I was crossing my fingers that you posted your update to your TR and it shown with no problem.
I'm sorry to hear about your injured foot Sherry. I hope that you get better soon.
Very nice pics of the menu and your desserts at Ghirardelli's. I agree that Ghiaradelli's is going to give Gibson Girl at DL a run for it's money as the best place at the DLR to get ice cream. Not only the selection of ice cream but also the AP discount does make a big difference.
I'm still glad that you got to go to the CL & BVS preview with Liza. It would have been great if I did ran into you or Liza at the preview. But we did miss each other that day. It was neat that you also got to see Jessica that day. Those are very nice pics of you, Liza and Jessica at the BVS fountain.
Nice pics Sherry.
Hello, Bret!
Thank you for the kind words! Yes, I made it through 2 installments without losing all of my text and photo links, so that's a start. I get so discouraged and upset when I lose everything (before having a chance to save it) that it kills the roll that I get on and makes me not want to continue. I want to continue on and get this June 9th TR out of the way - and I am so close to the end! - so that I can go back to the holiday TR, which will be a little more involved (with very few photos).
Unless Gibson Girl starts accepting the AP discount or increasing the number of items on the menu, I think Ghirardelli will be more interesting for a while. Plus, Gibson Girl doesn't have any outdoor seating, and Ghirardelli does. I think that sometimes folks like to sit outside and people watch while eating their ice cream (
hello, Deejdigsdis!), and at Gibson Girl there is no place to do that. You have to wander down Main Street to sit somewhere. Ghirardelli actually has no indoor seating - only tables outside. Plus, Ghirardelli has hot drinks, chocolate bars and ice cream!
Now if Ghirardelli doesn't have any peppermint ice cream during the holiday season, you will find me over at Gibson Girl!
You know, while we were at DLR I told Liza that you were there that same day and I asked her if she would recognize you if she saw you (I couldn't recall if you had met her at a
D23/Destination D event in the past) so that we could say hello. She wasn't sure, but she said she may have seen you in passing at an event and might recognize you.
Thanks. It was an in room celebration for Connors first birthday. For kids under three, there are not a lot of items to choose from with the baskets.
I am sorry you hurt your foot. You should get an x-ray. My sister let a small fracture in her foot go for too long. It never healed and only got worse with time. She just had surgery on it last month to repair the damage. Hopefully, whatever is wrong with your foot can be quickly fixed or heals.
Ghiradelli looks great. I walked in there while Crap and Xander were on MJJ. It does not take the Key to the Magic Cards, and I was not carrying any cash. We never made it back, so I did not get anything. Everything looked good, and it is definitely on my list as a must for next time. California Adventure was definitely busier than
Disneyland when we were there. A MMY photographer even mentioned that the park had been dead since Cars Land open, so you are right on that so far.
The brochure is neat. That is a nice souvenir indeed. Nice that you also had a couple of DISmeets that day.
Kim -
How much time passed from when your sister fractured her foot to when she had the surgery? I'm assuming it must have become unbearable for her to walk after a while. And do you recall if she was in pain immediately after the fracture, or if it took a little while to start acting up?
I am assuming the pain in the side of my foot is due to the little foot-curb incident on Buena Vista Street, but I am hoping I just bruised something and didn't fracture it. Wishful thinking, I know!
(That's the kind of reasoning that goes through your mind when you don't have insurance!
)
In December (on Christmas Day!), I took a tumble and fell on the sidewalk (when I was sick), and apparently banged my knee in the process - even though I didn't really remember banging my knee. The skin was bruised and scraped, but the pain underneath, seemingly on the bone, lasted longer than the bruise on the skin. It hurt for a while - only if pressure was directly applied to it, though - and then eventually it went away over time. Now I can press on the knee and it doesn't hurt, I am hoping the same thing happens with my foot! I suppose it would help it I stay off of my feet as much as possible.
I'm really surprised that Ghirardelli didn't take the Key to the Magic card but they will take an AP discount! They are still new at DLR, though, so maybe in time they will take the Key.
I don't know if the current interest in DCA will decrease a bit over time - it could just be a temporary thing because of the new additions to that park - but now that all of those pesky walls are down and the whole makeover is finished, I think it will start to grow on more people. I know that
Molly/bumbershoot already preferred DCA over DL - even before the makeover!
As much as I love so many things about Disneyland, and that's the park I grew up with, California Adventure offers a different vibe and a nice alternative to Disneyland that appeals to me. It's a different experience, in a way, although there are still obvious signs of Disney magic around the park. I almost sort of think that on future trips it will come down to a matter of my mood - what is my mood today? Which park do I feel like being in today? During the Halloween and Christmas seasons, Disneyland is the place to be for me - DCA just doesn't compare. For me, that's a 'con' in the whole situation, whereas for other folks it's a 'pro'! I would suspect that, for the people who don't like a lot of holiday decorations and music, DCA is a welcome break!
I have pastry Irish skin too and got pretty burned on our last trip. There were a lot of people wearing jackets on our last trip, and I thought they were nuts. While the weather was not as hot as Vegas, it was not cold. Youre so right about how people view weather differently. We have never been to Pixie Hollow either. Great water shots. You got some lovely flower shots. I am glad you had a chance to see them in the summertime for a change. I hope you started feeling better soon.
Kim -
Jackets?! Those people
were nuts! I didn't even see the people you are taking about but I know they were nuts!
Yes, Vegas is definitely a hotter place than Anaheim anyway, but it gets hot here in SoCal. When people try to tell me, "Well, at least it won't be hot tomorrow," or some such reassuring thing, what they don't realize is that - to
me - it will feel hot! If I am already feeling like my internal organs are boiling under my skin, then it doesn't help to have additional heat hit my skin too!
Then I just feel like I am burning from the inside out!
This is why I merely endure Summer - as much as I love beaches and the ocean, and BBQ's and all that fun stuff, I cannot wait for Fall to get here. Oh what a happy day it will be for me!
Thank you for the kind words about the pictures.
Michele (kaoden39, who had disappeared from this TR until today) had been saying how much she loves Pixie Hollow. I love taking photos with characters, but had absolutely zero interest in taking and photos with fairies! So that's why I stayed away from PH. However, at the Halloween Party in October, one of the treat trails/stations was located in Pixie Hollow, and I noticed how beautiful it is at night (when there are no fairies around!). That made me curious to return to PH in the daytime.
So even though I only got a few feet into Pixie Hollow on this last trip, now I have at least gotten a glimpse of what's in there, and I want to go back. The area is
so pretty and picturesque in and of itself that it's worth a look, even if I avoid the fairies!!
My heat-related nausea held off for a while that day, as you will find out. The next day, however, it hit me!
Haagen Dasz bar for as much as a box of bars. Painful.
I'm getting more and more into having hotels with fridges, so I can bring lovely goodies and eat them at the end of the day, for much cheaper!
I forget if you've ever gotten the lovely First Aid icepacks when dealing with your heat problems? I have! They are fabulous. (also got one when I twisted my ankle stepping off a curb!)
Molly -
Aside from the pretty pink color of the cotton candy, the main reason I took that picture of the Dibs/Haagen Dazs sign is because of the prices!
I was in shock (and yet, I should expect those prices at DL).
I couldn't believe how expensive the Dibs were - almost as much money as a full carton of Dreyer's Ice Cream when it's
not on sale. And when the Dreyer's carton is on sale in the stores, it is much cheaper than those Dibs at Disneyland!
I didn't even check to see how much they are charging for my beloved pineapple spears these days. If I hadn't just eaten the costly sundae at Ghirardelli I would have gotten a pineapple spear. A healthier choice, for sure.
I have not gotten one of the ice packs from First Aid, but I remember you mentioning those packs and hot great they were. That's a possible option for me for the future. Ice packs or gel packs work wonders for me when I have headaches or neck pain.
Glad to see I am not the only one who has trouble stepping off of curbs!
My foot is mainly hurting when I walk on it or put on shoes, but as I just sit here it is not hurting. I wonder if it would do any good to apply an ice pack to it, since it seems to be a problem that is lingering for a long time. I suppose it can't hurt to get out the pack, right? It may not help, but it can't make it worse.
So much to comment on my fellow pasty Irish woman!
HEY - I listened to the podcast (once I hunted it down) and loved it!
I must say your dark blue shirt is most stylin'! A good alternative when a cool black one is unavailable.
Your flower shots are excellent! Even the one I needed to lay my head on the desk to view. I've never made it into Pixie Hallow either. Perhaps because of who I roll with?
Your ice cream did indeed look decadent. Was it as delish as it looked?? No trash can incidents with this treat?
LOL about the FB question. You must look like you know what you're doing!
So glad you were able to post another installment. You know I enjoy the heck out of them!
TK
TK -
Ah yes, the joys of having pasty Irish skin that burns in 5 minutes! Isn't it fun?
When all else fails, I have to resort to dark blue t-shirts. I prefer to not have to go to such extremes
, but I will in a pinch!
I'm glad you finally got to listen to the Podcast and that you enjoyed it!
They may never invite me back for another one, so I figured that could be my only shot! Do I sound like what you imagined from the TR?
You may have noticed that when the other Podcast participants brought up the subject of "favorite threads on the DIS," I was thinking about my answer and someone - it may have been Nancy - mentioned that she thought my favorite thread was the Christmas thread.
Well, yes, my Halloween and Christmas Superthreads are my clear favorites, of course, but I was actually trying to think of other, less obvious, choices to mention that sounded a tad less self-serving. I was thinking of the "flower thread," ("Stopping to Smell the Roses...Literally") but I totally blanked out on who started that thread. It's a DIS'er whose name escapes me. And I was trying to think of some other great TR's to mention, too, but I didn't even know where to begin. Before I had a chance to even come up with something, Nancy mentioned the Christmas Superthread as being my pick. So, rather than waste everyone's time while I tried to think of other choices, I just stuck with the obvious ones - the 2 Superthreads. But, really, I wanted to throw something out there that was not so apparent!
Thank you for the nice comments on the pictures.
I am so glad to know that I'm not the only one who has never ventured into Pixie Hollow! If I can avoid having to take fairy photos, I will be all over Pixie Hollow - it's a beautiful spot in the park!
Yes, I don't suppose that your family of manly men will appreciate PH!
If you ever make another solo trip, of course, you should go in there and look around!
I'm not sure what happened with the flower picture that rotated, that caused you to have to lay your head on the desk!
Sometimes that happens for no reason - where the photo will somehow get rotated on its own and will load to Photobucket that way. But it doesn't happen with every single picture, so I can't figure out why it happens with some and not with others. I didn't feel like fixing it yet, but I will probably go in and fix it and then insert it in place of the photo above. I think it looks kind of interesting the way it is - you can still see the flowers clearly, just not at the right angle!
The ice cream sundae I had was good (mostly anything with ice cream will be good), but the "hot fudge" was not hot. In fact, it was kind of frozen chewy. The butterscotch was good, but it didn't taste like other butterscotch I've had in the past. Maybe the stuff I've had was not the 'real' stuff, so maybe the Ghirardelli version is the real deal and that's why it's different. It didn't really seem to have 2 scoops of ice cream in it (vanilla and butter pecan), either. The whipped cream was fresh.
Overall, though, my sundae was good! Liza said she liked hers as well.
I thought it was so funny when the couple came into Pixie Hollow and asked me the Buzz Lightyear question! It's like they saw me and thought, "She looks like she knows something because she is taking pictures of fountains," and swooped right in!
I hope it feels better soon. 
Well, everyone knows that taking pictures of fountains means you are SOMEONE. 
