Yes, I AM the Upgrade Queen! 8/1 MK Parade

[eandesmom]

Oy.

Just the dinner prelude earns her the title of BSIL.

However her hubby BIL doesn't sound like parent of the year either!

Shades of horror memories long repressed of a mad walk through Epcot to get my Ex-BSIL a margarita from Mexico before it closed. Never mind MIL with a club foot. Never mind your then 4 year old and one year old who cannot keep up with your race. Never mind my vertigo from a cruise or my steroid puffed up Ex recovering from Brain surgery. Lets go get you a margarita.

Cuz...it's vacation! that will make it all better!



I love the glow cube color pics! now why didn't I think of that!

Your Boma pics are fabulous, I think I was pictured out and don't have squat so I'll just send everyone here when I get to my dinner report for the night! I couldn't agree more on those soups. Heavenly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DS8 had 2 bowls of the carrot!

Looking forward, in a very sad, sick way, to more BSIL stories..... Hopefully Jeff kept buying you drinks, sounds like you needed them to get through the night.

 

[CRdisMom]

Love the update. Yes she is truly a B! The question is did you get the look this trip?

 

[englishrose47]

 

[dvc4life]

Wow! Can't wait to hear the rest of the story.

 

[karajeboo]

I like your theory on the 3rd string princesses. Must be the reason that Disney has continued to do well in this crummy economy.

I know!!!! Hey, whatever works, right?

I'm so sorry you are related to people like that. I have a few (quite a few!) on my dh's side too. Some I would never even take in public. I am totally one who also believes there is a time and place for everything. I get having wound up kiddos, I'm a real softie as a mom I would even say. But to let your child have prolonged screaming and wildness at the expense of others? Um, not so much. I bet you wanted to crawl in a hole!

Boma food looks delish!

Why is it that these relatives are always INLAWS????

Ahhh! I've just read this whole TR, and I must know what BSIL did. Everyone has one, and everyone want's to hear everyone else's stories.

Be afraid, be VERY afraid!!!!

We have family members that we don't like to mention also. Hate to go out to eat with them. They eat almost all of their meal then ask to see a manager. They procede to tell the manager how awful their food and service was. They usually get half their check taken off or totally comped. Ridiculous. We don't go around them anymore, even avoiding them at family events.

Oh, I have friends like that! They came and spent a week with us last summer - NEVER again!!!!!

Hi Kara!
I have to agree with you about Boma. We ate there on Easter and I loved that place! It was definitely nice not to do the same ol' thing for a holiday dinner. Geez..I wish I had known about those colorful drinks. I gotta pay more attention to the booze menus on the table so I can make my trips a little livlier. I don't do good when it comes to mixing different kinds of alcohol tho and I'm afraid it would not turn out well for me. Maybe just one drink a day would do me just so I could say I've tried them. Wow, I don't even know BSIL and I already want to slap her. I can't stand someone who lets their kids run wild and be a nuissance to everyone else. Probably another reason I shouldn't consume multiple drinks on a trip cause my lips may get loose!
But back to Boma....altho the soups were delicious and the hummus was yummy, I think my favorite was the Fufu. Are you familiar with the Fufu? It's kinda like a mashed sweet potato dish. Very good...but I must admit I had to ask my MIL for an Immodium AD while we were standing in line to get our pics taken with Mickey. I believe what I said to her was "Do you have any Immodium in your purse? I sure hope so because if not we'll never make this photo with Mickey. No doubt this Fufu is going to make me go _____!!!!". You can fill in the blank with a rhyming word here...

Can't wait for your pics on AKL and the next BSIL installment!

Take Care,
Lisa

I do remember the fufu and it was AWESOME!!!! I really should have snagged a menu so I could actually tell everyone what I was eating. It was so good and I look forward to eating there again SOON!

ooooo....I know what's coming next, and it is BAD!!!!!! BSIL is a BSIL!!!!! Awful!!!!

Shhhh! Don't spoil it! I must build the suspense!!!!

Kara you crack me up!!! BSIL sounds horrenedous !! I can't compare as my X's siter is a sweetheart!!! In fact she prefers my company to his !!!!! ot that she gets much of his !!!! and neithr do the grandkids !!!

I have kept my mouth shut for 15 years, walking on egg shells around her (as does the rest of the family!) but let's just say, I FINALLY made my opinions known and it nearly caused WWIII in the family!

 

[karajeboo]

Just got all caught up and can't wait for the next istallments now! Darn though, I was beat to posting the too sexy pic!!

Not you too!!!! That pic sure made the circulation!

Oh! Oh! The Wild Bunch does Boma. Loved the update, though. Your pics of the food make me want to go back - we weren't too adventurous, I guess, which is funny, cuz we thought we were. Oh well

Loved your meet with Miss Lorrie - you both looked so beautiful, as did the girls! Too bad your evening was about to be ruined.

I know what is coming, too. All I can say is what goes around comes around.

I loved meeting Lorrie!!! I just wish that she could have witnessed BSIL - she said she was looking for us but never saw us in the restaurant.

Oy.

Just the dinner prelude earns her the title of BSIL.

However her hubby BIL doesn't sound like parent of the year either!

Shades of horror memories long repressed of a mad walk through Epcot to get my Ex-BSIL a margarita from Mexico before it closed. Never mind MIL with a club foot. Never mind your then 4 year old and one year old who cannot keep up with your race. Never mind my vertigo from a cruise or my steroid puffed up Ex recovering from Brain surgery. Lets go get you a margarita.

Cuz...it's vacation! that will make it all better!



I love the glow cube color pics! now why didn't I think of that!

Your Boma pics are fabulous, I think I was pictured out and don't have squat so I'll just send everyone here when I get to my dinner report for the night! I couldn't agree more on those soups. Heavenly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DS8 had 2 bowls of the carrot!

Looking forward, in a very sad, sick way, to more BSIL stories..... Hopefully Jeff kept buying you drinks, sounds like you needed them to get through the night.

I think your BSIL would get along well with mine. It's all about HER, right? Yup, that's my story. I guess I just got tired of always "giving" and decided it was time to stick up for myself and my family. The story is a good one.....

Love the update. Yes she is truly a B! The question is did you get the look this trip?

Honey, she gives "the look" on a daily basis!!!!

Wow! Can't wait to hear the rest of the story.

Oh, you will. Trust me, you will! In fact, after our family trip with Jeff's family last May (a year ago), I wrote a TR and Jeff made me take it down for fear she would see it. It was not pretty.

 

[Mysteria]

Not you too!!!! That pic sure made the circulation!

What pic?!

Oh how'd that get there?!

 

[karajeboo]

What pic?!



Oh how'd that get there?!

No you did NOT!!!! Guess I'm just too sexy to stay off the boards, huh?

 

[TinkLovinMomma]

I just stumbled across your TR and I am loving it! You are so funny! I cant wait to hear more about your trip and your BSIL! I am going to be staying the AKVs in January so I was so excited to see all your pics! Im in!

 

[tink1957]

Great update Kara, I can't wait to read what BSIL does next.

 

[karajeboo]

I just stumbled across your TR and I am loving it! You are so funny! I cant wait to hear more about your trip and your BSIL! I am going to be staying the AKVs in January so I was so excited to see all your pics! Im in!

Glad you're in! You will LOVE AKL! And despite what people say about it being "so far away" from everything - phooey! Only from MK, and when you think about it, it's a 15 minute ride - so you leave 10 minutes earlier than some other resorts. It's worth it though!

Great update Kara, I can't wait to read what BSIL does next.

Who? My sweet as candy SIL??? Now where is the barfing smiley when I need it!

 

[lauren_elizabeth]

Oh come on, Kara - we all know how you REALLY felt. This was the dinner you were forward to ALL trip... with the BSIL!

Totally kidding! Sure sounds like a blaaaaaaast!

 

[karajeboo]

OK, the moment you all have been waiting for.... drumroll please.......

If you noticed in my pic with my friend Lorrie from the last installment, I was kind of "dressed up" at least for Disney. This is because we noticed a photopass photographer set up each night in the AKL lobby and decided to get some nice family shots. So I color coordinated all of us (like I don't do that anyway!!!!!) and off we went to dinner.

Well, Jeff told BSIL what we were doing so they of course decided to do the same. No problem, right?

This is where it began. I asked her if they had prepurchased the photopass cd for their trip and she said YES. Then I asked if we could add our photopass cards to their account and she said No Problem...... see where this is headed???

When we go to WDW for a long weekend, we don't want to spend an extra $100 for the photopass cd, but I might occasionally order a 5x7 or something, but knowing that we could piggyback off their photopass, we decided to use and abuse the photopass photogs more this trip.

BSIL had given me her login info and I added all my photopass numbers to her account, plus I scanned through her pics while they were still on their trip - I also emailed Jeff's parents and gave them the login info so they could view the pics too.

Fast forward about 3 weeks. I log in to edit my photos and.....

THEY ARE ALL GONE! Every photo that included me, Jeff or Ally is gone. Now when we were together for the AKL shoot we just used one photopass card - thought it might make a nice gift for Jeff's parents. Also the next day at MK we had some group shots taken and they went on just one card - sometimes our card, sometimes theirs.

So that told me that it wasn't just our cards that were gone, it was just our photos.

I emailed BSIL and asked her if she knew what happened. Her response?

"I have no idea, but I"ve been having problems with photopass."

Hmmmmm......

I try to reenter my card# and it won't take it because it says that it has already been entered. So basically, my photopass card is now null and void. I get REALLY upset and tell Jeff that if what I think happened actually DID happen, I am DONE!

I call photopass and was told that "a lot of photos look to have been manually deleted."

Yup. You got it.

So I emailed BSIL and asked her about it. She said that photopass told her to "move them to a different folder" because she was out of room. There were only 150 photos on there, plus our 80 photos. So room is not the issue, I know from experience.

And there are no other "folders" to move photos to. I call photopass back and the CM reinstated all the photos for me.

I again emailed BSIL and told her what happened. Then, it happened.

I lost my cool. Just thinking about what she did and the fact that she LIED about it, really set me off.

So I sent a really nasty email to her at work and told her to go ahead and delete our photos AGAIN, because I didn't want to put her out. Oh, and I also added that she needed to pay me for a gift we got her parents in May 2008 for taking the family to Disney. And for another gift we sent to her mother in February. I was not nice about it. However, I was just very straight, and to the point.

The emails back and forth got ugly and I told Jeff to stay out of it - this was between me and her, I'd finally had enough of this kind of behavior over the years, but now she was messing with MY family and our memories.

I know what happened too. She got home and was so bummed out like most of us are when we return from a Disney vacation, and she found out I was going again two weeks later, and her jealous vindictive side took over. She even made the comment to me that I shouldn't worry about losing my pics because "we only get to go once a year - how often does YOUR family go?"

Yes, that sealed the deal for me. I knew she did it deliberately because she was jealous of our proximity to Disney. Period.

Poor Jeff - I think he was just so shocked that I finally lost it, that he didn't know what to do. So his first instinct was to call him mom and say, "Whatever you hear, just stay out of it." Of course, BSIL had already called her, yada yada yada.

To this day, I stand by my actions though. I really was not nasty, like I could have been, but I wasn't going to let her off this time.

Oh, and luckily, NONE of our pics turned out that great so I really wouldn't have printed any out anyway - we got better candids with our camera that trip!

A few days later she emailed to tell me the check was in the mail and that she added all our photos back in. That was over a month ago and I haven't seen a photo cd. I swear if I get it I'm tempted to put it right back in the mailbox with "return to sender" on it!

So there you have it, and believe it or not, I tamed it down. If I would have posted this right after it happened, when my head was still spinning and green goo was shooting out my ears, aka exorcist, you would have appreciated it all the more.

And this is just but a sampling of her behavior over the years, just the first time I called her on it.

OK, later, on with the rest of the TR and another really good BSIL stunt at MK!

 

[lshaw6]

OMG, You mean there's more???!!!! That was a really sleazy thing she did. I bet you would have beat her senseless had she lived close to you...lol. It must have felt so good to finally put her in her place. I can't stand having to walk on eggshells around someone just so they don't get po'd. It sucks all the fun right outta whatever it is you're trying to enjoy. Was your husband crouching down like on the Dinosaur ride when the s*** started to hit the fan? I hope this has taught her not to mess with you. I also hope you have nothing but MANY wonderful trips to Disney in the future! You Go Girl!

Take Care,
Lisa

 

[CRdisMom]

I really missed it when you were there in 2008. I would have loved to meet her.

 

[dvc4life]

What a jealous, spiteful, mean spirited, ungrateful, person!!!!!!! I mean how can you be like that. And why does it seem that SIL's are like that. I know mine is a jealous, unthoughtful, witch. If you buy a new car, she needs one bigger and better. If you buy a camper, hers has to be bigger and better. Your remodel, she remodels. And so on and so on. Please. It is not a frickin competition. Be happy for your family members. But nooooooo. Sorry, got off track.

I'm glad you put her in her place. Hey, you don't have to live with her after all. And what is that old saying, You can pick your friends but you can't pick your relatives, but you don't have to claim them! And I don't think I would be a claiming her. I don't even talk to mine anymore, unless I absolutely have to.

So, here is to many more trips for you and your family, and I hope that you post your reports here. Because I am so happy for you and your family for having so many wonderful trips that you can share and I can live vicariously through you.

 

[karajeboo]

OMG, You mean there's more???!!!! That was a really sleazy thing she did. I bet you would have beat her senseless had she lived close to you...lol. It must have felt so good to finally put her in her place. I can't stand having to walk on eggshells around someone just so they don't get po'd. It sucks all the fun right outta whatever it is you're trying to enjoy. Was your husband crouching down like on the Dinosaur ride when the s*** started to hit the fan? I hope this has taught her not to mess with you. I also hope you have nothing but MANY wonderful trips to Disney in the future! You Go Girl!

Take Care,
Lisa

Yes! Jeff basically was MORE afraid of me than he was of Dinosaur! And I'm so not a violent person, but at that time, I was so ready to go all redneck on her!

I really missed it when you were there in 2008. I would have loved to meet her.

At that time that I met you, she was mad because Ally had just gone through BBB and BSIL was PO'd that she was getting so much attention from the CM's. So if you would have seen her, all you would have seen were the whites of her eyes cause she was constantly rolling her eyes!

What a jealous, spiteful, mean spirited, ungrateful, person!!!!!!! I mean how can you be like that. And why does it seem that SIL's are like that. I know mine is a jealous, unthoughtful, witch. If you buy a new car, she needs one bigger and better. If you buy a camper, hers has to be bigger and better. Your remodel, she remodels. And so on and so on. Please. It is not a frickin competition. Be happy for your family members. But nooooooo. Sorry, got off track.

I'm glad you put her in her place. Hey, you don't have to live with her after all. And what is that old saying, You can pick your friends but you can't pick your relatives, but you don't have to claim them! And I don't think I would be a claiming her. I don't even talk to mine anymore, unless I absolutely have to.

So, here is to many more trips for you and your family, and I hope that you post your reports here. Because I am so happy for you and your family for having so many wonderful trips that you can share and I can live vicariously through you.

Sounds like they are two peas in a pod! And you're right - it's so not a competition! My sis lives very humbly - she's a SAHM and her hubs is a firefighter, but she's so excited for me when we do something or buy something. There's just no competition there at all! But BSIL did the same thing when we bought our first "starter" house. She went 500 sq feet bigger and then just HAD to move after they had a child cause that was too small.

We've been very fortunate with Jeff's career. We're able to do a lot of things and I'm very thankful. But I would NEVER begrudge someone who can do more! That's just not in my nature.

Oh, but guess what? I know, I know, I'm sooooo bad! After this whole fiasco, I emailed her to get her opinion on cruises. She has been on two because her DH's grandfather takes the WHOLE extended family every other year. She went on and on about it and then I told her I was asking cause we are looking to do a Disney cruise in 2010. She didn't replay to that email!!!! I guess I can claim the "B" status for that, huh?

 

[ekball]

Oh NO SHE DIDN'T. I would be LIVID over the pictures (regardless of how they turned out), and more so over the lying about it. Good for you for calling her out on it. My bet is her behavior will improve since you did that....people like that pull all the cr@p they can until someone calls them out on their ridiculous behavior. Way to put her in her place! Oh and and nice touch on the cruise email.

 

[charming23]

Just read your TR so far and I am addicted. Your sense of humor is great.

I can not believe your BSIL did that to you. I have an Aunt like that. SHe only does stuff that is good for her and not for anyone else.

Can not wait to hear more.

 

[soontobewed07]

No matter how many times you tell me that story it still bothers me. I just don't understand it. Does FAMILY mean anything to her? ARGH I would tell Jeff you will no longer be anywhere near the world while she is there!