Memorable Funny Stuff From  2009 That May Not Seem That Funny. You Had To Be There.

1. Dave- “It engulfs your whole ass”

2  Larry- “Jonny Cake Jonny Cake, Jonny Jonny Jonny Cake!

3. Shelly - Where Are We Going This Way.

Friday March 20th, 2009

Fridays pre-trip party starts at 7:00PM. Dave, Brenda, Greg, Michelle, Hailey, Chelsea & her boyfriend, & Katie make an appearance. The Vosses end up being the last ones out at midnight. It was a nice way to start our trip. Everyone is in bed by 12:30AM.

Saturday March 21st, 2009

Up at 6:00AM and out the door at 6:30AM with Greg Motor Service Shuttle. At the airport there is hardly anyone at check in yet so we sail through with no problems. Boarding for flight 671 starts at 7:50AM and our flight departs right on time at 8;24AM. Flight time is only 2 hours and 9 minutes. Upon landing in Orlando we make our way to Magical Express check in where once again everything goes very smooth. Within 25 minutes we are on the bus to All Star Music. Kirstie sends a text saying it is important we are at the front control booth of Finding Nemo The Musical at 2:30PM sharp. We don’t know for sure what she has planned but we figure we better make it on time. It’s almost 1:30PM and we’re still not at All Star Music yet. I don’t think we can make it in time. Upon arrival at All Star Music check in goes very fast with no wait as we walk through the door. Shelly says she will take our carry on stuff to the room by herself and sends Nick & I off to Animal Kingdom by ourself. She says its important I am there at 2:30PM. Nick and I head out the door where a bus is pulling up. We board and are at Animal shortly after 2:00PM. We text Shelly and she is now on her way so we wait because we have time. When Shelly arrives we all enter Animal Kingdom and have ice cream and stall for time until 2:30PM. At 2:30 we walk up to Finding Nemo where we are greeted by a senior cast member named Don who immediately says “ You must be Larry”. He calls over is headset and shortly Kirstie comes out to greet us. We are taken inside the theatre before anyone else is allowed in and are given our pick of any seats in the place. After Shelly and I pick some seats Kirstie gives me by birthday presents. A Nemo shirt she says is from everyone on the shift crew that day. (They Must Like Her) And the best part,  a card signed by the cast of the show. The girl knows what I like. This will be a fantastic memory of a show I love. After the Nemo show Shelly,Nick, and I go to Flame Tree for some food. Kirstie has one more show to do before she is off. When we finish eating Nick and I get in standby for Expedition Everest. The wait is 35 minutes. As usual an awesome ride. When we get off Kirstie is now with Shelly and done with work for the day. We all go on Dinosaur and meet a few more cast members along the way that Kirstie is friends with. After Dinosaur NIck and I go on Primevil Whirl while Shelly and Kirstie get a picture with Pluto and Goofy. While doing the picture Shelly makes a little girl cry. The little girl is defacing Disney property by writing on a fence with a pen. Shelly taps the parents on the shoulder and points out what is going on. The parents call out the little girl for doing it and the little girl has a  drama queen shit fit. We now leave Animal Kingdom and head for Magic Kingdom to eat at Columbia Harbor House overlooking Haunted Mansion. When we are done eating, Spectromagic is just starting and we watch from Hall Of Presidents. After Spectro we go to watch Wishes. When Wishes is over we go on Jungle Cruise, Pirates Of The Caribbean, and Splash Mountain. Kirstie waits while we go on and I get totally soaked. Next we all go to Haunted Mansion and Mickeys Philharmagic. After Philharmagic Kirstie decides to leave because it’s 11:00PM and Kirstie has a  45 minute trip from Magic Kingdom back to Vista. She also has to work Sunday. As she is preparing to leave a family approaches us and offers us four Disney Vacation Club Cards with two fast passes on each card. We take them but only use three out of the possible eight passes because we wait to long the next day and they expire.After Kirstie leaves we get ice cream and then hit Buzz Lightyear where I win with 340,000 points. We finish up Magic Kingdom with Wedway People Mover and one of the last rides on Space Mountain for the day. We exit the park at 12:20AM for the bus and Shelly is feeling sick. We get back to the hotel in time for Shelly to puke. She feels better now but she can’t seem to ride roller coasters. Now in the room Shelly is sleeping and Nick is playing his DS. I am writing this and having cocktails. It’s 2:00AM now and I anticipate being in bed within the hour. What a great first day with nine to go!

Sunday March 22nd, 2009

Nick is up at 9:45AM. I am up at 10:15AM. Shelly is still sleeping at 10:30AM. We’re out the door at 12:05PM. On the way to Hollywood Studios I stop at the front desk to see if I can talk them into giving Kirstie a key for the room so she can do extra magic hours with us over the course of the week. After telling the tale to the cast member and him checking with his supervisor they agree and Kirstie gets her room key. That’s one problem solved we were worried about. We’re off to Studios then arriving at 12:25PM. First we get a fast pass for Rockin Roller Coaster 4:40PM - 5:50PM ride and then get in line for a 20 minute wait for Tower Of Terror. This is Nicks one bugaboo ride at Disney and he now shakes it off and rides it. He loves it so we don’t have any rides now that he won’t do. After Tower we go to The Commissary to eat. After doing lunch we go Great Movie Ride,Block Party Bash, and then The American Idol Experience. Kirstie and I could so do this. I am not eligible this year because Kirstie is an employee but next year watch out. The show set is just like the real show. The judges mimic Randy, Paula, & Simon which makes even more realistic. When we exit Idol Nick and I do Star Tours. A slight shower begins after the ride so we duck into Backstage Prop Shop for a snack and drink. Now its fastpass at Rockin Roller Coaster. Next we make our way over to Beauty & The Beast where we see Kirsties dream Gaston who has transferred over from The Nemo show. He really is the best sounding Gaston I have ever seen. I think his physical characteristics though aren’t as could as the Gaston we have on film. A great show though as usual. After B&TB we go to Pizza Planet for food and then off to Fantasmic one hour early for an 8:15 show. It is already half full and ends up a sellout.There are no hitches in the performance, perfect show. We exit Fantasmic around 9:00PM and get in a half hour line for ticket/transportation center at Magic Kingdom. We arrive right in the middle of the second Spectromagic parade. We make our way through the shops on Main Street to go to Pecos Bill to eat because Kirstie is starving. She has arrived from Vista almost the same time as we have from Studios. After finishing eating we do 2 rides on Splash Mountain, this time with rain gear on so I don’t get soaked like last night. After the ride we go to the bridge to Tommorrowland to meet one of KIrsties room mates Nicki where she is working doing Disney Photo Pass. She is very nice. Next Kirstie, Nick & I do 2 consecutive rides on Space Mountain. Shelly waits to not risk a repeat of last night. Now we head towards Fantasyland for Nick & I to ride on Teacups, We all do Winnie The Pooh, Peter Pan, and everyone but me does Small World. Shelly and Kirstie decide to leave now at 1:45AM. Nick and I go over to Big Thunder Mountain Railroad where we proceed to ride 11 times in a row. The last 7 rides we didn’t get out of our seat once. Just pull into the station and right back out. We were trying to break our previous record of 12 rides but all of a sudden it was 3:00AM and the cast said no more. Quickly on the bus back because there is no one left at the park basically. Arrive at the hotel at 3:30AM and off to bed by 4:00AM. Didn’t need to do the diary till Monday morning because I was keeping notes on my phone throughout the day to remember the tons of stuff we did.

Monday March 23rd, 2009

Shelly and I are up at 11:30AM. Nick is still sleeping. Kirstie called and is on the way here from Vista. She will spend the next few nights at our room. Kirstie, Shelly, & Nick out of the room at 1:00PM. I am having trouble getting my computer to sync with my cell phone so I stay back to try to figure it out. I haven’t yet. Once at Epcot they go to China for sit down dinner and then off to shop around the world. Next they do Voices Of Libery and then see The American Adventure. I leave the hotel at 2:30PM and arrive at Epcot at 3:00PM. I try for fastpass on Soarin but they are sold out. I take the boat across to Morocco and eat at America. When finished eating I also see Voices Of Liberty and The American Adventure. Then its off to France for the movie Impressions du France. Right before the movie Nick calls me and wants to bale on Shelly and KIrstie. They won’t ride anything and he’s bored. Nick meets me outside of the movie and we take the boat over to Test Track first and then Mission Space. Its now near 8:00PM and we make our way to Mexico where Shelly and Kirstie have spots saved. We have some Cantina Nachos and Tacos al Carbon berfore the 9:00PM Illuminations show. Back at our room by 10:00PM where I try to solve my modem problem with no luck. In bed by 12:00AM and everyone else is already asleep. Finally some much needed rest. This is Disney war!

Tuesday March 24th, 2009

Up at 9:30AM. Out of the room at 11:00AM and arrive at Animal Kingdom at 11:30AM. Shelly, Nick, & I go and order at Restaurantasauras while Kirstie works her magic around the park. First she uses our passes to get regular fast passes for Dinosaur and then hits up someone she knows that’s working and gets 2 magical moments passes for four that allow us to chose any two attractions in the park for fast pass. Three fast passes at once is great! After eating we first go on Dinosaur and then off to Theatre In The Wild again. We meet 4 more cast members Kirstie knows and once again we get ushered in for VIP seating before the general public is allowed in. I’m going to be so spoiled for next year. After Nemo we next ride Everest. Then its off to Flights Of Wonder and then some ice cream. After our ice cream we use our third fast pass on Killimanjaro Safari. When the Safari is over Shelly realizes her purse is missing. We check a few places it could be with no luck and then go to customer relations where Shelly gets it back with nothing missing. It wouldn’t have been much of a loss anyway. Credit cards,cell phone,money, etc. Now we go to Festival Of The Lion King. It’s not my kind of show, or anyone else in our group for that matter. After the show the park is closed so we head over to Epcot for Illuminations. Nick and I save seats for the show while Shelly gets Chinese food for us while Kirstie and Bri, her friend who works in parking at Animal Kingdom go for funnel cake. Kirstie goes back to her apartment after Illuminations to get her swimsuit for Blizzard Beach tomorrow. Bri goes too. Shelly, Nick, & I are back in the room at 11:00PM. Kirstie sends a text she is almost back to All Star Music and she is at 11:25PM. Shelly is sleeping now at 12:00AM, Kirstie is on multiple phone conversations, Nick is playing DS and I think I have solved my modem problems. If your reading this on tuesday I did.

Wednesday March 25th, 2009

Up at 9:30AM and arrive at Blizzard Beach at 11:00AM. We find a good place to put our stuff and head for the wave pool. We’re in there for about a half hour before Nick and I decide it’s time to go on Summit Plummet. Kirstie and Shelly don’t ride and take some pictures of us getting on the ski lift. By the time we go down it’s a half hour later and they have gotten some food. Nick & I go eat now too. When we’re done eating we all go on the other water slides multiple times before settling in on Catch A Kiddie Creek for two times coasting around the park soaking in the sun without exerting any energy. We leave the park at 3:00PM and go back to our room to shower and get ready to go to Hollywood Studios for another Fantasmic. We arrive at 6:15PM and wonder around shops and have ice cream before we make our way into Fantasmic at 7:00PM for an 8:30PM show. After Fantasmic we try Toy Story Mania again but the wait is 90 minutes. We walk around New York St. and eventually stop and see Muppetvision 3D before arriving for our 10:00PM reservation at Sci Fi Dine In Theatre. After eating Kirstie leaves for her apartment and we go back to All Star Music. Back in the room at 11:30PM. Shelly is deciding what she is going to wash tomorrow. Nick is watching Seinfeld. I am writing and uploading pictures. 12:10PM now and Shelly is out like a light. Nick is still wide awake watching tv. Probably be in bed by 2:00AM. Early night.

Thursday March 26th, 2009

Up at 10:00AM and out the door at 11:00AM for Downtown Disney and our 12:00PM reservations at T-Rex. The restaurant is really cool. There are three areas, I didn’t get the exact names but I did get a lot of pictures which should describe them well enough. One area is kind of an ice age while the other two feature dinosaurs and fish. The food is excellent. The prices are reasonable. It is very loud inside though. Every 25 minutes there is an asteroid shower simulation on the ceiling of the restaurant which makes all the animals go nuts and make a lot of noise. After we finish eating we take the scenic boat ride back to Port Orleans French Quarter and then the bus from there to Hollywood Studios. We arrive at Studios at 2:00PM and get a fast pass for Rockin Roller Coaster for 8:40PM. We do the animation tour next but don’t draw at the end because there is a line for it. I’m not having fun. I have my first I hate Disney moment of the trip. I never know when they will happen but they usually do sooner or later. A feeling of what the hell am I doing this for. This sucks!. We go in the 3:45PM Beauty & The Beast Show next where Belle is second rate, Gaston is B team, but the show as a whole perks me up a bit. After the show we go on Great Movie Ride. Boring!!!  Next the 5:30PM Indiana Jones Stunt Spectacular show which is entertaining except there is an idiot woman behind us that keeps telling some dork kid with her that “Its Only Make Believe Honey, They’re Just Acting”. With every punch or gun shot this woman is repeating that phrase over and over and over. Nick and are thinking what kind of puss is this kid that he’s going to get upset over a movie stunt punch or gun shot. As annoying as this was it was just the kind of thing to bring me out of my Disney funk. We had so much fun mocking this woman and her little twink boy that the evening was picking up. After the show Nick and I go on Star Tours while Shelly waits. Then its off to the Commissary for some food. When we finish eating we decide to wait in standby for Toy Story Mania. The wait is an hour and a half. We haven’t gotten into the park early enough yet to get fast passes so we figure let’s get it over with because it’s a new attraction we want to see. It is the exact wait they say it is. We get on, the ride starts and we start to play.You wear 3D glasses and get pulled in front of target scenes where you shoot pies,darts,rings, etc. at targets on the screen. It’s pretty much Buzz Lightyear in 3D with a slightly different set up. Buzz is a constant pull through where Toy Story stops at target sets and you shoot till its over and then move on to the next one. I like it, but it’s not worth waiting that long for. Anyway, we are three quarters through the ride when all of sudden everything shuts down. Shortly they announce that everyone in the line should turn around and exit the ride and everyone on the ride should wait for a cast member to come around and let you out of your car. This is great because we now have a fast pass for the ride to use any of the last 4 days we are here. It’s 8:40PM now and we intend to catch the 10:00PM Fantasmic show. Shelly gets in line to save seats while Nick and I go and use our fast passes for Rockin Roller Coaster. We’re on in like 10 minutes. After the ride I notice I’m missing my scrolling LED pin I have had for many years. Oh well, I shouldn’t have been wearing it in that situation. It’s only held on with a flimsy magnet. Nick and I grab an ice cream while watching the endless crowd file in past us for the 10:00PM Fantasmic. We’re waiting for everyone else to go in first because Shelly has the seats already. Mickey section row Q. Fantasmic is almost a perfect show except the snake doesn’t move. After the show I take a page from The Kirstie Handbook of a couple of days ago and go to Guest Relations and tell them I lost my LED pin on Rockin Roller Coaster. Bingo!!! , there it is and I am lovin it! No harm no foul! We go to our bus stop for All Star Music and it is packed with about four bus loads of kids. Nick notices All Star Movies is sitting there ready to leave and it has room on it. Why don’t we take Movies instead and walk from there he says. I scoff at the idea but we end up listening to the little guy and he is dead on right. We exit at Movies and walk to Music from there. We also get to check out Movies. We’ve never been there before and we all think it’s quite nice. It appears there is only one pool though. Back at our room around 11:30PM. Shelly is asleep quickly again. Nick is in his position playing DS, watching tv, and I am once again having cocktails, writing the diary, editing pictures and uploading to the web site. Tomorrow is extra magic hours at Epcot till 12:00AM. We will try to get there early enough to get fast pass for Soarin and finish the evening with our third Illuminations and Extra Magic Hours.

Friday March 27th, 2009

Up at 8:45AM and out the door at 9:45AM heading for Epcot. Once in the park we get fast pass for Soarin and then eat at The Land. Next we finally do Spaceship Earth and hang out after the ride playing games. We walk across the way to Inoventions West and go in Storm Struck, something we never did before. The attraction simulates a tornado/hurricane type storm and the effects it has on a house and garage. Next there is a questionaire that everyone answers about how to better prepare for a storm. The answers are tabulated and you find out how much you either do or don’t know about building a safe home. We now go to Met Life to see The Making Of Me but instead find The Making Of The Epcot International Flower & Garden Show. It’s actually pretty interesting. From planning to planting and laying out this huge display of flowers at Epcot. When that’s over Shelly and Nick go on Test Track while I wait and eat ice cream. When they get off we go to Fountain View Fountain for yet more ice cream. We now make our way to The Land for our 3:48PM fast pass for Soarin. After the ride Nick and I take the boat across World Showcase where I catch the 5:15PM Paul Revere & The Raiders Show at The American Gardens Theatre while Nick shops at Japan. When the show is over I get Nick from Japan and we go see Impressions de France at the France Pavilion. When the movie is over we take the boat back to Future World and our 6:40PM fast pass for Mission Space. While we did that Shelly went to The Living Seas and some wine tasting at Italy and Germany. Then she views the second show of Paul Revere & The Raiders. When Nick and I get off Mission Space we go to Mexico at 7:20PM to save seats for Illuminations. Shelly arrives shortly and then Kirstie. They go get Chinese food for all while Nick and I continue to save seats.When Illuminations is over we all wait in line for Soarin again. It only takes 40 minutes. Tonight Epcot has Extra Magic Hours till 12:00AM. After Soarin we all ride Spaceship Earth one more time and exit the park at 11:15PM. Kirstie goes back to Vista and we go back to All Star Music. 12:05AM now and Shelly is sleeping, Nick is watching tv, and I’m doing, well you know what I’m doing.

Saturday March 28th, 2009

Up around 11:30AM. Shelly and Nick go for a swim and eat pizza. I am still crashed in bed watching City Of Angels on tv. It’s 87 degrees today. We finally leave for Animal Kingdom around 3:00PM. As we are walking up to enter a man slowly collapses to the ground and ends up flat on his back. It looked like he was having a heart attack, seizure, or something. Disney staff was there immediately. We do not stop. I figure it’s a terrible situation as it is for their family let alone a bunch of tourists gathering around your father or grandfather gawking. We first go to The Boneyard to find Kirstie. Her friend there tells us she is over by the big Dinosaur waiting for the police to come with the bomb sniffing dogs. Someone has left a rather large back pack laying there and protocol says treat it as a potential threat. Kirstie walks us back to the Boneyard and writes us up a Magical Moments Fast Pass for us to ride Expedition Everest. We first go to Flame Tree Broiler for me to eat. After that we see the 4:45PM Finding Nemo The Musical Show. When Nemo ends we use our fast pass from Kirstie for Everest. Next Nick and I go on Dinosaur one last time while Shelly goes to It’s Tough To Be A Bug. We all end up at the bus for Ticket/Transportation and go to Magic Kingdom for one last Spectromagic and Wishes. We also eat at Pecos Bill. When Wishes ends we leave the park at 9:30PM and take the bus to All Star Movies once again because All Star Music is packed. We go in Movies gift shop for whisky,soda, and donuts. Magic Kingdom was open till 12:00AM tonight normal hours but it was so crowded I for one didn’t want to stay and fight it. Earlier in the afternoon David Hartmann called to say they had arrived a day early in Orlando because of the potential of their flight being delayed Sunday with a possible good amount of snowfall arriving in Milwaukee. The problem was they didn’t arrange for a room and had no place at Disney to stay till Sunday. I tried to book a room with my pass holder discount with no luck. All Star Resorts are sold out even at the rack rate. Kirstie could have gotten them half off at Coronado Springs with her cast member discount but they didn’t let anyone know in advance and she was working today from 2-8 so she couldn’t help. Last I heard they were going to spend a night near the airport till tomorrow. We probably will see them tomorrow night if they are going to the same parks as we are. We will be at Hollywood Studios for our 4th and last viewing of Fantasmic at 8:30PM. From there we plan to go back to Magic Kingdom for  Extra Magic Hours till 1:00AM. Shelly and Nick were at the pool till 10:45PM tonight when Disney staff kicked everyone out because the dip shit teenagers were screaming and acting like idiots. Back in the room now relaxing and having more whisky and coke while Nick plays DS and watches tv. Shelly just walked in with two giant pieces of cake for her and Nick. I’m thinking 2:00AM ought to do it tonight.

Sunday March 29th, 2009

Up at 11:00AM. Shelly and Nick go to eat at 12:00PM. Then they are off to see the Hartmanns as Grand Marshall in the Magic Kingdom Parade at 3:00PM. I leave the room at 2:15PM for Animal Kingdom. Arrive at Animal Kingdom at 3:00PM and catch the 3:15PM Finding Nemo The Musical Show. After the show I eat at Flametree Broiler and watch Mickeys Jammin Jungle Parade too. After the parade and eating I do four rides in a row on Expedition Everest single rider line. After my fourth ride they close the single rider line so I head over to Killamanjaro Safari next. After the safari I go over to the Boneyard to visit Kirstie for 10 minutes. On the bus for Hollywood Studios at 6:15PM. Arrive at Studios around 6:30PM and ride Toy Story Mania with my fast pass from two days ago when the ride broke down. I score 124,000 points. Kirstie is on her way from Animal Kingdom now so I meet her at the Fantasmic entrance. She is hungry to we stop at Rosies before entering Fantasmic for the 8:30PM show. David,Laurie,Heather,Shelly,& Nick are already there and have two seats for us. During the show there are three glitches. First Mickeys sparklers don’t go off on his hands, then John Smith has a problem getting his rope out to swing across the mountain, and doesn’t swing, and then the dragon spark doesn’t work coming out of the dragons mouth. We exit after the show and get back in line for the 10:00PM show. This is Shelly’s favorite show so we see it for the fifth time this week. Nick and Heather take off for Magic Kingdom by themselves. After the second Fantasmic we all go to Magic Kingdom. I go to eat at Pecos Bill while everyone else goes shopping on Main Street. After I finish eating I go to Big Thunder Mountain figuring Nick and Heather are hitting that ride hard. I don’t see them after hanging around  for 10 minutes so I go to the bus stop and go back to All Star Music. I’m back here by 12:15PM. Shelly and Nick should be back by 1:30PM.

Monday March 30th, 2009

Shelly and Nick leave for Hollywood Studios at 10:00AM. Nick left his park pass with Heather the night before so they need to meet Hartmanns at Studios to get it. They check their two bags at Air Tran check in at the hotel. I leave the room at 11:00AM and check my one bag with Air Tran and our carry-ons with bell services. I go to Downtown Disney to meet Kirstie for lunch at Earl Of Sandwich. After eating we hang out watching a crappy middle school band that is playing. Then we just walk around and talk. At 2:00PM I catch my bus back to the hotel and Kirstie goes back to Vista. Our bus to the airport is at 3:25PM. Upon arrival at the airport we can go right to our gate because we already checked our bags and got our boarding passes at the hotel. This is a really nice feature that will probably steer us to Air Tran again. Very convenient. Flight time to Milwaukee is 2 hours and 29 minutes. Bags come out eventually and we wait outside for Jenny to pick us up. Shadow is very happy to see us when we walk in. I’m glad to be home.