Nov 2007 Report

*WARNING*


This is pretty much like my previous trip reports . . . not a lot of actual Disney World, but plenty of references to p00p.

The “underpants incident” alone probably falls into the category of extreme bad taste and Too Much Information.

You see, I’ve got a little devil on my left shoulder with the sense of humor of a five year old constantly saying: “Do it, do it, post another p00p reference!”

. . . and I know what you’re thing: “What about the little angel that sits on you right shoulder?”

Well a couple years ago . . . I think it was right after I posted this one:


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. . . He got so disgusted that he took off, and I’ve never seen him since.
So if you’re hoping for actual information about and photos of Disney World, I’m afraid you’ll be disappointed.

If, on the other hand, you have the sense of humor of a 5 year old - like me - enjoy!






We flew down this year rather than driving. Ryan said the only thing he would miss is staying at the slimy motels along 95 on the way down. I assured him that we could probably find a slimy place along 192 and stay there for the first night before we checked into All-Star music.

The Motel 6 seemed just about perfect:

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I give it 4.5 trucker's butts out of 5.

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Ryan wanted to find a good, slimy pizza place to go along with the slimy room. We found this place which didn’t quite meet his standards for squalor, but I thought it was pretty good.

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“Orange World” was right down the street. We popped in to check it out. After seeing what they had there, I thought it would have been more appropriate to make the building shaped like a giant T-shirt:

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I have no idea how this happened, but somehow we ended up bringing three tubes of toothpaste. The Mousekeeping staff must have thought we Donny and Marie Osmond were staying there (I would have been tempted to cut out such a dated reference lest people think I was old:lookaroun . . . But Marie’s recent incident on that dancing show makes the reference hip and happening and "now" . . . Doesn’t it?:lookaroun

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garyhoov

Trophy Husband
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I think the first thing you'll notice in this photo is that I have to stop standing next to Ryan, because he makes me look even shorter and fatter than usual. . .

The other thing you'll notice is the odd expression on my face as I try to speak without moving my mouth.

I always try to get Ryan to laugh in photos so he looks less like a surly teen, that’s why my face looks sort of funny in this photo. I can’t remember what I was saying here. Probably something like: “My underpants are sort of sagging. . . maybe I should find a bathroom to take them off.”

. . . as you can see, he's beginning to become immune to my underpants jokes . . . he's becoming like a super-resistant strain of bacteria on which even my most powerful anti-biotics have no effect.

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I always like to try to get action shots on the Tea-Cups:

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Here's a shot I took just to show we actually were at the Magic Kingdom. Sometime I worry that my photos aren't "Disney" enough.:lookaroun

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Here's a place we were looking for but couldn't find on the first night. The woman at the Motel 6 told us about it, but we couldn't find it that night. It was good, but Ryan as disappointed that they didn't have slices spread out behind the counter like they do in New Jersey. . . so he wasn't quite satisfied, and we were still looking.


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unkadug

Follower of "Saget"The Cult
Ryan got these pre

Ryan pronounced them "puck-a" . . .


I was pronouncing them "puke-a":lookaroun
That's what I thought too!

This photo has been giving me nightmares ever since I took it . . .



. . . so I thought I would share.:lookaroun




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I want one of those!

This particular morning, I was whining about the Gold Phantom - “You wouldn’t believe this Ryan. This car is like one of those cars at the Grand Prix in Magic Kingdom. As soon as I lift off the gas, it feels like it’s going to just stop.”

. . . when I pulled into the Krispy Kreme, I realized I had the parking brake on.:eek::lookaroun

:ROFLOL:

Thank you for one of the MOST ENTERTAINING trip reports I've ever read.
 

garyhoov

Trophy Husband
Original Poster
After Pizza, we headed to Downtown Disney.

Here I am patting down the Hamburgler in search of delicious contraband.:lookaroun

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They have a little beauty parlor where they turn girls into princesses:

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I asked them how much money it would take to turn me into a princess. I expected the answer to be: "Not enough money in the world.", but they were good sports about it:

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I have a feeling they would have reacted differently if they thought I really was serious.:lookaroun

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Mmmmm, nothing like a nice hunk of mint-fudge::slurp:

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I had to take this shot discretely so Ryan wouldn't have a chance to make one of his scowls. Thus the low angle. I was pretending to just be fiddling with the camera:lookaroun:

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Hey Gary I am loving this trip report. I swear the Llama peeing is something my daughter would take. :ROFLOL: It seems whenever she takes a pic of an animal it decides to go to the bathroom. weird.

I can't wait to get down there again.

Pam
 

Monty

Brilliant...and Canadian
In the Parks
No
Wow, I sit down to write paper due tomorrow, and look at what I miss:



You learn something new everyday ... I always thought all ostriches were the "two-leg walking type"! :ROFLOL:
Look closer! Those are "two-leg walking type" ostriches, they just have really big feet and significant toe-in! :lol:
 

DMC-12

It's HarmonioUS, NOT HarmoniYOU.
I didn't take a lot of photos Tuesday, so I think I can bang this one out fairly quick.

For this next part, I need to introduce you to the Gold Phantom:

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The Gold Phantom, was our rental Kia. A powerful, asphalt shredding beast if ever I’ve driven one. The exhaust note was uncannily similar to a Ferrari’s V-12 (with roughly 8 spark plugs missing).

I named it the Gold Phantom, because I told Ryan that we were probably flummoxing people. One minute they’d be looking at a gold Kia, and the next moment, it would be GONE. “What the. . . I could swear I just saw a Gold car there a moment ago. Must have been some sort of . . . ghost car.”

. . . when I pulled into the Krispy Kreme, I realized I had the parking brake on.:o:lookaroun




Ew... you drove that death trap? :lol: *loses all respect for Gary now* :(:lol::lookaroun

LOL at the parking brake though... burn it up! :lookaroun Meh.. its just a rental.. and a kia... so its not like anyone cares anyway. :shrug::lookaroun:lol:
 

garyhoov

Trophy Husband
Original Poster
Ew... you drove that death trap? :lol: *loses all respect for Gary now* :(:lol::lookaroun

LOL at the parking brake though... burn it up! :lookaroun Meh.. its just a rental.. and a kia... so its not like anyone cares anyway. :shrug::lookaroun:lol:



*sends a private message to Erika to edit Jerry's post and take the picture of the car off.*

That's how fast it is. It's so fast it was GONE by time you quoted the post.:lookaroun
 

Computer Magic

Well-Known Member
Ew... you drove that death trap? :lol: *loses all respect for Gary now* :(:lol::lookaroun

LOL at the parking brake though... burn it up! :lookaroun Meh.. its just a rental.. and a kia... so its not like anyone cares anyway. :shrug::lookaroun:lol:
take out the Insurance...then you can beat the crap out of the car :lookaroun
 

garyhoov

Trophy Husband
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Wednesday morning and the grass-hopper was still dead:

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This was pretty cool. For those of you who haven't seen it yet, they get a bunch of kids to train as Jedi's, and then Darth Vader comes out and they get to duel with him. . .

. . . I'm curious how they coached them though, because when Darth Vader comes out and asks if anyone wants to join him on the dark-side, I'm sure, if I was that age, I would have been jumping up and down and saying: "Me, me, pick me! I want to join the dark-side.:lookaroun

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As Ryan was taking this one, I told him to hurry up, because there was a kid waiting to get his photo . . . and I wanted to get out of there before he got a chance to say: "Mommy, is that big, fat man going to break it before I get a turn?":lookaroun

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Ryan eating fudge. This won't be the last fudge he had that day.:lookaroun People think I never feed him because he's so skinny. Trust me. He eats . . . a LOT.

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garyhoov

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Here's a shot of Bear Grylls eating a salmon straight out of a stream:

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And here's a shot of Ryan trying some South African spice cake at the EPCOT food and wine festival.

. . . relatively speaking, they're both roughly equally as daring.:lookaroun


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Ryan and I wanted to try the Bratwurst in Germany, but neither of us were real hungry, so we split it. Ryan didn't like the saurkraut, so I got to have all of that.


. . . later, back at the hotel, Ryan learned just what a mistake that was.:lookaroun

Next time, I think he'll force himself to eat at least half just so I have less ammunition.

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This was on the inside of one of the bathroom stall doors at the American Experience building. Not quite up to Disney standards, wouldn't you agree? In fact, I was worried that at any moment Larry Craig might pop in next to me and start taking a "wide stance".:lookaroun

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garyhoov

Trophy Husband
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Is everyone keeping track? That was 1 chunk of fudge at MGM, then some South African spice cake, then a half a brat-wurst and now another chunk of fudge . . . all in the space of about 3 hours.

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Some HUGE carp in the World Showcase lake. I'd say they were about 3 feet long each. That was sort of cool:

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Ryan and I were curious how tight security at All-Star Music was. They always made a point of making you show your key/card when you drive through the checkpoint, but that didn't seem like a really secure system. I told Ryan I'd bet they'd wave me through it I just flashed my photo-pass card.

As we were approaching the gate, he asked me what my plan was if they didn't go for that. I told him I'd point at him, say "he made me do it . . . and there's a bomb in the trunk" and then jump out and make a run for it.


. . . fortunately it didn't come to that, and they waved us right through.

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This area behind our the building our room was in was pretty cool. I kept checking for alligators, but never saw any:

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Me with Ariel.

Don't worry, it's not serious.


. . . I heard she has crabs.:lookaroun




*runs to hide from Vince*

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garyhoov

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. . . and, I guess I'll just wrap this up quick. Thursday we went to Animal Kingdom and then to EPCOT (I think we spent at least some time at EPCOT just about every day) to do the Behind the Seeds tour.

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Can you guess what I am here? I had my hands up over my head in sort of a 'point', but Ryan snapped the photo at the wrong moment.:lookaroun

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garyhoov

Trophy Husband
Original Poster
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So, for my final photo, I need you to imagine this: We did the "behind the seeds" tour and then spent the rest of the afternoon walking around EPCOT before heading home.


On the way out, I stopped in the bathroom, washed my face . . .


. . . and noticed something unusual in the mirror.






See if you can tell what's wrong with this picture:




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So, yes, I spent several hours walking around EPCOT with a "My Name is Gary" name-tag stuck to my shirt.

. . . and NO, my son (who didn't even wear his name tag but crumpled it up and put it in his pocket) didn't bother to mention that I looked like I just came off the short bus.
 

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