We're Baaaaack!! **The WLV's groupies & Trivia Thread chapter 3

[twokats]

Thanks.
eliza61: I do take a lot of pictures myself. Right now all my pictures are from the 2004 trip and before. I had a computer crash the first of 2008 and lost all my 2007 pictures. That was a hard pill to swallow.

We (dh, dd and me) went on the behind the scenes magic back in '04 and we loved it. It was a long day and quite pricey, but we had a blast and enjoyed seeing all the things that make Disney work.

 

[tea pot]

JimmyTammy
Each trip we try a new resturant and/or a ride or a show that we have not done before or have not done in a long time.
On our last trip we ate for the first time at Ohana... the view was beautiful.. watching the kids esp trying sweep a coconut around the resturant was fun ...and the food was good... I would like to go back with a group.
New things we would try.... To be a Flag Family (never even knew about it till reading this thread), rent bikes at the Lodge, ..Chip and Dale Campfire and I have to say the Wishes cruise sounds like a wonderful thing to do for special occasion (cheer4bison what a sweet Mom you have)

 

[tea pot]

For all new groupies, I have 2 demon children affecitionately known here as Sid and Rizzo. From time to time they do some thing that makes me wonder why more species don't eat their young and in an effort not to commit murder, I post them here so my fellow groupies can talk me down off the ledge.

Last night was one such time.....

Setting: A normal everyday, household some where in South Jersey around 5:30 pm Thursday.

Sid: Mom, I have the opportunity to get some extra credit in my world history class.
Eliza (aka Mom): Wonderful Sid, (very proud oF brillant child for showing some initative). What do you have to do?
Sid: I have to give a short biography in costume on the Greek God Apollo for our living Greek history exhibit.
Eliza(Aka mom): Ooh, that sounds like fun, when do you have to do this?
Sid: Tonight at 7:15pm
Eliza: WHAT!!! (now sure that child is the devil)
Sid: I have to say it tonight at the school exhibition fair
Eliza: (now shrieking hysterically) Sid you want me to make an anciet Greek costume and help you practice a speech in 1 hour.
Sid: (Looking at mom like she is crazy just because steam is coming out of her nose) Yeah, whats wrong with that?
Eliza: @#&$!!!

7:10 pm Driving like Jeff Gordan on steriods throughout south Jersey streets, taking corners on 2 wheels to make sure demon child is on time.
While said demon child is dressed in my only set of 500 count Egyptian cotton sheets that I was saving for my death shroud.
Sid: Mom, I think I left the indexs card with my speech at home.
Eliza: MAKE SOME THING UP!!
Eliza: spotting Mr. Krill, the social studies teacher across the library: I wonder how much time I would get if I leap across the library and beat this man to deat with an encyclopedia?

9:00 pm
Sid : Mom, that was fun!!

He makes me appreciate the lodge, every day! have a great weekend.

As my best friend and I say every day they're going to kill us

 

[tea pot]

towkats

A BIG MOOSE WELCOME and CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR 25th

 

[Disney loving Iowan]

Twokats - Glad to have you join us!!!

Cheer4bison - That is so neat what your parents did. How special.

Eliza - I nearly chocked on my coco puffs while reading your post! You must never be bored around your house.

My DD sent me this link and I thought you all would find it amusing.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/indiatree.asp

 

[Inkmahm]

How about what will you do that you haven't done before? We are doing the Fort Wilderness Adventure Segway Tour.....never ,ever have ridden a segway!

You'll love it. We did it at Epcot last spring and we are going to do it in March at Fort Wilderness. Inbetween, we did a tour of downtown Anchorage on Segways! Yes, we now love the things.

 

[BWV Dreamin]

You'll love it. We did it at Epcot last spring and we are going to do it in March at Fort Wilderness. Inbetween, we did a tour of downtown Anchorage on Segways! Yes, we now love the things.

Great! If you think about it, report back on that Fort Wilderness Segway Tour. My trip isn't until May 31st!

 

[mickeymorse]

Oh this is our all time favorite restaurant! Sorry your experience wasn't as good as ours.
The thing we are doing new this time is the rope drop at MK. We wanted to do it in May but were unable to because of DD's orchestra playing. I just hope I don't get too emotional and embarass (sp?) my family too much!
We will also be staying in a 1 BR for the first time.

Sorry DLI for making it sound so awful. Actually those old movie clips definitely brought me back a few years. Yes, they were reruns when I saw them as a kid . Oh yeah, I have never made a rope drop yet.

We booked a Wishes cruise for the first time ever this past trip (Dec. 10-14) and it was AMAZING! The ten of us went to the dock right behind VWL, loaded onto a pontoon-style boat with nice comfy seats, bundled up in blankets provided by Amy (the excellent cast member who captained our boat), and parked right out on the water in front of the Magic Kingdom. We got to see the castle lit up with its stunning Christmas lights and the holiday wishes fireworks spectacular seemed liked it was going off just a tiny distance away. We were so close we could even see Tinkerbell fly from the castle at the beginning of the show. The music accompanying the fireworks display was playing out the speaker of our boat so we could HEAR the whole thing.

On a special personal aside, I have to mention that my parents went out of their way to make the cruise even more memorable. Just as the fireworks were concluding they pulled out a little jewelry box each for my sister and me. Months ago, when we booked the fireworks cruise, they decided to go into a local jeweler back in PA and have special Mickey birthstone rings designed for us so that we will always remember the wonderful family trips we have shared at WDW over the years. It was such a sweet idea. It made an already spectacular cruise even more memorable.

That sounds wonderful cheer. I hope we are creating special memories for ours.

For all new groupies, I have 2 demon children affecitionately known here as Sid and Rizzo. From time to time they do some thing that makes me wonder why more species don't eat their young and in an effort not to commit murder, I post them here so my fellow groupies can talk me down off the ledge.

Last night was one such time.....

Setting: A normal everyday, household some where in South Jersey around 5:30 pm Thursday.

Sid: Mom, I have the opportunity to get some extra credit in my world history class.
Eliza (aka Mom): Wonderful Sid, (very proud oF brillant child for showing some initative). What do you have to do?
Sid: I have to give a short biography in costume on the Greek God Apollo for our living Greek history exhibit.
Eliza(Aka mom): Ooh, that sounds like fun, when do you have to do this?
Sid: Tonight at 7:15pm
Eliza: WHAT!!! (now sure that child is the devil)
Sid: I have to say it tonight at the school exhibition fair
Eliza: (now shrieking hysterically) Sid you want me to make an anciet Greek costume and help you practice a speech in 1 hour.
Sid: (Looking at mom like she is crazy just because steam is coming out of her nose) Yeah, whats wrong with that?
Eliza: @#&$!!!

7:10 pm Driving like Jeff Gordan on steriods throughout south Jersey streets, taking corners on 2 wheels to make sure demon child is on time.
While said demon child is dressed in my only set of 500 count Egyptian cotton sheets that I was saving for my death shroud.

Sid: Mom, I think I left the indexs card with my speech at home.
Eliza: MAKE SOME THING UP!!
Eliza: spotting Mr. Krill, the social studies teacher across the library: I wonder how much time I would get if I leap across the library and beat this man to deat with an encyclopedia?

9:00 pm
Sid : Mom, that was fun!!

He makes me appreciate the lodge, every day! have a great weekend.

Eliza. As usual you have a way with words. Funny but Sid sounds a lot like I was. How my mother put up with me I`ll never know.

 

[Happydinks]

My DD sent me this link and I thought you all would find it amusing.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/indiatree.asp

Hey DLI-
Where on earth did your DD find that link? It's an amusing end to a week!

 

[jimmytammy]

Two Kats, a big WELCOME to our band of groupies!!

Eliza, what a great sense of humor. You always find a way to make us laugh, unfortunately, at your expense. Hang in there!!

All you folks have some great new things you shared. In fact, it has inspired us to give some of them a try ourselves.

Something new we hope to try next trip...Staying on the 5th floor at VWL. And hopefully, finally, trying Chip and Dales singalong and the movie afterwards. We have been talking for years about doing that. And you would think if you are there for 2 weeks, you could find at least one night to fit it in

 

[MiaSRN62]

So sad.....did u guys see this :
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2009/jan/02/noted-denver-architect-dies-near-aspen/

Read it on DVCnews.com

 

[blossomz]

Oh Eliza!! Those kids of yours!


Maria..I had no idea...how terrible.

 

[eliza61]

So sad.....did u guys see this :
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2009/jan/02/noted-denver-architect-dies-near-aspen/

Read it on DVCnews.com

Thanks Maria,
That is truly a loss. I always find it so interesting how really connected we are to each other without even knowing it. Here is a man living across the country from me, whom I never met and wouldn't think twice about if I pass him on the street but yet because of his talent, I've been blessed with wonderful memories, great new friends on the dis and a fabulous place to vacation.

 

[loribell]

First I want to WELCOME all the new groupies! This is a great group of people!

Second Eliza another great story. Kids! What will we do with them?

Maria that is so sad. What a loss. I am so thankful that Eisner picked him to do our lodge!

Hope you all have a fabulous weekend!

 

[Muushka]

Lots of catching up to do. Got in pretty late last night (for the first time in 12 years we did not have a good drive! I am not complaining, just stating the facts (and very grateful for those 40 some odd great trips!)

Eliza, that story of the latest kid adventure had us both in stitches last night. Too tired to post though....

Thanks Maria,
That is truly a loss. I always find it so interesting how really connected we are to each other without even knowing it. Here is a man living across the country from me, whom I never met and wouldn't think twice about if I pass him on the street but yet because of his talent, I've been blessed with wonderful memories, great new friends on the dis and a fabulous place to vacation.

I could not have worded it any better.

How about what will you do that you haven't done before? We are doing the Fort Wilderness Adventure Segway Tour.....never ,ever have ridden a segway!

On Thursday we did a walking day. On our walk to FW they whizzed by us and it looked like so much fun.

Believe it or not, this will be my 1st stay at WL. Just did the site seeing before. Also, I am planning on trying the MK railroad this trip for the 1st time. If its up to me, I would not eat at Sci-Fi again. Food was not very good and the atmosphere got old real quick. For me anyway.

You have got some kick-butt first times coming up!!

Dear husband and I have been sitting here mulling this over. Here's what we've come up with:
We enjoyed meeting 'John' and 'Luke' among other Belgians at the stables at Fort Wilderness and saw the museum, but probably won't do that again.

Getting a haircut on Mainstreet was fun, but was a pricey mediocre haircut that wasted alot of time, so probably won't do that again either. :

We walked from SSR to Old Key West and definitely won't do that again!

We ate at the Rainforest Cafe and aren't interested in doing that again, either.

After all we'd read, we had eager anticipation to go to Min and Bill's. The pretzel had to be at least a day old and the 'famous' milkshake was nothing more than a Wendy's frosty....a real disappointment.

We were fortunate enough to be the parade Grand Marshall's for the afternoon parade in Magic Kingdom. Not only did we get to be driven around, but we all received 'ears', a photo and a certificate to commemorate the event. Given the opportunity, we would gladly do this again!

And something that is probably overlooked but we try to experience is the lowering of the flag on Mainstreet at the Magic Kingdom. I get very emotional seeing the colors lowered and carried off by military personnel, either current or retired, visiting the park that day. Of course, the fact that our son is currently stationed in Iraq could have something to do with the tears.

Chip and Dale's Campfire sounds fun! I might consider this for our May trip.

Di

We have watched the flag lowering ceremony at MK. I, too, get choked up when we see it.
Please know how much we appreciate your son's service to our country. That brings a tear to my eye too.

I have been reading these posts for quite a while and decided it was time to add our love for WL. We have had two vacations in WL and on the second visit in '04 we joined DVC. Our home resort is SSR, but we have not stayed there. In '07 we came home to VWL to a great 1 br on the 5th floor. We were facing bay lake, but we were in the corner where the balconies were enclosed. It was still a great room.

We will be going back to WDW in May for a 15 day vacation which will also include a cruise to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary.

We will be at AKV concierge on May 23, sail on the Disney Wonder May 24-28 and return to VWL on May 28 until June 6. We are having to settle for a studio this trip, but I think we will still enjoy it.

You have an awesome vacation planned! I took the liberty of adding you to the front page. Let me know if that is all right.
And welcome! You know that Moosie Siggy would look great on you!
And your screen name....do tell!

We booked a Wishes cruise for the first time ever this past trip (Dec. 10-14) and it was AMAZING! The ten of us went to the dock right behind VWL, loaded onto a pontoon-style boat with nice comfy seats, bundled up in blankets provided by Amy (the excellent cast member who captained our boat), and parked right out on the water in front of the Magic Kingdom. We got to see the castle lit up with its stunning Christmas lights and the holiday wishes fireworks spectacular seemed liked it was going off just a tiny distance away. We were so close we could even see Tinkerbell fly from the castle at the beginning of the show. The music accompanying the fireworks display was playing out the speaker of our boat so we could HEAR the whole thing.

On a special personal aside, I have to mention that my parents went out of their way to make the cruise even more memorable. Just as the fireworks were concluding they pulled out a little jewelry box each for my sister and me. Months ago, when we booked the fireworks cruise, they decided to go into a local jeweler back in PA and have special Mickey birthstone rings designed for us so that we will always remember the wonderful family trips we have shared at WDW over the years. It was such a sweet idea. It made an already spectacular cruise even more memorable.

Cheer4, that sounds wonderful. Your parents are so nice!

 

[blossomz]

Hey! Welcome back! Glad you are back with us despite the drive. Your groupies are here to help you de-vacation!

 

[Muushka]

Why, thank you very much! Good to be back.

My feral cat, Lucy, is glad we are home. She is laying in her little bed here inside the house. Some feral!

 

[Muushka]

Non-Groupie related question....sorry.....

Can you transfer banked points?

We just realized that our last reservation that we just completed did not use our banked points like we thought it was going to, so now we have 34 points that will expire Sept 1. I wanted to post a transfer on the rent-trade board, but am not sure if you can do that with banked points.

Thanks!

 

[eliza61]

Why, thank you very much! Good to be back.

My feral cat, Lucy, is glad we are home. She is laying in her little bed here inside the house. Some feral!

Hey Girlfriend,

Welcome Back, thanks for checking in during your vacation. we missed ya!(although I will agree to share you with Mr. Muush but that's it. )

Glad you got home safe and sound even if the drive was a bit ugly. I'm the same way driving, 99% of the time, except for the occasional turn around it's a good drive. it's that 1% of the time that will kill ya.

Laze around for a few days.

 

[jimmytammy]

Welcome back Muushka! Glad you got home safely.