Bret, I'll help you out on TSMM if you help me with Buzz!
I love that game so much, but I do get more points later in the afternoon than in the morning. I am still puzzled why I get more points in the afternoon then in the morning.
Buddy loved Soarin'. He had ridden it when he was 3 and didn't say much, but this time he was all smiles, leaning over (we were in the first row) and thinking we were really hang gliding. I called him my "little aviator" for the next little while. 
When we were about halfway done D said (in a calm but stern voice), "Stand up and move away from the table. Grab {Buddy} and move away from the table." She was calm, but the fact that she was saying that made me stand up quickly, knocking over a chair as I grabbed Buddy and moved away. I said, "What's wrong?" She said, "There is a HUGE cockroach between our trays." She said that she had been eating and saw a set of antennae moving along between our two trays. We were sitting directly across from one another. She thought to herself, "Is that what I think it is?" and then slightly moved her tray and saw a very large cockroach walking between the trays. My skin crawled and I completely lost my appetite. We moved the trays and saw nothing. Then I saw it climbing up the wall right next to where we were sitting. I heard it, too, as it clicked along up the wall and then fell over the edge into the BTMRR tracks area. 
It was disgusting. As I sit here looking at my ruler, I would say it was definitely almost (if not) 4 inches long. Yuck. 
We both lost our appetites and didn't finish the rest of our meals. Ugh.
Glad I had already had my lunch. I detest bugs....perhaps that is why we've only been in Bugs Land when we were lost 
Excellent stopping point!
Great pictures and update. I'm thankful you didn't post a picture of your uninvited lunch guest....
I love Sorin' too. Especially when I don't have to see peoples feet dangling above us. Even then I love it. Just the music, smells, soaring over the mountains, oh is that Disneyland during the Christmas parade up ahead??
SIGH.
I remember you saying you got lost and ended up in A Bug's Land once. 
Could've done without that one.
You know what I mean. Guess I should've finished Day 2 in my last post. D sat this one out and enjoyed a churro and a hot chocolate while she waited.
Looks like I'll be finishing up this TR just in time to start reading your latest when you get back at the end of May!
Thanks Bret.
The ring toss is best done with a partner! Make a pact to get the aliens on your side (a little cross over in the middle) right away. After I've done my duty my partner usually shoots a bunch of rings into the mouth of the robot while it is open (it opens and closes) and I (who am not as skilled) tries to get the rockets with the bigger point values.
What's next? The giant Kitchen Sink dessert at PCH Grill (which is supposed to be huge - that's the whole novelty of it) suddenly shrinks from 10 or 12 scoops of ice cream to 6 scoops? I can see it happening! It was one of those giant roaches. I gasped in horror and tugged on Shawn's shirt to get her to look, and my other friend stopped too. We all saw this beast just merrily trotting along over the guys shoulder, and as we passed him the bug was lingering around the neck and starting to head down the back side of the shirt. It can be heart-stopping when you flip on a light and see one of these monsters. I have seen them appear in the cleanest of offices and clean kitchens. I don't know what it is about this part of town, but I have seen those things since I was a kid...and I have never, ever, ever gotten used to them. You would think I'd be desensitized to seeing them by now but I am not. I still either freeze in fear or squeal and run away.
I forgot to comment before about the size of the pineapple spears being smaller. That figures. The gingerbread cookies with mouse ears got smaller while the prices stayed the same or got higher. They started putting much less gravy on the meat loaf at Carnation Cafe, as well as skimping on the onions that were supposed to sit on top of it. It seems like the pineapple spears would inevitably downsize too.
TSMM and Soarin' are my two favorite rides at DCA too!
About that horrible bug - I'm actually glad it was too fast for you to get any photos of it. Your photos are large, and the last thing I want to look at is a big photo of a giant, disgusting bug! Ick! I would have had to skip the page of your TR that it was on and wait until you got to a new page because I couldn't deal with even skimming past it!
I've posted about this on the DIS before - one time (Summer 1992) my friends and I were walking past the line for either the Monorail or the Subs at night, and as we passed I glanced at a man wearing a Polo shirt. And I noticed a 'thing' crawling up the front of his shirt and over his shoulder!
What alarmed us - beyond just seeing a bug that was large enough to be noticed as we walked past a line - was that this man was standing there, chatting with friends, and no one seemed to say anything or appear to be aware that their friend was about to be eaten alive by a ravenous demon bug. I couldn't figure out if the guy with the creature on his Polo shirt had taken it from the planter which was adjacent to the line and put it there as though it was a pet, or if it somehow just jumped on him and no one said anything.
Anyway, ever since then I am always a little wary of sitting next to planters or flower beds at DLR because I know that while I am there something could come crawling out.
It's bad enough when you see huge bugs on a wall (or on a shirt!), but to see them on your table is just too much to deal with. So, suffice it to say that if I had been at your table at RDZ and saw that behemoth marching between trays on the table, there would have been no "calmly" backing away in my group. Nope. There would have been curse words flying around, probably a knocked over chair or two, some screaming..and then we would have run off into the night.
See, in the area where I live - and it is a good area, it's a relatively nice area, it's a very popular area because of The Grove and LACMA/The Tar Pits, Beverly Hills, etc. - there are a lot of those enormous roaches running around on the sidewalks at night. And sometimes...they find their way INSIDE people's houses or apartments, no matter how clean or how cluttered the place may be.
My thoughts weren't on photo taking at that moment anyway. Still makes me shudder, thinking about how close it was to our food! What if my sister hadn't seen the moving antennae, and we looked down and it was crawling across our plate! Ewwww. One reason she wasn't panicky is because she is used to seeing them as well. She lives in a nicer area as well and is all too familiar with the fact that those roaches will go wherever and whenever. And I did knock over a chair in my rush to get Buddy and move away from the table. There were some people sitting a few tables away from us that just watched and didn't say anything. They obviously would have heard our "Where is it?!?" type comments. We were moving chairs around and poking our trays (OK...just D was poking our trays...) trying to get it to come out of hiding. The idea of sitting in that area in the dark is scary to me now. Where's the little emoticon that says {shudder}?Sherry, I got the best laugh over the bug on the table. Just the thought, it would be the same for us.
As far as the guy with the bug on his shirt, if you could see it casually walking by his friends had to see it. Now I have the willys.
