These Are The MAYS of our Lives- The MAYers, Part VI

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Hi Monny!

Those albums are ADORABLE!

I have never done digital scrapbooking? Is it as fun as doing it the old fashioned way? I am always too nervous to do it....
 
Hey all....

Monny - Great camper... i will look at your pics a lil later i'm running a lil late today....

RF - YAY on 70 days... and I also vote to go out.... maybe DTD cause the fireworks are not the same to me unless you watch them in front of the castle especially since Casey hasn't been there in what seems like forever..... I really wish you would have made it to watch Nightastic.... great show..... But u def should walk around POP for a lil and take pics just so Casey can get to know the resort and see what else is out there in terms of resorts at WDW..... either way you will be in WDW so you will have fun.....
 
Happy Friday Mayers!

Had a fun day running all over Beverly Hills, Hollywood, Universal City, The Grove and Farmers Market.

The most hilarious thing was seeing a guy just wearing Speedos and tennis shoes, holding a bag.

Here he is on Rodeo drive...
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We then saw him again on Sunset Blvd and Orange - about six miles away - then a few hours later we saw him on Highland near Hollywood Blvd!

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(Notice the hand on the hip action, in both shots!)

Three times in one day! We thought he was following us. :lmao::rotfl2:

Well, this morning I decided to see if this guy was putting on act or something and of course, I found out other people (and the police) know about him!

http://www.wehodaily.com/2010/07/01/man-strolling-melrose-ave-underwear/

http://www.wehodaily.com/2010/07/03/underwear-man-walking-sunset-plaza/

What a hoot...welcome to Hollyweird!

Sea
 
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OMG. Sea - that's hilarious! I love that they said that guy was 'kinda hot' in one of those stories.

I can't tell if he's joking or if they're right and he's from Europe and just doesn't realize how crazy he looks. :upsidedow

Hahahhahahahaaa :lmao:
 

Morning all....

well i'm off to a bbq with the inlaws today.... should be good times.... i hope everyone is enjoying their weekends. Min well it's HOT.... but hey what can I do right?

Depending on how tired I am will try to add another installement to my TR......
 
HI ALL!

Just returned home from a mini vacation up to my parents and Stratford Ontario where I took the kids to see Peter Pan, at the Stratford Festival Theatre. It was sooo good, they loved it so much. Well worth the money for the play. It was their first theatrical production and they behaved so well and were in complete awe. I'm so happy. Another experience they can share with us now that they are older.
 
Hey all...

Lake - Guess what my lil sis is moving up to Canada... to Toronto I believe. She got a really good job over there..... but she has to get a work permit or visa first.... but I thought of you when she told us.....

Everyone else... just got home for a LONG day but great day..... off to bed now will to another installement tommorrow.....
 
Hey all...

Lake - Guess what my lil sis is moving up to Canada... to Toronto I believe. She got a really good job over there..... but she has to get a work permit or visa first.... but I thought of you when she told us.....

Everyone else... just got home for a LONG day but great day..... off to bed now will to another installement tommorrow.....

We will take good care of her. If she has any questions about moving there ask away. My brother and sister both live there now.
 
Hey everyone. :goodvibes

How was everyone's weekends? popcorn:: Does anyone know when NC gets back? I know she posted her plans - but I can't remember.... I can't wait to hear about it! I hope they're having such a wonderful time. :cloud9:

We worked out in our yard ALLLL weekend. Sat morning we went to visit Bob's stepsister in the hospital. She's still in there and has had some rough times in the last month, but things are finally starting to turn around and she seems like she's starting to make a recovery. Thanks for all the prayers.

After we visited with her for a while we went to Lowes and bought everything we needed to work in the yard and I put in a garden off to the side of the patio, hopefully that will take care of some of the water that was coming on to the patio. Bob and my uncle used a rototiller and dug up the soil in the yard and we filled wheelbarrows and took it into the woods and dumped it. We did that pretty much all day, and now we are going to possibly do a rock garden in the back since we can't grow grass back there. :rolleyes:

Hopefully I'll get some pictures up so you guys can see it when we're all done!


Mari - Congrats to your sister! Bob would move to Canada in a SECOND if I let him. LOL. If I move anywhere it needs to be a little more trpoical than that. :laughing:

Lake - I'm glad the kiddos enjoyed the show! That's great. You guys are going to have so much fun with them now that they're a little older. :goodvibes

Hi to everyone else lurking..... :rolleyes1
 
Hey everyone. :goodvibes

How was everyone's weekends? popcorn:: Does anyone know when NC gets back? I know she posted her plans - but I can't remember.... I can't wait to hear about it! I hope they're having such a wonderful time. :cloud9:

We worked out in our yard ALLLL weekend. Sat morning we went to visit Bob's stepsister in the hospital. She's still in there and has had some rough times in the last month, but things are finally starting to turn around and she seems like she's starting to make a recovery. Thanks for all the prayers.

After we visited with her for a while we went to Lowes and bought everything we needed to work in the yard and I put in a garden off to the side of the patio, hopefully that will take care of some of the water that was coming on to the patio. Bob and my uncle used a rototiller and dug up the soil in the yard and we filled wheelbarrows and took it into the woods and dumped it. We did that pretty much all day, and now we are going to possibly do a rock garden in the back since we can't grow grass back there. :rolleyes:

Hopefully I'll get some pictures up so you guys can see it when we're all done!


Mari - Congrats to your sister! Bob would move to Canada in a SECOND if I let him. LOL. If I move anywhere it needs to be a little more trpoical than that. :laughing:

Lake - I'm glad the kiddos enjoyed the show! That's great. You guys are going to have so much fun with them now that they're a little older. :goodvibes

Hi to everyone else lurking..... :rolleyes1

What do you mean it is 93 degrees and very humid here today! haha
 
Hi Mayers!

Insane weekend...it was DL's 55th birthday. I was at the park from 8 am to about 11:30 pm. All freaking day.

Anyways, last week a friend of ours asked me to help him out with photo content for his new website. I am the "Disneyland Reporter" for ClubD23.com http://www.clubd23.com
Check out my photos from this past weekend. We will be having updates from the park as I am available to go and cover the different events.

I will be posting up photos here still - mostly of what I see or experience personally. Have to share with you all neat stuff we bought for the 55th!

Got to go to a meeting...cya later!

Sea
 
Hi Mayers!

Insane weekend...it was DL's 55th birthday. I was at the park from 8 am to about 11:30 pm. All freaking day.

Anyways, last week a friend of ours asked me to help him out with photo content for his new website. I am the "Disneyland Reporter" for ClubD23.com http://www.clubd23.com
Check out my photos from this past weekend. We will be having updates from the park as I am available to go and cover the different events.

I will be posting up photos here still - mostly of what I see or experience personally. Have to share with you all neat stuff we bought for the 55th!

Got to go to a meeting...cya later!

Sea

How exciting! Congratulations on your reporting position. Sounds like so much fun, and right up your alley! LOL
I will look forward to reading all the news.
 
Epcot Day...

Well tody we actually slept in a lil late. Since the night before we were up til about 2am I let Marissa sleep today. I want to say that we woke up about 10, we went to the pool for a lil bit.... i want to say about 1 hour then we went back to room got ready and then we were off to Epcot. Again it was hot.... we had an ADR at Coral reef for lunch. So we are off to the bus stop.... while we waited i snapped a few shots.....

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Bus finally came and off we were.... that day was again HOT.... i can't say this enough never again.... i'm going to stick to my May....

Ok so the bus pulls in to the stop and we step of and it's like we started to west immediatly... it was one of the days that they said it was 95 but felt like 105.... so we just take it slow and walk around a bit...

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But what day wouldn't be complete with a crying kid.... Marissa got mad because i told her she was't being nice because i wanted the disney photographer to take a pic of us and she didn't want to.... let me just tell you if we got 20 pics on the photopass its too much... i'm so happy I only paid $18 for it....

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So we get to Epcot like 1:30.. at this point i'm STARVING.... so the other adr's we've had they let us sit right away so i said we will try since Marissa was hungry too..... can you believe that I never knew where CR was until this trip.... so I look on the map and make our way over there.....

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We get there and tell them that our ADR is for 230 and by this time it was like 145 the lady behind the desk said no problem and came and got us in less then 10 min... First time in CR and I loved it.... so did Marissa... all I had was a chicken cesar salad, as appetizer i had the crab cakes. Nothing too big since we were going to be under that heat all day.....

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We had awsome seats... She loved looking over and seeing the fishes in the aquarium. So we finish our meals and we are off....

First stop was

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Well we were right there.... so why not.... we actually got on the nemo ride 2 times.

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I figured she would go on it more then 1 time. Marissa LOVED the movie... so after the second time we decided to walk around a lil in the building i guess...

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Then the show for talking with crush was about to start to we waited around and we went inside.... she loved it....

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So we left there and walked a little bit and got to The Figment ride.... no wait whatsoever so again we did this one 2 times.... Marissa thought it was so funny when they make you smell a fart.... she is a funny child....

Then we walked around for a lil ate a Mickey mouse ice cream sandwich...then we went into the innoventions buildings.... we were in those for about 2 hours... did the fire prevention house thing.... she loves that one and the saving money section.....

there was 1 section that i don't remember from before

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She basically dressed a frog.... it was cute.....

I took this pic as we were going into one of the innovention buildings i can't remember which one but I loved it so i decided to share with my favorite Disney fanatics.... My Mayers....

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It's just a reflection off the window......

So after that we went to soarin..... I haven't gone on that ride since 2007.... so we ge to the land and walk all the way downstairs just to see that it has a 80 min wait.... thats crazy considering there was not a lot of people in Epcot that day.... then the fast pass was not until 730 which is when we had an adr for Teppan Edo.... so we passed on that ride....

Next up was

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Marissa got SO bored on this ride.... she turned to me and said mom this ride is "taking for too long" that her way of saying forever.... Kids are funny with the things they say.....

So by then it's about 6pm so i figured we start making our way to World showcase.... we go in through Mexico so she can see the different areas.... Ugh she wasn't too interested..... so we finally make it to Japan at about 715ish and we went to check in to teppan edo.... they were acutally taking walk in's that day but they had to wait about 1 hour.... so we went inside and waited for about 10 min. We went to sit down and we were paired with a family that had arrived that same day..... so I had to go to bathroom so i go but as i am walking out guess who i bumped into.... Peyting Manning ..... too bad i didn't have my camera or anything.... but when I get back to the table i tell the family that is there with me and the kids they were about 15-18 yrs old 4 of them ran off after him.... too funny.... so we eat our food which was great....

I ask marissa if she wants to wait for the fireworks of go back to resort.... and she just wants to go back to POP.... so off we go to wait in the bus stop... and we start to walk out we start hearing the pop of the fireworks behind us.... great ending to the day......

We get back to the resort go in the pool for about 1 hour then off to take showers to get ready to go to sleep.....

Next up: Our last full day.... DTD and MK.....
 
Awesome trip report Mari!

Marissa looks totally absorbed with wonder at Coral Reef.

I like your reflection picture a lot too. :D Have to check out Innoventions next month - we didn't spend anytime in there last time.

Sea
 
YAY Mari! Another great day!!!! I have to wait to get home to see the pictures, but it sounds like so much fun! :goodvibes

I am seriously jonesing to get to WDW. I have a feeling this will be our last trip for a little while :guilty: so we are going to try to make it as amazing as we can! :banana:

Right now I am working on getting our ADR's in order. Since my aunt, uncle and cousin have one reservation and me, Bob and Casey have another - my aunt and I made all different ADR's and we are going to go through and decide what we want. Right now there are WAY too many.

And I am working getting my least crowded park charts together. :yay:

This is going to be a more laid back trip, so we'll see how I do with it. :laughing: I usually don't plan every minute - but I like to have an itinerary of where we are going next.

At this point even the parks we are visiting on what days is up in the air! :upsidedow :upsidedow :upsidedow

Luckily I still have some time. :rolleyes1
 
Good morning all. :surfweb:

I don't feel like working today :laughing:

Lake - tell me your cruise details. popcorn:: I am starting to think that's what we might do next WDW trip, but I don't know anything about DCL except that I always thought it was too expensive for us to do.

I found an AWESOME looking cruise through Europe for 10 days. It's very expensive, but that will be my 'if I don't have any kids at that point' cruise. :rotfl:
 
Good morning all. :surfweb:

I don't feel like working today :laughing:

Lake - tell me your cruise details. popcorn:: I am starting to think that's what we might do next WDW trip, but I don't know anything about DCL except that I always thought it was too expensive for us to do.

I found an AWESOME looking cruise through Europe for 10 days. It's very expensive, but that will be my 'if I don't have any kids at that point' cruise. :rotfl:

Good morning to you as well.

So you want a 5 months out cruise report.... your wish shall be granted my friend.

We always wanted to try a Disney Cruise as well, but agree that it was always too expensive. Then the idea came up to instead of doing chriistmas gifts and a party to celebrate my dad's 70th birthday. Why don't we all go away together for the week instead. A Cruise had been our first choice..then a slight happy glitch happened! My brother and his wife announced they were expecting their second child..and this child will only be 4 months old at the time of our vacation.

So after much looking around we discovered that the only cruise line that would take a baby under 6 months was Disney...and the cruises available were way too much money. So we started researching island resorts , all inclusives, rentals and such.... then something happened. Disney cancelled their 10 day New Years cruise..and replaced it with two smaller 5 day double dip cruises..and reduced their rate.... WE ALL JUMPED ON BOARD!!!!! lol

So my parents...my sister, her husband and 2 kids..and my brother his wife, and soon to be 2 kids are all signed up with us for the Disney Magic 5 day Bahama Cruise on January 3rd.

We will take the kids out of school for the week..and sail the seas for my dad's birthday which is the 4th..and Ethan's as well .

It is called a double dip cruise as we visist Castaway Cay 2 times, as well as a stop in Nassau, and a Pirate Party with fireworks on board.

The cruise is January 3rd to 8th. But out flights are January 1st - 9th... so we get a few days at WDW either side.

I just received a Cruiseline DVD in the mail this week, and Jason and I watched it together. It made us both a bit more excited..and as far as the kids go. They still know nothing...and hopefully won't until we surprise them at Christmas.


I am starting to pick up litte things here and there though. Jason bought himself a new snorkle set, I bought swimsuits for the kids to unwrap at christmas... ( can't wait to see their expression)...afterall what Canadian kid gets a swimsuit in December..haha, also I bought some cute luggage tags at Kohls which you can put a picture in...so I will personalize them all with a disney pictures for each of us.


So I think that may get you up to date.
 
Good morning Mayers!

Your cruise sounds wonderful Lake! Did you know that Disney is the only cruise line that can legally do fireworks off their ships? I thought that was cool.

We are thinking of doing a Alaskan cruise with Disney when they move the ships over here. Can't wait!

RF - I hope your ADR and trip planning goes well. Is this first time trip to WDW for your aunt, uncle and cousin? I think you should do a cruise too. Of course, I am a bit bias about cruising...;)

Our weather has cooled off, but we are still having very nice days - in the low 80's and sunny.

Check out my new video - we are singing happy birthday to Disneyland and then a "flash mob" of Cast Members come out and dance for the crowd!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAcG1CSqpA8

More Kauai coming up too!
 
Back to Kauai! The next day we checked out an old train on a sugar cane plantation.
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This place had some cool antiques!
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Our ride! (I love trains!)
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Happy Train Riders!
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This is now a farm and the food from it is used to supply the restaurant.
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Pineapple! It takes two years to grow just one.
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They let us feed the boars. Nasty things!
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Such a beautiful place! I would love to come back do the train ride again. :cool1:

More to come later...
 
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