The Berg-Berts do WDW, Part 30 – Closing Thoughts

[drebert]

LOL Dre - If it makes you feel any better, I hadn't noticed the butt shot until you pointed it out. Thanks! LOL

Blessings!
MarkyMark

Good gosh! How could you NOT notice???? Big as dallas!!!

 

[Yzma and Kronk]

Good gosh! How could you NOT notice???? Big as dallas!!!

Dre - I didn't notice either!

 

[AshClan]

LOL Dre - If it makes you feel any better, I hadn't noticed the butt shot until you pointed it out. Thanks! LOL

Blessings!
MarkyMark

BORG, Mark, and YAK! I was just about to post the same thing.

Sorry, Dre, but you made it worse. Because, then, of course, we all had to go back to check it out!!!!

 

[NAB]

Lato I am glad you faced your fear. I like that ride but I am always scared I am going to hit my head on some of it. My DD just does her laugh scream on it and that makes me and everyone around us laugh too.

Being sick on holidays is not fun. Sorry Dre. I know you are on new drugs now for something else so I hope your feeling better.

Love the matching shirts, Lacto what colour was yours?

 

[drebert]

Sorry, Dre, but you made it worse. Because, then, of course, we all had to go back to check it out!!!!

Oops!


Nab, Lacto had on the blu-ish shirt like Nick.

 

[DisneyObsession]

Good gosh! How could you NOT notice???? Big as dallas!!!

I noticed.....Sorry.

My immediate thought was that I'd make my husband take it off ASAP!

But hey, that's me!

 

[latoberg]

Well, my wife had to make an issue of the picture of that posterior perspective. She had to draw more unwanted attention to it than was necessary. But I keep telling her that I like it just fine. And yes this is a family site. She's my wife. I can legally say those kind of things. I have a license.

I will admit that my wife was a real trooper. Not like at home. If we had been at home there would have been a whine and sheesh festival.

Sorry I haven't been around to comment much and tardy on posts. I am now back in the busy season of work. I don't know about Marky but my busy season runs from mid-October until June/July. So I am off and running.

I will do my best to keep up the one-a-day posts on the trip reports, though. Until it is all over and done.

 

[latoberg]

Since #2S would not eat anything Pecos Bill offered, we decided to head around to the Main Street area. I was secretly hoping we would NOT end up eating hot dogs again. I love me a dog . Especially with chili and cheese with some mustard. But I was not in the mood for another one that day. Not when there were so many other tasty options.

We rounded the corner toward Adventure land when Lovey says that according to the handy times guide, Peter and Wendy are soon to appear. #2S, if you haven’t guessed, loves Peter Pan. So we knew that was a must do. I made the executive decision that we should do the Jungle Cruise. It’s hokey and cornball. But it’s really fun. And the boys were really digging it. It wasn’t memorable. But it was a fun romp down the grand rivers of the world.

Then we backtracked to the Peter Pan/Wendy meet. There is a look that people get when they meet someone whom they idolize. It is a look unlike anything else. And it is a look that cannot be repeated. It is a reflex. #2S had that look in his eye the moment he saw Peter Pan standing there. He was oblivious to everything else in the world. Or the World. He couldn’t stand in the line with Lisa. He wasn’t looking at anything else but Peter. Lisa finally got his attention away enough to tell him to get in line to get his autograph book ready. It was a happy moment for our little guy. It was in a small way magical.

Well, you should know that if Peter Pan is around, that codfish Captain Hook and his pal Mr. Smee should be near. And sure enough, they were out in the plaza just across from Peter and Wendy. So #2S wanted to meet Captain Hook. But horror of horrors that other Disney pirate had also made his presence known: Captain Jack Sparrow. And his mate, Mack, was gathering a crowd of would be pirate lads and lasses. #1S really wanted to see Captain Jack. So it was a matter of divide and conquer. I sent the still camera with Lisa and #2S to meet the infamous Hook. I took the video camera and #1S to see the notorious Captain Jack and his pirate tutorial.

What happened with #2S is only in the memory of Lisa and what the pictures show. You can tell though that #2S is definitely in his element.

#1S and I got close to the front. But he was not the least bit interested in participating in becoming a pirate. I would think he would love to jump in and fight Captain Jack. But no. He was not going to step out. And I didn’t push him. But I was disappointed.

After seeing the famous pirates out and about, we decided to go see the pirates in their element. We rode Pirates of the Caribbean, again. And wouldn’t you know it, the ride broke down. Me to #1S: “did you break the ride again?”. By now, he is tired of this joke.

We resumed our trek to the Main Street area. There were a couple of items that the boys wanted to get. So we stopped in the Main Street Mega-store. We also went through the store to avoid the parade. I knew that the parade was not very different from the “Mickey in a Fishbowl” parade from the last time we were there. So were going to skip it. But by the time we got everything we wanted, the lines were up and we were caught at the very end of the parade route. The parade ends at Main Street and we were right by the gate. This provided some really cool views of the floats and characters.

After the parade we continued on out the gate. Lisa was feeling horrible. The acetaminophen was no longer cutting the sore throat. She was not having any other problems. It was just a serious sore throat. She couldn’t even drink a Coke without sharp pain. She was ready to head back to the resort. So we head back to the Lodge to grab some lunch, get some rest, and send Lisa to Urgent Care.

 

[NAB]

I think #2 son is wearing your hat or maybe #1 sons hat.

Very cute. I am sure this is what hubby did with my son while we were off looking at princesses.

Very expensive to go to Urgent Care.....we know first hand.

Dre is a trooper for sure.

 

[latoberg]

#2S is indeed wearing his own hat. The thing is: we bought an adult size hat for him. Now he can keep it forever. Just like dad. I still have the hat from the 1984 trip. Somewhere.

 

[latoberg]

We left the Magic Kingdom and were heading back to the Lodge. We decided that Lisa should check into going to Urgent Care and have her throat looked at. This was potentially a problem. This night was the grown up’s night out. We were planning on sending the boys to the Neverland Club. This is a supervised children program. You can drop your yung’uns off and the great Disney folks will take care of them. For hours at a time. And they feed them, entertain them, keep them safe, and return them to you. And our boys had been looking forward to this one thing more than any other activity.

When we got back to the Lodge, we went by Roaring Forks for lupper. That’s the meal between lunch and supper. The boys had something. I don’t have a clue. I had a really interesting sandwich. It was roast beef and blue cheese. I love blue cheese. It stinks and looks like it’s ruined. So if it looks like it’s rotten and smells like it’s rotten, it probably is rotten. But it’s yummy. Especially with meat. But it was a gourmet sandwich.

Lisa was checking with Guest Concierge about Urgent Care. Sure enough, they had a shuttle service that would come and get her, drive her to the clinic and pharmacy, and then bring her back. So we agreed that if she was going to have any enjoyment in the rest of the week, she needed to go. But the time was a factor. Between the wait for the shuttle, the drive to the clinic, the time to be seen, get her drugs, and return, it was very likely we would miss our dinner time. And that hurt.

We were planning on going to O’hana. O’hana is a Polynesian restaurant in the…Polynesian Resort. Convenient, no? And it was our favorite restaurant the last time we came. It is a unique style buffet restaurant. You sit down at your table and the servers bring your appetizers and side items. Then, servers will bring these 4 feet long skewers of meat to your table. Yum. Meat. And it is all you care to eat. That’s my kind of place.

Now between Disney ’03 and Disney ’06, we have found that it is not that unique of a restaurant. In fact there is a Brazilian steakhouse in Tulsa that serves the same way. And it is just as tasty. With 12 kinds of meat. We like.
But I have digressed from the digest. And digesting the issue at hand. We were not going to make our fancy, grown up night out. Lisa had brought some nicer clothes to wear. I had brought nicer clothes to wear. Which says a lot. It was going to be a special meal. And now it was most likely not going to happen.

 

[drebert]

Awwww. Now I'm sad all over again.

But at least the kids went to Neverland!

 

[AshClan]

When we got back to the Lodge, we went by Roaring Forks for lupper. That’s the meal between lunch and supper.

Lupper is big at our house too!!!

Lisa was checking with Guest Concierge about Urgent Care. Sure enough, they had a shuttle service that would come and get her, drive her to the clinic and pharmacy, and then bring her back. So we agreed that if she was going to have any enjoyment in the rest of the week, she needed to go. But the time was a factor. Between the wait for the shuttle, the drive to the clinic, the time to be seen, get her drugs, and return, it was very likely we would miss our dinner time. And that hurt

Aww, I know you guys were sad about that. But, even if you could've made your ADR time, I assume Lisa wouldn't have been able to eat anything (since even soda was hurting her throat), so it was unavoidable, right? I know, that doesn't make it any better. Well, I tried!

 

[drebert]

Aww, I know you guys were sad about that. But, even if you could've made your ADR time, I assume Lisa wouldn't have been able to eat anything (since even soda was hurting her throat), so it was unavoidable, right? I know, that doesn't make it any better. Well, I tried!

Well heck yeah I would've eatin'! Do you think a little thing like a sore throat would've kept me from eatin' some meat??!! Heck no! I still drank Coke (yes, I said Coke which is my drink of choice and proud of it!) even though it made me cry! It was Free Dinning after all!!!

 

[latoberg]

Well heck yeah I would've eatin'! Do you think a little thing like a sore throat would've kept me from eatin' some meat??!! Heck no! I still drank Coke (yes, I said Coke which is my drink of choice and proud of it!) even though it made me cry! It was Free Dinning after all!!!

She is beautiful and smart even if she doesn't seem logical at times.

 

[DisneyObsession]

I, too, have been to Urgent Care while in Disney. It stinks, but getting meds always makes you feel better. Hope it gets better for you Dre!

 

[NAB]

I hope you have had a grown up night out since then....

I am sure the boys loved Neverland. My kids went there in the afternoon to do crafts but we didn't check them in at night.

Our urgent care run was at WL too. Only it was my son who had a problem with his one eye in Jan. We were grateful for the shuttle service since we didn't have a car and didn't know the area.

How many days are left, being sick at Disney is no fun.

--

 

[latoberg]

Time is relative NAB. It's chapters you should be worried about.

I just got on a streak and typed out the next three parts. I'm only about two or three parts away from having the offline version finished. It should come in at 30 chapters.

The next chapter is funny stuff. And it is mostly flashback. Just to warn you in advance.

 

[sheridac]

Lacto (and Dre)!!!

I was soooo sorry to hear of the sickiness!!! But you seemed a lot better by EE Day!!!

And.

I love blue cheese. It stinks and looks like it’s ruined. So if it looks like it’s rotten and smells like it’s rotten, it probably is rotten.

This could apply to a lot of things. Take ZZUB. For example.

 

[latoberg]

So we watch Lisa wander out of the room for some unknown location with some unknown person. And I eat my sandwich. And mope. I hate missing out on O’hana. And the possibility of the Adventurer’s Club. I like the Adventurer’s Club. Mostly because it fits my sense of humor. And when we went before, I was the source of much joking and ridicule. It was great.

Flash back time. Lisa, her brother, and I were out on a grownup night out. #1S was in the one of the kid’s clubs. And we went to O’hana for dinner. Then we went over to Pleasure Island. For those who may not know, Pleasure Island is the grownups Magic Kingdom. It is the club district of Walt Disney World. When we went there 15 or so clubs that you could find more grownup entertainment. Dancing, music, and comedy were the focus. Oh and booze.

But I don’t do that. Seriously.

I had read about the Adventurer’s Club online. It was really interesting sounding. So I convinced the rest of my party to give it a whirl. Brother-in-law had another place he wanted to visit. So we took in the AC first. The AC is built with the ground level as the second floor. You have to go down stairs to really be “in” the club. There are small rooms that branch off the main salon. Periodically, the cast performs little vignettes in different rooms of the club. Much of it is scripted but there is a lot of audience interaction that makes it sort of an improvisational comedy club. Only it is themed like a 1930’s adventure club. It’s like where Indiana Jones would hang his leather coat and whip up on a peg and tell stories of his latest archaeological pursuit.

Well, we arrived just as one of the vignettes was beginning. It was taking place in the Treasure Room. Come to find out, it was a séance. Well the three of us tried to slip in, as inconspicuous as possible. But we had to sit on the seats right in the middle of the room. The cast member, who was a French maid, complete with feather duster and short dress, was leading the séance. But she needed a volunteer. She began to look around the room. But she knew there was only one person that would work. Me.

Maybe it was the bald head. Or the simple, slack jawed expression on my face that said, “Pick this Redneck”. Whatever it was, she zeroed in on me. And picked me for her mark. Of course she had to ask the standard interaction questions. What’s your name? Todd. Where you from? Oklahoma. What do you do?

Now here is an interesting moment. A French maid conducting a séance in a very well themed bar asking me what I do for a living. I said, “I’m a plumber.”

Not really. I told the truth. Straight faced even. Cause I knew it would be a riot. “I’m a pastor.” Well that opened the door for sure. There were giggles. But they only got worse. For my part in the séance, I had to put on this outrageously ugly hat. It was, in all probability, one of those straw baskets that you put flowers in with the ugly plastic flower on the front. And I had to sing some goofy song. It was the Indian Love Call. Of course, I had no clue how it went. But that didn’t matter. The joke was pretty well rolling anyway.
After we left from the séance, we wandered around to the Library and watched another vignette after which, we decided to leave out for the other club. We walked around the back way and Lisa stepped into the rest room. I was standing by the entry into the Main Salon when another character comes up behind me. I didn’t see her. But she announces to the hostess, “Look what I found in the Men’s room.” Then the French Maid appears and says, “Oh yeah, that’s Pastor Todd. We met earlier.” It seems that my most humbling moments come at the hands of women.

So you can see why I was totally bummed out about not going back. I love that place.