wendinator

Taken in August of 2010.

These pictures were taken in August of 2010. It was our lunch during the Keys to the Kingdom tour.

These pictures were taken at Artist Point in August of 2010.

These pictures were taken in August of 2010.

I had a big problem with Bowler Hat Guy's knit outfit:

 

 

It's the first time I've ever seen a man with a camel toe.  And I hope the last.  (if you don't know what a camel toe is do not look it up on Urban Dictionary- just let it go).

I believe that's technically a moose knuckle.  :laugh:

After seeing a post for the Hoop Dee Doo Revue corn bread recipe, my family (three generations) decided that we should have a Hoop Dee Doo dinner night. Here's what we did...

Food

1. My Mom made the cornbread using the official recipe. At first she thought one pan wasn't enough for the 8 of us, but looks were deceiving and we had plenty. Mom also mixed up some butter with maple syrup. Yummy!
2. Mom made mashed potatoes.
3. Mom made a pot of brown beans using a family recipe (I can post it if anyone's interested, it's fairly sweet because it uses mincemeat).
4. My sister made fried chicken (her husband wanted boneless chicken).
5. I, being lazy and mostly unable to cook, picked up 3 racks of ribs from a local BBQ joint. (Memphis BBQ for those of you in the Toronto area.)
6. Mom made some corn on the cob and cut it into thirds.
7. Mom made a salad (I tried to talk her out of it, but she was going for authenticity!).
8. My sister made the cake for strawberry shortcake, along with the strawberry topping (big bag of frozen strawberries thawed, and some mashed up a bit to make them saucier). Mom made real whipped cream. (Can you tell our Mom spoils us?)

Decor

1. Mom made red and white checkered napkins for everyone. She thought about making a tablecloth too, but we decided napkins were enough. You might be able to buy a plastic tablecloth with that same red/white pattern.
2. I bought 500 ml Mason jars to drink out of. (For Canadians, Canadian Tire had them on for a box of 12 for $8.)
3. Having bought them on previous trips, we used our Mickey Mouse glow ice cubes.
4. We had a data projector showing the full Hoop Dee Doo show from YouTube. The video is a little shaky, but we were mostly too busy eating to notice. We turned up the volume for some songs but generally just had it playing in the background. It was interesting to note that our home meal pacing was about the same as the video. When we were ready for dessert, so was the video.
5. We joked that if anyone had to go to the bathroom, you had to go to the neighbour's house.

Next Time

1. We plan to make this an annual tradition. Next year we're going to make sure to get straws with paper on the outside so we can blow the wrappers at each other.
2. Washboards! Don't know how/where we'll get them. Maybe some other acceptable noisemaker substitute.

Pictures! Forgot to get a dessert picture. Too busy eating!

and I'd like to know if there are any that fit the above AND:

c) can be broken down and/or lifted into a truck (since we'll have the F350) if we want to drive to the parks that day.

Here's a YouTube video from Walker Mobility about how their scooters disassemble. http://youtu.be/CghnkftCY-4

My Mom has a Victory that disassembles similarly (just minor differences). Some components are pretty heavy, but both my father (73) and I (40) have managed to disassemble/put in car/remove from car/reassemble by ourselves without assistance.

I couldn't figure out how to embed a Picasa slideshow, so here's a link to the album.

I would have weeded a bunch of these photos, but sometimes you guys (*cough* TCD *cough*) notice things that the rest of us easily overlook.

It must have been announced that Mr. Toad's Wild Ride was shutting down which prompted me to take the photo. My next trip wasn't until NYE 1999/2000.

I just realized this thread says 70s and 80s and my photo was from the 90s.

I have another stash of photos from Feb 1997 (Minnie Moo, birthday cake castle) that I can post in another thread so as not to stay too far from the decades in this thread.

Is that Splash Mountain?

Yes. You can barely tell from the poor scan, but the sign in the bottom right says "Splash Mountain Opening Fall 1992"

I'm not entirely sure when these pictures were taken. The first two were likely ~1991, and the last two... I'd have to ask my parents.

River Country!

Also, if any of you smart folks can identify the music playing, I sure would appreciate it.

SoundHound thinks the song is from Country Mountain Christmas. I didn't have much luck searching under that album title, but did find this on iTunes which might be a winner. Listen to a preview of track #3. http://itunes.apple....mas/id157772484

Edit to add: hope my crazy Canadian link works for you. If not, search for "Bluegrass Christmas" or "Christmas Treasures Series & The Clarke Family"

Here's my gem from Typhoon Lagoon!

(We didn't come close to finishing it.)

This is a bad scan of a print, taken in December of 1999 when we were at WDW for New Year's Eve 2000! It's the whole fam (except me since I was taking the picture!).

Hey there wendinator, unless I missed it, this is your first post on this TR.

Thanks for joining in!

I love your avatar.

Big Country Bears fan here.

Your powers of observation are, as usual, spot on! I'm more of a lurker 'round these parts. Though I keep telling myself I really should do a trip report from my April trip with my sister, even though we didn't stay at the Fort this time. It was very memorable and more fun than should be legal. I'm just worried about "outing" her online since she didn't tell her 5 year old twins she was going without them!

That picture in my avatar was taken on that same trip. Blood on the Saddle cracks me up every time.

If you need me, I'll be over here lurking.

My hubby loves :heart: Old Speckled Hen, he prefers the drought cans more than bottles. Since I can't remember the name, it is called "Chicken Beer" in our house.

Too funny! My husband is a big Old Speckled Hen fan, and I too call it "chicken beer"! Great minds think alike.

Re: Bread Machines. I've had very good luck with the recipes that came with a West Bend machine I got ages ago and which is long since gone and replaced with a Black & Decker.

Grab any one of the PDF "manuals" here - http://www.westbend.com/catalog.cfm?dest=dir&linkid=173&linkon=subcategory

They include a whole bunch of recipes. My favorites are cinnamon raisin (great toasted!), Italian herb, honey oatmeal, and I make the dinner buns quite often, too.