The Most Expensive Free Trip Ever - TR Link is Up! Pg. 164

[All7OfUs]

OK, I am already LOVING this!!! I don't have time this AM to read the whole thing, but I got as far as "embellish" and can tell you ---- I am SOOO in for this!! Embellishment is the best part!!!

 

[Flossbolna]

How wonderful! Another flscgback report!!

Very funny story about the alarm!

Oh and I checked out the pasticcio recipe: Is this really a pie with pasta baked inside? This sounds rather strange, but you say it tastes good?

 

[carissanboys]

Oh man! How embarrassing! One reason why I'm glad we don't have a car alarm.

How come Judy went in to the get the food? I thought the whole purpose of Sonic was that they bring it out to your car?? We have one right next to ours and we've only been to it once.

 

[All7OfUs]

That's a hiliarious story!! I had to crack up that you got mad at Judy for "doing it", like it was all her fault. I can totally see that being played out!

"What'd ya go and do that for??!"

"I didn't do anything!"

"You must have hit something!"

"DAD!! Let's go!!"

On and on.... Too funny!

Do you really save receipts from 5 years ago from eating out?? Ummmm... just asking....


This reminds me that Sonic has THE BEST, knock your socks off tropical flavored yogurt smoothie freeze thingy. YUMMMMMMMMM!!!!

 

[glennbo123]

OK, I am already LOVING this!!! I don't have time this AM to read the whole thing, but I got as far as "embellish" and can tell you ---- I am SOOO in for this!! Embellishment is the best part!!!

I think the first story is a pretty good one, even if I do say so myself.

How wonderful! Another flscgback report!!

Very funny story about the alarm!

Oh and I checked out the pasticcio recipe: Is this really a pie with pasta baked inside? This sounds rather strange, but you say it tastes good?

Basically yes. It's a pie crust (with lemon zest in it that just makes it so good) with tortellini pasta in it and meatballs and bolognese sauce (meat sauce). You will in no way confuse it with a dessert pie.

Oh man! How embarrassing! One reason why I'm glad we don't have a car alarm.

That's what WE thought! (that we didn't have a car alarm.)

How come Judy went in to the get the food? I thought the whole purpose of Sonic was that they bring it out to your car?? We have one right next to ours and we've only been to it once.

I'm not sure exactly. I guess we were having trouble figuring out the system. It was our first and last time ever eating at one. (Not that the alarm thing was their fault, but we've never been back.)

That's a hiliarious story!! I had to crack up that you got mad at Judy for "doing it", like it was all her fault. I can totally see that being played out!

I'm glad you caught that, I wasn't sure how it would come across in the writing. I needed somebody to be mad at, but at the same time I knew it wasn't Judy's fault. It's a man thing. I'm sure you've seen examples of it in your own life.

"What'd ya go and do that for??!"

"I didn't do anything!"

"You must have hit something!"

"DAD!! Let's go!!"

On and on.... Too funny!

Pretty much. Followed by "keep looking through the owner's manual to see if you can find anything" as we drive down the interstate.

Do you really save receipts from 5 years ago from eating out?? Ummmm... just asking....

Not usually, but I have folders of some of our vacation materials (touring plans, Sea World etickets, hotel reservation confirmations), and with this one I was particularly watching our spending as we went along, keeping a running total. I had trouble finding this one. It was at work, amongst some old text books and stuff.

This reminds me that Sonic has THE BEST, knock your socks off tropical flavored yogurt smoothie freeze thingy. YUMMMMMMMMM!!!!

Sounds good, but I don't know that I'll ever stop to try one after the negative reinforcement (very B.F. Skinner-esque) I received the last time.

 

[dd50]

Now that is funny. If I was parked next to you I would have really thought you were a bunch of idiots. It must have been a really funny site on 95.

 

[glennbo123]

Now that is funny. If I was parked next to you I would have really thought you were a bunch of idiots. It must have been a really funny site on 95.

I'm pretty sure that's what our friendly neighbors thought! I forgot to put in the write-up that some teenagers yelled at us as we drove around the Sonic to leave. I couldn't make out what they were saying above our car horn.

 

[All7OfUs]

I think the first story is a pretty good one, even if I do say so myself.

Yeah, it was!!

I'm glad you caught that, I wasn't sure how it would come across in the writing. I needed somebody to be mad at, but at the same time I knew it wasn't Judy's fault. It's a man thing. I'm sure you've seen examples of it in your own life.

I think it came across just as intended. Glad there wasn't a dog around. Not that you'd really actually kick a dog, like I've been known to do.

Yeah, it's a man thing. Men get irritated verbally and women sulk- generally speaking, of course.

Pretty much. Followed by "keep looking through the owner's manual to see if you can find anything" as we drive down the interstate.

BEEEEEEP BEEEEEP, BWEEEW, BWEEEEW, rauh, ruah. honk, honk, HOOOOOOOOOONK. BEEEEEP, BEEEEEEP, BWEEEW.....

Not usually, but I have folders of some of our vacation materials (touring plans, Sea World etickets, hotel reservation confirmations), and with this one I was particularly watching our spending as we went along, keeping a running total. I had trouble finding this one. It was at work, amongst some old text books and stuff. .

Just wondering. Glad it came in handy this time. I think in our house, it would have hit the circular file long before. Actually, I got in BIG trouble a while back for tossing the owner's manual for the vacuum cleaner. Of course, it blew up (almost literally) and Mike needed the stupid instructions. Whatever...

Sounds good, but I don't know that I'll ever stop to try one after the negative reinforcement (very B.F. Skinner-esque) I received the last time.[/QUOTE]

Psych 101. Ah the retched memories. I had to hear all about Skinner in my Elem. Ed. classes on top of the blah, blah, blah in Psych.

 

[FauntleroyFAN07]

i bet people were getting out of your way on the highway driving thinking that you were on the way to a emergency or some sort.

u should have kept setting it off, you would have made it to disney in no time.

 

[hucifer]

I don't have time this AM to read the whole thing, but I got as far as "embellish" and can tell you ---- I am SOOO in for this!! Embellishment is the best part!!!

Yep. And knowing Glenn, he is NOT going to let us down.

Do you really save receipts from 5 years ago from eating out?? Ummmm... just asking....

I was wondering the same dang thing. I'm all, "Who saves fast food receipts?" Then I'm all, "I bet his house is filled with them."


I keep picturing a panic-filled family jumping into their screaming vehicle and taking off down the road. That is funny stuff right there.

Glenn, I can only hope this is a mere taste of the hilarity we will read about during your summer trip report. So make sure you stir things up once in a while if things get boring. Do it for your readers.

Sincerely,
Hucifer
President of The Glennbo Groupies Gang

 

[All7OfUs]

Sincerely,
Hucifer
President of The Glennbo Groupies Gang

Are you sure you're not the Alliteration As Art Associate?

 

[Mommy2LittleVols]

Going through my receipts I came across one from this first travel day that stirred quite a memory. It was for Sonic, at 6:45 pm. This story would not have made it into this trip report had I not run across that receipt. I remember the story vividly but I didn’t remember that it took place on this trip. Here goes. After driving all day and sitting through several traffic jams we were in South Carolina and finally making good time, but the kids were getting hungry, starving for dinner. I wanted to at least get to Georgia before we stopped for the night, but I had to do my parental duty and feed these kids so I took an exit and pulled into a Sonic. As you probably know, you eat your food in your car at one of these places. We put in our order and the kids were out stretching their legs on the sidewalk and Judy went to get our food. I was sitting in the driver’s seat with the windows down, but somewhere, somehow, a button got bumped and the doors locked. Judy came back with our food, saw the doors were locked, so she reached through the open window and opened the door from inside. Immediately, the alarm system on our Honda Odyssey van went off. The horn was repeatedly honking and the lights were flashing. Trouble was, we didn’t know that we had an alarm system on our Honda Odyssey van! Naturally, I was mad at Judy for foolishly setting off the alarm system that neither of us knew we had. I grabbed the owners manual out of the glove box and started to frantically look through it to find out how to turn the dumb thing off. It was no help. Of course, we had other Sonic customers parked right beside us on both sides and across the sidewalk on the other side. Everyone was looking at us , imploring us to turn the infernal racket off. I tried turning the car on. It started, but did nothing to stop the alarm. I yelled at the kids to get in the car because we’re getting out of here. I backed out of our parking spot and drove all the way around the Sonic, with the horn blaring and the lights flashing, got back on the road and back on I-95. The alarm continued to go off as we drove down I-95 and finally shut off after 5 or 10 minutes. We all breathed a sigh of relief and were glad to have that incident behind us. Then an hour later we pulled into a Hampton Inn in Darien Georgia to see if they had any vacancies. I pulled up to the portico and Judy and the kids got out. Then I shut off the van and the alarm started again! Somehow Judy had the idea to try her key fob and hit the lock/unlock button. Ahhh, silence. She brilliantly figured out how to silence the car alarm we didn’t know we had.

Oh my goodness, I am laughing so hard at this story!! We also have a Honda Odyssey and the same thing has happened to us a few times, and every single time it takes us what seems like forever to figure out how to turn the darn thing off.

Great flashback TR!

 

[glennbo123]

Psych 101. Ah the retched memories. I had to hear all about Skinner in my Elem. Ed. classes on top of the blah, blah, blah in Psych.

That's about all I remember, Skinner and Behaviorism. Oh, and I had to read a very interesting book on Freud.

i bet people were getting out of your way on the highway driving thinking that you were on the way to a emergency or some sort.

I should have had Judy act like she was going into labor or something.

u should have kept setting it off, you would have made it to disney in no time.

Good idea!

Yep. And knowing Glenn, he is NOT going to let us down.

Oh the pressure that goes with all of the adulation!

I was wondering the same dang thing. I'm all, "Who saves fast food receipts?" Then I'm all, "I bet his house is filled with them."

We have our share of clutter.

I keep picturing a panic-filled family jumping into their screaming vehicle and taking off down the road. That is funny stuff right there.

That's pretty much exactly what happened.

Glenn, I can only hope this is a mere taste of the hilarity we will read about during your summer trip report. So make sure you stir things up once in a while if things get boring. Do it for your readers.

I hope you're not suggesting that I make something up....

Sincerely,
Hucifer
President of The Glennbo Groupies Gang

I am so glad that all my groupies got together and appointed a spokesperson!

Are you sure you're not the Alliteration As Art Associate?

Hmmmm, Associate doesn't sound lofty enough for this prestigious office.

Oh my goodness, I am laughing so hard at this story!! We also have a Honda Odyssey and the same thing has happened to us a few times, and every single time it takes us what seems like forever to figure out how to turn the darn thing off.

Great flashback TR!

Julia, I'm so glad you chimed-in to let me know that we're not the only ones. It was cra-zee!

 

[hucifer]

Are you sure you're not the Alliteration As Art Associate?

You found my membership card! I've been looking everywhere for it. Did you find it next to the 1976 Burger King receipt in Glenn's basement?

Oh the pressure that goes with all of the adulation!

Don't dissapoint your Groupies, Glenn.

We have our share of clutter.

Will we be seeing you on an episode of Hoarders pretty soon?

I hope you're not suggesting that I make something up....

Hell no. I'm asking you to pinch a cast member or vomit on Tower of Terror or buy a $10 Mickey Head balloon and let it go if it's a slow park day.

I am so glad that all my groupies got together and appointed a spokesperson!

Actually, it was sort of self-appointed. I hope the rest of your Groupies don't mind.

Hmmmm, Associate doesn't sound lofty enough for this prestigious office.

It's for a different organization entirely. Not EVERYTHING has to do with YOU, Glenn.

 

[Tribilín]

Wow! One chapter from your flashback TR and you have 2 pages of posts already!

Absolutely hilarious! That was one of those moments for

"You know this is going to be a chaotic trip when... "

 

[FairyGodmotherJen]

Too funny! Hopefully, we don't have quite as eventfull a drive down to Disney this year!!!

I'm with Dan - if you had kept it up, you'd have gotten to Disney faster!

 

[glennbo123]

You found my membership card! I've been looking everywhere for it. Did you find it next to the 1976 Burger King receipt in Glenn's basement?

Hey, watch it.

Don't dissapoint your Groupies, Glenn.

I'll try not to. And "disappoint" is spelled with 1 "s" and 2 "p's".

Will we be seeing you on an episode of Hoarders pretty soon?

I don't think so, you've got to be ready to get help first.

Hell no. I'm asking you to pinch a cast member or vomit on Tower of Terror or buy a $10 Mickey Head balloon and let it go if it's a slow park day.

Oh, on the upcoming trip. I thought you were talking about this flashback TR. Okay, you've given me some good ideas for the slow times.

Actually, it was sort of self-appointed. I hope the rest of your Groupies don't mind.

I think I heard some rumblings of a coup.

It's for a different organization entirely. Not EVERYTHING has to do with YOU, Glenn.

Whoa, I'm certainly not used to that!

Wow! One chapter from your flashback TR and you have 2 pages of posts already!

Absolutely hilarious! That was one of those moments for

"You know this is going to be a chaotic trip when... "

I'm here to entertain Trib. I'm glad you're laughing with me, not at me. You are laughing with me, aren't you?

Too funny! Hopefully, we don't have quite as eventfull a drive down to Disney this year!!!

I'm with Dan - if you had kept it up, you'd have gotten to Disney faster!

I hope so too, for your sake. Travel is better when it's uneventful.

 

[FairyGodmotherJen]

I had to log in again and tell you that there's some poor family in our neighborhood whose car alarm is currently going off for the seventh time tonight since I got home at 6. I thought of you and had to laugh...on one hand, at least they're not barreling down the highway...but on the other hand, the people surrounding them right now know who they are!

 

[Blueyed Girl]

Okay, it seems like it’s time for another flashback trip report. This one will be similar to our upcoming trip because it was also a PChef incentive trip to Disney, back in 2005. I started writing this trip report from just the pictures and was having a lot of trouble. But then I was very fortunate to find my folder of receipts from this trip! I have gone through the dates and times on the receipts, and like the FBI tracking the cross-country trip of a love-starved diaper-wearing female astronaut, I have pieced together our whereabouts and it has brought a few more stories to mind! So I’ve had to go back through what I had written and re-write, correct, add, and embellish.

This is what our schedule looked like:
Sat. June 18 Drive most of the way (turned out to be Darien, GA)
Sun. June 19 Arrive Sheraton Vistana
Mon. June 20 Sea World
Tue. June 21 Magic Kingdom
Wed. June 22 Timeshare tour / Epcot
Thu. June 23 Check-in POR, Animal Kingdom
Fri. June 24 MGM
Sat. June 25 Magic Kingdom / PChef event at MGM in evening
Sun. June 26 Check-out POR / Drive to DSiL’s home

For this trip we drove down , which means interstate 95 most of the way. Where I-95 is 4 or 5 lanes in each direction, or even 3, it flows nicely. But when it goes to 2 lanes, it can come to a crawl, and we did fairly often. You can be in a completely rural area, with nothing around, no commerce, no merging traffic, no accident to cause rubbernecking, but traffic will just come to a crawl. I don’t understand why there are any portions of I-95 that are only 2 lanes. It’s the main artery along the east coast! Okay, rant over. I can see I’m getting myself all worked up. Maybe that’s why we fly now.

Anyway, with this trip, we got 3 park days courtesy of PChef, and we added a couple on at the beginning. To go along with the park days, we also had lodging provided by PChef at Port Orleans Riverside. A while before the trip, while we were pondering a few extra days, I received a promotional mailing from the Sheraton Vistana, an offsite timeshare place, that would rent us a 2 bedroom suite for a few days at a pretty low price in exchange for us taking a tour of their timeshare offerings one morning. We decided to try it.

On the first day of the drive we planned to drive as far as we could get, hopefully somewhere well over halfway, before stopping to get a hotel room. I didn’t make a reservation because I had no telling where we’d get. I think I did research possible hotels we could stay at along I-95 in southern South Carolina and Georgia. It turns out we made it to Darien Georgia, which put a good chunk of geography behind us. I wanted to get most of the driving done on the first day, so we wouldn’t be completely whooped when we pulled in to Disney. Plus, Florida is such a big state. You hit the state line and you’re thinking “Yeah, we’re here!” But then you still have hours and hours to drive.

Going through my receipts I came across one from this first travel day that stirred quite a memory. It was for Sonic, at 6:45 pm. This story would not have made it into this trip report had I not run across that receipt. I remember the story vividly but I didn’t remember that it took place on this trip. Here goes. After driving all day and sitting through several traffic jams we were in South Carolina and finally making good time, but the kids were getting hungry, starving for dinner. I wanted to at least get to Georgia before we stopped for the night, but I had to do my parental duty and feed these kids so I took an exit and pulled into a Sonic. As you probably know, you eat your food in your car at one of these places. We put in our order and the kids were out stretching their legs on the sidewalk and Judy went to get our food. I was sitting in the driver’s seat with the windows down, but somewhere, somehow, a button got bumped and the doors locked. Judy came back with our food, saw the doors were locked, so she reached through the open window and opened the door from inside. Immediately, the alarm system on our Honda Odyssey van went off. The horn was repeatedly honking and the lights were flashing. Trouble was, we didn’t know that we had an alarm system on our Honda Odyssey van! Naturally, I was mad at Judy for foolishly setting off the alarm system that neither of us knew we had. I grabbed the owners manual out of the glove box and started to frantically look through it to find out how to turn the dumb thing off. It was no help. Of course, we had other Sonic customers parked right beside us on both sides and across the sidewalk on the other side. Everyone was looking at us , imploring us to turn the infernal racket off. I tried turning the car on. It started, but did nothing to stop the alarm. I yelled at the kids to get in the car because we’re getting out of here. I backed out of our parking spot and drove all the way around the Sonic, with the horn blaring and the lights flashing, got back on the road and back on I-95. The alarm continued to go off as we drove down I-95 and finally shut off after 5 or 10 minutes. We all breathed a sigh of relief and were glad to have that incident behind us. Then an hour later we pulled into a Hampton Inn in Darien Georgia to see if they had any vacancies. I pulled up to the portico and Judy and the kids got out. Then I shut off the van and the alarm started again! Somehow Judy had the idea to try her key fob and hit the lock/unlock button. Ahhh, silence. She brilliantly figured out how to silence the car alarm we didn’t know we had.

I can picture the car flying down I-95 with the horn and lights going crazy. Too funny!!!

Just one thing..... don't you find it completely comforting that NO COPS tried to pull you over??? I mean, what if your car really had been stolen?

 

[All7OfUs]

Ummm.... why is this on page 2?? Isn't that the job of the GGG to keep it where in belongs- on page 1???

That's about all I remember, Skinner and Behaviorism. Oh, and I had to read a very interesting book on Freud.

That guy HAD to be right up there with Poe. Psychotic AND on various forms of illicit medications.

I should have had Judy act like she was going into labor or something.

So now we all know the REAL way to get to Disney on a traffic-free freeway in a hurry!

Oh the pressure that goes with all of the adulation!

It's a good kind of pressure. (and know let's hope Jordan doesn't show up)

We have our share of clutter.

As do we all. Mine' mostly in my mind.

I hope you're not suggesting that I make something up....

Never. But you'd get more readers... and your groupies would eat it up like Tonga Toast; well some of them. I wouldnt' touch it with a 10 foot pole with all that banana gunk inside.

I am so glad that all my groupies got together and appointed a spokesperson!

Who better than the queen of comedy?

Hmmmm, Associate doesn't sound lofty enough for this prestigious office.

I agree, but sat for 15 seconds too long already trying to think of something more stately. Couldn't. So there you have it. I could have abbreviated Association to its shortest form, but didn't. We are all lucky.