The Return of the Asian-Feb 2010. 4/14-LINK TO PART 2-pg 249

[jordanyosh]

Hi Jordan, great update!

I don't think Nemo was open when I was there - I'm looking forward to seeing it.

Guess I'd better try the creme brulee next time!

I love Living with the Land too.

What glasses did you end up with?

Nemo is a cute ride, but the aquarium is for sure the best part and Turtle Talk with Crush is awesome too.

Creme Brulee...gud...very good.

pictures of the new specs coming up tonight....

 

[jordanyosh]

So a little off topic here but the thought of Nemo makes me laugh. We decided before Aj was born to do a Nemo theme in his room. During his surgery stays he watches Nemo on continuous loop. When we were at WDW in 2008 we rode the boats to get somewhere......I cant remember when, where, or why. Well, I figured it was a perfect time for a diaper change. It was only us on the boat so I had DH change him. I had to snap pictures of the "butt" on the "butt". If you guys remember, In the movie they called the boat a butt. I think that is my favorite picture I took there. Aj laughes and blushes when he sees it now. He even calls boats butts!!!!!!!!

Also, Nemo is one of my top 5 at WDW. I love how they put animation with live fish. It was a very relaxing ride and I love everything about it.

Great story! I hope all is well with your son....

 

[jordanyosh]

Great update. Avery could also spend hours in The Seas. Wendy, I am glad he did not wander for long-so scary.

I want to know what the mother of aquariums is in the United States..cuz I want to go there.

 

[jordanyosh]

I saved this quote to ask who had seen "Hangover". Now I see Jordan mentioned it. My friend Teresa and I had fun regaling the other girls about scenes from the movie to our other friends who hadn't seen it. We kept reminding each other when we saw the places from the movie. We also kept teasingly reminding ourselves to behave or else we might end up with a Tiger in the bathroom. One of the gals hadn't been there before, I think we scared her!

My past is my own Hangover movie...really

It's my mummble-mummble birthday on June 29th! I must get Jim to stop being afraid of the scarey DIS buds and take this cruise! I hope it's on the DREAM! I'm thinking maybe Vero Beach with DBIL and his new wife then the cruise BECAUSE it's my birthday - "Oh! Jordan and crew - you're on this cruise too? Who would have thunk" yah, that's the ticket!

I say that's a good plan.

I lost my oldest DS twice in Okinawa! No wonder we don't see him much now, and he doesn't let us babysit much!

First time - 3 yrs old - about 3 mos. into our tour, we went to an outdoor arcade/slick car track place. No English spoken there. As we were leaving, we stopped to watch one more race, then We went out to the car, I put DS, 1 in the car seat and we drove away. About 3 miles up the road I looked back and DS3s seat was empty! "Where is Ryan?" "Didn't you have him?" "No, I had Mark - I thought you had him!" SCREECH of tires - racing back - I jumped out and ran in - to find a sweet little Japanese lady, very old and barely bigger than our little boy - holding his hand and patting it, and speaking to him in Kanji. He really didn't seem to be scared at all!

**Flash forward a year - I'm at the only toy store on base for the whole Island - 4 bases - THE day the toys come in for Christmas. If you're not there, you get NO AMERICAN TOYS for your babies. There was no web then. So, madhouse inside - I put my toys on a CC rather than stand in line for layaway. I take my two and 3 friends' kids next door for a hot dog while the moms are in line. I bring them back in - my 4 yr old and another one want to use the bathroom. I was stupid enough to let them go in to the restroom while I took 2 in to their moms. I came out and only the other boy was waiting like I told them to. He doesn't know where my son is. Long story short, no one in the store would help me look - until I called the police an hour later, then the store manager was all over it. The people in the line that snaked around the outside of the building had seen him crying but didn't get out of line to help him. They had MPs combing the patch of jungle across the street and the parking lot. They found him asleep in the back seat of my car (which I thought I had locked) in 90 degree weather. Thank God he had woke up too hot and opened the door. God is good enough to watch over our children when these things happen!

I am glad your boy was/is okay..except for perhaps the emotional scars...

 

[jordanyosh]

Not nerdy at all! In fact if you haven't gone on the tour by the Peeps fest I would love to go through it with you, I'm nerdy that way too. Oh! I forgot, it's not nerdy.

maybe that can be a "meet" for PeepFest.

 

[jordanyosh]

I'm trying to figure out if that has something to do with the vegas dilema, or is it just a random thought you wanted to throw in there for slow people like me to spend hours trying to figure out where it fits in to things, before giving up and asking a stupid question....

I was watching it on TV at the time.

 

[jordanyosh]

Hi Jordan! I am a lurker and don't often write. But I just read your current TR. I don't think I ever finished your last one.
I really want to go to Peep Fest! My DH and I both turn 40 that year! His birthday is actually June 27th so I wouldn't mind going around then. We would only do the land portion. My birthday's not until December so obviously his birthday coinsides with Peep Fest - what a coincidence!
Although I would be up for going in February instead but not sure I want to be there when it's so cold. So I will have to think about it.

What perfect timing!!!!!! We'd love to have you join us

 

[jordanyosh]

I guess it's the teacher in me, but I'm an information reader, too. I want to know all about what I am looking at, and then I love going back and sharing with my students. We do the quizzes, too. I so often am thinking how much I would love to pack ALL of my students up and take them to WDW with me.

In all this time, I have never even paid attention to the fact that there is Cashew Chicken at Sunshine Seasons. I love that, but I discovered the Rotisserie Chicken there and have never looked any further! Now that I have been enlightened, I will be trying the Cashew Chicken. I hope it it every bit as good as what our city's little Chinese place has.

Is there curriculum that Disney does? I wonder....hmmmmm....

The Chicken in no way matches actual chinese food, but it's still close. I've seen the Rotisserie Chicken. We may have to do a switch. I'll try yours if you try mine!

 

[DisneyDerek]

I'd LOVE to get a nice camera like you have (or what others have). But I'm not sure I'd be able to fully use all it's functions.

I hear you on getting your money's worth from a DSLR. Seems like I've filled up our hard drive with family photos over the past year and shot some candid wedding photos and a wedding reception for a dear friend. Unfortunately, I have friends who are camera lovers too (one has a Nikon D300 = $1,500 camera body only and another has a Nikon D700 = $2,800 camera body only) so I often have camera envy

 

[jordanyosh]

Fortunately, I have no idea on this and will have to take your word. I haven't been to WDW with children yet, but I have to say that this paragraph had me laughing. It probably takes forever to get anywhere with so many children and strollers!

I've had the opportunity to travel with multiple families with multiple kids...it does take time to get "situated"

 

[jordanyosh]

Just wanted to say Happy Easter and figured this was pretty appropriate for you...Peeps Sushi!

 

[jordanyosh]

had to use the handy link. sigh.
nice update, thanks, again for all of them.

no problem!!!!!

 

[that's nice]

Is anyone else mesmerized by the Victoria Secrets "nakeds" commercials? Yeah, didn't think so...anyways......

Were you thinking of this in Epcot... or did this just POP into your head?

From The Seas with Nemo, we were off to the Land. We were all hungry and the Seasons was calling our name! It was nearing the end of peak lunch time, so while it was still busy, we were able to grab tables fairly quickly.

I think SS is the best CS in all of WDW!

I think my eyes were rolling in the back of my head and my toes were curling...

UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

After lunch it was off to Living with the Land which is one of my all-time favorite attractions. Yes, Derek calls it The Ride with Plants. Enjoyable as always. I didn't snap off any pictures as I had already done so with Winkers the day before. Then we said adios to the Land...

See any Mickey head shaped food? We saw Mickey shaped pumpkins there before.

As you know, when you travel with a larger group which include kids, whenever you leave an attraction or a meal or the restroom or the room or the bus or the car or the tram or the ferry or the plane, you have to get the stroller situated, the kids situated, the leftovers situated, the purse situated, the diaper bag situated, the shopping bags situated, the extra blankets situated, the sippy cups situated...

I know this all too well.

and we were off to Test Track!!!!!!

Great pics and great update!!!

 

[jordanyosh]

Again, I go away for a day and nearly 10 posts pop up! But yay, there's an update!



I'm JUST like that! Except at a museum. I LOVE the museum in Toronto. I go a lot, and even though I've read EVERYTHING there, I still always re-read everything.

I loved Vegas when I visited. For me, Vegas is all about the resort hopping (to use a WDW term). Those hotels are SOO beautifully themed! My mom's favourite is the Venetian, where they have an actual canal in the hotel and gondolas you can ride!

I love Caesar's Palace because I'm just a fan of ancient Rome and the detail in that resort is just amazing. The theming at a top Vegas resort certainly rivals those at WDW. The service was very good too.

I love Vegas resorts. I really liked Paris...Venetian the Canal shops area is awesome.

 

[jordanyosh]

Hi Jordan, I have been busy but still reading along.
Derek and Wendy, your children are sweet-it is scary when they wander off, even for a few moments. That is the nice thing about strollers-you know they are in them when you are walking along. Sunshine Seasons is always so chaotic too.
I already read 7 TRs seriously, and now you are giving us a new list!
I hope you have some down time over this Easter weekend. We are packed today, and with the no meat Friday, I was not expecting so many people ordering so many ribs and pulled pork. It is helpful that it is 83 degrees here-yep, 83 in Western Pa on April 2!

It's been surprisingly quiet this week mostly due to the fact we have a major construction project going on....

 

[jordanyosh]

I sent you a new PM. We may have a plan!

I just PMed u

 

[lauren_elizabeth]

How come I never knew that Sunshine Seasons had a creme brulee?
I think I know where I'm definitely going from now on...

Erin, Dylan and Ashlyn are so adorable!

 

[DisneyDerek]

I think I forgot about it because I was busy getting my food during the whole missing child incident.

Err, that's not how I remember it...we were all looking for seating, I found an area and defended it with Ashlyn..you joined me (sans Dylan) and then Wendy showed up with Erin, Allan and Kim. Then Dylan came crying down the stairs....then after consoling him you went to get your food. But who's going to come between you, your food and the Land? Maybe senility is setting in...or denial.

 

[jordanyosh]

Were you thinking of this in Epcot... or did this just POP into your head?

I was watching the commercial on TV....

I think SS is the best CS in all of WDW!

Me, too.

See any Mickey head shaped food? We saw Mickey shaped pumpkins there before.

Not this time..I've seen the pumpkins before though.

Great pics and great update!!!

thanks bro.

 

[jordanyosh]

Err, that's not how I remember it...we were all looking for seating, I found an area and defended it with Ashlyn..you joined me (sans Dylan) and then Wendy showed up with Erin, Allan and Kim. Then Dylan came crying down the stairs....then after consoling him you went to get your food. But who's going to come between you, your food and the Land? Maybe senility is setting in...or denial.

Must be the former...I really don't remember any of that......OY!