danimaroo
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I wanted to get in an update before we leave for our little weekend getaway tomorrow. No cell phone service, no TV, no internet... It is going to be AMAZING. 
We're heading up to Mount Rainier and it's one of my favorite weekend getaways that we do!
I'm planning on reading lots of Harry Potter (I'm a dork, reading through books 3-7 for the first time!), enjoying some board games, relaxing by the fire, doing a few hikes, and just enjoying a weekend away from everything in peace.
I'll be sure to post a few photos when we get back, I promise.
So, on the ADR front, we needed another restaurant for Saturday, but we wanted to do something we hadn't done in awhile/wasn't a repeat of anything else we were already doing.
So that being said, after much research, we ended up adding... The Garden Grill!
I always forget about this restaurant and kind of feel bad because we went there on our honeymoon.
Is the food mind-blowingly amazing? No, but I do remember enjoying it, especially the bread and maple butter.. But the big plus for me on this one is the rotating restaurant, allowing us to see lots of Living with the Land, and of course, seeing some of our favorite characters.
I'm a total sucker for restaurants that oversee/are near attractions (I'm lookin' at you, San Angel Inn), and add in Farmer Mickey, Pluto, and Chip & Dale plus some pretty tasty food, and I'm a happy lady!
Some of you guys might remember from my last PTR, but being married to an Excel nerd, and now being one myself with my own job, we love spreadsheets when it comes to planning our ADRs and organizing our trip.
Matt actually made this year's spreadsheet, and we've made good use of it (since we can both access it in Google Docs)... So that being said, here is what our current ADRs look like for each day:
I cut out the rest of the spreadsheet because it has some of our plans and I want to save that for later posts!
Anyway, we now have 12 ADRs, 1 non-ADR but TS dinner (B&C), and then we're planning on the dessert party. If it's in blue, it means we're paying OOP, and red means we haven't booked it yet (because we can't)...
OH YEAH! I totally forgot to mention that we are planning on doing the Dessert Party this year! Believe it or not, I STILL haven't seen Wishes yet.
I KNOW, trust me I know, but this is the perfect opportunity to see it for the first time... Now let's hope we can get reservations for the Dessert Party in a month or two.
Other than THAT, the other thing I wanted to show off were the rest of the headbands I made!
I kind of went crazy and made all of the Fab 5, and Winnie the Pooh. I'd say for my first attempt, these came our pretty cute!
There are a few I need to re-do (mainly Winnie the Pooh and Pluto, only because the ribbon I used for the headband party wasn't the right kind and looks like poop).
I've actually now had a few people wanting to buy them from me, which is a great compliment. I'm open to that at some point, but I figure I'd like to first make sure I'm happy with the quality of these before I try selling them to anyone.
Anyway, here they are!
I'm thinking about seeing how some of these bows would also look if I just glued them to barrettes instead of headbands, as I would totally rock that look, too.
I have a few other characters in mind, like Buzz Lightyear, Woody, Stitch (who I made but I'm not sold on the colors unfortunately), Wall-E, and many others. I mean, the options are kind of endless.
I've had a total blast making them, outside of me burning the crap out of my finger on the glue gun last night.
Matt has his own nerd hobby which includes painting miniature figuress for his Warhammer 40K table top wargame (I don't really know much about it except I think painting the miniatures looks neat, and Matt enjoys it so that makes me happy)... Anyway, it's just nice because we both sit at our table and work on our crafts together, while watching The Office or Parks and Rec on DVD. It's really relaxing/fun and helps us de-stress after work.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to making more hair bows/headbands and potentially making some for people who are interested.
Outside of that, not much else to report on my front! We're getting closer to being able to make reservations for stuff for Disneyland.
It's SO weird how you can't book ADRs there more than 60 days in advance... and they don't post their park hours outside of the next 2 months... Disneyland is WAY different to plan for than Disney World, I'll tell you that much!
I'm hoping to have some great pictures/a solid recap of our weekend on Sunday!
We're heading up to Mount Rainier and it's one of my favorite weekend getaways that we do!
I'm planning on reading lots of Harry Potter (I'm a dork, reading through books 3-7 for the first time!), enjoying some board games, relaxing by the fire, doing a few hikes, and just enjoying a weekend away from everything in peace.
I'll be sure to post a few photos when we get back, I promise.
So, on the ADR front, we needed another restaurant for Saturday, but we wanted to do something we hadn't done in awhile/wasn't a repeat of anything else we were already doing.
So that being said, after much research, we ended up adding... The Garden Grill!
I always forget about this restaurant and kind of feel bad because we went there on our honeymoon.
Is the food mind-blowingly amazing? No, but I do remember enjoying it, especially the bread and maple butter.. But the big plus for me on this one is the rotating restaurant, allowing us to see lots of Living with the Land, and of course, seeing some of our favorite characters.
I'm a total sucker for restaurants that oversee/are near attractions (I'm lookin' at you, San Angel Inn), and add in Farmer Mickey, Pluto, and Chip & Dale plus some pretty tasty food, and I'm a happy lady!
Some of you guys might remember from my last PTR, but being married to an Excel nerd, and now being one myself with my own job, we love spreadsheets when it comes to planning our ADRs and organizing our trip.
Matt actually made this year's spreadsheet, and we've made good use of it (since we can both access it in Google Docs)... So that being said, here is what our current ADRs look like for each day:
I cut out the rest of the spreadsheet because it has some of our plans and I want to save that for later posts!
Anyway, we now have 12 ADRs, 1 non-ADR but TS dinner (B&C), and then we're planning on the dessert party. If it's in blue, it means we're paying OOP, and red means we haven't booked it yet (because we can't)...
OH YEAH! I totally forgot to mention that we are planning on doing the Dessert Party this year! Believe it or not, I STILL haven't seen Wishes yet.
I KNOW, trust me I know, but this is the perfect opportunity to see it for the first time... Now let's hope we can get reservations for the Dessert Party in a month or two.
Other than THAT, the other thing I wanted to show off were the rest of the headbands I made!
I kind of went crazy and made all of the Fab 5, and Winnie the Pooh. I'd say for my first attempt, these came our pretty cute!
There are a few I need to re-do (mainly Winnie the Pooh and Pluto, only because the ribbon I used for the headband party wasn't the right kind and looks like poop).
I've actually now had a few people wanting to buy them from me, which is a great compliment. I'm open to that at some point, but I figure I'd like to first make sure I'm happy with the quality of these before I try selling them to anyone.
Anyway, here they are!
I'm thinking about seeing how some of these bows would also look if I just glued them to barrettes instead of headbands, as I would totally rock that look, too.
I have a few other characters in mind, like Buzz Lightyear, Woody, Stitch (who I made but I'm not sold on the colors unfortunately), Wall-E, and many others. I mean, the options are kind of endless.
I've had a total blast making them, outside of me burning the crap out of my finger on the glue gun last night.
Matt has his own nerd hobby which includes painting miniature figuress for his Warhammer 40K table top wargame (I don't really know much about it except I think painting the miniatures looks neat, and Matt enjoys it so that makes me happy)... Anyway, it's just nice because we both sit at our table and work on our crafts together, while watching The Office or Parks and Rec on DVD. It's really relaxing/fun and helps us de-stress after work.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to making more hair bows/headbands and potentially making some for people who are interested.
Outside of that, not much else to report on my front! We're getting closer to being able to make reservations for stuff for Disneyland.
It's SO weird how you can't book ADRs there more than 60 days in advance... and they don't post their park hours outside of the next 2 months... Disneyland is WAY different to plan for than Disney World, I'll tell you that much!
I'm hoping to have some great pictures/a solid recap of our weekend on Sunday!
AND, good timing since you are leaving for 9 days. I can't wait to see pics and hear about that as well...hey, if you just keep traveling and posting pictures, I can live vicariously through you!! 
, and can't wait to see my sister, brother, sister-in-law and Mom, as well! 
