Yaaayyyy!!
Totally with you on this. We always look at the official merchandise (and my sister usually gets something), but we don't go crazy over it and there's never really a "must have" item, so we just go later in the day. We've never had the expo horror stories that I hear from people who are heading into the official merchandise area right when it opens.
Yeah, I went back and looked later, but I wasn't as maniacal about it as I have been in the past! It was so relaxing and nice!
I have a confession to make: I love Tink. She's obnoxious, like me.
I hate the new Tink with the fairy friends and all that, though. Tinker Bell is not supposed to have fairy friends. She's supposed to be a brat who is mean to everyone except Peter Pan (and is even mean to him sometimes). I hate meeting her in the park and she's all nice (although last time I met her I got her to be mean by talking about Wendy, so that was good).
Okay. Felt good to say that.
Well,
I don't think you're obnoxious.
You're allowed to like her! I agree that it's weird that she has fairy friends. They were playing some clips of the movie before the 10K and the fairies were fixing a boat or something and I kept wondering why they needed the boat - can't they fly?? I don't get the fairy thing.
Yay Ariel shoes!! I keep wondering if I should have gotten them in January, but they're so expensive (and by expensive I mean "more than $30" ... I'm cheap). Super cute, though!
They ARE expensive!
Maybe the weather was just trying to give you an excuse to wear your super cute new sweatshirt!
Yes, that's it! Disney Magic!
Okay. Here's my question: Why do Chip and Dale meet separately at Disneyland, but they're always together at WDW?
I don't know why this bothers me, but it does. I'm fine with either way, but can't they just pick one?
Ya know...that's a good question!! Aren't they always supposed to be a pair??
Is this the point where we get to complain about people who call every single race a marathon?
Don't get me wrong, a 5K is a huge accomplishment. It's not a marathon. A half marathon is not a marathon. A marathon is a marathon.
If you're going to have a runners menu, you really should get the race right...
YES!! I so agree with this! I have heard people refer to "the 5K marathon" - no! It's a 5K! Or a marathon! Not both!!
Yay! We're buddies.
I know the answer already ... (that's what I get for following along on the race thread)
Yep, yep!!
My sister has the Roo Sport pouch. It took her a while to get used to it, but she loves it now.
She doesn't put her phone in it, though - she wears her phone in a holster clipped to her waistband.
I think it's cute, but I can't imagine that it wouldn't bug the crap out of me.
The sole reason both of us got them was to hold our phones. My mom thought it worked really well, but mine bounced around a lot.
Of course, that's what I get for breaking the whole "nothing new on race day" rule!
Enjoying the report so far! I like your approach regarding merchandise at the expo. Although I have never been able to make it over to the expo on the first day for any Run Disney race, I have no desire to deal with the crowds and craziness of trying to find merchandise. I have always tried to think that if it wasn't there or out of my size, then it wasn't mean to be. It was crazy enough trying to move around people the 2nd day of this past Princess expo. Glad I didn't get caught up in the craziness that was apparently the first day!
Yeah, I just don't think that the craziness is worth it anymore! I have sooooo many t-shirt and whatnot already, so I really don't *need* any more of this stuff!
Ok, I have to take a break from reading this report to mention this. I have been singing the Tiki Bird song wrong my entire life.
I've been saying "Where the birds sing words and the flowers BLOOM" for literally forever. I've taught it to my daughter. I only now noticed that it's CROON!!! when looking at the pictured of that shirt you posted. I feel shame and may need to turn in my disney liscence.
Also it always amazes me how small the castle is at DL every time, even though I know the difference and I've been there.
SAME, to all of this!! I saw the words on the shirt and was just like, "...wait, what?!" Then I went to the Tiki Room later in the trip and listened a little more closely...yep, the flower do, in fact, BLOOM.
That castle sure is tiny...she is sooooo pretty though!!
First: I hate flights that get changed. Just hate that so much and hate having to figure it out. Totally messed up my first day at WDW this year. Next vacation I am making a flight day with zero other plans even if it means wasting a vacation day.
The friggin worst. I mean, I know we "sign" a contract saying that they can change, but it doesn't seem right!!
Second: I loooooove those Ariel shoes. I wear Brooks Ghost 7's that I always think have kind of a Tink or Buzz Lightyear thing going on with them (they are white with lime green and a lil purple), but I've been eye-balling the Ghost 8's for my next pair and in my head they are kind of Ariel-ish. Because all things need to be Disney even if they aren't, right? I'm hijacking your TR to make you look at my shoes now...
Do you see it? With the red and the blue (hair and water)? I'm kind of digging them and am thiiiiis close to going to try them on.
I see it! And I get it - I had an older Garmin that I really liked because, as Mr. Ariel484 point out, it was Buzz Lightyear colors!! Behold this giant picture that I cannot re-size:
I'm also a Brooks gal for running, so I brought these purely for "walking around" in and whatnot.
THIRD) I am totally jealous of you getting to stay at the DL hotel and spend time at Trader Sam's. That looks so fun. Are you getting so excited for the counter-part in Florida when you get to go to the Poly later this year? The next time we go to WDW if we don't do the BLT again we want to do the Poly.
Yeah, staying at the DL Hotel was sort of a "treat yoself" moment for me.
That was my only Trader Sam's visit, though! I maybe shouldn't admit this on the DL board, but I will anyway: I like the WDW counterpart better. More effects and whatnot. Definitely excited to go there!!
Fourth) Those look like the most comfortable "not-jeans" ever. I kind of am tempted just to keep them on hand for any long road trips or flights.
Looking forward to more...
OMG, they are!! I love them so much, they were so great for travel days!
Huh. You are right. There is a little Tink on it. After obsessively looking at your picture (I swear I see umbrellas when I close my eyes) I'm going to change my answer to no corral? Or is the corral just covered by your sleeve and I'm on the total wrong tangent?!
Ding ding ding!! Give the lady a prize!!
Southwest seems to have that capability, why not United?
Less than magical timing! My phone battery was on life support at this point and I was sure that my mom would be arriving soon, so I decided to head to the hotel.
Come on, lady!
Room was definitely nice with lots of Disney touches. I got what I paid for with the view!!
