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Old 10-23-2005, 02:57 AM   #31 (permalink)
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FUNNY FUNNY FUNNY!!!

And . . . yeah . . . just where IS the hair pic?
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Old 10-23-2005, 08:21 AM   #32 (permalink)
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Great update! Love your pictures. I'll join with those who want to see a pic of the frizzy hair! I'm one of those people that has stick straight, thin, fine hair, and I'm actually envious of hair like yours!

Looking forward to more!
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You made me laugh so hard I woke up everyone in the house with the past grandmothers house comment!

It's ok, they had to get up anyways! More please...
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Great start Melanie

Okay, great pictures too Are we going to get to see any of you

Hurry back!
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Great update!!!! Love the pictures! Could Jordie be any prettier?????

And I laughed so hard, soda came out my nose. Thanks a lot!

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Great update!!!! Love the pictures! Could Jordie be any prettier?????

And I laughed so hard, soda came out my nose. Thanks a lot!

Kelly

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Jordie is gorgeous!

Poor Fortissimo is wearing Diet Coke now. (serves him right for waking me up at 5 this morning!)
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Hurry back with more! You are totally cracking me up! I'm loving reading about "the other side" since we stayed at POFQ at the end of September!
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Great update! Love your pictures. I'll join with those who want to see a pic of the frizzy hair! I'm one of those people that has stick straight, thin, fine hair, and I'm actually envious of hair like yours!

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It must be a Maine thing, my hair is like that too. But I totally appreciate the wallpaper boarder shots. Thanks for a fabulous read, hurry back so we can read allllllll about Downtown Disney and lizards and Boma. Oh, and I toss out everything but the stickers too...but mine just hang on the fridge in tact, I've never vandalized corporate property with them. That I remember.... Hurry back!
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Trip Date: 9/3/05 - 9/10/05
Resort: Port Orleans Riverside
Disney Freaks Involved: Me (Melanie/joyjoy), My BF (Alex), my 19 y.o. daugter (Jordie), Alex's 15 y.o. daughter (Kira)
Reason for trip: It is time.

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Howdy, Disney Dorks![img]/ubb/images/graemlins/zwavin.gif[/img]

It's me again. Thanks again for all the fun comments. I wish I was more reliable with the updates, but I just suck. HOWEVER! Since last we spoke, I've learned something wonderful. I get to go back to WDW at the end of November for a few days so yayyyy. Now it's not so painful to relive the moments of our Sept trip. Whether or not that means the updates will come any quicker remains to be seen :don'tcountonit:, but still! I'm not sad anymore! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] = me. Okay, where did I leave off?

Oh, okay. So we were starving and decided to take the boat to DTD. Off we go! Hey look! Me with straight hair!


That's my bf showing off his $300 refillable mug. What a deal! Oh, and don't get all complimentary about the hair. Wait till you see the "after" picture a few hours from this one. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]

Here are our babies sitting on the other side of the boat.


The boat ride from PO-R stops first at French Quarter [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] and takes about 15 minutes to DTD. The captain told us about the Treehouses that you see on the way. Sad, really, that they are in such disrepair. I guess they are just not as profitable as building a whole new resort (Hi Saratoga Springs over there![img]/ubb/images/graemlins/zwavin.gif[/img] )but they do look like they used to be quite cool. He said there are talks about revamping them to use as housing for College Program kids but nothing firm. Rumor alert.

We got to DTD and went straight to Earl of Sandwich. I was nervous about the dining plan because I just couldn't fathom that these people could figure it out. I tell the counter girl what we're trying to do, and I'm all "Okay. We want to use ONE counter service for the two of us (gesturing between me and Alex) but just ONE, okay? We'll have the Caprese (Mozarella, tomato, basil, olive oil - YUMMY) with a diet coke and a brownie and then SHE wants the All-American, that's another counter service credit, are you following me?" And the girl goes, "Uh, why don't you just tell me what you want and the system will break it all down." Me: "REALLY???" So we ordered and ...... IT WORKED!!!! I gazed at the receipt lovingly. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/love.gif[/img] This was going to be easy peasy Japanesey. The sandwiches were really good, everybody was happy. Time to shop!

We shopped at Once Upon a Toy for a bit, and meandered around toward World of Disney. At one point Alex couldn't take it anymore :wimp: and sat on a bench just like the guy in the planning DVD. We kept seeing ALL these lizards all over the place so he photographed one.


Kira thought they were cute but I was grossed completely out. I hate lizards. (Sorry, LizardCop. But if you really are a Lizard Cop, you need to get to Downtown Disney right away because there is a problem down there. Thank you.)

I love World of Disney. I was on a mission this trip. Some of you may remember that when we were here a few trips ago I took my much loved Mickey watch to have the clasp repaired at the watch section here. I still loved the watch, but the clasp again had become so worn that it fell open all the time and I was afraid I'd lose it, so I had quit wearing it. I needed a new watch and that was one of the things I planned on blowing part of my retirement on. No, I didn't get one of those $400 watches. I didn't get anything this day, I was just in research mode. They had a really nice selection and I picked out a few possibilities, but had to check some other shops, first. We tried on Stitch hands.


Those are fun, but what the heck do you do with them? Kinda like the Mickey hands. Fun idea and cute as a button, but really. You gonna wear those things when it's cold or something? You can't even dial a cell phone with them on. Here's what they're good for. You get back from Disney World and friends come over for dinner.

You: "GAHHH! Look at my scary Stitch hands I got at Disney World! Aren't they HILARIOUS??!!??"
Your guests: "Haha. Wow."
You: "Yeah. Right. Okay." [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/ukid.gif[/img]

Speaking of Stitch, we saw a van he wrecked outside of WOD. That Stitch. Wreaking havoc everywhere he goes. Also outside WOD we saw ...... rain. Surprise. There goes the 'do. We made our way slowly toward the boat dock. I say slowly, because Kira and Jordie are incapable of passing a single cash register without making a donation. Alex told me later he actually was getting kind of nauseous in WOD. I'm not sure if he was tired, hot, overwhelmed, horrified to be spending his life's fortune on crap or what. Odd. I feel strangely exhilirated in there. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

Anyway, by the time we got to the boat it was really raining pretty hard. We stood under the canopy with some other folks and started talking about plans. The couple next to us were commenting on Cirque du Soleil. They had just been. Here's the conversation:

Lady: "Oh, you HAVE to do it! It is soooo amazing! Breathtaking! Gorgeous! Never a dull moment! Fantastic!"
Us: "Oh, we'd LOVE to! Love it! Watched the tv show! Love it! Gush! Gush!"
Lady's Husband: "Eh. It's alright. Not worth the money though."
Us: [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/ukid.gif[/img]
Silence.
Lady and her Husband: "BWAHHAHAHAHAHAH!!!! Just kidding. It's fantastic."
Whewwwwwwwwwwwww. They were funny.

The boat finally comes and it stops raining but the damage had been done. Here's proof. Okay, remember the "before" picture? Let me refresh your memory:



Okay, now lets have a look, shall we? You probably won't even recognize me, but that's me on the left looking the other way. I'm no doubt too ashamed to show my face.



See? I told you. You know, it looks kinda like that right now.[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/blushing.gif[/img] Anyway.

We got back to the room and the carpet was dry and our suitcases were there. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] The blow dryer still didn't work, but that's okay. We don't use that wimpy blowdryer anyway. I think those are only good for blowdrying babies' hair. That's what they are. Baby blowdryers. The girls changed clothes, I straightened my hair and we got ready to leave for dinner at Boma. We [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/love.gif[/img] Boma. We stayed at AKL last time and I was afraid we'd be all "AWWWWW [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]" when we got there and not want to leave. Anyway, we decided to take the bus BACK to DTD and catch a bus to AKL. There's a ride. They don't make it easy for us non-car renters to get from resort to resort, do they?

Animal Kingdom Lodge was as lovely as ever. Man, was it CROWDED, though! I kind of remember that. The lobby is always bustling. The fact that the other resorts are all sprawling and spread out disperses the billions of guests, but at AKL all elevators lead to the lobby so it's always kinda crazy. It was about 7:40 and our ADR was at 8 so we checked in and got the beeper. We went to check out Arusha Rock, thinking we could see us some of them zebras or somethin'. Nope. The viewing area was closed! Why? Rain? Please. Zebras don't care about the rain. Oh, well, the pager went off anyway and we headed back in to Boma. What a madhouse! We were seated and told all about the buffet and I sheepishly told the waiter we were on the dining plan and...... he didn't throw us out! I was still having a hard time believing how smoothly this thing was going. The buffet was awesome, as usual. They didn't have the vegetable soup I liked so much last time, nor the Kofta (vegetarian "meatballs" made with lentils and veggies) but it was still outstanding. Alex declared the falafel and sauce to be the best he'd ever had. Jordie and Kira ate a bunch of animal flesh plus about a TON of hummus and flatbread. Jordie went nuts over the greenbean/tofu dish. I love the pap with tomato sauce. People. I know what you're thinking. Get over it. It's pronounced "PAHP". The desserts were to die for, of course. Whoever invented that freakin' zebra dome should be canonized, in my opinion. We got the card and wrote down a few recipes we wanted and I started reminiscing over the LAST recipes we got from here. God love 'em, I know they want to help, but really. The recipes are nuts. They go like this:

Kofta

Rinse 25 lbs of dried lentils. Soak 2 hours. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly for 8 hours.
Meanwhile, with your other hand, peel and julienne 100 large carrots.
Add 600 ml
(Oh. Metrics now. Thanks) of asoefotida. If not available (read: If you are unable to get to the local market in Botswana today), substitute Melegueta Pepper. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]

Now granted, I'm not the GREATEST cook in the world, but GEEEZ, could ya make it any more complicated? Ever the optimists, we ordered a few recipes anyway, and the next time I have 3 days to commit to experimental cooking, I'm all over it.

Here are some pics of us at Boma:


No, we don't normally dress alike. Only for our ballroom dancing class. Haha! Just kidding.

Jordie and Kira practicing the Two-finger Cast Member Hand Gesture:


We wisely decided to take a cab back to PO-R and it took about 15 mins/$17 vs 1 hr/free. Worth it.[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/082502yes_prv.gif[/img]

We changed into swimsuits and headed for the hot tub. FREAK ALERT. Omg. I don't know WHAT was going on there, but there were some weirdos in the 'tub that night.

1) Old hairy guy that kept letting the bubbles fill up his trunks then squooshing out the air :shudder:
2) Lady in pink bikini that maybe should have gone with the one-piece that stared, STARED! at us the whole time without blinking
3) Couple obviously not speaking to each other, obviously entertaining ideas of drowning each other by the looks of their evil glances.

Gah! We didn't stay long. Walking back to the room, we were like, "Uh, is it just me or was that weird?". We never saw those people again. Thank God.

Okay! I'll be back soon with our first full day - at Epcot, our favorite! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/love.gif[/img]

Thanks for reading! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/zwavin.gif[/img]
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Yet again . . . freaking hilarious!!! Sorry about the poofage of the hair in the rain, though! That's why I keep my hair in a ponytail . . . always! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img]

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What a great update! You look absolutely fine with the curly hair [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/082502yes_prv.gif[/img] A great time had by all!

More, More, More!!!
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Just as I suspected -- I'd love to have your curly hair!! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/082502yes_prv.gif[/img]

Your report is totally cracking me up. Keep it coming please!! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img]
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What a way to start my morning! You are so funny. Thanks for the update. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/applause.gif[/img]
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Oh my gosh!! All I can say is [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img] Awesome report!! Jordie and Kira are both beautiful girls!!
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I think I laughed out loud about a million times with this update! YOu're too funny!!! And your hair is FINE curly.

Those hot tub people were defintate weirdos.

Can't wait for more!!! Hurry back!!!
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