DIS Dads The DIS Dad's Club VII - Oh Peanut Butter...

[Rental01]

Ive have been that exact week. last December. I will never again go in December. It was frigid. Im from Denver so Im familiar with frigid, but this was a very unfriendly type of frigid!

<-- Coloradan who lives in NC so I know what you mean. That was my fear.

a) If'n we do this, what should I expect for crowd levels compared to something off-season but near a major holiday (so I have something that I can relate to my wife)?
Crowd levels were awesome but refer to my first statement and I think you will understand why

Hmm... I'm thinking I need to just plan it like we did last year.

b) Weather - do I need a big jacket? Really? It's Florida. I mean, if we do CSR (and we will), will it be too cold for my son to play at the pool?
Jackets were a must bring! Pool was out of the question!

See my response above.

c) Is the MVMCP worth the cost?
Yes it was fun. Not as fun as MNSSHP but still fun. The hot chocolate and cookies were a blessing to fight off the cold ( think I metnioned that already)

And buy tickets for this! They usually setup for this just before we get there in November.

Edit: page 157 OWNAGE!

 

[Rental01]

Just a thought while we at work were in conversation earlier - I submit a new proposal for a MAN LAW:

Every dad, if not every man should own at least one bottle of super glue.

Corollary: It should also have a brush so it doesn't run everywhere and fuse things that you didn't want to stick together like fingers or, well, anything.

For reference, my wife has a retainer that cost us $1,300 (we didn't have insurance at the time) and it's broken three times. Superglue fixed that and saved me enough to go to Disney twice. WITH my family.

Dads? What say you?

 

[afwdwfan]

Just a thought while we at work were in conversation earlier - I submit a new proposal for a MAN LAW:

Every dad, if not every man should own at least one bottle of super glue.

Corollary: It should also have a brush so it doesn't run everywhere and fuse things that you didn't want to stick together like fingers or, well, anything.

For reference, my wife has a retainer that cost us $1,300 (we didn't have insurance at the time) and it's broken three times. Superglue fixed that and saved me enough to go to Disney twice. WITH my family.

Dads? What say you?

I'll second that, but with the addition of Duck Tape and JB Weld to the list of "fix anything" adhesives.

 

[Captain_Oblivious]

If you do the Kitchen Sink again too frequently, all you're going to have left is A heartbeat.

Uh oh, my heart stopped!


















Ah, there it goes.

 

[Captain_Oblivious]

I'll second that, but with the addition of Duck Tape and JB Weld to the list of "fix anything" adhesives.

Throw in a little WD-40 and you can fix just about any problem known to man.

 

[Rental01]

Throw in a little WD-40 and you can fix just about any problem known to man.

And baling wire - you can use that stuff for anything.

 

[afwdwfan]

And baling wire - you can use that stuff for anything.

How could I have forgotten about that??? I use that stuff all the time.

 

[afwdwfan]

Throw in a little WD-40 and you can fix just about any problem known to man.

If you have a toolbox with a hammer, WD-40 and duck tape in it and you find something that you can't fix, it is time to turn in the man card.

 

[DisneyFed]

2011-03-21
FORT MILL, S.C. — Drivers near the South Carolina-North Carolina state line have been warned to be on the lookout for zombies, hunters and tanks.
.The Herald of Rock Hill reports that one of the electronic signs, which normally flash messages about construction or crashes, read "Zombies Ahead" on Sunday

Alright alright, I really wanted to put that I stole it from our last Kilimajaro Safari ride, but the truth is, I had a friend in high school who's family raised ostrich's. They would sell them for meat ( they thought it was going to be all the rage, it wasn't). I decided to sneak into the cages one night, and found a very angry mother. I was able to get away and swiped an egg in the process. We cut a small hole, drained it and shellacked (sp?) the thing. Still keep it as a war trophy! !

as a funny side note, I had my oldest daughter convinced when she was little that mommy laid eggs, and that it was the shell she came out of, we just glued it back together. My wife was not happy with me when she found out, and when my daughter told everyone at pre school that mommy lays eggs.




Awesome, I have put together a zombie squad at work. We have a training day planned one afternoon at a paintball range, to see who can make it in the club.

One of the other benefits of living here.


Hate that I missed that, I was on the highway last night but I was traveling north away from Rock Hill so I wouldn't have seen it anyway. I guarantee that I’d have pulled over and snapped a picture of that one.

Where did you run a cross that tid-bit. I can’t imagine that anyone who didn’t live down this way would even have heard of the Rock Hill Herald.

It was on msnbc's website

Zombie Outbreak Response Team has been activated....we are standing by for direction...

It's also on my Facebook page from the Charleston (SC) Post and Courier...

No sightings yet...

 

[sushibite]

2011-03-21
FORT MILL, S.C. — Drivers near the South Carolina-North Carolina state line have been warned to be on the lookout for zombies, hunters and tanks.
.The Herald of Rock Hill reports that one of the electronic signs, which normally flash messages about construction or crashes, read "Zombies Ahead" on Sunday

I use to live around there. I guess it is not the same sleepy town it was a few years back. More dead now than before

 

[FreezinRafiki]

If you have a toolbox with a hammer, WD-40 and duck tape in it and you find something that you can't fix, it is time to turn in the man card.

Nope. If you find something you can't fix, that just means it don't need fixin'

 

[BigTex71]

2) We usually go to Disney the week before the week that Thanksgiving falls on and have had great success - until last year. There were a jillion people and it was really annoying. Esp for ex-Floridians. We're thinking this year of going from 12/9-12/16 which should save us dollars and (maybe?) the crowd levels. My question is if it's a good time to go. When we usually go the weather is still pretty warm and it never rains. Last time we were there for 10days (11/12-11/21) and it didn't rain once. It was also nearly shorts weather the whole time (50s in the AM, 65 by 10-11a, then 70s in the afternoon). I've read through the TRs of the DisDads who made the early Dec meet and greet last year and it looked down right chilly on some of those days. So my three questions packed in one:

We went Jan 28 - Feb 6 this year and it was the best trip we have had. The weather was awesome - it rained only once (part of the last full day there) and the weather was in the 70s during the day and 50s at night. the crowds were nonexistent. I highly recommend that times of year if you can go then.

 

[Rental01]

Zombie Outbreak Response Team has been activated....we are standing by for direction...

It's also on my Facebook page from the Charleston (SC) Post and Courier...

No sightings yet...

Snapped this last June near my house. I was armed and ready but they never showed their undead faces on my block - it's nice to see they're moving on.

We went Jan 28 - Feb 6 this year and it was the best trip we have had. The weather was awesome - it rained only once (part of the last full day there) and the weather was in the 70s during the day and 50s at night. the crowds were nonexistent. I highly recommend that times of year if you can go then.

We've got a thing about going in the beginning of the year - it's better for us to go near the end. We can call it "tradition" because I'm not big on the term "superstition".

 

[FreezinRafiki]

We've got a thing about going in the beginning of the year - it's better for us to go near the end. We can call it "tradition" because I'm not big on the term "superstition".

Check out http://www.wunderground.com/tripplanner/index.asp?MR=1. You give it a location and a date range, it will spit out average high, low, etc and give you all of the daily weather data for as far back as the site has records (usually at least 10 years, depending on the location.) We've gone the first week of December three times now. Looking back at my pictures I've seen us in everything from swim trunks to bundled up in 2 sweatshirts, a jacket, a stocking cap and a blanket. So while it may say the average high for that time of year is 71 degrees, cold spells can and do happen.

 

[DisDadDoc]

Ive have been that exact week. last December. I will never again go in December. It was frigid. Im from Denver so Im familiar with frigid, but this was a very unfriendly type of frigid!

I have to disagree. It can be cold, but it is not too bad (light jacket with short-sleeve shirt) and having the crowds so light is a big plus. We did the pool several times during our December trip.

The only caveat to light crowds is that the restaurants are mobbed with locals seeing the decorations. So although there's no wait on the rides, the dining reservations can be tough.


c) Is the MVMCP worth the cost?
Yes it was fun. Not as fun as MNSSHP but still fun. The hot chocolate and cookies were a blessing to fight off the cold ( think I metnioned that already)

Totally agree with this. Fun, but not as good as MNSSHP.

Every dad, if not every man should own at least one bottle of super glue.

Dads? What say you?

Yes!!!! And although it is a little girly, also a hot glue gun. If duct tape can't fix it, a glu gun can. Those things have saved my butt at Pinewood Derby (dries so much faster than super glue).

Zombie Outbreak Response Team has been activated....we are standing by for direction...

It's also on my Facebook page from the Charleston (SC) Post and Courier...

No sightings yet...

Thanks for keeping us up to speed, Fed! Please let me know if you need reinforcements and I'll start heading south.

 

[DisDadDoc]

NCAA Tourney Update

So after 2 full rounds, we have:

Place - Name (points)
1 - My Princess's Pick ( 45 )
1 - DisDadDoc ( 45 )
1 - Tiger Town ( 45 )
4 - middlepat's Double Dribble ( 44 )
5 - Silvermist ( 43 )
6 - Phineas to Ezra to Gus ( 42 )
6 - DisDr. ( 42 )
6 - DW's Ball Bustin' Bracket ( 42 )
6 - Hoop de Dunk Revue ( 42 )
10 - Taxidermy Tech Jr. (Michael) ( 41 )
10 - wasnotafanb ( 41 )
10 - Swish Mountain ( 41 )
10 - Prince Ali-Oop ( 41 )
14 - Blissey ( 40 )
14 - You Can't Hear Over My Bracket ( 40 )
14 - The Hatter Has March Madness ( 40 )
17 - Chip and Dale can dunk on me ( 39 )
17 - da bulls ( 39 )
17 - D2's Winner ( 39 )
17 - Dunkin' Donalds (that's nice) ( 39 )
17 - Taxidermy Tech (Kevin) ( 39 )
22 - Flubberiffic ( 38 )
22 - Stitch ( 38 )
22 - Shots in the Dark ( 38 )
22 - wasnotafan ( 38 )
22 - He Can't Buy A Bucket! ( 38 )
27 - Daniel & The Pirates ( 36 )
27 - Bay Lake Bombers ( 36 )
27 - blockhead's son ( 36 )
30 - Captain Hook Shot ( 35 )
30 - billybobblockhead ( 35 )
30 - Mexgar ( 35 )
33 - Nittany Lion King ( 34 )
34 - Boiler Up! ( 33 )
34 - Flights of Jayhawks ( 33 )
36 - I see Heffalumps and Woozles ( 29 )
36 - Squeaker's Great Escape ( 29 )

Remember that the later rounds are worth more, so we're still likely to have shakeup here!

 

[GoHerd1028]

I never could get my browser to display the grid so that it was not superimposed on itself so I never got to enter

As far as the nascar thing...I have broken down and put Bobby Labonte on my team for this week as well as other major changes to see if that might help to change things around for me.

 

[Mipatn]

Zombie Outbreak Response Team has been activated....we are standing by for direction...

It's also on my Facebook page from the Charleston (SC) Post and Courier...

No sightings yet...

Snapped this last June near my house. I was armed and ready but they never showed their undead faces on my block - it's nice to see they're moving on.

QUOTE]

Fed, it would seem that they are moving south.
In other words....... Moving YOUR WAY

 

[DisneyDaddy-O]

Hey everyone!!

First off welcome to all the new dads!! I know it has been a while since I have been on here, I do get to sneak in and check out what is going on every once in a while though.

I hope everyone is doing well.

I go and open a restaurant and this is what happens.......

Numerous new threads, an ever growing disdads website, 2 podcast episodes, literally hundreds of new members, meets, and more than I can see in the pages I have yet to catch up on, which seems like an impossibility at this point.

PEANUT BUTTER CRUD!!! Is all I can say.

Life has been crazy, the restaurant is all consuming, we did get to go DW in Jan and was awesome. My cousin who came with us last Jan was a first timer then went again this Feb and decided to upgrade his tickets to AP's and then went again 3weeks later. He came back and said he can't wait to go back!!
I love it when they get sucked up into the abyss that is Disney.

So what else is new....

I have a question for any of our great dads that may be in the food service industry. I have a catering job Wednesday at lunch serving 85 people. I need to cook a basic rice pilaf, have any of you cooked a large quantity of rice in the oven. What is the ratio between water and rice and how long do you cook it for. For some reason rice and I don't get along.

I have checked on line and found a bunch of websites that have ideas but I was hoping for some real time experience.

Rice...what was I thinking.....I couldn't have said potatoes!

 

[DisneyDaddy-O]

Oh ya forgot to mention, my back deck collapsed from the weight of the snow and ice this winter, called the insurance company and they gave me the run around for about 3 hours and then finally after they realized I was not going away they are sending an adjuster out tomorrow to look at the damage.

Looks like I am building a new deck this summer.....