More dollars than sense!
^THIS!
How much did the one in 2009 go for?
I couldn't really see the bidder who won the ghosts, but I googled Guillermo del Toro, not sure if it was him. I think it was an older gentleman. He was not the jumping man, but that guy looked vaguely familiar and could have been an actor/hollywood type.
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I do love surprises
You know I am not sure if husbands 4 wheel cart is one you can take apart. I know the first one he had was -- but it was hard for me to pick up and put in car trunk. I know for sure the wheelchair ones are not ones you can take apart.
Yes, I saw your review of how you made yours--I should maybe try that first and see how I do.
I thought Dale was over the top having 3 EVC --but 5 --even if you share --I can't tell husband or he will think he can buy 2 more. We have two of the wheelchair type as he is unable to walk or stand and I think he feels better having an extra in case one fails.
They are sure a blessing when going to DL. If not for the EVC he could not enjoy the parks.
I haven't looked into the whole point calculation, but you wouldn't have to give up THAT much of your BWV points to work in the VGC on points. I know you have your 2012 reservations set, but for your 2014 trip, you could do 8-9 days instead of the full 10, you could bank those points for 2015. Then for 2015 you could use the banked points and borrow 1-2 nights from 2016. That way you haven't compromised your WDW BWV vacations, but still get the idea of staying on property. If there wasn't the carat that F&W may come back to CA I'd transfer points to you. I guess we'll know by then!
But, it's not a bad idea, since it would save us some money (wouldn't need to pay for a hotel in Anaheim). We shall see! 
It was after 10PM when the Dick VanDyke performance ended. We knew that not much would still be open, Anaheim being the sleepy little town that it is! But while in the queue we had already decided a hearty (hot) meal was in order. We had called Ralph Brennans Jazz Kitchen and knew they were open until 11PM.
We took our many bags of stuff (remember we bought out Mickeys of Glendale this morning and we didnt have a moment of spare time to take the stuff back to the room. Too bad we didnt know about checking things at the Lounge) back to the room unloaded our cooler and that stuff and headed right back on over to DTD for some yummy hot food.
Though DLR and DTD are not far from the Convention Center, it seemed like miles away. I know a lot of people stayed there for the Expo and I would have hated to walk/ride that far every day. But we passed through the lobby of the GCH and made our way out to DTD. We arrived about 10:35 to find
Open and waiting to serve us!We were seated out on the patio and there were still a few people mulling around DTD.
After such a long day, I really wanted a drink. Since oysters were on the menu, I went with my standard Belvedere Gibson Up. They didnt have any onions, so I said they could make it a Martini as long as they brought the olives on the side! Fran went with a Margarita on the rocks.
Weve been to this restaurant before, but weve never had an entrée! And as usual we decided to eat from the appetizer menu again. I started off with the Oysters on the Half Shell. These were OK, but I probably wont order them here again. I prefer oysters from Northern Regions that are small and briny. These were fairly large and a little chalky. I really dont like to have to chew my oysters, or if I do, just a little. These required multiple bites and were not quite to my tastes. However I ate them anyways.
We also had the stuffed mushrooms. These were really good and different than any other stuffed mushrooms that Ive had. They were filled with pork sausage and rice. Obviously they had a New Orleans kick to them. Very tasty, I would order these again.
One shouldnt make a trip to Brennans without ordering some of this garlic cheese bread! Just make sure everyone (or at least anyone you might get close to) eats this as well!
Next up they brought us the Fried Calamari. This is really good, nice and crispy and what I love about it is you get both the ringlets and the little tentacles (or whatever you call them). These are some very tasty morsels!
This trio of soups was excellent. Gumbo Ya-Ya, Onion Soup (totally different than the night before) and a Potato Bacon soup. They all had a little kick, but next time, I think well skip the soup of the day and just get full orders of the onion soup and the gumbo, theyre THAT good!
So after this little parade of appetizers we were soon becoming full, however I made sure to save up some room for the best dish ever, Chocolate Bread Pudding Souffle! I dont know how they make a soufflé out of bread pudding but this one is just to die for! So light and fluffy with a crispy bread pudding topping, and once you get to the bottom, its ooey and gooey. But to accompany such a heavenly dessert, you definitely need an equivalent drink and they have got it.
A Chocolate Wine Martini! Now some of you may have seen this Chocolate Wine at your local megamart. I saw it last spring and was intrigued. It turns out that it is more a liqueur than an actual wine. However this drink combines that Chocolate wine with a little Vanilla Absolut was the perfect companion to my decadent dessert!
Here is a live action shot of the drizzling of the Chocolate & Vanilla Sauces
Perfection on a plate!
Fran got the bread pudding, which was tasty, but paled in comparison to my dessert!
Exhausted, full and satisfied, we motored back to the Hilton to crawl into bed. It was well after midnight and we had a 6:30AM wake up call to get up and start it all over again the next day, which by this point, was now just a few hours later that same day!
how can you be jealous.... you were at the Expo....
Hmm...I would have to seriously think about that one. I don't know if I'm willing to give up a night or 2 of BWV! I know, I'm crazy!
Just in case F&W comes back...when did they usually have it at DLR? I know in FL it's in October and November. DH and I considered doing that for our 10th anniversary trip Veterans Day weekend, but we decided to stick with Foxwoods...DH actually looked at a 2021 calendar (yes, MY DH did this, the guy who never plans vacations!), the year of our 20th anniversary, and he said that we should be able to go to F&W then (provided they still have it!), according to when Veterans Day falls that year (it's on a Thursday, but we could take off Friday, and the boys will be in high school...I'm sure my sister wouldn't mind them staying at her house and going to school from there on that Friday, when they're that much older). OK, enough...I don't want to think about my kids being in high school...they just started Pre-Kindergarten and 1st grade for cryin' out loud!
! As I usually have at least one hot meal that I prepare daily). We enjoyed our conversations with our fellow line mates before entering.
F&W at DLR started the week after Easter and went for six weeks. It usually ended just before they released all their summer rides and stuff. We were just there the other day and I no idea how jacked up DCA was! You couldn't even enter through the regular way, it's that torn up! I really hope they bring back the Festival. My spring is so boring without it!
As far as your points, if you didn't want to make your BWV trips shorter, you could always get yourself in a state of borrowing and then exercise the option to "purchase" the 25 extra points at $15 per point from Disney until you got caught back up to your every two years for 10 days. You have a couple years to think about it!
But the more I think about it, the more I think it would just be better to fly. Even if we flew to Seattle, then to LAX, and flew home from San Diego (all non-stop flights too), it would cost a LOT less than driving across country...and I checked mapquest. I did driving directions from our house to Seattle, to Anaheim, to San Diego, and back to our house. It was a total of just under 7,000 miles! 
And 104 hours of driving! That would mean a lot of overnight stops (which I knew), lots of fuel, lots of hotels, lots of food. So yeah, maybe we will just have to fly, and I will have to suck it up and get over my flying anxiety. I think in that case, we would stay in Seattle for 3 nights, Anaheim for 7 nights and San Diego for 3 nights. Maybe we would just rent a car in Anaheim the last couple of days so we could see some of LA, and also to use in San Diego. Otherwise we wouldn't need to rent a car.
