A No Snooze Bar Christmas, Harry & Mickey are Waiting..it is done

[BrerMama]

How crazy that the boys are all sick. So enjoying reading along!

 

[lilpixiebabe101]

Oh geez!!! Im biting my nails that this is a good restaurant experience for you guys... But I can't help thinking it won't with Moaning Myrtle issues going on!

 

[momabaarjo]

Here is my latest Digital Effort...

TR Chapter:
Not Platform 9 3/4, but Still Pretty Cool

 

[momabaarjo]

The Hulk looks like a lot of fun! I love rollercoasters like that!! Too bad your family didn't want to ride it, but I'm sure you still had fun!

I finally decided if I want to ride a coaster, I gotta go by myself...I live with such chickens!

I think I've been to Panhandle when I was in Highschool for band! haha I grew up in Tulia, but now I live in Amarillo! So, we're not that far away from each other! lol

Guess what...I am in Amarillo, too! I used the Panhandle so that I did not have to identify myself to closely! But I will let you in on the secret!

I'm so excited for our upcoming trip, the time can't pass by fast enough!
I've never been in Oct, so it should be a lot of fun!

Thats what our DIS group is thinking too, but sadly that is in 2013!

Enjoying your TR! Can't wait for 8 more days of fun!

Again, so glad to have you following along...we might need to run into each other sometime in this big town!

How crazy that the boys are all sick. So enjoying reading along!

I know...crazy and so fustrating! Just wait it gets better...

Oh geez!!! Im biting my nails that this is a good restaurant experience for you guys... But I can't help thinking it won't with Moaning Myrtle issues going on!

You should already know the answer to this cliff hanger...I know your hair ain't blonde! Love you lots, right?

 

[lilpixiebabe101]

You should already know the answer to this cliff hanger...I know your hair ain't blonde! Love you lots, right?

: Oh Tammie you just made my night! My colorist girl at work actually just highlighted my hair today with a lot of blonde! But the way your restaurant experiences have been going, what I'm actually wondering is HOW BAD was it lol!

 

[momabaarjo]

A Grinch-y Breakfast​

Last Christmas Abigail decided that the Grinch is her favorite character so this Christmas, I scheduled for us to have breakfast with the Grinch as a special treat for her. Goo laughs and says she likes the Grinch because he as attitude just like her, which lands him a loving pop on the head from his big sister. They both giggle and poke their heads into the dining area, where Goo spots the Grinch and asks if Max is here too. About the same time our name is called Boo arrives back, looking a little better and saying he is hungry (a good sign that maybe today will not be a disaster and we can be a family again). We are greeted by Mike, our server, who takes us over to a table near the back of the restaurant. Goo asks if Max is around, and Mike not missing a beat to a 6 year olds question tells Boo that he will have to go look and see if he can find them. Mike takes our drink order, explains the buffet and sends us on our way. Maybe we will have a good waiter, it is looking promising. The buffet is set up across the room near the entrance and we go to fill up our plates. The selection is not bad including a few themed foods like green eggs and ham,

little rice krispe treat Christmas trees, and waffle snitch stars.

When we get back to the table, our drinks are waiting along with…

sitting on Goo’s chair. Mike comes back as we sit down and asks if we needing anything and tells Goo to take good care of Max or the Grinch might get a little, well Grinchy. As we begin to eat, Boo decides that since we are doing a Seuss breakfast maybe he should more Seuss-ish and dons his blue Thing hair (what Grinch matching shirts are not enough?) and the Whoos come to check him out.

Ab pulls out her copy of How the Grinch Stole Christmas and gets them to sign her book.

The Whoos have a great time signing the book, styling his hair and warning us about the green guy who is in the room that scares them. Before we know it the Grinch himself appears to check out the blue haired boy, tell Goo to eat his breakfast and don’t feed Max, and then to make a few comments about the cute blonde at the table.

I must say that we love the Jim Carrey verision of the Grinch the best, and this guy does a great job. I had read that sometimes he is a little bit over the top during breakfast, but I really found him to be perfect. He spent a lot of time teasing the kids and being just plain like the Grinch. Near the end of the breakfast the Cat in the Hat arrived for his interaction time with the kids.

I think Jo liked him the best, since he is at the age where his teachers do a lot of Seuss themed days. Mike brings the bill and mistakenly gives it to Jeff who freaks out over the price of the meal, I quickly grab it from his hands to pay telling him that everything has been budgeted for in advance and quit being Grinchy which gets a big laugh from the kids. Overall breakfast was a good experience…good food (although it is really overpriced), great character interaction (except Ab was hoping to see Thing 1 & 2), and the best wait staff we have had at a meal (for which I gave him a large tip). With the bill paid and breakfast over, our next stop of course has to be…

 

[Grumpy's Wife]

I've never seen pictures from the Grinch breakfast. It does look cute and yes those character meals are way over the top expensive. I don't think my husband knows how much they cost either.

 

[BrerMama]

Oh, that character breakfast looks so fun! We won't be there for Christmas anyway, but we're missing the Confisco breakfast by a day.... sob. Considering the one at Royal Pacific...

 

[momabaarjo]

Happy Wholidays​

Of course you have to follow up a Seuss themed breakfast with a trip to Seuss Landing to kill some time before we go and see the Who-liday Show of How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Ab decides that she likes collecting autographs and starts stalking the area for more Whos while the boys enjoy themselves by riding all the rides.

As we make our way towards High in the Sky, Ab squeals with delight when she sees that Thing 1 and Thing 2 have appeared. We send the boys of to do High in the Sky (but not before Ab steals Boo’s blue Thing hair) while she gets in line for the character meet and greet. I would never imagined my teenage girl wanting to collect autographs! She has a great interaction time with Thing 1 & 2, the entire time the 3 of them are having fun, poor cat got ignored!

When we meet back up with the boys, it is time to go see the Who-liday Grinchmas show and Boo begins his moaning again. I know this is a live stage performance, so I promise him that he can sit and relax for awhile, which keeps him quiet for the time being. Getting to the show was pretty easy, but it is a walk. You line up between the book store and One Fish and then the line is moved down a path out of the park to a sound stage where you are directed where to sit in stands above a stage.

We are seated high up, which is nice because you can see everything, but not so nice because you have to wait for others to exit long before you can even think about leaving.

If you are a How the Grinch Stole Christmas fan, then you are certain to love this live performance.

It has a special holiday ending that Goo really loved, snow falling...

Once the show is over we decided that we would go next door to USO to get Jeff and Goo caught up on all the rides they missed on Tuesday, when Boo moans even louder than before, looks like there goes my touring plan again!

 

[momabaarjo]

I've never seen pictures from the Grinch breakfast. It does look cute and yes those character meals are way over the top expensive. I don't think my husband knows how much they cost either.

I felt like the character breakfasts that we had at WDW were fair priced considering the selection...but this was not more than what you would find in a hotel free breakfast...although themed!

Oh, that character breakfast looks so fun! We won't be there for Christmas anyway, but we're missing the Confisco breakfast by a day.... sob. Considering the one at Royal Pacific...

I am not sure about the Royal Pacific...we did see Scob and Homer...I bet you will get a better meal at RPR

 

[lilpixiebabe101]

Now see you had me worried about this meal! But sounds like it was great except for the bill lol!

The show looks great!

OH NO MOANING MYRTLE IS BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[joleen76]

Poor Boo....hope he gets to feeling better!

I am loving your TR so far. Can't wait to hear more.

 

[momabaarjo]

Minus One

but Boo moans that he wants to go back to the room and lay down.

Great, looks like we will not get to do USO as a family. Jeff and I discuss for a moment about what to do, we finally decide that he is old enough to be left in the room alone to sleep it off because I really want Jeff to experience some of the attractions in the other park. So Jeff takes Boo back to the room while I take Ab and Goo over to USO. Walking over to USO, I can’t really decide what to do while we wait for Jeff to join us. As we go through the ticket line, I decide that the kids can just tough it out and do the I Love Lucy exhibit, even though they have no clue who Lucy is, but they are fast learners. I explain to them that Lucille Ball was an actress when Grandma Sue was growing up and had a TV show with her husband Desi (whose TV name was Ricky). Growing up we watched the show I Love Lucy which is about Lucy getting in all kinds of troubles and situations in reruns after school. We spend about 20 minutes walking around the exhibit where I see lots of props that I can remember from the show as well as play the trivia game…which Ab scored better on then I did, the person who watched the show.

We had planned to meet Jeff at Mel's Drive In so the kids and I head down the Beverly Hills street to the end where the diner is located.

We were lucky enough to find a table open outside so we sat down and watched the show that being performed at the time…a singing group. The group was an acopula group of 4 guys in their 20s, and they were pretty good singing a wide range of songs both 50s and current. The lead singer picked Ab out of the group and serenaded her, talk about being embarrassed…thank goodness she had her sunglasses on!

Soon after Jeff appeared and the kids decided they were hungry, so Jeff and Ab went inside to grab something “themed” to eat while Goo found a little sparrow to play with…silly thing was not afraid at all.

Jeff and Ab reappear about 30 minutes later with some hamburgers, root
beer floats, and onion rings for us to split.

The meal was standard fast food fair, decent but nothing special. Afterwards, my 2 car loving guys spent some time checking out the cars before

we get back to some sort of a touring plan...hasn't my family learned yet this is a commando style Christmas and I am in charge? Quit messing with my touring plans...

 

[momabaarjo]

Now see you had me worried about this meal! But sounds like it was great except for the bill lol!

The show looks great!

OH NO MOANING MYRTLE IS BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It was a successful meal....

Poor Boo....hope he gets to feeling better!

I am loving your TR so far. Can't wait to hear more.

I hope he does too! I am tired of my touring plans that I obsessed over for nearly a year messed up! I am glad you are enjoying this slow ride!

 

[BrerMama]

You made the Lucy exhibit look really interesting. Not something I thought we'd enjoy, but it looks kind of cool and vintage. Definitely going to check it out.

And am I wrong or did you just finish eating a breakfast buffet, then eat lunch? Maybe more time had passed than I imagine...

 

[lovethattink]

Sorry I've been missing!

So you did get to ride the Hulk!!!! What a bummer the rest missed the fun and watched instead.

Too bad there was belly trouble and your commando style touring got interrupted. Makes the comments you made when I apologized in interrupting your MK commando touring plans when we met up make more sense. No wonder you said you were getting use to your plans changing.

Those onion rings looked pretty good at the drive in. Next Christmas we will have to check out the Grinch stuff. It's still been since March 2011 since we've been to any of the Universal parks. We are not getting good use of that AP.

Love that Ab started enjoying the characters! I have never seen a Who walking around at Universal. Is this only at Christmas time?

Love the Lucy stuff!

 

[momabaarjo]

You made the Lucy exhibit look really interesting. Not something I thought we'd enjoy, but it looks kind of cool and vintage. Definitely going to check it out.


I had missed it on my first trip snd I needed to kill time waiting for Jeff to take boo to RPR snd catch up to us. I enjoyed but the kids got easily bored..

And am I wrong or did you just finish eating a breakfast buffet, then eat lunch? Maybe more time had passed than I imagine...

It is now mid afternoon...about 5 hours since breakfast. Can you tell that breakfast was not filling? Actually it all started with jeff wanting drink, and this family jeff mer going back to rpr who gave us there meal passes they bought and did not use...ab and goo decided they were hungry and split a meal ...once again messing up my plans!

 

[vleeth]

My dd seems to get sick more in Orlando than at home...why do you think that is?

 

[lilpixiebabe101]

I can understand why you were so upset after you got home that nothing went well. You planned all year and no one wanted to listen, or Moaning Myrtle/servers kept interrupting your best laid plans!

I'm really liking the idea of going to US/IOA while were are there!

 

[momabaarjo]

Sorry I've been missing!

You have been dealing with lots, I knew you would come back when you had the time!

So you did get to ride the Hulk!!!! What a bummer the rest missed the fun and watched instead.

Too bad there was belly trouble and your commando style touring got interrupted. Makes the comments you made when I apologized in interrupting your MK commando touring plans when we met up make more sense. No wonder you said you were getting use to your plans changing.

I sure hope I did not say something to offend you...by the time we met up my touring plans were basically out the window. I am so glad we go to meet and you guys fit in perfectly with what I had planned! I was trying to fit everything in...thinking this was a once in a lifetime trip and I forgot to enjoy the moments...

Those onion rings looked pretty good at the drive in. Next Christmas we will have to check out the Grinch stuff. It's still been since March 2011 since we've been to any of the Universal parks. We are not getting good use of that AP.

Love that Ab started enjoying the characters! I have never seen a Who walking around at Universal. Is this only at Christmas time?

Love the Lucy stuff!

I know Thing 1 & 2 are regulars at the Character breakfast, so I would assume they are regulars in the park. Ab was so excited, and they were so much fun!