Update 5/13 – 5/19 – I know, but life happened.
As you know, my dog loves water, and even more when he
can redistribute it onto the hardwood floors.
I tried to put down a new mat for when Percy boy splashes in his water
bowl... but he seemed to believe that it was a new toy.
And the Jay taught me that I don’t know to video
things. Sorry Jay.
So last week Lucas and I watched The Lion King, Aladdin,
The Little Mermaid, Mulan and Pocahontas.
At the a point in Pocahantas in which John Smith invites her to take his
a hand and follow him Lucas yells out, "Careful. You're gonna get raped!" *SPOILER ALERT* Then, at the end, when John
looks like he's on deaths door and Pocahontas waves good bye to him Lucas
commented, "I bet that ending was popular with the wee ones."
We brought Percy and Nala to be groomed on Wednesday.
Groomer: I put a bow in his hair because, well you
know...
Me: because he's a girl?!
I guess Lucas is right, all Yorkies are girls.
On Thursday evening, we went to iPic for Becktoria's birthday
to see the MIDNIGHT showing of Star Trek because we just adore Becky. I didn't not adore her AS much when I had to
get up after only 3 hours of sleep of course...
Me: I let Percy out this morning and he chased down the
pool guy and wouldn't stop barking.
Lucas: If he was a girl, his name would be behavin'.
On Friday, Becky, Jared, Kelly, Lucas, Zach, Dawne and I
all went to DISNEYLAND! Zach had told
me that he wanted to do ab workouts in the morning so that every step he took
during the day would increase his workout throughout the day. Since I'm such a natural giver, I told Zach
that I would help him out by "letting" him run to get our fast
passes. In fact, I would go one step
further, and throw our tickets on the ground so that he had to bend down to
pick them up - gotta work those abs!
Also, in preparation for Disney, Lucas and I printed out
maps of both parks so that we could careful plan our strategy in order see both
parks in 48 hours. At one point, Kelly
referred to me as the “Disney Nazi” to which Lucas said, “You know, Walt Disney
was an anti-Semite, so technically he was the original “Disney Nazi.” Something
I didn’t need to know. By the way, this
is where we went for breakfast:
While Becky and Jared made a beeline for bed, the rest of
us headed toward Downtown Disney for dinner.
We saw a sign that had “Disney” and “Downtown Disney” with changeable
arrows.
Lucas: Do you think they ever change the direction in
which downtown Disney is? Or is it like the labyrinth where it is designed to be
a “gotchya!”? The only thing missing is
David Bowies moose knuckle but that isn’t a necessary plot element.
Due to our good planning and our personal Speedy
Gonzales, we were able to go on 9 rides and lunch all before 12:30. One of these rides was Splash Mountain. Lucas was concerned about getting his shoes
wet so I suggested that he sit up front, turns out that was poor advice because
he was the most soaked of all of us. (Lucas: I didn’t even want to go on this
ride.) Whoopsidaisy. When we were on the
Pirates of the Caribbean ride…
Kelly: Do you think those are real bones?
Me: I don’t think so, they look plastic.
Kelly: I wonder why they don’t. People die all the time.
After hitting up the last of the major rides, we headed
over to the California Adventures. We
got through the Cars line in 30 min, and got right on California Soaring with
the Fast Passes that Zach acquired.
Lucas: These pictures are all of planes!
They should change the sign from Legends of Flight to Legends of Falling
because that's what we're going to do in this ride.
We were going to go on the Tower of Terror, but the line
was too long, so we ran over to California Screamin’ where the wait was only
ten minutes. Before we got on the ride…
Kelly: What kind of ride is this?
Puzzled since we were standing next to the roller coaster
of epic proportions, Me: A roller coaster.
When we got off the ride, Kelly: I didn't know it was
THAT roller coaster. I’m terrified of
roller coasters.
We brought it down a notch after that with the Little
Mermaid ride, followed by the Aladdin show.
When we were walking out of the show, Lucas said, "Mrs. Doubtfire
was sooo much better in Aladdin (than that guy)." Over all, we decided that
the elephant was the best actor. Before the show, Jared bought some sourdough
and a bottle of water, that’s when Becky realized in that moment, the bread and
water was Jared’s favorite part of the trip.
OH! We went on the Monsters, Inc. ride and it broke down
so we got to walk out of the ride! We
totally took a bunch of pictures before we were told that wasn’t allowed. Dawne and Zach have the good ones, but here’s
the one I took:
You might remember that last year, I went to Disney with
Kelly and Rach, and when we were there, I made the comment that “You gotta
really want the Dumbo ride.” Well, Kelly
told me before we left that she “REALLY” wanted the Dumbo ride and the Carousel. In fact, she wore pant the entire day just so
that she wouldn’t have to ride side saddle.
We asked Dawne to ride in front of us so that she could take a
picture. Dawne, always the
perfectionist, adjusted her Dumbo so that she could get the perfect picture for
Kelly to send to her mom.
I received a couple of text updates from Cathy:
Shane’s Got this
Percy is finally feeling at home
Did you see Nala? She was at Disneyland too today. She doesn’t look like it, but she had a
really great time.
We did the storybook ride, which I had never done before,
and did a little shopping before having dinner at the blue bayou. As we were waiting for our table, all of us
pretty sleepy, I tried to tempt Jared with the amazing Beignets. The problem with this enticement was that a)
I didn’t really know how to describe beignets without comparing them to donuts
and b) they only have these on their lunch menu.
Exhausted, we headed back to the hotel. As I got into bed I wished that the 8 hours
of sleep I was about to enjoy would make all of the aches and pains in my body
disappear. I should have prayed instead
of wished, because I was not at 100% when I got up. When we did meet for a quick breakfast, Zach
said to me, “So, I guess I'll run and do a fast pass while you guys waddle on
over to the Toy Story ride?” I should be insulted, only, I wasn’t because that’s
exactly what we did. When we found out
Buzz was closed, we got some ponchos so that we could go on the Grizzly river
ride. Lucas had a big plan to remove his
shoes and shirt after he got on the ride to prevent himself getting wet. This plan was going pretty well until just
before the ride got intense we heard, “SIR, PUT YOUR SHIRT ON. PUT YOUR CLOTHES ON SIR.” Then
we went on the Tower of Terror. We told
Becky what had happened.
Becky: I can see you trying to take your shirt off at on
all the rides, like this one.
Me: They would be yelling, “SIR, PUT YOUR CLOTHES BACK
ON!”
Lucas: But I don’t want to get wet!
Becky: At Ariel’s Grotto, “SIR, JASMINE DOES NOT WANT TO
SEE THAT.”
We had lunch reservations at Ariel’s Grotto with the
princesses. We ended up having to wait
an hour despite our reservations. We
ran over to see the Fantasy Faire exhibit, watched a video, saw some blue
prints.
Me: I think we walked through this last night. Remember when I said, “What IS this?”
Dawne: What did it look like?
Me: It was purple and it … well (pointing to the miniature
replica ten feet from us) looked like that.
None of the princesses wanted to hang out with us,
telling us that they had “to find flounder” and “I guess we could take one
picture.” The restaurant was a sea food
restaurant (ironic, that they would serve all of Ariel’s friends.” That with the wait, I announced, “I'm really
glad we did this because I never want to do it again.”
Sunday, without a plan, having accomplished everything on
Saturday, left us a bit scattered. Based on Jared’s pedometer, I would guess that
we walked about 15 miles on Saturday, and possibly another 15 on Sunday simply
because we were so inefficient. We did
get to go on the Roger Rabbit ride though (which I had never done) and the It’s
a Small World, where Dawne told us that that is how she taught her kids about
geography. I told Shane and Cathy it was
so nice of them to watch the pups so that we could visit their homeland.
Ride: The time is now!
Lucas: When is the time not now?
Dawne said she had never been on the Alice in
Wonderland. We tried going on it a
couple times but the wait was too long or it was broken down. Finally, Dawne decided she was getting on the
line. Kelly, Becky & Jared decided
that they were going to go sit down and rest.
I wanted to do the same, but could see that this was important to
Dawne. After 40 minutes of waiting for
the Alice ride, it broke down. After hearing Dawne say, "I think this ride
might break me," we all sat down in the line to wait. No ride shall break
our Disney Princess. It took a little
over an hour, but we finally rode the Alice ride. Half way through I heard Dawne say, “You
know. I think I have been on this ride.”
I really did intend for that to be my last ride, but
suddenly I was waiting for the Pinocchio ride.
Lucas: Why would you listen to those guys -- look how
sketch sketch they are. I mean look how innocent he looks. That's what Adolfo Hitler looked like before
he tried marijuana.
Before we knew it, we were on our way to the
airport. Our taxi driver dropping us off
at the airport: I normally ask people if they had a good time, but after
driving you guys I realize that's a stupid question there probably wasn't a
dull moment
I brought Disney Apples to Apples to play at the airport. Zach saw these choices and said: these are
all really exciting. Except for dads. I don't know who put that. (Note: Hall of
Presidents won).
I hope you also had a wonderful week, two weeks ago. I’m going to watch some of the TV then jump
back in for round two of updates.
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