VWL Lovers & Groupies Thread: Meese-ka, Mice-ka MOOSE-kateers

[twokats]

You own a Cessna?? Is that what I think it is??

If this is what you think it is then you are correct. My DH is a private pilot and has been since he was in the Air Force. We got a fantastic opportunity in 2006 to purchase the Cessna 172G (which was always a dream of his) and so we bought 'the baby' as I call it. Some men own bass boats around here, mine owns an airplane, and since he is an aircraft mechanic by trade, we save a lot of money because he is able to work on it himself!!!

 

[Muushka]

Yup, it's what I thought it was. Cool!

 

[Disney loving Iowan]

I am not sure if I ever did post Lucy's picture. I just went to my photobucket account and it didn't remember me.
So I opened a new one and they charge . A work in progress, pic to follow.

Huh? They charge now?!!!!!! Yeesh.

 

[Disney loving Iowan]

Not sure what is going on Muushka but I can use mine without being charged.

 

[Muushka]

Not sure what is going on Muushka but I can use mine without being charged.

Your account is an existing one, right? I had to open a new one, and they were charging. If anyone knows a way around it, I'm there!

 

[jimmytammy]

If this is what you think it is then you are correct. My DH is a private pilot and has been since he was in the Air Force. We got a fantastic opportunity in 2006 to purchase the Cessna 172G (which was always a dream of his) and so we bought 'the baby' as I call it. Some men own bass boats around here, mine owns an airplane, and since he is an aircraft mechanic by trade, we save a lot of money because he is able to work on it himself!!!

Kool!!!!!!!
I know its not feasible, but neat to think about...you realize you can fly to WDW, eat at say Le Cellier, Ohana, etc. then fly back home

I know a fellow bldr. who owns one and he says its simply for fun, he cant justify fuel costs flying all the way to WDW just for the heck of it. But hey, we can dream cant we

 

[jimmytammy]

Happy Birthday Mary J !!!!

 

[twokats]

Kool!!!!!!!
I know its not feasible, but neat to think about...you realize you can fly to WDW, eat at say Le Cellier, Ohana, etc. then fly back home

I know a fellow bldr. who owns one and he says its simply for fun, he cant justify fuel costs flying all the way to WDW just for the heck of it. But hey, we can dream cant we

Ours is just for his personal enjoyment and sometimes to take friends up that have never been flying. We have talked about flying with ultimate destinations in mind, but he is what I call a fair weather pilot and does not take any chances with risky weather or excessive wind. But it is nice to dream about things like that!!

 

[Muushka]

Ours is just for his personal enjoyment and sometimes to take friends up that have never been flying. We have talked about flying with ultimate destinations in mind, but he is what I call a fair weather pilot and does not take any chances with risky weather or excessive wind. But it is nice to dream about things like that!!

Your Mr Twokats is a wise man. Either way, as Jimmy said, Kool!

PS My first flight was in a 4 seater. We missed the last ferry from Block Island to the mainland, at night, over the ocean .
A kind pilot (for a very reasonable fee) agreed to fly us back. I sat in the front seat next to him. He literally had to go out and twirl the blade to get it started and that took a while. After he dropped us off he attempted to get back to BI. No luck, the plane would not start. Some first flight! But after all of that whining, I absolutely love to fly. My bucket list includes a glider plane ride, a helicopter ride, zip line and the ultimate dream that I will probably not do, a ride in an ultralite.
Muush possibly have bird blood running through her veins? You be the judge.

 

[horselover]

Very cool TwoKats! I absolutely hate to fly so you'd never catch me in one of those small planes. I did have to take a small plane once from Boston to Nantucket. It wasn't quite as small as yours. I've blocked the details out of my mind but I want to say it held maybe 15-20 people. I cried for the entire flight in both directions! Never again.

 

[Muushka]

So HL, can I assume you would not have been happy on our Block Island flight??

Ahhhhh Nantucket. That is one place I would love to go back to. A most beautiful island.

 

[horselover]

So HL, can I assume you would not have been happy on our Block Island flight??

Ahhhhh Nantucket. That is one place I would love to go back to. A most beautiful island.

It would be say to assume you are correct! However, I would love to go back to Nantucket again just not by way of a plane!

 

[Muushka]

We always took the ferry from Hyannis. Not too bad.

 

[Disney loving Iowan]

Your account is an existing one, right? I had to open a new one, and they were charging. If anyone knows a way around it, I'm there!

Maybe that is the case then. That stinks.

 

[I Book He Pays]

Hi Groupies:

DH just called me and he was in a minor car accident. Left work to go to the dentist and someone pulled out and hit the mirror. DH tried to avoid it but couldn't. Thank goodness he's OK and the mirror can get repaired. He had a miserable day at work.. poor guy.

Mary J ~ Happy belated birthday! Hope your day was special.

Muushka ~ I have an existing PhotoBucket account and just logged in. I can use it and no indication of any charges. Strange... You could also try Flickr. You have guts wanting to try all those birdie things! As you know I hate flying but in order to travel to certain destinations... I have no choice!

twokats ~ DH's Cessna is so cool!

Horselover ~ Like you I hate flying. Whenever we fly I'm a wreck. DH has a field day with me and starts cracking jokes when we take off/land. He tries to keep me calm and I appreciate it but it's not an easy travel day for me. Next year will be interesting since we are flying to AZ and have two flights. First flight.. normal size plane. Second flight... De Havilland Dash-8 ( turbo prop) from Phoenix to Flagstaff. I have no clue how I'm going to get through the second flight!

 

[stopher1]

Maybe that is the case then. That stinks.

Muushka ~ I have an existing PhotoBucket account and just logged in. I can use it and no indication of any charges. Strange... You could also try Flickr.

OK Muush - this is all just very strange I must say. I just tried to see what you were talking about, so I went to open a new Photobucket account myself, not that I need another one, but to see if I could help you figure it out - and right on the sign-up page it still says it's free. I don't get it. Perhaps your computer was smokin' something while you were on that cruise? Or your kitty was so upset with you being gone that she did something mischievious... not that cats would do anything mischievious (yeah, right).

This is the page that I saw when I looked... I don't get it. Not only free, but unlimited quantities now. Something is strange somewhere.

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

Hi Groupies!! I went on vacation and forgot that we weren't in Mousellaneous and was getting worried b/c the groupies weren't on page one. Then I remembered the change.

We moved to the lodge yesterday after a great stay at BWV in a standard view. I haven't uploaded any pictures although the new wireless internet seems to work well so far. Just a little hitch for check-in since housekeeping never notified that our room was clean. Oh - and BWV forgot to send our OL over to WL but they drove it over after WL bell services called looking for it. So though it didn't go quite as it should it was rectified quickly.

Last night was a visit to MVMCP and tomorrow we're scheduled for a tour at Kennedy Space Center. The weather has been amazing and crowds completely hit or miss. AK was virtually deserted today - walk on to Everest and the Safari - wonderful!!! Lots of time was spent at Epcot while we were at BWV and we saw Night Ranger 2 nights and Air Supply. At DHS we were first timers at AI. What a great show!! We will definitely do that again. We threw in a day at Universal on Tuesday and overall this trip has been packed full of adventure and fun and still 3 days to go.

The Lodge looks great and our room did too. We have a 5th floor atrium room so a little different layout. All the parks are decorated for Christmas but nothing here yet. I'm sure it's coming soon though. And I don't know if we're just finding many nice, outgoing CM's but everyone has been pretty top notch and seem to have stepped it up from the past couple of years. It's not that we thought any were terrible then but CM after CM have upped their game this trip. Reminds me much more of how it used to be and has been very nice.

 

[Dizny Dad]

. . . . . . . . . First flight.. normal size plane. Second flight... De Havilland Dash-8 ( turbo prop) from Phoenix to Flagstaff. I have no clue how I'm going to get through the second flight!

I once flew out of San Pedro Sula in Honduras on a "tail-dragger" that had mail bags piled up on a couple of seats, wooden boxes of chickens (the kind that had wooden pegs for sides, made for four chickens, but had a dozen stuffed into them, I swear) stacked to the ceiling in the last two rows, and a goat tied to the arm of the last seat in the back; and yes, the door was in the back so you had to crawl past the goat and chickens. No, Muush, I am not making this up. The story has more to it, but that is enough for today.

On another flying note, DiznyDi flew yesterday to Wilmington, NC through Charlotte. When coming in to Charlotte, the plane lost its control of the flaps, resulting in a landing at 180 mph. DiznyDi and all on board knew something was up when they hit the ground and were all thrown into the seat in front of them. They sped through a line-up of emergency vehicles. The pilot was able to get the planer stopped just before going off the end of the runway. After the plane came to a stop, the pilot made the anno8ncement of what had happened, apologized to all, and gave credit to his 25 years of flight experience in being able to get the plane stopped safely. Thanks be to the One who was in charge.

 

[jimmytammy]

Dad So glad Di is OK. You tell her we are between Charlotte and Wilmington and if she doesnt want to get back on a plane soon, we have plenty of room for her to stay with us

My plane stories are on big planes
My 1st is on a 747 from Miami to Buenos Aires. 9 hrs and a few movies into the flight, it was dark but somewhere over South America we hit a major storm. I think I was the only one awake and the only wearing their seatbelt. We dropped at least 100 feet and everyone came a couple feet out of their seats. Lots of seatbelt clicking sounds follow.

My next was 1st flight to WDW. Wind was terrible. As we are touching down, the wing looks like it clears runway by 6", then the wheels bounce to the other side and other wing comes close to ground as well. My BIL is in the AF and flys all the time, no big deal. When I turn and look at him as we are about to touch down, he has a real look of concern, I turn thinking uh-ohh!!That is the only time I have gotten off a plane and would have refused to get immediately back on one. But a week at WDW made me forget

 

[jimmytammy]

Kat
How were Night Ranger and Air Supply? Obviously those were from my HS days. I really like NR but never seen them in concert. DW and DD like AS. We wish we could have seen both, but Starship and ELO made up for it.