Family of Bears

Ou next trip, I was more laid back and we lost my 9yo twice! :rofl3:

Haha!! This is great!!

Steve is usually wrong about everything at WDW, but in this case, I agree with him. Don't use the buses especially if you have a Hummer sized stroller and annoying screaming kids.

Lou, I swear, talking to you in person and reading your posts have a very interesting contrast.

The name of this TR drew me in the second I read it. Love your family already. Are Buddy and Paw Paw looking to adopt?

I love those drawer bins. I never did get it figured out how to pack clothes. Always in bags, then bags are everywhere. This is brilliant. See, your pre TR is already paying off. Looking forward to more! When will you be there? We will be there most likely easter weekend...hopefully!

This IS big news. I love this. Maybe Ill sneak in the MK before my tix expire...

Aww Lou, you are very sweet!

Thanks for reading everyone, can't wait to get back up there!!

Awesome report!!!! You really do need to find that canopy for the EZ-UP. I would NEVER consider tent camping without it!!! Hope your next tent camping trip is drier!!!

Thanks!! Ya, we had bought the canopy on craigslist and the guy forgot to give us the cover. He brought it to us at our house yesterday though so it worked out :)

Cool report. Congratulations on the spike. I have to go find one this week. Did u miss the tt

We did miss the tt, we missed the pop up more. However, the tent was easier and more comfortable than I thought! If I upgrade from tent, it would be a pop up for sure. I missed the smells and noises when I was in the tt. Thanks for asking!

Sooooooo...Rita think I'm funny, so I guess I'll go on. Thanks Rita!!

So Saturday morning it was just beautiful. We did breakfast at camp and then walked over to the meadows trading post for coffee and to snoop around. I got my new mug, filled it with horrible coffee which I enjoyed anyways, and then I found this!! (I put the beer in it later. No, I do not walk around at 8 am with a beer...all the time :rofl2: )

The coolest Koozie Ive ever seen! Now, at this time I'd like to take a moment of silence in remembrance of my beloved koozie. I misplaced it somewhere in time between my visit with Oscar (a fellow fiend) that night, going to the fireworks at the beach, and returning to my camp. RIP dear koozie, you will be replaced but you will not be forgotten.

So then a visit to Bob's dock, and guess who was there!?!?! Not Bob! But for the first 5 minutes I was convinced that I was in the presence of who would be my first fiend encounter. I was so excited, it took all I had to say "are you bob?" Now from my previous post, you already know that this was in fact not Bob. DH was looking at me like I had two heads. Like, who's Bob? Why would this man be Bob? If you know a Bob, wouldn't you know whether or not this was him? Well, he said it wasn't him and I explained myself. So to the real Bob, I look forward to one day meeting you.

Then we let dd play on the playground awhile and then it was pool time. We got back from swimming and our new sign was displayed on our windshield!! We had had a delivery while we were gone!!! Yay!! And not 2 minutes later, we had a visitor with another special delivery

Yay!! It's Lou!! I followed orders and got a hug (two actually) and he was soooooo nice! :hugs2: <------- Hey Lou, there's us!

Anyways, he gave me my spike, which is so cool. I know that you guys aren't going to give these to just anybody, and I am glad that you have entrusted me with this privilege. And thank you to TCD for your hard work getting these, what a cool idea! :waycool: Who knew, there's a cool smiley.

So after Lou jumped our van b/c it was dead, thanks Lou!, he took this pic of our happy little family of bears with our new sign

We said our goodbyes and then not 5 minutes later, we get a visit from Jen, TJ, and Missy! I did not think to take a pic but we had a great little visit. It was so fun meeting you guys!! We talked a little about Stone Mountain, who knows, maybe we will find ourselves up there.

We also got to meet Karla and her hubby as well as Gwen and her hubby. You guys are ALL so sweet to come find us, we enjoyed each and every visit!

Well, that concludes our trip. We spent the night in torrential downpour, packed up in the rain, stopped off for some dole whip, and drove home. But we will be back in a few weeks. Hope to meet more of you then!

I'm not so sure about that photo- it could be an ear of corn that squirrel is eating and not a banana.

LOL at you asking the guy on Bob's dock if he was Bob. Good job!

TCD

Ya, thanks to you fiends and your amazing pics, I now want a new fancy camera to get all the good stuff with...like that squirrel with a banana.

Ok when you asked if he was Bob did he act offended? :)

Haha, he kind of looked at me funny. The funniest was my dh...he looked at me like who's Bob?!? I explained that this was Bob's dock and that he's famous for it. The guy told me that in that case, it wasn't him because he definately wasn't famous in any way, even for a dock.

Great update! By the way, the squirrel reference is from the movie "UP" You know every time the dog sees a squirrel, he gets distracted and excited!!

Ha! I thought so! thanks for getting me in the loop for that :)

So what's all this talk about squirrels? Well, I've been an official fiend for about two weeks now, and I've definately noticed there is something about squirrels that gets you guys excited. So I hear my daughter say mooooooom...looooook!! And there it was...a squirrel up in a tree eating a banana. I watched him peel it like a monkey and take a bite. I then had the idea to grab my phone to snap a pic. Forgive me, the image is not great, I had a very short window to catch this shot, but here it is, a squirrel eating a banana

So now we are at the site setting up on Friday night. We had been staying with family while dh worked, but now it was time to camp. It poured down rain while we checked in and this is my first time tent camping since we sold our TT so I do admit I teared up. Not only are we "roughing it", but it is also POURING! :badmood: We got to our site, cracked open a beer, cranked up the tunes, and I felt so much better. The tent went up fast and since we discovered we didn't have our ezup canopy cover with us, there was nothing else to set up. The rain stopped and we went for a bike/scooter ride (dh and dd on their bikes, me on my scooter...no bikes for me, bad knees). I somehow managed to rip up my leg on the scooter...I was gonna do a pic here but Ill spare you, its bad. We watched the EWP and ate an entire box of entenmanns soft chocolate chip cookies (you know the ones) and called it a night. I slept like a baby. DH on the other hand said he didnt get a wink. Between the direct spotlights shining in the tent from the CS, the kid playing the drums on the ice machine at 3AM, and the fact his air mattress had a hole so he was on the ground by morning, he didn't do so well. But we had a beautiful day Saturday morning and it was time for my new coffee mug, a trip to Bob's dock (where I actually said to the guy that was there, "Are you Bob?"), and a new koozie!!

Awesome for you and your daughter!!!!!! :heartsmiley:

Thanks!!

Will have to try the beer next time :beer: , and would need many of those to have the courage to do what your daughter did!!!!! That is terrrific!!! :batman:

Yes, do try it, it's great!

Probably post to Youtube. Following along good so far. :)

Thanks for the tip. I am gonna keep trying to see what I can figure out. Thanks for following along!

This is awesome so far!!

Thanks! You've given me the motivation to keep it going :)

I love Raglan Road!! I wish I had been there for your dd's debut! She is so cute!!

Aww, thanks!

Raglan Road is awesome! One of our favorite eating joints. We will be there by the second night if not earlier in October, for Guinness at least. :beer:

Good plan!

I'm in. love the pics of your DD. So cute! and what a special night for her to remember! :heartsmiley:

I have my own squirrel who does the unimaginable but, unlike you, no matter what I try I can't catch him. That makes me an official member of the anti-squirrel club now...

Thank you, that's sweet!

Well, I guess that brings us to our squirrel...back soon!

Okay so how do I turn that link into a video? hmmmm

Allright, so night two, we decided on a family date. Where to go on a family date? To the Irish pub of course! DD loves the Irish dancers, and I love the Irish coffee, so to downtown disney we went for Raglan Road. After a few of my fav Irish coffees topped with heavy cream, OMG, so good, my server suprised me with his favorite beer, apparently called a Kill Kevin? Annnyways, that was delicious! A couple of buy one get one free coupons later... :beer:

So the whole time they provide live music on stage, these guys are really great! Then every half hour or so the dancers get on stage and put on a show. DD got brave enough to dance THE ENTIRE TIME right in the middle of the restaurant. The servers had to go around her every time they delivered food or walked by. We were there for 4 hours. I know the management must have a policy there to allow this kind of thing b/c you could tell if there wasn't a rule that this was allowed, someone would have kindly asked us to get our kid back in her seat. Instead, every server, hostess, dancer, manager, etc, stopped by to tell us how great she was and gave her a high five. So she danced. And danced. She made a friend. And they danced. Finally, at about hour 3, the dancers came down to invite the girls up on stage. Well, she marched her little dancing booty up there and did her thing. :doodebug: Why the dancing fairy smiley? Here's a video of DD, shes the one on the right. In the ballerina costume. With the wings. We let her dress herself when she's not in school uniform. Self expression and all. So here goes, Raglan Road Irish dancers...and my daughter

http://s1170.photobucket.com/albums/r525/bsprice33/?action=view&current=IMG_1101.mp4

If you can't tell, that's me SCREAAAAAMING in the background.

After the show, we got to talk to a couple of the dancers. When this one here:

asked my dd what kind of dancing she usually does, she replied, "Ballet. And Irish." :rofl2:

If anyone has ever been to this place, you know there is a separate stage that is about 5 foot by 5 foot, raised up in the middle of the bar. They do solos there. By 11PM, dd and friend decided to climb these stairs and put on a show of their own. We all put up our arm railings, safety first folks, and they did their thing. Unfortunately we were out of battery at this point on the camera. This night goes down in history. Amazing.

Up next, we set up campsite and catch a squirrel doing the unimaginable. :eek:

Great start, Brandy!!

Thanks!

I'm in.

I have no idea what the title to this trip report means.

But, I am going to read along anyway.

TCD

Haha! Let's just say all of these things happened, just maybe not all at once! Thanks for reading :)

Just found your TR today, loved the Epcot part. The coffee you speak of I believe is Viking coffee, my fav!

Okay boys and girls, here is my teeny tiny trip report from our trip last weekend...

It starts with date night :hugsmiley: , then on to a little Irish dancing at the bar with our 5 year old (don't judge), and ends in relaxing at the fort with the cutest koozie you've ever seen.

So our tickets are about to expire, dd's already did, so dh and I hit the parks on our own for some rollercoasters. :rollercoaster: We had just enough time for rocking rollercoaster and tower of terror before hollywood closed, then we ran...fast...to our car to get into MK in time to hit space and a few more. I saw a pic of my ff.net sign on the site while waiting in line for space and this was my face...

I was soooooo excited. Run over to the "do you have your sign" thread, I was posting there as I was getting into my seat. (This pic is actually from aerosmith, but you get the idea.)

We hit philharmagic, I teared up, then we did buzz. No joke, our scores were like 200,000 to 64. Im not even lying. And I was trying too!

Then on the way out it was hot dogs for Rick from Caseys. I stole his coleslaw. It was deeeeeeelicious. If you have not had it, try it. So good.

That concludes part 1. I wanna make sure I did the pic right before I ramble any more.

_{Yes, we have already sold the truck. Now it's just the charger and the minivan. At this point, if the hauler is too much for the minivan, Im thinking we are just going to have to skip the golf cart...We live in a neighborhood next to school and church that it would get use, but if it is not towable, it's not towable. It makes the pop up soooooo much cheaper this way without the hauler, so we can just put that towards golf cart rental money. :) Unless there is some magical solution I'm not thinking of...that does not include trading out cars. We have lifetime warranty on the van so it is not going anywhere!}

_{As for all of you guys being so helpful, I really appreciate it. There is definately a sense of humor on this board...at least that's what I think it is. What is this aka name Lou speaks of? If it is not super creative, will he still welcome me?}

Ya so never thought that the minivan wouldnt cut it with the toy hauler pop up....very interesting...may have gotten myself into a little situation here. Now Ive really got to figure out this puzzle. Is there such a thing as putting a golf cart behind the pop up, not towed, but attached on a deck somehow? Would this lower the needed towing capacity b/c it was on the back instead of the tongue? Who would have thought a new member could be so needy on their first post!

Wow, you guys are great! That pop up is def what Im thinking. What kind of tongue weight are we thinking? Would my minivan not cut it?

Hello all! We used to have a pop up, upgraded to Outback TT with intentions of golf cart in the back of the pickup, but decided to go back to pop up camping, we missed it! Anyways, no more pick up truck. So if we definately want a golf cart, is my only option one of these toy hauler pop ups? Ive seen the e2, e3s..also the fleetwood one. Are there any other ideas/models/etc? Also, I saw a little golf cart once at the fort...should have stopped the people. It was four seater, had all the room of a club car, but was somehow just smaller, and possibly foldable? anyways, anyone heard of this?? thanks to all!