Tomorrow!! Nikki's going to the world!

[ILMICKEY]

Soooooo, after driving 18 hours through scary mountains (thanks for the info esterhead) we arrive in Daytona!!

Woohoo, the ocean!

I'm sure everything will be dead this day, it's THANKSGIVING!! First we will check into the motel. (don't have a clue where yet!). Then I want to go sleep in the sun for a few hours.

It is, of course, going to be sunny, 80 degrees and not a cloud in the sky.

After a nice long nap in the Florida sun, I'm hoping to find a nice place that will serve me some turkey and fixins'.

Any ideas???

After our bellys are full we plan to drive around and see some sights.

Then maybe a walk/drive on the beach.

Then bed.

NEXT DAY~~~~

Wake up to see the sun rise! ! Yah, who am I kidding???

I really want to take the boys parasailing today. I have found only 1 website. You'd think being a huge tourist town on the beach, there would be more than 1 place!!

If and/or when we are done with that I want to go to the Daytona Harley Store! Have you ever seen this place, it's HUGE!

I think the guys want to go to Daytona USA. Oh Yaaaay! (I hope you note the sarcasm). We went on our honeymoon and I thought it was quite boring.

I am thinking I am going to take them to Hooters right across the street. Another one I am SURE I will enjoy.

When that's all over with and we have done all we want to do in Daytona, it's on to

da dum tee dum..............................................

DISNEY WORLD!!!!!!

 

[ILMICKEY]

Hey Esterhead! I just wanted to say I love your name! My maiden name is Head.

Yes, really!! I'm still in therapy!

How did you come up with your name???

 

[estherhead]

Hey Esterhead! I just wanted to say I love your name! My maiden name is Head.

Yes, really!! I'm still in therapy!

How did you come up with your name???

Really? Your maiden name is Head? It was a nickname my brother-in-law gave me years ago. I can't even remember why but we just went around adding the word "head" to the end of people's names in these silly voices. I think it was from a B-movie. Mine was the only one that really sounded good with it so it stuck. I still get called it from time to time.

I love my name. I've always thought it was nice to have an old-fashioned name that didn't sound old. It's making a bit of a come back so I'm no longer the only one I know but for a really long time it was my name & mine alone.

 

[ILMICKEY]

That's neat! I like your name too. I noticed there were a lot of old fashioned names coming around again. Lillian is a big one.

I was Nikki Head! Some days I still get picked on from people that know that bit of information.

 

[blue_river]

I think the guys want to go to Daytona USA. Oh Yaaaay! (I hope you note the sarcasm). We went on our honeymoon and I thought it was quite boring.

ACK - your honeymoon?

I am thinking I am going to take them to Hooters right across the street. Another one I am SURE I will enjoy.

 

[ILMICKEY]

Yep, honeymoon!! Thanks for the hug.

Really, I was pretty into nascar at the time and we got to watch the Daytona 500.

Until it rained.

and rained.

We left.

All that way to get rained out. We were also camping, so that was a fine evening. Fred was sick.

But we went to Disney the next day. All was good.

Cept Fred was still sick!!

 

[ILMICKEY]

Hello,Hello,Hello,Hello,Hello,Hello,Hello!!!!!!

Is anybody there???

Oh, well, on with the plans!

I am hoping to time it right for check in at the Pop! We haven't ever stayed here before. I am going to fax a letter to them asking for a room in the 60's building (something about the hippy dippy pool that I like ). Any great room number suggestions???

After we check in I think we will be ready for a little pool time or a nap. I want to be all rested up for the week ahead. Don't want no complainin'!

After we are done with that, I want to go get lost. Actually we have to get lost a few times before we really know where we are going. Then we just act like we know what we are doing and get lost again.

Usually there is profanity!

A lot of profanity.

Of course not from me!

It's from the people I cut off switching lanes. ( where is that flippin you off smiley??)

I just love driving around the first evening we are there. Gets the Disney pumpin in the blood.

Lot's of "ooooooooh's" and "look at that"!

Then the norm is to end up at downtown disney. Foreplay for the parks!! Do a little window shopping, put Fred on the train!

He's never rode it!

I am dying to eat a the Earl of Sandwich. I check out the food porn thread a lot and those sandwiches look WONDERFUL!

OT-2 weeks ago I went to Quiznos for the first time. If you have never been~go! I was so stuffed, but I couldn't stop eating it. They were soooooooo good! Best sandwich I've ever had!

After we are doing what ever it is we are doing I want to get back to Pop for an early night. I have never been to a park opening (honestly did not know this event exhisted!) I guess I always thought the park opened when I got there !

Guess which one we are going to first~~~~~~~~~~

 

[estherhead]

Getting lost is such a novel idea. I can never handle the stress of such events & therefore must be a psycho with the map.

You know the scene at the end of the Incredibles where they are fighting about Uptown & Downtown & exits & they end up at the perfect spot with screeching tires? That's us!

 

[ILMICKEY]

Usually when you get lost, you see the most interesting things!!

They say I'm a psycho with or without a map!

I agree with you about the incredibles thing.

Wow, 9 days!! Can I trade tickers with you??? I need my vacation so bad right now. I get to go camping over Labor Day weekend so I guess we can count that as a mini~vacation!

Hey while you are down there, you can put up signs along the side of the road that say "hey Ilmickey, your going the wrong way" That would be very helpful to me!!

I need to get over to your pretrippie and see what's going on with you!!

See you there!

 

[estherhead]

Oh dear, I have to disappoint you. There is no STINKIN' way I'm trading tickers! And the signs, that'd just be too much stress cause you'd be tellin' your swearing family: "Well there's this girl & it's all HER fault!"

Wait a minute. Maybe that's a good idea. You should just blame everything on me. They don't know where I live & then you'll be left alone for the whole trip. So on second thought... I'm adding poster board & stakes to my packing list! Ha!

 

[Simba22]

That's neat! I like your name too. I noticed there were a lot of old fashioned names coming around again. Lillian is a big one.

I was Nikki Head! Some days I still get picked on from people that know that bit of information.

Don't feel bad...my last name (hopefully sometime in the near future it will be my maiden name...) is Toronto...yes, like the city in Canada. And if one more twit asks me if I'm Canadian (not that there is anything wrong with being Canadian, eh?) I'm going to cause them severe bodily harm. You don't ask people whose last name is West if they are "from the West", or people whose last name is Santiago if they are Chile...

Anyhoo, and my grandmothers name was Lillian and I absolutely LOVE that name...I was thinking (if I have a daughter) of calling her Lilliana, but The Lumar (like has he room to talk) doesn't like that name, so for now we have decided on Olivia...and the funniest part is that we are not even expecting at this point in time!

oh an PS: You can not trade countdown tickers with me either! (not that you have all that much longer to go than I do!)

 

[ILMICKEY]

! And the signs, that'd just be too much stress cause you'd be tellin' your swearing family: "Well there's this girl & it's all HER fault!"

Wait a minute. Maybe that's a good idea. You should just blame everything on me. They don't know where I live & then you'll be left alone for the whole trip. So on second thought... I'm adding poster board & stakes to my packing list! Ha!

Awww thanks buddy!! I will totally feel better knowing that someone has put signs around so I won't get lost. I know if I see the "see ya real soon" signs, someone has moved your signs and is sending me in the wrong direction.

Don't feel bad...my last name (hopefully sometime in the near future it will be my maiden name...) is Toronto...yes, like the city in Canada. And if one more twit asks me if I'm Canadian (not that there is anything wrong with being Canadian, eh?) I'm going to cause them severe bodily harm. You don't ask people whose last name is West if they are "from the West", or people whose last name is Santiago if they are Chile...

So........are you from Canada?????

Anyhoo, and my grandmothers name was Lillian and I absolutely LOVE that name...I was thinking (if I have a daughter) of calling her Lilliana, but The Lumar (like has he room to talk) doesn't like that name, so for now we have decided on Olivia...and the funniest part is that we are not even expecting at this point in time!

How about Olivia Lilliana?? Sounds like a famous name. Tell Lumar when he can push a baby out, he can decide the name. My goodness, all the work we go through getting that baby out and THEY think they can pick the name!!

oh an PS: You can not trade countdown tickers with me either! (not that you have all that much longer to go than I do!)

O.k, o.k. I will just live off your trip reports. I am in the process of money making anyway. I'm having a yard sale Saturday. I HATE having yard sales, they are sooooo much work. I keep telling myself it's worth it!

I will just wait my turn. 3 long months!

 

[Simba22]

So........are you from Canada?????

You're lucky i like you...

How about Olivia Lilliana?? Sounds like a famous name. Tell Lumar when he can push a baby out, he can decide the name. My goodness, all the work we go through getting that baby out and THEY think they can pick the name!!

That's what I keep saying! I'm sorry, but after 9 months of carrying that thing around and then hours of labor, working to push something the size of a watermelon out of a hole the size of a lemon, women should automatically be given the right to call the kid whatever they want (although there are some exceptions such as those people who want to name their child "@" give me a break. CAN'T YOU JUST BE NORMAL!!! Think of your child's mental health!
And yes, I thought about Olivia Lilliana but here's the next problem (and let's all remember that Lumar is a HUGE crybaby), his last name is Rivera and he's already crying about Olivi-AH River-AH. I'm not that mean that I would make it a triple whammy. The poor guy is already depressed that I have predetermined that we are having a girl.....

O.k, o.k. I will just live off your trip reports. I am in the process of money making anyway. I'm having a yard sale Saturday. I HATE having yard sales, they are sooooo much work. I keep telling myself it's worth it!

We had one in July and made over $300! It wasn't bad except I got very badly sunburned....my legs are still peeling. Seriously.

 

[katdocnorf]

Just now came across your pretrip... Loving it.. Try a road trip with 5 kids ages 11months -20 years.... That's why I love traveling in the middle of the night. Eventually they go to sleep....

We tend to drive back during the day... WHY I DONT KNOW... but we drive down at night.. Then crash and burn when we get there.


And by the way I love OHANA.. It's good for breakfast too, but dinner is the best. If you get a table by the windows in Ohana you can see the fireworks and water pageant but you would have to make your ADR a little later for that and then gamble on getting the right table. But if you get down towards the beach early enough you can get one of the table close to the beach and see the fireworks great. Check my trip report, that is what we did and I have pics and video of fireworks from there.

 

[ILMICKEY]

The poor guy is already depressed that I have predetermined that we are having a girl.....

I have to agree with him and say boys are much easier than girls!!

We had one in July and made over $300! It wasn't bad except I got very badly sunburned....my legs are still peeling. Seriously.

Mine was awful. I don't have a garage, and it was raining until about 1:30. I had put an ad in the paper so all these people were pulling in the driveway, noticing there wasn't anything out, then left. Never coming back. I made $13, the add was $20.

Sorry about the sunburn! 2 months of peeling? It must have been bad. Ouch.

Just now came across your pretrip... Loving it..

Thanks!! I am really enjoying yours too!

Try a road trip with 5 kids ages 11months -20 years.... That's why I love traveling in the middle of the night.

Nope, won't do it, wouldn't be prudent!!

Then crash and burn when we get there

Hopefully we make it there before we crash and burn too. I don't like the idea of crashing and burning before we get there!! Yikes!

And by the way I love OHANA.. It's good for breakfast too, but dinner is the best. If you get a table by the windows in Ohana you can see the fireworks and water pageant but you would have to make your ADR a little later for that and then gamble on getting the right table. But if you get down towards the beach early enough you can get one of the table close to the beach and see the fireworks great. Check my trip report, that is what we did and I have pics and video of fireworks from there.

I soooo can't wait for Ohana! I have been reading your report. I think I may have missed that though. I will go right now and check it out!!

Thanks for the support guys. I almost quit writing this, I didn't think anyone was reading.

Here's a hug!

 

[disneyaddicted]

I didn't realize that it's been forever since I visited your trip report, I had to go back a couple of pages just to catch up, so I will start with the drive.
I think the route you're taking is the same one I took when I moved from Mi. to Norfolk Va. and I was completely freaked out driving through the mountains.
My DH never lets me help with the driving, he too has a dent in the bed of his new truck, now I can't say that would not have happened had it been me driving as I have totaled a vehicle or 2 in my time, I do say in my defense, that wall jumped out in front of me.

I am so looking forward to flying, I get so tired of driving everywhere. Ya know, you could take the scenic route through Pa and stop off in Brogueville, for a country Pennsylvania Dutch home cooked Thanksgiving dinner prepared by none other than NOT ME! Kent is the cook, I thank him most sarcasticly everyday for the major weight gain over the past 13 years. I'll set a place out for you all just incase.

So your maiden name was Head? I can picture the jokes from that one. My maiden name was Sanford. I was called Fred alot and couldn't walk into a classroom without someone whistling, humming, and even beat boxing the theme from Sanford and son.

 

[roxannensteve]

Thanks for the support guys. I almost quit writing this, I didn't think anyone was reading.

We're all still here - don't quit but I hear ya, I'm about to go change my title to see if that'll catch an audience.

 

[ILMICKEY]

Oh, I will hang in there!!

I changed my title. Don't really think it helped, but I like the sound of a Road Trip better!!

 

[JKMJ441724]

Really? Your maiden name is Head? It was a nickname my brother-in-law gave me years ago. I can't even remember why but we just went around adding the word "head" to the end of people's names in these silly voices. I think it was from a B-movie. Mine was the only one that really sounded good with it so it stuck. I still get called it from time to time.

I love my name. I've always thought it was nice to have an old-fashioned name that didn't sound old. It's making a bit of a come back so I'm no longer the only one I know but for a really long time it was my name & mine alone.

My husband is 40 (cough cough) something. He and all his buddies call each other head. There is very little in life more embarrassing than being in the mall or at the lake and hearing (from very far away, mind you) "HEY! HEAD!"

 

[ILMICKEY]

He and all his buddies call each other head. There is very little in life more embarrassing than being in the mall or at the lake and hearing (from very far away, mind you) "HEY! HEAD!"

How about being a kid just starting the middle school and they do roll call?
Is Nikki Head here today?

Or,
On the loud speaker "Nikki Head, please come to the office".