The Frickles Family Vacation: Every Mile a Memory; THE LAST MILE! CH 12 pg 20 6/20!

Loved the pics!

I must ask (because I read your last TR, too) -- are you now 'spoiled' by the Beach Club? Aside from the monorail to BC walk, taking in the location and amazing pool, is there no way you can return to a moderate?

We love BC, too. The pool and location are the sincher for us.

Great installment!

Thank you!!
YES, I am now super spoiled after staying at the BC! It really was perfect for us! We stayed at the Poly before our trip to POR, and for some reason the Poly just didn't WOW us like the BC did. Don't get me wrong, I loved the Poly, but I really loved the BC. The pool is the bomb-diggity! Now, the next time we visit, I've been promised a longer trip, so I am going to try a split stay I think....and half of the trip has to be at the BC!
 
Frick, I am so sorry to have not caught this sooner!

What a sweet, sweet chapter. That is the stuff that makes us all keep going back. Besides the rockin' pool, being at the back door of Epcot is the best thing about BC! I'm glad you changed your ressie and got a later seating at Chefs.

Oh, and -- we've done the MK to monorail to Epcot to loooong walk to BC as well, but it was at night. Very pretty monorail ride, and a nice cool and quiet walk. Kind of a nice way to end a long day, provided everyone's awake enough to remain on their feet.
 
FRICK!!

I am DED with the kiddie pix!! We developed about 200 dollars worth of pix JUST LIKE THAT...on our last family trip!

CHAPPIE!!! Temperence!!! :rotfl: Oh dear! I can tell you...you are absolutely CORRECTAMUNGO on that!! I can also tell you GAaristocrat can make a bangin' drink (with Frickles help of course!!!)


I am lovin' this TR here in the dead of winter...I need something to give me warm fuzzies!!
Thanks Frickles...cannot wait to see what happens next!:hippie:
 
Just thought I would turn the page for you in hopes that you come back to finish....:rolleyes1
 

Thanks for the page turn Nab!!!

kpk said:
Oh, and -- we've done the MK to monorail to Epcot to loooong walk to BC as well, but it was at night. Very pretty monorail ride, and a nice cool and quiet walk. Kind of a nice way to end a long day, provided everyone's awake enough to remain on their feet.

Now that definitely sounds a little more pleasant than our journey! I love love love Epcot at night!

Disfan3 said:
I am DED with the kiddie pix!! We developed about 200 dollars worth of pix JUST LIKE THAT...on our last family trip!

Gotta love those! We especially love the ones of his Coke. I've permanently deleted the ones of my backside...


Y'all! Thanks for bearing with me! We moved last week and I haven't had internet service for awhile! As soon as I unpack about 79 more boxes, I will be back! :yay:

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:goodvibes Better a buzz than a zzub!
Not in my book.

I liked this chapter. That I just got around to reading. Anymore, the TR board moves so fast that it's near impossible to find the ones I'm reading.

But for the long walk through EPCOT, this sounded like a really great day. Or, perhaps like Chapter 11, I received a contact buzz and I only think it was a great time. That might also explain this headache I have.

Go Dawgs indeed.

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I liked this chapter. That I just got around to reading. Anymore, the TR board moves so fast that it's near impossible to find the ones I'm reading.

That is because mine has been tossed back to about page 82.

Go Dawgs indeed.

:moped:
Did your hands shake when you typed that? Or did you throw up in your mouth a little?

Buddy! I am glad to see you! I grabbed a big spoon and a container of potato salad yesterday and I just started lala'ing because I thought of you!

Speaking of LaLa, girl put the Wii down!
 
I loved your first trip report and how you made that $100! So I was pretty happy to find another one! I'm late to arrive so I'm sure these funny parts have already been quoted many times - but I had to let you know that these made me :rotfl:

Right as we were about to pull through the gates, a ME bus blew by us. I yelled at my man to gun it because I had to beat those people in there. Like the rednecks we are, he floored it and we came to a screeching halt under the veranda and I jumped out before the car was completely stopped. I was a woman on a mission. I got stuck behind TWO busses of ME folks at POR last year, and it wasn’t going to happen to me again. I yelled at Mr. Frick to check in the luggage and for the kids to stay with their dad and I was gone.

This one made me spit my seltzer all over my keyboard:

Fish paste. It didn’t work.

And this just killed me:

She had a pimple that was covered up with make-up as thick as pancake batter and that kind of ruined the magic for me. Seriously, why I focused on that I will never know.


I'll try to catch up quick! Your boys are so cute! :)
 
Frickles! I loved reading your trip report, and I just found this one. Awesome installment. So you finally realized that it isn't all about the rides, even with kids! Good for you. We were pleasantly surprised with this fact during our vacation last July. Boys like the shows as well. :confused3 Who knew!

Can't wait for the next update!
 
CJsMom and Dismorgh!!! Y'all are so sweet to drop by and post on my poor neglected tr! I'm always surprised when people come back for more after reading the first! What is wrong with y'all!!! Seriously, I'm glad you are here! Thanks for your kind words!

My life is almost, and I mean almost, back to normal! I hope to have a new update soon. Well, as soon as I can get the wireless connection going on my laptop because that is where all of my loverly pictures are...and I can't write without my pictures!!!

I'm off to watch the horrible auditions for American Idol. It is the only part I really like!
 
Frickles, you rock! I just LOVE the way you write! You are so annimated and just plain FUNNY! You should seriously think about writing children's books!!!

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Frickles, you rock! I just LOVE the way you write! You are so annimated and just plain FUNNY! You should seriously think about writing children's books!!!

:cool1:

Frick...that's a great idea!!!
Write some kids books!!!
 
Veals and Pongo, I love children's books! But, there are some pretty darn corny children's books out there. Believe me, I know because I used to teach 1st grade and kindergarten and after suffering through some, I often thought that I could do better than that! I'll take your advice and stick it in my back pocket for later. ;)

Veals I see you are headed to DISNEY in ONE day! Have a big time and hopefully you'll have low crowds and great weather!!!!
 
Well here I sit in my new house. Everything has been unpacked, put away and found…except for my trip report notes. I have a lovely Vera Bradley notebook that I cherish and jot all kinds of important stuff in. It is beautiful. It is overpriced. It is one of those things that I just had to have. I hope it isn’t in a dumpster with all the crap toys from Happy Meals, Mr. Frick’s holey (not holy) socks, chewed up sippy cup lids and my 15 year old t-shirts that I finally parted with. What I’m trying to say is this, I’m going to have to wing it and try my best to remember what happened. I may pull a HappyHaunt or two, but I’m going to give it a whirl.

We woke up to our third day of Disney with no plans whatsoever other than a late breakfast at Chef Mickey’s. I was up first and the boys got up with me. We quietly got dressed, grabbed some juice and granola bars to snack on, and left Mr. Frick to have a good little sleep in. In my agenda for the day that I had planned out in April, I had us rising early and riding EE before our breakfast. I ditched that idea the night before since we were up so late eating at Chef’s and watching Nemo on the beach. I am glad that I am finally at the point where I can do that. Control Freak Fricky who sometimes can not veer from the plan had disappeared and we were going with the flow.

I knew exactly where I wanted to have our pre-breakfast snack and that was in the rocking chairs right out the back door of the Beach Club. The view is so beautiful there and it was time for us to just sit, rock, snack and talk. The boys and I had such a good time. We people watched. To me, Disney is the best place for some good people watching. The mall just can’t hold a candle to Disney for this sport. I saw so many families rushing to make it somewhere…maybe a park opening, maybe an ADR, maybe a bathroom. I checked out how much gear people pile on themselves for a day of fun. I snickered at the Daddies who were ten steps behind the commando Mommies pushing the strollers. I ooohed and ahhhed over the little tots decked out in princess dresses or blinged out Disney gear. Boy it was nice just to sit back and soak it all in. I reminded our boys just how lucky they were to be there.


After we sat a spell, we headed in to explore the gift shop. The lobby was packed with people waiting for Cape May. As we made our way through, we spotted something utterly amazing. It was a table with two MouseKeepers making towel animals for the children. Say wha? Add another reason to the list of why I love the BC. The boys got in line and ended up getting the towel animal of their desire. We watched them snip off the towel tags and begin the magical transformation of a simple towel to a turtle! They beat the pants off of Kool-Aid the clown who hits a different restaurant in our town every night and twists balloons into fancy shapes. This was so cool because it has always been sooooo mysterious and, as we all know, not everyone gets a towel animal. Here we were walking away with TWO! (Zzub, I know you are getting worked up over there.)


We visited the gift shop and I bought the boys another souvenir for their Crocs. We picked out some things that we wanted to come back and get later when money bags was with us and before we knew it, our morning was gone. It was time for my favorite breakfast ever cooked by my favorite mouse! My kids still don't understand how Mickey can cook for everybody and be at the MK moments later. We went back to the room and grabbed our gear and Mr. Frick, who was grateful that I didn’t yank his tail out of bed to go and ride a roller coaster with a bunch of animals around.


We decided to drive our car to the Contemporary and we made it there without getting lost. Before we knew it, we were in line to check in and declining an offer to have our picture made between the big plates with the BIG spoon and forks. I’m so over that for some reason.


The place was as busy as a grocery store in the south with a threat of snow. We found some lovely chairs to sit in and we enjoyed watching some really old Mickey cartoons. I’m not joshing when I said we enjoyed it. I mean we really had a nice time with the great view, a refreshed Mr. Frick, our calm and not whiny children and the precious cartoon, that my kids had never seen, of all our favorite Disney characters.



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We enjoyed ourselves for a good twenty minutes. Now listen, I would have been ill if we had a tight schedule or a place to be, but we didn’t so I was able to relax and take it all in.

Breakfast was super. How could you not love this!



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Or this!



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Well look at that. Apparently, we also snapped a picture of a ghost.


I got all brave again and decided to possibly irritate the CM working the Minnie costume to get my picture with her. I’m still a little girl at heart and I didn’t get to eat breakfast with her when I was little. I wonder if they ever look at us adults who make their kids sit while we get our photo ALONE with them like we are craaaazeeee. Probably so. Unfortunately, I will not be framing this one and putting it on my desk.


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After our fun and outstandingly good breakfast, we came up with a game plan for the rest of the day. It was our MNSSHP night and we were free until 6:00. Lil Frick really wanted to ride TT again and Stitch wanted to visit Animal Kingdom. I was game to ride EE and Mr. Frick was game to ride TT, so we split up. We were going to ride the bus to AK and Mr & lil Frick were going to hop on the monorail to Epcot. We decided to leave our car at the Contemp because we would be back to get it after MNSSHP. Of course we weren’t really thinking about how we would get TO the MK since the busses were out of question for a certain diva. But that story is for later.


Stitch and I made our way to the bus stop, but before we got outside we made a pit stop. As we were washing our hands, I was reminded of ‘the girl’. LaLa, I know how happy they make her, so this picture is for her.



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Isn’t it great when you are at Disney and a trip report, that someone has worked so hard to bring forth for our enjoyment, enters your mind. That little sink made me just as happy as it did for ‘the girl’ because I was reminded of a sweet friend. Of course Stitch looked at me like I was crazy and as we exited the restroom. I giggled to myself over the fact that I was so excited to be taking a picture of the bathroom. Add that to the list of the dorky things the Dis has compelled me to do. ;)
 
Congrats on getting settled into your new house!

I was pretty psyched to wake up this morning and see a new TR installment. Pretty awesome!
 
They beat the pants off of Kool-Aid the clown who hits a different restaurant in our town every night and twists balloons into fancy shapes.

I'm not sure which fact is more disturbing -- that you live in a town where this is considered acceptable entertainment at the obviously fine dining establishments you frequent, or that you actually are on a first-name basis with the clown.

Add that to the list of the dorky things the Dis has compelled me to do.

One suspects there was a certain latent tendency towards doing dorky things anyway. I mean, did the DIS compel you to take a picture of that nasty ham you're always flinging about?

Thanks for the installment -- it's a Frickles Friday.
 
Frickles! Great update! Hope you find your notebook soon. :sad2:

Isn't it nice to relax on vacation, instead of rushing around and stressing? We are going to try the relaxing one this year. We rushed a bit last year, and we were wiped out in a few days. Never again!

Good to see ya back! :thumbsup2
 












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