Where in the World Isn't Bob Saget?

PUSH

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It's been confirmed, and if you go to the Disney page and look it up, breakfast is gone and the lunch menu is changed and EXPENSIVE!! I think it said $62 per person, fixed menu with a couple different choices in each category. If it stays that way, we won't be going back.
I'm talking after things return to normal in the post-COVID era. I'm not sure it's going to be that popular with the COVID-style changes. It's incredibly hard to get a lunch reservation there, and that's because it's high quality quick service that feels like table service almost.
 

JenniferS

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Daisy just had her first quasi-urgent vet appointment. Little dogs have specific little dog problems. If you know what that means, you know what that means.

1.1 kg last week. 1.16 kg this week. In your parlance, she has gained 2.116 oz. Yes, the vet suggested a little bit more wet food.

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JenniferS

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I hope this doesn’t seem political - it’s just a regular question - in your opinion do Canadians generally trust the media? I feel like there is a growing distrust of the media in our country and a large portion of the population that thinks the pandemic is blown out of proportion and thus they are ignoring guidelines and safety precautions. Or they’re just dumb. I read stories every day about people who were known to poo-poo the precautions and then were sharing their tale of woe.
Hard to say. There’s no in-between.

Either you think the gov’t is doing a great job and has everyone’s best interest top of mind; or you think the gov’t is out to destroy the economy, microchip everybody, and keep us locked up while they build 5g towers.

The media and universities are definitely left-ish up here, but our left is less left than your left; just as our right is less right than yours.

Canadians are very “ish” ... except when it comes to hockey.
 

PUSH

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I just read they arrested 2 guys on Staten Island with $6k of illegal fireworks. I don’t thing they were supplying your culprits though. I don’t even think they’re supplying mine.
My friend is obsessed with fireworks. He's held his own shows before, spending upwards of $800 on them. He thinks they're pretty professional, but they really are kind of lame. A while back he dropped out of college and didn't really have any plans. He was working at a fast food place, and his girlfriend at the time wanted him to do something more that he was passionate about. He seriously considered selling fireworks. You know, the thing that is very much a seasonal business, especially in the frigid climates of Wisconsin.

The end of the story is that he never ended up pursuing that business (wisely). He actually works in a factory making windows now. But he told me he still has $500 worth of fireworks from a year or two ago.
 

Songbird76

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Hard to say. There’s no in-between.

Either you think the gov’t is doing a great job and has everyone’s best interest top of mind; or you think the gov’t is out to destroy the economy, microchip everybody, and keep us locked up while they build 5g towers.

The media and universities are definitely left-ish up here, but our left is less left than your left; just as our right is less right than yours.

Canadians are very “ish” ... except when it comes to hockey.
I wondered about that too. I know the right over here is not anywhere NEAR the right in the US. We have our extremists, but they are not as prevalent as in the US, I guess. And I think for the most part, people trust the media, but there has been some spill over here from the BLM protests...they've been having protests here even though there aren't many cases of police brutality here. It's more in solidarity. But there was also a protest against corona regulations the other day, which is weird because things are opening up here. Restaurants are open again, masks are only required for public transportation, schools are back open though they can only have as many kids in the class as they can safely socially distance for lessons in High School, but the elementary schools are not required to distance. So it kind of doesn't make sense that people waited to protest until everything was already opening back up, and it seems like it might have started more from the protests in the US, that they wouldn't have thought to protest until they saw Americans doing it. Our regulations aren't as strict and people didn't protest when they were really cracking down.

I did see on our news this morning that flights are set to open up on July 1st, but that the US will still be banned from entering here because there are still so many cases there. I'm not sure if that's in Europe as a whole, or just to the Netherlands, but the reasoning was that the US still doesn't have a strong hold on the situation, and they said it was ironic because Trump is using the same argument to keep people from the Schengen area from entering the US.

I've noticed here that people aren't necessarily following the regulations, and that men in particular don't bother. When I went to pick up my new glasses, every woman that came in followed the distancing and you had to use a little tray thing...if the trays are gone, they are at maximum capacity. Women all grabbed a tray, but none of the men did. They all had to be asked to go get a tray or wait outside. Same with grocery store carts...a lot of men will take the required cart at the door, but then leave it parked in the store while they shop. And there was an article in the paper last night about a woman who made her first pilgrimage in months out of her house to visit the library and a man had a sneezing fit all over her, without covering his face and he was way too close to her, so she's having to quarantine herself again. I don't know if these men are just oblivious to the rules, or are flauting them on purpose, and it's possible that it's just in my neighborhood/town, but there's been a significant step back in following the guidelines here.
 

NYwdwfan

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I wondered about that too. I know the right over here is not anywhere NEAR the right in the US. We have our extremists, but they are not as prevalent as in the US, I guess. And I think for the most part, people trust the media, but there has been some spill over here from the BLM protests...they've been having protests here even though there aren't many cases of police brutality here. It's more in solidarity. But there was also a protest against corona regulations the other day, which is weird because things are opening up here. Restaurants are open again, masks are only required for public transportation, schools are back open though they can only have as many kids in the class as they can safely socially distance for lessons in High School, but the elementary schools are not required to distance. So it kind of doesn't make sense that people waited to protest until everything was already opening back up, and it seems like it might have started more from the protests in the US, that they wouldn't have thought to protest until they saw Americans doing it. Our regulations aren't as strict and people didn't protest when they were really cracking down.

I did see on our news this morning that flights are set to open up on July 1st, but that the US will still be banned from entering here because there are still so many cases there. I'm not sure if that's in Europe as a whole, or just to the Netherlands, but the reasoning was that the US still doesn't have a strong hold on the situation, and they said it was ironic because Trump is using the same argument to keep people from the Schengen area from entering the US.

I've noticed here that people aren't necessarily following the regulations, and that men in particular don't bother. When I went to pick up my new glasses, every woman that came in followed the distancing and you had to use a little tray thing...if the trays are gone, they are at maximum capacity. Women all grabbed a tray, but none of the men did. They all had to be asked to go get a tray or wait outside. Same with grocery store carts...a lot of men will take the required cart at the door, but then leave it parked in the store while they shop. And there was an article in the paper last night about a woman who made her first pilgrimage in months out of her house to visit the library and a man had a sneezing fit all over her, without covering his face and he was way too close to her, so she's having to quarantine herself again. I don't know if these men are just oblivious to the rules, or are flauting them on purpose, and it's possible that it's just in my neighborhood/town, but there's been a significant step back in following the guidelines here.
If my 14 year old little man is any indicator...women read things and men don’t. He took a mug cake packet out of the pantry yesterday, stared at it and said it was too complicated and he would eat something else. I told him the words on the package actually TELL you what to do. And if adding 2 tablespoons of water and microwaving a minute is “complicated” then we need to talk. He said he didn’t see the instructions because they were on the back. 🤦🏻‍♀️
 

MinnieM123

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If my 14 year old little man is any indicator...women read things and men don’t. He took a mug cake packet out of the pantry yesterday, stared at it and said it was too complicated and he would eat something else. I told him the words on the package actually TELL you what to do. And if adding 2 tablespoons of water and microwaving a minute is “complicated” then we need to talk. He said he didn’t see the instructions because they were on the back. 🤦🏻‍♀️

That's so funny. Recently, hubs bought a coffee cake mix. Now, he did "glance" at the directions (I'll give him that . . . ), and then asked me, "How do you separate eggs? What the heck is that?" :p

So I explained to him the process. He was frustrated that a box mix would ask you to perform rocket science like that, as it was supposed to be fast and easy. So, I said to him, "Would you like me to make the coffee cake for you?" He said, "yah." :hilarious:
 

Songbird76

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If my 14 year old little man is any indicator...women read things and men don’t. He took a mug cake packet out of the pantry yesterday, stared at it and said it was too complicated and he would eat something else. I told him the words on the package actually TELL you what to do. And if adding 2 tablespoons of water and microwaving a minute is “complicated” then we need to talk. He said he didn’t see the instructions because they were on the back. 🤦🏻‍♀️
I'm sorry...I shouldn't laugh, but that's hilarious! That could very well be true that it's just a lack of reading, except the carts in the grocery store. They give you a cart as you go in and tell you it's mandatory if you try to say you don't need one, but then these guys will go in and just leave the cart inside by the produce section, which is the first section, and continue through the store without it. They know it's mandatory, they just don't care. I am wondering if part of it is that it's mostly women who do the majority of the shopping. They ask if you have your bonus card (you have to have a card to get special deals) and most of the men say no, their wife has that. Or they ask if you want the stamps for special items and they don't know, they need to ask their wives. So a lot of it might just be down to them not being used to the protocol, too.

I hate grocery shopping with my husband. I'm used to going in, figuring out what I need, getting what strikes my fancy, etc. But if my husband goes with me, he 2nd guesses everything I buy. "Do we really need that much?" "Are you actually going to eat that or is it just going to sit in the fridge?" "Why are you getting those? We already have some!" Meanwhile, all his favorite snacks seem to jump voluntarily into the cart. And he HATES shopping in any form, so he'll just blow past half the stuff I need to get. He doesn't eat fruit and isn't particularly fussed about veggies, but I love them. He'll just bypass the produce so he's done faster. Mandarine Oranges were the "We've already got some!!" 2! We had 2 left, so I bought a net and he complained that we didn't need them. And he didn't want me to buy pre-cut lettuce, even though HE wouldn't be the one cutting it if we didn't get the pre-cut. I told him if we got a head of lettuce, HE got to wash and cut it, because I had enough to do. But he DOES follow the rules at least. He even sanitizes the cart first, and his hands.
 

Songbird76

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That's so funny. Recently, hubs bought a coffee cake mix. Now, he did "glance" at the directions (I'll give him that . . . ), and then asked me, "How do you separate eggs? What the heck is that?" :p

So I explained to him the process. He was frustrated that a box mix would ask you to perform rocket science like that, as it was supposed to be fast and easy. So, I said to him, "Would you like me to make the coffee cake for you?" He said, "yah." :hilarious:
For the most part here, I can't get boxed mixes, so I have to do everything from scratch. My husband is really adept in the kitchen, though he doesn't do much of the cooking, and he leaves baking up to me entirely. He doesn't mind cooking, and he actually enjoys chopping things (which I don't enjoy at all) so he will chop things for me, but he HATES shopping. Since Corona, I get it. People don't distance, it's a complete zoo, people not paying attention, being rude blocking entire aisles. It's really not fun.

The doors aren't wide enough for 2 carts to fit, and there's only one entrance/exit, so you have to take turns. Yesterday, I had just started through the door when someone coming out decided they shouldn't have to wait and pushed her cart through at the same time, which meant that I had to back up, AND she was only 2 feet from me. I make sure I stay behind my cart so people can get past in the aisles, but there's always someone who parks their cart in the narrowest part of the aisle, then stands in front of the refrigerator doors across from it reading labels and comparing prices while ignoring the other people who know exactly what they need from that place and could easily just grab it while the person read that label, or just want to walk past, but can't because they are taking up the entire width of the aisle. Then there are the people who bring their young children to the store, who then run around the store like it's a playground. I saw a kid a couple of weeks ago with his hand down his pants, scratching his butt, then removed said hand to grab something off a shelf to look at it, and then put it back. The whole experience of shopping has become very stressful. But my husband hated it even before Corona.
 

NYwdwfan

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For the most part here, I can't get boxed mixes, so I have to do everything from scratch. My husband is really adept in the kitchen, though he doesn't do much of the cooking, and he leaves baking up to me entirely. He doesn't mind cooking, and he actually enjoys chopping things (which I don't enjoy at all) so he will chop things for me, but he HATES shopping. Since Corona, I get it. People don't distance, it's a complete zoo, people not paying attention, being rude blocking entire aisles. It's really not fun.

The doors aren't wide enough for 2 carts to fit, and there's only one entrance/exit, so you have to take turns. Yesterday, I had just started through the door when someone coming out decided they shouldn't have to wait and pushed her cart through at the same time, which meant that I had to back up, AND she was only 2 feet from me. I make sure I stay behind my cart so people can get past in the aisles, but there's always someone who parks their cart in the narrowest part of the aisle, then stands in front of the refrigerator doors across from it reading labels and comparing prices while ignoring the other people who know exactly what they need from that place and could easily just grab it while the person read that label, or just want to walk past, but can't because they are taking up the entire width of the aisle. Then there are the people who bring their young children to the store, who then run around the store like it's a playground. I saw a kid a couple of weeks ago with his hand down his pants, scratching his butt, then removed said hand to grab something off a shelf to look at it, and then put it back. The whole experience of shopping has become very stressful. But my husband hated it even before Corona.
I’ve been doing grocery delivery since mid-March. I get from a store that has great produce so I’ve been lucky. I get my meat from a curbside pickup butcher so I haven’t been food shopping in months. I don’t miss it AT ALL.
 

JenniferS

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Since I started having multiple surgeries (and broke my leg) almost two years ago, Mike has taken over the bulk of the shopping. I will go to the two little boutique grocery stores, the two butchers, the farmer’s market stand, and the deli; while he does the big chain store grocery runs.

I don't think I’ve been to Costco in 18 months.

And then there’s Amazon. 🙂
 

JenniferS

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Schools will opening up again for our boys in Tanzania. Despite being homeschooled for the past few months, like everyone else’s kids, they have had quite a bit of extra time on their hands to learn new skills.

Homeschool time:
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This is the only patch of soil we have:
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The boys helping Ericka (House Mama Anna’s daughter):
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This is an oven. Coals on top and below. What are we baking?
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Delicious bread!
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PUSH

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One year ago today we spent our morning at DHS. We parked in Mickey 303. We went straight to TSL to ride Slinky Dog Dash, followed by Toy Story Mania. I got the highest score in the cart. Afterwards I got breakfast by having a giant Num Num Cookie. We then headed across the park to do RnRC and ToT. I think we did Muppet Vision after that (still one of my favorite shows). And then we went shopping a little bit, and I found some attraction posters I really liked. I did not get them, though, because I wasn't sure if I wanted to spend $40 on one, or which ones I wanted. Later on in the trip, you'll find out why it was a mistake to hesitate.

We then left DHS and headed back to POR. We had lunch at the River Mill. We went back to Epcot in the evening. We rode SSE and Gran Fiesta Tour. I'm not sure what else we did, as I don't have pictures, but I can tell by the lighting that we did more. I snagged a FP for Illuminations, and it would be my last viewing of the show. Unfortunately we got a spot behind one of the torches, and the speaker near us was not working. So it was a flawed final experience.

After Illuminations, we went back to the resort and slept.

Pictures to come.
 

PUSH

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More from POR:

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Back to Epcot. You can see this is when the tombstones were only removed on the right side. All the lights remained in the ground and were on at night, which made it kind of unique.

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We had a couple ducks watch Illuminations with us.



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This was our view of Illuminations. Because it was obstructed, and it was my last time, I didn't take many pictures. I just wanted to try and take it in.

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More photogenic nighttime SSE pictures:

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Come back tomorrow for more!
 

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