Day 2 August 14, 2012 Part 13
We left off at Flos V8 Café where we had lunch that afternoon after riding Radiator Springs Racers. I was so looking forward to eating at Flos after not eating at the restaurant during the preview in June. When we finished our food, it was not as great as I have thought. At least I got to try the food at Flos V8 Café. When I come back to Anaheim in November, I will try to remind myself to have a pie at Flos since it was too early in the afternoon to get a dessert.
When we left Flos V8 Café, my DB and V wanted to look at the stores at Cars Land since we are in the area. They were considering going back to the room to rest up. I was kind of surprise to hear that they wanted to rest up. I asked if they wanted to continue to stay in the parks, but they needed a rest after a long morning and afternoon. This is what I mostly do in the afternoon when I am in the park. Mostly I quit and go back to the room around noon to 1pm, but I am not going to force them to stay in the park just like when I tried to get them to get multiple park hopper days for their tickets.
We now started to go around the stores in Cars Land. First they wanted to see Sarges Surplus Hut so we head in that direction first. I was going to ask if they wanted to go to Ramones or Lizzies store. So we head on over to Sarges Surplus.
While we were around the middle of Radiator Springs, we saw that LFT queue was still at 50 minute wait time. So there was no way they would want to wait at LFT for 50 minutes.
Before we head on over to Sarges Surplus Hut, I wanted to go and see what the lines were like at the Cozy Cone Motel. As for my previous experience at the Cozy Cone Motel were not that good on the first day of the preview which I waited about half an hour in the popcorn queue just to get popcorn. My DA was not happy with my decision to wait that long. Im still getting lashed by my DA every time I talked about the Cozy Cone Motel and waiting half an hour in the queue. Lets get back to the TR and not talk about waiting time. We head on over to the Cozy Cone Motel and see that the queues for all five cones were not that long. I was surprised to see that the lines were not that long. It just shows you how much of a difference from June to August where there were long lines and now there is no one.
While we were around the Cozy Cone Motel, I went to see if they have the souvenir cone cups. On Monday when we got to the resort, we saw some people that have the souvenir cups. I was kind of surprise to see the souvenir cups that day since there were reports that the cups were gone on the first week for the summertime and Disney had to order more cups for the summertime. But when I looked at the counter windows, they didnt have any souvenir cone cups available. I wasnt shocked that they didnt have any left, but I was hoping that there would be some available that day after seeing them on Monday. I could have got one on Monday, but we just got in that day and there was no point of rushing in to get one.
After looking around at the Cozy Cone Motel, we head on over to Sarges Surplus Hut. It was just a toy store with Cars characters. They did have some other Cars merchandise, but the other two stores have pins and CL merchandise.
After going in Sarges Surplus Hut, we started to head on over to the next store which is Ramones House of Body Art. So we head on back into Radiator Springs.
Another light fixture at Cars Land
It wasnt as crowded during that afternoon. I thought it was going to busy at Flos and Cozy Cone since it was lunch time, but that wasnt the case that day.
We entered the store and we looked around at the merchandise. Just like the last time I was here in June, they had all the same Cars Land merchandise and didnt have any AP exclusive merchandise. I was hoping that there would be some exclusive AP merchandise at Ramones House of Body Art and it looks like I was wrong. But my DB and V looked around at the store to see what is there to buy.
Light fixture inside Ramones House of Body Art store
My DB and V bought a few items at Ramones store which were shirts or RSR and key chains. We did save a little money thanks to my AP discount. They were happy with the purchases from Ramones and now we started to leave the store and head on over to Lizzies Curios shop
We didnt stay too long at Lizzies store since it was the pin store. I knew that they werent too interested in pins so we just stayed in there for a while until we start on heading out of Cars Land and back to BVS.
We now leaving Cars Land and heading on back to BVS together. I went with them since they are interested in going to the Elias & Company store at BVS to see what there is to look at and possibly buy. I knew that they would look at the store and see what to get. It was also a good opportunity for me to do some things around BVS like riding the Red Car Trolley. But well get to that later on and back to the three of us leaving Cars Land.
It was quite busy around Cars Land when we left, but now it was time to head on back to BVS. The Carthay Circle Theater looks great every time I see it.
Now a few more pics around BVS as we were heading on over to the Elias & Company store
A look at Hollywood Land
Now we head on over to the Elias & Company store.
Thats it for this post and we will see what we did in the store and afterwards.
