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

[jimmytammy]

Happy Birthday MickeyMorse!!!

 

[cheer4bison]

Hi everyone!

Just returned from a weekend trip to the World. While I was disappointed to miss the groupie meets (by one day!), I did get the chance to visit our beloved lodge. Did anyone else notice that these two were back? They look awesome. I missed them during our visit in October and was just tickled to see that our bison friends have returned to the front of the lodge.

 

[Muushka]

Oh Cheer4, no wonder you look out for these handsome guys!

 

[Dynaguy]

DDad and I were both looking at Celebration (if I remember correctly). But like you said, the HO fees are ridiculous.
I had heard about Mt Dora about 20 years ago as being a very nice town. When we lived in S FL I kept bugging Mr Muush to take me to Mt Dora, but he never did. And when we go to FL, it never seems to be high on our list. I think I need to do my own Mt Dora excursion! I checked www.zillow.com and their real estate situation is not as dire as a lot of FL cities. That in itself is encouraging. Looking good! Maybe we will be neighbors some day!

We're kinda hoping for pet friendly Disney Villas, but that could make us neighbors, too.

 

[jimmytammy]

Thanks for sharing Jill

 

[stopher1]

I know that we just passed a major day last week in American history, where 70 years ago the world changed forever, along with the course of the great war... but just in case you all have forgotten what a black day today is... see here to see how 45 years ago today the world was again changed forever.

 

[I Book He Pays]

Hi Groupies:

Is everyone done shopping for Christmas?

SantaRay ~ Wishing you a Merry Christmas as well!

eliza61 ~ Great photos! Hope you enjoyed your Sunday off! I enjoyed reading how other countries celebrates Christmas. Thanks for sharing!

jimmytammy ~ Mom is coming over for dinner on Christmas and that's about it. Tree was up before Thanksgiving but the official lighting was on Thanksgiving after mom/DH/I ate dinner.

suemom2kay ~ Being a ICU nurse is a difficult job and I praise you for the work that you do... as well as anyone that works in the medical field. You can't help but shed some tears during the holidays but also remember the good times you had. Thanks for the compliment on my screen name... it's unique but also very true!

Stopher1 ~ Love the pictures and thanks so much for posting them. So nice to have faces associated with screen names. Everyone looks wonderful! The ketchup tower is a hoot! How was your cruise? Just to double check... did you sail on Royal Caribbean Monarch of the Seas? How was HHI? Love that resort and miss being there as well as HHI.

Mickeymorse ~ Happy Birthday!

cheer4bison ~ Welcome back and great photo!

Have a great day everyone!

 

[Nicoal13]

Great pictures of the Groupie meet. I also like to put faces to names

The moon pictures are amazing! What a great camera. Also enjoyed the panoramic pictures of SSR. That is my home resort and I love how calm it is there.

All done shopping!! Yippee! Did most of it online as well. Amazon got a lot of my money this year. I like the ability to buy most everything from one place. Now to do the wrapping. We have our first Christmas gathering this weekend with my Dad's family. Going to be a tough one since it's the first Christmas without my Grandpa. But we plan on going through a lot of old family photos, so that should be fun and bring some good memories and laughs.

DS is 6 now and he is super excited about Christmas. We've been doing the Elf on the Shelf and he knows that "Gary" the Elf is watching him. Took DS to see Santa tonight as well. He wants the Epic Mickey game for Wii. He will be so excited for it on Christmas morning.

Hope everyone else is enjoying their holiday preparations. I'm hoping for a white Christmas! No snow here in my part of WI.

Hoping after the holidays are over, to start planning a trip to the world. Not sure when, but I have a good friend in NC who has never been and we haven't seen each other in 3 years. Hoping to meet her down there and enjoy a nice trip.

 

[twinklebug]

I love this one - going to try and replicate it with a better camera this year.

 

[BWV Dreamin]

Good Morning Lodge Lovers!! I have a question. We will be at VWL in March. Is there a tour of the resort that discusses Walt's Steam Trains or something of that nature?

 

[Muushka]

Great pictures of the Groupie meet. I also like to put faces to names

The moon pictures are amazing! What a great camera. Also enjoyed the panoramic pictures of SSR. That is my home resort and I love how calm it is there.

All done shopping!! Yippee! Did most of it online as well. Amazon got a lot of my money this year. I like the ability to buy most everything from one place. Now to do the wrapping. We have our first Christmas gathering this weekend with my Dad's family. Going to be a tough one since it's the first Christmas without my Grandpa. But we plan on going through a lot of old family photos, so that should be fun and bring some good memories and laughs.

DS is 6 now and he is super excited about Christmas. We've been doing the Elf on the Shelf and he knows that "Gary" the Elf is watching him. Took DS to see Santa tonight as well. He wants the Epic Mickey game for Wii. He will be so excited for it on Christmas morning.

Hope everyone else is enjoying their holiday preparations. I'm hoping for a white Christmas! No snow here in my part of WI.

Hoping after the holidays are over, to start planning a trip to the world. Not sure when, but I have a good friend in NC who has never been and we haven't seen each other in 3 years. Hoping to meet her down there and enjoy a nice trip.

Hi Nicole

I'll bet your little guy is as cute as a button with excitement of Christmas in his cute little head.
I hope it works out for your friend to join you at the world.

I love this one - going to try and replicate it with a better camera this year.

Love that shot. Inspired now!

Good Morning Lodge Lovers!! I have a question. We will be at VWL in March. Is there a tour of the resort that discusses Walt's Steam Trains or something of that nature?

Just saying hi I have not done the train thing at VWL (not sure why )
but they have a sign up in the Carolwood Pacific room with dates and times.

I know that we just passed a major day last week in American history, where 70 years ago the world changed forever, along with the course of the great war... but just in case you all have forgotten what a black day today is... see here to see how 45 years ago today the world was again changed forever.

Thank you for the link. Sad day

 

[Granny]

Good Morning Lodge Lovers!! I have a question. We will be at VWL in March. Is there a tour of the resort that discusses Walt's Steam Trains or something of that nature?

There is not a "tour" per se, but there is a scheduled day and time each week when a Disney train historian holds a talk in the Carolwood Pacific room. He is a good speaker and has a ton of information about trains in general and the Disney trains in particular (including Walt's mini-train and the one at MK). I'm assuming that this speaker will continue into next year. Hopefully he gets enough attendance for them to continue it.

 

[BWV Dreamin]

Hi Nicole




Just saying hi I have not done the train thing at VWL (not sure why )
but they have a sign up in the Carolwood Pacific room with dates and times.



Thank you for the link. Sad day

There is not a "tour" per se, but there is a scheduled day and time each week when a Disney train historian holds a talk in the Carolwood Pacific room. He is a good speaker and has a ton of information about trains in general and the Disney trains in particular (including Walt's mini-train and the one at MK). I'm assuming that this speaker will continue into next year. Hopefully he gets enough attendance for them to continue it.

Thank you both for this info!! I plan on attending. My husband is a train buff and has an outdoor train garden of Wilderness Lodge!!! Now I can see we will now have to look for these Walt trains !

 

[blossomz]

Stopher..thanks for posting those wonderful photos...makes us all feel we were right there with ya!

Happy birthday Mickey Morse!

I have done the train talk and enjoyed it a lot. Just take a look at the sign that Muush was referring to for dates and times.

 

[jimmytammy]

Happy Friday to all!!

We are going to DDs 1 yr anniversary for working at Chick Fil A. The owner is a great guy and does this for all employees. Up to 20 people can be invited. She is combining it with her BDay which was yesterday(same day Walt passed).

Hoping Panthers will win this weekend

Hope everyone has a great weekend!!

 

[horselover]

Just 2 more sleeps!!! I'm so excited I'm about ready to burst!

Hope everyone is having a great weekend.

 

[Granny]

Jimmy...I hope the weekend was a special one for your daughter. And of course, it didn't hurt that the Panthers put the hurt on the Texans!

We spent the weekend at my daughter's college watching her graduate. Wow, that time seemed to really fly by and it just doesn't seem possible that she has her degree already (even though she was on the 4 1/2 year plan ).

Now she heads into the job market. I pray she is able to find a decent job somewhere...and selfishly I hope it is in or close to St. Louis.

 

[eliza61]

We spent the weekend at my daughter's college watching her graduate. Wow, that time seemed to really fly by and it just doesn't seem possible that she has her degree already (even though she was on the 4 1/2 year plan ).Now she heads into the job market. I pray she is able to find a decent job somewhere...and selfishly I hope it is in or close to St. Louis.

CONGRATULATIONS!!

Glad to hear that the time flies because I swear just getting Sid the squid to make up his mind seems like a herculean attempt. He has applied to his top 7!! This kid is trying to kill me.

 

[eliza61]

I'm becoming a lady of leisure here, with another weekend day off by myself. LOL. boys went to the Eagles/Jets game and so I got to play Sunday.

Since I can't get to WDW for the holiday, I decided to see what Christmas looks like in my home town NYC. The big tradition in Manhattan is for the stores to decorate their windows. For many kids, going to see the windows displays is a bit of a tradition. I went annually as a little girl with my grandmother and siblings.


In NY, we don't have ordinary bell ringers, they dance and invite the crowd to dance

Macys 34th street.

 

[eliza61]

This window display was really cool, the waves were continously rolling. I forgot what store it was.

Disney store in Times square.

Aaagh, I wanted to beat the crap outta this shister. she had a cap in her hand and if you so much as took a picture of her she hounded you for a tip. A few choice NYC verbs had her backing down.

This is Bryant Park, not far from Macys. During the holidays it's patterned after the tea party scene in Alice in Wonderland. Very pretty. on the other side is a smaller ice skating rink and vendors have small "shops" to sell wares of all types.

St Patricks Cathedral. Nativity manger was beautiful but no baby Jesus!

And of course Rockerfeller Center. It was early afternoon so the tree isn't that spectacular yet.