I'm BACK! The Trip was a blast. My legs are sore as hell. "BACK! BACK over Da Falls! DISAPPEAR!! DISAPPEAR!!" "....And We're Walking... And Walking...."
My first Southwest adventure was interesting. My flight to Florida was interesting. Had a cool cabin crew who made the flight quite enjoyable, complete with some great jokes throughout the normal flight spiels (Including a large number of Jungle Cruise Style Jokes during the safety spiel... and my favorite 2 on landing... "On Behalf of the Southwest and the Crew, We'd like to be the first to welcome you to Acapulco. Unfortunately, We can't since we are only in Orlando." [while taxing from the furthest runway to the gate] "Here at Southwest we are able to offer such low fares by only flying 1/2 way, and driving the rest. We are currently just south of Jacksonville and should be hitting I-4 shortly." ). Flight back.... not so great.
Both flights... southwest took FOREVER to get us our bags. Last night I was waiting over 20min in Baggage claim just for them to tell us which carousel we would be getting our stuff on once it started coming. Ultimately... i'm thinking I still prefer Delta.
I'm all for the "off-season", and would love to do a Food & Wine meet. Mild crowds, not scorching hot, and plenty of good food and beer to be had by all
But also would be happy to "go with the flow" depending on what works for others
I don't know if I make a good cruise director, but would be happy to help come up with some ideas and a tentative itinerary, DC!
Hi all, and hello to our new friends! So the 2012 meet, sounds like we all are in favor of the halloween/food and wine season. Let's avoid 1) Columbus day weekend, and 2) Halloween, and we should have good crowd levels any other time. Who all would/could go. I will do my best planning, but seing how I have been all consumed by work lately I may recruit help!
Looks like everybody has been really running with planning and ideas for a group Disney meet.
I think I'll have to say I'm also leaning towards an October timeframe meet. Between Halloween Horror Nights, F&W, MNNSHP, lower crowds..... And more time to save + the fact I'll have gotten a fresh allocation of flex days at work... It does have some nice advantages over a pre-summer trip.
While I know we can't get everybody during a non-summer meet due to work and/or school schedules, I think the non-peak times for a Disney Meet just work for more of us since it can be less expensive to go to Disney, and the crowds are much lower. (plus the special events that maybe we don't always get to experience, especcially when you are wrangling young ones).
I think the Hershey meet this year was a lot of fun though, so I don't see why we couldn't do a summer meet again at Hershey or another non-disney location.
I understand that feeling! I'm almost 6' myself & my sisters are all taller than I am. We look like that on almost every ride!!
It was painful. Normally I can manage, but between the tight squeeze, the fact I'd been up since 4am, and the 2 margarita's I had just downed (since someone couldn't finish theirs), I was feeling quite good and wasn't exactly thinking things thru.
Well I'm now jobless again. They ran out of work and walked a few of us off the site today. I do have a phone interview on Friday but we'll see how that goes I guess. Hope ya'll had a better hump day than I did.
Doh! That sucks. Sorry to hear it....Hopefully though the fact you've worked recently though will help in your attempts to get another job soon. I know sometimes a long span between jobs can work against you.
As far as meets, I'm going to be in the World (with kiddos in tow) June 3-10. Not sure I'll be able to make it any other dates, although I'm still wishing I could make it for a food and wine thing sometime....
That reminds me.... Need to start working on planning dates for our June trip..... Who knows.... We might end up overlapping some.
Hi everyone I'm new to the DIS boards. I'm just starting to get into the Disney thing, and I would love to meet people to hang out with when I visit the parks. Actually I might be heading up to MK tomorrow if I feel up to driving to Orlando. I want to check out the xmas lights, and see the fireworks.
Well it's been five months since my last visit. Have had a lot going on. My divorce is final now...about a month. It isn't easy but I'm getting by day by day. Enjoying single life. But it seems that all the "free" dating sites are full of spam and no one is serious about getting to know someone. So I figured I would come here, maybe make a few friends. And hopefully find someone that's interested enough in me that wants to get to know each other better.
Having said that I'm sorta kinda new here
to the SSC guys! We love having new people join us. Feel free to pull up a chair and pour yourself a drink and join in the fun and Debauchery!
Funny story to tell. . .Was headed to HOB for Dinner last night and it looked like the sound guy was DC. . .I actually backtracked to see the guy to make sure. . .too funny
Should've tried to snag his CM ID. If we looked alike like that, I could've tried to use his CM discount.
During the last few years, I have been going either in March or May, then October again.
That said, I don't have *anything* planned in 2012!
it's been a few years since I have had nothing planned on the horizon.
Though, early November also seems to be the lowest crowds according to my newsfeed lately. Guessing, it is the lull between Halloween and Thanksgiving trips for people??
The tail end of this week was NUTS! It was actually a bit scary. 2 years ago, I didn't have any issues with the "Jersey Week" crowds, but this year....OMG!!
My name is Mickey 88 I am a shopaholic, I need an intervention..
I just bought $ 400.00
worth of Halloween costumes tonight for my studio
That Reminds me.... I saw some shirts that made me think of you while down in Florida....
Mickey with the Cross-bones. Seemed oddly appropriate with your SN and occupation.
: Fingers crossed!
Time to start planning your first visit "home!"
