The Buckaroos: December 2008

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Jared's Yetification

As our trip progressed, we ended up going on one of my new top 3 rides- Expedition Everest. In fact, you could say I liked it so much, I began the process of becoming a Yeti. The most important thing if you want to live the lifestyle is to get a yeti hat. Check.

Once I had the head, the spirit of the Yeti began to take over my body. It affected my demeanor as I slowly became meaner.

Then I was captured and forced to do a re-enactment of the ride (warning the very end of this video may be unsuitable for children)

Finally I developed the ultimate Yeti power- the ability to breathe fire!

DIE MONORAIL! DIE!

Before

After

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Countdown complete!

Well if you have noticed the countdown on the right side of this page, our Countdown to Disney World is complete. Even more depressing is the trip itself is complete. We spent 8 glorious days in Disney World. We have almost 500 pictures from the trip which I'll have to put on photobucket or something. But it was a good trip.

The first day we all made it to the airport with no problems and flew though security. The flight went well and we were lucky enough to have an empty seat for Joseph's awesome PINK carseat which he proudly rode in the whole way. His motto is "real men have pink carseats". We left the plane and instantly felt the warmth and humidity. While I got the luggage Leigh Anna went to get our car. I arrived just in time to hear Mark the guy working the Alamo counter basically tell my beautiful wife she was an idiot. Seems he did not believe her when she said she wanted to keep the 7 passenger minivan she had reserved and was unwilling to pay an extra $12/day for the eight passenger van. Mark was convinced that there was no way we could fit 7 people and our luggage in the van we reserved. He was insistent to the point of being very rude that we needed to pay for the bigger van. Guess what we all fit with our luggage with room to spare!! Stupid Alamo lost another customer due to idiots that work for them.

We then headed to our hotel to check in. We were a few minutes early and our room wasn't ready yet so we went and got lunch at Steak and Shake and managed to not leave our atlas this time.
We decided to save our energy and skipped the parks and just hung around Downtown Disney. I saw the souvenir I wanted but it was a little too pricey ($15,000 pricey.)

Sunday we went to MGM Studios (or whatever its called now.) My dad was still hunting in Illinois so he did not join us. The crowds weren't bad but it was pretty windy. Joseph loved the Honey I shrunk the kids playground, as evidenced by this photo.

I suppose the cool part was at the Indiana Jones Stunt show, I was selected to be in the show. Unfortunately I had the camera with me so there are no photos, but I was one of the Cairo extras and learned all kinds of fun stuff about the show from behind the scenes. The whip cracking noise is not an effect. Its real! So I'm pretty much an actor now and I'll be pursuing that.

That night my dad came and we picked him up at the airport. Then something bad happened, but I will not mention it further. For now, enjoy these pictures of us...Joseph is getting restless so I'll post part 2 later...