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There needs to be an idiot's guide to how to travel! Some people are so clueless! Other than that one guy sounds like your trip to Florida is off to a good start.
I have to admit. I thought the same thing, that something had spilled. Glad I was wrong.
The guy in front of you was really rude but then I see a lot of that.
It's sad, isn't it... how much there is of that around.
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I'm glad Mark found a book to read. I don't know about him, but I'd be lost without one.
Oh gosh, so would he! Usually on vacation, I'm so tied up with trip reports, I don't have time for reading, which is a shame.
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As for the Christmas special, I did did enjoy it and thought it was funny. I thought it was better than last year's.
Liz
We're talking Doctor Who here by the way, for anyone joining us in this forum. This year's was definitely better. Last year's was just silly in places, whereas this felt a lot more real, if that makes sense?
I never know what Graham crackers are, which doesn't help.
If you've ever had a s'more at a campfire, you've had a graham cracker. S'mores are usually made with a graham cracker square, square of milk chocolate Hershey bar, a toasted marshmallow and another Hershey square topped by a graham cracker. A sickeningly sweet sandwich, in short.
Graham crackers are a sweet cracker made with regular white flour and whole wheat flour, caramel-colored.
According to this website, the nearest UK likeness would be eating digestive and rich tea biscuits together or ginger biscuits. Except a graham cracker isn't at all gingery, so maybe this means the textures are similar. http://www.rosiebakesit.com/2014/03/...gredients.html
If you've ever had a s'more at a campfire, you've had a graham cracker. S'mores are usually made with a graham cracker square, square of milk chocolate Hershey bar, a toasted marshmallow and another Hershey square topped by a graham cracker. A sickeningly sweet sandwich, in short.
That might be why I've never had one... truth, I promise! I will have to try that one day...
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Graham crackers are a sweet cracker made with regular white flour and whole wheat flour, caramel-colored.
According to this website, the nearest UK likeness would be eating digestive and rich tea biscuits together or ginger biscuits. Except a graham cracker isn't at all gingery, so maybe this means the textures are similar. http://www.rosiebakesit.com/2014/03/...gredients.html
No, that I can completely understand and that was definitely not what we got - they were savoury, not sweet.
Glad you had a relatively easy start to your trip other than the idiot in front of you. Unfortunately I am seeing more and more of this and it just makes me wish for the days of my youth and common courtesy.
Wonderful pictures of your take off. Can't wait till you get to Disney.
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Waiting for our next adventure after enjoying our Alaska cruise. Jenn
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Glad you had a relatively easy start to your trip other than the idiot in front of you. Unfortunately I am seeing more and more of this and it just makes me wish for the days of my youth and common courtesy.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who feels that way. Someone posted on Facebook recently about how they'd still like people to write, email or text to thank people for presents and I was so pleased to see that, as everyone I didn't see who'd bought me anything, I made a point of either calling or emailing to thank them. I don't think sadly many others do that now.
I think the plane crackers are like "animal crackers" . Which really aren't crackers at all, more like a crunchy shortbread cookie.
Ah, ok - that helps. My memory is probably fading now as to whether they were sweet or savoury, given it's more than three months ago now! You fly with Southwest more than we do and I'll bow to your superior knowledge on this one.
Nardol? Why Nardol? I think that Nardol was brought back because he was the only one that River didn't marry in last years Xmas special.
I was really concerned when I heard he was coming back, as I hated him the first time around, but he did grow on me in this one - fortunately, given he's back for most of the season. Mind you, I'm not sure I'm going to like the new companion, which worries me from the previews I've seen.
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We now return you to your trip report already in progress....
And for anyone thinking "what the heck?" another Doctor Who conversation!
Tuesday 20 September – part two: our first taste of Floridian heat!
After a while, I decided to get some sleep, and I know I slept well, as the next thing I knew, it was just after 10:00am, and the pilot was telling us we’d be on the ground in 20 minutes. I snapped some photos of central Florida…
… and as we came into land:
Then we were on the ground.
We waited a couple of minutes to get to our gate, then we were the first ones off the plane, after the woman sitting next to us. After a restroom stop, we made our way through the terminal…
… and on to the monorail across to the main terminal building…
We headed to baggage claim, and had maybe a five minute wait before the bags started to come out. Ours were probably a couple of minutes later.
Once we had those, we headed down a level to ground transportation and went to Budget to pick up our rental car. It was very straight forward, and I was impressed when the guy offered us the option to pay when we return, which we’ve never been given before. As it will be on next month’s credit card bill (it literally was due to roll over about an hour or two later), I immediately took him on that.
We headed outside, and made our way over to the garage to pick up our car. This is when we got our first taste of the Floridian heat. Oh wow! We were literally dripping with sweat (I know, too much information right? ) by the time we got to the elevator to the parking garage. This is going to be a tough week, and why we’ve never visited Florida at this time of the year.
We found our car in D2, and we got a Nissan Camry. It’s not the greatest, but it takes all four suitcases, so we can’t complain too much. As I said to Mark though, it’s only got to get us to Disney, and then get us around property, then to the cruise, and back to the airport, so it’s not too much of a problem to have the hand luggage on the back seats, which we had to do, as we won’t be leaving the car unattended at any point.
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This year's was definitely better. Last year's was just silly in places, whereas this felt a lot more real, if that makes sense?
Waiting for our next adventure after enjoying our Alaska cruise. 
Jenn
You fly with Southwest more than we do and I'll bow to your superior knowledge on this one. 
I was really concerned when I heard he was coming back, as I hated him the first time around, but he did grow on me in this one - fortunately, given he's back for most of the season. Mind you, I'm not sure I'm going to like the new companion, which worries me from the previews I've seen. 
I snapped some photos of central Florida… 
We were literally dripping with sweat (I know, too much information right? 
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