{"id":11132,"date":"2007-04-02T22:50:11","date_gmt":"2007-04-03T05:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/04\/02\/wdw07-random-observations-and-thoughts.html"},"modified":"2014-11-10T10:02:01","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T17:02:01","slug":"wdw07_random_observations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/02\/wdw07_random_observations.html","title":{"rendered":"WDW07 – Random Observations and Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just a few more things that didn’t fit into the narrative.<\/p>\n

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  1. Katherine is clearly headed toward a career in parkour<\/a>.  Everywhere we went, every queue we were in, every walkway we walked, she was climbing up on rails and and walls, reaching as high as she could go, bouncing off of objects, and generally being a climbing\/running monkey.  It was very cute, in-between the times we were shouting, “Katherine, no, get down from there!”<\/li>\n
  2. If the visitors to WDW are to be believed, I am about in the 10th percentile in weight amongst adult men.<\/li>\n
  3. Related to the above, Margie has dubbed hiphuggers the worst fashion idea of the century — and the century is still very young — based on all the women who, disastrously, wear them.<\/li>\n
  4. I have to wonder how much water WDW would save if they changed over to using the new waterless urinals that are available.<\/li>\n
  5. Generally speaking, we eschewed purchase of automatic ride photos.  These show up mostly in “E ticket” rides — Splash Mountain, Tower of Terror, Test Track, etc.  They usually suffer from three flaws:  (1) While it’s fine to have the family in a picture as we start to descend down final drop on Splash Mountain, why would we want eternal memories of those three yahoos who were in the front seats of the car? (2) Disney insists on adding in a cretinous “decorative” border to such pictures, which often as not actually obscure parts of the photo that are important.  (3) The photo packages cost an arm and a leg.  It’s still fun to look at after the ride, though.<\/li>\n
  6. Saw an interesting number of things — ride supports and busses alike — that had nuts on bolts with little strings of paint across them so that if someone had loosened something, it would be obvious.<\/li>\n
  7. Croc bling — little Disney images that clamp into the holes on Crocs — were available and a very cool concept, until you realized they were $3.50 … each<\/em>.    Yeesh!  75 cents to a buck, tops.  Of course, Disney was also selling its own line of Crocs, with little Mickey mouse cutouts rather than simple circles, for about three times the price of your average pair, so maybe that’s how they calculated the price.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Overall, a fine time — better, in fact, than I’d expected.  You’d think that going to Disney World so often would, in fact, get kind of old– we were there less than a year ago, fergoshsakes — but, so far, it hasn’t.  Fact is, Kitten enjoys it more and more each time, and it’s sort of become an old and enjoyable friend.  I look forward to the next time — which will not, probably, be in 2008 … though you never can tell …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Just a few more things that didn’t fit into the narrative. Katherine is clearly headed toward a career in parkour.  Everywhere we went, every queue we were in, every walkway…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[263,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disney","category-travel-wdw-07"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135994,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/28\/spring-break-walt-disney-world.html","url_meta":{"origin":11132,"position":0},"title":"Spring Break at Walt Disney World","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 28-Mar-18 10:24am","format":false,"excerpt":"Not a recommended date selection, though since it is a school trip, there are reasons. 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