Turn Around and See What Happens -- It's Whoopi Time and that's a wrap 3/31; F&G add

[stephielela]

Catching up!! Rare weekends when I have to work are the only opportunity i have for uninterrupted DIS time! Your trip sound fun and I'm so jealous of your mini March trip! I am dying to move to Florida so job searching has begun, I wish I could drive around and pick a city I was going to do a quickie trip in April but decided to take the plunge and go tp Disneyland instead!

P.S. I can't bring myself to ride the hurl ride either

 

[petals]

Poor Mark falling into the bushes. It's so embarrassing when that happens in front of people.

 

[mrsksomeday]

I am loving this trip report. I would have laughed too about Mark falling in the shrubs, how couldn't you?

It was so great to get to meet you in person, you both are such wonderful people. I can't wait to read more.

 

[natebenma]

That was totally NOT where I thought your title came from. I was guessing someone was going to say "Turn Around" and you would run into a DIS friend.

Poor Mark! But sometimes you just have to suffer for your art.

I'm so glad he was ok, and you have a fun story to tell that didn't end in EPCOT First Aid

The pink fuzzy hat is extremely cute. Does it have a Disney tie-in?

You guys have done a lot of fun stuff that morning!

 

[JulieODC]

Oh no, poor Mark!!! If you only you had managed to grab a picture....

 

[MeMom]

On the way, a picture of the fountain:

Pretty blue sky, palm trees, and the spray of water - wish I was standing there right now!

Nice update. Brooklynn, Bella, and I will probably spend plenty of time a The Seas when we have our special days at Epcot in July. There are so many things to see and do in there, and Brooklynn especially loves it, as you are familiar with her love of animals.

I bet Mark was sore the day after his fall. I 'face planted' at Hollywood Studios one night as we were leaving Fantasmic. I reached to throw something in a trash can and just caught the curb wrong with one foot. Down I went. I started laughing, and after Jill saw that I was fine, she was laughing, too. I had sidewalk burns across my cheek and nose for several days after that. I know people wondered how and old lady got her face messed up like that.

I'm glad you are having some special family time this weekend. You look quite happy in the FB picture.

 

[tazdev3225]

Poor Mark falling in the bushes. I would have laughed too but then again I am usually the one falling so I have learned to laugh at myself.

Love Imagination and Living Seas. I'll have to hope for some alone time in May a my traveling companion doesn't like them as much as I do. We take break from each other at least one day so I go to them during that time.

I love the fuzzy pink hat, so Mark. Jim just doesn't do well with hat pics.

 

[GoofyFan1515]

No picture of Mark falling into the bushes? Can you actually say it really happened??? Regardless, your description is hilarious and I'm sure I would have joined you and Mary laughing! Well, until I felt guilty for laughing and went to see if he was hurt or needed help.......

Love the matching hat pictures with Mark and Cayley!

So glad Markie looks like he is recovering!

 

[MAGICFOR2]

Poor Mark !! I just hate hoe insurance dictates what we can do !!!I think all doctors should accept ALL insurances if they want to practice in the USA !! Hospitals too !!!

Just an FYI from a doctor's office manager - some insurances who we have been contracted with suddenly sold HMO policies to people and did not let us know we needed a separate contract, some companies we have been begging to send a contract and they keep dropping the ball, some companies won't send us a contract because another group got exclusive rights to the contract -Medicaid is insisting we give expensive vaccines to children for free, while it costs us money to see their patients. Unfortunately, a medical office is a business, and some decisions have to be made in order to keep the business open.

Doctors are very frustrated with insurance companies telling them how to practice medicine, too. The winners in this whole game are not the patients and not the doctors, it is the big insurance companies who have been paying lobbyists to get laws passed that have hurt all of us.

That is all. I hope you know none of this was said to be crabby or argumentative - I think a lot of times, people just don't see the other side.

 

[MAGICFOR2]

THANK you ALL for the good wishes for Mark's surgery.

However, it looks as if it will be cancelled. The doctor's office and the MRI office FAILED to tell Mark that they were NOT in his network for his insurance. This surgery would end up costing him over $8000...money they do NOT have (and we don't have it to give to them, unfortunately).

It looks like they will start all over from scratch when they find a doctor in his network. He is NOT a happy camper right now. And he is very emotional. He is talking about giving up coaching wrestling and getting a second job with Alisha going back to school in August. Hopefully, in time, he will calm down. I will keep you posted.

What a pain! I now see that Mark had his surgery, and is recovering well - I'm so happy to hear it. I'll bet those cookies helped a lot! I hope some day all this insurance stuff gets fixed, but I am thinking it will get worse before it gets better - many docs who can are retiring early not to deal with it, and encouraging young ones not to pursue medicine. It will be hard to find a doc some day.

Okay, now on to your TR! I don't know how I got this far behind - I have had a really busy 2 weeks at work, and I've been so exhausted, I just start to read one TR and fall asleep, so I'm not making much progress. I'm all caught up here, though - sorry I've been MIA.

Your day at AK looks so fun! I really want to see the Jingle parade one of these days. So cool you got to have an adult dinner and the girls were so responsible!

Too funny about Mark falling in the bushes! I'm glad nothing was hurt but his pride. Love the pink furry hat, but I think it looks best on Cayley!

 

[scottny]

Glad his surgery went well.
That is too funny about Mark falling into the bushes. Glad he was okay but I would have been crying from laughing.
Love Figment and Nemo. Fun day so far, for most. LOL

 

[Chicago Mo]

OHHHHHHHH No!!!! Poor guy!!! yet i would have been laughing right with you.. So the pictures of Mark afterwards look OK.. How was the bush???

Mark looks like he is on the mend! Puppies always make things better...

so good you were able to take a ride out to the kids house! Did he like his cookies?!?!

 

[afwdwfan]

Mary and I were laughing so hard that neither one of us thought to grab our camera and get a photo.

That would have been a great one too.

And the photo I finally got of Mark and the girls was one of the ones lost on my phone.

The stars just weren't aligning. At least you'll always have the memory of Mark doing a face plant though.

***Mark posted this on his FB today. Seems Rolo doesn't care that Mark has a bad shoulder...just that Rolo is comfortable

Obviously.

I hope he's recovering well.

 

[KatMark]

I will get to responses a bit later; I have to catch up after being out of the office on Friday and our busy weekend in Dubuque.

But here's the picture after my klutz husband fell in the bushes:

 

[afwdwfan]

But here's the picture after my klutz husband fell in the bushes:

Did you get your cell phone pictures back somehow?

 

[KatMark]

Did you get your cell phone pictures back somehow?

No, I had posted some on Facebook as part of my daily updates and forgot that was one of them.

 

[englishrose47]

Great Updates Kathy !!I LOVE Figment too !! Rolo remind me of Snoopy , he just plonks down wherever he is comfortableSee I knew Mark and I had stuff in common!! His Flower Bed Dive was unrecorded as was my Torpedoing down the bleaches at FantasmicTe worse thing hurt is your pride !!!

 

[norybell]

It took me way too long, but I'm here and all caught up!

So much to comment on (yes, I took notes):

-My DH always says no more 7:30 AM flights, too...and I continue to book them anyway! It's the best time of day to fly!

-I love the Boardwalk! If only it were somehow connected to SAB...

-Sorry to hear you had such rotten service at the Plaza. That drives me nuts, whenever you have to wait even though there are plenty of open tables.

-I love your pictures with Pooh, in front of that storybook. What a nice background!

-Did you ever make it on the Jingle Cruise? From everything I heard, it sounded a little underwhelming.

-I've had an equal number of good and bad meals at Yak & Yeti, so I can't decide anymore if I like them or not. Glad your meal was one of the good ones!

-I've never done Primeval Hurl/Whirl, or Rafiki's. With a little one in tow, I'm sure that will change eventually. Do you think Primeval Whirl is bad even for someone who loves roller coasters?

-I love Jiko, even though I haven't been there in ages. My husband's Ethiopian, though, so I'm pretty used to a lot of the spices.

-You mentioned that you don't like staying at WL...can I pry and ask why not? I only stayed there once and really wanted to love it, but I didn't...my room was in desperate need of a refurb, and I got really sick of long waits for the boats (plus it was a chilly January, and spending so much time waiting for and on boats left me feeling never quite warm enough). But I really want to like it there...the lobby and grounds sure are beautiful!

-I, too, loved Whispering Canyon for breakfast, even though I was nervous about shenanigans (I was there alone, didn't want to deal with any craziness). But I remember the food being delicious, and shenanigan-free!

-Since I caught up using links and missed all the comments, I may have missed this...have you shared your feelings about FP+?

-So glad Mark's surgery went well...I hope his recovery is speedy!

 

[Iamthequeen]

I'm all caught up once again. The ice storm left me way behind. Hope Mark Jr is doing well.

 

[Millie12591]

Awww. Poor Mr. Mark. Bless his heart he was trying to be the fun loving guy he is and he toppled over into the flowers.

I can't even imagine what the CM must have been thinking.
Can you imagine what the CM's must see day in and day out? Especially on the weekend nights or during F&W and F&GF?!? Oh my goodness!!