The ABCs of An EPIC Girls' Trip! May, 2019-Q is for: Quietly Sending this Trip Report off Into an Internet Sunset (8/25)

[Steppesister]

It's totally worth it, but usually sells out within the first hour or two of when reservations open. I would have done it again, but Fran requested that we not do any fancy meals for the F&W Festival this year. Instead we'll just do kiosks.

Well, then you'll be doing the exact same thing I'm going to do. LOL!

Holy smokes! That is scary!

She had open heart surgery this morning and is off her vent. Even stood up briefly this afternoon!!

I hope you enjoy your weekend!

I sure did!!!

AHH what dreams are made of

LOL!! I have exactly one bottle of wine in the place right now. Which is one bottle MORE than I usually have.

 

[Steppesister]

Holy smokes! How old is she? Is she okay? (As okay as you can be with a heart tumour that is!)

33. She had open heart surgery this morning and is already off the ventilator and briefly stood up today (after a 3 hour procedure!)!

Hope you can get some nice photos in Eastern Oregon. Glad to hear you’re taking some R & R.

I think I did. Thanks!

 

[Steppesister]

So started my new job on June 10th. Loving it, but I am driving an hour to and from so my days are very long. Have not even had time to get on the boards. After not working for 2 1/2 years and jumping in to a full time job again, it is kicking my butt!

Hoping after another week or two, I might start actually feeling something like a normal human again instead of like I just want to face plant into my pillow.

Hope you are well and things are going positively for Anara!

I completely understand how exhausting and hard it is to learn a new job and new routine!! YOu are a rockstar!

Since you wrote that it's been over a week. How are things now?

Things are going well; therapy seems to be making some positive change and I'm so grateful!

 

[Steppesister]

Liesa, I hope your friend’s daughter will get well soon!

And I am excited that you had a good excursion for pictures! Looking forward to the results!

THanks! Danielle is doing as best as can be expected! So happy she came through her surgery this morning so well.

When I get them all edited, I'll post a few of the best here. Most will be on my FB page. Needless to say, I did have a really wonderful time.

 

[Steppesister]

Later than normal...it's been a crazy couple weeks.

You have no idea.... Luckily, there was a nice break in there for some R and R. Lots of driving, but a needed get away.

Hmmm...if I felt 50% more French than I am, I would be...

0% still. Dang, sometimes math sucks. At least I know my favorite flag color isn't white.

LOL!

Sweet! Happy tourons are good.

No. Happy tourons are bigger spenders. HAHAHA!

Sounds as if maybe, perchance, you speak from experience?

Anyone, anywhere with teenagers knows exactly what I'm talking about.

Oh great, now you'll never get Mark to leave.

Heck! I'm never leavning. Free food? I'm down!

Sounds great except the truffles. Don't like fungus.

My daughter hates them too. I think for shrooms and truffles there is no middle ground.

Sounds good, but there's still fungus in there, right?

Yes.

Ummm...sounds like an excuse. The real reason...half of the kitchen staff didn't show up for work so it takes them a while.

So...
He got a star
which
attracted a woman
which
got him a bypass

THREE TIMES?

I've heard that women and do that on occasion.

I guess they had to go find the pig?

I was right there! I even posted a self portrait!

I finally watched the video.
So the meat was cooked inside of the bread...interesting.
I noticed she carved way more than 4 pieces, so did you get the rest, just not on the plate initially or did she take that away? If the latter, it would see a huge waste.

Doggy bag.

 

[Steppesister]

Glad to hear it was such a good trip. I'm envious as heck!

It was sure nice to see an area I've wanted to for a very long time!

That is just... soooooo cool!

It was! They were so close to my car too.

Saw some. Will take a peek later.

Sounds good!

Ah yes. Work. Time to win that lottery.

Which would mean I have to play.

 

[Terra Nova guy]

Meanwhile, I work.

That's pretty much all I do lately.
I'm desperately hoping to be able to take a week or two off this summer. Not sure it will happen. I have no plans other than relaxing at home, but just need a break.

 

[pkondz]

33. She had open heart surgery this morning and is already off the ventilator and briefly stood up today (after a 3 hour procedure!)!

Wow! To all of that. Wishing her a speedy recovery.

I think I did. Thanks!

Good!

 

[docsoliday1]

I'm still alive! Promise.

I had an amazing trip to SE Oregon and got some pretty decent shots of the area, including a LONG standing personal photography dream- photographing, or even SEEING an owl in the wild. I did! I saw wild horses and antelope and some super cool hot springs as well. I'm posting on FB mostly and only in batches as I have time to edit. PM me if you want to see them. Meanwhile, I work. Shocking, I know. So, your regularly scheduled programming of all things Disney will return this weekend.

Well that sucks...not all of us do FB.

 

[franandaj]

When I get them all edited, I'll post a few of the best here. Most will be on my FB page. Needless to say, I did have a really wonderful time.

I like that. When I see more than three or four pictures on FB I just scroll past. My phone won't show me more than 3 or 4 and it just becomes an exercise in futility so I don't even bother anymore.

 

[Steppesister]

E is for: Expeditiously Exploring Earth​

I’m not usually one to stick around in Future World too long as World Showcase floats my boat a lot more. I’m in, I’m out, I move on. Don’t get me wrong, I do enjoy the time I spend there, and always want to make time to go on the few attractions there. I can take or leave M:S, and Soarin’ and TT are fun, but I’m an old fart now and my back appreciates SE. My sweat glands are always grateful for the 15-minute break too. This last trip I was lucky enough to go on pretty much everything but M:S during my several dips into the park. Some with the EPIC Girls, some with my mom, etc… but I only managed to get a few photos from SE. And that’s okay. Let me assure you, SE is NOT an easy one to get anything decent from. At all. But I tried and, when I took a good look at what I got, I was amused at the “Rest of the Story”… Enjoy a tale of time travel:

Once upon a timeless age, there was a young woman who loved to travel. She’d been all over the world seeing the natural wonders and testaments to man’s ingenuity and creativity- Iguazu Falls, The Great Barrier Reef, McDonalds- a true miracle in which a company can make billions in churning out the worst food imaginable and calling it good. But! She had an unfulfilled desire to see history in the making… quite literally. Consulting the most knowledgeable experts in the field of time travel, she procured the latest advancement in time travel technology and set out on an expedition.



It even came with the green plasma burner for extra speed. And cool factor. Please, let's not forget the cool factor.

She was a very clever woman with an amazing ability to work hard to make her dreams come true, but in some ways, she was also very silly. At times, foresight was not her forte; she did try, but impetuousness and excitement were at times her worst enemies. Sitting boldly in the seat of her new time machine, disguised well as a little white corvette, in an instant she was whisked away to another dimension and landed herself squarely in the Upper Paleolithic Era of Western Europe, forgetting to prepare herself to play the part of pretty young girl turned Neanderthal. Instead, she showed up with perfectly coifed hair, makeup looking like it was Friday night, and a necklace looking as if it was right off the catwalk of Paris. Somehow, her all-put-together-look was a bit out of place for the hostile world she had entered where showers were doubtful, time was spent on keeping from freezing to death, and makeup was several tens of thousands of years off. Oopsies.



Naturally, her exotic and altogether other-worldly beauty caught the eye of Mr. Neanderthal who was busy defacing the cave walls. Graffiti has apparently been around as long as mankind- cave walls, train cars, bathroom stalls pre cellphone use…. Anyway, Mr. N looked up and was instantly taken with the set of flirtacious eyes staring at him. Must have been the loincloth and emerging language skills. Women love a man who can grunt.





However, before she could get herself dragged across the rocky ground to his bed made of wooly mammoth furs, she put the Corvette in gear, dialed in “More Civilized Era”, and hit 88 in no time.

With a fair amount of rubber laid down, she no sooner found herself on the Northern Coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Ah, a soft warm breeze, a pungent salty odor in the air. Or was it this guy’s BO? She wasn’t quite sure. What she was sure about however was his manly bare chest, his intense concentration on the task of creating an alphabet, and sensible fashion statement of the original do-rag.



Before she let herself get in the situation of having to explain to Mr. P why he couldn’t send her any love letters after he was finished with his very important work, she went off to do some souvenir shopping. Her innate ease of fitting into most any culture or time period allowed her easy access to none other than the royal palace. What better place is there to find rare and exotic treasures? This table ought to do just nicely in her 3rd story tiny apartment!



She thanked them appropriately for their contribution and the handwritten receipt on papyrus, then toddled off to the cruise port where she was to set sail north to the Land of Milk and Honey. She was secretly amused that the crew were the original hipsters but that kale smoothies were probably not on the menu. Sadly, the crew informed her that the time machine would probably sink the reed boat.



Ah well, Remy didn’t have any reservations left anyways, so she floored it and landed squarely in Islamaville. The call to prayer was just beginning so she couldn’t stay long enough to ask this old sage what kind of Barilla pasta he had there in the box at his side.



Before she was stoned or flogged for being out without a male escort, she hightailed it out of there fast-forwarding a cool 7 centuries. Fast was her name, cool was her game.

When she landed, she found herself in the workshop of a printing guild where… What in the ink-stained heck?! How did Andrew Jackson get here?!! She looked around but didn’t find a Horcrux among the stacks. How on Earth did this doppleganger transport himself to The Age of Gutenberg?



Unnerved, she wandered the rat-infested streets of Germany marveling at the advances of the Renaissance such as tobacco smoke enemas, mercury salves for syphilis, and tasking barbers to pull teeth if the bloodletting didn’t work. If that didn’t scare her, running into Dwight Eisenhower sure did! What kind of bizarre world had she wandered into? Were there other time travelers among her who too were wondering if mankind had really “advanced” very much. In order to find out, she had to get to know him better. So, she suggested a duet as a segue to finding out more about this recurring phenomenon of time traveling presidents. When the time was right, she carefully broached the subject but was told that the Illuminati didn’t give away their secrets of hidden, special knowledge but that there was a place not too far in the future where she could learn all of her neighbors’ dirty little secrets and that those would be far more interesting than the time travel of US presidents who would never think to have a scandal taint their legacy. Like McCarthyism. Or that pesky tactic of using military force to ensure obedience to a new tariff in 1882. She noticed a flush sweep over Jackson's face at the mention of this.



Huh… finding nothing new under the sun here and confident Dwight wasn’t going talk, she sauntered on back to her little white Corvette, fired up all 8, gunned it, then screeched to a halt in the midst of this fracas. Caddy women complaining about… well, everything, Aunt Bee talking about Mary Jo’s terrible pie at Sunday lunch, Tilly Jane yapping it up about Cindy Lou’s daughter who got caught in the hayloft…. Yep, nothing new here either.



Bored out of her mind, our time-traveling heroine figured there was just as much mindless shenanigans in the present as there was in the past just with better pizza. So she set her locatometer and buzzed off to her local Papa Murphy’s contemplating her next crazy, spontaneous adventure still wondering if Obama was somewhere in The Late Middle Ages with Trump and Bush and Clinton all getting along over a pint of mead.

Nah. Never.

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If you are thoroughly confused at this, please refer to this source material I ran across as a reference. Our female protagonist is indeed the same pretty face, but did you know...???? Enjoy THIS for a bit of Disney trivia!!

 

[Steppesister]

Okay, Kiddlywinks, time for bed. While I have a pretty busy day tomorrow, my best intentions are to catch up on my long list of threads I'm hopelessly behind on. I'll read, but across the board, I may not quote a whole lot.

Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend! The kids are all coming over tomorrow for us to talk about our trip in September so we can work out some logistics like getting to the airport, MNSSHP costumes, etc....

 

[paradesintherain]

I’m not usually one to stick around in Future World too long as World Showcase floats my boat a lot more.

Agreed! And Future World seems so spread out. Lots of concrete!

Oh my goodness, what a story you told! I knew the AA molds were reused in Spaceship Earth but had no idea who was who! What fun!

 

[docsoliday1]

I’m not usually one to stick around in Future World too long as World Showcase floats my boat a lot more.

Ummm, you're in a boat in LwtL.

but I’m an old fart now and my back appreciates SE

Peh, you're not an old fart, but yeah, seats and AC is good.

My sweat glands are always grateful for the 15-minute break too.

Let me assure you, SE is NOT an easy one to get anything decent from.

Truth!

It even came with the green plasma burner for extra speed. And cool factor. Please, let's not forget the cool factor.

Always go for speed. Who needs that paltry efficiency. Cool is good!

little white corvette

Isn't that a song by Prince?

Oopsies.

Must have been the loincloth and emerging language skills.

Had to have been.

Women love a man who can grunt.

Is that why Tim Allen was so successful?
Oh oh oh oh oh!

and hit 88 in no time.

Okay, hold on now!
Little white corvette instead of a delorean.
Green plasma burner instead of a flux capacitor.
What kinda trick are you pulling here?

what kind of Barilla pasta he had there in the box at his side.

That actually does look like a Barilla pasta box doesn't it?

Fast was her name, cool was her game.

Wow....and I've been calling you Liesa all this time. Sorry Fast!

How did Andrew Jackson get here?!!

He has a Delorean?

tobacco smoke enemas

Umm, what?????

running into Dwight Eisenhower sure did!

Wow, all the presidents have Deloreans?

Caddy women complaining about

They were carrying golf clubs?

All joking aside, considering how difficult it is with low light, good job on the photos.
Interesting history too.

 

[disneyAndi14]

I enjoyed the pictures of your recent trip on FB, the owl and horses amazing!

Great pictures on SE with an amusing story!

 

[pkondz]

I’m not usually one to stick around in Future World too long as World Showcase floats my boat a lot more.

Ditto. I got on the 2-4 rides I want to go on then high tail it for the good stuff (i.e. World Showcase)

I can take or leave M:S

Yep.
And now your choice is
1. Dull ride. or;
2. Motion sick ride.

I’m an old fart now and my back appreciates SE.

I've met you. You're hardly an old fart.

Can speak about your back, though.

My sweat glands are always grateful for the 15-minute break too.

You always come off SE feeling refreshed. Either from the AC or because you've just napped.

Let me assure you, SE is NOT an easy one to get anything decent from.

Oh, man, no kidding! I didn't have anything but my phone with me. I didn't even try to take photos. (Well... just one.)

McDonalds- a true miracle in which a company can make billions in churning out the worst food imaginable and calling it good.

They don't make their money from the horrible food. They make it from real estate. They don't own 95% of their restaurants... but they do charge rent on the land. Plus franchise fees. Plus a monthly service fee of a percentage of gross sales.

It even came with the green plasma burner for extra speed. And cool factor. Please, let's not forget the cool factor.

One must never forget the cool factor.

foresight was not her forte; she did try, but impetuousness and excitement were at times her worst enemies.

Why do I get the feeling that you're describing yourself here.

a little white corvette,

Doc already mentioned it. But I thought the same thing.

Instead, she showed up with perfectly coifed hair, makeup looking like it was Friday night, and a necklace looking as if it was right off the catwalk of Paris. Somehow, her all-put-together-look was a bit out of place for the hostile world she had entered where showers were doubtful, time was spent on keeping from freezing to death, and makeup was several tens of thousands of years off. Oopsies.

I was wondering what you were getting at until I saw the photo.

Graffiti has apparently been around as long as mankind- cave walls, train cars, bathroom stalls pre cellphone use….

Holy cow! I never thought of that! I bet you're right! Bathroom graffiti probably has gone down due to cell phone use. Huh!

Women love a man who can grunt.

Files this away for future reference. When we meet up in the fall (need to nail down a time!) I'll be sure to grunt instead of talk.

she put the Corvette in gear, dialed in “More Civilized Era”, and hit 88 in no time.

I presume you mean 2088... BC.

(Yes, I got the Back to the Future reference. I like my interpretation. )

With a fair amount of rubber laid down,

I didn't even know those were invented back then.

What she was sure about however was his manly bare chest

Gotta lay down more rubber, I see.

she went off to do some souvenir shopping.

Given your penchant for "round the world" shopping, I shouldn't be surprised if you do "round the eras" shopping, too.

This table ought to do just nicely in her 3rd story tiny apartment!

I like it. Classy without being crass. Understated, yet elegant.

kale smoothies were probably not on the menu.

Sign me up, then.

so she floored it and landed squarely in Islamaville.

Somehow, given the current climate, I think this might not fare well in World Showcase.

Before she was stoned or flogged for being out without a male escort,

Ah yes. The good ol' days.

she wandered the rat-infested streets of Germany

Awwww... cute little guys.

tobacco smoke enemas, mercury salves for syphilis, and tasking barbers to pull teeth if the bloodletting didn’t work.

US presidents who would never think to have a scandal taint their legacy. Like McCarthyism.

Or that pesky tactic of using military force to ensure obedience to a new tariff in 1882.

Sorry. This foreigner doesn't get the reference.

Caddy women complaining about… well, everything,

Caddy?

First rats, now gophers?

Cindy Lou’s daughter who got caught in the hayloft….

Cindy Lou got it on with the Grinch???

wondering if Obama was somewhere in The Late Middle Ages with Trump and Bush and Clinton all getting along over a pint of mead.

Yes... but not Carter.

If you are thoroughly confused at this, please refer to this source material I ran across as a reference.

Thanks for that! Interesting read!

 

[Jenny Sanders]

What an awesome story!!!!! Have fun planning your September trip. What are your dates?????

 

[suse66]

Hey All!

Been a crazy workweek and I thought I’d have this morning to reply and catch up.

BUT! My best friends daughter had a stroke and heart attack while running and the cause was found to be a tumor in her heart. So I rushed up to visit this morning. I also have a long weekend (extremely rare for me!) so am taking off on a road trip to Eastern Oregon for some photography and R and R.

Back on Monday, Folks!!

So sorry to hear about your friend's daughter. Glad to hear she came through surgery ok.

If you are thoroughly confused at this, please refer to this source material I ran across as a reference. Our female protagonist is indeed the same pretty face, but did you know...???? Enjoy THIS for a bit of Disney trivia!!

Awesome update and I thoroughly enjoyed that article. Thanks!

 

[Captain_Oblivious]

I’m not usually one to stick around in Future World too long as World Showcase floats my boat a lot more. I’m in, I’m out, I move on.

I used to hang around longer...

She’d been all over the world seeing the natural wonders and testaments to man’s ingenuity and creativity- Iguazu Falls, The Great Barrier Reef, McDonalds- a true miracle in which a company can make billions in churning out the worst food imaginable and calling it good.

Let's make an exception for the fries, at least.

It even came with the green plasma burner for extra speed. And cool factor. Please, let's not forget the cool factor.

Kills your environmental score, though.

Women love a man who can grunt.

I'm gonna have to call shenanigans on this. It never helped me, anyway.

She was secretly amused that the crew were the original hipsters but that kale smoothies were probably not on the menu.

Even they wouldn't torture themselves like that.

How did Andrew Jackson get here?!!

The magic of cloning!

Bored out of her mind, our time-traveling heroine figured there was just as much mindless shenanigans in the present as there was in the past just with better pizza.

So we've come a long, long way.

If you are thoroughly confused at this, please refer to this source material I ran across as a reference.

Fun article! Thanks for posting!

 

[Wood Nymph]

Spaceship Earth is one of our "must do" rides and I love your version of it. I will be picturing myself in a time traveling Corvette looking for horcruxes and former Presidents next time we ride it.

Your trip reports are fun to read.