VWL Groupies & Lovers Thread (Special Collectors Edition 2.5) updated 2 February 2025

[DiznyDi]

Wishing the one and only GRANNY a great big Happy Birthday tomorrow!

Love your dancing dogs!

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

2 more sleeps!!!

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

Okay, I'll borrow a page from WildernessDad!




We're ready for this trip!

So is it a belated Birthday trip? Hope it's great and that you have a very

Happy Birthday Granny!!!

 

[Corinne]

Happy Birthday Granny hope you have a great day.

 

[Granny]

DH has sworn off of Disney. No more for him, he barely tolerated it in the past. Our September trip will be with another family. Some of our best friends and DS's best friend as well. Really looking forward to that.

Hi Nicoal!

Sorry to hear that your DH is not a fan of WDW trips. I feel in many ways that I've been blessed, and one of them is that my DW enjoys our trips as much as I do. But it sounds like you have a great group for your September trip. Have a great one!

 

[Granny]

Wishing the one and only GRANNY a great big Happy Birthday tomorrow!

Love your dancing dogs!

So is it a belated Birthday trip? Hope it's great and that you have a very

Happy Birthday Granny!!!

Happy Birthday Granny hope you have a great day.

Well aren't you guys just too kind! Thanks so much!

 

[Granny]

And to take a page out of Eliza's trivia book, here's some things that have happened over the years on my birth date:

1606 - England adopted the original Union Jack as its flag. .

1782 - The British navy won its only naval engagement against the colonists in the American Revolution at the Battle of Saints, off Dominica. [Pure luck!]

1811 - The first colonists arrived at Cape Disappointment, Washington. [Name not sanctioned by the local Chamber of Commerce!]

1861 - Fort Sumter was shelled by Confederacy, starting America's Civil War. [Thought you'd like this one, Jimmy]

1877 - A catcher's mask was used in a baseball game for the first time by James Alexander Tyng. [Smart move, James. It only took ice hockey about 100 more years to figure that one out]

1892 - Voters in Lockport, New York, became the first in the U.S. to use voting machines.

1927 - The British Cabinet came out in favor of women voting rights. [Really, 7 years after the US did it?]

1945 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt died in Warm Spring, GA. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 63. Harry S Truman became president. [The only President from Missouri]

1961 - Soviet Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin became first man to orbit the Earth. [Think tortoise vs the hare]

1981 - The space shuttle Columbia blasted off from Cape Canaveral, FL, on its first test flight.

1984 - Israeli troops stormed a bus that had been hijacked the previous evening by four Arab terrorists. All the passengers were rescued and 2 of the hijackers were killed.

1985 - U.S. Senator Jake Garn of Utah became the first senator to fly in space as the shuttle Discovery lifted off from Cape Canaveral, FL. [What, John Glenn didn't count?]

1985 - Federal inspectors declared that four animals of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus were not unicorns. They were goats with horns that had been surgically implanted. [You just can't get anything past the Feds!]

1992 - Disneyland Paris opened in Marne-La-Vallee, France. [You just knew there had to be a Disney reference in there somewhere!]

2002 - A first edition version of Beatrix Potter's "Peter Rabbit" sold for $64,780 at Sotheby's. A signed first edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" sold for $66,630. A copy of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone," signed by J.K. Rowling sold for $16,660. A 250-piece collection of rare works by Charles Dickens sold for $512,650. [My older daughter has a degree as an English major. I tried to talk her into writing a book. Oh well.]

2012 - The game Candy Crush Saga was released on Facebook. [Possibly the most historical of all these events.]

 

[twokats]

Happy Birthday Granny

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

Love it Granny! Thanks for the update on What's What from April 12th!

 

[rkstocke5609]

And to take a page out of Eliza's trivia book, here's some things that have happened over the years on my birth date:

1606 - England adopted the original Union Jack as its flag. .

1782 - The British navy won its only naval engagement against the colonists in the American Revolution at the Battle of Saints, off Dominica. [Pure luck!]

1811 - The first colonists arrived at Cape Disappointment, Washington. [Name not sanctioned by the local Chamber of Commerce!]

1861 - Fort Sumter was shelled by Confederacy, starting America's Civil War. [Thought you'd like this one, Jimmy]

1877 - A catcher's mask was used in a baseball game for the first time by James Alexander Tyng. [Smart move, James. It only took ice hockey about 100 more years to figure that one out]

1892 - Voters in Lockport, New York, became the first in the U.S. to use voting machines.

1927 - The British Cabinet came out in favor of women voting rights. [Really, 7 years after the US did it?]

1945 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt died in Warm Spring, GA. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 63. Harry S Truman became president. [The only President from Missouri]

1961 - Soviet Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin became first man to orbit the Earth. [Think tortoise vs the hare]

1981 - The space shuttle Columbia blasted off from Cape Canaveral, FL, on its first test flight.

1984 - Israeli troops stormed a bus that had been hijacked the previous evening by four Arab terrorists. All the passengers were rescued and 2 of the hijackers were killed.

1985 - U.S. Senator Jake Garn of Utah became the first senator to fly in space as the shuttle Discovery lifted off from Cape Canaveral, FL. [What, John Glenn didn't count?]

1985 - Federal inspectors declared that four animals of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus were not unicorns. They were goats with horns that had been surgically implanted. [You just can't get anything past the Feds!]

1992 - Disneyland Paris opened in Marne-La-Vallee, France. [You just knew there had to be a Disney reference in there somewhere!]

2002 - A first edition version of Beatrix Potter's "Peter Rabbit" sold for $64,780 at Sotheby's. A signed first edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" sold for $66,630. A copy of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone," signed by J.K. Rowling sold for $16,660. A 250-piece collection of rare works by Charles Dickens sold for $512,650. [My older daughter has a degree as an English major. I tried to talk her into writing a book. Oh well.]

2012 - The game Candy Crush Saga was released on Facebook. [Possibly the most historical of all these events.]

Love it! Happy Birthday Granny!

 

[rkstocke5609]

2 more sleeps!!!

Have a great trip! I look forward to your "Wilderness Pictorial Analysis" from a Groupie perspective!

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

Have a great trip! I look forward to your "Wilderness Pictorial Analysis" from a Groupie perspective!

I'll try and make it over!

 

[Granny]

Happy Birthday Granny

Love it! Happy Birthday Granny!

Thanks, Kathy (twokats) and Ron! I appreciate the sentiments.


Nevada Kathy...I'll look for your pix. I plan on getting over to WL at some point too. Have a wonderful trip, sorry to just miss you this time but we'll get together somewhere down the road.

 

[twinklebug]

Happy Birthday Granny!

 

[Flossbolna]

Happy Birthday Granny!!

And to take a page out of Eliza's trivia book, here's some things that have happened over the years on my birth date:

And here I was just about to post that you are lucky that you share a birthday with a Disney park!! But then, you already post it yourself. I would guess you are a little older than 24 though...

Have a great day!!

 

[sleepydog25]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GRANNY!

 

[Dizny Dad]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRANNY

 

[horselover]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRANNY!!!!

 

[circhead]

Happy Birthday, Granny.

 

[Granny]

Happy Birthday Granny!

Happy Birthday Granny!!



And here I was just about to post that you are lucky that you share a birthday with a Disney park!! But then, you already post it yourself. I would guess you are a little older than 24 though...

Have a great day!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GRANNY!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRANNY

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRANNY!!!!

Happy Birthday, Granny.

Aw shucks, now you guys are just overwhelming me!

Thank you Twinklebug, Flossy, Patrick, DDad, Julie, and Pat. I am blessed to know you guys and to have met some of you in person. I hope you all have a great day.

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