That Pirate Stole My Tiara: The Pre-Trip Report

[Charleston Princess]

Which means the next trip was in 1992. (Again, suppressing the fashion/hair horrors...I'm beginning to think maybe I shouldn't post pics.)

Looking through all of my old Disney photos, I couldn't help but wonder, "What was the world thinking when it thought sprayed high hair and tight rolled jeans were a good idea???"

I am fairly certain if I have children, I will be blessed with boys. And I plan to loan them out from ages 16-20. It's kind of like renting your DVC points. Only with testosterone.

My sides hurt from laughing!!!

Seriously, if you pay me I'll write you stuff ALL DAY. No unreasonable offer will be refused.

Wish I could sit and write all day, too. Wouldn't that be the life???

 

[MomsOf2boys]

Looking through all of my old Disney photos, I couldn't help but wonder, "What was the world thinking when it thought sprayed high hair and tight rolled jeans were a good idea???"



My sides hurt from laughing!!!



Wish I could sit and write all day, too. Wouldn't that be the life???

We probably all would if we didn't have jobs and chores and family things to do... we would sit all day and write on the Dis. hahaha What was the last book you read... well, I do all my serious reading on the Dis.

 

[pajules]

I When he went home and it was just me for the remaining seven days, I really tried focusing on me. And finding a happy place in myself. In that week, I returned many times back to my first two trips, looking for some happy. And I found it.

I must say, I am very proud of you for going to WDW on your own. Since I split from DS's Dad many moons ago, I have learned to love some "me time" Don't get me wrong, I love a vaca with family and friends, but there are just some times when it's nice to do things solo...go to a movie because you can see whatever you want, eat whatever you want, sit wherever you want....and don't have to share! I even enjoy solo dinners every now and then. Usually it gives me a chance to try out a place no one else wants to and I take a good book, make friends with the wait staff and enjoy.

I have yet to advance to solo vacationing. I was going to go to Charleston in March for a 4 day weekend, but decided to do Disney instead with DS, GM, and DGGM.

Charleston Princess, you'll have to give me some pointers on when the best time to is....I've done a bunch of research on Inns and places to eat, just need to figure out when to go!

Maybe after this trip with them, I'll need a solo one to regroup

 

[If U Had Wings]

b]Trip #1 - The Inaugural Trip[/B] The trip that enamored me of all things Mouse. The trip that started my acute case of Disneyitis. The trip where I decided to be a Disney animator. (You see how well that panned out.) The trip that will be the first part of the Chap of Sap. The trip when me and the girl I met at the pool decided we would be lifelong friends - ahhh, the naivete of childhood. I haven't spoken to her since. [/quote]

Must have been a thing as kids. I met a girl at the pool when I was a kid. We actually wrote each other for a few years, until we got into high school. I still wonder what happened to her. Wonder if she is ever on the dis boards.

I was 7 years old. It was Disney World's 15th Anniversary. It was 1987. (Dear GOD the fashion horrors that are regurgitating themselves into my mental space ) My paternal grandparents brought just me, as my brother was only 2 and was "too young" (read: screamed his little lungs out whenever my mother left his line of sight, nevermind being separated from her for a week.) At the time it was the MK and Epicot only. MGM was but a dream. AK wasn't even conceived, if you will. We went for a week over February vacation. We stayed at the Buena Vista Palace across from what was then the Disney Village Marketplace - No Rainforest Cafe. No West Side. No La Nouba. I'm not even sure there was a Pleasure Island. I'll have to check my 1987 Birnbaums. Which I still have. We also went to Sea World.

I feel even older. My first two trips to the world there was only the Magic Kingdom, the Poly, the Contemporary, the campgrounds and the village. Somehow we were busy with that all week too. Go figure.

Trip #2 - The One Where Where My Brother Came Too: (Part 1)-I Have To SHARE Disney World?! After the success of the first trip (read: I begged to go back), my grandparents decided we would go every 5 years to help Disney celebrate their anniversary. Which means the next trip was in 1992. (Again, suppressing the fashion/hair horrors...I'm beginning to think maybe I shouldn't post pics.) The trip that will be the second part of the Chap of Sap.

I went in 1992. I had just graduated from college. In New York. Where I went to school with lots of girls from Jersey and Long Island. You don't even want to imagine the big spiral permed hair. I loved mine so much. Very scary.

Trip #3 - The One Where I Was The Baby-Sitter And Learned Quickly To Never Again Be The Baby-Sitter This trip was in 1996, the spring of my Junior year in high school. A family I baby-sat for invited me to go with them, costs-paid except for spending money in exchange for helping them keep an eye on the kids. All great in theory.

You were very brave to even attempt this. Very, very brave.

When he went home and it was just me for the remaining seven days, I really tried focusing on me. And finding a happy place in myself. In that week, I returned many times back to my first two trips, looking for some happy. And I found it. And my real Disney obsession began.

One of these days I want to take a solo trip to Disney. I think it would be great to spend a few days doing exactly what I wanted. Maybe next year. Definitely on the to do list.

 

[Tinkerbellarella]

Seriously, stitch up their own wounds?!?! Did they use sticks to stitch? I see two little boys in the woods using twigs and blades of grass to stitch.

Oh no, no, no. I mean with needles. And thread.
They were, ah, adventurous boys. And their mom (who took care of them on her own) was a nurse. THANK GOD. They're 34 and 38 now and she is still finding out about injuries they wouldn't tell her about!

Lord help me if we ever decide to have another child and it's a boy....

It's the girls that scare me.

Subscribing to post and going to watch Fun and Fancy Free with Mr. Mouse with my DH.

Welcome to the Dark Side. We have cookies.

Seriously, if I ever said to the BF, "BF, let's watch Fun and Fancy Free!" he would probably ask me if I'd been drinking.

OK, so here's the deal: I was reading the CampbellScot thread and I read your post (about Kali and people in line and rain and stuff) and OMG - I had to scoot right on over and start reading your pre-trip.

Howdy, pardner. And to everyone else - if you're not already reading CampbellScott's trippie. Do it. She's up there with the ZZUB's and the LaLa's. Ooh! LaLa started a new trippie too.

Read all 24 pages in one sitting

Sweet Pete! Can you still see? I don't think I can cover you with my Vision Insurance.

And, I have to say - I enjoy Miss Cammie and everything, but she's got nothing on you. You're my new trip report hero

Awww. :: Personally I don't think I can come close to what Miss Cammie's got, but I appreciate that complement. Truly.

By the way, guinea pigs smell bad.

So do boys. So I figure that one cancels each other out.

Looking through all of my old Disney photos, I couldn't help but wonder, "What was the world thinking when it thought sprayed high hair and tight rolled jeans were a good idea???"

I SO had tight roll envy. I could never get it right. The BF was a Tight Roll Black Belt, though.

I must say, I am very proud of you for going to WDW on your own.

...

I have yet to advance to solo vacationing. I was going to go to Charleston in March for a 4 day weekend, but decided to do Disney instead with DS, GM, and DGGM.

One of these days I want to take a solo trip to Disney. I think it would be great to spend a few days doing exactly what I wanted. Maybe next year. Definitely on the to do list.

Let me address the Solo thing. DO IT. Honestly, it's my favorite way to travel while at Disney since the BF has no interest. (Jerk.) I do what I want, when I want and answer to no one. If I want to get up at 4 a.m. and watch the sunrise (it's my infernal, internal body clock ), I can. If I want to sleep 'til 10 a.m., I can...that's a lie. I can't; the little commando in my head won't let me. If I want cake for breakfast (NOButterGrilledPoundCake ) I can have cake for breakfast. If I want to take a nap on the train at MK, I can.

(Seriously, I have done that. Nice little elderly couple woke me up. After THREE circuits. Around the ENTIRE park. They were getting off and wanted to make sure I was ok and that no one stole my purse.)

Anywho, what I'm saying is this, a solo trip to Disney can be as good as a trip with friends and family. Sometimes I get a little homesick, but then I just strike up a conversation with someone - Disney is the place where you can get just about anyone to talk to you. The only significant things I haven't done on a solo trip are:
a.) the water parks and
b.) character dining

I find dining solo sooooo relaxing. Because I don't shovel the food down my throat, my digestive system also prefers solo dining.

So the sum total of it is this - if you can do a solo trip, even just to give it a shot just once, don't pass it up.

Oh! Got my MNSSHP tix today. I think that calls for some lemon Skittle jumping jacks:

The second half of Chp. 17 is ready but on my other computer. Might be able to get it up tonight.

 

[PrincessV]

The trip where I decided to be a Disney animator.

Didn't we all?!

I'll have to check my 1987 Birnbaums. Which I still have. We also went to Sea World.

No way?! I'm jealous. I kept tossing my old guide books whenever I got a new one. I could kick myself several dozenish times for that now.

(Again, suppressing the fashion/hair horrors...I'm beginning to think maybe I shouldn't post pics.)

Nice try. Bring out the pics.

The parks were at max capacity.

shudder

It was 102 degrees in the shade.

shudder

We drove down in an R/V.

shudder

Kissimmee

QUADRUPLE shudder

I am fairly certain if I have children, I will be blessed with boys. And I plan to loan them out from ages 16-20. It's kind of like renting your DVC points. Only with testosterone.

Wait... everyone keeps telling me I'll have it easier than if I had a girl?!

 

[If U Had Wings]

Oh! Got my MNSSHP tix today. I think that calls for some lemon Skittle jumping jacks:

I'm so jealous! I had such a good time last year at MNSSHP! I hate missing it this year. Damm August trip!

 

[Charleston Princess]

I SO had tight roll envy. I could never get it right. The BF was a Tight Roll Black Belt, though.

Oh! Got my MNSSHP tix today. I think that calls for some lemon Skittle jumping jacks:

Here is my embarrassing middle school story for the day: in the 7th grade when tight rolling your jeans became the style of the day, I, being the gangly, geeky girl that always tried to fit in, rolled my jeans -- not tight rolled, just rolled. Then one day one of the cool, popular girls made fun of me, and I realized I had once again managed to mark myself as a fashion outcast. I went home that night and figured out the right way to roll my jeans. I still have a complex about it.

I'm going to go drown my remembered middle school traumas in an ice cream sandwich now.

Oh, and hip hip hooray for your MNSSHP tickets -- you are going to have a GREAT time!

 

[Lady Lallie]

Here is my embarrassing middle school story for the day: in the 7th grade when tight rolling your jeans became the style of the day, I, being the gangly, geeky girl that always tried to fit in, rolled my jeans -- not tight rolled, just rolled. Then one day one of the cool, popular girls made fun of me, and I realized I had once again managed to mark myself as a fashion outcast. I went home that night and figured out the right way to roll my jeans. I still have a complex about it.

I'm going to go drown my remembered middle school traumas in an ice cream sandwich now.

Oh, and hip hip hooray for your MNSSHP tickets -- you are going to have a GREAT time!

I had one of those oh so fashionable skirts that had the leggins' attached to it and a girl on the playground pulled it down because I was playing with another girl and not her! Ahhh memories.

Don't feel bad, I could never get that roll done either. Though I could scrunch a mean sock!

 

[Tinkerbellarella]

Do not be alarmed by the chapter title. You have not wandered unknowingly into a thread about the NCAA tournament. For two reasons:

A.) This is the DIS. Not ESPN.com
and
2.) A basketball fan Tinkerbellarella is not. Nor hockey. Nor baseball (I’m on the RED SOX NATION hit list). Tinkerbellarella is a FOOTBALL gal. (Which makes her BF very happy indeed.) More specifically, Tinkerbellarella is a Pats fan (a female Pats fan who has said many prayers that the Adonis-body that is Jason Taylor comes up North). AND and Iggles fan since their recent addition of Asante Samuel to their roster.

So, again, you are in the right place. This IS in fact the second half of Chapter 17.

Trip #6 - The First One In 2003 OR The One I Passed For A “Business Trip” Oh, did yours truly do a good job of finagling this here trip. I happened to “find” a conference being held in Orlando in May of 2003. Was this conference offered in locales other than Orlando? Yes. Did my boss check on that? No. However, before you flame me for being a complete corporate thief, the airfare to any of the other locales likely would’ve been far more than the cheap-at-the-time airfare to the Mouse’s next door neighbor. So by combining a ten day vacation and a 5 day conference, yours truly basked in Florida’s rays for more than two weeks.

Only 11 of those days were spent in the World. A good friend who was living in Gainesville at the time picked me up at the airport and spent a few days with me. For the vacation part of the trip, we stayed at the Swolphin. Though I was no longer working for Starwood, my brother had started working there and graciously offered me the discount (read: got me the discount after I threatened to show his current girlfriend the picture of him at age 3 wearing a bubble beard in the bathtub). I can’t recall if I visited parks other than Disney on this trips. I’ll have to consult the all-knowing photo album.

The final days were conference days and I stayed at an Amerisuites on International Blvd. I don’t recommend this for two reasons:
First, my toilet didn’t flush right. For FIVE days. Even after maintenance “looked at it” three times. Needless to say I spent a lot of time getting to know the facilities at the Convention Center during the day at the conference. Seriously, I hope it’s gotten better, but this hotel was downright dirty. (NOChristinaAguilera) I think it would’ve been cleaner for me to sleep on the floor, curled up in my luggage using my clothes for bed linens.
Second, navigating International is atrocious. I wanted to go to dinner less than a mile up the road. 7,436 traffic lights and left turn lanes later (and I was walking!) I arrived at Friendly’s.

What was most curious about this trip was how homesick I was by the end. I just wanted to go home! I wasn’t Disney’d out, per se, it was more a matter of being away-from-home’d out. This was also the trip with my rather unfortunate experience on Delta Song but my first (and wonderful) experience with Jet Blue.

Trip #7 - The Second One In 2003 OR The Birthday Trip This one is up there on my list of best Disney trips. Best trips period, really. I decided to take my bestest friend Rebekah (my godson’s mother) to Disney for her birthday in August 2003. While it about broke the bank to do this, I had been itching to share Disney with her for a while. Rebekah is the kind of friend who picks you up when you don’t even know you’re down yet. We’ve seen each other’s bests and worsts and we’re still friends. We joke that if one of us were a man we’d be married. Sometimes I think we were spun from the same soul.

Since I loaned out both my future first and second born children to finance this trip, we stayed at ASMu. Which is one of the most fun Disney acronyms to say: ASMOO. Do it, you know you wanna. We were in the Rock section. We did all the parks and Universal/IOA. This was also the trip with the infamous drunken adventure to, at and from Pleasure Island. Everything about this trip was great. This trip I’d never give up, but rather would repeat it at a moment’s notice.

The only thing about this trip that I/we didn’t enjoy? The love bugs. And I don’t mean the Herbie variety. Those horrible science experiments gone wrong of the insect kingdom were EVERYWHERE. I’m NOT a bug person. Spiders are the worst. How bad, you ask? They reduce me to tears. The BF knows better than to even tease me about them. I once hair-sprayed a spider to my wall so that it couldn’t move and threw shoes at it until it was dead because I refused to get close to it and my dad refused to get up and kill it for me. After the fifth shoe hit the wall (it was 2 a.m.) I heard him mumble something about never refusing to kill a bug for me again. So yeah, bugs…even love bugs? Not Tinkerbellarella’s thing. I’m hoping against hope they are long gone by late September.

Trip #8 - The One I Barely Remember Seriously, I planned this trip less than two weeks before it happened. It was a shorter, impromptu trip in May of 2004. This is probably the least memorable trip. First stay at POP, though, and in a great room - not Preferred, but it might as well have been. It was on the back side of the 70s building, 3rd floor. It was close to the bus stop, the food court and the pool. I know I visited the parks. Annnnnnd….that’s all I got folks. I just remember needing a getaway before I started my new (current) job. Oh, and this was the trip where I hurt my foot at MGM.

Trip #9 - The One With Frostbite This trip was a partial Christmas gift from my family, which was nice. And affordable. (Not that the word affordable is ever really used in the same sentence as Walt Disney World, except as an antonym.) I went the third week in January, 2005. Also known as the coldest week Florida has seen since the last Ice Age. No joke, it was so cold on this trip that all of the parks were selling hats, scarves and mittens. It was sunny and 75 for one day though. The day I left. Stupid Murphy and his stupid Law.

Another stay at the Swolphin courtesy of my little bro along with a few days at the Sheraton Safari, which was pleasant. And that’s not because I’m biased. If nothing else, working for a hospitality company has made me a hotel snob.

Again, really nothing remarkable about this last trip. Not a bad one by any stretch of the imagination, but it paled in the light of some of my other trips.

So here we are, standing on the cusp of Trip Number Ten. TNT if you will. Not explosive, mind you (NO#4inCanada), but truly out of this world. And World.

 

[Tinkerbellarella]

No way?! I'm jealous. I kept tossing my old guide books whenever I got a new one. I could kick myself several dozenish times for that now.

I have Birnbaum guides from:

*The first trip - my grandmother gave it to me and I've saved it
*The second trip - same as above
*Years that I didn't even take trips! I was just obsessedwith buying it. I'll have to take a look and see exactly what I have. It would be cool to flip through them and read about the attractions that are now extinct: World of Motion, Horizons, If You Had Wings

I'm so jealous! I had such a good time last year at MNSSHP! I hate missing it this year. Damm August trip!

I'm sure you'll get to go again. I'm a little nervous about the weather and crowds, but really, I'm bound and determined to have a good time.

I'm going to go drown my remembered middle school traumas in an ice cream sandwich now.

Mmmmm. Ice cream therapy. The best kind.

Don't feel bad, I could never get that roll done either. Though I could scrunch a mean sock!

Speaking of scrunching...scrunchies - another hair fad I'm not sad to see go. I mean really, exactly how many did you need to wrap around the ponytail perched about 3 inches from the hairline at your forehead??

 

[TarzansKat]

I am so behind! I hang my head in shame. I curse the gods that gave me this flashmegnah stomach virus! BLECH!

Welcome to the Dark Side. We have cookies.

And cinnamon buns.

Awww. :: Personally I don't think I can come close to what Miss Cammie's got, but I appreciate that complement. Truly.

To me, you're right up there with ZZUB, LaLa, Frickles, and CampbellScot. I look forward to your installments just as much, if not more. I think it has something to do with our Jedi connection as well.

Let me address the Solo thing. DO IT.

I have sooooooooo debated this. I love solo movies, solo dining, etc. But going to the World without my peanut? I don't know how....

Don't feel bad, I could never get that roll done either. Though I could scrunch a mean sock!

Did you have to wear two sets of socks? When I was in middle school not only did we sport the tight roll, you had to wear one set of white socks, and another set of socks that matched the color of your outfit, perfectly scrunched of course.

Not Tinkerbellarella’s thing. I’m hoping against hope they are long gone by late September.

I didn't notice them so much last year. I know they were there, but not in droves.

Trip #8 - The One I Barely Remember First stay at POP, though, and in a great room - not Preferred, but it might as well have been. It was on the back side of the 70s building, 3rd floor. It was close to the bus stop, the food court and the pool. I know I visited the parks.

Can I give a shout out to the Pop Century?

So here we are, standing on the cusp of Trip Number Ten. TNT if you will. Not explosive, mind you (NO#4inCanada), but truly out of this world. And World.

Looking forward to it!

And now that I've spent fifteen minutes regaling in all that is Tink, I have to take a shower and get my tushy to work!

 

[pajules]

Speaking of scrunching...scrunchies - another hair fad I'm not sad to see go. I mean really, exactly how many did you need to wrap around the ponytail perched about 3 inches from the hairline at your forehead??

Forget about scrunchies...I was too busy teasing my bangs and "poofing" (yes, that is a word) my spiral perm so I could dance me some running man and cabbage patch wearing my "Hammer" pants....you know the ones I'm talking about...big from the waist to the knees and then tight to the ankles. I'm pretty positive it's the only time in my life when I actually wanted the tops of my legs to look big

Yes, I know...say it together now....I was....

2 Legit 2 Legit 2 Quit!!!! Hey, Hey!

 

[Tinkerbellarella]

To me, you're right up there with ZZUB, LaLa, Frickles, and CampbellScot. I look forward to your installments just as much, if not more. I think it has something to do with our Jedi connection as well.

Wow. Thank you. And wow.

Oh. And if ZZUB saw that I'd probably be on Ignore.

I have sooooooooo debated this. I love solo movies, solo dining, etc. But going to the World without my peanut? I don't know how....

I see where you're at with this because I think the key point for me is that I don't have any children. I will tell you that I plan to spoil my godson rotten with Disney trips as soon as his mother will allow me to (I'm hoping for when he's 3; he just turned 1). It may be that, after my first trip with him, I won't know how to do a solo (NOHanSolo) trip either.

But really, it is a lot of fun. I imagine that you would enjoy it, particularly if it's a short-ish trip. Mostly all of my solo/partially solo trips were in the 5-12 day range, which would be a long time away from your family.

Can I give a shout out to the Pop Century?

Word!

And now that I've spent fifteen minutes regaling in all that is Tink, I have to take a shower and get my tushy to work!

I hope you have a good day and your belly treats you well. Remember, when you have a line of people out the door all waiting to cash their Social Security Checks, do this in your head, "I'm going to Disney. I'm going to Disney."

You must do the grape Skittle cabbage patch thing, though. Must. It's ineffective without it.

wearing my "Hammer" pants....you know the ones I'm talking about...big from the waist to the knees and then tight to the ankles.

Girl!

You don't have to describe Hammer pants to me. I had Hammer-pant-envy! (Thank God the Tag Fairy doesn't hang out on my thread!)

We didn't have a lot of cash and I went to a Catholic school, so I uniform-ed it five days a week. I will neither confirm nor deny whether the "rumors" about Catholic school girls are true. It's not nice. AND I may incriminate myself.

My brother also went to the same school. So, the uniforms didn't leave a lot of left over money in the clothes budget. I think I had me one pair of black Hammer pants. And they were cheapies. I DID, however, con my mom into buying me not one, not two, but THREE pairs of Cross Color jeans (red, purpe and green) that were likely 3 sizes too big for me from The Chess King. I thought I was the bomb. Diggity. She cut me off, though, when I asked for a Hypercolor t-shirt. I was clueless, but I think all she could think of was her sweet little daughter coming home with handprints God-knows-where.

Forget about scrunchies...I was too busy teasing my bangs and "poofing" (yes, that is a word) my spiral perm

At my school, your bangs could be poofed no more than 1" off your head. You could wear earrings no bigger than a quarter and under NO circumstances could you wear and scrunch more than one pair of socks and they could NEVER be white, unless it was gym day.

I never thought I would be thanking GOD for restraining me from participating on a daily basis in all of those fads.

2 Legit 2 Legit 2 Quit!!!! Hey, Hey!

THIS made me experience my corn muffin via my nasal passages. Thanks for that. I think.

HEY EVERYONE! pajules leaves for Disney TODAY!!!! Let's do a jig for her. Ready, join hands little lemon Skittles. Now JIG!

 

[PrincessV]

Tinkerbellarella is a FOOTBALL gal.

I KNEW I liked you!

More specifically, Tinkerbellarella is a Pats fan

I can forgive you this, as I'm a firm believer in rooting for the home-team. Unless you live in the Tampa Bay region. GO BILLS!!!! heh heh

I’ll have to consult the all-knowing photo album.

About that... we're still waiting on some photos, no?

This was also the trip with the infamous drunken adventure to, at and from Pleasure Island.

Heeeeey, I know that trip!

 

[Tinkerbellarella]

About that... we're still waiting on some photos, no?

Yes you are. I also still owe you all the Chap o' Sap.

But it shan't be this weekend. For reasons that are multitudinous.

I went to bed at 9 p.m. last night. Woke up at 2 a.m. Couldn't fall back to sleep. So, at this point, I have been up for 14.5 hours and am running on fumes. I've squirreled away just enough energy to finish the day here and make the commute back home.

Tomorrow, after what will hopefully be a GOOD night's sleep, I have an 8 a.m. therapy appointment. Followed by a 9:15 a.m. hair appointment. Followed by a quick trip to an, ahem, adult..."party"...store for some bachelorette party items. I then have to be at the bridal shop by 11 a.m. to learn how to get the bride in and out of her dress (you'd think that at least wouldn't need instructions) and then how to bustle the dress. After that, me, the bride and one of the bridesmaids are spending the day together shopping and then meeting up with the limo and the everyone else for the bachelorette party.

Where I promptly plan to become a fun, happy, slightly-slurring, non-pukey mess.

Likely I will need to call the BF when the limo drops me off at 3 a.m. so that he can come and carry me up the 3 flights of stairs to bed.

And now you know why there will be no chapter on Sunday either.

I hope you all have a fantabulous weekend, if I don't get to play around on here.

TK - I hope you feel better. Perhaps DS should break out the spoonfuls of Pedialyte for his momma.

Lallie - ENJOY your shower! Planning the bridal shower for the bride in this wedding was stressful, but in the end, all that mattered to me was that the bride enjoyed herself.

 

[askelton]

2.) A basketball fan Tinkerbellarella is not. Nor hockey. Nor baseball (I’m on the RED SOX NATION hit list). Tinkerbellarella is a FOOTBALL gal. (Which makes her BF very happy indeed.) More specifically, Tinkerbellarella is a Pats fan

Football=
Pats = Colts and Giants baby!

Second, navigating International is atrocious. I wanted to go to dinner less than a mile up the road. 7,436 traffic lights and left turn lanes later (and I was walking!) I arrived at Friendly’s.

You are so right!

Trip #7 - The Second One In 2003 OR The Birthday Trip This one is up there on my list of best Disney trips. Best trips period, really. I decided to take my bestest friend Rebekah (my godson’s mother) to Disney for her birthday in August 2003. While it about broke the bank to do this, I had been itching to share Disney with her for a while. Rebekah is the kind of friend who picks you up when you don’t even know you’re down yet. We’ve seen each other’s bests and worsts and we’re still friends. We joke that if one of us were a man we’d be married. Sometimes I think we were spun from the same soul.

How awesome to have a friend like that.

The only thing about this trip that I/we didn’t enjoy? The love bugs.

They're back. I saw some yesterday.

Trip #9 - The One With Frostbite I went the third week in January, 2005. Also known as the coldest week Florida has seen since the last Ice Age. No joke, it was so cold on this trip that all of the parks were selling hats, scarves and mittens. It was sunny and 75 for one day though.

This was right after we moved here. The year after four hurricanes! Good think it's been much better since then.

 

[TarzansKat]

I then have to be at the bridal shop by 11 a.m. to learn how to get the bride in and out of her dress (you'd think that at least wouldn't need instructions) and then how to bustle the dress.

Trust me, it's a fine art. I've done it for my sister, and my sister in law. Also, on the wedding day, be fully prepared to help the bride...ahem...use the facilities. Sometimes it's very difficult to do that by yourself.

After that, me, the bride and one of the bridesmaids are spending the day together shopping and then meeting up with the limo and the everyone else for the bachelorette party.

Where I promptly plan to become a fun, happy, slightly-slurring, non-pukey mess.

Sounds like fun. Have a drink for me, would you? Except you don't have to say it aloud or anything...that would be weird...just silently toast the DIS whilst sipping whatever concoction you deem worthy.

TK - I hope you feel better. Perhaps DS should break out the spoonfuls of Pedialyte for his momma.

Just the picture of him doing that in my head is priceless. Thanks for that.

Lallie - ENJOY your shower! Planning the bridal shower for the bride in this wedding was stressful, but in the end, all that mattered to me was that the bride enjoyed herself.

Ditto, enjoy the shower!

 

[Lady Lallie]

Tomorrow, after what will hopefully be a GOOD night's sleep, I have an 8 a.m. therapy appointment. Followed by a 9:15 a.m. hair appointment. Followed by a quick trip to an, ahem, adult..."party"...store for some bachelorette party items. I then have to be at the bridal shop by 11 a.m. to learn how to get the bride in and out of her dress (you'd think that at least wouldn't need instructions) and then how to bustle the dress. After that, me, the bride and one of the bridesmaids are spending the day together shopping and then meeting up with the limo and the everyone else for the bachelorette party.

It truly is a production to get in and out of those dresses! I just watched "27 Dresses" last night and truly, it was fantastic. I am sure you would appreciate since you are going to be in a wedding shortly.

Lallie - ENJOY your shower! Planning the bridal shower for the bride in this wedding was stressful, but in the end, all that mattered to me was that the bride enjoyed herself.

Thanks!

Ditto, enjoy the shower!

Thanks again!

 

[Lady Lallie]

As I was driving home this evening, I saw a car with a cute little Tink antenna topper. Then I noticed the patriots bumper sticker and I thought of Tinkerbellarella! Then the driver cut me off.