Smidgy and the Grump, Freaky Friday, 11-06

[TyRy]

Ouchie! You two did not have a good night at AK. Hope you both got better.

 

[Backstage_Gal]

I echo the "OUCH!" Smidgy's hand looks really bad. Did you have it looked at all?

 

[Philadisney]

I echo the "OUCH!" Smidgy's hand looks really bad. Did you have it looked at all?

I echo the echo! Poor Smidgy Sounds like a mildly disasterous day.

I am amazed by the Lego people too. I remember years ago the lego dragon caught my eye and I stood around for a few moments waiting for the jerk with the camera to get out of the way so I could take a picture of it...then I realized he was made of Legos too

Am also curious about the all-new T Rex Restaurant!

 

[winkers]

Poor Smidgy! that looks painfull! You need to get that checked out!

Nebo, I didn't want to leave you out of the sympathy post...but I'm not sure how to say.........Poor Tango & Cash...........just sounds kinda wrong.

 

[ChelleinNC]

I echo the echo! Poor Smidgy Sounds like a mildly disasterous day.

Ouch Ouch Ouch Ouch

Poor both of you! That was quite a night

 

[OhMari]

Then I cast member came over and told us to put them out, it's not a smoking area anymore. I got the map out, and sure enough, they eliminated half of the smoking areas. I think there are 3 or 4 left in the entire park. I don't know if this is a cutback on maintennance or what, but we found out that many spots that we always went to in the other parks were now also gone.

Hmmm, maybe they were preparing the parks for all the people that are going to quit, because of the $1.00 increase that was implemented yesterday. My dh will be really thrilled, he'll walk out of the park, eventually, if he can't find, somewhere~~~to smoke.

Just want to tell you, I'll give you a shout out tonite, when we drive by Illinois on our way to Bowling Green, unless, you are keeping a secret, and moved to Florida by now.

 

[zigzagzerr]

What a bummer that it was so cold on your vacation -- we went one time in January and had to wear winter coats, hats and gloves. That made for hilarious pictures on the Dumbo ride!

Thanks for the great report!

 

[nebo]

Ok, you guys need a big roll of bubble wrap for yourselves this trip. Poor Nebo, I remember the trip you were having to ration the vikes, glad you had plenty this time.

Smidgy! You should have had your hand looked at, at least at an Urgent Care. Please tell me Nebo carried all your packages the next day at Downtown Disney?

Nope, didn't have to carry anything. They let you send the packages right to your resort doncha know.
Oh, that, and the fact she didn't buy anything.

I kind of feel bad, why is it when you got hurt, I giggled and almost wet myself, but when you said Diane went down hard, I said OMG, I hope she is alright. . fantastic chapter.

Yeah, I seem to have that effect on people, if I drop dead, they would prefer I do it out of the way, over behind the bushes.

Ouchie! You two did not have a good night at AK. Hope you both got better.

I got better, Tango and Cash are waiting for the sequel to begin filming. But her hand is still bothering her..

I echo the "OUCH!" Smidgy's hand looks really bad. Did you have it looked at all?

Marita, we'll get to that.

I echo the echo! Poor Smidgy Sounds like a mildly disasterous day.

I am amazed by the Lego people too. I remember years ago the lego dragon caught my eye and I stood around for a few moments waiting for the jerk with the camera to get out of the way so I could take a picture of it...then I realized he was made of Legos too

Am also curious about the all-new T Rex Restaurant!

Kelly smelly belly, that's a great line about the leggos, wish I thought of it. And you have read my food reviews before, you know better than to expect actual usefull information.

Poor Smidgy! that looks painfull! You need to get that checked out!

Nebo, I didn't want to leave you out of the sympathy post...but I'm not sure how to say.........Poor Tango & Cash...........just sounds kinda wrong.

If I had used Laurel and Hardy instead, would you have more sympathy?

Ouch Ouch Ouch Ouch

Poor both of you! That was quite a night

Yes, it was quite a night. We now call her the Claw, and I can hit the high notes on "Cara Mia".

Hmmm, maybe they were preparing the parks for all the people that are going to quit, because of the $1.00 increase that was implemented yesterday. My dh will be really thrilled, he'll walk out of the park, eventually, if he can't find, somewhere~~~to smoke.

Just want to tell you, I'll give you a shout out tonite, when we drive by Illinois on our way to Bowling Green, unless, you are keeping a secret, and moved to Florida by now.

Nope, still here. Just don't shout to loud when passing through, in case "She who must not be disturbed" is sleeping. I do have the feeling that someday, all the parks will be non smoking though. Boy, Bowling Green. You sure know how to live.

What a bummer that it was so cold on your vacation -- we went one time in January and had to wear winter coats, hats and gloves. That made for hilarious pictures on the Dumbo ride!

Thanks for the great report!

Hi again triple Z. I may go again in early December, but never again in Jan or Feb, for me to enjoy myself, I need some morning pool time with my book, and if I drive all the way from freezing Chicago to Orlando, I'd rather have oppresive heat and humidity than gloves and chills.

 

[whogirl'smom]

Yeah, I guess I'm too attached to my souvenirs and just carry them back with me. (Mine, mine, mine!) Of course we have always taken the car to DD for some reason. The only thing I ever had sent to the room was pictures from Tusker House and a vase we bought in Mexico so I wouldn't bungle them up.

 

[smidgy]

We were walking hand in hand, with her kinda pulling me along to get there before it closed and right before we enter this room inside, she let go.


hold his hand... don't hand his hand' either way, it's wrong.


This is probably an instict now on her part, ever since the time she slammed my face in a doorway divider going into Terminator at Universal and I haven't let her hear the end of it.
yup, I took his face and slammed it right into the divider!to me, it was lit in there, and even after all these years, how did I know it was too dark for him to see the divider? It looked lit up to me.

Well, there weren't any doorway dividers, but there was a waste high walkway divider, a very, solid railing, very wide, and bolted into the concrete.

You know what's coming, I've done it before, but this time we were walking with a head of steam up and considering how well my eyes adjust going from light to dark, I was doomed.



A woman cast member was right there and ran over to me. Smidgy saw it too, and knew to just stand there and let the pain pass,

no, smidgy knew to hide!

I took a picture of her hands the next day, it won't be hard to figure out which one she landed on.

I don't know which hand looks better, the injured one or the "grandmother Willow" one! If it wasn't for the pain, I think the non-wrinkled one.
I was sore, but Smidgy's hand was really hurting. I offered her some vikes, but no way in the world will she take them. She had tried once before, and just hated the feeling the gave her, so she was now grabbing for the ibuprofen I also brought.

VIKES: total nausea couple with extreme paranoia, with added sluggishness. to me... POISON! The first thing to catch my eye were the people right outside the door. I had to look close before I realized that all of them are made out of Legos.



the lego sculptures are really cool! and there's a lot of them!



And then it was time to eat. Let's see if T-Rex lives up to all the buildup.

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all i can say is Trex is REALLY COOL!!!

 

[smidgy]

Please tell me Nebo carried all your packages the next day at Downtown Disney?

packages? you mean people aree allowed to buy stuff there?
joking aside, we were never big on souveniers. nebos lucky, I'm not a big shopper. I love clothes, but at walmart prices. I did buy some disney puzzles for Jackson at the one small discount store (it's almost a hallway). I was going to buy him a Mr. Potato Head from the big toy store(where you can stuff pieces into the box, all you can fit in) but I think it was like 20 bucks or so, and I wasn't sure he would like it anyway. I got a box of 4 disney puzzles for $10. he is 3 and he can put these 30 piece puzzles together!!!! He's SO smart!

hhmmm... I think he did carry that bag.

my hand is all better except it gets sore when I have to hold heavy trays at work, and esp. when I have to hold the Flaming Saganaki very quickly to the table and light it.

Good installment, honey!! hey, I think I'll buy him a red yo-yo for father's day!!! ... to remember the trip by!

 

[nebo]

packages? you mean people aree allowed to buy stuff there?
Good installment, honey!! hey, I think I'll buy him a red yo-yo for father's day!!! ... to remember the trip by!

1. NO, they are not!
2. Gee thanks.

Coming up tomorrow, probably, we will talk about T-Rex. Now, if at all possible, if I can find it, I'm going to show you again why you should never take my restaurant reviews seriously. gotta go and dig now.

 

[nebo]

Ok, I dug. And I just copied the whole installment. And then after seeing how it posted I had to go back and edit and delete stuff. The trip to the Rose and Crown is at the end, and it might be a tad hard to follow. Read at your own risk and confusion.

(Picking up after meeting Marita and Tiggerwannabe and her son Adrain for lunch)
It's around 3 now, mentally I feel good, but my back is killing me, with a lot of walking and standing left in the day.

HEY! I KNOW!

Yes, my little friends make an appearance.
Again.

Although, they only stayed briefly. Very Briefly.

On the boat, we head over to Boardwalk, that's the next stop.
People get off, no one gets on. We sit a while, then our female captain drives over to Y and B Club. Again, no one gets on. She gives up and now it's just the captain, (Karen), and me and Smidgy.
Smidgy and I.

Even though we are sitting near the front, Karen comes back a bit and just starts talking to us. I mean nobody is driving the boat except for the boat itself.

As she is talking, I'm looking around, looks safe so far, but I try to get her mind back on the fact that the channel is coming up.

"Boy Karen, you've go an awful big boat for just the three of us."

"EXCUSE ME?"

I saw the first fire in her eyes, and I didn 't get it, then she had a big grin on her face and the nickel again dropped in.
"I mean you could have gotten all of US over there in a CANOE."

'Yeah, yeah, I think you should quit while you're behind," she said.

"What about my behind?"
I got a "touche'" , out of her.

In Epcot we walk down to The Land, and grab a couple of fastpasses for Soarin again. Ok, ok, Diane runs down to get them, I'm in the nearby smoking section.

Wanna know how to make points with your spouse at Disney World?

When she get's back after running up the ramp past all the strollers, then down the ramp, down the stairs , through the counterservice area past all the crowds to reach the fastpass machines, then do it all backwards again, say this to her;

"What took you so long?"

Yeah, that'l work!

I did let her have a smoke though.

Then we went back into Canada and just kept moseying along.
I am real good at "Moseying" once my friends kick in, like they are doing right now.
I mean in the "trip report" right now, not "typing the trip report" right now.

My back is still hurting like hell, but at least I don't give a crap.

Around Morroco, I see them. A bunch of them, and the next thing I know, I'm yelling out "Hey look! Slurpies!"

She turns to me, "What?"

I point to all the guys, mostly with shaved heads and all wearing bright orange robes, "Over there, Slurpies!"

Diane looks, and then her own personal nickel goes "ka-ching".

"Oh, the Muslim tour group." "Monks". "But why did you call them,,, Oh, Serpas."

"Yeah, that's what I said, Slurpies, those wise men that sit high on the mountain tops and dispell great wisdom to all that take the effort to convene with them. "

She looked again. "I'm not sure about the universal "wise" part."
"One of them is trying to get into the women's bathroom."
I looked where she was looking, it had a line of women waiting outside it, but it was actually a "Companion" restroom. I know, I have done battle in the same john befor. But I didn't tell her.
"Yes. Woman's Bathroom. Slurpie you are wise beyond all my years," and I bowed to him.

Mostly we just hung around that side of World Showcase that afternoon, the crowds were kind of light unless you got too close to the American Adventure where the Candlelight Processional was still goin on.

I'm in real trouble today. The vikes are wearing off already, and now my foot is acting up. Only problem is, I'm out. The rest are back in the room.
Suddenly, enlightenment dawned on me.

Then, the sun broke through the clouds, right before dusk.
The Red Sea opened up. Moses was pointing to the Promised Land from the top of Mt. Nebo,,,,,,

and he was pointing right at my pocket.

The "Other" pocket.

What had dawned on me was the bloody shirt. I must have a lot of estrogen in me also, because there are shorts that I will usually where with a certain shirt. If I wore this shirt that night at MGM, there was a good chance I also wore these shorts. And I remembered how that night I wasn't doing too badly to need any vikes, I was having more fun seeing the Ozzie Lights and watching John try to score a beer. The last I remembered thinking of them that night was after my camera played "No nose is good nose", on me, but it was dark in the theater, and afterward, the little bleeding it did stopped and I forgot all about them.

But I had so much crap in my pockets that night, that I remember moving them to that little "change" pocket on the right side, the one I never, ever, use.

All of this "Divine Intervention" was revealed to me on another boat, this one from the Morocco station over to the Plaza.
(there, I have now spelled that country two different ways, I know one of them is right)

With a trembling, shaking hand, I gingerly touch the outside of the pocket, I don't want to blow it all immediately by thrusting my thumb in there.

Inconclusive.

I'm sitting, and sitting creates extra "folds" in the fabric. Not to mention, belly, hip and thigh fat.

No way I can get my thumb in that little pocket now, it's too tight. So midway across the lagoon, I do what I have to do.

With a packed boat, and everybody just kind of sitting there exhausted with a glazed look on their face and not knowing what to stare at:

I stand up!

All heads turn to me, thinking the entertainment is starting.

"No no folks, nothing to see here, move along, return to your homes."

No, I didn't say that, what I DID do though was thrust my thumb into that little slit of a pocket, thinking the whole time, "even if I didn't take them that night, what are the chances that they didn't fall out of this pocket that is all of an inch deep?"

The tip of my thumb hit interference before the bottom of the pocket came into play. "Could it be?" "Yes!"

And I scooped out 3 "tic-tacs", spearmint flavored and shoved them in my mouth and swallowed them.

With everybody still watching me. \

Ok, I lied. I scooped out 3 "extemely cozy" vikes, extra strength, kind of bent over backwards and went, "Ahhh" as I stretched my back, then sat back down. This is a magician's trick.
As my right hand was about to go in my pocket, I flamboyantly waved my left hand before it went to my back, and that is where all the eyes went.

The "Ahhh" was just frosting.

Now comes the hard part. I don't really want all 3, but that's what I now have in my hand.
No way am I going to risk the reverse, and go through all that just to get one back in. You can't go to the well too many times without getting caught!

"Hey, FREEZE!"
"Yeah, hold it. WHat have you got in your right hand?" "We all want to see!"

So now I have to "dry" swallow them.
"Honey, you didn't bring any of the little bottles with you, did you?"
"No Steve, we weren't going to drink much tonight, remember?"
"Yeah, I remember."

Me and my big mouth!

Pretty funny. Even though I have a prescription for the things, I feel like I am committing a felony. Kind of like when I was younger and three of us would leave my buddy's basement and sneak out to the garage and smoke that stinky stuff. Then hope that no one would stop us on the way back in.

That's usually when I just dive through a window, closed or not to get away.

And you know they all KNOW!

So here I am, they all know, and now I have to dry swallow these critters.

The first one was easy.

I put my hand to my mouth, and "lightly coughed". I get it down.
It gets harder now. For all the boat zombies, that cough WAS exciting, and pulled their attention back to me.

Going to have to be creative here.
Ok, I take off my camera from around my neck, and, "Oopsy," I dropped the whole case. As I bent WAY over to pick it up, number two went in my mouth, screw the little kid sitting across from me that saw something.

What I am thinking is this. "C'mon saliva, c'mon, do your thing, we don't want this thing to play and M and M on me here.
Finally, with a great gulping motion, I get it down.

Three quarters of the way. It feels like it's stuck in the middle of my chest.

One to go.

For the third one I stood up, got there attention, and said, "Thank you for cruising on the World Showcase Lagoon, we will all be docking soon at the World Showcase Plaza in just a few minutes. If you look behind you and to your left, you will see the water."

Of course they looked, and I popped.

No, no. I didn't do that. Would have been funny though, and probably worked. I did think of holding it up and going, "Diane? Want a tic-tac?" But, you never know, there was a slim chance she might have said "yes", and then all kinds of merry mayhem would have ensued.

I'm not really sure how I got the last one down, I think the second one got me coughing and when I was done I coughed one more time and got it in my mouth. But I couldn't swallow it, not without a major puke that would have negated the entire operation, not to mention the war, and sent the entire country on a downhill spiral.

This time I didn't try to make any jokes with the captain, I had my pill clenched tightly into a corner of the mouth, but it was dissolving, and the taste is really terrible.

When the boat pulled up, I vaulted a wheelchair that was prematurely making it's move, swung around the outside of a pier post, and ran to the nearest john, that usually has a drinking fountain. When Diane caught up with me she said "What in the world was that all about?"

"Hey, when you gotta go, you gotta go!"

We walked over to Soarin, time to use our fastpasses, with me only sporadically gagging now and then.

But it's still too early. This is another thing that strikes me funny. Once your fastpass time is due, it is good for the rest of the day, even though it doesn't say that, it is.

But JUST TRY to get in five minutes early.
JUST TRY!
"I'll get you my pretty,"

Considered going into a Communicore to kill some time, but instead ended up in a smoking section again. Yeah, yeah, Innoventions.

This is another word that cracks me up.
Here they call it Innoventions.
At my house we always had Interventions!

But Innoventions never really did much for me, I still get bored in there.

I'm thinking they should have an "Intervention" for "Innoventions".

After Soarin' (that appostrophe is trademarked), we head on back to England, time to meet Colleen and Adrian again, and also maybe "eat" something.

They were already there when we got there, already checked in and soon we were seated.

The whole idea of eating here is that we should be done just about the time that Illuminations starts, and they have a separate viewing area behind the restaurant, down by the lagoon. I have never been there, but it was worth a try.

Diane was happy because now we are "knocking off" another restaurant in World showcase that we have never eaten at before. Now, the only countries that we haven't had a sit-down dinner in are China, Norway, and of course, America. As far as Norway goes, I don't see me EVER eating at Akershus.
I've seen the menu, and I don't even want to waste a "free dining' meal on it.

Let me also say, there is a reason we haven't eaten HERE yet either.
I've looked at this menu too. Many times. I'm sorry, I don't even like the SOUND of an entree called a "meat pie".
Or a "shepherd's pie".
And I like chicken pot pies.
But if Swanson had a thing sitting in the freezer at your local grocery store that just said "meat pie", uh uh, I'll pass, thank you very much.

So I'm just looking for something "safe" on the menu tonight. I have a lot of vikes invested in me, and not going to lose them on a "cottage" pie.

For the record, the Chicago Cubs have a Felix Pie, but he was just sent back down to the minors, as well he should be.

Ok, here we go again, another great Nebo restaurant review, that will keep him from any possible future Disney employment!
I have no idea what Colleen and Adrian had that night, never thought of putting that in my notes. Hmm, know what? Now that you mention it, I didn't take any notes that night anyway.

I just asked Smidgy, she said she had "bangers and mash". Said it was ok.

But, being the self-centered, egocentric, person that I am, I remember EVERYTHING about what I ordered! Believe me, it made a "stuck in the throat" vicodin sound good again.

And Adrian didn't help!

We ordered a beer for me and Diane, Guiness, I believe. I don't know, could have been Billy Beer.

I think Tigger got a "glow thing". I remember my eyes just staring at the thing.

When it came to my turn to order, I still didn't know what to get. However, they have on the menu, "Fish and Chips".

Hmm, know what? That sounds safe right now. I've had the fish and chips form the counter service outside, and it tasted like what you get at Columbia Harbour House, or any of the counter service eateries. "Yeah, I'll have the fish and chips, thank you."

Boy, when I'm dumb, I'm dumb to the third power.

As we are sitting there haveing our drinks, a waitress walks by carrying a platter, and she passes close to Adrian.

He gives out a supressed, "EWWW", and we all turn to him.

"What, what did you see?" Colleen asked.

"Nothing, t'weren't nothing at all," he replied.

Now it's my turn.
"Oh, no no no no no."
"You have a civic responsibility to inform all those that may be upchucking in the very near future, and may I remind you that it will happen at your very own table, so please, tell us what you saw." and,
"May I remind you that you are under oath?"

"Ok," he said, "It was just this huge fish that still had it's head attached to it, that's all."

"EWWWW!"
That was from me.

There was only one fish item on the menu.
And THAT IS WHAT I ORDERED!

Diane grabbed the waitress before I could. "If you have any concerns about the cleanliness and sterility of the restaurant, you will make certain that when my husband receives his fish it no longer has a head attached to the main body."

I'm thinking, "yeah, yeah", but what comes out of me is only "I don't eat things that are looking at me."

Now, I still, to this day don't know if Adrian was pulling my leg or not, doesn't really matter at this time, and, no, we never actually asked the waitress if it did or not. We just made sure,,,,,,,NOT!

She came back with our plates, set mine down last.

I just stared at it.

For a long time.
I wasn't exactly sure what it was.

It ,,,,,, notice that I keep referring to my dinner as "IT"? It was served on an oval platter, and hung over both ends of the platter, lengthwise. At first I thought it might be a sturgeon, but it seemed too long and skinny, kind of like an eel.

Then, to make matters worse, as I was staring at it, a stupid song popped into my head,,,

"When the moon's in your eye, like a big pizza pie,,,,,"

You're going to hate me for this........

"That's a moray."

You know,,, Disney has been going a lot more "green", lately. Giving us more "healthy" options, more environmentally healthy food choices. And I'm all for trying to eat more "green".

I JUST DON'T WANT TO EAT SOYLENT GREEN!

But I still had to eat it.

I took a couple of bites, Diane is looking at me very intently, she knows how I am, and THIS doesnt even look good to her!

Everybody moved away from me, to the far side of the booth.

I took another bite, put my fork down, and said;

"Hmm, hmm, different. Just need one thing here."

Diane perked up. "What, salt? Tartar sauce?"

"Nope."

"ANTIDOTE!"

I just picked at the thing. I did eat all my chips though. I was still a bit hungry when it dawned on us. "Hey, we never got any bread!."
Well, since the waitress served me that eel, she knew better then to come back around. Finally, someone flagged her down and asked what happened to our bread.

"Yeah, I realized I forgot to get it for you, but I figured that it was too late to bring it out now."

Great! And now she really is correct, time to get out for the fireworks.

Going out the back door, we station ourselves on a patio overlooking the lagoon. It really turned out to be a great spot, sometimes a new angle can make it seem like a whole different show. Plus, they still had the extended version in the schedule.
Saying a quick goodbye go Colleen and Aidz, (we are going to meet them again in the morning), we take off on our EPCOT ESCAPE RUN.

Ok kids, it's time to close. Hope you enjoyed the "director's cut". I figured I am near the end of all this, and wanted to do something special. I guess this started out today at a "rip report", and ended up a "quip report." Don't worry, I'm outta quips.
Believe me, I'm not fishing for compliments, or posters, but I am concerned that some of you might have fallen into the "excommunication' hole that has happened here on the DIS, if you are still with us, I'd like to hear from you.

As Red Skelton used to say, "Goodnight, and God bless."
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[Sleeping*Beauty]

I swear I've read that update before!

 

[Backstage_Gal]

Nebo, that night as you were enjoying (not) your Moray, I was dining on steak and lobster... And you know why.

Great to re-read an old update, not sure what brought that about though.
I think things on the Dis have been slow all over lately. Maybe it's spring fever

Smidgy, I sooo hear you on the grandma Willow hands!

 

[Underdog369]

I echo the echo! Poor Smidgy Sounds like a mildly disasterous day.

I am amazed by the Lego people too. I remember years ago the lego dragon caught my eye and I stood around for a few moments waiting for the jerk with the camera to get out of the way so I could take a picture of it...then I realized he was made of Legos too

Am also curious about the all-new T Rex Restaurant!

We had a great time with the T-Rex. Cherie wrote a great report about T-Rex (on Winkers board).

Nebo: sounds like tango and cash had a tangle and clash.

 

[whogirl'smom]

I loved that installment! Didn't I write a nifty jingle about your fish? I couldn't find it now if my life depended on it.

Oh, and I just read in another thread that 3% of Dis users have dial-up. You are definitely a rare and exotic breed!

 

[kath1210]

I swear I've read that update before!

Me too! Oops. I missed the "from the last trip report."

 

[smidgy]

It was a "repeat" and the pic showed the most ridiculous loking thing fro the Crutaceous Period on squeamish Nebo's plate!

 

[Lanie]

Apparently, when it comes to pizza they are easy to please up in Montreal. To me is was just your typical "air" pizza. Just like Domino's or Chuck E CHeese, with the inflated crust. The only thing it's good for is heartburn.

That just cracked me up! When I moved from Montréal, it took me months to find a place that made decent pizza! LOL "Montréal style" crust is actually known as really thin crust pizza, the kind that you can't eat without some of it ending up in your lap!

Loving the report, even if I'm a lurker!