think of "Lord of the Flies" again. That book is so creepy and unsettling.

Ok, allrighty now, you lost me on this one, what does a feral duck have to do with Piggy and Samneric?

Smidgy, your explanation of review/revue is absolutely hilarious! My only thought is now that Nebo knows it bothers you, he will be sure to use it incorrectly from this point forward. I'm sure he already knew, hence the revue of food, but now that it's in print, heaven help you! DH and I have a friend who would respond in like fashion. It's so hard never to be able to say anything!

As John Mclain said to his cabbie in the beginning of Die Hard, "You're very perspective, Argyle"
I had to see if she'd catch the Revue thing, and if she' go off on it.

She did.
And she did.

I feel like I was still avenging McDisney when he made the mistake of posting here that he went and saw the Hoop De Do Review.

 

[hushupu]

The woman at the mini-golf course must not have had a basic understanding of golf etiquette. Slower players should always allow others to play through. She probably just assumed you were a rude couple trying to cut the line. Very funny update I had to try not to laugh out loud at work.
Sounds like your not that thrilled to be going to BLT (a resort so nice they named a sandwich after it). Location looks great but I've never been a huge fan of the Contemporary. I dont get the theme-ing it's got more of a Logan's Run feel to it than that Disney magic feel.

 

[pkondz]

I sat there watching these four ducks just slowly swim around the pool, I kept waiting for a little bubble to come up and have the one in front turn around and say to the other one, "Nice."

Ah, yes. Another beautiful nature scene irrevocably despoiled. (ooh, me use big words)

Then the Brady Bunch walked into the pool area, including the maid, and it appeared they brought their good friends, the Partridge Family with them.

But isn't it nice to know that they're all still together? Or... Now that I think about it, those 'kids' would be pretty old by now. Isn't it time they stop sponging off Mom and Dad (or just Mom in the case of those rotten Partridge brats) and get started supporting themselves?

Can ducks be feral?

Feral: Existing in a wild or untamed state. So... yes, although most people usually think of feral as wild and savage. And yet...

Run for the hills! The ducks are coming! Save the milk and quackers!

Uh uh, I want to get away from all that stuff, just let the world turn without me

Back in the old days, the Earth was tilted at 21 degrees. Nebo let the world turn without him and it started to wobble (Nebo wobbles and so does the world). When he got back it settled at the current 23.5 degrees resulting in warmer summers. Scientists decided to call it 'Global Warming' and blamed carbon emissions. But we know the truth.

What I didn't realize though, was that this table had a cloaking device, sitting here I was invisible.

Oh, man. You should've kept that table and sold it for a pile 'o cash. (Of course, you could take it... turn on the cloaking device and who'd know?)

I had to take her though and show her that way cool smoking section in the courtyard with all the benches aroung an in ground planting with the big pots for ash trays. She just shook her head, "It figures."

But, BUT! Isn't it better to see and admire and shake your head at the DSA rather than have to use it??? (I've said it before and will say it again: Way to go guys for quitting and sticking to it.)

I quit trying to keep up with her so some times we were facing 180 degrees apart. Hey, it may have looked stupid, but at least nobody could sneak up on us!

Always nice to know you've got each other's back.

Actually, she just looked like she was in a snit:

Yes she does!

Her response was," I say go for it, we've been blowing it off for years, " se we packed up and returned to our room.

And nine months later a little Nebo arrives in our world..

After changing and me making that long trek to the ice maching that was right around the corner,, did I mention we had a corner room?

What? When did that happen???

Here now is where never taking your watch off comes in handy for "tan checking".

Pretty much looks like my arm during the summer. My watch is waterproof so doesn't ever come off, even at the beach. (The kind where you can swim... not a WDW beach)

No, I'm not going to go and look for a dog to come up behind me and pull down the back of my bathing suit like the old Coppertone commercials.

Been there, done that, hunh?

I just mainly listened to Smidgy direct us to a parking spot and we were there.

And I'll probably never go there (just lack of time, not desire), so thanks for all the pics!

"Now Steve, if you do hit the ball too hard and have to yell a warning like they do in golf, it is NOT 'Foursome' or 'Fourplay', or 'Foreskin', or even Four Weddings and a Funeral, it is just plain old, 'Fore!', ok?"

Forgo the forbidden fore call, forsooth!

No, don't worry, I didn't cheat. You know what always struck me as funny or ironic? After all that came out,
Mr. Woods was no Tiger, he was a Cheetah!

Cheetahs don’t lie, but a tiger wood.

“Elin, how many times did you strike Tiger with that golf club?”
“I don't know exactly... but put me down for a 5."

In a funny way, I almost was a bit disappointed in the outcome, I really wanted to hear what she was going to say, and I would have loved to hold up my digital camera with pictures of Junior playing the game he wasn't supposed to, nor was he paid to do.

Don’t you just hate it when some nice guy steps in and ruins the moment? Love the way you were ready for it ‘though.

I caught her on the 17th hole, I had learned the tricks to how to line things up better, and the 18th hole is just the "ball grabber"

Now that’s a hazard!

I got Diane to pose for one more picture which she'll probably yell at me for posting this too.

Actually, that’s a very nice picture of Smidgy.

I'm sorry, but all I got was a hotdog and fries, but I got Pickles and onions and lettuce on a small plate from the ordering station, then at the condiments I got little cups of bbq sauce, packets of relish, mustard, ketchup, mayo,,,
I could turn my plain dog into a Chicago Style Hot Dog by building a salad on top of it.

I’m sorry, is there any other way of making a hot dog? If it isn’t loaded with everything and anything within arms reach, it’s just a wiener on a bun. If at least once you don’t bite into a hotdog and say, “Hey, I found the salt shaker!” then you haven’t really had a hotdog.

This was a cheeseburger, with strange things that don't belong on cheeseburgers on it. Kind of a "Cheeseburger in Pesticide!"

One thing it had on it was plantains.

Even Jimmy Buffett would say that that’s just wrong

Her revue?
It was edible, but I won't get it again.

You did that just to bug her, didn’t you. C’mon, fess up.
Thanks for another terrific update!

 

[mmeb144]

Back in the old days, the Earth was tilted at 21 degrees. Nebo let the world turn without him and it started to wobble (Nebo wobbles and so does the world). When he got back it settled at the current 23.5 degrees resulting in warmer summers. Scientists decided to call it 'Global Warming' and blamed carbon emissions. But we know the truth.

Finally, an explanation for global warming that I can actually follow.

 

[pkondz]

he makes it sound like I broke out in song and dance,( top hat and cane included)! with a giant piece of lettuce and tomato (not to mention plantain) on my head! a carribbean burger REVUE! (Carmen Miranda, eat your heart out)

 

[Backstage_Gal]

so NOW? when I am giving a "review", a ctitique, if you will, of my burger, he makes it sound like I broke out in song and dance,( top hat and cane included)! with a giant piece of lettuce and tomato (not to mention plantain) on my head! a carribbean burger REVUE! (Carmen Miranda, eat your heart out)
night

Smidgy, that was funny!

Of course, just about everything on this thread is, which is why I have been hooked for years.

 

[nebo]

Finally, an explanation for global warming that I can actually follow.

I can't argue, he's right!

 

[Backstage_Gal]

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[shan23877]

Ah, Bloomington/notNormal. Back in '73, I was down at ISU and got to see a young comic perform the 7 words you can't say on tv there, when he was still mainly unknown.



George Carlin huh?

We actually live in Normal. Nobody ever believes us.