The Battle For My Wallet V: Beyond the Number IV (Chapter Eighteen, p.75, 5/18)

[maxiesmom]

Snowcaps! Borg!

And Zzub, you really do need to stay at the Contemporary sometime. I know it gets a bad rap from many, but they don't know what the heck they are talking about! It is sooooo Disney! And I'm sorry, but you cannot compare anything to the ability of being able to walk to the Magic Kingdom.

 

[LISAMWDW]

Love the snack drawers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[mellvswdw1]

ZZUB,

I have been a lurker of the Disboards for about 5 years there are two reasons I was finally drawn out of lurkerdom....1) to see if I really needed to give into the Croc world and 2) to thank you for many belly laughs, some tears, and a few "why did he go there?!" statements! You put what WDW is to me so eloquently every chapter. I hope to have children some day and share with them what you and Mrs. Z share with your kiddos every trip. I leave for the happy place in a few sleeps, I'll be sure to say hello to the facilities at CM for you !

P.S. Where is the picture of the Yoo-Hoo?

 

[whogirl'smom]

That's a lot of snacks! We lugged back home almost all the snacks and little cereals (you know the ones in plastic bowls that you can just pour the milk in?) and applesauce we took with us. Next year, I just need to pack 4 boxes of gummies.

I just don't understand how people can pay thousands of dollars on a WDW vacation and forget the $2 purchase of some Arrid XXXtra Dry to cut the funk. Ugh, just remembering the couple in front of us on the Safari ride....it was early in the morning, so you just knew it was two-day funk...bleeech!

Baby Zzubby is sooo cute! Is that red hair I see?

 

[jamal]

Last edited by AshClan : Today at 12:08 PM. Reason: Do you guys eat the clothespins before or after the poptarts?!

DED!

That may be the one that boots her out as fave screen name, Frick.

Frickalicious sad: So Borg! My fondest memories of Disney include magically riding the monorail through the Contemporary. For me, that meant we were REALLY there, and I have always wanted to stay there. I just went on a girl's trip to Disney and we had dinner at California Grill. I had never been to the top of the Contemporary, and it blew me away. Now I'm jonesing for a tower, MK view, room. How sweet is this view?

Do it baybee! Last room and you can touch Space Mtn!

Frick the Gagger sad: I AGREE! I am not even going to tell you what I saw at the Beach Club pool bathroom. I'm still having nightmares about it. And, I can't mix up a batch of brownies without gagging.

Thanks for that. Go back to cookies and ham.

Ash-is-on-fire: I'm starting to think we should be calling you TUBB. Or better yet, TTUB.

Line of the day.

 

[Yzma and Kronk]

UUUmmmm Cherry Pop Tarts!

 

[Tink-ing]

They’re a little funny about squeezing and smelling the bread. And donuts.

Never pictured you as a donut squeezer, ZeeZub. Then again, how else are you to know they're fresh, right?

However, I think the Contemporary is beautiful. It is one of three structures which “are” Disney World for me. And although I’ve never stayed there, I try to go there on every trip.

Sooo with you on this one. I will stay there someday. And the Poly. AFTER I win Powerball. Which means, based on historical evidence, I'll likely be 94.

As we walked around the store looking at the Disney Crap they sell and comparing it in our minds with the crap we had just seen at the Merc, I noticed a woman sitting on the floor.

She was naked.

From the waist down.

I'm something other than...or more than numb...or I'm totally gullible and/or missed an inside joke. I want to ask what this woman was doing sitting waist-down-nekkid on the floor...and yeeeeet, I don't want to know.

Dinner was as good as it ever was. The service was as bad as it ever was.

Thank you. The Talking Heads 'Once In A Lifetime' is now stuck on mental repeat.

Sweetest non-picture of a baby. Ever.

Unpacking at Disney World is HUGE to me.

It still is.

I have a three night rule. If I’m going to be in a hotel for three nights or longer, I unpack. Here’s my drawer. Good stuff. The tan bag on the right is Almond M&Ms. Those rock!

Borg, borg, borg!

But we didn’t fall into a sweet sleep with dreams of our idyllic first night dancing in our heads.

No, the quiet peace of the first night of our vacation was upended by something truly disturbing and in fact, shocking. Something that has never happened before.


-

Great. Now I'm going to have to create a countdown ticker that won't fit in my siggie thanks to the 'new rules' in anticipation of Monday, 11/5/07.

 

[eternaldisneyfan]

Noooooo! I must know the ending???

Alas, like all the best blessings in life, I will have to exercise patience...

Lovin' it!

-Christamae

 

[Montana Disney Fan]

I wondered what Paris Hilton was doing in the Contemporary. This woman seemed too old to be a young, boozy heiress.

Good one.

 

[LouDisney]

Another great update ZZUB. I noticed your excitement for last weekend's AL. game. I am not a football fan myself...yeah I know, I am very un-Alabamian. My family and I were at WDW last week, for 10 days and our last day there, our last full day, the 3 guys in our party spent Saturday afternoon at the ESPN Club watching the game.

 

[1000thhappyhaunt]

He's a smeller. He's a squeezer. He's a mean 'ol geezer.


Some people call you the Space cowboy
But I call you the gangster named ZZUB
DED that Ash called you TTUBby!
Cause you speak of the pompitous of grub.


Ok.


ZZUB ~ I'm SO frustrated!!!! I swear that you absorb and digest my Disney tips like corn on the cob. You are UNTRAINABLE!!! You're stubborn and you're rebellious. And you NEVER listen to Me(l). Ever!!!! About ANYTHING!


Which I like. BTW.


And, yet, HERE are some valuable bites and pieces which I've tried to impart on you over the years(ish):

1. Fibre: The "new" ginger sauce.

2. Your drawer organization is ALL WRONG. Again. You need to keep the good junk food in the BOTTOM drawer. The healthy stuff in the TOP drawer, Dude. After they open the top one... they'll get discouraged by the offerings... and not even check the one below. Also... if you have persistent little ones. Cover the good stuff with dippers.

U figure it out.

3. Stand behind the stupid large dish. Like everyone else. It's annoying, granted. But survivable. Don't EVER kiss Nancy Pelosi. EVER! French kissing Nancy Pelosi might prove supremely unwise. Look at her! She'd eat your face off. With fava beans and a nice Chianti. NOHannibalLector. NOGeneHackman. And then she'd smile. After her Botox wore off. In fact, if I were Cheney... I'd be pretty nervous with her behind me. He should invite her on a hunting trip. Ok. One more time: NEVER FRENCH KISS NANCY PELOSI!!!

4. I'd sooner french kiss Nancy Pelosi then have dinner at Chef Mickey's again.

5. Use the bathroom on the same floor as Chef Mickey's when it becomes inevitable that you need to ZZUB, ZZUB. It's a longer walk. Over past the elevators. But it's always clean. And... the walk won't kill you. Unlike the food.

6. Maybe Kris Kristofferson WASN'T out on a smoke break. Maybe she was busted flat in Baton Rouge. Waitin' for a train. Feelin' near as faded as her jeans.

What I'm saying is this: You're SO MEAN!!!! She obviously needed that tip, DUDE. And, also, as sorry a picture it is of her holding Bobby's body next to hers... it's better than picturing the real Kris doing it.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

7. The Contemporary is "cool" not "beautiful". There's a difference. Cool is much better. Although, on some very rare occassions, they can be one in the same. I'd sooner french kiss Johnny Depp than stay at the Contemporary is what I'm sayin'.

8. As much as I'd love to hang around and play some more... our other computer is at the shop and I have to get off right now. Beth has a project which is due tomorrow and I think I'm outta luck. For computer time.

Oh.


One more thing: Sometimes when you're ON. You're SO ON, baybee!!!! Sometimes I'd sooner re-read one of your chapters then french kiss Gary Sinise.


Yeah.


I sad it.


Cheers, Mel.





P.S. Man, THAT...felt bad!

 

[tina_la]

been lurking here awhile. loooove your trip reports. your family seems wonderful! you are a blessed man. keep it up and baby yolanda's head is the cutest. you keep writing i'll keep reading.

 

[IkeandMike]

Oh you have a little red head. Sooo cute.

I need to know what happened, don't keep us waiting for a week. But I think I know what happened, here it goes, the rednecks in the rooms on either side of you had a big smokapalooza, out on their balconies, sending all their toxic fumes into the Zzub's room. Hence making your non-smoking room in the non-smoking resort, the smokiest place you've ever been.

 

[CampbellScot]

I love it that you say "reckon"...THAT is a Southern word!!! Like y'all...and pea waddin...and wolly-go...(aka A while ago)...

I love it that we got to see Baby Grace Zzub's strawberry blond little head.

I love it that y'all brought so much fun sugary vacation food with you!!! Now I don't feel nearly so bad about our $77 trip to Publix grocery store before we got to the resort!!!

What on EARTH was a nekkid woman doing on the floor inside the contemporary gift shop? A little TOO contemporary if you ask me!!! Not a big fan of public nekkidness...it disturbs me...a lot. DED on the not getting near naked women who are not your wife! GOOD CHOICE!!!

love the cliff hanger...but don't leave people hangin too long...I've found in my freshman year of TR writing that people get downright snarky if you make them wait too long for the next chapter!!

 

[LglBlonde]

Baby ZZUB has very cute hair & a cute hand.

How will we make it through two weeks????

 

[1000thhappyhaunt]

But not really.

Don't you know the place to post OT things is MY TRIPE????!!!! Thread?!


You can post your dog's picture, a recipe for disaster, a skirt versus skort debate, an ODE to a large Appliance-shaped Disney resort, my favourite video of William Shatner singing "Mr. Tambourine Man", the lame lyrics to the even lamer "Sailing" by Christopher Cross and... a partridge in a pear tree. Dude.


Basically... anything that will detract from the fact that I haven't posted a proper update to it in weeks. And... I will be grateful. Capish?

I'd get back to it but I've been wasting too much time blaming George Bush. And the rain.


Actually... I WOULD have posted to it the other day. But someone popped by and made a bit of a stink on my thread. So to speak.


I'm waiting for the air to clear. Over there.


What I'm saying is this: You, Milky, can be the one to pop by and check if the Hazmat Team has packed up and left. And if MY thread has suffered the same fate as the washroom by CaNaDa! in World Showcase.

Thanks.

Also... this here's a real trippie.


Ugggghhhhh. Man, this hurts. Real bad.


And... I'm afraid anything other than "Roll Tiding" might mess up his stupid flow and annoyingly precise ridiculous posting schedules. Which I can't abide. By.


Myself.


I also believe that if you Google (cake, Miami Vice, Big Spoon, Big Toaster, Fred Flinstone, glue, Kristopherson, old, lame, mean, smelly, geezer)...you get a big NUTHIN'. Zero. Zip. Nada. Nupe.


But... I was hoping for ZZUB's real name. TFI.


Also... since I had to literally DRAG this sucker back from before the advent of the windmill. I don't know if this is gonna be all that successful. An undertaking. NOMel'scurrenttriptripe.



That all being said... ROLL TIDE!


Cheers, Mel happyhaunt.

 

[Sneezie]

Miky, I went in and voted for Zachary before the mods removed this post (just in case it's not allowed) My first cousin, Brian Robiskie, is an Ohio State Buckeye! Wide Receiver #80!


GO BUCKS!!!!

Sorry, Zzub, this is your thread, so Roll Tide too!!!

 

[DJR]

But not really.

Don't you know the place to post OT things is MY TRIPE????!!!! Thread?!


You can post your dog's picture, a recipe for disaster, a skirt versus skort debate, an ODE to a large Appliance-shaped Disney resort, my favourite video of William Shatner singing "Mr. Tambourine Man", the lame lyrics to the even lamer "Sailing" by Christopher Cross and... a partridge in a pear tree. Dude.


Basically... anything that will detract from the fact that I haven't posted a proper update to it in weeks. And... I will be grateful. Capish?

I'd get back to it but I've been wasting too much time blaming George Bush. And the rain.


Actually... I WOULD have posted to it the other day. But someone popped by and made a bit of a stink on my thread. So to speak.


I'm waiting for the air to clear. Over there.


What I'm saying is this: You, Milky, can be the one to pop by and check if the Hazmat Team has packed up and left. And if MY thread has suffered the same fate as the washroom by CaNaDa! in World Showcase.

Thanks.

Also... this here's a real trippie.


Ugggghhhhh. Man, this hurts. Real bad.


And... I'm afraid anything other than "Roll Tiding" might mess up his stupid flow and annoyingly precise ridiculous posting schedules. Which I can't abide. By.


Myself.


I also believe that if you Google (cake, Miami Vice, Big Spoon, Big Toaster, Fred Flinstone, glue, Kristopherson, old, lame, mean, smelly, geezer)...you get a big NUTHIN'. Zero. Zip. Nada. Nupe.


But... I was hoping for ZZUB's real name. TFI.


Also... since I had to literally DRAG this sucker back from before the advent of the windmill. I don't know if this is gonna be all that successful. An undertaking. NOMel'scurrenttriptripe.



That all being said... ROLL TIDE!


Cheers, Mel happyhaunt.

I'm curious Mel, is it now your strategy to post on other peoples' threads but not your own? It would cut down on the number of places I need to look.

 

[lexmelinda]

Just wanted to say that I read your most recent installment at work today and laughed a lot. Although now I can't remember what about.

I do remember that there was a nekkid lady in the gift shop. That kinda stuck in my head. And not in a good way. Thanks.

Your almost-picture of the baby is adorable. I had a sweet, little blonde girl-baby like that once and now she towers over me. Sigh.

Question: Reckon that's gonna be enough cherry pop tarts for the trip? It only works out to about 3/day.

Thanks again for the laughs. Have a great weekend!

 

[LaLa]

Don't you know the place to post OT things is MY TRIPE????!!!! Thread?!

You can post your dog's picture, a recipe for disaster, a skirt versus skort debate, an ODE to a large Appliance-shaped Disney resort, my favourite video of William Shatner singing "Mr. Tambourine Man", the lame lyrics to the even lamer "Sailing" by Christopher Cross and... a partridge in a pear tree. Dude.

Basically... anything that will detract from the fact that I haven't posted a proper update to it in weeks. And... I will be grateful. Capish?

I'd get back to it but I've been wasting too much time blaming George Bush. And the rain.

Actually... I WOULD have posted to it the other day. But someone popped by and made a bit of a stink on my thread. So to speak.

I'm waiting for the air to clear. Over there.

What I'm saying is this: You, Milky, can be the one to pop by and check if the Hazmat Team has packed up and left. And if MY thread has suffered the same fate as the washroom by CaNaDa! in World Showcase.

Thanks.

Also... this here's a real trippie.

Ugggghhhhh. Man, this hurts. Real bad.

And... I'm afraid anything other than "Roll Tiding" might mess up his stupid flow and annoyingly precise ridiculous posting schedules. Which I can't abide. By.

Myself.

I also believe that if you Google (cake, Miami Vice, Big Spoon, Big Toaster, Fred Flinstone, glue, Kristopherson, old, lame, mean, smelly, geezer)...you get a big NUTHIN'. Zero. Zip. Nada. Nupe.

But... I was hoping for ZZUB's real name. TFI.

Also... since I had to literally DRAG this sucker back from before the advent of the windmill. I don't know if this is gonna be all that successful. An undertaking. NOMel'scurrenttriptripe.

That all being said... ROLL TIDE!

Cheers, Mel happyhaunt.

Although this post left me DED, I think you're wrong. DED wrong. Everybody knows the proper place to post off topic stuff is on MY trip report.

Oh wait.

I don't have a trip report. My bad.

Well, none that aren't on the Completed Boards, anyway. Completed Boards. Say it with me, Mel. Now there's a place you'll never dwell. Saidly. NOTYPHOONLAGOONLAZYRIVER.

So forget everything I just said. The really proper place to post off topic stuff is on Nicolemarie's trip report.

Long pause.

She doesn't have a trip report EITHER, does she? It's been so long, I can't remember.

So maybe Mel's right after all. Except for the fact that she's Googling all the wrong words. Dude. Have you forgotten?

ZZUB LOVES POTATO SALAD!

That's your ticket right there, Mel. Google "potato salad" and his picture is sure to pop up.

Now. Where's the Bonus Chapter?