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Gabe1

Ivory Tower Squabble EST 2011. WINDMILL SURVIVOR
The best dessert I ever had at Disney was the 2 warm chocolate chip cookies with vanilla ice cream in the middle on Main St. Mmmmmm :)

Animal Kingdom has a yummy hand made ice cream sandwich too, always generous with their ice cream.
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donaldtoo

Well-Known Member
We set them off but are usually done by 10ish, keep a water bucket nearby, short fuses get longer ones and use a bbq lighter. The fireworks store always has BOGO and put a handful of small freebies in your bag at checkout. (poppers and snakes this time) If I thought the conditions weren't right or unsafe I wouldn't do it. Our neighbors set off the big boys. I just sit and watch those.

I've posted about this before, but...
Years ago our neighborhood had an official display that was pretty darn awesome. It was at the far end of the football field of the middle school directly across from my folks house (think WDW hub sitting in chairs with no obstructions). They discontinued it due to HOA budget concerns about the same time as a more affluent neighborhood down the road got annexed by Austin. And, within Austin city limits, fireworks are illegal.
After that, about three seperate groups of families from that neighborhood would come over to the park across the road to the right of the MS football field with all kinds of big fireworks. They would duel it out for around 2 hours!!!!! It was nuts!!!!!!! I can't even imagine how much money they went through, but, those were the best continuous, crazily-extended, fireworks displays I have ever seen in my entire life...!!!!!!!!!!! :joyfull:
Then, a few years later, our neighborhood was annexed on a limited basis by Austin, and it all went away.
All of us...all 3 generations...lamented a bit about it on the evening of this past 4th... :(
 

Gabe1

Ivory Tower Squabble EST 2011. WINDMILL SURVIVOR
I've posted about this before, but...
Years ago our neighborhood had an official display that was pretty darn awesome. It was at the far end of the football field of the middle school directly across from my folks house (think WDW hub sitting in chairs with no obstructions). They discontinued it due to HOA budget concerns about the same time as a more affluent neighborhood down the road got annexed by Austin. And, within Austin city limits, fireworks are illegal.
After that, about three seperate groups of families from that neighborhood would come over to the park across the road to the right of the MS football field with all kinds of big fireworks. They would duel it out for around 2 hours!!!!! It was nuts!!!!!!! I can't even imagine how much money they went through, but, those were the best continuous, crazily-extended, fireworks displays I have ever seen in my entire life...!!!!!!!!!!! :joyfull:
Then, a few years later, our neighborhood was annexed on a limited basis by Austin, and it all went away.
All of us...all 3 generations...lamented a bit about it on the evening of this past 4th... :(
To me it is the dangerously wreckless week of the year. Legal or illegal. So often involving children about. For the 4th there was a man blowing up fireworks with children watching up here. A dud more a sleeper ultimately blew up and exploded into his face. DOA. A 4th to be remembered this year by many children that witnessed that. I don't get the risk.
 

Cesar R M

Well-Known Member
I like Jiko and Boma for Breakfast. I'm on the naughty list for not caring for Boma's dinner offerings plus they have tables packed in their like sardines.
Just not my kinda food that I care for, neither of my kids enjoyed it either.
I haven't been there either. I think I only been to Jiko (quick trip) and Saana (full course).
 

Gabe1

Ivory Tower Squabble EST 2011. WINDMILL SURVIVOR
I haven't been there either. I think I only been to Jiko (quick trip) and Saana (full course).

Given the choice I'd do Jiko or Saana any day over Boma. I equate Boma to the fan love of Chef Mickey's. In fairness I am not overly impressed with buffets where you scoop up offerings under a heat source. Some love that all ya can stuff yourself with allure. Me I really prefer something prepared to order and I don't require volume over quality. That is a personal preference.

I once adored the Biergarten at Epcot. Some of the best food on the property. Their Sauerbraten was beyond comparable to some of the best served in the Chicagoland area, which has a large German base. They went to a buffet, so not the same. Something about food in trays under heat sources that just doesn't do it for me. To each their own.
 

Gabe1

Ivory Tower Squabble EST 2011. WINDMILL SURVIVOR
Do you ever call her Jeffiner, just for old times sake? My best friend's dad used to greet me at the door and ask if I was house-trained. One day, I don't even remember how it started, but he told me always to eat my vegetables so I'd grow up to be beautiful like him and I told him I didn't want to be bald. That's about the cheekiest thing I think I ever said to an adult. He just laughed. Gosh, I miss him. He passed away a few years ago...brain cancer. But he always treated me like one of his own kids.

Sweet who we become oddly attached to. Being married to a man that had two brothers married to two sisters made some very odd times. Even their children were wildly intertwined. Genetically those 2 + 3 nieces and nephews were like brother and sisters more than cousins. My kids not as genetically related as the five cousins never bonded that same way nor were they thrown together in the same manner.

But for me those SIL's parents just didn't grasp the whole weird bonding the same way my inlaws did. I became very attached to those 2 sisters parents and they did with me too especial the father. In all the weird family gatherings my inlaws concocted he and I would find a corner and hide together. We'd escape the oddities and survive the events together. I miss him a great deal, he passed 2 years ago, a gem. I loved him like a Dad and yet there was not a drop of blood between us. Maybe why.
 

Gabe1

Ivory Tower Squabble EST 2011. WINDMILL SURVIVOR
There are so many places that I would have LOVED to try last Summer, but DS is the pickiest of all eaters, and we were on the Dining Plan, so we had to mostly stick to places where they had pizza or chicken nuggets on the kids menu. I made an exception for 'Ohana and the CM noticed DS wasn't eating anything and he went next door to Kona and got a hotdog for him. I wrote up some feedback to give him kudos...he was AWESOME. Le Cellier is definitely on my list for our 25th anniversary trip in 9 years, sans children. I hope it's still there!

My DS was a pain in the neck growing up with what he would even try. He hated things he never tried. I think I put either peanut butter or Pizza slices in his lunchbox for 8 years. So freak'n happy when he went off to high school and I could give him $25 a week for lunch and be done with all that.

Still the ManChild is now one of the most adventurous eaters and triers of foods most would not. I give credit to a family in town that would take him to the most high end restaurants in N. IL. Raised well mannered and knowing how to act appropriately in fine dining places they were happy to take him with and on family vacations too. Somehow he felt compelled to at least try many things he actually liked that he would not try for me. I give kudos to Mom #2 for bringing him along to all those places throughout the years. She didn't have any sons and still refers to him as 'her son.'
 

Gabe1

Ivory Tower Squabble EST 2011. WINDMILL SURVIVOR
Their steaks are fabulous. I really like their mushroom filet. Some would say Yachtsman is better, but I love the preparation of the mushroom filet. I also love their cheddar cheese soup. And the pretzel bread. Now I'm hungry.

I've seen non Disney places charge the same for that quality of a steak. Specifically I can think of one in Hawaii. It's about right for the quality of steak you get.

I agree with the pretzel bread. It is awesome. I won't pay signature prices for bread no matter how good it is. I argue the point about their steak. I've had much better IMO on property. Their bread and soup are tops. I can get that at food and wine.
 

Gabe1

Ivory Tower Squabble EST 2011. WINDMILL SURVIVOR
Their steaks are fabulous. I really like their mushroom filet. Some would say Yachtsman is better, but I love the preparation of the mushroom filet. I also love their cheddar cheese soup. And the pretzel bread. Now I'm hungry.

I've seen non Disney places charge the same for that quality of a steak. Specifically I can think of one in Hawaii. It's about right for the quality of steak you get.

I agree with the pretzel bread. It is awesome. I won't pay signature prices for bread no matter how good it is. I argue the point about their steak. I've had much better IMO on property. Their bread and soup are tops. I can get that at food and wine.
 

Gabe1

Ivory Tower Squabble EST 2011. WINDMILL SURVIVOR
Their steaks are fabulous. I really like their mushroom filet. Some would say Yachtsman is better, but I love the preparation of the mushroom filet. I also love their cheddar cheese soup. And the pretzel bread. Now I'm hungry.

I've seen non Disney places charge the same for that quality of a steak. Specifically I can think of one in Hawaii. It's about right for the quality of steak you get.

I agree with the pretzel bread. It is awesome. I won't pay signature prices for bread no matter how good it is. I argue the point about their steak. I've had much better IMO on property. Their bread and soup are tops. I can get that at food and wine.
 

Songbird76

Well-Known Member
To me it is the dangerously wreckless week of the year. Legal or illegal. So often involving children about. For the 4th there was a man blowing up fireworks with children watching up here. A dud more a sleeper ultimately blew up and exploded into his face. DOA. A 4th to be remembered this year by many children that witnessed that. I don't get the risk.
When my kids were younger, we hid in the house to watch fireworks on New Years. Our neighbors have extended family here and they all come over for celebrations. They had several kiddos running around and they were SO unsafe with fireworks. They let their little ones...like 3 years old, hold Roman Candles in their hands to shoot them off. The 2 boys were around 10 and had bottle rocket wars, shooting them at each other. So we didn't go outside at all. And then when the kids got a bit older, they wanted to light sparklers and such themselves, so we went out, and they tried to offer roman candles to the kids and we declined. We got huge mega sparklers that you stick in the ground rather than hold, we lit those and that was about it. We do get a couple of fountains because I love them, but we don't do rockets and such and the kids wear safety goggles, everything has to be lit WITH daddy, there are no big fireworks, etc. I miss things like the bang snaps. Safe and easy, no lighting, just fun. They don't have those here.
 

Songbird76

Well-Known Member
The gas company just called to make an appointment for the yearly maintenance...they wanted to come at 7:30 in the morning. I'm like...um no...I have to work until 11 the night before, which means I'm not home until 11:30 p.m. I am not getting up at 7 am the next morning just for that. They couldn't have done that during the school year when I would have to be up anyway??
 

MinnieM123

Premium Member
I seem to leave every store and market with too many things that are not on my list-always. Worse when I don't like what they have that is on my list or they are 'out' of it.

Target is getting real bad at advertised items being sold out and having that * stating no rain checks, getting old. It is unfortunate 'cause I really like Target but they need to be fair and stock the sale items and do better overall with inventory.

States vary with # of items that need to be in stock, if a sale price is offered. Not sure how that relates to food, but I do know that in MA (at least as far as I can recall), there had to be a minimum of two items, in stock, that were at the advertised sale price. This part of the law was enacted to curb bait and switch items at higher prices.
 

Figgy1

Premium Member
Given the choice I'd do Jiko or Saana any day over Boma. I equate Boma to the fan love of Chef Mickey's. In fairness I am not overly impressed with buffets where you scoop up offerings under a heat source. Some love that all ya can stuff yourself with allure. Me I really prefer something prepared to order and I don't require volume over quality. That is a personal preference.

I once adored the Biergarten at Epcot. Some of the best food on the property. Their Sauerbraten was beyond comparable to some of the best served in the Chicagoland area, which has a large German base. They went to a buffet, so not the same. Something about food in trays under heat sources that just doesn't do it for me. To each their own.
I'm not a fan of buffets either but we did like TH better than GG. When we were at TH they trays were constantly being rotated:joyfull: the food at GG seemed like it was under a heat lamp longer:cautious: That being said as long as the boys go with us there will still be buffets and all you care to eat places on our ADR list. CP breakfast is also still worth it for us
 

Figgy1

Premium Member
The gas company just called to make an appointment for the yearly maintenance...they wanted to come at 7:30 in the morning. I'm like...um no...I have to work until 11 the night before, which means I'm not home until 11:30 p.m. I am not getting up at 7 am the next morning just for that. They couldn't have done that during the school year when I would have to be up anyway??
Sympathy like, did you manage to reschedule?
 

MinnieM123

Premium Member
It's been an interesting stretch for things either breaking or going offline. Lost power recently due to storms--that was understandable, and power came back on in a few hours.

Car broke recently; that's still in for repair, with delays from the holiday, for parts being sent in.

Then, the gas company decided to replace a pipe in front of the house over the weekend, and the guys checked in with hubs (who was home at the time) to make sure he still had hot water. He said he did. Next morning, there was no hot water. The gas company guys never thought to take into effect, that the hot water tank had some hot water still in it, when they asked him about it. (What happens when the remaining hot water runs out?!! Duhhh . . . :facepalm: ) So when the tank ran out that night, we had cold water. Hubs called gas company (his call was routed to New York--um, we live in MA . . . ) to come and fix this, and a tech came out--the installers never turned the gas switch back on in the basement! :banghead:

Then last night we had another power failure--luckily a brief one this time. But there were no storms, etc., in area. :confused:
 

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