..Pop My Jibbitz!!! We Are In Disney Woild! **UPD 6/23 PG 69 #1022**

[DonaldTDuck]

No, I'm pretty sure it's dis(f)unctional, or at least his family. Great TR, just seems to be taking 4ever. (Patience is NOT one of my virtues)

 

[mikamah]

I am thoroughly enjoying this TR. Though, I am a bit saddened that you are not yet in WDW. I also spent some time reading UtahMama's tr today, and she has not even left for WDW yet. I must be more patient.

I too am from a bit of a dysfunctional family, but sometimes feel I am normal. I am blessed with the fact that my youngest sister bought the homestead, and built an in-law for my mom, and I live happily just 3 miles down the road. There are five of us and we all do pitch in and help, but you, like my sis, really deserve to get away for a wonderful vacation now and then. Hope you had a great trip. Maybe I'll read about it soon.

I must go google Jibbitz, and see if I need to get me one of them.

 

[Va-bear]

Thankfully I purchased all new underwear, who needs to be judged by Airport Security?

ahh.... yes.......

I bid my farewell to both and give my sister my lighter.

Bad, bad DisUnc!

For some unexplainable reason, nothing sets me off more than asking me “How are you feeling?”, this precise type of questioning REALLY ‘p me o’ to infinity and beyond.

DITTO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why dont they just say "you look like you could use a hug.." (ACK!!! - the second worse thing "well meaning" people say!)

The plane took off into the wild blue yonder!
OK, Now I can take a deep breath and breathe again!

SO happy this works for you - I stress the whole time....especially the last time. It was VERY turbulent and the man across the isle from me pushed his hand against the top of the (small) plane and said "good God, NO..." - wow, THAT was comforting!!!!

KEEP IT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[ilovepooh]

I am enjoying your TR!!!

I had to mention that I also HATE flying-Can you say ANXIETY!!-only I don't relax AT ALL until we land! I keep "the bag" in my hands the whole flight!! (pretty pathetic huh?)

You mentioned living in the Poconos-DH and I stayed at Caesar's Palace a few years ago. It was really nice!! (We're not far from Atlantic City.)

By the way, I think it's wonderful you are taking care of your parents-The pizza run story is hysterical!

James is lucky to have you for an uncle!

 

[sunny_medford]

WAIT!!!!! Dysfunctional is Normal?????
Somehow that really makes me feel good about myself!


Great TR, thanks for the shortcut on the TK-ers page.

 

[labdogs42]

I have only read the first post, but I had to jump in and give a shout out for the fabulous Lehigh Valley airport! (ABE for those in the know) I didn't get one of the hot direct flights, but we will be flying out of ABE for our trip in September. Nice to know we have some other DIS-ers in the area flying out of our swanky airport!!

 

[Dalpal]

Very entertaining TR DU! ...

I have enjoyed it ....

Cant wait to find out about Elvis ......
and when do you start smakin people around ...

 

[Luvchefmic]

Day 1 Part 1


SIDENOTE: In me Irish Catholic family, originally from Brooklyn, there is NO such thing as keeping ones mouth shut. If you have something to say, just say it! We will scream, fight, yell, curse and quite possibly slam a few doors and maybe just maybe if things get really heated a good old fashion punch to the wall is in order. Then 5 minutes later it’s all over with. We normally are hysterical laughing making fun of each other on how we reacted. Is this ‘normal’, probably not! But that’s the way it has been for many screwy generations, and we are all very comfortable with our dysfunctional behavior! Besides, we also have some really funny Christmas gathering stories to tell over the years. Now “why is DisUnc telling all this to us?” you ask. Because there is ONE exception to the family frivolity, this is my niece who is James mother. Everything has always, and will always be very serious with Amy. It has got to the point where if anything bad does happen in the family, we get into a fight as to who will tell Amy. This is done as an “Only on a NEED to know basis”. She has her dramatic fathers’ gene!

[/B]

OMG! This is hysterical!! I think I knew your family in Brooklyn, we were the big Italian Catholic family down the other end of the block slamming doors and shouting at each other .we have a Drama Queen too!. .both families must have been drowning each other out at times I KNEW I had a connection with you ..you are bringing back so many good memories can't wait to catch up with the rest of your TR...going now Ruthie

 

[Luvchefmic]

along with their pair of half deaf, half blind 15-year-old Maltese Poos. Also left with them was their hastily strewn together luggage, all matching marked “WAL * MART Have a Nice Day.”


Oh where is the smiley icon for needs to wear Depends..I can't remember when I laughed so hard my face hurts..your descriptions are hysterical!!

 

[DISUNC]

The pilot now gives all the necessary info. He tells us just how high we are flying; this was something like 35 thousand feet. Why is this information necessary? Why does anybody need to know this? When you commute on a bus to work, does the bus driver announce we are now going 90 miles an hour? Something tells me that after the pilot says this, he cuts the microphone…and laughs his butt off , knowing that he his screwing with people.

It is now time for the flight attendants to start selling their wares. Nutin is ‘given’ on a $79.00 flight. They hand out menus. I was quite surprised by what they were selling. Besides the usual soda, alcohol, various snacks, they sell coloring books, toy airplanes…and ELVIS SUNGLASSES.

Sidenote: James is an Elvis FANATIC. This is has been going on since he was about 5 years old. He picked this up all on his own. James has Elvis DVD’s, CD’s, posters, playing cards, clock, and blankets. His whole room is ELVIS! Last year James had Home EC. in school (I least that’s what I think they call it now) he had to make a pillow and blanket. We went to buy material at (where else) Wal*Mart, do you know they had 8 different Elvis patterns to choose from? Anyhow, he received an A+ on his project. It helps when the Teacher is also an Elvis fanatic. James is also Elvis every single Halloween. Graceland to James is what WDW is for all who read this.

I gave James the menu

and asked him what he wanted. Like every 12-year-old boy on summer vacation …reading anything without pictures is a chore that can be avoided to September.
“What do they have?”
“What do you want?”, I replied
“What do they have?
“UGH!” If I didn’t stop it then, we could have went on for a good 20 minutes. Really! “They have soda, snacks…and other things”, I informed
“What other things?”
“Like Coloring books”, No reaction; “Toy Airplanes”, No reaction.
Very blasé I said “Elvis Sunglasses”, HUGE REACTION

. He grabs the menu from my hands, “where, where, where?” He thought I was teasing him. I don’t know why he thought that?
“Right there” I point out where this is listed on the menu. Once he sees the Elvis Glasses on the menu, he jumps out of his seat…looking for the flight attendant.
“Can I get them?”
“I dunno? They are five dollars.”
“UUNNNNNNNNNNNNNC!” The kid knows better.

“Yeah, when the stewardess comes by to take the order I will get them”
“What if they don’t have them, What if they are lying”…he then tries to climb over me and get to the aisle to get, for what he believes is the LAST PAIR OF ELVIS SUNGLASSES EVER TO BE HAD. (I told you he is ELVIS CRAZED!)
Once the flight attendant gets to us, I order 2 sodas, a “kids pack” and the elusive Elvis sunglasses.
You heard of flying angst, James now has “Elvis Sunglasses Angst”. In all of the 4 minutes that it took from the time I ordered to the time the steward came back with everything we ordered, James went through “what if they don’t have them?” “That’s not right to but them on the menu, and not have them? “What if someone up front got the last pair?” He was all shook up.

JEEEEEZZZZZZ, chill little Elvis dude!

The Flight attendant came back

with these big gaudy gold aviator style plastic sunglasses…James practically grabbed them from me. He put them on his face. They were 3 sizes too big for his face. “SOOOOOOOOOOOO COOL!”
“Whatever?”

Elvis is now flying Allegiant Air!!!!!!!

So the flight is going wonderfully, I am reading Elvis’s “Mad” magazine. “Mad” is still sooooooooooo flippen funny! This issue was a spoof on Superman Returns!

Elvis is just looking at the window.

Then I hear from behind me a very nervous woman’s voice “Look at the wings, they are going to fall off!”
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA??????? FALL OFF????
I push Elvis from the window and look out, the wings look fine too me.
Then the lady again starts pleading…LOUDLY “We’re going to CRASH!”

I turn around to the seat behind him. There is a young woman, about 30 years old, blond, very pretty who is freaking out ! There was an older gentleman sitting next to her trying to calm her down.

Now, I have Elvis asking me if we are crashing! “NO, NO, NO! It’s just this lady behind me!” Elvis made the crazy sign with his finger spinning around the side of his head! I said “OHHHHHHHHHHHHHH YES!”

Anyhow for the rest of the flight every bump, every noise she starts in with “we are going to crash”; “we are going to die”…she was low enough, almost as if she was doing a Marilyn Monroe impression. The flight attendant did have to tell her too SHUTUP a few times, in that very nice Flight Attendant way.
See what you get on a $79.00 flight, a plane built in the 1960’s, Elvis & Marilyn Monroe! Who needs Foist Klass?

There was a very nice older gentleman sitting next to her, but not traveling with her. He kept telling her that everything would be all right. She started telling him the story of her life…She was married three times, had some major operations, she is going to Orlando to meet her new boyfriend that she met last month on the internet! Her life was a Soap Opera!

However, her wacky life story held my interest enough so that I put down the Mad magazine.

Then the pilot announces that we are starting our decent into Sanford airport. We will be arriving 30 minutes earlier than expected. How do they do that?

Once the plane landed, it was at the gate and the doors were open in about 5 minutes. We were off the “aluminum cylinder of Death & Mayhem’. We took a short walk to the Baggage claim; I headed for the door and had a cigarette.
While I was having a cigarette, the kind man who sat next to the crazy lady was standing next too me. I think he was smoking two cigarettes simultaneously. I asked him how he is. He showed me his hand; it was all black & blue from her squeezing it!
“Where did she go?” I asked
“She wouldn’t get off the plane…she wants to go back to Allentown” he shook his head!
I made the crazy spin of the finger against my head
He replied “OOOOOOOOOOH yeah!”

Little did I know then, but we will meet up with Crazy Lady again!!!!!!

With that we both went back inside and there was the luggage coming out on the carousel. I grabbed all our bags. I took two, and Elvis took one. We followed the signs for Alamo. We walked out of the terminal, and walked and walked and schlepped and schlepped. The Alamo Rental office is the farthest car rental in Sanford. Too short for a shuttle bus, but too far to schlep with lots of luggage and high humidity. Once we did get there, I left Elvis outside with the bags. I went into the empty Alamo building, which was HUGE. Signed all the papers acknowledging that I read all the 20 pages of fine print, the agent gave me the keys, pointed to the car right outside. I asked for directions, he gave me them all pre printed. Packed the car up with Elvis & the luggage and drove off.

It took all of 45 minutes to get to Exit 65 on I-4. This is the exit to get to POP Century.
“JAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMEEEEES WEEEEEEE’RRRE HERE!”
James was all whoo-hooing and jumping around in the back seat. As I got off the exit and onto Osceola Parkway, There it was, the infamous Walt Disney World Arch, and Mickey and Minnie are permanently planted there to greet you.

Now, I did not take the obligatory picture of this phenomenal sight, because my camera was packed deep down in my carry on, and I was driving. I like to just drive when I drive.

Although that Arch is all welcoming and all Disney, it is not exactly what I see upon entering the Mudda Country. As I get closer to the Arch, all the angst disappears; there are
no wars,
no hunger,
no thirst,
no pain,
no heartache,
no boundaries,
no reports due,
no time cards,
no meetings to attend,
no bills to pay.

I am now somehow magically transformed into a kid again. I get to feel and enjoy all the wonderment, the joy, the magic that all kids must have. Only this time around, I am a kid with a driver’s license and a major credit card!!! Everyone on Disney property has a name and a friend. We are the ‘Lost Boys of Neverland’ who must meet up with Pan and Tink, and find what we may!

This is what I see……….

You're out of the woods, you're out of the dark, you're out of the night...
Step into the sun, step into the light!
Keep straight ahead for the most glor-ious place
On the face of the earth or the sky...
Hold onto your breath, hold onto your heart, hold onto your hope,
March up to the gate and bid it open!​

If you care too, please grab your WDW Passporter, come back and join me in the next update, “Back at the POP!”

 

[sheridac]

quick time out in my reading to note this:

He was all shook up.

Please don't ask me what's on my mind
I'm a little mixed up, but I'm feelin' fine

Then I hear from behind me a very nervous woman’s voice “Look at the wings, they are going to fall off!”
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA??????? FALL OFF????

Oh no!!! Poor you!!

I like to just drive when I drive.

Really?? I like to listen to music, drink coffee, apply make-up and talk on the phone. Just to name. A few.

Only this time around, I am a kid with a driver’s license and a major credit card!!!

Wooo hooo!!!!! And a kid that's the legal drinking age too, right??

 

[hucifer]

DISUNC, another fantastic installment. Actually, another TWO fantastic installments since I missed commenting on the last one.

Still love the sidenotes. And I LOVED the part about you going for pizza. Your TR hasn't let me down, brotha.

 

[rer1972]

I was quite surprised by what they were selling. Besides the usual soda, alcohol, various snacks, they sell coloring books, toy airplanes…and ELVIS SUNGLASSES.

Cool! I would have picked the toy airplanes. I grew up next to Randolph Air Force Base (outside San Antonio, TX) and have a thing for anything involving aviation.

So the flight is going wonderfully, I am reading Elvis’s “Mad” magazine. “Mad” is still sooooooooooo flippen funny! This issue was a spoof on Superman Returns!

Still have my old MAD's. Actually, I have the Superman I spoof with Christopher Reeve on the cover in is super boxers.

Then I hear from behind me a very nervous woman’s voice “Look at the wings, they are going to fall off!”
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA??????? FALL OFF????
I push Elvis from the window and look out, the wings look fine too me.
Then the lady again starts pleading…LOUDLY “We’re going to CRASH!”

DISUNC somehow I think this could only happen to you.

Then the pilot announces that we are starting our decent into Sanford airport. We will be arriving 30 minutes earlier than expected. How do they do that?

I think they use a radar detector so they can speed without getting pulled over.

I am now somehow magically transformed into a kid again. I get to feel and enjoy all the wonderment, the joy, the magic that all kids must have. Only this time around, I am a kid with a driver’s license and a major credit card!!! Everyone on Disney property has a name and a friend. We are the ‘Lost Boys of Neverland’ who must meet up with Pan and Tink, and find what we may!

DITTO

Each update just get better and better.
It's like I'm right there with you guys. Well, I'll be waiting patiently in the lobby (maybe I'll order some milk duds and a soda) with my WDW Passporter for the next insallment.

 

[stinkerbelle's mom]

As always-- you is da man!!! Great TR, can't wait for more!

 

[Luvchefmic]

T[/B. As I got off the exit and onto Osceola Parkway, There it was, the infamous Walt Disney World Arch, and Mickey and Minnie are permanently planted there to greet you.

Now, I did not take the obligatory picture of this phenomenal sight, because my camera was packed deep down in my carry on, and I was driving. I like to just drive when I drive.

Although that Arch is all welcoming and all Disney, it is not exactly what I see upon entering the Mudda Country. As I get closer to the Arch, all the angst disappears; there are
no wars,
no hunger,
no thirst,
no pain,
no heartache,
no boundaries,
no reports due,
no time cards,
no meetings to attend,
no bills to pay.

I am now somehow magically transformed into a kid again. I get to feel and enjoy all the wonderment, the joy, the magic that all kids must have. Only this time around, I am a kid with a driver’s license and a major credit card!!! Everyone on Disney property has a name and a friend. We are the ‘Lost Boys of Neverland’ who must meet up with Pan and Tink, and find what we may!

If you care too, please grab your WDW Passporter, come back and join me in the next update, “Back at the POP!”

Amen...exactly how I feel my 2 times a yr trek to the Mudderland helps me cope with the ....ahem... DH and the outlaws, and the rest of the family the rest of the year...I am so looking forward to the rest of your great TR..'specially since I never stayed at POP

 

[ely3857]

Another great insallment, driving through the sign is great



Jodie

 

[princesslibby]

Wooo hooo!!!!! And a kid that's the legal drinking age too, right??

I was just thinking driver's licence,credit card and at least 21.

 

[UtahMama]

MMMMmmmm.... I love leaving the real world behind once you "cross through" the Magical Arch.

I can not wait to hear more about the Drama Queen Crazy Lady! I'm surprised the airline didnt penalize her for being a terrorist.

My favorite thing about Elvis is...his lips! Graceland reminds me of when a Hillbilly
wins the lottery (Tacky rich people)!

 

[ilovepooh]

However, her wacky life story held my interest enough so that I put down the Mad magazine.

Love this!! Your little smiley says it all!! BTW, DH loves MAD mags too!!

You are too funny!!

This is a definite-no food or drinks while reading TR!!

 

[tmq2766]

You are cracking me up!!!! Ok It sounds like you were stalking me on my last trip and decided to write a trip report about it!!!