***The VWL Groupies & Trivia Thread*** Chapter 2!

[loribell]

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!

 

[MiaSRN62]

Love the photos blossomz ! The one of Ranger Stan is a keeper. I've never seen him in our many stays at WL/VWL.

Mia,
I got a chance to see Ben Franklin & Betsy Ross get married yesterday. It was a hoot.

Cool eliza.....where was this ? Independence Hall area ?

Happy 4th of July to all !

 

[MiaSRN62]

Loribell....thanks....impressive fireworks !!!

 

[bobbiwoz]

Beautiful fireworks. Thanks for the picture! It looks as if fireworks are rained out in Cape May today.

Happy day to all!

Bobbi

 

[MiaSRN62]

It looks as if fireworks are rained out in Cape May today.

Oh no....is it raining in Cape May now ? Philly area is looking very overcast and threatening to rain. Figures....I had to work on Mem Day when it was beautiful and I have off today and it'll most likely rain. Murphy's Law !

Hope our Groupies (Good Ol Gal, DisneyNutsy and Corrine) who are in WDW are having nice weather !

 

[keliblue]

subbing...saw your post on the WL thread and thought Id come take a peek
BTW our very first visit to the WL will be on Aug 31st 2008...we are staying for 6 nights.

Hey all fellow Groupie's this is my good friend Farrah, I was lucky enough to meet her and her awsome family last year at WDw I'm so glad you are going to get to enjoy our beloved WL 1 trip and I bought DVC If you do too, use me as a referal....k

Can't wait to see you Farrah

Hey Muushka ! THANKS for saying this !!!!


50 Years.....I know it's got to be extremely difficult to be seeing your dd off to Japan for a year. I don't know if I could handle it. I'm having a hard enough time sending my 17 yo dd off to college in FL next month Hugs to you and Keliblue.

Happydinks.....sorry to hear about the rough seas. Do you have another job lined up ? And hope the pups are doing better.

Mia !! She is going to school in Florida ?? you lucky, lucky dog ...I mean Moose Hugs back at ya

 

[heath-and-javens-mom]

Thanks for the warm welcome Keli!! Glad to see you over here! I cant wait to see you again this year!!
Sooooo, since you bought a dvc can I just rent the DVC from you then LOL!
I am very excited to stay there this year. It looks sooooo nice!

 

[mickeymorse]

Happy 4th of July to all my American Groupie friends.

Welcome to Mr Man, Farrah

Glad to hear Tammy is doing okay JT

Love the fireworks Loribell.

Can't wait to see your pics blossomz as soon as I finish this post.

Too funny Maria Love the cat animation. With your DD in Fla for school, do I see more pts being needed for all the trips down?

Deb, the year will fly by. Glad you had a nice bonding trip beforehand.

Rob

 

[MiaSRN62]

mickeymorse : With your DD in Fla for school, do I see more pts being needed for all the trips down?

keliblue : Mia !! She is going to school in Florida ?? you lucky, lucky dog ...I mean Moose Hugs back at ya

Yep Rob and keliblue....time is fast approaching. We leave in 29 days. First we'll do our WDW trip, then we're staying at Vero Beach to do the freshman orientation and move-in to the dorms portion of our trip. It's going to be hard <sniff> to leave her there when we fly back to PA.
She's going to Florida Institute of Technology (FL Tech) to major in marine biology. I do have an aunt and uncle that live 25 min from campus---so I feel better she'll be close to some of our family. But there will be some random trips scheduled to go see her in FL----no doubt there.

 

[Muushka]

Happy 4th of July Independence Day Groupies

And thank you Rob, for the well wishes.

Hi everyone! OK..some of my photos are up on the WL photo thread...Enjoy..

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?p=26025861#post26025861


Jimmy...glad to hear Tammy made it through..I had that surgery a couple of years ago and I'm as good as new now.

Mr. Man..just got back from the Lodge..there IS a dedicated boat from the Lodge to MK...It's to the left side of the dock..


Happy Fourth to all the groupies!!

Great pictures, thank you. Love the swans, very romantic

subbing...saw your post on the WL thread and thought Id come take a peek
BTW our very first visit to the WL will be on Aug 31st 2008...we are staying for 6 nights.

Welcome to the Groupies H&J's mom! If, after your wonderful trip to WL you have the urge to own one of these precious Moosie Siggys, please grab one! I'll bet he would look great on you! Please visit us often (the thread that is, we know you will the Lodge!)

You got it jimmytammy....thoughts and prayers going out. My uncle had this surgery last year. He walked into the side view mirror of his car and tore his rotary cuff. He had to go through months of physical therapy too. I wish Tammy all the best.

Mr Man.........but (ahem...ahem).
Watch where you tread with your comments about OKW.

It is my "home" resort and I do hold a very special place for it in my heart.



So I'll let your comments slide this one time Mr Man ....but "it's ON" if there's a next time !

to heath-and-javens-mom too !!!

Love, love, love that cat. Maria, you are the best!!
Mr Man, I think she means business!! Look out!!

 

[Muushka]

I almost forgot....


DODIE!!!

PS This is the extent of my creativity. Sad, huh??

 

[Mr Man]

Mr Man.........but (ahem...ahem).
Watch where you tread with your comments about OKW.

It is my "home" resort and I do hold a very special place for it in my heart.


So I'll let your comments slide this one time Mr Man ....but "it's ON" if there's a next time !

to heath-and-javens-mom too !!!

Thanks, Y'know, I believe you, which why I am happy to report that my comment is only in jest. It was more a clumsy comment on OKW being the elder statesman(er person) of the DVC resorts.

I think we are going to try out OKW for our Spring Break 09 trip. I will be the one with the SSR hat on (oh, Mr Man....that was needless)

Have a Great 4th all! Mine is pretty boring. Everyone is out of town & I have to work (for some reason these Brits/Swedes I work for, don't consider today much of a holiday)

 

[blossomz]

I'm having a rather boring 4th myself..It's kinda hard to get into the fireworks spirit after just having seen "real" fireworks at WDW!

 

[bobbiwoz]

The sun came out and now we're planning to go to CM's fireworks. It's been so long since we've bothered going to anyone else's fireworks, we're excited in spite of ourselves!

Have fun, everyone. Another 4th of July pastime is going through all retailers of DVC. That's how we began our DVC journey, nothing to do on a 4th of July in '03!

Bobbi

 

[Good Ol Gal]

Hi everyone!

We are having a GREAT time here at VWL

We went to AK today and it didn't seem like a national holiday at all! We didn't show up till 9:30 and we went to FP Everest. It was only a 10 min standby line also! Dh took the kids to Prim. Whirl while I was hiking my way across the park and they walked right on three times in a row.

Next we walked on Dinosauar. Well, dh and three kids did, as our ds7 would not ride it this time. He and I went to Hester and Chester's and he was making a Mr. Potato Head, and they picked him to make the official Potato of the day! His masterpiece was then put on display for everyone else to see :

After Dinosaur we went to use our Everest FP. Again, we had to split up b/c dd and ds didn't want to ride this one. So ds13, ds9 and I went on. We walked right on with our FPs and at the end of the ride we were awarded Dream FPs!!

Next stop was Kali. Standby said 30mins so we FP it and headed to Yak and Yeti for a snack. We tried the chicken fried rice and the kids loved it! I went to Flame Tree to get dh his fav bbq

We just sat and relaxed and enjoyed some baby ducklings till our FP was ready (45mins). We then went on Kali.. we went in the FP line, but there was NO WAIT at all!! So we saved our FP and walked on. I got drenched, of course. We then walked right back on again, didn't even have to go through the whole line again, just turned at the FP entrance w/o our FP again.

We did this three times in a row and we were so wet!! Next stop Tough to be a Bug. Again... walked on! There was a 3 min wait for the doors to open, but no line at all.

We had accomplished all we wanted to do by 12 and wanted to get back to VWL for our lunch at WCC, so we left w/o using our Dream passes. When we walked out the door we had 3 dream fastpass lanyards, 3 everest Fp, and 12 kali fp!!

I tell you, we never saw the 4th of July crowds we expected.

This afternoon we just hung out at the lodge, swam and explored. Our kiddos love counting the animals they find. This morning we saw 6 armadillos and we had a tree frog on our balcony window (3rd floor) but at least it was on the outside

We swam in the quiet pool from 6-7:30 and we were the only ones there! Literally!! I did watch the mass exodus headed to the boat for the MK. I am sure it is going to be packed there tonight! Which is another reason I'm so glad we did the Wishes cruise on Tues.

Have a great 4th everyone!

downside: my camera got wet on Kali and now it won't work I'm hoping a good drying out will do it. Thank goodness we're staying in tonight and I won't feel like I'm missing out on lots of picture opportunities.

 

[Muushka]

What fun!! I am going to go with YOU next time. Walking on EE and Kali! You go girl!! Nothing I love more than big hills and getting wet on a hot summer day .

Our company just left and we are settling down to a nice NASCAR race. Tomorrow night is the big one!

 

[MiaSRN62]

Good Ol Gal....what a GREAT day is sounded like you all had (except for the camera ! Hope that works again soon !). Keep us posted whenever you can. That's alot of armadillos you all counted in one day. I have seen one or two over the years, but never as many as you. My uncle who lives in FL says they are akin to rats in the sunshine state

 

[blossomz]

Wow GOG...sounds great. When we were there last week at AK..crowds seemed to be down as well. We did avoid the parks with the EMH because people tend to go there and chose the "off" parks! Sounds like you are having a great time. We had one of those tree frogs too and they are really funny!

 

[Corinne]

Hi Groupies!

OK, I can now officially I say I adore our home resort! I can hear the collective DUH!! from all of you! lol.

It has been years since we stayed at the WL, and this is our first stay at the VWL since become members 7 years ago. All I can say is what was I waiting for?

We arrived very late on Thursday evening. We arrived at the ME express counter and they placed us on a bus. We were the last stop. We checked in extremely quicky, since we were the only people checking in! I guess arriving late does have some benefits! Our studio is on the 3rd floor. The quiet pool is to our left and we have a nice woods view. It is peaceful even though our neighbors are a tad noisy. They have little ones so I am at least thankful that they are not getting up too early.

We got to the MK around 11:45 on Thursday evening, and stayed until 2:45! We did so much in that short period of time! We rode Buzz, Pooh, Mickey's Phil., Haunted Mansion, MTMRR, POC, hmm, I think that is it.

Our younger son, Ryan, celebrated is 18th birthday on July 4th. We had stopped at the concierge desk to have our park hoppers place on our room keys(no ap's this trip).
After Dana (dh) and Ryan walked away, I mentioned to the CM that it was Ryan's 18th bday. She gave me a pin with his name on it, which he did wear but on his shorts which he then proceeded to cover with his shirt. He is not one for a lot of attention! When we arrived to the room later in the day a signed card from the characters and balloons were waiting for him.

We went to DHS and immediately headed to TSM, only to find all FP had been distributed for the day (it was 11:30). Oh well, maybe next time! We rode TGMR, then Ryan grabbed FP for RnR, and Dana & I shopped while we waited. Once Ryan got back we went to 50's for lunch. It was great as usual, and since I had mentioned it was Ry's bday when I made the ADR, the server brought him a cupcake with candles and we all sang. About 10 minutes earlier a young girl was celebrating her bday, and he said, "They are not going to sing to me, right????" so I softened the "blow" hehe. It was all fun.

Next we went to Muppets and the boys rode RnR. We left because we were meeting our friends who were arriving at the WL any moment!

I am being rushed by someone who shall remain nameless, so I will wrap it up and say that dinner at Kona was fabulous and the fireworks from the beach were spectacular! What a wonderful way to celebrate our baby's 18th and America!

My pictures are not coming out too great, so if/when I get something I can actually post, I will!

Hope I am not boring you all!

 

[Granny]

Corinne...glad that VWL is not a letdown in any way!

Sometimes we build things up in our mind (and on this thread) and reality isn't given a fair chance to measure up. So happy for you that all is working out well. Sounds like your son will enjoy the rest of the trip in blissful anonymity.

Enjoy your trip, don't worry about the pictures (yet) and have a great time!