Something about Nothing, come join in........

[bubba's mom]

okay.....so we all now know Kali broke at WDW today.....any thoughts?

 

[macraven]

*some* pics from my trip have been posted. Only some. If you're good, you'll find the rest.

i must be good, i found them and you and gf look fantastic.

You just shush!!!


I actually am really looking forward to being a Nana. Right now I babysit 17 month old little twin boys every friday just to get my fill of babies. I adore kids. I wish I would have had at least one more. My kids think I am nuts.

you have 2, i doubled that number.
at times it seems like 20 though......

....aahhhhh...the BEST part of grandkids is: "Fill 'em up w/ sugar and SEND 'EM HOME!" (i always loved that saying) ...oddly enuf, all my life i wanted 2 kids.....even bought 3 bedroom house (thinking "starter" home and 2 kids...will upgrade. Nope. 1 kid and still in same house.... for some reason, those "motherly instincts" never kicked in after Bubba was born. Altho, it was a great pregnancy and delivery and he was/is a great kid....just dunno why never "felt" like a 2nd )







i must be GOOD i found 'em! thank you!

i think i should have stopped at 1 like you did......
hey, do i hear an echo.......i was good too. i found them!

okay.....so we all now know Kali broke at WDW today.....any thoughts?

i have read 2 different reports. i don't know what to think.
this is one ride i have never been on.
i do it at six flags at the great america park near my house.
i only go on it when i am hot.

 

[macraven]

marci, we have been going to great america since 1991 and i have never known anyone to win a bike.

i'm so happy for your son.
it looks like a great bike. especially with the cubbies name on it...

 

[macraven]

melatonin did not work.



i'll try two of them tomorrow night.......

 

[yankeepenny]

I saw that Kali broke. yikes!

hope those folks are okay.

MAC- have you slept yet?

 

[yankeepenny]

Good morning threader homies.
need your input.

have been eating some fish- no read meat or chicken for 10 days. yeah, kinda the vegetarian thing.
my question:
have any of you eaten at Flying Fish Cafe near the Boardwalk?
input wanted. they seem to have a variety , and Dh eats fish and meat, and i really dont wanna be tempted by the meat at Yachtsmens where we have an adr.
think I should change it?
not that i have changed any.....like 85 times.....

 

[macraven]

hey homie penny, i caught a few zzzzzzz's last night.

then the darn cat got me up before 6 this morning.
she decided she was hungry.

 

[macraven]

Good morning threader homies.
need your input.

have been eating some fish- no read meat or chicken for 10 days. yeah, kinda the vegetarian thing.
my question:
have any of you eaten at Flying Fish Cafe near the Boardwalk?
input wanted. they seem to have a variety , and Dh eats fish and meat, and i really dont wanna be tempted by the meat at Yachtsmens where we have an adr.
think I should change it?
not that i have changed any.....like 85 times.....

i think every woman should change an adr at least 86 times prior to going !

i have not eaten at flying fish.
i usually stay away from fish when i am in orlando.

have you been to spoodles before?

 

[keishashadow]

but i bet frapper was a good one to find out about.

I think keishashadow is still recovering from what I sent her...[/quote]

my eyes....they burn

i broke my destop , evidently windows crashed that's my story & i'm sticking to it. The computer gods smiled on me & i found a tech person to extend my warranty (almost 3 months after it expired). I have erased my hard drive, recovery disks didn't work, waiting for factory ones to arrive...hope i don't destroy DH's laptop in the interim lol.

yankeepenny - i was comfortably numb, got 2 or 3 more go rounds, hope it has temp cap on by my trip end of month...i live to eat (or is that luv to eat lol).

everyone's kids pic are great...mine are erased (just the last batch, knew i should have burnt a disk & sent them to storage).

I may win the prize for having the oldest spawn, soon to be 28 & 21 and 14...and i didn't have them when i was young either...call me methusela

Spoodles - yum (except they ditched the steak & went w/kabobs); buffets seem to be good alternative for psuedo-vegans.

I'm all about WDW but; entire family things Kali Rapids is dumb, too heavy handed (we get it already) and a bit of a snooze. Perhaps i'm biased (popeye my childhood hero); U's bilgewater is hands-down THE BEST water ride EVER.

almost forgot KY07, hi!

 

[loribell]

I think keishashadow is still recovering from what I sent her...

my eyes....they burn

i broke my destop , evidently windows crashed that's my story & i'm sticking to it. The computer gods smiled on me & i found a tech person to extend my warranty (almost 3 months after it expired). I have erased my hard drive, recovery disks didn't work, waiting for factory ones to arrive...hope i don't destroy DH's laptop in the interim lol.

yankeepenny - i was comfortably numb, got 2 or 3 more go rounds, hope it has temp cap on by my trip end of month...i live to eat (or is that luv to eat lol).

everyone's kids pic are great...mine are erased (just the last batch, knew i should have burnt a disk & sent them to storage).

I may win the prize for having the oldest spawn, soon to be 28 & 21 and 14...and i didn't have them when i was young either...call me methusela

Spoodles - yum (except they ditched the steak & went w/kabobs); buffets seem to be good alternative for psuedo-vegans.

I'm all about WDW but; entire family things Kali Rapids is dumb, too heavy handed (we get it already) and a bit of a snooze. Perhaps i'm biased (popeye my childhood hero); U's bilgewater is hands-down THE BEST water ride EVER.

almost forgot KY07, hi!

I feel your pain about losing the pics. My laptop crashed a couple of months ago & I had not uploaded or made a disc of all of our pics from our Christmas trip (including pics of my baby on her 8th birthday @ Donald's for breakfast, Chef Mickey's for dinner & most importantly her appt at the BBB. It also crashed right after my deadline for buying the photpass disc that had all of her BBB photo shoot pics on it!

Not the first time I lost pics from a trip either. We gave a computer to DD when she went off to college a few years back & DH burned a disc of our trip from that summer. I never checked to see if it worked & by the time I found out it didn't the pics had been deleted from the computer. I have know idea why they were deleted but they were gone.

My kiddos are almost 24, 21, 15 & 8! I also am already a grandma, she is 3.

Also gotta agree about Pluto's BRB's. It is absolutely the best water ride anywhere! I love it!!!!! We ride Kali just to cool off.

 

[tlinus]

Forgive my twisted sense of humor this morning ... I just responded in a way I probably shouldn't have to the "feelings about universal" thread. Seemed like a good idea at the time ....

I was playing outside yesterday and missed a whole bunch of chit chat - I need some links
1)the above from Jodie
2)Kali rapids story!

Geez....that'll teach me to try and clean the pool and my yard!!

Hope everyone is having a super day!!!

 

[macraven]

I think keishashadow is still recovering from what I sent her...

yankeepenny - i was comfortably numb, got 2 or 3 more go rounds, hope it has temp cap on by my trip end of month...i live to eat (or is that luv to eat lol).



I may win the prize for having the oldest spawn, soon to be 28 & 21 and 14...and i didn't have them when i was young either...call me methusela

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i really do hope you feel ok from the root canal.
i had the temp cap on until my crown was made and wore the temp for 6 weeks before. you should be fine with it. get a script for Vitamin V just in case

you have one little older than my oldest but have one little younger than my youngest.
but then, i had 3 of them within 4 years and 8 months.

I feel your pain about losing the pics.
My kiddos are almost 24, 21, 15 & 8! I also am already a grandma, she is 3.

i know your pain and KS also. losing pics is something i still regret.

your littles range from 24 yrs to 8 yrs...........wow and a 3 yr old bonus comes with the group.
i bet you have been busy going thru all the stages of raising kids more than one time.

my hat off to you. you are a better woman than i am....



hope all homies are having a good day today.

 

[keishashadow]

loribell - sorry to hear you were in the same boat as me, i knew i should've burned the disk, just too lazy...hopefully, i'll learn from my stupid mistake.

You too mac? I've yet to read the owner's manual from the camera we got for last trip (last Oct.) ; all i can do is point & shoot. Finally did figure out there was a setting for action/movement...perhaps if i leave it in the bathroom i can read it instead of the mindless Star magazine while i soak in the tub. Lindsay Lohan is a piece of work - too much money, not enough supervision or just goofy?

cleaned out my closet & put the winter stuff away, pulled a muscle in my back - owww; that wouldn't have happened 10 years ago. Drenced in icy-hot; off to take ds to orthodontist (feel bad for the other parents in the waiting room who have to smell it ).

We've been stuck on 2 different WDW rides (no U)

-Hester/Chester spinnie wild mouse ride @ AK, sat for 1/2 hour in brutal sun - had to climb down a ladder &

-Tower of Terror (the 1st time i got the nerve to ride it lol); smaller ladder to scale that time - did get 2 sets of FP

Anyone else ever get stuck @ either park?

 

[macraven]

last year i got stuck on the pirates ride and missed my adr.

i was not happy over that.


POC had been down off and on for over 3 hours.
when it again started up around 3:50, i got in the line to get on.

my boat got stuck at a very non scenic area. it was not far from the dock area where we boarded. you could look back and see the light and some people from where i was marooned.


i tell ya, i was half tempted to get out and walk in the water to leave that dingy.........

i finally got off around, i think, 5:10.

when the ride started up, i was too unnerved to even enjoy it.

the boat i was in only had me in it. the boat behind me had a family and littles that kept screaming the entire time. and the two parents were having heated words over being stuck.


also last year, i got stuck on the people mover. i was almost all the way out of space mountain when it stopped. no view of the coasters inside where i was at as i was just past that point.

it made me miss the fireworks. i think i was stuck there for at least 35 minutes.


i have never been stuck on a ride at universal.
now watch that happen since i said that.......



you know, if you are going to be stuck on a ride, at least there should be some scenery or something fun to look at......

 

[tarheelmjfan]

Good morning threader homies.
need your input.

have been eating some fish- no read meat or chicken for 10 days. yeah, kinda the vegetarian thing.
my question:
have any of you eaten at Flying Fish Cafe near the Boardwalk?
input wanted. they seem to have a variety , and Dh eats fish and meat, and i really dont wanna be tempted by the meat at Yachtsmens where we have an adr.
think I should change it?
not that i have changed any.....like 85 times.....

We've eaten at both Flying Fish & YSH. YSH has a much quieter, relaxed atmosphere. We much preferred the food at FF though. Between the 2, I'd choose FF without hesitation.

 

[macraven]

tarheel........

 

[bubba's mom]

Geez....that'll teach me to try and clean the pool and my yard!!

what were you thinking?

i don't have the links...but i was happy to get back to work and "relax" today

off to make dinner....cya's

 

[marciemi]

Well, more on Six Flags that I'd meant to post. I was also a bit nervous after that Universal thread a couple weeks ago. I'm really looking forward to it since although we love Disney, we've DONE it all and the kids are getting a bit old to find a lot of it "cool" anymore. I thought Uni would be a good break in the Disney action to do something new and more exciting. But that thread was making me a bit nervous too (although I'm definitely not the type of person to care about the music being played unless it's so loud that I can't hear myself think, and don't care about people drinking unless they're at the point of..um..having it resurface onto me - no, Mac, I don't need the barfing smilies again!).

But I think after a weekend of Six Flags, I have to feel with everything I read bad about it, that if we can have a good time there, Universal has to be a lot better! Really only 3 incidents that I can think of at Six Flags - one when we came in on Sunday morning and were packed in like sardines waiting for the rope drop, there was a guy in the middle of the crowd smoking a cigar! Yes, the park is no smoking except for designated areas, which I realize is somewhat ignored, but this was just stupid. DH said something to him and he put it out (and wasn't a teen - more a mid 30's age), but come on - you couldn't realize on your own that might be bothersome to some people? Had to be doing it just to PO folks!

Two incidents of line jumping - the blatant "jump over the fence, run across the grass and jump over another fence" type. First one we just rolled our eyes at. The second didn't bother me that much (even though it must have been 10 teenagers) because we were having a nice discussion with the young couple ahead of us who were telling us all about their wonderful trip to Universal last summer, how much they'd enjoyed RPR (where we're staying) and how great the FOTL passes were. So it just gave us more time to talk to them! They did mention that last season at Six Flags during the most crowded times that you were given tickets as you entered a line and if you were out of order when you got to the end you were kicked out of the park! Never heard of that before so maybe they are cracking down some there! I realize it wouldn't fly at Disney (families, toddlers, potty breaks), but certainly seems like a good idea with teens!

But overall, I didn't see the "this is a bad place to be for families" things I read about! Only smoking I saw was the one I mentioned and I never even noticed the no smoking areas. Saw a lot of families and normal looking teens - not the "gangs" I keep hearing mentioned. I will admit the employees were a bit clueless - I asked two where the nearest restroom was and both times they had no idea, but they seemed apologetic, not rude. The coasters are still really nice, and the waterpark was great, albeit cool. But there certainly weren't any lines there so we got to do a lot of fun slides in no time!

So I'm feeling optimistic about Universal - especially after hanging with all you homies!

 

[yankeepenny]

well, i just have had a rotten vile miserablle &^%$#@
kind of a day, but it is not so bad as those who are just finding out they rode a plane with some "individual"(for lack of a better word) with Tuberculosis!!!!

can you imagine!???? I would just be furious!

so, my day did not suck as bad as some folks.

sometimes though, I jsut wanna pitch it all in and watch 24 hours of steel magnolias and cry and eat chocolate and say to the world SCREW MAY I ADD, YOU!

I AM DOING BETTER NOW. i AM ADDING SAUSAGE TO THE SPAHGHETTI, YES, MEAT, IT HAS BEEN MORE THAN 10 DAYS AND I AM FREAKIN' STARVING AND i AM GOING TO EAT IT.


Thank you all who read this post and listened. It is nice to have someone whom you can thread with.

 

[ky07]

sorry it took me so long but hi back Keishashadow .