So my friends Debbie and Chris told me a while ago that they were going to go down to Orlando, but me being the absent minded professor that I am, I completely forgot about it. So I get a phone call on Monday from Chris asking me if I'm coming down or not. I didn't think i could get off work Friday, so I said I would try, but probably not. Well, after much manipulation and scheming, I managed to get that day off and make a 4 day weekend of it. Well, I booked my ticket and hotel on Tuesday and Thursday afternoon, I was there. Viva La Priceline!
Date(s): Novemver 11th - 14th, 2004. Album by John Lindner. Photos by John Lindner. 1 - 84 of 84 Total. 4432 Visits.
1 This is the crappy TV in my room at the Wyndham Palace Resort And Spa. It was a nice place, but I was a little disappointed when I found out I couldn't hook up the XBOX I dragged from NYC to play HALO 2 on it.
2 So I complained to the front desk. After getting redirected 4 times, once by a stupid ass woman who told me that hooking up XBOX to the hotel TV would blow out their system (WHAT AN IDIOT), I finally got the Audio/Video Department of the hotel. They have some sort of contract with some companies... BLAH BLAH BLAH. Like I'm supposed to care about that stuff? I'm a guest, so do what I want dammit! Well, they did the next best thing. They brought me up a second TV that I COULD hook my XBOX up to!
3 So this is what my setup looked like. Since the hotel TV didn't have porn, it remained off for my entire trip while I played HALO 2.
4 This is the view of my pool from my balcony. It was getting dark so the picture sucks, but you get the main idea.
5 And the view of the Downtown Disney area from my balcony. It was very nice.
6 Yet another shot. Why don't I think to take these pictures while it's still light outside?
7 Yekio (Chris) eating his Rock Lobster! Well, it was actually Stone Crabs, but Rock Lobster was a much cooler song.
8 The Stone Crab Graveyard.
9 The insanely happy look of a mass murderer.
10 Cidari (Debbie) enjoying her food and looking cute as usual.
11 The three of us at our table in the Crab House in Downtown Disney. This was a really nice place, and the bill showed you just how nice it was. I think I paid like $60 for dinner and I only ordered a main course and no liquor.
12 Yekio desecrating the bodies of the dead by making the claws dance to the sounds of Frank Sinatra. Oh, the horror!
13 Our waiter, Rich. He was nice enough to take our picture and get us our food. He also recommended the Fliet Mignon, which I have to admit was the best damn steak I've ever had! Seriously, it was awesome!
14 Lego Fett. The lesser known, pixilated brother of Jango Fett. I figured you 501st people would love this. See? I do think about you guys even when I'm not with you. LOL
15 Same thing without the flash. Looks weird.
16 Snoop Dorky Dork posing with Lego Fett.
:: I have no idea who that kid is ::
17 The Bionicle about to kill a very gay looking Yekio. Seriously man, you need to learn how to look scared. Let me show you. "Gay? Me? :)" View Comments...
18 See? Well, I don't look too scared either I guess, but at least I don't look gay. Well, not AS gay at least. It's a moot point. Let's move on.
19 Another Bionicle. This one is not nearly as menacing.
20 No idea. Maybe a Lego Ninja or something. Yeah Yeah, Lego Ninja sounds good.
21 Wanna be X-Wing.
22 The Black Dragon.
23 Star Wars scene completely done in LEGO's. Thats pretty cool.
24 Now the night gets strange.
25 Is it just me, or does that look like blond dino bush down there? Probably just me.
26 One Cool Egg.
27 Not the mama!
28 LEGO Headquarters.
29 We come from France.
30 The inside of a spaceship in Zero Gravity.
31 I almost jizzed in my pants when I saw this car. How sweet is that?!?!
32 OK, I just had a cargasm.
33 Don't be a dummy, dummy.
34 New Cadillac.
35 New Corvette.
36 I was gonna try to steal it, but I realized 2 things...
#1. I would have been caught by the 300 security guards and cops in the area.
#2. Contrary to popular belief, not all people from Brooklyn know how to hotwire a car.
37 Inca Pyramid in Mexico at Epcot.
38 Some Norwegian place in Epcot. Hi Bregalad!
39 Check out the Cherry Kiljare. Tastes like Aftershock. Where is Scott when you need him?
40 What the hell kind of word is that?!
41 Yekio was making a comment about my breath, but I'm not sure what he was trying to say.
42 Stickers made out of Pot and Wine made from Plums. What will the Chinese think of next?!
43 And so, we enter China. I have always found Chinese Architecture amazing. You can see why from this picture. It looked even better in person, but I'm sure the alcohol had something to do with that.
44 Misterrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Dumpling!
45 "You have stolen father's riceballs. I must kill you now and avenge the Master!"
46 Mmmm. Pulled Chicken with Nuts. I'm making fun of it, but it was really good. Can't remember what country it was from. In my drunken state, I failed to notice that none of the menu signs had the countries name on it. Nice job, Epcot!
47 Austrailia. I had the Little Penguin Merlot, made with REAL PENGUINS! They might be from Pittsburgh though since there's no NHL this season. Who knows? This stuff was great!
48 Germany had some great Goulash, and then some alcohol too. My opinion... stick to ze beer Germany!
49 Being Italian and having been spoiled my whole life with the greatest Italian food on the planet courtesy of my Grandmother, who I miss very much, the food at the Italian booth just paled in comparison, but Yekio and Cidari thought it was good. Poor bastards.
50 Yet another picture taken in the dark that just didn't come out. I'm starting to notice a trend here.
51 And then there was the Italian Pastry stand. Now that stuff was pretty good. It wasn't quite up to this Brooklyn Boy's standards, but it was definately good.
52 Another building. The sun went down at 6 PM. How much does that suck?
53 Why do I even bother?
54 Beauty and the Beast. Check out the hats and matching hello Kitty plush dolls. How cute. Awww.
55 Japanese girls. Mmmmm. Taste like sushi. LOL
56 I couldn't find an Iron Bartender shirt, but this was close enough!
57 Domo Origato.
58 "No, I don't think he looks like Tom Cruise."
59 So now is where I dared Yekio to down a whole glass of Sake. And what does the moron do? He downs it! Yeah, he'll be feeling that in like 5 minutes. LOL
60 Me giving the finger to Yekio for drinking French Wine.
61 And me giving the finger to the glass of French Wine as Cidari laughs along with me.
62 Fuck the French!
63 And a final FUCK YOU to the French. Yeah, I don't care for them too much.
64 And now we leave the putrid French and head to the land of bad teeth and pompous attitudes.
65 This is my impression of the English Superman. Then I realized there is no such thing and I had no costume under my clothing. Whoopsie!
66 Ahh, now we come to the Poland stand. Here's a funny and true story for ya. The Polish stand, at a Food and Wine festival, forgot to bring the wine! Well, they said they ran out of wine, but who are they kidding? We know the Polish better than that!
P.S. If you're Polish and have been offended, suck it up! It;s not like this is the first time anyone has ever made fun of you. Sheesh!
67 Drink Bull's Blood. It gives you horns!
68 Now this was funny. Yekio got in touch with Dellis (Rodney) and Mynx (Anna) on the phone while we were all drunk. So he hands me the phone while Mynx is in mid-speech, and after she's done talking, I say in a puzzled voice, "You wanna have sex with me now?" Well, she loses it over the phone and is hysterical laughing and Yekio says, "Hey wait, that part was for me!" LOL
I love my friends.
69 Sniper shot!
70 What triup to a Disney place would be complete without a picture of a hedge sculpture? The answer... it wouldn't, so here is a pic of the sign at the event.
71 And a close up of the actual sign.
72 A Lego Volvo. There is a real Volvo under that Lego car. I mean, a real working Volvo. they just built the Lego thing right over the car. Pretty cool, huh?
73 A view of Downtown Disney from my walk back to the hotel.
74 And another dimmer picture of the same thing.
75 8-TRAX is awesome! We got pretty drunk here on Friday night. I had some Tequila shots and a Screwdriver. Cidari had a Hurricane and from how she described it, was made of pure alcohol. Yekio had some house drink called a Tye Dye, which he said was very good, not that he offered me any. :p
76 Yekio replaced his old sunglasses with the U2 Bono Sport Model.
77 Like true sheep, we followed along with the new trend.
78 Our ship on the Pirates Of The Carribian game at Disney Quest. We had only 4 gunners instead of 6, but with me as their Captain, we did pretty damn good! And no backtalk about it, you scabby sea dogs!!!
79 Cyber Space Mountain. The create-your-own Roller Coaster Simulator! You pick what you want your coaster to do and then you hop in a capsule that has a video screen that simulates your creation. It does loops, barrel rolls, and a bunch of other stuff that isn't even possible! It's a lot of fun.
80 The Dance Dance Revolution has begun!
81 Sadly Yekio is better at it than Cidari. I'm sorta good, but not really. It looked like these 2 live on the game. Then they told me they have the METAL FLOOR PADS at home. Not one, but two of them. At $300 each, they had better be good at this game. Good AND insane!
82 DDR was fun. It was hysterical watching the looks on people's faces when they saw Cidari and Yekio tearing up the game. I think they lost their minds. It was great!
83 Yekio, Cidari, Ayla, Lasher, and Simetra at the Virgin Record store cafe. Sadly, none of us are virgins, so we got kicked out.
84 The Jessica Rabbit Pleasure Island sign. Seriously folks, some hot chick should dress up like that for me one day. My birthday is November 23rd if anyone would be so kind as to get me that. Other acceptable gifts are hot women dressed as Snow White, a School girl, Little Red Riding Hood, or a Nun. Don't ask, just do it. LOL
