Nicki aka Rebelstand

The quality of these rants plus the trademarking of said rant should lead to a corporate sponsor for these TR's. Kotex would be a good one. 

I would hereby like to voice a complaint.
We are on page 2 and thus far there have been no pictures of the Troll pups.

I also want to wish Kathy a Happy Birthday.
 
And add that Kathy, your home is beautiful.
 
That's quite an accomplishment considering that Bob lives there too.
 
TCD

We love the work of the artist David E. Doss.  About two year ago, we met him at The Festival of the Masters and were chatting with him about how we liked the picture he made of the Polynesian and said he should make one for Fort Wilderness.  He asked if we thought it would be successful and asked what he could do.  My mom suggested an old fashioned camper by the beach would be a cool idea.  We've been hoping that he would actually do it and it looks like he finally did!  Pretty cool!!!
 

 
From his facebook page:  We are counting the days until our next Event at Art of Disney/Downtown Disney. 
We are so excited to be releasing David’s Newest Mouseterpiece “Fun at Ft. Wilderness”.
This image depicts your classic retro camping experience. If you have ever camped at the Fort you can relate, if you haven’t you should! It’s the best memories a family can make! Hope you can make plans to stop in and see us Oct 7th-Oct 23rd. We look forward to being back in The Sunshine State! It’s a great time to be back at Disney with so many great events like Food & Wine,& Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party. Hope to see ya real soon!
 
https://www.facebook.com/pages/David-E-Doss-Artist/287198306717

My sources tell me that Melvin pooped on the rail and short circuited the computers.  A quick poop scoop and a FORTRAN reboot, and all is well. 

Umm...if someone wants to pay for the plane ticket. Have ticket will travel. LOL

Ummm, this has been discussed on a couple of other threads and the system is not being done away with. It is being modified to prevent abuse of the system.
 
Before spreading this around, please read up on what it is and how it will benefit the guests.
 
 
http://www.fortfiends.net/forum/topic/11077-disneyland-getting-rid-of-gac/?hl=%2Bguest+%2Bassistance#entry303047

I love the perspective in this picture!
 
As Anna does to all the Fiends, she has captured the YC clan's hearts.  I would chase after her all day.  We had a great time on this day when Anna wanted to continue to walk with us as we were going to our site after breakfast.  We were able to snap a few good pixs.
 

 

 
Anna was so fun playing with her glow necklace in the hammock.  We had to be on our toes to keep her safe in the hammock but she loved it.
 
We had a great visit with Carol as we were leaving.  When we left we wished we had just stayed another night and skipped work and school the next day.
 
I was so happy to see the little Fiends getting along so well.  My oldest is a little reserved and it was great to have Judy, Yvonne  and Dave's kids working hard to have him and his little brother included in what they were doing.   
 
The story behind the Gorilla goes like this... I went over to the playground to put an end to the flashlights shinning on the kids and across the campground.  No sooner than I stepped foot on the playground the kids in a site close by shined the light in my eyes.  So I walked over and asked them if they were ever told how you shouldn't shine lights in people's eyes.  They were scared to death so I shined my light quickly across where they were sitting and I told them I didn't want to see those lights shinning again in the direction of the playground.  It worked  great.  I have no idea where their parents were as I was expecting to see some adults somewhere.  Well there was a larger group of adults in another site across the field and I caught site of the gorilla going in one of the campers.  They had appeared to be enjoying some libations of their own.  According to my kids the group of adults came over with one of them in the suit and sat and played on the playground being silly.  They weren't being mean spirited just silly and trying to be funny.  They just thought it was weird for an adult to be doing this as they clearly wanted to get the kids attention at the playground.  It seemed odd for them to do this but it wasn't in a mean way.  Our kids were tired of the flashlights and the weird person in the gorilla suit made them decide to leave.
 
I can't wait till next year!
 
Go Braves.

Ironically, look who's reading the trip report. 
 

 
 
Go Braves! 

We did get a locker, but had to put a deposit down for it. As you come through the turnstiles at MK they're on the right before you go under the train tracks. 
 
You got most of the deposit back when you returned the key.  I think the net cost was somewhere around $5??

I can tell you everynight since the mad Gorrilla sighting I have had to check closets and under neath beds for Izzy and Xander, I gave them the glow necklaces and I wish we had video of the lot of them doing the conga line back and forth in the dark.. that was priceless!! 
 
I may never be able to take them to another zoo.. DAMN THE GORILLA MAN, DAMN HIM TO HELL!!
 
I vote next GG one of us get's snuckered up and wear a my easter bunny costume..   I personally think Bob would make a great drunken Easter bunny..

I have to say, I am very pleased with how this little trip report is turning out.  There are enough sidebars, tangents and hijacks to annoy the heck out of Bob.  I'm having fun!

What a great looking feast! Right now  am doing a lot of this........ :banghead:

Holy triple Ghost of KFK

WTFORT

:heartsmiley:

...oh and that would mean they'd be trying to put up Osborne lights smack in the middle of Food & Wine.  Now THAT would be a kerfuffle of epic proportions. 

I just want to add that this weekend was a wonderful dose of calming medicine for me. Aided by Toasted Almonds and wonderful Fiend cooking!!!!

Oh, and this one looks like Nellie Olsen from Little House on the Prairie. 
 

If you own a Dane, you must be obedient!  Or either you must weigh much more than the dog.

Time to move along....but ever so slowly.  Remember, gotta drag this out. 
 
So, I will relay one more story, with a few pictures, and then sit back again.  Feel free to comment on the update, or anything really.  Hijacks are encouraged in this trip report.  They really annoy Bob. 
 
So, there was a tree at the back of our campsite.  Some of the branches extended above the firepit, and it was clear that some people have some really big fires at Defeated Creek.  One entire section of branch was charred and dead. 
 
Before breakfast, my girls were all sitting with us and we were looking at the dead branches.  I asked them to pull them down so I could use them for kindling later.  So they each tried jumping up and grabbing the branch, with no luck.
 

 

 
No one was able to grab hold of the branch.  INC and I were in hysterics though watching their efforts. 
 

 

 
At this point, something happened that reminded us of why we camp. 
 
Emma and Izzy, our oldest and middle daughters, decided to team up.  Emma tried to get Izzy up on her shoulders.  More hilarity ensued.
 

 

 
Teenage siblings do not always get along.  At home, those two go about their days rarely talking to each other.  It's not that they dislike each other, they just don't have tons in common or choose to interact a great deal.  But when camping, all of life's rules get tossed out the window.  It was so incredibly heart warming to see sisters having fun together, even if only for a few minutes.  It makes all the effort of going camping worthwhile. 
 
Unfortunately, even though Izzy is 5'10" and was on Emma's back, she still couldn't reach the branch.  So next, Stella climbed on Emma and tried. 
 

 
Stella couldn't reach either. 
 
Eventually, Gwen got a running start and jumped up enough to grab the branch.  It proceeded to snap off, and she came down with about 5 inches of branch.  We all considered it a success and decided to move on with our day. 
 
Next was breakfast....which I already shared out of order.  So my next update will include some Anna time with some Fiends, including a chase across the field.  Coming up.....

Mr. Smartypants!

Yuck!!!

I'm in especially if it annoys Bob but I love DIT daughter pi tures

I read the title of this thread and just thought "we all do"