Driving Karen nuts in 10 rides or less **Updated 2/18** COMPLETE - Page 17 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
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Love the pix. Eileen, you're a riot. Too bad the Dream Squad passed you by. I for one would love to read the TR for the CLQ-1 spending the night in Cinderella Castle.
Jill had gone to Hurricane Hannahs for a FAB and came back with one so strong that I could seriously smell it from at least 5 feet away.
That was quite an economical drink because one would definitely do ya!
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The only thing that made it more perfect was that seven of us were going to share a No Way Jose. Yum, yum, yum!
Oh man! That looks good! I could go for one of those right now!
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Inch by inch the sundae was in constant danger of landing in his lap – to which I felt required to inform our dear friend that, if the glass fell, it wouldn’t stop us from continuing to consume it. He blushed and quickly put a restraining hand on the glass’s base to keep it on the table top. (Remember this story for later!)
As if I could EVAH forget this story!
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Don't worry, Larry, there's cobbler in your future!
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I believe this man is actuallly an angel sent from heaven.
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Although, I will add here that it seemed there was quite a bit of jealousy from Thom that was especially ironic, seeing as how this is a man who likes to sleep in, have his sit-down meals and generally enjoy himself while on vacation. I think Karen has had some serious influence on Thom’s internal WDW schedule.
And he's essentially one of those people in glass houses who throws rocks. I do admit that his competitive nature as far as Disney goes has shot up incredibly since he met karen.
The sommelier came over with one of the bottles and showed us all the label. Bob immediately started describing the “bright flavors and crisp finish of the wine” in such loving detail that the sommelier eventually handed Bob his ring of keys and asked him to make sure to lock up that evening when he was done.
That was hilarious! Bob has definitely found his retirement job at Disney (while you can find Larry manning a Jungle Boat ).
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Then we settled in to selecting our meals. I was tempted by the buffalo, but my undergrad alma mater’s mascot was a bison and I just couldn’t do that to Bucky. Plus, I’d been hearing about the salmon at AP for years and knew that there really wasn’t another choice I could make without kicking myself later.
I just couldn't do it either. I thought I was being pretty progressive with my venison spring rolls though.
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And the cheese and the pairings – well, they were unbelievable. I love me a strong, stinky blue cheese. Yum, yum, yum!
I've had the cheese plate at AP before and it is delish! Just be glad that I wasn't sitting closer or you would have seen my fingers slowly making their way towards your cheese.
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Um... yeah... so I *was* drinking. (That's my excuse and I'm sticking with it.)
I'm starting to laugh just thinking about it!
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But... when I went to tell of the slightly racy comment I said to Larry at the time, it came out ALL wrong and was suddenly the baudiest, raciest, raunchiest thing I could imagine ever coming out of my mouth at that moment. The group exploded with laughter and I immediately flushed pink (and, I think, Larry flushed a similar color.) I got so embarrassed that I ended up throwing my napkin over my head and howled with strangled laughter and shame.
Zoiks... that was both HI-larious and dreadful. I'll never live it down. (And, for those in attendance, the use of "down" here was intentional. )
It was THE funniest moment of the trip - - and the fact that Bob and Sharon couldn't contain themselves afterwards made it even funnier for me.
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Bob and Larry, you two are some of the nicest, most sincere, most delightful people I’ve ever met. You totally knocked my socks off and I’m still floating on a lovely memory of “good friends, good food” that will stick with me for the rest of my days. Seriously – that was a highlight of my whole life!
You captured it well, Eileen. They are both gems!
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Larry entertained us by checking the blog on his iPhone – we howled with laughter over the fact that Karen, Thom and Bob (and Calder) were appalled with how slooooooow we were being with dinner and how few updates I’d made to the blog, which they’d been obsessively checking for some time now. After hours of seeing nothing but my cheese plate, Calder announced that he was no longer jealous of my going to Disney without him if *this* was how I was spending my time. Heeee!
That was the perfect way to end this incredible evening!
Sharon and I sat together and I peeped underneath the sail behind me to make a snarky comment to Jill about not banging her head. Which gave me the PERFECT view ... [wait for it] ...of Jill banging her head on the sail.
Oh, the irony!!
I'm just one of those people who will hurt themselves if the opportunity presents itself!
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But… guess who got to interact with Buddy Boyle? Lil’ ol’ me… me, ME, ME!!
And you did a phenomenal job, my dear!
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Yep, I grabbed my cell phone, stuck out my tongue and held it over my head. The entire row of PassPorters shouted with laughter.
If that was not THE most perfect moment, I don't know what was!
Plus, these were the Cosmic Ray bathrooms where you can hear Stitch muttering and messing around. I kept trying to point it out to Christine and Jill, but I think they thought I’d been sneaking into the hooch again.
I forgot all about that! It was pretty loud in there, but I did hear something . . . at least I think I did.
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Little did I realize that Aimee doesn’t enjoy this ride and happily joined us on a bench to giggle and grin – girl, you can tour with me ANYTIME! We chatted while our pals zoomed through the stars.
Aimee is a sweetheart!
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Wanna know one of the most fun things about MouseFest? It's getting to completely embrace your joy, your geekitude, your love of all things hokey and silly and fun. This is the SECOND time I've gotten to ride POTC with a gaggle of PassPorters who knew all the words of the song and weren't embarrassed to show off that skill -- loud and proud!
You had told me that you had done this the year before, but I didn't really "get it" until I experienced the same thing. What a feeling!
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Anyway, we had a slight wait in the standby line because I don’t think all of us had FPs. (My memory is fuzzy at this point, but I remember having to snake around slightly before going into the building and down to the loading area.)
You're right - - only half of us had FPs, so we handed those over to strangers and waited in the standby line together - - which wasn't long at all.
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I believe this was another first for Jill and I just couldn't bear to try and fake her out that the camelback in the middle was the big drop. (She screamed like a sissy girl anyway.
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My favorite part was getting Jill to realize the irony of the recorded announcer on the train saying (in a whisper) “if you listen really closely, you just might hear the tribal people” which is followed (hilariously) by the loudest singing of “Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moooooooon.”
Hilarious… I tells ya. HI-larious!
Oh my gosh! I had forgotten all about that and it was hilarious! You had me all ready to listen carefully and then Pochahantas belts out that line!
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I do admit that his competitive nature as far as Disney goes has shot up incredibly since he met karen.
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