Discovering Another Mad Dash (Oct 14): Heading Home and Finally finishing this TR #1523 (05/03)

[PrincessInOz]

Welcome home PIO! Looking forward to hearing all about it

Thanks!

We really had a very laid back trip this time round.

I hope you don't mind me posting my take on our time together in the next day or two. I captured only a little bit of our adventures so I guess I will be the teaser for your TR.

Go ahead! I'm pretty sure Bret will start his take before me as well.

 

[mvf-m11c]

Glad to hear that you got home safely. I have been working on the trip report since yesterday and I might be able to post it later today. You know that I will be looking forward to your trip report as well as Alison's.

 

[dolphingirl47]

Welcome back. That was a mad dash indeed. I can't believe it is already over.

I'll assume that you had no problem getting to the office.

Thanks Corinna. It was a great trip.

I have that pleasure yet to come. The move will almost certainly happen while I am at Aulani. We are just not sure if it is my first or second weekend there. So I will leave the old office on November 9th and when I come back to work on December 8th, it will be at the new office.

Corinna

 

[Leshaface]

I'm sooo glad you made a FB group for your recent travels! It's easier to keep up on over there than here sometimes. But i'm really looking forward to hearing about the stories behind all those pictures I seen!

 

[WanderlustNZ]

Welcome back PIO.

I hope you had an awesome time and have adjusted back to everyday life.

 

[PrincessInOz]

Glad to hear that you got home safely. I have been working on the trip report since yesterday and I might be able to post it later today. You know that I will be looking forward to your trip report as well as Alison's.

Welcome back. That was a mad dash indeed. I can't believe it is already over.



I have that pleasure yet to come. The move will almost certainly happen while I am at Aulani. We are just not sure if it is my first or second weekend there. So I will leave the old office on November 9th and when I come back to work on December 8th, it will be at the new office.

Corinna

I'm sooo glad you made a FB group for your recent travels! It's easier to keep up on over there than here sometimes. But i'm really looking forward to hearing about the stories behind all those pictures I seen!

Welcome back PIO.

I hope you had an awesome time and have adjusted back to everyday life.

Thanks everyone!

I've come home to internet issues and I never know how long connection will last. So....apologies for not responding individually.

Our service provider is sending out a technician on Tuesday. Hopefully, I'll have a consistent service after that.

 

[PrincessInOz]

TR Oct 2014: Discovering Another Mad Dash TR


Kick-Starting this Report



Welcome to another one of my Mad Dash TR's!





You might be asking what a Mad Dash TR is. Well....it's what I call my trips from Melbourne to California that end up being 10 days in duration, or less. My DH works for an American firm and his job is based in San Francisco. We choose to live in Melbourne and that means that we have the opportunity to do these short dashes more often than not.

It takes 14 hours to fly from Melbourne to Los Angeles direct and I have long come to view these treks across the Pacific Pond as aeroplane confinement madness.






Unlike previous trips, this one was not necessitated from work related reasons but rather for family reasons. In fact, for the first time in forever, we ticked the 'Visiting friends or relatives' box on the Outgoing Passenger Card as our main reason for this trip. My cousin in San Diego sent me a Save the Date invitation to his wedding some 10 weeks ago and we decided that we needed to make the effort to attend.





Naturally, I snuck in some Disney time during the trip and naturally, it involved catching up with Dis-Friends in 3D.



I have to admit that this trip didn't exactly fill me and my family with that sense of thrill that a holiday should before we started out.






We knew that there was going to be a bunch of catch-ups with family and friends and didn't plan any excursions, tours or sightseeing events. As a consequence, we were missing that sense of undiscovered adventure that our holidays tend to be filled with. From such simple non-expectations, a trip of surprising eye-opening discovery was borne.






I hope you'll join me on this TR. For those of you that have been reading along my last TR, I can guarantee that there will be significantly less pictures than the previous one. I can also guarantee that this one will take less time to complete as well. But rest assured. There will be the standard quota of food porn.






Are we ready for a trip of discovery?

 

[ACDSNY]

Beautiful unity candle and I see you found a hummingbird to amuse you.

 

[WanderlustNZ]

Great pic of a hummingbird and so clear given how quickly their wings move.

We saw our first ever hummingbird at Disneyland on our last trip. It was hovering above the canal on the Storybook ride. The poor tour guide was trying to explain the miniature villages but we were more excited by the bird.

 

[franandaj]

I'm in and ready to hear all about it!

 

[zanzibar138]

 

[WanderlustNZ]

That Kway Teow looks delicious by the way. Did you make it?

 

[franandaj]

That Kway Teow looks delicious by the way. Did you make it?

Yes she did, and at my house! It was soooooo good, I can't wait to get the recipe because she showed me where to buy the ingredients and all I need to know is the details and I plan to make it! It was awesome!

 

[zanzibar138]

Yes she did, and at my house! It was soooooo good, I can't wait to get the recipe because she showed me where to buy the ingredients and all I need to know is the details and I plan to make it! It was awesome!

I hope she is planning to share the recipe on the TR!

 

[franandaj]

I hope she is planning to share the recipe on the TR!

I'm thinking she was going to share it on the What's for Dinner thread, but perhaps she will share it here as well. It's very easy to copy and paste the post....it was really yummy and now that I know where to buy the noodles, I will make that for dinner at least a couple times per year, I just may use chicken or pork.

 

[WanderlustNZ]

Yes she did, and at my house! It was soooooo good, I can't wait to get the recipe because she showed me where to buy the ingredients and all I need to know is the details and I plan to make it! It was awesome!

Such a clever chef. I would love to know the recipe also.

 

[dolphingirl47]

I am looking forward to reading all about your trip. The photos in this instalment are stunning.

Corinna

 

[jedijill]

Lovely photos so far! I could tell lunch was at A&F's house...who else has a Pooh napkin holder!

Jill in CO

 

[IowaTater]

Oh no! It looks like poor Pooh Bear has lost an ear. Silly ol' bear!

I know what you mean about family holidays not really being "holidays". 90% of my family still live in Iowa so when I go back, it's chock full of visiting this person and that person, not to mention my friends from high school that still live there. I spend more time in the car running from house to house than I do actually traveling from Missouri to Iowa!

You have a FB group??? How did I miss that?

 

[tiggrbaby]

Welcome back! Looking forward to more, including a pic of you in the dress and that recipe!