Breakfast at the Plaza
Day 4
Our fourth and final
Disneyland day was certainly the most eventful in my book, but as you'll see a lot of it was for the wrong reasons!!
The night before when I got back to the hotel I tried to get as much of my stuff packed as I could without stowing away any of the necessities I would need in the morning. I did a pretty good job if you ask me! I just wanted to be able to sleep and get everything in the car that we needed to in the morning before we had breakfast. Did I mention that we had PS for the Minnie & Friends Breakfast in the Park? Well, today was the morning!! I was so excited for it. But seeing as we had to check out of the hotel today I wanted to stow our luggage a the front desk and check out before we left for breakfast so we could enjoy a couple more hours in the park.
Enter drama, here.
I was taking the pillows and my tripod back to
Frick's car and was greeted by a very nasty surprise. We had a flat tire. Well, phooey. That was going to take precious time away from my schedule because I really needed to be on the road no later than 2:00 p.m. and I wanted to spend as much time in the park as I possibly could. Now, I technically
know how to change a tire, I would just prefer not to. Take into account that the spare on this particular car (full size, thank God) is literally bolted to the back of the darn vehicle and it was obvious that a call would need to be placed to
AAA. OK, fine. At 1:00 we'll make the call to AAA and hopefully it wont take too long to get taken care of.
I go back to the hotel room to tell
Frick what I had seen (of course hoping she would hurry up and pack so we could get a move on with the check out). She says she needs to call her mom, and of course knowing how that would turn out because her mom will keep her on the phone for an hour over something as silly as asking where the coffee is I ask her to call her mom when we go up to the lobby to check out. She really, really needs to finish packing so we can get to the park in time for our PS which was at 8:40 a.m. I go back to take some of the food things we had brought with us and upon returning to the room she's sitting on her bed on the phone with her mom. Well, ****! I was a little pissed at that point to be honest. We had had a talk earlier in the weekend about her time management and this really wasn't helping the situation, and it's definitely not helping my freak out mode that I had gone into upon seeing the tire. Yeah, this would have been a great Ativan moment but I didn't get the Rx filled because I knew it would make me sleepy and then I can't drive. To be honest, this whole situation had my fuming all day. It's really not that hard.
Anyways, I go to take my luggage up to the front desk for them to hold and start the checkout process (a.k.a. paying the bill) and head back to the room where of course she's still not done. I wanted to be on our way to the park very soon to this point and I had wanted to leave early enough to take the walk slow and get pictures of all the banners that are hanging along Harbour. Well, it didn't happen. We still got to the park, and the special gate for the M&F PS's in time to be the second or third party in line. But still ...
OK, had to get that out of my system
At 8:30 a.m. when they opened the gates and started to let people onto Main St. we went along in as well and to the rope where everyone was held at bay. To be able to duck through the store that's right there (totally blanking on the name, oh no!!) and to come out on the other side and look back at everyone just waiting to be let loose on the park was an awesome feeling! When we checked in at the Plaza Inn we were the second party to arrive. They checked our name of their list and led us in to take our pre-photo which :doh I just realized I forgot to add to our PhotoPass account before I ordered the CD. Oh well. After that when they gave us our hand stamps and special buttons, and we had prepaid we were taken over to our tables. Could not have asked for a better location. We were right next to the windows and we got a lot of natural light.
Character who were there: Minnie Mouse, Brier Fox, Tigger, Eeyore, Max, Chip & Dale, Captain Hook, and Fairy Godmother.
I believe first to our table was Brier Fox. And of course this was at the same moment
Frick mentioned to needed to go grab her food and whaddya'know. She was offered an arm and then walked over to the food arm in arm by Brier Fox. Classic moment, and probably the highlight of the meal.
Insert dead-brained moment here. I forgot to reformat my memory card that morning and delete all of the photos that were on it (from the fireworks that I had already uploaded to my hard drive) and of course I didn't notice this until after we had taken photos with half of the characters that were there and then
BAM I had no more memory. Well, dang. The only thing I could do was reformat it then and there because it was the only card that had expendable photos, but that would mean losing every photo I had taken that morning. Needless to say, it was a big bummer. Especially since I lost that photo of
Frick with Brier Fox. She was a little pissed at me for that. Consider it a returned favor.
Alright, here are some photos finally! I got lazy again and didn't edit any of them, so I feel a little blah about a few of them, but oh well. My wrists hurt.
Notice the nail color? She loved that my nails matched her cape - Bippity Boppity Blue!!
The hostess with the mostess!
He's Tigger-ific!!
Woe is me ...
Yay, thank you. I am so, so, so, so stoked they came out. I can't wait to make a few prints out of them so I can make a collage for my binder and tag them along with me to school and everywhere I go.
