Edison Days Inn

... between "luxury" and "Disney luxury"

Stroller
We brought our stroller from home and it was worth it. The strollers you rent at Disney looked uncomfortable and you'll appreciate not walking out of a show/ride and looking for your stroller in a sea of similar looking strollers parked outside (Disney Cast Members often rearrange the strollers).

Travel Agent
As I said, we used Small World ...

... as a CD in the car...because we like to drive places...because we're interesting people...not some forrest animals that help a teenage princess clean the prison seven angry men keep her locked up in..really, who thinks up this stuff and then says "I think the kids will love it".

We have the luggage tags, the maps, the itinerary, the reservations, the fireworks schedule, etc. etc. etc...because that's the way we are...planning trips is the way we do it...unless ...

Now almost everything in the pre-planning stage is done..because we're good that way...and that's the way we are.

The reservations were made by our trusty Fairy Travel Agent Deanna...who really exists...because she's a real person... , the airfare is paid for, our itinerary is almost complete…and we have three whole months to wait.

However, as a last slap to the Empire…aimed squarely at Scrooge McDuck…because he's a miser… and he's ...

As it turned out, the Gr*nd Pub* Pumb* h*d set * tr*p for us by giving us the free Disney Dining Pl*n…bec*use he works for the Empire…if you c*ll singing &*mp; d*ncing to the delight of snot nosed little kids "work"…without compens*tion…bec*use he's *n empiric*l sl*ve...or bec*use he's * c*rtoon *nd they don't need much...I'm not sure which one.

The b*sic dining pl*n consists of one sn ...

The Germans have a word which has no equivalent in the English dictionary…Schadenfreude… which means to be happy at others misfortune.

We don’t practice that … because we’re not like that … but we took a cue from the leaders of industry and policy around the world and decided that this is the time to change our course … because we’re like that.
Edison, New Jersey, United States laorfamily

... English muffin. After breakfast, we walked down towards Greenwich Village and all of a sudden I started sneezing uncontrollably! Luckily, I had some Kleenex in my bag, BUT...that wasn't doing the trick. I couldn't stop sneezing...but, we kept walking searching for a store a couple of blocks away. We didn't find the store we were looking for but luckily we passed a grocery where I stopped for Benadryl. I then spent the next 15-20 minutes ...

... our 8:25 flight. I managed to stay calm as we proceed to loop around the Labyrinth that is JFK. I didn't start to panic until about 6:15 when I saw the lines. There were people every where. You may remember in my first posting I talked about the incredibly bad weather we had driven through to get to NYC? Well apparently it had hit Kennedy too causing the airport to close for three hours. The lines we saw were folks trying rebook themselves onto a different Jet ...

... time ticked on and we were thinking surely they will start security checking people BEFORE the ferry was meant to leave but no... They finally started security checking people about 9:30 and we had to take both our watches (?) and belts off and go through the xray etc. By the time the first boat went the line was so long (have a look at the pictures) But we got on the boat and it finally left ...

We're huge fans of Cirque Du Soleil, so when we heard that New York was getting a permanent winter show we knew we had to see it. The show was called "Cirque Du Soleil Wituk" and was the story of a young boy in New York who was on the search for snow around the holidays. It would be playing every November to January at the WAMU Theater at Madison Square Garden for the next few years. The ...

... a male in drag, and that the couple was homosexual. My friend had warned me, but I was still very slow to clue in. I honestly though he was a girl for the longest time. Maybe it was the name. Or the wig. Or my vantage point from balconey. In the larger scheme of things though, Rent's music was a little too upbeat for me (one exception is "525,600 minutes"), and the screenwriting was very modern - in that abstract form that seems to permeate every art form ...