A Libra attempting to balance love, life, and laughter .................................. (and apparently HTML again!)
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Friday – October 26th:
Lisa dumped us at the Airport about 6:45 am. The others in our party (Pam, Troy Fleck from the BCSD, Dean Clarkson from the BPD, and Crystal and Tamara (from the AARC) finally get there and we boarded our flight to Minneapolis.
Then the lovely announcement: “Due to the short duration of this flight, we will only be having a limited beverage service of Orange Juice and Coffee”…
Of course this started the giggling as I made the comment: “And we are dangerously low on orange juice…” There was plenty of scoffing at that as considering each person on that plane paid $500 to get out of Bismarck and go where they were going were only getting a shot glass of either noxious beverage.
Got to Minneapolis, pretty uneventful. Got to Memphis, roamed the airport, again uneventful.
Flight from Memphis is where we got to sit next to the hairy armed french tipped nail broad and also the lovely monsters kicking my damn seat. That hour and a half flight couldn’t have been any longer.
We get to the car (we got a Highlander which was nice) and of course Lloyd got mad at me right away as he claimed I was giving him bad directions. Blah blah…he doesn’t listen. We made it to the Coronado in one piece…
And of course we walk through the courtyard of the Coronado and there is our party at the bar. So we have a few expensive and strong drinky poos - I started with a mojito. Barf. I didn’t like that at all. The Pina Colada was much better, but stiff.
Saturday – October 27th:
I trolled my ass out of bed about 11:30. I had nowhere to go fast so I went to the Outlet Mall and bought myself a purdy Coach purse and a wallet. I so love it. After that we all gathered ourselves up and went to Downtown Disney. We ate at Bongos and walked around and my feet were killing me, I ate with no shoes on...not quite lady like but what the hell...
Sunday – October 28th:
Trolled out to the pool. It was a bit nipply outside so it wasn’t that fantastic. We did go to an awesome restaurant on International Drive and then to the City Walk at Universal & wound up at Margaritaville – their martinis were not as good as they were at Red Rock Canyon. Those were damn yummay and the waiter was too.
Monday October 29th:
Back to Downtown Disney. This was the drunken night at the Clubs and the Comedy Warehouse where Lloyd and I turned into the asses of the first skit they did. Ate at the House of Blues and had more martinis...damn tasty. Then we moved on to the buckets which you got to experience me having a good ol’ time. Danced at 8Trax and made a complete fool of myself till 2 am. I was flashing my bra to everyone because under the black lights it was glowing…oh geesh.
Tuesday October 30th:
This was the day that I was at the Florida Mall and then called Lisa as she was sending me a plethora of text messages as she was missing me. (made me feel fuzzy, thanks Luv!) Then that night, we were back to Downtown Disney. We went to eat at the Rainforest Café but it was actually raining and we were dumped off at the Westside so we went to Planet Hollywood, horrible line and I was getting pissy and my feet were hurting again. We wound up at Wolfgang Puck Express and I finally had a pizza and was able to rest my bitties. That little bastard was good. After that we popped over to the Virgin Megastore to get dry and snoop. We were waiting to going to La Nouba – a Cirque de Soleil show. It was really good but very artsy and full of acrobatics. There was this strong man dude, gave me the fucking creeps.
Wednesday October 31st:
All the other trolls went home this day and we changed hotels too so before we checked in we did some shopping at the Outlet Mall for Lloyd and then went to Universal. We got on Spiderman before the Islands closed but then we opted to go to the Halloween Horror Nights. Basically Universal was filled with Haunted Houses and some of the rides were open. Beer everywhere. We managed to eat at an irish pub which amazingly had two cider beers. I actually really like cider beer so I took a picture of my bottle so I can attempt to find some around here.
We went to four of the five houses, I got chased in every one of them and then got the stare down from some freaky ass clown on a motorcycle. I stumbled around a bit and Lloyd told me that I have the grace of a wheelchair. Piff. He wasn’t feeling well and I kept asking him if he wanted to stay and he did stick it out till about 11:00. (park closed at midnight.) It was a lot of fun even if I turned to a bumbling fool.
Thursday November 1st:
Discovery Cove! It was by far the most amazing thing that I think I have ever done. We were treated very well and everything was inclusive so we didn’t have to buy anything other than the pictures that we wanted from our dolphin swim. We could have gotten a DVD too but I didn’t want to do that as that was $60.
First we got to snorkel as our dolphin swim wasn’t until 11:45. We did the lazy river then we snorkeled with the tropical fish and the sting rays. There was one that had to have been the size of the RAV, it was huge! I thought it was a prop till it started swimming and I realized that it was alive! The water was cold, only 74 degrees but they have to keep it at that temp so algae doesn’t grow and it is still good for the animals. For this animal is was a bit cold but I did snorkel for about 45 minutes in the Ray Lagoon.
They fed us breakfast and lunch and we were able to drink whatever we wanted (they had booze but I didn’t have any – Lloyd drank beer) and it was phenomenal! After we went back to the room and I fell asleep after we took a bath in our big tub...worth every penny that room was.
We went to Disney MGM and rode the Tower of Terror which I broke Lloyd’s Sunglasses and then we hopped over to Animal Kingdom. I got Lloyd to go on the new coaster Everest which was interesting as he really doesn’t like them. We also did a few shows that we didn’t do before and then went to the Rainforest Café to eat. We ate at the same one when we were there in 1998 so it was actually interesting to see what had changed. I got hit on a bit by Mr. Clean too. (one of the waiters)
Saturday – November 3rd:
We went to Sea World. Got a chance to see Shamu again and also a few other things that we didn’t get to do last time when we were there. I stuffed Lloyd on the new coaster Kraken…which got me in serious trouble. He saw it when we were in line and chewed on me as it was a floorless coaster… “you lied to me! It doesn’t have a floor! It goes upside down! I hate you!” and this continued till we got to the top, then it was just screaming till we got off, then it turned to “I am dizzy, I don’t want to talk to you anymore you devil woman.”
We got back to the room and hopped in the Jacuzzi and I was done I fell asleep at 7:30. I was starting to burn out from all of the running.
Sunday – November 4th:
We ate at IHOP (we did this because in ’98 I didn’t know that IHOP was the international house of pancakes and Lloyd thought I was an airhead) then we went to Universal for the rest of the day. We did the Mummy, Jaws, ET, Shrek and then did some walking. We didn’t go over to the Islands as Lloyd said “no more coasters!”
We got back to the hotel and then swam – the pool was so warm and it was just relaxing. I drank a whole bottle of wine while we were swimming as I couldn’t bear to dump it and then we went back to the room and watched some tv then went to sleep since we had to be up for our flight.
Monday – November 5th:
Fought the traffic to the airport and bitched about having to pay tolls. Got on the plane and it was hilarious – there were about 10 people that were going to Bismarck. Apparently Mary Kay had some big cruise and all these makeup biotches were attempting to get home early. Yap yap yap. One was from Linton and I don’t think her motor stopped running till the 3rd hour of the flight.
Then behind me (Lloyd and I didn’t sit together) were a pair of dudes that were complaining about how cold it was here. Finally I had enough and turned around and said: “It’s November guys, it’s natural for it to be cold up north. If you don’t like it why are you going to North Dakota? I don’t know what the big issue is, it’s my home.”
They were coming for the deer opener but I think they were just shocked that someone got offended. I didn’t say anything about the rank people in Orlando or the lack of English speaking peeps to anyone where it would have offended them. I think my little rant spooked them as they didn’t talk about it for the rest of the flight.
Of course when we got to Minneapolis, the Mary Kay Clowns were at the gate, putting on their makeup. I thought it was humorous as they actually did look rather clown like. Then there was a guy that apparently sells insurance here in Bismarck that is attempting to be Elvis. He had the hair, the glasses, the outfit, it was purely hysterical. I watched him most of the flight and just laughed.
The other weird thing was the dude that was sitting next to Lloyd. He had the biggest thumb I have ever seen. Reminded me of in the cartoons when they hit their fingers with hammers, but his was not throbbing but should have been.
Finally we got to the airport, Lisa came and picked us up and dumped us at the house. I forgot to turn on the heat so it was a balmy 53 degrees in our house. After three loads of laundry, making beef tips & gravy for supper, and catching up the wad of flaming credit we amassed, it was time for me to pass out. I fell asleep on the couch watching the football game and cuddling with Mollie & Torrie.
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