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Mike made them. She made shirts for her and Kimmi to wear each day and then made a few of those.
Tiaras and Tantrums 08-- The Farewell. . . Will YOU join us next year?
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Mike made them. She made shirts for her and Kimmi to wear each day and then made a few of those.
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ok i'll admit that i would have been really disappointed in my sluething skills had it not been the queen..lmao
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taptap.tap; patiently waiting
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taptap.tap; patiently waiting
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And exhausting...and I paid for it for days 
BUT IT WAS WORTH EVERY BIT!!!!!!!!!
BUT IT WAS WORTH EVERY BIT!!!!!!!!!
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ok ok ok we all realize now shuggie pulled a snowy and showed up....get on with it.,
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Indeed! what is this report doing on page 3?! hmm hmm?
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Sorry, been crazy busy. I will try to finish it by the end of the weekend.
Believe me--it will be worth the wait
Believe me--it will be worth the wait
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you need to tightren up woman.
type scraps type
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Sounds like great trip! Thank you for the great report!
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Sorry guys. I have really been just WICKED busy the last week or so. But I did manage to get some written while I was with the girls at a birthday party today. It will be up in a few minutes.
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It was our last day and we had a Queen we had to make happy! We took our usual slow pace getting ready and Kimmi and Mike went on ahead to MK for some last minute things they needed to do. Mike had to leave later that afternoon.
Phors, Shuggie, Flat Shuggie and I headed off to MGM. Queen Shug had not yet ridden Toy Story Mania, despite having been in WDW just 6 weeks before this. We got into Studios and started toward the back but were pulled off track by Starring Rolls Cafe. We hadn't had breakfast and were plannng to eat at LTT later so we decided we definitely needed some coffee and a pastry to hold us over. And in WDW dessert for breakfast is a must at some point! Getting 2 scooters in there is a tight squeeze but with a few 27 point turns we made it work. As I was waiting in line a woman excused herself to go in front of me and deposited the danish she was carrying back into the tray.
EWWWWWW! 
After she walked away I told a CM and she removed the entire tray of them.
I was out first and got to try to find us a table. It was COLDin fact I heard on the news that Florida had a record cold that night. This is what happens to me, I go to Florida and they have a record cold spell.
So I was looking for a table in the sun so we could have a bit of warmth. 
I found one but there was a backpack on one of the chairs. I asked the large group at the table next to me if it belonged to them. They said no, and it had been there a while with no one there. So I sat. Disney rules, you leave your stuff there for too long and no one is sitting then the table is up for grabs! A woman that looked like a supervisor/manager type (she wasn't wearing a funny costume!) walked by and I pointed out the chair with the backpack and told her it was there when we sat down and had lost it's owner. I was concerned that it would be stolen. Naturally I assumed that she would pick it up and take it in the back to be sent off to lost and found. I was dead wrong!
She took the entire chair and scooted it off about 30 yards away. Then she stood there in a guarding position and got on her walkie talkie. Security began showing up.
First one.
Then another.
And another.
Then 2 carrying ropes.
And we a few more around the perimeter of the area.
The ones with ropes roped off an area around the chair.
In the meantime a CM that was cleaning in the area came over to watch and to talk with us. He was also not in a funny costume and he told us he was a Trainer and was just helping out for a bit. He stayed with us chatting and watching what was going on. Also the large group at the table next to us took off. They were also interested in the action but said they had to move on. After they left a man came over and plopped himself at their now empty table. He seemed to be talking to himself but I figured he was on a bluetooth talking to his family telling them he got a table. He was also watching the security action. He leaned over to us and said Hey, did that thing start over here or where it is now?. I figured he was just curious like we all were so of course I started telling him the story. He started talking into his coat again, but this time I heard 10-4 and affirmative and decided that he wasn't talking to his family!
We were all still talking and the Training CM said that they were going to bring out the dog. DOG??? We were really floored! I had even considered opening the backpack when we sat down to see if there was any ID in it. And here they were calling in a dog! Phors' son is with K9 in the military and had just lost his dog so this was certainly very interesting news to us. Phors said something about getting pictures of the dog to show her son. This is when the strange tourist next to us looked over and quietly said We would prefer you didn't mam We all looked at him and the CM said OH! I didn't ever recognize you sitting there! And he proceeded to introduce us to the Head of Studios Security ::cop: (undercover
)! He was extremely nice but said that they try to bring the dog out, have him do his job and get him back without drawing a crowd. If people start taking photos then it draws a crowd and they may have to confiscate cameras and review the pics and get witness statements. We completely understood and had a nice chat while waiting for the dog. There was no way were leaving our seats until this was over!
When he got word on the radio the dog was on it's way out he walked by and told us that we could get pics but just stay in our seats and be discreet. We were able to get several good pictures. Because the Head of Security works undercover I have removed him from these pics to protect his identity.
Of course the dog came out, sniffed the bag, laid down and looked up as if to say You woke me up for that???
Quicker than it had happened, the dog and his handler disappeared backstage, the ropes were rolled up and one of the security guys picked up the bag and opened it and they all walked off. We never did find out if there was even anything in it!
We did learn that Disney has several full time K9 units and they do this for any abandoned bag. I would have thought that would have meant many times a day, it would seem that people would be constantly leaving things. But in reality security said it really doesn't happen all that often.
So the excitement was over. We had promised a good run it with security and it doesn't get much better than this! About 10 Security officers, the HEAD of security and a K9 Unit! As we walked off a few things did cross our minds:
Phors was thinking maybe that was just one of their Streetmosphere shows and wondered if we were supposed to applaud at the end!
And I was thinking that if they REALLY thought it could have been a bomb, shouldn't they have moved it a little further away, okay A LOT further away from us???
And when I told DH about it later he said he was so glad to see that we were smart enough to move ourselves out of danger when a bomb was suspected.
Tiramasu: $4.00
Fruit Tart: $4.00
Eclair: $4.00
Coffee: $3.00
Meeting the Head of Security and the K9 and NOT being arrested. . . Priceless!
Phors, Shuggie, Flat Shuggie and I headed off to MGM. Queen Shug had not yet ridden Toy Story Mania, despite having been in WDW just 6 weeks before this. We got into Studios and started toward the back but were pulled off track by Starring Rolls Cafe. We hadn't had breakfast and were plannng to eat at LTT later so we decided we definitely needed some coffee and a pastry to hold us over. And in WDW dessert for breakfast is a must at some point! Getting 2 scooters in there is a tight squeeze but with a few 27 point turns we made it work. As I was waiting in line a woman excused herself to go in front of me and deposited the danish she was carrying back into the tray.
EWWWWWW! After she walked away I told a CM and she removed the entire tray of them. I was out first and got to try to find us a table. It was COLDin fact I heard on the news that Florida had a record cold that night. This is what happens to me, I go to Florida and they have a record cold spell.
So I was looking for a table in the sun so we could have a bit of warmth. I found one but there was a backpack on one of the chairs. I asked the large group at the table next to me if it belonged to them. They said no, and it had been there a while with no one there. So I sat. Disney rules, you leave your stuff there for too long and no one is sitting then the table is up for grabs! A woman that looked like a supervisor/manager type (she wasn't wearing a funny costume!) walked by and I pointed out the chair with the backpack and told her it was there when we sat down and had lost it's owner. I was concerned that it would be stolen. Naturally I assumed that she would pick it up and take it in the back to be sent off to lost and found. I was dead wrong!She took the entire chair and scooted it off about 30 yards away. Then she stood there in a guarding position and got on her walkie talkie. Security began showing up.
First one.
Then another.
And another.
Then 2 carrying ropes.
And we a few more around the perimeter of the area.
The ones with ropes roped off an area around the chair.
In the meantime a CM that was cleaning in the area came over to watch and to talk with us. He was also not in a funny costume and he told us he was a Trainer and was just helping out for a bit. He stayed with us chatting and watching what was going on. Also the large group at the table next to us took off. They were also interested in the action but said they had to move on. After they left a man came over and plopped himself at their now empty table. He seemed to be talking to himself but I figured he was on a bluetooth talking to his family telling them he got a table. He was also watching the security action. He leaned over to us and said Hey, did that thing start over here or where it is now?. I figured he was just curious like we all were so of course I started telling him the story. He started talking into his coat again, but this time I heard 10-4 and affirmative and decided that he wasn't talking to his family!
We were all still talking and the Training CM said that they were going to bring out the dog. DOG???
We were really floored! I had even considered opening the backpack when we sat down to see if there was any ID in it. And here they were calling in a dog! Phors' son is with K9 in the military and had just lost his dog so this was certainly very interesting news to us. Phors said something about getting pictures of the dog to show her son. This is when the strange tourist next to us looked over and quietly said We would prefer you didn't mam We all looked at him and the CM said OH! I didn't ever recognize you sitting there! And he proceeded to introduce us to the Head of Studios Security ::cop: (undercover )! He was extremely nice but said that they try to bring the dog out, have him do his job and get him back without drawing a crowd. If people start taking photos then it draws a crowd and they may have to confiscate cameras and review the pics and get witness statements. We completely understood and had a nice chat while waiting for the dog. There was no way were leaving our seats until this was over!When he got word on the radio the dog was on it's way out he walked by and told us that we could get pics but just stay in our seats and be discreet. We were able to get several good pictures. Because the Head of Security works undercover I have removed him from these pics to protect his identity.
Of course the dog came out, sniffed the bag, laid down and looked up as if to say You woke me up for that???
Quicker than it had happened, the dog and his handler disappeared backstage, the ropes were rolled up and one of the security guys picked up the bag and opened it and they all walked off. We never did find out if there was even anything in it!
We did learn that Disney has several full time K9 units and they do this for any abandoned bag. I would have thought that would have meant many times a day, it would seem that people would be constantly leaving things. But in reality security said it really doesn't happen all that often.
So the excitement was over. We had promised a good run it with security and it doesn't get much better than this! About 10 Security officers, the HEAD of security and a K9 Unit! As we walked off a few things did cross our minds:
Phors was thinking maybe that was just one of their Streetmosphere shows and wondered if we were supposed to applaud at the end!
And I was thinking that if they REALLY thought it could have been a bomb, shouldn't they have moved it a little further away, okay A LOT further away from us???
And when I told DH about it later he said he was so glad to see that we were smart enough to move ourselves out of danger when a bomb was suspected.
Tiramasu: $4.00
Fruit Tart: $4.00
Eclair: $4.00
Coffee: $3.00
Meeting the Head of Security and the K9 and NOT being arrested. . . Priceless!
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So after our brief delay, and a heck of a lot of excitement we were finally on our way to Toy Story Mania. We get up to the Handicap load area and who do we see??? The same guy that we took Flat Shuggie's picture with our first night! We had to explain that she had come to life and introduce the real Queen Shug to him.
Flat Shuggie was having some problems being replaced by the real thing, so she was still trying to make sure she was in every picture!
We really loved the ride and there was no one waiting in the HC area when we came back in so they let us go around again.
On our way out we had some fun meeting some of the great Disney Studios Characters that were out along the main street.
One of these guys looked a bit familiar
These 2 were doing some preelection polling and asked us a great variety of questions:
These guys wanted some cool lights on their wheels after they saw the ones on my scooter!
And these two were looking for a man
That was all the time we had. We wanted to catch Mickey's Philharmagic before our LTT reservation so we needed to get to MK.
We went to the TTC and decided to take the boat over--by the way, that is a really STUPID idea if it is cold out! We should have taken the cat pee monorail! We 'bout froze to death. But in an interesting parallel, when we got to the boat dock one was tied up waiting and there was another K9 officer going over the boat with a dog sniffing around. Don't know if that is routine, there was a threat, or some idiot woman found a lost backpack and tried to do the right thing and turn it in. . .
Flat Shuggie was having some problems being replaced by the real thing, so she was still trying to make sure she was in every picture!
We really loved the ride and there was no one waiting in the HC area when we came back in so they let us go around again.
On our way out we had some fun meeting some of the great Disney Studios Characters that were out along the main street.
One of these guys looked a bit familiar
These 2 were doing some preelection polling and asked us a great variety of questions:
These guys wanted some cool lights on their wheels after they saw the ones on my scooter!
And these two were looking for a man
That was all the time we had. We wanted to catch Mickey's Philharmagic before our LTT reservation so we needed to get to MK.
We went to the TTC and decided to take the boat over--by the way, that is a really STUPID idea if it is cold out! We should have taken the cat pee monorail! We 'bout froze to death. But in an interesting parallel, when we got to the boat dock one was tied up waiting and there was another K9 officer going over the boat with a dog sniffing around. Don't know if that is routine, there was a threat, or some idiot woman found a lost backpack and tried to do the right thing and turn it in. . .
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i knew all it would take was da queen showing up for security to get involved.
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