The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

DryerLintFan

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Moana may want some bird seed for Heihei or a pretty seashell (easier than shoes besides shoes on a beach?), a Flower for Rapunzel or hair ties, a horse for Merida, a rose for Belle, gee this is hard:banghead: I was just happy to get pics

Even harder is that we see some of them multiple times. I like the heihei food idea though! We won't be seeing Moana, but that's really cute!
 

Go.Nijntje

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I'm not talking "official" deli's. I'm talking about the deli sections in the mega-marts. I don't even know we have and official one down here. We do have deep fried Krispy Kreme hamburgers though. So we have that going for us.
I had never heard of a Krispy Kreme hamburger, I'm intrigue...
Latest creation...

Chicken red bean quesadilla with green onion and tomato and seasoned with Chipotle black pepper.
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Looks delicious but I could do without the tomato and green onion.

Heading out now. Raining most of the way down until Georgia. But sunny when we hit Fl. Thanks everyone for the good wishes!😊
So jelly, have a safe journey and soak up the magic.
 

MouseDreaming

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A wants to give the princesses and characters small presents when we get to Disney. Her idea. I've read up on this and I see that it's allowed as long as it's small and not valuable and in good taste.

So far she wants to give Ariel a seashell, Anna and Elsa some chocolate, and Moana some shoes because she doesn't have any.

Any ideas I can throw A's way?
This just makes me smile. I can just imagine the little seashell being passed to Ariel.
 

Go.Nijntje

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Oh....you don't need pictures of the food. It's standard theme park fare...hotdogs and fries and pizza....and not high quality. We will only eat lunch in the park....we ate dinner there last time and were sorry we wasted so much on what we got. We won't make that mistake again.
I'm sorry but I'm going to have to disagree with you.
The pannekoeken house has good pannekoeken and is a fun restaurant to eat in.
If you don't want to eat there (it might be too much stimulation for your son) you could go to the QS in the playground area (where all the merry go rounds are these days) and have kroketten and friet or kaassoefles etc. There is inside and outside seating and you'll have a nice view of all the merry go rounds.
Het Witte Paard is not good for a meal but they have nice cakes if you want a coffee break.
Just my 2 cents, I hope you have a wonderful day.
Last thing, we often bring krentebollen met kaas and our own coffee and go and sit at the diarama. There are lovely train carriages there for guests to eat their own food and the kids can walk around looking at the diarama while you relax.
 
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MouseDreaming

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I didn't put down education nor their accomplishment once in, both got in because they were smart enough to get academic scholarships to cover most of the tuition without the benefit of being from a family that knew people who knew people.

I put down the system that ignores potential in favor of a damn piece of paper. A piece of paper that in many cases means nothing. My daughters didn't come from money. No one bought their way in and the only reason that they got into places like Tulane was because they had the public high school grade point average to even be considered. They were both smart enough to have figured out any job without the "College years". I know that because neither of my daughters actually ever worked in the Major that they selected. They were allowed into those occupations because they had that piece of paper. Hence, the ridiculousness of the degree requirement for even entry level positions.
When an employer sees that a person has the persistence to get that degree, that means something. It also implies one can read, process, and write actual sentences. That, in addition to all those crazy classes, gives a person a well rounded base.

A big part of college are the connections you make. For some that may be a fraternity/sorority, a certain school, a friend, a professor who knows someone. A big part of the college experience is internships. Real, working knowledge of what goes on outside of the textbook.
 

MouseDreaming

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Yeah, it is a good system. I hated the one-size-fits all approach. And the thing I REALLY hated was the "cooperative learning". The theory behind it is good, but it doesn't really work the way it's designed. Are you familiar with it? The idea is that kids have to work together, using their individual strengths for the benefit of the group to get an end product that's strong. And they make the groups with kids at different academic levels, assuming that the kids who struggle more will learn better from their peers, and the peers will motivate each other to work hard, etc. In reality, the lazy kids know the straight A student wants an A, and will do all the work to make sure that happens. So they just don't do anything and the A student gets stuck doing the entire project. That's what always happened to me, anyway. And I think part of the concept is that the individuals also give feedback about how the other group members did and each person is supposed to get graded on the part they did, but we never did that part. It was always just one group grade, so if I wanted a good grade, I had to do the work myself. The tiered school system like we have here works better because everyone working on a project together is at the same level. There may be disagreements, but in general, at least no one has to do more than anyone else.
In today's work climate, people often have to cooperate on projects. And there are a variety of personalities and styles you need to adjust to. Good practice for the real world, I say. However, the teacher needs to follow through.

And yes, I have the kids who are trying to get A's. And yes, it is frustrating for them. But I see them learn so much from it, that you can't get from a book.
 

MouseDreaming

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I'm sorry but I'm going to have to disagree with you.
The pannekoeken house has good pannekoeken and is a fun restaurant to eat in.
If you don't want to eat there (it might be too much stimulation for your son) you could go to the QS in the playground area (where all the merry go rounds are these days) and have kroketten and friet or kaassoefles etc. There is inside and outside seating and you'll have a nice view of all the merry go rounds.
Het Witte Paard is not good for a meal but they have nice cakes if you want a coffee break.
Just my 2 cents, I hope you have a wonderful day.
Last thing, we often bring krentebollen met I was and our own coffee and go and sit at the diarama. There are lovely train carriages there for guests to eat their own food and the kids can walk around looking at the diarama while you relax.
I don't know what any of that is, but it sounds pretty exotic.
 

Figgy1

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Or forest friends that actually help you iron and sew, lol
Today is organize the chest freezer day so my little forest friends would get frozen paws if they helped, it's a job for a house elf. My paws are frozen already and I wore gloves:cold::cold::cold::cold:I got quite a bit done and may or may not finish it today. It's not the cute little one but one as large as most people's fridges:eek: Time for coffee and warming up:joyfull:
 

Songbird76

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I'm sorry but I'm going to have to disagree with you.
The pannekoeken house has good pannekoeken and is a fun restaurant to eat in.
If you don't want to eat there (it might be too much stimulation for your son) you could go to the QS in the playground area (where all the merry go rounds are these days) and have kroketten and friet or kaassoefles etc. There is inside and outside seating and you'll have a nice view of all the merry go rounds.
Het Witte Paard is not good for a meal but they have nice cakes if you want a coffee break.
Just my 2 cents, I hope you have a wonderful day.
Last thing, we often bring krentebollen met I was and our own coffee and go and sit at the diarama. There are lovely train carriages there for guests to eat their own food and the kids can walk around looking at the diarama while you relax.
We aren't fans of pancake restaurants...not good value for what you get, and if we're going to spend the money to eat in a restaurant, we want it to be something we can't make at home. But DS won't eat most of the stuff anyway. Last time, we went to that place by the merry-go-rounds for him, but we wanted something other than theme park food (not fries and fried snacks). We went to Panorama I think....not good. It was SO expensive and we waited and waited and waited for someone to come even take our order. I think we sat there for over half an hour before we finally grabbed someone taking orders and asked if they would please stop by our table. They finally did send someone over 10 minutes later. We ordered steak and it was really poor quality, bad service. We'll eat lunch at either the merry-go-round area, or the snack stand by the big fish ride at the back, where the train stops. For lunch, we don't need anything fancy. But that isn't really picture worthy. For dinner, I need something more substantial because if I eat too much of the fried stuff, I feel awful and my stomach ties in knots. We can't really do most of the restaurants in the Efteling because DS won't eat any of it, so we either have to go to two places, or we have to eat fries again. I would much rather leave the park and go to an actual nice sit-down restaurant. Efteling closes at 6 anyway, as do the restaurants. I don't want to waste valuable park time on eating there when we can get something much better where we'll ALL eat after the park closes. Just our preference.
 

Figgy1

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That reminds me of the time my dh's cousins went to Disney as a group. We offered to help plan the trip and even make reservations if need be. They came back complaining the didn't get on any rides, couldn't find characters and ate hamburgers the whole trip:eek: Nothing like sleeping until almost noon most days, not knowing park hours, where to eat, etc. They also insisted on keeping the entire group together at all times with ages ranging from 2 to 60ish. One of them had been there when there was only 2 parks, No ADRs and no FP, big mouth said it would be fine just winging it for a once in a lifetime trip. BTW they don't understand how we always have a good time. Good for doing your research @Songbird76 seeing your ds is picky
 

Songbird76

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In today's work climate, people often have to cooperate on projects. And there are a variety of personalities and styles you need to adjust to. Good practice for the real world, I say. However, the teacher needs to follow through.

And yes, I have the kids who are trying to get A's. And yes, it is frustrating for them. But I see them learn so much from it, that you can't get from a book.
True, but in the real working world, people are being paid to do the job. And hopefully, as it's the job they've applied for, it's in an area that interests them, which is more motivating. Example: Most of the kids from my high school never went on to college. If they did, it was a 2 year community college and most of them never finished. They went for a semester or a year and then dropped out...a lot of them ended up back in our home town, working for one of the mines because they needed no special skill set or education to do that. So you take a kid who plans on driving a haul truck at one of the mines, and tell them they have to do a biology project about DNA, how motivated do you think they are by a grade? They don't need that info for their career, they don't even need a high school diploma to drive a haul truck for the mine. Throw in that there's another kid who DOES have the motivation to work hard....who do you think is going to be doing the work?
That's not how the real world works, because in order to be cooperating on work projects, you all have to have been hired for that job. Presumably, everyone has at least basic knowledge and skills in that career field or they wouldn't have been hired. There may be someone who doesn't work as hard, but in general, there's a boss to answer to who is keeping track of who is working on a particular project and hopefully isn't completely oblivious to the dynamics of the group. It won't all fall to one person. At least, I've never encountered that in the working world. Different styles and personalities, yes, but someone who says point blank "I'm not going to work on this. If you want an A, I guess you'll have to do my share, too." (and yes, that is what happened, and yes, I went to the teacher, who said "Well, I guess you'll have to do it yourself then, because I'm grading you on the finished project. You either have to figure out a way to motivate the others to do their share and accept the standard at which they do it, or you have to do it yourself.") Like I said, the THEORY behind it is good....all learning to work together and using each others strengths...it SOUNDS great. But it doesn't work that way in a school setting.
 

Songbird76

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That reminds me of the time my dh's cousins went to Disney as a group. We offered to help plan the trip and even make reservations if need be. They came back complaining the didn't get on any rides, couldn't find characters and ate hamburgers the whole trip:eek: Nothing like sleeping until almost noon most days, not knowing park hours, where to eat, etc. They also insisted on keeping the entire group together at all times with ages ranging from 2 to 60ish. One of them had been there when there was only 2 parks, No ADRs and no FP, big mouth said it would be fine just winging it for a once in a lifetime trip. BTW they don't understand how we always have a good time. Good for doing your research @Songbird76 seeing your ds is picky
Oh boy....yes, my DH was one of those "It's a family vacation, we have to do everything together." people on our last Disney trip. I tried to get him to do RnR, SM, etc, but he didn't want to go without us. I think we've successfully cured him of that one. It's just not realistic...you won't get to do anything if you all have to agree on what you are going to ride, where to eat, etc. And I think he kind of humored me the last time with my research and list making. We got to the parks and he didn't want to stick to the plan...everyone was tired and cranky because DS was scared to do any of the rides and DH was determined that he was going to have to do them without complaining because he wanted to enjoy it. Once he let go and said...ok....you don't have to ride if you don't want to, and we'll take a nap every afternoon, it went so much smoother. I think this trip will be better because he has learned so much about how DS thinks and what he needs....his expectations are more realistic and he's more patient.
Our strategy for tomorrow is to rope drop the park and that DH will head straight for the big coasters before they get busy, while I will take the kids to Symbolica before the line gets long. Once we've done those things, we're a bit more flexible. But....progress already....DH agreed to splitting up.

Edited to correct my Nederlish. Strategie?? Duh!
 
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Goofyernmost

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I had never heard of a Krispy Kreme hamburger, I'm intrigue...
I have way to much respect for my aging arteries to try it, but, it is a Hamburger using a Krispy Kreme donut (or two) for a bun, deep fried. It comes with a 10% off discount coupon for whatever bypass surgery is needed. 😉:p
I've only heard about it so I have never completely verified it's existence, but, around here it is totally believable.
What would we do without the North Carolina State Fair.
It helps keep the population numbers level.
 

DryerLintFan

Premium Member
I have way to much respect for my aging arteries to try it, but, it is a Hamburger using a Krispy Kreme donut (or two) for a bun, deep fried. It comes with a 10% off discount coupon for whatever bypass surgery is needed. 😉:p
I've only heard about it so I have never completely verified it's existence, but, around here it is totally believable.
What would we do without the North Carolina State Fair.
It helps keep the population numbers level.

We have a restaurant the makes krispy kreme grilled cheese sandwiches and I'll tell you what, I only get them once every couple of years, but they're SO GOOD.
 

Songbird76

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A wants to give the princesses and characters small presents when we get to Disney. Her idea. I've read up on this and I see that it's allowed as long as it's small and not valuable and in good taste.

So far she wants to give Ariel a seashell, Anna and Elsa some chocolate, and Moana some shoes because she doesn't have any.

Any ideas I can throw A's way?
You are artistic....have you thought about maybe making some little cards? Kind of like business cards, but you could draw a picture of the character and maybe write down A's favorite part of their movie, or her favorite line they say? And you could make multiples in case you see a character more than once.

Another option that's pretty simple is friendship bracelets? Just simple ones...

This is kind of what we're looking at making:
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