VWL Lovers & Groupies thread: It all started with a Moose

[Muushka]

Guess what????

BWV Dreamin's birthday is tomorrow!!!​

 

[Muushka]

And.....

Granny needs coffee!!!

 

[DaveH]

Hi all still alive.

DIL sorry for your lost. I hope you and family remember the great times.

NO CATS IN VILLAS!!!! They would hurt DW badly due to allergies.

Hope everyone who prayers and are doing much better.

DW just loves DCL, we had a trip to world in May with friends. They bailed and changed to a 4 night DCL. Had a great time. Been spending more time on the cruise board.

We do not cook at WDW. Just the 2 of us and much better not cooking. DW is the coffee person. We have some Gevalia in OL for her. She loves Kurig, they have it at her work.

We want to try Aulani, hopefully some time in the future.

I will try to stop in more often.

 

[Muushka]

Hey belated Birthday Boy! I hope it was a good one.

Don't worry about cats in villas. It is a dream thing, not a request.
And believe it or not, we are both allergic to the beasts!

Ahhhh cruising. Love it.

Hey, I just noticed:

You can get FREE dining when you book a full price Walt Disney World vacation package for check-ins most nights August 15 - October 7, 2010, October 22-October 28, 2010, November 12-18, 2010, November 27 - December 2, 2010 and December 10-21, 2010.

No free dining while we are there in Dec (Dec 3-9)! WooHoo!

 

[sleepydog25]

Hey belated Birthday Boy! I hope it was a good one.

Don't worry about cats in villas. It is a dream thing, not a request.
And believe it or not, we are both allergic to the beasts!

Ahhhh cruising. Love it.

Hey, I just noticed:

No free dining while we are there in Dec (Dec 3-9)! WooHoo!

Second that woohoo. . .

 

[Muushka]

And I just read this:

2010 Candlelight Processional Narrators (partial, tentative, subject to change)

* 11/26/10-11/28/01 - Isabella Rossellini
* 11/29/10-12/06/10 - TBD
* 12/07/10-12/09/10 - Jodi Benson
* 12/10/10-12/11/10 - Whoopi Goldberg
* 12/12/10-12/15/10 - Steven Curtis Chapman
* 12/16/10-12/18/10 - Thomas Gibson
* 12/19/10-12/21/10 - Trace Adkins
* 12/22/10-12/27/10 - TBD
* 12/28/10-12/30/10 - Marlee Matlin

Whoopi might be fun!

 

[DaveH]

Thanks for the birthday wish. I got to see Whoopi thanks to the snow storm. She did a great job. We will miss the CP this year. We will be there for for 2 nights. We are going to visit friends on the day before our cruise. so no time and too much $ for just the evening. We will not be back to WDW until Dec next year. I will PM with all details. We are doing B2B starting Nov 28. We love WDW for the holidays. We will try to go to a couple of the hotels on that Sat night. I plan on next year doing a week at WDW just after Thanksgiving.

121 for cruise and 119 to WDW.

 

[Inkmahm]

Wow, I am surprised your vet had not been notified. I think I am going to ask mine about switching to the Humulin N insulin. Do you remember what you pay per vial? And do you give your cat about the same amount as the Vetsulin? Thanks! To keep it in the WL spirit, I wonder if they sell Humulin N insulin at the Mercantile????

Not at the Mercantile, but on Amazon.com!

http://www.amazon.com/Lilly-Humulin...ef=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=hpc&qid=1280513216&sr=1-1

this is the cheapest I've found with shipping.

Did you call your vet yet?

 

[eliza61]

And I just read this:

2010 Candlelight Processional Narrators (partial, tentative, subject to change)

* 11/26/10-11/28/01 - Isabella Rossellini
* 11/29/10-12/06/10 - TBD
* 12/07/10-12/09/10 - Jodi Benson
* 12/10/10-12/11/10 - Whoopi Goldberg
* 12/12/10-12/15/10 - Steven Curtis Chapman
* 12/16/10-12/18/10 - Thomas Gibson
* 12/19/10-12/21/10 - Trace Adkins
* 12/22/10-12/27/10 - TBD
* 12/28/10-12/30/10 - Marlee Matlin

Whoopi might be fun!

Hey guys, what is candlelight processional? We've never been during the holidays. so I've no clue. what are they narrating?

 

[Muushka]

Not at the Mercantile, but on Amazon.com!

http://www.amazon.com/Lilly-Humulin...ef=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=hpc&qid=1280513216&sr=1-1

this is the cheapest I've found with shipping.

Did you call your vet yet?

Nope, not yet. I am caring for 2 diabetic kitties at this time, both on Vetsulin. When Brandon's mom returns from Taiwan, I will talk with her about it then, and then ask about the other insulin. I will let you know.

Hey guys, what is candlelight processional? We've never been during the holidays. so I've no clue. what are they narrating?

How can I describe the most beautiful thing that Disney has to offer at Christmas? In my own words, it is the Christmas story, without the watering down that the holiday so often receives. No Santa, no sleigh rides and no Frosty. Christ from the cradle to the cross.

Here is Disney's description

During the holidays, Epcot theme park is transformed into an international celebration of Yuletide traditions filled with festive decorations and live entertainment. From Holidays Around The World to Candlelight Processional, delight in the sights and sounds of the season.

Candlelight Processional is a special holiday event held nightly at the American Gardens Theatre in Epcot theme park as part of Holidays Around The World. The event retells the stirring story of Christmas with a special celebrity narrator accompanied by a 50-piece orchestra and a mass choir.

Candlelight Processional is a terrific way to get in the Christmas spirit and to share the magic of the season with your family and friends. The event has become an essential family tradition for many Guests — once you experience it, you will be inspired to share it every year with the ones you love.

http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/parks/epcot/special-events/candlelight-processional/

Thanks for the birthday wish. I got to see Whoopi thanks to the snow storm. She did a great job. We will miss the CP this year. We will be there for for 2 nights. We are going to visit friends on the day before our cruise. so no time and too much $ for just the evening. We will not be back to WDW until Dec next year. I will PM with all details. We are doing B2B starting Nov 28. We love WDW for the holidays. We will try to go to a couple of the hotels on that Sat night. I plan on next year doing a week at WDW just after Thanksgiving.

121 for cruise and 119 to WDW.

Sounds like a wonderful plan. One year we did 4 days BCV 4 days VWL and DCL Wonder for Christmas (day). That was one of the best vacations we ever had. You enjoy yourself and take lots of pictures!

 

[horselover]

Hello groupies! Just popping on to say 13 more days til Disney!!! Oh & I'm pretty sure I broke my pinkie toe yesterday. If it's not broken it's a really bad sprain & the treatment is the same anyway. Bad timing to say the least. I can't get my foot into my normal Disney shoes or any of my sandals except 1 pair & they'd be not great for long term walking. Went ahead & order some really ugly Crocs & an expensive pair of Teva sandals from Zappos. Both brands were recommended for comfort, but oh those Crocs are ugly! I'm not sure if I'd rather wear ugly shoes or more expensive stylish ones. I hate spending too much $$ on shoes. I'm not your typical girl that way! Hopefully one pair will work & the other will go back. Even better would be my toe is totally healed by then!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HOPE!!!!

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

Sorry to hear about the toe HL!!! Those are painful. I've had a couple broken little toes from horses stepping on them, a broken big toe from a motorcycle (just before my nieces baptisim and I still remember the pain of wearing dressy shoes for that!) and then last year I broke my second toe just before that same nieces graduation from HS. I told her I might not make it to her wedding since I figure that's a set up for another toe or perhaps a foot.

I hope the crocs or sandles work well and that your toe does some quick healing!! I found my birkenstocks or teva's to be the most comfortable but I don't own any Crocks to know how those would have worked.

 

[blossomz]

Starting our final weekend before we cruise!

 

[Inkmahm]

Hello groupies! Just popping on to say 13 more days til Disney!!! Oh & I'm pretty sure I broke my pinkie toe yesterday. If it's not broken it's a really bad sprain & the treatment is the same anyway. Bad timing to say the least. I can't get my foot into my normal Disney shoes or any of my sandals except 1 pair & they'd be not great for long term walking. Went ahead & order some really ugly Crocs & an expensive pair of Teva sandals from Zappos. Both brands were recommended for comfort, but oh those Crocs are ugly! I'm not sure if I'd rather wear ugly shoes or more expensive stylish ones. I hate spending too much $$ on shoes. I'm not your typical girl that way! Hopefully one pair will work & the other will go back. Even better would be my toe is totally healed by then!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HOPE!!!!

Keep the crocs! Those ARE my Disney shoes as well as my at home shoes. I can't even tell you how many pair I own. Croc sandals are about the only thing on my feet in the summer time.

 

[DiznyDi]

HL that your toe heals quickly and you can enjoy your trip! I watch Sierra Trading Post on a regular basis for bargain basement prices on Tevas and Merrells. Just picked up a pair of Teva leather sandals for $24.87 with free shipping that had originally been $80. I don't find Crocs particularly comfortable for long term wear, only to the pool while at the resort. And of course, they're my Disney Crocs!

Yeah, blossomz, it won't be long! Looking forward to reading all about it!

Hoping all Groupies have a nice week-end!

 

[Disney loving Iowan]

Such a bummer DLI - there's room at the breakfast table still too...

Oh I wish I could be there!!!

We had a really great time with Muushka yesterday.
Barb, for the folks who havent had a chance to meet her yet, is a wonderful person. This was our 2nd mini meet, though we feel like we have known her for years. The food was good, but the company was top notch!

Barb, thanks for being our friend, and thanks for the empassioned conversation. We parallel one another on our feelings about a lot of subjects. So it just makes it natural to get along as well as we do.

We are fortunate to have her as a groupie!

We sure are!!!!! Glad you were able to get together!!

Well, my sister just called me twice at work, you know the one who can't organize a 'freakin trip to Walmart and left a message saying, "I just spoke to a Cindy and we were saying since it's so hot in August, we were wondering if you could pull some thing together for this Christmas"
beep
Thanks for talking me down from the ledge.

Oh my! As much as I love planning my trips I sure wouldn't want to make those plans! Good luck!

Just had to post an update. We accepted an offer on our house last month and finally found a house we like. Our offer was accepted today! Yay! We'll be moving in September. With moving, DS starting 4K and remodeling the new house, I have a feeling the months will fly by and it'll be May and time for our trip.

So excited to move!

Congratulations!!

DIL sorry for your lost. I hope you and family remember the great times.

Thank you!

Oh & I'm pretty sure I broke my pinkie toe yesterday.

Hope your toe gets better by your trip!

 

[Disney loving Iowan]

Back from a very busy trip to Pa. Lots of family in town. It was go go go right from day one. It was so great to see everone. The most special part was getting to see DD and her cousin play their violins together. They are very talented although DD plays just for fun and her cousin is pretty serious about teaching music in the future.

Getting our new puppy tomorrow!!! It's another corgi. A girl who I think we will name Kaya. It is actually Misa's niece. I'll post a picture when I get the chance.

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

 

[PKWallaby]

Been away a while (but still lurking to make sure you groupies have been behaving yourselves!) but wanted to share with y'all that my VWL waitlist came through for the end of October!! My DD and I will be enjoying the beauty of the great northwest in less than 3 months!

Can't wait to soak it all in, so I think I'll pull up a rocker and sit a spell

 

[Muushka]

Poor HL. I hope it heals quickly. Those crocks may look bad, but they will feel good.

Been away a while (but still lurking to make sure you groupies have been behaving yourselves!) but wanted to share with y'all that my VWL waitlist came through for the end of October!! My DD and I will be enjoying the beauty of the great northwest in less than 3 months!

Can't wait to soak it all in, so I think I'll pull up a rocker and sit a spell

Yay! Out of lurkdom and onto the rocker!!!! Enjoy your looooong visit with us. And share your trip with us!!!

Just had to post an update. We accepted an offer on our house last month and finally found a house we like. Our offer was accepted today! Yay! We'll be moving in September. With moving, DS starting 4K and remodeling the new house, I have a feeling the months will fly by and it'll be May and time for our trip.

So excited to move!

I missed that. Congratulations! That is exciting! I hope everything turns out just as you dreamed it would!

Starting our final weekend before we cruise!

Another yay!! I hope you love it as much as we do. I want to hear every detail, even the boring stuff!

Back from a very busy trip to Pa. Lots of family in town. It was go go go right from day one. It was so great to see everone. The most special part was getting to see DD and her cousin play their violins together. They are very talented although DD plays just for fun and her cousin is pretty serious about teaching music in the future.

Getting our new puppy tomorrow!!! It's another corgi. A girl who I think we will name Kaya. It is actually Misa's niece. I'll post a picture when I get the chance.

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

You know I live vicariously through you with your Corgis. Pretty please post a picture of Kaya?

 

[stopher1]

How can I describe the most beautiful thing that Disney has to offer at Christmas? In my own words, it is the Christmas story, without the watering down that the holiday so often receives. No Santa, no sleigh rides and no Frosty. Christ from the cradle to the cross.

Here is Disney's description

http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/parks/epcot/special-events/candlelight-processional/

Candlelight itself goes back to the very first year at Disneyland 1955, and Walt himself, but didn't evolve into the actual Processional part (with the choirs processing down Main Street and then moving into position in front of the Train Station). It is truly a wonderful experience. At least, I say that from all the times I've seen it at DL - oh, and the 2 years I was IN it too. In fact, the 1988 year (one of the two years I was in it), was also the year that the Disney Channel featured Candlelight in their Christmas programming. I have it recorded on DVD, and there I am (hard to make out, but I do see myself and my way big '80's glasses).

I haven't yet experienced it at Epcot - though I've had the opportunity 3 different times, as a walk-up, not a CP Dinner package guest. I do believe this will be the year for me though...

At DL it's still performed on Main Street, in Town Square, with the mass choir still in front of the Train Station and the full orchestra down on the street out in front. (though for 3 years at the end of the '90s it was moved off MS and to the back of the park to the former Videopolis stage. The CM Choir gets to be the living Christmas Tree each year, with the mass choir filling in (very, very closely) on both sides. Then the Disneyland Trumpters stand on the roof of the Train Station for their parts as well; the narrator is down front and center, and the Dickens Carolers are part of it as well. That was such an awesome experience. (I still have my sheet music).

Since I haven't seen it at WDW yet, I don't exactly know how the mass choir is comprised. But in So. Cal, it's comprised of local churches and school choirs, who basically are selected in the fall of a year for the next year's performance. It's a high honor to be selected.

There's really nothing else like it.

Here is a pic from the DL version from last Christmas - at least, the stage set up. In looking back at the pic though, I see that last year the orchestra was on a raised platform, instead of down at street level as it has been in years past.

Although unlike Epcot, where they do it in the America Gardens Theatre, at DL it is only performed on a single weekend (Sat & Sun nights) due to the extreme disruption it brings about in the days leading up to it through the Monday following when it all gets torn down once again. I know that's part of why they moved it off Main Street all those years ago, but it's only one weekend...and it's tradition. Main Street is the place to have it at DL.