New trip t-shirt mission
I'm on a new mission now - must find a Mickey ears design with Mickey at bat that would look great printed in black & white!
All help is appreciated!
New binder
I might have "borrowed" one of Mickey's school binders and switched mine with his, due to an excess of paper in my "it's not a Disney binder, honey" binder - the one I had was 1/2" and the new one is 1-1/2", still lime green though
Great Saturday
We had a great day yesterday - went to Steveston (a little area in Richmond, a suburb of Vancouver). It's sort of a fishing tourist area - quaint shops, nice boardwalk, etc. We enjoyed our special treat of lunch at PaJo's - IMO, the best fish & chips in Canada - and ate our lunch sitting in adironack chairs looking at the ocean
We walked around the boardwalk, stopped for fresh ice cream/sorbetto and did a little bit of shopping (for Grumpy, we stopped at a British shop for some Tetley darjheeling tea (hard to find elsewhere) and an Arsenals lanyard (yes, we're big Arsenals fans!); for the rest of us, we stopped at a little candy shop and bought some fresh fudge (cookies & cream and chocolate/caramel flavours). Our last stop before going home was a fishmonger right beside the water (they buy their fish right off the boats each day - we checked out what the fishing boats were selling, but they only had prawns and great huge fish; we weren't up for paying $70 for a massive salmon lol) and came home with lovely fresh halibut and ahi tuna steaks. Grumpy barbecued the fish and it was a fantastic end to a super fun day
Trip groceries change
I have decided to try wegoshop.com instead of gardengrocer.com this time - I like the idea of paying the store prices and, after speaking with Marge (the local wegoshop rep for WDW resorts), I feel good about the switch. I can check out the Publix (or whatever local store) flyers online (not that I've already done that or anything
), make a list and send it to her. The delivery charge is US$5 more than gardengrocer, but I think we'll save more on the item pricing than that, so it's all good! I'll let you all know how it goes!
To cooler or not to cooler, that is the question
I'm debating whether or not I need to add a styrofoam cooler to the grocery list - we have a soft side collapsible cooler that I'm planning to bring, but I was thinking that we could put the critically essential coffee cream into the soft side cooler with ziploc bags of ice, then put the soft side cooler into the styrofoam cooler, which would leave room in the styrofoam cooler for bottles of water, fruit, etc. I think. So, what are your thoughts? Yes, these totally minor issues do plague me
American fireworks
As usual, we could easily hear Independence Day fireworks for hours last night - I think Blaine, WA must have a really big fireworks budget LOL Too bad we couldn't see them from home, but if we'd gone down to the beach, we probably could have. Maybe we'll do that next time
On a sad note
I've just been told that Tigger's goldfish (King Arthur) has gone to goldfish heaven (aka where goldfish go when they're flushed down the toilet) - Tigger's OK with it, but Mickey needed lots of information and understanding to cope with it. He's OK now, but is watching his fish (Nemo) much more often than before.
To be fair, those goldfish didn't really have a fighting chance. The boys "won" them at a local Canada Day festival (they had a bunch of childrens' games). Those fish spent the day like this - getting dumped into a childrens' swimming pool with hundreds of other goldfish, being chased around said pool by countless children taking turns catching the fish with nets on long poles, being put into a ziploc bag with some pool water after being "won" by each child, being carried around the festival for an hour on a hot day in full sunshine, having a ride home in our truck and then being put into the fish tank. Not a good start, I'm afraid. I told the boys on the way home from the festival that these were "training" fish and that these fish would teach them how to take care of fish, in order for the boys to be able to take care of "real" fish. I was trying to cushion the blow kwim?
you got me beat girl!!!
It actually irritates me....why can people go to the exact same city, resort etc in Mexico and they don't think it's the same as us going to WDW??? Speaking of freaks.....
Less than two months now before we'll be telling the boys! 
, I'm glad you're here!
Well, he lived for about 6 months and then died. Well, the girls fell in love with him, so we had to go to the petstore and buy more 
