Starflower's Adventures: July 2005

Starflower in blog mode

Di's brother-in-law, Bruce; Mama Liz; Papa Jerry, and sister, Theresa out on the LANAI

Getting weary of photos, but not weary of eating. From our cookout at Jerry and Liz's sat. night.

Summer Reading Club

Chicken

Hot babes in the pool.

An Adventureland Story

As we prepared to depart from our Jungle Cruise boat, our funny girl guide said in a moment of foreshadowing, "And as you leave please remember to watch your language. This is a family park and we'd like to keep it that way."

We walked along and ended up behind a family with four blond kids straggling behind their mom. A little boy, about four years old, was drinking a gatorade almost as big as he was. His older sister, probably about 8, decided she wanted some and went to grab the bottle from him. He pulled back and it spilled on the ground. He told her emphatically, "I am DRINKING this and you made me SPILL IT!"

She replied, "Mom told you not to drink while you were walking," then for good measure quietly added, "Baby!"

He looked at her and yelled, "You're an..." I thought no way, he's not going to...but then he did.
"You're an ASSHOLE!"

Our hands shot to our mouths in disbelief and an attempt to cover our amusement. The 10-year old brother heard and started laughing, but still felt the need to tattle. "Mom, he's swearing and I have five witnesses who heard it," he cried while looking at us for approval. The sister chimed in, "Mom, did you hear that?" Without missing a beat she looked back and yelled,

"Well if you'd quit being a BUTTHEAD he wouldn't curse at you!"

We parted directions, and with a shake of our heads it was suddenly clear where his precocious habit had come from. Still it was pretty amusing to hear that big word coming from such a little body.

I just finished Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Oh, it was good. And, oh, how my heart aches.

We should've wished we could fly back to our hotel and not have to wait in the Monorail line. Then the parking tram line. The the construction on the freeway from the wrong directions the hotel gave us for 45 minutes. But really, it was a fun day.

When you wish upon a star...

SpectroMagic! It's like the Electrical Parade but updated. Really cool stuff.

You look beautiful, Cinderelly!

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Thunder Mountain!

The Small World clock is on the inside.

Lock 'em up, sherriff.

Jungle Cruise

It's fun to see the difference in the scenery.

That's the Haunted Mansion behind us.

Can you see the sweat on my forehead?

Disney Rave DDR

Cinderella's castle is all dolled up!

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We all had a blast at Epcot today, and I'm really looking forward to my first visit to the Florida Magic Kingdom tomorrow. Disney rocks!

The grand fireworks show, Illuminations!

Sarah looks relaxed upon entering the English garden.

Tres delicieux!

You know, ve all vanted to get zomezing to eet in 'ere.

How we feel after 8 hours in the Florida sun.

Diane taught us about Figment, the purple dragon who lives in the land of Imagination.

The Land ride was cool--we learned about aeroponics and nine pound lemons.

Recognize these crazy characters?

My first trip to Epcot

The Space Shuttle launched today. We thought we'd be able to see it from here in Lehigh but we were wrong. Justin, Gio, and Sarah saw the bright fire spot from Orlando. They took a movie which I'm excited to see.