The PTR-that-must-not-be-named! 1/28 - 2/6

The PTR-that-must-not-be-named! (final chapter added 1/26)

{WARNING} The PTR you are about to read may have been started on another forum website, so if you hang out at the aforenotmentioned forum - you may have seen this all before. I can not be held responsible for the waste of your time this may create. {/WARNING}

Howdy!

I decided I have been a lurker on these PTRs and TRs too long - it is now time for me to throw my hat in the ring, so to speak.

The cast of characters:

Me
My wife
My son
My daughter

What?! You need more details, you say? And something about how this could be the most boring and/or idiotic PTR ever conceived? Yes, I know. But gosh darn it, I'm going to do it anyway!

The revised cast of characters:

Me - a 39 year-old Disney freak. By day I am an IT Server Administrator, by night - an awesome dad, cook, assistant housekeeper, Rock Band (the PS3 game, not real life) bassist, not-so-handyman, dishwasher, dog sitter, and smart @$$.
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My wife – henceforth known as DW. A ## year-old Disney freak in training, very organized, humble, sarcastically humorous, highly intelligent, beautiful gift from God. (OK, she might be reading this one day… I need to get my brownie points in.) (Wait, by me writing that it voids the brownie points I tried to gain by telling everyone I was trying to get brownie points.) (oh, well.)
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My son – will be referred to as DS from here on out. He is a ten year old boy. Enough said, right? Well, he likes video games, Harry Potter (we will be going to US IoA one day on the trip for WWoHP), video games, TV, video games, eating, video games, science, video games, movies, and video games. Oh yeah, did I mention he likes video games?
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My daughter – DD to you. She will be turning 4 years old days before our trip. She is the most girlie-girl I have ever seen. She loves Disney Princesses, Barbies, dolls, dresses, shoes, playing dress up, and enjoys watching Disney movies. Her idea of ‘slumming it’ is wearing her nice Princess dress from last year. Wow, we created a monster!
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I hope anyone reading can manage to hold your lunch down while I take you on a roller coaster of fun, queasiness, uneasiness, white-wine-dry humor, and mind-numbing syntax and way too many commas and those ';'-thingies.
 
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BigTex71

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Chapter 1: The End is Near!

June 12, 2010

Sadness drifted over me like a heavy fog drifting in as the sun started to rise. The last day of our awesome eleven-day May/June 2010 trip to ‘the World’ had arrived in seemingly impossibly fast fashion. How can 11 days go by so fast?! Why is it that the last hour at work before the vacation started seemed to take days, yet these last ten days in Mickey’s World flew by like hours? It is just not fair… not fair at all.

To combat the dreary numbness of departure day, I spoke with my wife about a return trip - surely that could raise our spirits. We decided a return trip in 2011 would be feasible – especially since we had upgraded our park tickets to Annual Passes. But that meant we couldn’t do the June sweatstravaganza again, as our APs would expire on June 3, 2011. Spring Break! Sure, it will be crowded – but the weather alone would make it worth it. Wait… my fellow server administrator coworker takes his family skiing in Colorado every year at Spring Break. And he has seniority. I send him a text message anyway, just to see if they are doing the skiing trip again. By a stroke of luck, he mentions they are not going skiing next year because his son has a school trip to Washington D.C. that week – and he will not be taking vacation! In the distance, a faint hallelujah chorus rings out.

Now we can finish up our last day touring the Happiest Place on Earth while still managing to be happy. It is not quite as sad a day when you know you will be coming back within a years’ time. I can hardly wait to get home and start planning the next vacation, but I think I can handle the wait – Mickey and friends still have several hours to entertain us before our ride back to the Orlando airport. Is it strange that I get just as excited planning a Disney vacation as I do being on one?

(Will we go for Spring Break? Will we go at all? Stay tuned for the next exciting adventure…)
 
mickeysshoes

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I am hooked and ready for more...and no your not crazy feeling half the fun is in the planning!! When the last day of our trip rolls around i always get asked by my family if I will crying again this year. See at breakfast on the last day of our first trip...14 years ago...I started to cry and when asked what was the matter I said that i was not ready to leave and did not want to return home. So now they make fun of me every trip!!! But i really feel the best day of any trip is the day we talk about and start to plan the next years trip.
 
BigTex71

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mickeysshoes said:
I am hooked and ready for more...and no your not crazy feeling half the fun is in the planning!! When the last day of our trip rolls around i always get asked by my family if I will crying again this year. See at breakfast on the last day of our first trip...14 years ago...I started to cry and when asked what was the matter I said that i was not ready to leave and did not want to return home. So now they make fun of me every trip!!! But i really feel the best day of any trip is the day we talk about and start to plan the next years trip.
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Thanks for dropping in. There is more news about planning stuff to follow in a later chapter... big news (for me, at least.)
 
BigTex71

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I seem to be having trouble posting the next chapter. The third time I tried, I finally noticed that there was a message that it would need to be reviewed by Board Admin. Hmmm, I didn't think it had anything to cause alarm. :(
 
BigTex71

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DisneyPrincess5 said:
Ooo so excited to read more!!! Hope well is well with the next post:)
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Thanks for dropping in and reading. Welcome!

I am actually up to chapter 10 in my Word Document - so I have a lot to cut n paste to post here. I hope they start working again soon. (These replies seem to post just fine, though.)
 
BigTex71

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Mr/Ms Moderator,

I apologize for having 4 or 5 reposts in the queue to be approved for this thread. Could you allow just the last one? I edited out any website dot coms that were included.

Your bestest friend,
BigTex71
 
BigTex71

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Mikester71 said:
From one 40-ish PS3 Rock Band/Guitar Hero bassist to another...loving it so far and can't wait to read the rest! :wave:
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Cool, man. Rock on! :sohappy:

Thanks for reading and welcome to my little cyber nut house. :p

Cosmic Commando said:
My family will be there 1/28-2/6, too! We're at Pop. Look forward to reading all about your planning... it really is half the fun!
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That is very cool - same days and all. When I get to the chapter with my park days we can see if any of ours are the same.

Welcome! :wave:

Alison1975 said:
I'm in!
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Thanks for joining in the fun! :lol:
 

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