cfc Posted June 19, 2008 Share Posted June 19, 2008 ^^Gas van Sant has proven that your can do a shot-by-shot remake of an old classic flick (in his case, Psycho) and still screw it up completely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRapidsNerd Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 You know, I almost expected an Ace Ventura reference with the budgie pics. Either way, talk about fowl humor. Heh, guess the last joke was flocking bad or just for the birds. S'ok, Lou, your updates are always a tweet. Â BTW, RIP Cyclone, excellent Maxamillion Black Hole avatar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik Johnson Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 I must go ride Eagle's Fortress before I die. Oh, nice Photo TR by the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wood Dragon 1988 Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 Great photos. The parks look great here, just could use a few more rides on occasion I guess. Â I thought it was pretty funny that there was a drop tower right next to the Lotte World castle! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pagemaster_b Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 ^^ That ended up being a good pic of you. Â Â I thought so, too, considering how every other picture Lou took of me, I look completely retarded. Well, maybe not Chris Retarded, but just as bad. Â Â Â Lou, I'm heading to the airport in a few hours. Hope you can finish off this massive TR before we meet up in Paris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moose Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 ^SHe has a knack for making people bad with her pictures. Well, either that or you and I have a talent for making ourselves look bad when we pose for her. Either way, Lou, you bring out the worst in us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louise Posted June 20, 2008 Author Share Posted June 20, 2008 LOL!! Most people tell me I have a knack of catching them at their best! So I guess it's just you two! Actually though that was my old camera. This new one... Yeah, I think it's a crapshoot. Â Final instalment coming up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldJJman Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 LOL!! Most people tell me I have a knack of catching them at their best! So I guess it's just you two! ..... Â Â Um... Excuse me. Yeah, I look stellar in your pics. Pffffft! Â Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moose Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 ^^ Does this new one have the multishoot feature that only I managed to use? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louise Posted June 20, 2008 Author Share Posted June 20, 2008 Return to California - The Final Phase!! Â So, after five weeks of travelling, I was finally homeward bound... Homeward bound the wrong way round the world, admittedly, but homeward bound all the same! We flew from Seoul to Tokyo, then had a few hours to kill at Narita airport (souvenir shopping for me, getting rid of the remains of my yen!) before flying back to LA, where I had two (originally one, but that's a long story) nights before flying back home to the UK. While in Japan, Jahan and I had been emailing back and forth as I had decided he should Lou-sit for a while in order to let Robb, Elissa and Kristen settle back in at home after the trips. Disneyland seemed like the perfect plan! Â Of course, we hadn't counted on LAX trying to screw me over.... After almost 20 hours of travelling, I ended up spending more than three hours waiting in line upon landing. Within a one-hour period, there were four major flights landing, including hours, and there were TWO desks open at immigration. I was pissed off, had spent eleven hours on a flight without a cigarette or much food (which admittedly was my own fault but whatever), was stuck on my own in the line as the only non-American in our group, and I wanted to go to Disney, damn it! God I was annoyed. I actually got lucky though, the wait was estimated at about five hours at one point, but after a little under three hours they open a third desk and tried to split the line fairly... I got lucky with where they split it and didn't have to wait much longer. If I'd been stuck there for another two hours I likely would have killed the French guy behind me. Â Anyway, rant over. Â So poor Jahan had waited in Arrivals for me for well over three hours, everybody else had already left (never did get to say goodbye to a couple of you, sorry!!), and I was a wreck. Got calmed down, went to an ATM, and we were off. Â Â Yay, I'm back at Disneyland! This was after us standing in line to get in for five minutes before I realised I didn't even have a fudging ticket yet. Â Â After changing, washing, and cleaning my teeth in the ladies' (getting quite a few funny looks too I might add!), I realised I had never taken a picture of the castle! Done. Â Â And now commences *some* of our horrible attempts to fit both of us and the castle into a self-taken photograph. Surprisingly difficult! Â Â Cut off the castle. Â Â Cut off most of myself, AND the castle. Â Â Shoved Jahan out of the frame. LOL. Â Â This one KINDA worked! Â Â Yeah, eventually I just gave up and let some tourist take it. Â Â Jahan in front of the Dumbo which HAS A CLIMAX!!!!!!! Â Around this time, we wandered around the park for literally a good 90 minutes, doing NOTHING. It was actually really nice! Had lunch (and Jahan totally succeeded at chatting up the counter girl... then insulting her and pissing her off 20 seconds later), had a snack, had a smoke, had a wander, rode Big Thunder.... Nice to just chill after being on the go for so long. Â Â I pretty much died of shock at a store (was this the one near Roger Rabbit??) when they had both of my names on keyrings!! Â Â Anybody else think this is probably supposed to say "CHEER"? Â Â Jahan spots the Matterhorn. Â Â LOVE this picture!! To be unconventional, this time we rode with Jahan in front of me. Â Â Later on, after meeting up with Jeff, Chuck, Chris and Dane, we stopped for food, where I decided a mile-high piece of chocolate cake was a good idea. It would have been a good idea, if I hadn't already eaten a late lunch, a snack or two, half of the enormous mozzarella sticks (which by the way are orgasms in food form), and a giant plate of jetlag and stress on the way back. Even with the boys helping, we managed about a third of it. LOL. It was yummy though, so it's all worth it! Â Â We'd done "Lou's last ride on Mansion" so now it was "Lou's last ride on Space" time. Â Â Excited!! (Where'd Jeff go?!?!) Â Â This picture is fabulous but for three things: Dane's face absorbing 90% of the flash, Jeff HIDING (WTF!!), and Chris looking like he can't decide whether he's in the shot or not. Apart from that though it's great! Â Â Love you boys!!! Â Â Final portraits after stopping for me to buy clothes, and saying goodbye to Jeff ... I have no idea what this is. Â Â Chris is smug. Â Â Dane is ever so slightly creepy! Â Â Chuck is adorable! Â Â And I'm so sad to be leaving!!! Â Â In the parking lot, we sat around for a couple of hours, talking, laughing, and in their case, dancing around to the Fantasmic soundtrack... Yeah, I'm totally serious. At the time it was actually quite endearing, but looking back, SERIOUSLY geeky!! Then we went our separate ways, myself and Jahan staying at Chuck's. Could I wake up the next morning?? Could I buggery! Â Â There really isn't much more to tell from this trip! The next morning, we went out for breakfast before heading back up to Robb and Elissa's, where I packed up some stuff, realised I'd messed up and missed my flight, bought a new one (LOL at me glossing over this), so we all figured "Meh, may as well go out for lunch!", which we did. Spend most of the rest of the afternoon and evening (and all night actually) just chilling out, wandering for coffee, frozen cokes, whatever, then Robb drove me to the airport at 6am. I don't think I've ever been so sad for a trip to end! But I won't dwell on that too much, I still have one more mini-teeny-tiny installment to post, and I'll get all soppy in that one, probably. I'll post that one after Europe, I at least feel proud that I managed to get this far before leaving for the next trip! 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Louise Posted June 20, 2008 Author Share Posted June 20, 2008 God, I totally forgot THE MOST IMPORTANT THING from this night: That I got to see Fantasmic, and I freaking LOVED it. Seriously one of my favourite things ever. I cried. Because I'm pathetic. But I really did love it, and it was the perfect ending to the trip, even though the trip technically didn't end for another 30 hours or so. Â Â Â Just wanted to add that in there. Â Â Â Â Oh, and Jon? No accidental burst shooting with this camera, you're fine! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveC Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 OMG - through the trees and COLLAGED - I get to do the Happy Dance twice in a week  Lots of great memories, I really enjoyed Korea certainly as much as Japan (although the food not so much...) and wish I was going back this year.  See ya tomorrow Lou  YAY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrissie Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 Yay, Ive loved reading your year in review Lou!! Im so jealous of all your adventures. Â I look forward to the 2008 chapter! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
socalMAN123 Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 Wow Lou, it's been awesome to follow all of your trip from last year. I'm jealous that you got to go to all those places and sad that I missed you guys at Disney, but at least you had fun! Can't wait to see this year's installment. ---Brent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louise Posted June 20, 2008 Author Share Posted June 20, 2008 There will be no 2008 installment! This report was the stupidest idea I ever had and I have no intention of repeating it! LOL!! Â Though having said that, "Lou's 2008 in review" will be the Europe trip alone, so that wouldn't be so bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moose Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 Even though it was "stupid" it was very enjoyable to be able to follow along. Thankyou for doing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeemerBoy Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 There will be no 2008 installment! This report was the stupidest idea I ever had and I have no intention of repeating it! LOL!! Â And by "stupid," I'm assuming you mean how frustratingly time consuming they can be? If so, from someone who knows and appreciates the effort put into them, I thank you for yours! I, myself, may retire from TRs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arrowfanman Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 Great update Lou. I've been reading every installment--but naturally this one was my favorite. Â Â Â It was a pleasure to meet you! Hope to maybe see a Europe report. Â Â Â Â Â -Jahan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveC Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 Lou - not meaning to diss you but whilst you may have had many stupid ideas, this was not one of them! Â I look forward to Lou's 2008 year in review as much as anyone. Just do it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gotdane Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 Great update Lou. I've been reading ever [California] installment--but naturally this one was my favorite. Â Fixed. and agreed. Â Haha, Jk, I read a couple of the foreign country ones, but I wasn't in them and quickly got distracted! Â I'm happy you had a great time! I'm sad I'm missing the Euro Trip, ergo not seeing you. Â Hope to see you out here again soon though. I'll wear my Midway Mania costume for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louise Posted June 20, 2008 Author Share Posted June 20, 2008 There will be no 2008 installment! This report was the stupidest idea I ever had and I have no intention of repeating it! LOL!! Â And by "stupid," I'm assuming you mean how frustratingly time consuming they can be? If so, from someone who knows and appreciates the effort put into them, I thank you for yours! I, myself, may retire from TRs. Â To be honest, it wasn't so much that doing the report was so bad, but this one was particularly time-consuming. I nearly did a report after Spain and then decided to save it... *That* was the bad idea, seeing as my second trip was almost six weeks long. This report was just way too long and took far too much time and energy to do!! I don't know how the Alveys do it, or anybody else who does huge-ass reports on a regular basis!! Â I probably will do a Europe trip one at some point, that would be a manageable size!!!! Â Thanks so much for all the feedback guys, glad some of you enjoyed reading it! It's been fun reminiscing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRapidsNerd Posted June 21, 2008 Share Posted June 21, 2008 Posting photo TRs can be VERY tiring. Glad you did put this series out for us to enjoy. Hey, it really is appreciated, especially by people like me who have never been to Asia, or the rest of the planet (yet). Â You did good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIP Psyclone Posted June 21, 2008 Share Posted June 21, 2008 For anyone thinking of no longer doing trip reports, especially ones with photos/videos, here's what Robb said at West Coast Bash (video courtesy of Erik Johnson), 6:20 to 6:50: Â Â (I didn't post the link full size with the video "screen", since that would be "hijacking" Lou's thread.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
COOOOLkid Posted June 21, 2008 Share Posted June 21, 2008 Wow, it was such a joy reading all of your photo TRs!!! They are certainly one of the funniest, comical, and entertaining reports I've ever seen/read! Â I just have to say that I loved every single installment, including the one that you just posted. I can't imagine how frustrated, annoyed, or even b*tchy I would be if I missed my flight or realized that I'd been standing in the line for the entrance for 5 minutes without a ticket. However, you told all these stories in a humorous way and really, I think that's what made these TRs so entertaining to read!! I sure loved them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy524 Posted July 10, 2008 Share Posted July 10, 2008 I'm a little late in replying, but I've just finished reading all of this report. It was very entertaining. I haven't been a member here long, so I haven't attempted any report myself, I can only imagine how tiring it can be! It looks like you had a really great year though. You guys seem like y'all have so much fun. If you ever find yourself in Alabama I'd be glad to play hostess! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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