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Less chit chat, more adventures
Lesley said she was at Pizza Planet, which was conveniently nearby. She came out the door right as I walked up and we got to meet in person for the first time! We did the usual initial Dismeet chat thing where we asked how each person was and I introduced her to Jon and all that. Soon enough we decided we had enough of the chit chat and went off to have adventures instead.
New life motto: Less chit chat, more adventures.
The line for Mr. Toad was a little shorter now so we got in line there, where we continued to chit chat. Please note that chit chatting while having an adventure is acceptable, though shouldn’t be overdone.
Lesley had brought her new camera to test out on dark rides so she was snapping away as we went through Toad Hall, to hell, and back! By the way, I never asked how your pictures turned out!
When we got off I realized that my sunglasses had fallen out of my pocket, but thankfully the CM at the exit had them. Thanks, kind guest/CM who turned my sunglasses in. They’re vintage and cute and do their job well and I would have been quite sore to see them go.
Jon & I had a FP coming up for BTMRR but we didn’t want to ride without Lesley so we offered to skip it. BUT, in her usual genius way, she suggested that we just ask the CM if she could ride with us. I had never tried that before but she has a lot more experience at Disneyland than I do so we went for it! We let her do all the talking and sure enough, the CM let her through with us. Way to go Lesley, smooth talker of the year.
After the usual amazing ride on BTMRR it was high time for a snack. But not just any snack. A specific kind of snack with its own particular brand of snackiness. Yep, I’m talking about the carnival funnel cake.
Or whatever it was called.
It was a limited time Toy Story 4-themed funnel cake from the Stage Door Café. It had condensed milk, fruity pebbles, and raspberry sauce. I’m a sucker for all three of those things (not to mention funnel cake by itself) and as soon as it was announced I knew I had to get one in my belly.
And it was incredible. It was as fruity-sweet as it looks and each bite was tasted like a perfect fried cereal donut. As delicious as it was, I couldn’t (and didn’t) want to finish it all on my own so we triple-teamed it and finished it all together.
We were in the mood for another ride so we went over to Indy where once again Lesley used her magical powers to convince the CM to let her go in with us through the FP lane. I have no idea where these FPs came from, if we used our anytime FP from the ABD or if we pulled paper ones at some point. But apparently we had them??
Anyway, the ride went down while we were in line and they said anyone who wanted to could leave. We were close to a CM so we asked her advice and she said to hang around for about 10 minutes because it seemed like a short fix. Well, she was wrong because a few minutes after she said that they announced that they were clearing the queue. BUT it was good that we waited because when they officially cleared the queue they gave everyone who left a FP.
I wanted to go back to SWGE to see it at night but we made a pit stop at Haunted Mansion since it had a short wait. I tried taking some photos inside the ride but my note says I wasn’t sure if any turned out. As I’m writing this I honestly can’t remember if any did turn out, so we’ll just have to wait and see when it comes time to post whether or not I did. Probably not. Who knows.
[Okay so three turned out. Out of maybe 50?]
Returned to the land of the living, we finished making our way to SWGE. We looked around at shops, especially the Droid Depot. I bought a lot of stuff but finally decided not to get a droid, even though I kept telling Jon that I wanted one. I realized that we probably wouldn’t get much use out of it, and $100 is a lot to pay for something that’s just going to sit there.
Even though I said that then I still think I want a droid. I really like how @OhioStateBuckeye ended up customizing hers and I would really like to do something like that with mine. I may just cave and get one when I go in November. And according to my current projects, that will actually happen before this update is posted. So I guess I already know the answer to this question? Writing for the future is trippy.
[The Village Ackbars]
When we got to SWGE there was still a little bit of light left but the sun was setting. It was really cool to watch the transition to dusk and see all the lights come on. The land really does take on a different personality after dark. Lesley also pointed out to us some cool features of the app, like how you can make the Millenium Falcon do some cool stuff like blow out steam.
=
Soon enough our bellies were telling us it was dinner time. I left Jon in line at Docking Bay 7 while I went to Ronto’s Roasters to get a Ronto Wrap (my notes autocorrect it to rando wrap hahaha). When I got back, Lesley and Jon had just sat down. Jon ended up getting the roast.
Jon grabbed his fork and announced that he was going to eat and Lesley audibly gasped and said, “Before the picture??”
See Jon, I’m not crazy. It’s a Dis thing.
So he let me take a picture and then he began to eat. The Ronto Wrap was fine, but either the sausage or the slaw had a kick to it. I don’t do well with spice so it wasn’t my favorite. But Jon’s roast was incredible, very tender and tasty.
We finished our meal and said “real soon, we will see you,” to SWGE and started to make our way out of the park. But first we had more shopping to do! Lesley wanted to stop and look at the pins in Frontierland and I never need extra encouragement to buy pins so we popped in. I got a cute pin with Minnie & Mickey, a Disneyland pin, and a special edition SWGE pin. All very neat. Here they are, along with the Grand Californian pin and the buttons we got from the ABD.
[Maybe by the time I post this I’ll have somewhere to display them all]
[Update: I do not have somewhere to store them all]
While we were in the pin shop I realized that I meant to get one of the special SWGE explosive Coke bottles but totally forgot. At that point I was tired enough that I didn’t want to deal with it so I’ll just have to get one when I go back (which once again, will have happened by the time I post this).
After the pin shop we parted ways with Lesley, who had some other stuff to attend to. It was so awesome to meet you Lesley and I hope we can hang out again soon!
I told Jon I wanted to wander through the shops on Main Street so he went to hang out in the magic shop. I took my time in the shops but only came out with two items, a Disneyland ringer tee and an Alex & Ani bracelet.
The bracelet says chase your dream and I thought it was cute and inspiring. I didn’t realize until I was at home taking it out of the package that it’s a runDisney bracelet. I have never runDisney and there’s a good chance I never will, so I feel like an imposter wearing it but really who cares? It’s adorable.
While I’m at it, here’s the SWGE merch we ended up with.
The R2D2 puzzle and one of the ewoks is for my brother Anakin (yes, that’s his real name). The thing in the bottom left is a Jawa Sandcrawler and when you open it up there’s two little wooden Jawas in there. It’s so cute! I also snagged a music box that plays the Imperial March. That and our ewok are hanging out in our Star Wars guest room.
Purchases in hand, I met up with Jon who told me about his fun moment with the magic shop CM. I think I mentioned this but Jon is into magic. He loves card tricks and watching magicians. Well he mentioned to the CM that we were going to the Magic Castle the next day and the guy said that he has performed there and knew people who would be there that night. He gave Jon someone to request/make sure we saw and to tell him that he sent us.
But the cool part is that the CM asked Jon if he knew who Penn & Teller were. Jon absolutely does and watches their show all the time! (Penn & Teller are two fairly well-known professional magicians and they have a show where they invite magicians on to try and fool them with their tricks) So the CM told Jon that he was actually about to be on the show in like three days! He brought Jon behind the counter and showed him some photos from the set. I didn’t see the show, but Jon watched it when it aired and said the guy was good but he didn’t fool Penn & Teller.
How cool is that? See, I don’t like talking to people so I don’t get stories like that. That’s why I’m grateful for Jon, who is extroverted enough for both of us and can supply me with great anecdotes to share with others while I stay quietly in the background (probably taking photos).
Jon told me all that as we were walking out of the park for the last time. It was about 9:30pm and it was a little later than I thought we would have left but I wouldn’t have changed any of it. We paused at the end of Main Street to say a nice See Ya Real Soon to Disneyland before going back to the Grand Californian parking lot to pick up our car and collect our luggage.
After all that we hit the road and made it to our hotel at a cozy 11:00pm. We got all checked in and went to sleep with the peace that only comes from knowing that you don’t have any alarms set for the next morning.
Lesley said she was at Pizza Planet, which was conveniently nearby. She came out the door right as I walked up and we got to meet in person for the first time! We did the usual initial Dismeet chat thing where we asked how each person was and I introduced her to Jon and all that. Soon enough we decided we had enough of the chit chat and went off to have adventures instead.
New life motto: Less chit chat, more adventures.
The line for Mr. Toad was a little shorter now so we got in line there, where we continued to chit chat. Please note that chit chatting while having an adventure is acceptable, though shouldn’t be overdone.
Lesley had brought her new camera to test out on dark rides so she was snapping away as we went through Toad Hall, to hell, and back! By the way, I never asked how your pictures turned out!
When we got off I realized that my sunglasses had fallen out of my pocket, but thankfully the CM at the exit had them. Thanks, kind guest/CM who turned my sunglasses in. They’re vintage and cute and do their job well and I would have been quite sore to see them go.
Jon & I had a FP coming up for BTMRR but we didn’t want to ride without Lesley so we offered to skip it. BUT, in her usual genius way, she suggested that we just ask the CM if she could ride with us. I had never tried that before but she has a lot more experience at Disneyland than I do so we went for it! We let her do all the talking and sure enough, the CM let her through with us. Way to go Lesley, smooth talker of the year.
After the usual amazing ride on BTMRR it was high time for a snack. But not just any snack. A specific kind of snack with its own particular brand of snackiness. Yep, I’m talking about the carnival funnel cake.
Or whatever it was called.
It was a limited time Toy Story 4-themed funnel cake from the Stage Door Café. It had condensed milk, fruity pebbles, and raspberry sauce. I’m a sucker for all three of those things (not to mention funnel cake by itself) and as soon as it was announced I knew I had to get one in my belly.
And it was incredible. It was as fruity-sweet as it looks and each bite was tasted like a perfect fried cereal donut. As delicious as it was, I couldn’t (and didn’t) want to finish it all on my own so we triple-teamed it and finished it all together.
We were in the mood for another ride so we went over to Indy where once again Lesley used her magical powers to convince the CM to let her go in with us through the FP lane. I have no idea where these FPs came from, if we used our anytime FP from the ABD or if we pulled paper ones at some point. But apparently we had them??
Anyway, the ride went down while we were in line and they said anyone who wanted to could leave. We were close to a CM so we asked her advice and she said to hang around for about 10 minutes because it seemed like a short fix. Well, she was wrong because a few minutes after she said that they announced that they were clearing the queue. BUT it was good that we waited because when they officially cleared the queue they gave everyone who left a FP.
I wanted to go back to SWGE to see it at night but we made a pit stop at Haunted Mansion since it had a short wait. I tried taking some photos inside the ride but my note says I wasn’t sure if any turned out. As I’m writing this I honestly can’t remember if any did turn out, so we’ll just have to wait and see when it comes time to post whether or not I did. Probably not. Who knows.
[Okay so three turned out. Out of maybe 50?]
Even though I said that then I still think I want a droid. I really like how @OhioStateBuckeye ended up customizing hers and I would really like to do something like that with mine. I may just cave and get one when I go in November. And according to my current projects, that will actually happen before this update is posted. So I guess I already know the answer to this question? Writing for the future is trippy.
[The Village Ackbars]
When we got to SWGE there was still a little bit of light left but the sun was setting. It was really cool to watch the transition to dusk and see all the lights come on. The land really does take on a different personality after dark. Lesley also pointed out to us some cool features of the app, like how you can make the Millenium Falcon do some cool stuff like blow out steam.
=Soon enough our bellies were telling us it was dinner time. I left Jon in line at Docking Bay 7 while I went to Ronto’s Roasters to get a Ronto Wrap (my notes autocorrect it to rando wrap hahaha). When I got back, Lesley and Jon had just sat down. Jon ended up getting the roast.
Jon grabbed his fork and announced that he was going to eat and Lesley audibly gasped and said, “Before the picture??”
See Jon, I’m not crazy. It’s a Dis thing.
So he let me take a picture and then he began to eat. The Ronto Wrap was fine, but either the sausage or the slaw had a kick to it. I don’t do well with spice so it wasn’t my favorite. But Jon’s roast was incredible, very tender and tasty.
We finished our meal and said “real soon, we will see you,” to SWGE and started to make our way out of the park. But first we had more shopping to do! Lesley wanted to stop and look at the pins in Frontierland and I never need extra encouragement to buy pins so we popped in. I got a cute pin with Minnie & Mickey, a Disneyland pin, and a special edition SWGE pin. All very neat. Here they are, along with the Grand Californian pin and the buttons we got from the ABD.
[Maybe by the time I post this I’ll have somewhere to display them all]
[Update: I do not have somewhere to store them all]
While we were in the pin shop I realized that I meant to get one of the special SWGE explosive Coke bottles but totally forgot. At that point I was tired enough that I didn’t want to deal with it so I’ll just have to get one when I go back (which once again, will have happened by the time I post this).
After the pin shop we parted ways with Lesley, who had some other stuff to attend to. It was so awesome to meet you Lesley and I hope we can hang out again soon!
I told Jon I wanted to wander through the shops on Main Street so he went to hang out in the magic shop. I took my time in the shops but only came out with two items, a Disneyland ringer tee and an Alex & Ani bracelet.
The bracelet says chase your dream and I thought it was cute and inspiring. I didn’t realize until I was at home taking it out of the package that it’s a runDisney bracelet. I have never runDisney and there’s a good chance I never will, so I feel like an imposter wearing it but really who cares? It’s adorable.
While I’m at it, here’s the SWGE merch we ended up with.
The R2D2 puzzle and one of the ewoks is for my brother Anakin (yes, that’s his real name). The thing in the bottom left is a Jawa Sandcrawler and when you open it up there’s two little wooden Jawas in there. It’s so cute! I also snagged a music box that plays the Imperial March. That and our ewok are hanging out in our Star Wars guest room.
Purchases in hand, I met up with Jon who told me about his fun moment with the magic shop CM. I think I mentioned this but Jon is into magic. He loves card tricks and watching magicians. Well he mentioned to the CM that we were going to the Magic Castle the next day and the guy said that he has performed there and knew people who would be there that night. He gave Jon someone to request/make sure we saw and to tell him that he sent us.
But the cool part is that the CM asked Jon if he knew who Penn & Teller were. Jon absolutely does and watches their show all the time! (Penn & Teller are two fairly well-known professional magicians and they have a show where they invite magicians on to try and fool them with their tricks) So the CM told Jon that he was actually about to be on the show in like three days! He brought Jon behind the counter and showed him some photos from the set. I didn’t see the show, but Jon watched it when it aired and said the guy was good but he didn’t fool Penn & Teller.
How cool is that? See, I don’t like talking to people so I don’t get stories like that. That’s why I’m grateful for Jon, who is extroverted enough for both of us and can supply me with great anecdotes to share with others while I stay quietly in the background (probably taking photos).
Jon told me all that as we were walking out of the park for the last time. It was about 9:30pm and it was a little later than I thought we would have left but I wouldn’t have changed any of it. We paused at the end of Main Street to say a nice See Ya Real Soon to Disneyland before going back to the Grand Californian parking lot to pick up our car and collect our luggage.
After all that we hit the road and made it to our hotel at a cozy 11:00pm. We got all checked in and went to sleep with the peace that only comes from knowing that you don’t have any alarms set for the next morning.
One can only chit chat so long when rides are calling your name...
I like it! Excellent motto.
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