who said there was any living with him before????
Um, when can I place myk vote?
ok, nebo was really in pain today.. I thought he had promised me to not type until he next dr. appointment. or, just take it east and type one- handed. I guess I need to hire a babysitter when I go to work.. sigh!
Ooh, ooh,, can I pick her out? I have just the magazine that has some excellent sitters.
and standers.
and ..........
ok, I'm going to skip past the nebo lost at the airport, and hyperspace to Pop Century. for anyone keeping track, this is the April trip. 2 nights at pop with a room only discount, 6 nights at AOA, LM room at NO discount,( cause they can fill those rooms no problem, and we really wanted to try it, and we consedred a few ties changing to another resort with a discount, but we didn't) and then 6 nights at BWV, boardwalk view!!!! on points.
we started out with 6 and 6. but we like to add a night in Kissimmee at the start. get to fla a dayearly, check in really early at disney the next am.. get a jump on the room choices. but driving down just wasn't going to work out. and we thought, why not do a night at pop 1st? we can use magical express, and then just walk across the bridge with our luggage the next morning. they have that roo only discount going on.. and that turned into 2 nights , just because.
What a great plan,,, wish I had thoguht of that!
we asked for a room near the bridge,1st floor. we were inthe 50's 1st floor. must a few minutes from the food court, the bowling pin pool, and not far at all from the bridge. it was great!
It was great too,,, so close to the bridge;
remembver that old Aesops Fairky Tale about the troll hiding under the bridge>? well,,, I found out in reality,, no,....... kids wont talk to you,,,,, when you are under a bridge, they prefer the " wet the pants and run away screaming approach" ahead of all other methods of duress.
Kind of like the Cubs Mangager when he gets handed the opposing teams lineup card before the game.
we enjoyed the pool. too much, actually.I know you don't get your luggage for a few hours. but I figured we could deal with the sun for that amount of time. and left the sunblock in the checked bags (instead of dealing with the 3-3-3 one formula thingaboby.) mistake!!! we both got really burned!!! and later peeled. (actually,Nebo never stopped peeling, the whole trip).
She is right there,,,,, not sure why it takes me so long to start peeling,,,, but I did bring honme and save two weeks worth of kitty litter when I disembar,,,,
I meanm,,, "[ Debarked" upon arriving home.
when our luggage came (with our liquor) I made us each a drink. or 2.. and we had mom's Night Out!!! at the pop food court. love it...It is,, one of the best meals from a food court you can procure,, cost about 10 bucks,,, but ykou willnot leave hungry. But now we hear they are messing around with it again,,,,as in,, the "fried chicken is now rotisserie chicken" which I hkat on TWO FRONTS!
ONe: I like the breading on chicken,,, nothing better thean when you are done to go around your little paper try to find the biggest " crispies".
and TWo: don'[t make me spell "rotisserie" again!
Why can'[t they leave well enought alone? Marita,,, C'mon,,
show them the light,,tell them that their greatest advertiser and proponent cnat spelll that word so go back to making it just plain "fried",,,, "K?
will miss it! Ican't believe they had to go and mess with the pop food court. no more fried chicken????? only rotisserrie chicken, no more mom's night, but they have salmon and roast pork ooh boy! and no more shrimp lo mein!!!!!!!!!! I'm gald I got to enjoy these things one more time.. why, oh why, does Disney keeps messing with things????? aaargh!!!!( I wrote to guest communications, and encourage others to do so!!!)
alrighty then.. our l o n g very long day has come to an end. it began a 3 am? or earlier. for me.. if you recall, when I "woke" nebo and asked him what time he went to sleep, he replied"who said I did?"
Hey, guys out there,,,,,, you want to start a vacation off on the right foot? (meaning, fun) this is the line to use, trust me,,, get's their attention just as much as, " Can you get Pink Eye Twice? or,,,, " Does this look infected to you? "
Myk personal favorite is, " I should probably show you something that could be important in my nether regions, but I'd prefer to wait to the trip is over. "
Heh, heh,,, ok,,, yes,, guess there was a reason why this is our second marriage.
so he has been awake for a very long time.. pretty tipsy, wandering around airports.... but there was a break in the drinking, but by 10 pm or so, he was ready to sleep. and BOY!! did he sleep!!!
I count on turning on the radio alarm clock between the beds for white noise I leave it between stations. (yes we like our own bed each) guess what>? the radio didn't work!!! oh no!!!!
uh oh... now, one good thing about sharing a bed (ok, ONE of the good things..
) is if nebo is snoring, I can "nudge" him.... or "accidentally" jiggle the bed. or both. numerous times. but I have found that the white noise works pretty well.
See how prejucdiced she is? I'msure most of of woud have just said "Noise", or "Quiet noise",,, but oh no,,, she has to go and say "White Noise" .
I';m so ashamed. For all you white people out there, i apologize for her, and for all you Blacks and Hispanics and other Nationalities,,,,, wellll ,,,, just hang on,,, she'll probasbly get to you!
um.. unless the snorer's larnyx, uvula, entire throat area cavity, etc. is ..um.. EXTREMELY.. shall we say.. relaxed? and the snorer is out cold, dead, exhausted, no sleep, plenty drink., I better stop now.
I'm thinking why oh why didn't I check the radio earlier? oh well, I can deal with this. if I can just get him to quiet down for a while.. I'm tired, too. just enough time for me to fall asleep... get up and jiggle him a few times...... at one point he's like "' what? what??" I act innocent.. "what do you mean? no one touched you. you must have been dreaming" .
some pilows are better than others. if they are too squooshy, his head gets buried, esp his mouth area, and he snores more. (can you tell I have given this a LOT of thought?") I get up and oh so gently tug on the pillow to free his mouth area. I call the front desk, they don't happen to have a radio available. I tug again. nudge again.
hmm. I took a pillow case, put a couple pairs of jeans in it, and managed to sneak it under his and remove the real pillow... ha! NO quooshyness now! .. drat didnt' work.
sure, the radio on the clock dkoesn't work, but the clock sure as heck works... 11. 11:30, 12...tick tock tick tock...
I CAN"T Sleep! he WON'T SHUT UP!!!!!! and every loud snore reminds me that HE is sleeping! and I'm not!!!
ok, what is the plan for the morrow? no lan really, maybe DTD. pool..maybe a park.. but can I have any fun on no sleep? ok, think think.. think outside the box..
by this time I am near tears again. if I knock him out, I could sleep for a couple hours. he'll wake up again, right? no he did have that concussion. better not..... rats.
sleep in the car... nope, no car. ok...in the bath tub.. I get up and look at it. I have ehard of people sleeping in the bath tub.. look at it again.. I don't see how.
we've been married all these years. the 2 worst things about vacations are sharing a bathroom and snoring. but it's always been workable before. not his time.. no white noise, and he he just isn't settling down to a real sleep!!! aarrghhh!!!!
listen to him happily snoring over there... I could kill him.. well, jsut fo ra little while....
ok think
I have heard of people snoozing on the couches in the lobbys, those couches no one ever uses? like if their plane gets int at 3 am and the room isn't ready? um, no, no big lobbys with couches at pop century. hmm, I could take a couple balnkets and a pillow and just lie on the lawn right outside the room!!! we're on the 1st floor... I used to snooze at the beach in my younger, hippy dippy days
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oh that's right.. the snakes.... now, we used to keep snakes as pets, breed them, in fact... but not poisonous ones.. not a good idea.
ok, the pool!!! the pools are open 24 hours, just no lifeguard. sounds like a plan... so I scribble him a note we'll never read, grab a blanket, 2 pillows (throw on some comfy shorts) and out I go!
in a couple minutes I am at the bowling pin pool.. and no one is there! oh, except 2 women, a bit younger than I sitting in loungers quietly chit chatting.
I drag 2 loungers side by side. I can't lie between them with the handle, hardware and all, but if I lie on one I can streatch out my one knee and my one arm, with one pillow under it.
after I am all done setting up my "bed", I notice the 2 young ladies looking at me. "no,it's not what it looks like; we didn't have a fight! my husband just WON'T STOP SNORING!!!!" they looked at each other andone of them said "we left out husbands at home".......
me: "oh you are SO lucky!" we all giggle.
I try to settle in. after a bit, they get up and leave. hope I didn't make them think they had to.... just start to doze,
and i hear some talking on the 2nd fllor. a guy and his little daughter.."daddy, do you have my toweL?" it's about 1 am... no they weren't loud. they came down and went for a night swim.. nothing wrong with that. you are supposed to be quiet if you swim at night.. and they were. but I was trying to SLEEP!!!! which wasn't their problem.
(nebo and I have gone for late night swims ourselves... and they were quiet, I just sleep light.)
dozed off a bit until I hear a splash.. some guy is doing laps. ok. after the iniital splash, he is pretty quiet. for a while.. his wifey appears. sits on the side of the pool, and he hangs on the side talking to her. about 10 feet from me....
now, if you see someone with a blanket and pillows on 2 loungers in the middle of the night, wouldn't you you go over to the OTHER side of the pool to chat? It's a conspiracy, I tell you! I was ready to go to the front desk with my visa and see if I could book another room! I was panicking. frustrated and way past near tears.
and then I slept.. for a couple hours.. cause all of a sudden I hear birds cawing. loked around, where the heck AM I???? oh yeah. look at my watch, it's about 3:30 am...
ok not going to try to go back to sleep here now, too weird.. I trudge back to the room like linus with his blankie, sneak in (of course he never knew I was gone.,) he is quiet now, so I try to be as quiet as possible. and go back to sleep.
in the morning I just tell him to go get his coffee and gio to the pool, I'll meet him there .. WHENEVER!!! and DON"T wake me!!!
later I go to the pool and he's all bright eyed and bushy tailed... "so, how did you sleep?"
Of course we are still with you, eagerly waiting your next chapter.
