Sleepy and Grumpy visit Tatooine–A SWW TR! - The End - All done and Link to new TR

[afwdwfan]

Cool car!

The meet looks like it was a great time. I'm sorry about the electrical issues, but I'm glad you were able to get it figured out finally and hopefully have a permanent fix for it.

 

[scottny]

Love CSR.
I love the bacon at WDW it is always crispy.
LOL at the Maleficent apples.
The cups are small. We keep big mugs and to go cups in our Owners Lockers.
Great your room was ready.
Ooh I saw the GF Burger on the menu, YUM!
The room looked nice. That looks close to the Monorail.
MMM, Dr. Pepper. I miss soda sometimes.
1900 PF looked good and fun with the characters. The strawberry soup there is so good.
Nice parade pics.
I liked the fireworks pics.
Fun night at MK.
OH MY! I am loving the updates I am up to for Star Wars and am so JEALOUS.
Love the dress.
Ooh personal shoppers. LOL. I need to shop with Fran.
Did they go on Ebay?
That is some merchandise you all got.
Love the motorcade pics.
Darth does not look happy with you. LOl
The “rebels” show sounded interesting. I am looking forward to the show being I loved “The Clone Wars”.
Love “Wrecking Ball”. Great song but the video is not for me. Lol.
It looked like fun from the link you gave. Thanks.
What a great time with Ray Parks and John Ratzenberger.
The drinks looked good.
Nice pics of VGF & GF.
I would have had the drinks at the party and been happy. LOL.
Great way to end the night.
Cute Stormtrooper mug.
Um, that was a Jawa. Sand people are the Tusken Raiders.
LOL at the Maury shirt.
WOW! That is some nap you took. LOL.
Love Drag Queen Bingo. So much fun if you have the right queens.
Yeah! You won 2nd place. That is good.
I am caught up again.

 

[franandaj]

I'm not much of a "car guy" but I liked seeing photos of your car. Makes me wish I had kept my 1973 Gremlin. Gremlins never get any love. Even in Cars 2, Pixar cast the AMC Gremlins and Pacers as the 'bad' cars.

As always, thanks for sharing your adventures!

Thanks, we like our cars. I never realized that the Gremlins were the "bad cars" in the movie. I'll have to watch it again and pay closer attention!

Your Ford Ranchero looks very nice. I have watched a lot of Counting Cars on the History Channel and it made me appreciate classic cars. That was very neat to see all those other cars. That was great that your car was able to win the second place award.

I always enjoy reading your adventures from Disney parks, car shows, etc.

We watch Counting Cars too, at least Fran does and I catch it in the background. It's always fun to get together with the Car Club, there are folks with a lot nicer cars than ours, and some in progress. It's just fun.

Congratulations on coming second. Looks like you had a few nice days despite various "road blocks".

Completely off topic: Have you seen the new Haunted Mansion merchandise, which is coming out in fall. I so want the shoes and the Dooney and Bourke Tote. I am now rather glad that I never managed to get the original Haunted Mansion purse. I love the design, but never loved the shape of the purse. The totes are my favourites and the Haunted Mansion design works so well on this. Good job that I will get 20% discount on merchandise when I get to Disneyland. Even better job that our Christmas bonus will be paid while I am still at Disneyland.

Corinna

I'm glad we fixed those road blocks.

I think that the HM stuff is coming out really soon. I seem to remember that it comes out while we are out of town on one of our trips. Fran said we have to stop in the park as soon as we get back. Now to figure out which trip it was. Just what I need another purse/tote to want!

Weed salad? Do tell........

Weed Salad. Tastes like weeds. Seems to be all the rage right now.

Nice ride. Really, what a beautiful car.

Looks like a fun morning at WDW. Love those cute mugs. And the cute pics with the Ewoks.

You're having a crazy busy summer.

Thanks! I'm glad you like our car. The mugs are now on display in our kitchen. I loved our pictures with the characters from today.

I can't wait to get through all our travels. Right now I'm actually blowing off the seeing the costumes at the Star Trek Convention because I'm too tired to leave the room after the past three days. We have a full evening ahead so I'm letting Fran nap (it's after 12 and she is still asleep, didn't sleep well last night). I got us some Sbux and came back to the room. Sometimes you just need to chill and DIS. Besides, it's like 107+ outside and there were thunderstorms last night so I bet the humidity is

Love the car meets. There are some real nice cars there and I'd love to kick the tyres someday.

Despite the fun-ness of it all, I think it sounds like a harrowing time with the Ranchero. Glad it's all sorted out now.

I'm looking forward to whatever the next meet is, they're fun, and now I'll be happy to take the Ranchero knowing it's all fixed!

What a fun event. Love the car, so sorry you had all that trouble.

I'm glad you got away from the alternate universe folks!

Wonderful that Alicia and DH were able to help

I'm just glad the electrical shop figured it all out! The generator had been giving us problems for months and now we know why. Thank goodness for Alicia and her DH. I was a little freaked out about that other couple.

Gotta life in a classic car. My starter went out at the gas station pump one time.

Congrats on the award....the car is beautiful!

I'm dropping off all the parts for the '66 today to get the interior finished? Hopefully I can start driving her in a couple of weeks!

Jill in CO

Yeah, there is always something going wrong with them. I don't want to talk about the Lincoln or the 68 Cougar.

I hope you get to drive yours soon!

How fun to see your car show pictures!! I love how you added the fun accessories and I was wondering if you had a/c.


My FIL loves cars and restored a '32 Ford several years back and he is working on a '40 now. Once the '32 was completed, he and my MIL drove it from Seattle to Pleasanton in August. My Mil said never again without a/c ....

The A/C was a necessity to add, it was miserable driving around without it. Actually the A/C in that car works better than any other car we have, it's chilly cold!

Wow that's a long trip in a classic! I'm always afraid because when I was in college my '79 Honda caught on fire on the I5. Since that experience, I'm wary about drives in risky cars.

 

[rentayenta]

Weed Salad. Tastes like weeds. Seems to be all the rage right now.

I love weed salad. Really. I hate iceberg salads. Weeds are the way to go when it comes to salad.

Thanks! I'm glad you like our car. The mugs are now on display in our kitchen. I loved our pictures with the characters from today.

I can't wait to get through all our travels. Right now I'm actually blowing off the seeing the costumes at the Star Trek Convention because I'm too tired to leave the room after the past three days. We have a full evening ahead so I'm letting Fran nap (it's after 12 and she is still asleep, didn't sleep well last night). I got us some Sbux and came back to the room. Sometimes you just need to chill and DIS. Besides, it's like 107+ outside and there were thunderstorms last night so I bet the humidity is

I am loving your FB pics from the convention! I am all about chilling and DISing as I sit here Saturday afternoon doing the same. In my defense, I did grocery shop, laundry, and some gardening already. It's 90* here. Glad you ladies are getting some rest. What's on the agenda for tonight?

 

[franandaj]

What a fun car meet! Weed salad?! I see that you didn't include any explanation haha

Love your car! My DS21 is a car enthusiast and he said you def should have won 1st prize I used to love working on cars with my late hubby - he had a 59 Ford Fairlane 500. So much fun driving around in - it was his first car he bought in 1977. Always love reading about your adventures!

See above post, I put in a picture for Jenny. Weeds, not Romaine, or iceberg, bitter weeds.

Thanks! The 59 Ranchero is based off the Ford Fairlane, such a pretty car!

Oh my goodness love the car! I adore open bed cars like that what a beauty and well done for winning a prize! Sorry she caused you trouble just like a female lol. For a moment when the engine would not shut off I am thinking this is Christine from Stephen King!

Looks like a fun event and love the idea of drag bingo and I didn't know they had bingo on DCL I love bingo! I must look out for that

The complementary cocktail hour I could def get use to how nice!

Glad you made it back and thanks for photos how I love those cars and being American we don't get to see them much over here. Star Trek convention in Vegas? Oh my you lucky ducks!

Yeah, we haven't given her a name, but as I said before, her middle name was "trouble". They do Bingo on the sea days. We like it, lots of fun! Embassy Suites rock for their complimentary cocktail hour!

Yup Star Trek Convention in Vegas. Crazy. I think I'm tired.

Beautiful car! And, going back a post, the photo of Fran whispering to the Ewok is the cutest ever.

Thanks! Yeah, I still have to ask her what she was saying to the Ewok.

Nice ride and what a fun event. My dream car is a '66 Mustang. One of these days, maybe.

Thanks! We had a mustang for a while. It was a total fixer upper, way beyond our skill level. We ended up selling it to someone in Australia. I wonder how it is doing down under.

LOVE THE STORMTROOPER MUGS!

I should have pointed them out to you when you were at our house, they are above the refrigerator along with some other SW mugs.

Okay, that sand person is a little creepy but I get it.

Fabulous pics with Chip n Dale!

I really enjoyed Rosies when we went in 2012. Good, solid hamburger.

I guess we both got it wrong, it's a Jawa, so I'm told.
I love the character pics!
We thought it was really good too!

Brilliant Maury shirt and ET shirt!

Speaking of Chewie, I was looking at the Disney Store online and found the coolest Chewie mug that i'm totally ordering.



i'm shocked that you took a nap!! You must have been exhausted.

They were really funny. We were at the Disney Store yesterday and I saw the mug in person, it was really cute! That seems to be a theme recurrent through this entire summer!

Your car is more gorgeous in person, it's so beautiful! I'm so happy that we were there to help you guys out. Too funny about the 'other' Alicia and DH!

We had such a fun time hanging out with you guys (once we were back at the house!) DH and I later as we were driving to our hotel were thinking, "I hope we didn't inconvenience you guys!" I mean, you just got home from a long trip ride and i'm sure the last thing you guys wanted to do is to entertain guests. But it was so fun touring your home and getting to meet your kitties!

Thank you so much! I had so much fun with you guys too! And no you didn't inconvenience us at all! In fact since you were there, I got to go out and be served dinner instead of ordering delivery online from Eat24. It was a much better evening!

Cool car!

The meet looks like it was a great time. I'm sorry about the electrical issues, but I'm glad you were able to get it figured out finally and hopefully have a permanent fix for it.

I'm pretty relieved too. I think that car is now "done". The electrical is up to snuff, it has seatbelts, A/C the engine works, what else do we need?

Love CSR.
I love the bacon at WDW it is always crispy.
LOL at the Maleficent apples.
The cups are small. We keep big mugs and to go cups in our Owners Lockers.
Great your room was ready.
Ooh I saw the GF Burger on the menu, YUM!
The room looked nice. That looks close to the Monorail.
MMM, Dr. Pepper. I miss soda sometimes.
1900 PF looked good and fun with the characters. The strawberry soup there is so good.
Nice parade pics.
I liked the fireworks pics.
Fun night at MK.
OH MY! I am loving the updates I am up to for Star Wars and am so JEALOUS.
Love the dress.
Ooh personal shoppers. LOL. I need to shop with Fran.
Did they go on Ebay?
That is some merchandise you all got.
Love the motorcade pics.
Darth does not look happy with you. LOl
The “rebels” show sounded interesting. I am looking forward to the show being I loved “The Clone Wars”.
Love “Wrecking Ball”. Great song but the video is not for me. Lol.
It looked like fun from the link you gave. Thanks.
What a great time with Ray Parks and John Ratzenberger.
The drinks looked good.
Nice pics of VGF & GF.
I would have had the drinks at the party and been happy. LOL.
Great way to end the night.
Cute Stormtrooper mug.
Um, that was a Jawa. Sand people are the Tusken Raiders.
LOL at the Maury shirt.
WOW! That is some nap you took. LOL.
Love Drag Queen Bingo. So much fun if you have the right queens.
Yeah! You won 2nd place. That is good.
I am caught up again.

I'm glad that you made it over here! With everything you commented on I'm at a loss for words! Just happy to have you following along!

 

[franandaj]

I love weed salad. Really. I hate iceberg salads. Weeds are the way to go when it comes to salad.

I love an iceberg salad, a wedge with bacon, tomatoes, and blue cheese is my idea of heaven. Romaine, also heaven. Weeds, bleech! But again why life is so good, to each her own and no one need be right, we can all be different!

I am loving your FB pics from the convention! I am all about chilling and DISing as I sit here Saturday afternoon doing the same. In my defense, I did grocery shop, laundry, and some gardening already. It's 90* here. Glad you ladies are getting some rest. What's on the agenda for tonight?

Oh my gosh, and there are so many more pictures! It's been lots of fun! We've seen panels on folks from Classic Trek (funny it's mostly the women who are still around). William Shatner will be here tomorrow. But there was a TNG "boys" panel a TNG "girls" panel, and a DS9 panel. Today is Cosplay and I don't have an outfit. We never ordered them and after what I've seen so far, I wouldn't even participate. There are some awesome costumes here.

For tonight there is a Voyager panel at 5PM. Fran bought a Groupon for the Carnival World Buffet here at the hotel and it includes a bottle of wine. Then at 9:30 the Nevada Pops is playing music from Star Trek. After that we have a dessert/cocktail party for the people in the ticket bracket we purchased. We pretty much got the equivalent of the "Sorcerers" at the D23 Expo for this event.

We've been going at it quite aggressively for the last three days, so I think a day of chilling is in order so that we are feeling good this evening and can enjoy.

 

[franandaj]

Sunday, Day 5 of the Trip

Clearly we had exhausted ourselves and it was time for a break. I thought that I had anticipated this and scheduled our FP+ for later in the day. I think that when I realized how hot the weather was, I changed our FP+ for earlier in the day. But since we both had a good night’s sleep we were up pretty early, I have a tradition on our WDW DVC vacations of making us a bacon and eggs breakfast. Today was the day.



And then we got ready and left. I took this shot of the lake as we headed towards the transportation.



Our destination.





We had a FP+ for this from 9:10-10:10AM.



I think it was almost the end of the FP+ window and Fran didn’t really feel like riding so I went by myself.



This was my first opportunity to design the car. Fran designed the car on the last one, I gave my input, but she did most of the concept work. I’m not sure how well I did, but it was purple!



Here we go!



Since I was just using the P&S on this ride, I didn’t get any interior ride pictures. But once we got out on the open road…





And the verdict is….



By the time I finished the ride, our FP+ window was up. I could have tried to ride it again, but instead I wanted to get to our next FP+ which was Spaceship Earth at 10:10-11:10.



More challenging my dark ride photography skills, I think you all know how this ride goes.





















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[franandaj]

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And we begin our descent.



Oh goody our future!



I’m not sure I want to live on this modern city street. And look how close together those houses are! LOL!



Our kitties will love the little stream running through the house. That won’t create a mess at ALL!



At least the dining room table of the future will be clean enough that we can eat dinner on it instead of TV trays!





Our last FP+ of the day was for Mission Space from 11:20-12:20. We had plenty of time to make this one, in fact I might have been early and had to wait about 3 minutes to board. I took Orange team each time.



While I rode, Fran took these pictures of funny Mickey electrical stuff.





It was around noon, by the time I rode with both of our FP+ and I’d had enough rides for the morning. Hunger was upon us. Where did we go? Stay tuned to find out!

 

[Paula Sedley-Burke]

Cute tradition of cooking bacon and egg. Pray you are never in a villa next to us if Jo smelt that bacon she would be knocking on your door lol. Her favourite thing is a bacon sandwich with loads of ketchup and eggs on the side!

Great FP+ selection I find it funny they run 10 minutes past the hour starting from 9.... Why 10 mins? Did somebody think you can get to the ride in 10 mins from the gate from open time lol......

Ohhh where did you go for lunch? Do tell........ Food porn!

 

[dolphingirl47]

You got a lot done in a relatively short time span. I am impressed that you were able to do the orange version of Mission:Space back to back. I don't think I could do that at all. I have only ever tried to green version.

Corinna

 

[franandaj]

Cute tradition of cooking bacon and egg. Pray you are never in a villa next to us if Jo smelt that bacon she would be knocking on your door lol. Her favourite thing is a bacon sandwich with loads of ketchup and eggs on the side!

Great FP+ selection I find it funny they run 10 minutes past the hour starting from 9.... Why 10 mins? Did somebody think you can get to the ride in 10 mins from the gate from open time lol......

Ohhh where did you go for lunch? Do tell........ Food porn!

Hey I would be happy to serve breakfast to you and Jo! Next time you are there when we are, let's make a breakfast meet in our Villa! Just don't mind the mess and we'll cook you up an awesome breakfast. I'll even go above and beyond this simple breakfast. I have some great brunch ideas that I would make for guests that a just as easy and even more tasty. This is me trying to save time and just eat well. If we had a meet, I would make something really great!

When I went to pick the FP+ that is what they had, not on the hour, but 10 mins afterwards,

You got a lot done in a relatively short time span. I am impressed that you were able to do the orange version of Mission:Space back to back. I don't think I could do that at all. I have only ever tried to green version.

Corinna

I'm thinking I like the FP+ because we aren't commandos who spend all day in the park, we do a few rides and we're done. FP+ is actually perfect for us, on most occasions since we're about done after three rides.

I'm one of those who likes the thrill rides so I used to be able to do RnRC three times in a row with no problem. I'm getting old because after two I was done.

 

[mvf-m11c]

Another great day during your trip to WDW. The FP+ selection that day was well planned out. I thought that you might of got the FP+ for Soarin. Even though the original version is it at DCA but it is always nice to go on the EPCOT version (if it is the same ride experience).

Nice that you were able to ride Spaceship Earth. That is one of the must do rides in my opinion when I am visiting EPCOT. Great pictures during the ride and looking forward to the rest of the day.

 

[franandaj]

So a number of folks have given updates on their TRs about upcoming Trips that have no PTR, so I thought I would follow suit. I'm sure that none of you know of any of our upcoming trips, so here's a short synopsis along with the updates that we have done in the last couple weeks.

Gay Games - Midwest Roadtrip.

This one takes us from the Columbus Airport to Cleveland via and overnight stop. We have a couple days to relax before rehearsals for the concert begin. Once rehearsals begin we are pretty much tied up for a few days. Sunday and Monday we have 5 hours of rehearsal with lunch or dinner breaks and one day we actually have about three hours between sectionals and full band rehearsal. On concert day we have a tech rehearsal from 11-2 and a concert call of 6:30PM

After that we head to Auburn Indiana to see the Auburn, Cord, Dusenberg Museum. Today our milestone is that I booked our rental car. After a couple nights in Auburn we head back to Columbus to fly back to LA. We have a couple months of NOTHING that I am looking forward to!

Our next trip is to Ft. Lauderdale where we have booked a Disney Cruise and then the International Band Organization (the same who organized the Gay Games) has it's annual conference. We are unfortunately delegates, so we have to go to meetings in addition to rehearsals for the concert. We were hoping that since we were not on the board that others would step up and be the delegates at the conference, but "no" even though we aren't on the board we are the only ones who go to the events.

Our next big trip is to WDW with our favorite cat sitters Jim and Alberto. Luckily Darcy is on vacation from her school year during our trip and since her son's girlfriend is due next month, she will REALLY be ready for a getaway in April next year so she will stay over and take care of the kitties while the normal kitty sitters are gone. We just booked our airfare and now understand how the new US Air/ American Airlines miles work.

We used the expensive miles to book a nonstop to Florida, but used the economy miles to book a return trip that changes planes. We have our seats booked on the trip to Florida, but are having problems trying to book the seats on the US air trip home. I'm pretty sure if they separate the two of us, anyone seated next to Fran is not going to want to deal with her next to them and will trade, but we will have to see.

That's is for big trips we have booked, but I'll let you know that next July and August look just as busy if not more for us. Why does every group book their things in the same weeks so we can't do them all and have to pick and choose?

 

[franandaj]

Another great day during your trip to WDW. The FP+ selection that day was well planned out. I thought that you might of got the FP+ for Soarin. Even though the original version is it at DCA but it is always nice to go on the EPCOT version (if it is the same ride experience).

Nice that you were able to ride Spaceship Earth. That is one of the must do rides in my opinion when I am visiting EPCOT. Great pictures during the ride and looking forward to the rest of the day.

Thanks Bret! I really don't like the Epcot Soarin. I like coming up into Condor Flats not "the Land". It really messes with my phychee to come up not in Condor Flats so I prefer not to ride the WDW Soarin. Besides they don't even call it "Soarin over California", they just call it, "Soarin'" I wonder if people who ride it realize that everything in the ride is in California.

 

[mvf-m11c]

Looks like you and Fran will be really busy with all these upcoming trips. Sounds a lot of fun.

Thanks Bret! I really don't like the Epcot Soarin. I like coming up into Condor Flats not "the Land". It really messes with my phychee to come up not in Condor Flats so I prefer not to ride the WDW Soarin. Besides they don't even call it "Soarin over California", they just call it, "Soarin'" I wonder if people who ride it realize that everything in the ride is in California.

The EPCOT Soarin is nice and just like you, I am so used to being in Condor Flats at DCA when I am about to ride Soarin. "The Land" is nice but it is so cramp tight when walking all the way down to the entrance of Soarin. The wait times at Soarin at EPCOT are crazy where it can be in the 1-2 hour range where DCA can be less than an hour during the busy times. I always try not to ride Soarin every time I am at EPCOT since I can ride it at DCA and spend the extra time in EPCOT. It is surprising that the ECPOT version isn't called "Soarin over California" where you are soaring over California. I wonder when Disney will do the new versions for Soarin. Just have to wait and hear about it in the near future.

 

[Paula Sedley-Burke]

How kind offering to cook! Sweet but due to my diet I have to sadly decline! Too stressful but thanks anyway Sweet of you. Def meet in the parks though!

You got some great vacations planned! DCL yeah! What's not to like! Gay games sound fun and WDW next April with kitty sitters woohooo! Lucky it worked out with Darcy! Nice one

 

[Captain_Oblivious]

Had to do some work to catch up, but I did it! And once again, it was wonderful to meet you and hang out at DLR with you. Thank you for making it a magical day for us!

One regret (spoiler alert): I never did get to ride Indiana Jones.

Then I put together our travel breakfast of champions. Cereal, V8, and our caffeinated beverages of choice.

Hopefully not all at once.

Most of the shirt pictures were not particularly noteworthy, but I thought these two were a little out of the ordinary. If you can’t make it out in the first one, it’s Maury Povich sitting in the interview chair, with the phrase, "You are the Father."

I'm not sure what Fran is telling this Ewok.

Han shot first!

I had booked us FP+ for the Great Movie Ride thinking that it was silly since usually for us it is a walk on, but I was glad that I had done it today because the wait was 40 minutes!

40 minutes for GMR?? That's 40 minutes they'll never get back.

I woke up around midnight.

That's quite the nap.

Since everyone likes some pictures, I’ll throw in a few. Here is the little beauty we are taking to the meet. It’s called “It’s a West, West, West, West Coast Meet” sort of like “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad Mad World”. Since that film was set in 1962, we decided to bring a car that was around in 1962.

Cool. Fun movie, too!

As we drove up to the wash, we tried to turn the car off and even though the ignition switch was in the “off” position, the car continued to run!

I'm not a car guy, but I don't think that's good.

When we returned to the hotel, they had been in full swing of decorating for the meet. If you have seen the movie, you know that they are looking for a “W”. It turns out that the W is made up from Palm Trees. Evidently they really existed in Long Beach until the 70s or early 80s when the trees all died. Much of the end of the movie was filmed in Long Beach. Fran recognized the buildings. Anyways they had the lobby of the hotel decorated with facets of the movie.

I like it!

That night there was an optional dinner after the hotel’s complimentary Happy Hour. And we had signed up for it. They served a weed salad and some pretty decent steak that we took home for the kids.

I'm with you on the weed salad. I have such a hard time eating tree leaves for dinner.

But we did win second place, so I had an award to pick up.

Nice work! The car looked great.

I’m not sure how well I did, but it was purple!

Hey, at least you had priorities!

And the verdict is...

And that's....good?

 

[rentayenta]

Love cooking breakfast while at WDW. One of my favorite things about DVC. Looks good. I also like tomato juice and don't find many folks my age that do.


I cannot wait to ride the new Test Track. It was closed during our last visit. This update is really making me miss WDW.

 

[dolphingirl47]

You have a lot on. I am glad that you have the cat sitter issue sorted out.

I have done Soarin a lot more often at California Adventure than at Epcot, but either is fine by me. I do like the line at California Adventure a lot better. Love all the historical aviation stuff and the single rider line is definitely a bonus.

Corinna

 

[scottny]

I do not think I would want a stream in my house.
Orange side, oh no. I could never do it. Good for you.
The future plans look good.