Go you, Alison!! LOL!! (No true mocking there! I 100% know how hard it can be to both get here at all and then stay caught up and I"ve gone through my own fair share of DIS absences over the years.)
Unfortunately they are not true links but rather just pg. numbers. The DIS destroyed BB Code usage and there is no sign of it being fixed. I had a REALLY hard time with the coding as it was and never was able to figure out how to do links after the DIS changed a couple of years ago. I'm too busy to devote time to that right now, so pg. numbers will have to suffice. The DIS REALLY needs to make embedding links for our chapters WAY more user friendly.
Hey Friends!
I just wanted to let y'all know that I don't regularly go to the list of TRs, so if you're replying here and have a TR that I could join in to read, let me know! You can just PM me with a link and I'll do my best to be a contributor/commenter!
And no, anything but pilot is pretty darned boring.
Look at you go!!!!
I was happy I could help her out that way, and in the end, I still got exactly what I wanted.
I hope so too, but know how scarce time can be these days.
We ate at some incredibly yummy places this trip!! Excited to share about them!!
Yes, it's how they all work with a few exceptions. And it's really a pretty good solution.
No, you use QS codes with your phone unless you ask for paper. But, you CAN order AT the restaurant for sure. However, we also saw lots of folks doing mobile ordering for take-away too. Was interesting!
The first time I ever went in 2000, it sucked.
It wasn’t always that way at AK. The first time I ever went in 2000, it sucked. I vividly remember going there with the kids who were 9, 7, and 4 at the time and we basically walked around aimlessly for a couple of hours, ate an eggroll, watched the monkeys, and promptly left. Admittedly, I hadn’t done my research about what there was to do there, but I also remember thinking that it was very sparse, there legit wasn’t a lot to do, and it was cold.
At 7:40 we tapped in (no finger scans right now) and were cruising our way over to FOP. As hoped, it was a walk-on, but unfortunately, that also meant horrible photos.
To be quite honest, I wished I’d gotten to spend more time in the “Research Room” in the queue as this was my first time ever for going through the Stand-by queue.
They pipe in a scent during that segment. And I am 100% positive that it’s the Disney shampoo scent.
sadly, this time around I’d put my long lens on for the Safari rather than my fast lens for dark rides.
I invariably spend inordinate amounts of time gazing at the birds there, but I never seem to get crisp shots of these feathered friends.
Aww, thank you so much!! I really loved how they turned out this last trip!Your safari pictures are outstanding!
I am just coming off of one myself and it's so nice to find some posts to reply to. Over the next few days I will try to get an update or two put up before I'm off again for a little bit. Seems I come and go in spurts.I’m a little bit behind here! I had a disboard hiatus but like any good show pre-Netflix - I now have a bunch of posts I can binge!
How lucky you guys had such an informative Lyft driver. When I went last in 2019 we had many drivers who had no idea where to drop us off, we had one literally say “I know nothing about Disney”. As a ride share in Orlando you think you’d brush up on these things.
Also, I agree with the CMs about TSMM. I’m so sad that it seems to have fallen to the way side for most. I still love it and think it’s such a fun ride for the whole family.
And I’d definitely eat tachos for breakfast. As a night shifter there isn’t much I won’t eat in the morning. Cheeseburger at 8 am? Sure!!
Can’t wait to read on about SWGE!
Oh how wonderful to have you chime in and say hi!! I hope you'll pop in often and give comments and chatter!!Hi Liesa! Fairly long time reader coming to say hi!
OK, I'm back from having fallen off the planet again.
I literally kept your H is for Hollywoodland post up on a browser on my phone since the last time I posted here so I wouldn't get lost as to where I was in your TR. I was very confused by your process for getting a Boarding group. So do you simply need a reservation for DHS to secure the group now?
I'm going to have to refamiliarize myself with the whole RotR situation with DL reopening. I may have a chance at getting a 1PM reservation on my many days out there.
OK back to read a few more chapters.
Hey look I caught up to my own quote! I wasn't that far behind....then. Well now I'm incredibly behind.
I used to be so much better at formatting and making things all fancy and pretty. I just don't have that kind of time anymore.I'll keep that in mind when I start my new TR.
Is this still the case? I'm getting ready to launch a new one.
I ROCKED the pilot last time!!!! Can't wait to share that chapter too!!I prefer anything but pilot. Too much stress.
You're telling me....
Can't wait to hear about yummy eats that I did not cook.
I'm too old school. I want a good old fashioned menu to peruse and meditate on. Hard to think really being distracted by scrolling up and down, up and down..... #notafanofqsmenusI know what you mean by this. They had this at the first place we went to after our vaccinations.
Hmmm that makes me question when it was that I went...it was very new. Like not all of the hotel had opened up yet new.
I can see where little kids and cold would make it dreary. I seem to remember being wowed by the place then again we may not have done much cause this may have been pre-scooter times and she had a hard time walking around such a large park.
I'm hoping lots of DL is like that when we get to go....
I had the same thought when I rode it at the DVC event last year.
I'll try to notice next time I ride. Although I wouldn't know the scent because I've never used it. I have a prescription shampoo that I use, and the hotel stuff would irritate my scalp.
You still got some pretty good shots!
They are so hard!! I don't know if it's because they are moving too fast or??? Hmm, maybe I'll try sport mode next time!I tried to get some decent ones on my last trip to no avail.
April 16, 2001.Good question!! I wonder too, and don't know the year AKL opened. Huh!!
Thanks! I was too lazy to Google at that particular moment.April 16, 2001.
Those were the days. I did everything except dress up. Newspapers, toast, squirt guns, bell, etc. It's just a jump to the left.I was one of those who went was had the most fun.... throwing toast, dancing in the aisles, such silly fun.
I remember seeing this back then and was praying, just forgot to tell you. Have a lot of catching up to do.Friends,
If you are the praying type, I could use a bit right now. I have an appt this morning with the dermatologist and will be having a spot biopsied. Normally I wouldn't be too concerned, but this happens to be on my face near my eyebrow. Not very happy about a potential chunk being carved off right there.
Thanks to whoever see this.
Probably more than you care to know, butNo. It's true and they even have their how hex codes!!! I should switch my font color to ZOMP just for fun!!
I find that hard to believe. Must be like crop circles.Steppe tried, but man those images were EVERYWHERE in Epcotopia!
Personally, I think we all look like a dweeb with masks on, but it's the way of the world.Obviously, it’s pointless to try and take any photos on the ride, but here are two. I always look like a dweeb because I just don’t ride this one enough to ever remember where the camera is anyway. My daughter and Mary Ellen look great though!
Ummm, sorry to be nit picky, but 20,000 light years, one would not even be in the same galaxy containing the planet with said sea.I mean who wouldn’t want to go 20,000 light years under the sea?!
Sad to see it going. I know change is inevitable, but who moved my cheese?? You always take such great pictures and these are no exception.The queue is so well-themed! Setting the scene for a rural jaunt:
Amen sister! Preach!!And now my favorite of the 3 Mountains- Big Thunder Mountain Railroad!
Really wish I could find a mountain that gave up its gold easy. Just one...I'm not greedy.Big Thunder Mountain is very protective of the gold it holds within, and the unfortunate soul who attempts to mine its riches is destined to
Too funny.Amazing how they had such futuristic lighting equipment to light the way back then.
Well, very hard to see anything on phone. Was looking for writing, but didn't see any.Bonus points if you catch the reference! Trust me, it's there!
As many times as I've gone, I've only seen it once and it was laying in the brush and it's hard to tell it's there. Good fir you you were able to get it up/moving.Do you have any idea how hard it is to photograph that cheetah?!?! It's either laying down WAY far away from the jeeps in the shade or it's moving AND your jeep is moving. But, this is the best photo I've gotten of him/her? to date so happy even though it's a bit blury
A co-worker is (now part time) an animal keeper at AK. She was telling me all the different animals they've tried to put at the end of the safari have not done well. This is the latest attempt to have something there where it won't have a negative effect of the animals. She said they can't figure out why, just nothing has done well there.There's a new area on display for the Nigerian Dwarf Goats towards the end of the Safari now. The storyline is that it's the Warden's home and the goats provide milk products to support the conservation efforts. Really cute when the goats are climbing and playing!
Except when they're kneeling to drink or lay down. Hard to drop that far down and still look graceful.Giraffes!! So graceful!!
Quick before the hyenas commmeee.I don't think I have a favorite animal on the Safari but I do like the meerkats.
Was going to ask, but see it's already been answered.When you ride BTMRR at Disneyland, do you know about the 'goat trick'?
I think that's from the I want rides only crowd.love Animal Kingdom, too! I hate when I hear people say it's a 'half-day park'. It is SO not!
Sigh.... I swear I'm always losing something, forgetting, or nearly forgetting something.
Dig a tunna, dig dig a tunna.Aren't they awesome!! So goofy and comical. I often will stop and watch for quite some time.
Well, if you're gonna nit pick...Ummm, sorry to be nit picky, but 20,000 light years, one would not even be in the same galaxy containing the planet with said sea.
The picture of avocado toast makes it look good. It's too bad you didn't get the toast you dreamed of. I must admit, though, that avocado toast in general doesn't appeal to me.Let’s start with the utterly regrettable CBR Avocado Toast that I had so long dreamed of for over a year.
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The toast though, as bad as the cold was, was even more abominable. Instead of the fusion of flavors of tart pickled onions and sweet orange pieces, punctuated with the crunchiness of fresh radish, I found myself slogging through a heap of bland avocado chunks with an occasion hiccup of one of the above mentioned items.