bumbershoot
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Mar 5, 2007
What, no one liked my pictures?
Harumph.
OK, I'm over it.
Not that it really matters, but I realized earlier that the arrest happened on Tuesday night. Because I definitely remember two mornings of increased security checks, where they needed to look in ALL the pockets. I have a baggallini! That's a lot of pockets.
So it was Thursday the 29th. Waaaaah, it's leaving day!
Got up, got out. Checked lost and found. Still nothin'. Sigh.
We love DCA so that's where we went. Got some Soarin' FPs as we went by on our way to White Water Snacks! The food-getting area isn't that impressive, but the food and seating areas are, and that's all that matters.
We got a bagel with cream cheese (for Eamon, who was so hungry he was saying he was NOT hungry...when he yells that we know he'll eat anything put in front of him, LOL), a breakfast burrito without bacon, and a french toast stick. Coffee for the grownups (I put mine in my mug). You pay, are given a number card thing, and sit. Then they bring it out to you.
I didn't try the bagel, but E wolfed it down. The burrito and french toast were supposed to be shared half and half between me and hubby, but I became a snarling Alaskan malamute (the type of dog I was raised with, very food-protective) with the first bite of burrito. I did end up sharing a couple bites, but I ate most of it. SO good. The french toast sticks were good too, but it's really hard to mess up that. The guys of course couldn't eat the "syrup" they gave for the sticks, but I tried it and it was NASTY. Cannot recommend the "syrup"!
Hunks of potatoes and fresh tomatoes inside. Fresh salsa. Thin tortilla that just made the whole thing incredible. I poured the salsa inside and by the end of the burrito the salsa was dripping down my hands and I didn't care. Hubby was giggling, watching me wolf it down; I sometimes (often) have food aversions, so when I find a food I adore, he is happy.
I always have to take a picture with my coffee.
French toast sticks.
Again we were impressed by their fruit. Both plates had strawberries as garnish, and although we gave most of them to Eamon, it was a little bit hard to let go of all those strawberries. So good.
We ate outside, and it was a little bit chilly where we were. But beautiful! We wished that we had followed everyone's advice to eat there much earlier in our trip. Made us more sad that we were leaving that day.
On our way out, hubby made his coffee more perfect (he had barely drank any b/c I didn't get enough creams and sugars for his taste). Then Eamon did something obnoxious in the stroller and it knocked hubby's coffee to the ground. The CMs were SO kind; helped me clean it up, and told hubby to go in and tell them what happened so he could get a new coffee.
We left the GCH, happy. We were easily able to re-enter through the special exit/entrance (we had left through there) even though it was only just after official opening (the park had opened unofficially at 9:30), and we didn't even have to show receipts.
It was time to try something we had never been to before, the (as they call it on the disneyland site) Redwood Creek Challenge Trail Featuring "The Magic of Brother Bear" show.
Eamon had great fun in there, but the 42" requirement for the zip line tire thing nearly sent him over the edge. We took him in there to make up for the fact that he's not quite big enough for Grizzly (we let him measure on two separate days), and he didn't find it fair to see another exciting thing that he wasn't tall enough for!
But the other stuff he enjoyed.
While R and E played in there, I went out for Grizzly and maybe Soarin' (I rode Soarin' once on this trip, I just do NOT remember when!!!). Actually it probably was Soarin', b/c I remember being gone for awhile (they remember that too). Loved both, as usual.
While I was gone, Eamon again got the fun of having clothing-prepared, relaxed parents, while other children were screamed at for even stepping in the water areas there, let alone lying down in them like a certain red-headed boy did. Oh I wish I'd seen that, or that hubby got a picture, but I didn't and he didn't.
Eamon started off with his tennis shoes and socks, but didn't see the water in this area. It runs very slowly and gently, and it really didn't look like there was water. He was very surprised! Since we had his Crocs it was no big deal to change his shoes, and he took off again (this was before I left for Grizzly).
While I was gone...
There's a "spirit cave" where you, I assume, put your hand on something, there are lights, and you are told what animal spirit you are/have.
Eamon was a wolf spirit, and Robert was a bear spirit.
I got back as the time for the Brother Bear show started, and I rounded them up.
Well, it was something of a disappointment, b/c they were having some sort of technical difficulty. We saw some sort of effect as a big totem moved, but then someone came out and manually put it back. Then a very harried looking CM came out with Koda with some sort of explanation that the "spirits" weren't with us today, but Koda and Kenai would be out for pictures.
Kenai had to be called a couple times, then hurried in miming that he had been asleep.
Hubby doesn't normally pose for pictures, but he was bothered that older kids (should know better) kept jumping in front of DS, so Robert snagged Kenai and Eamon to take a nice posed shot (at last!).
Then the show was done.
Harumph.
OK, I'm over it.
Not that it really matters, but I realized earlier that the arrest happened on Tuesday night. Because I definitely remember two mornings of increased security checks, where they needed to look in ALL the pockets. I have a baggallini! That's a lot of pockets.
So it was Thursday the 29th. Waaaaah, it's leaving day!
Got up, got out. Checked lost and found. Still nothin'. Sigh.
We love DCA so that's where we went. Got some Soarin' FPs as we went by on our way to White Water Snacks! The food-getting area isn't that impressive, but the food and seating areas are, and that's all that matters.
We got a bagel with cream cheese (for Eamon, who was so hungry he was saying he was NOT hungry...when he yells that we know he'll eat anything put in front of him, LOL), a breakfast burrito without bacon, and a french toast stick. Coffee for the grownups (I put mine in my mug). You pay, are given a number card thing, and sit. Then they bring it out to you.
I didn't try the bagel, but E wolfed it down. The burrito and french toast were supposed to be shared half and half between me and hubby, but I became a snarling Alaskan malamute (the type of dog I was raised with, very food-protective) with the first bite of burrito. I did end up sharing a couple bites, but I ate most of it. SO good. The french toast sticks were good too, but it's really hard to mess up that. The guys of course couldn't eat the "syrup" they gave for the sticks, but I tried it and it was NASTY. Cannot recommend the "syrup"!
Hunks of potatoes and fresh tomatoes inside. Fresh salsa. Thin tortilla that just made the whole thing incredible. I poured the salsa inside and by the end of the burrito the salsa was dripping down my hands and I didn't care. Hubby was giggling, watching me wolf it down; I sometimes (often) have food aversions, so when I find a food I adore, he is happy.
I always have to take a picture with my coffee.
French toast sticks.
Again we were impressed by their fruit. Both plates had strawberries as garnish, and although we gave most of them to Eamon, it was a little bit hard to let go of all those strawberries. So good.
We ate outside, and it was a little bit chilly where we were. But beautiful! We wished that we had followed everyone's advice to eat there much earlier in our trip. Made us more sad that we were leaving that day.
On our way out, hubby made his coffee more perfect (he had barely drank any b/c I didn't get enough creams and sugars for his taste). Then Eamon did something obnoxious in the stroller and it knocked hubby's coffee to the ground. The CMs were SO kind; helped me clean it up, and told hubby to go in and tell them what happened so he could get a new coffee.
We left the GCH, happy. We were easily able to re-enter through the special exit/entrance (we had left through there) even though it was only just after official opening (the park had opened unofficially at 9:30), and we didn't even have to show receipts.
It was time to try something we had never been to before, the (as they call it on the disneyland site) Redwood Creek Challenge Trail Featuring "The Magic of Brother Bear" show.
Eamon had great fun in there, but the 42" requirement for the zip line tire thing nearly sent him over the edge. We took him in there to make up for the fact that he's not quite big enough for Grizzly (we let him measure on two separate days), and he didn't find it fair to see another exciting thing that he wasn't tall enough for!
But the other stuff he enjoyed.
While R and E played in there, I went out for Grizzly and maybe Soarin' (I rode Soarin' once on this trip, I just do NOT remember when!!!). Actually it probably was Soarin', b/c I remember being gone for awhile (they remember that too). Loved both, as usual.
While I was gone, Eamon again got the fun of having clothing-prepared, relaxed parents, while other children were screamed at for even stepping in the water areas there, let alone lying down in them like a certain red-headed boy did. Oh I wish I'd seen that, or that hubby got a picture, but I didn't and he didn't.
Eamon started off with his tennis shoes and socks, but didn't see the water in this area. It runs very slowly and gently, and it really didn't look like there was water. He was very surprised! Since we had his Crocs it was no big deal to change his shoes, and he took off again (this was before I left for Grizzly).
While I was gone...
There's a "spirit cave" where you, I assume, put your hand on something, there are lights, and you are told what animal spirit you are/have.
Eamon was a wolf spirit, and Robert was a bear spirit.
I got back as the time for the Brother Bear show started, and I rounded them up.
Well, it was something of a disappointment, b/c they were having some sort of technical difficulty. We saw some sort of effect as a big totem moved, but then someone came out and manually put it back. Then a very harried looking CM came out with Koda with some sort of explanation that the "spirits" weren't with us today, but Koda and Kenai would be out for pictures.
Kenai had to be called a couple times, then hurried in miming that he had been asleep.
Hubby doesn't normally pose for pictures, but he was bothered that older kids (should know better) kept jumping in front of DS, so Robert snagged Kenai and Eamon to take a nice posed shot (at last!).
Then the show was done.