"OUR BIG, FAT DISNEY VACATION!" Ch.26 NEW! 2/11 pg. 121 "And they lived happily ever&

[kimbac3]

Bump..and hoping for the next installment!!
Kimba

 

[pigget74]

Where oh where is our next report I have been and waiting patiently. Please hurry will ya

 

[HMHunters]

UM? Need a Diet Pepsi to get a jumpstart on this again? I'm going out of town Sunday and I need my fix before that! Pretty please?

 

[shannn]

Leaving tomorrow morning and hoping for an update before we go!!!

You're my inspiration! I'm taking notes on everything!

shann

 

[celerystalker]

HMH - great smilie! I love it.
And I second it. Get crackin, missy!

 

[Goofy4UM]

Hey everyone! I will give you the next installment on UM’s trip report…


Here you go…
We went to, Well I better not tell you about that. “I might get in trouble.”
Then I will tell you about when we went to Boardwalk Villas... Nooo I don’t want to get into trouble for that either.

I will tell you about some of the things that went wrong. Yea that’s it I will tell you about the Kim Possible experiment we were Secret agents for. Wait a minute is there some eyes staring at me??? “Oh no” well sorry I cant tell you about that either. Then I will tell you about there was plenty of screaming involved. “Lot’s of Screaming.” I got to go UM is in the room and I need to live with her, so sorry I could tell you much. Stay tuned UM will fill you in later today.

See Ya
Goofy4UM

 

[WDW Poly Princess]

On the console Television sets played Black and White shows like “Lassie” and “Father Knows Best” and the “Mickey Mouse Club” ( I’m Cubby! I’m Darlene!) in little family-room settings.

This makes me a little sad, because I think about 50 years from now when there will be a 90s themed restaurant, and it will show Mickey Mouse Club with "Hi, I'm Britney!" "I'm Justin!"

Those smores do look YUMMY!

 

[Disneygrl36]

I loved the apology from Goofy4um & those early morning pictures are gorgeous. I POR.
I can't wait to eat me some of those delicious hot smores in approximately 57 days!!!!!!!!!
Keep up the good work UtahMama. You make me .
When's the next part coming?????

 

[NurseW2Kiddies]

I love coffee, I love tea, I want more of UM Trippie
Ok seriously I hate coffee and I don't like tea-but I think we ALL want more trippie???

 

[UtahMama]

Upon entering the pearly gates of EPCOT (Jordan called it Apricot when he was 3…whatever! Back when he was cute and sweet and respectful) I realized we forgot our new tube of Banana Boat Kids Tearless SunBlock (product placement!) back on the table/clutter area of our resort room…so I had to shell out big Disney bucks for Coppertone spray on SunBlock…not as good, smells yucky and not for faces, but more convenient!. I also dolled out Dramamine to DH, DS17 and myself knowing it takes a while to take effect, and a Space Mission to conquer later. Have you ever heard of Dramamine (the medicine to prevent motion sickness) making a person SICK as a dog? It did me for a good half hour!

A friendly peppy CM approached us wondering if Dallen (DS8) would like to be a secret agent for a Kim Possible Mission? I answered for him, “YES, that would be fun!” BUT, your average DS who is 8-ish, does NOT like to do girl things (wait till I tell him about our PRINCESS meal and Cinderellabration!!!) The mission led us to a certain part of the World Showcase at a top secret location…I could tell you, but then some dressed in black ninja-ish agents will swoop through your nearest window and slit your throats faster than you can say “Bob’s your uncle”!

Our traditional first ride of Epcot is Spaceship Earth. It is kind of relaxing and it IS nice and air conditioned! It has that familiar only-at-disney musty odor wafting throughout. Like on Pirates of the Carabean and Maelstrom. I cant imagine the time when this ride had a long, long, long line as described form people who’ve experienced “back in the day”.

This is a ride I like. Not love, but claim it to be a “nice” ride. Sometimes anything with air conditioning is a GREAT ride, ya know?

My family just loves Innoventions! I remember in year’s past, I have been very impatient with my kids as they color their free souvenirs at Kid Cot stations. Not this year…no siree. I’m determined to not be too commando-ish this time. So, they color and color and color.

“OK, Kids! I just saw a ROBOT station!!!”.

Pens down without lids…

We stand at a fork in the road. Three ways to go:"Environmentality Corner, Innoventions Internet Zone, Fantastic Plastic Works”. I asked my public- schooled kids which way we should go to make our PLASTIC robots??? They guessed right! Off to “Fantastic Platics”!! Dallen was our family sucker, I mean, volunteer to compete in a major virtual robot contest! He got to design a really cool robot on a computer and then run a race with hurdles against several other kids.His robot’s name was Zippy Droid.

He was totally winning through the whole thing and at the last stretch, some girl a few stations down had a cheating daddy who totally helped her win!!! He was highly competitive, I guess, and his arms went up in the air ROCKY style all victorious. “WAY TO TEACH YOUR KID TO CHEAT, DADDY-O! YOU ARE ONE CRAPPY EXAMPLE! **** FOR BRAINS”!!!!! I screamed… to myself… in my own head…where there’s no one else to hear…luckily.

I congratulated my second place (LOSER) son and scuffled his hair and told him that little girl is going to grow up and have a rude awakening.

Zippy Droid, the robot designed by Dallen, DID win the best design contest!! BOO-YAAA!! IN YOUR FACE CHEATER FAMILY!!!!

Upon exiting the competetion, our whole family got to build a free souvenir plastic robot!!! COOL!!

We each made one…2 of us played with them all day! Brought them to our hoity-toity Le Cellier dinner. Which is later-gators.

We had a Track to Test next! The waiting to ride line area is full of fascinating details, which should come to no surprise. Safety warnings and crash dummys abound. When we were JUST about to load through the magical doors, an announcement was made to keep your feet away from the painted area as the doors swing outward….DS17 and I made eye contact and put our toes juuuuust inside the danger zone, and being fine examples, DS8 and DS6 joined in our shinanagins. Here is our rebelious-living-on-the-EDGE foot shot! Those pink CROCS are actually called Nothingz and they are even squishier than CROCS! Very comfy, FYI.

*Crucial Note: I never, ever wear socks with crocs (on docks…). Except I found it was necessary for comfort on vacation because NO one will ever see me again…unless the world wide web has fashion police!

Imagine THIS, we got to be the test audience for some new cars yet to be manufactured! YES! They put us through extreme heat….extreme cold…extreme chemicals…Belgan waffle bumpy conditions, anti-lock breaks, out of control skidding, and SPEED!!!! Followed by US being crash Dummys!!! Whew! What a ride!

By the way…this ride takes your picture and you can add it to your Photo-Pass card! I guess that’ll be the norm in the future! I’ll still take red-neck photos, just for fun, though.

So we rode this one over and over, each time “posing” differently for the picture. One time we acted like we were talking on our cell phones, one time acting like we were asleep, or scared to death about to be eaten by a T-Rex, or bored…That’s our idea of fun, anyway! (We don’t get out much….)

OH YA!!!! We had an EXCITING DIS-celebrity sighting!!!! One of our favorite DIS-peeps showed up for her exclusive cameo!!!!! Here’s a short video snippit of her! It was suppose to be a mystery DISpeep but we couldn't get it to work just right, so PLAY ALONG... (click on this, please)




At the TT exit, you are dumped into what looks like an upscale car sales dealership. I went straight for the Big-Bird yellow Mama Hummer!!! Where we traditionally take pictures of me inside making bull-horns with my fingers or waving at my fans…what have you. ONLY a monkey-wrench got THROWN into my devine plan! My DH goes to get in too to pose for MY picture too. So, I said, “I just want one of only ME then you can join me so we can get one together”… but, DH only chose to hear, “I only want one of me…”
SO! DH has a slight pissy-fit and exits out of MY ride! (what-EVER!!!!!) So DS17 takes our usual pictures. As soon as DH was distracted by something shiney with 4 wheels and a lot of chrome, I “acted” like I was yelling at him and having extreme road rage…. (honest, I WAS just pretending!) I did all kinds of arm, chin, and finger gestures!
(Which made Norah laugh because she has a huge sign language vocabulary!)

Since I had heard there’s now Missions to Space at Epcot where you are actually put in a deep sleep and gone for YEARS yet only mere minutes, I was ALL over it! I was good and doped on Dramamine and wanting to test it out. A trip to the red planet ought to be a pretty good test!

DH and I went team ORANGE, and Dallen and Riley got to go (wimp) GREEN by themselves. Jordan wouldn’t chance it after last year’s mission experience!

So we were briefed and totally amazed they’d let just any-body GO TO MARS! Disney must have some mighty good liability issues with that, I’m thinking! So I walked my baby’s as far as I could without being on the wimp side myself…and told Jordan to meet them at the exit. Dh and I went for the orange side. Bravely, with our shoulders squared we went for our briefing. I was chosen to be the navigator. Which, if you know me in real life, would know this is a very ironic position for me to be assigned to!!! (right, SpongeMama???) DH was the Pilot, which went STRAIGHT to his head, by the way. (Gee, honey, I hope you don’t screw this up by not pushing your two CRITICAL buttons that light up on time!!!!) This ride is indescribable! Although, I ‘m pretty sure Gary Sinese winked at me (just me) …giving me the confidence I needed to push my own two critical red-lit up buttons for our successful mission. It was NOT that bad G-force wise. I am glad for the success of the Dramamine, though. I was not even dizzy at all.

We met up with the boys who declared the GREEN side cool in the space themed exit/dump shop. There’s actually a lot of fun air-conditioned activities to do here. Whilst the boys played some interactive space video games, I discovered the video post card center you can e-mail your friends! HOT DANG! I had planned to send TwinkieMama a virtual post card and DH wanted to do it too. So I chose one that could fit both of us. So the first time we did it, I made the “loser” sign with my thumb and pointer finger on my forehead and the pointed to him with my thumb! I WAS JUST JOKING, but he didn’t think it was a BIT funny!!! So we re-played the mini-video and it’s all fun and waving tp the screen and then I basically call my DH a loser and start laughing and his face is raging mad and he looks at me and mouths the words “HEY! That wasn’t funny at all!” I almost pushed SUBMIT to send it to Twinkie (THAT would have been a fine howdyado!) but I graciously said. “Let’s just do it again”. So my friend got this virtual postcard of us just standing there (special bus) waving and I think I mouthed something like “How…are…you?” Kinda boring. At least now she would believe I don’t have an imaginary husband?! She can tell her side of it (please Twinkie??).

Next it was time to CHILL out at Club Cool. Yes, this is the day we took my famous diet Pepsi signature picture! (It was “this close” to being the road rage mama in a Hummer picture, so be thankful!) The only minor mistake this place has is it screams Coca-Cola! Vintage Coke, Coke Monopoly games, Red and White every-thing ((shudder))! So, in the cooler in the basket of my stroller was my secret stash of something GOOD to drink. And I got an idea! “Hey, DH! Take my picture acting like I want to REPLACE all this swill and drink me an ice cold diet Pepsi!!!!!” So he did (after rolling his eyes), and you see the result of that fine choice many, many times a day in my signature line!

Here’s Riley’s reaction to the soda called Beverly:

It’s very bitter, as you may well know for yourself! Don’t reach for THIS one if you are parched! It is a very good trick to play on unsuspecting family members! (File THAT little tid-bit for any future extended family “magical gatherings!!!”) I would LOVE to someday read a chapter heading to someone’s trip report titled: “WE PUNKED GRANDPA”!!!

It was time to go to a TOP SECRET location (in Canada, second floor, 16 paces North East) to get started on our very covert objective (to stop 2 bad guys from destroying the world…good thing they chose US!!!) We received a sophisticated cell phone and signed a document saying we agree to pay for it if we lost it or damaged it, had to give a credit card for security. Hmmmm. We had to go from one point to another to solve a mini-mystery of one sort or another. Once in France we were told to stand next to the luggage by the lake and our cell phone rang and showed us a picture of US! There is a camera mounted at the top of Le Tour Eiffel (Eiffel Tower). COOL!
The secret mission took us around the World Showcase to different points. Mostly, I didn’t participate. I was in my favorite place in Walt Disney’s World and there was shopping to do. Foreign CM’s to mess with.

In “France” we saw the chair guys. Very exciting to watch! At what point did they realize they had a unique talent? “Hey Pierre, I think we should make a tower of wooden chairs 3 stories high and climb up to the top and stand on our heads, what do you think”? “THAT, John-Luke, is a tres bon idea!” (Note, there is a show called "Jack a**" just full of such conversations on MTV)

We ate lunch at the Boulangerie. It was tres bon! We all had ham and cheese croissants, which had a shmear of mayo. and grated cheese on TOP of the sandwich. I ordered as much as my 4 years of High School French would allow me to….my shining moment to FINALLY speak French to a french collage student after YEARS of anticipation! I did such a great job ordering pig and fomage on two pieces of tire tread with a side order of holy socks! That CM didn’t even flinch!

For dessert, I chose the Abricotine (an apricot pastry…very bon!) and DH picked the strawberry mousse. And the rest of the Clampets picked chocolate éclairs.

Right after lunch, Cinderella was standing in her character spot all alone! So Norah and I along with Ron-the-photographer went to her because the boys were needing to finish up their Kim Possible Mission. Here is Miss Norah with her favorite

When at the UK, we had Mary Poppins and Alice In Wonderland all to ourselves for pictures and autographs. The girl who played Alice was “ON” if you know what I mean! She totally engaged all of the kids fabulously!

Before I end this chapter, I have to add this about the Kim Possible experience. As a final reward for saving the planet, my boys each received a KP pin!!!! They are probably hard to find/valuable because not just anybody does the mission….and Dallen and Riley TRADED their “girl” pins within minutes of receiving them!!!!! GEEEZ! At least Jordan kept his. She’s “Hot”.

Next, a fateful trip to the Boardwalk Villas to leave some pixie dust to a DIS peep coming in a couple of weeks…and I fainted!!!!! (DON’T ASK!)
AND, our mis-adventures at Le Cellier!!!!

 

[HomeSweetDisney]

That is such a precious picture! What a cutie!

And I'm totally jealous of the KP mission. I want to do it too! Maybe next time I go I can convince someone to let me, the overgrown kid, do that

 

[Eeyore's Tiara]

Hey I actually get to be 2nd! woohoo!

Don't tell me your dh and you actually got on each others nerves on this trip??? Too much togetherness?? After meeting ya'll, I don't believe it. But even my dh and I fight, so I guess it could happen....

I'm loving the trip report and all the pictures of your family. More, more!

I'm proud of you for letting your kids finish their coloring. I didnt. I was the dinner Nazi. "Hey are red flashy thing is going off! Get a move on girls!"

They now have half colored souveniers. Maybe we should take them back and finish them next time we go....

 

[pigget74]

Thank you for the next installment. The picture of Nora is priceless. Can't wait to see what goes wrong.

 

[HaleyB]

Oh my, I remember now why I love this report so much, you are frickin funny! (NOF).



And did you know those robots make great toothbrush holders??? I have a row of them on my bathroom counter right now.

 

[Backstage_Gal]

Another very funny chapter, UMA, rock on!!!!!

 

[fenfur]

As always, a classic piece of Umama TR. LOVED it!

I had to read about you "letting" the kids color all they want to DH, I thought it was funny, he didn't get it so much (but he'll be a TOTAL Disney nut when there).

And you fainted??!?!?!! Oh my!

P.S. Norah is soooo cute, loving those too cute hair bows and pink clothes (I live in a pinkless world boohoo)

 

[S.Poppins]

Hooray, a nice long installment!

As a matter of fact, I dozed off in the middle of it

But not your fault, it is 2:30 AM here. We had a big After the Football Game Party. We had a Rock Wall, Velcro Wall, Sumo Wrestling, football, basketball, pizza and awesome praise and worship. Then my DH decided on the way home, that we should go to Wal-mart!

But even though I am exhausted, I couldn't go to bed without checking your TR. We have those robots too!

Good night!

 

[averill94]

Another great read! I know I have seen pics of your family before this but
HOLY GUACAMOLE you and Jordan in the 1st one!!He looks just like you!
Is it just this pic or do people tell you that? My kids "look like me" but not that much. How luck he is

We were there last week and didnt see many princesses in world showcase-
we saw Jasmine and that was exciting - but that was it.

Oh well maybe next time

 

[HMHunters]

*Crucial Note: I never, ever wear socks with crocs (on docks…). Except I found it was necessary for comfort on vacation because NO one will ever see me again…unless the world wide web has fashion police!

UtahMama I'm gonna have to write you up here. Now it'll just be a warning this time, since you were wearing low socks. But if we catch you again, you'll be doing some hard time. With those old guys wearing shorts with black socks and dress shoes. And the middle aged women who still shop in the junior section. And the dudes with those baggy jeans whose waist hangs down to their knees.

 

[TwinkieMama]

Upon entering the pearly gates of EPCOT (Jordan called it Apricot when he was 3…whatever! Back when he was cute and sweet and respectful)

My lil sis called it Apricot too... my whole family in fact.... but about this pearly gate stuff... are you implying that Apricot is the afterlife? and do we need ADRs for eternity? I would hate to be stuck eating at the Electric Umbrella cafe for all time while the more prepared were dining at Le Cellier.....

OH YA!!!! We had an EXCITING DIS-celebrity sighting!!!! One of our favorite DIS-peeps showed up for her exclusive cameo!!!!! Here’s a short video snippit of her! It was suppose to be a mystery DISpeep but we couldn't get it to work just right, so PLAY ALONG... (click on this, please)

It was great running into you guys and I Test Track (when it is actually working) but OH MY.... your camera takes away inches and adds at least 30 lbs!!! I am much taller and thinner in person....

At the TT exit, you are dumped into what looks like an upscale car sales dealership.

I went to an upscale car dealership once.... with my Dad... while he was getting the oil changed on his Lexus.... they had the travel channel on and leather couches and free (with purchase of car that is so expensive that it really should come with 3 bdrms and 2 baths) cookies and pastries and coffee and soda... and the magazines were all titles like "Opera Today" and "The Wine Collecter".... some salesguy tried to chat me up but ended up leaving all confuzzled when I kept saying (with a straight face) that I really NEEDED the french-fry lined interior......

I went straight for the Big-Bird yellow Mama Hummer!!!

oh sorry! was this post supposed to be about YOU!?!

Where we traditionally take pictures of me inside making bull-horns with my fingers or waving at my fans…what have you. ONLY a monkey-wrench got THROWN into my devine plan! My DH goes to get in too to pose for MY picture too. So, I said, “I just want one of only ME then you can join me so we can get one together”… but, DH only chose to hear, “I only want one of me…”
SO! DH has a slight pissy-fit and exits out of MY ride! (what-EVER!!!!!) So DS17 takes our usual pictures. As soon as DH was distracted by something shiney with 4 wheels and a lot of chrome, I “acted” like I was yelling at him and having extreme road rage…. (honest, I WAS just pretending!) I did all kinds of arm, chin, and finger gestures!
(Which made Norah laugh because she has a huge sign language vocabulary!)

Most of the moms I know when teaching their little darlings baby sign language stick to the basics such as "mama", "more", "milk", "cracker", and "please" etc .... who knew that UtahMama was such an overacheiver because NorahDarling also knows the signs for "loser" and "learn to drive you moron" as well as the infamous "you are number 1!!!" sign...

Bravely, with our shoulders squared we went for our briefing. I was chosen to be the navigator. Which, if you know me in real life, would know this is a very ironic position for me to be assigned to!!! (right, SpongeMama???) DH was the Pilot, which went STRAIGHT to his head, by the way. (Gee, honey, I hope you don’t screw this up by not pushing your two CRITICAL buttons that light up on time!!!!) This ride is indescribable! Although, I ‘m pretty sure Gary Sinese winked at me (just me) …giving me the confidence I needed to push my own two critical red-lit up buttons for our successful mission.

Gary winked at you because I told him too. But the rest of this description had me howling I wish I wasn't so lazy because this is the perfect intro to my August 2006 Mission Space experience!!!


Ok I have more to say, including a lenghty dissertation about THE POSTCARD... but I will have to do it later... my kids seem to think that they should get breakfast on Saturdays.... what is up with that?