"OUR BIG, FAT DISNEYLAND ROADTRIP" The End 4/20 pg. 44 Better Than Cats...

[PaMom001]

I'm watching Meet the Parents. The mom said, "Patootie."

 

[mikamah]

Your pictures are amazing. I especially love Riley with the volcano.

 

[my2boysrtwicethefun]

Great installment. Your pictures are absolutely beautiful as well as your daughter and nieces.

 

[CheeseNips]

Utah- You are the best! I think you are the funniest mama ever!

I have loved every minute of this TR!

 

[dwheatl]

I especially loved your rosebud niece picture. My grand-niece was over today, and I still have baby smell on me .

Keep it comin' Mama!

 

[WheatThins]

Missed a couple of installments. But this one was worth reading. I did read it too, not just skim it. Goofy for U/M you let her get by with calling you cute? In print no less. Let me PM you the husband's bill of rights to you.

Wheat Thins

 

[Animal Cracka]

Okay i loved it, i am hooked ! when is the next installment , you truly have a great writing style , you keep us wanting more... Hope i do not have to wait to long.

 

[MissDisney121]

Hi,
I just caught up on the whole report and I totally loved it. I grew up in california and your tr makes me miss DL and DCA so much. Good job and keep the fun and entertaining tr coming.

 

[MAGICFOR2]

Yay! A new installment! I hate Ferris Wheels too. However, I've never lost any hair on one.

I doubt that this East Coast girl will ever get out to Disney Land so eat a humongous corn dog for me next time you're there. Gotta love a place called Corn Dog Castle. Although, I don't really understand the connection between large headed royalty and fast food (e.g. Burger King).

Great trippie, keep it coming.

When my DH and I were dating, there was actually a place here called "Weiner King" Can you imagine?

 

[monymony3471]

UM: Loving the report. How can I not?

We are the geeks of carnivals. The Pier looks sooo cool. We go all the time around here. My boys would spend hours in dino land if I let them. Maybe I did. It's the last day I still have to write about, you know, in my spare time.

 

[corinnak]

When my DH and I were dating, there was actually a place here called "Weiner King" Can you imagine?

I personally can not imagine, though I can't speak for anyone else! Maybe they should build one of those next door to "Wendy's Beaver." That would be quite a town, then!

 

[dohgusgus]

February 23 “The Quest For FUN”…

Riley slept in the same bed as me. He held my one hand in his two hands next to his heart. He squoze my hand three times and whispered, “That means, ‘I love you, mom’”…So, I gave his hand three squeezes too and we fell asleep even with the fireworks booming.

That is the sweetest thing ever! You look so beautiful and I must say, you look different in each picture it's like you are the woman of 1000 identities

 

[dohgusgus]

Still February 24th...


Little did we know, (NOTHING good starts with “little did we know…”) a raging fever was brewing in our youngest child’s body. She was being awfully good, which is a red flag. We are used to her being awfully, well, “awful”! Before the fever drama was noticed, We took a picture of her kissing the Dumbo statue. I should assure you that I Clorox-wiped the statue prior to this totally impromptu embrace.

Since she was being so “good”, I thought we’d head on over to America Sings! Oh, that was at the bi-centennial (1976)! Ok, so lets head on over to the Carousel of Progress!!! But it is not there either, you say? You would be correct! Now, it’s a totally cool rotating, HUGE, Innoventions attraction/exhibit! All I can say is WOW! The first part we were in was the Kitchen and home of the future. They show scenes from Disney’s past look at the “future”. Things like dishwashers and plastic homes. I’m pretty sure there was a robot dog involved.

But I was holding a furnace disguised as a little girl. OH NO!!!! I paused for 10 seconds on one computer (an HP): “What kind of Virtual Tourist are You?”

I never got my answer, I took my baby straight to First Aid while my family played some more. I think they were doing a virtual fireworks display with the 1812 Overature blaring in the background.

First Aid is located outside of Tomorrowland toward Main Street. By then her little cheeks were red and she was miserable. There were 3 or 4 NICE nurses to help us. One of them took her ear temperature and it was 102*. They gave her 2 dissolving Tylenol and a drink of water. They gave me a list of several ER’s we could take her to with a map. I sat with her in the foyer of the First Aid station when Peter Pan himself leaped in! My little girl smiled and hugged him and I swear, Peter Pan sat with us a good 10 minutes and held her and tried to make her laugh. It was so incredible he took the time out of his busy day and sat with just one feverish girl and her mama. Well, I can say, the Tylenol and Pixie Dust worked and she seemed fine in a short while. Peter got Norah another drink of water, hugged us both and just like *that* he was gone.
No, I didn’t have the camera at that time. THAT picture is in my heart, though!

I decided to take her to the Baby Care Center to change her Pull Up and wash her face. It’s right next door. My DH and boys met up with us and I asked him to take a picture of Walt as a baby. His very cute mug hangs in the Victorian-themed baby care center. The lady at the front desk informed us it was his Christening day photo and babies wore dresses back then.

Norah seemed just fine after that so we figured we’d keep an eye on her and take her to an Emergency Room if needed.

I spied with my little eye a Corn Dog stand and wanted one badly! It’s near the First Aid/ Baby Care area in a cart. My family wanted to get lunch in Tomorrowland, so I got a HUGE corn dog with a small bag of Lay’s potato chips ($5.75). We ate at the Tomorrowland Terrace. I’m SO glad for my yummy hand dipped, deep fried corn dog! The food did not look that good. Here is the menu. Pretend you had to pay these prices for yucky food!

I swooped in and got a table as another family got up to leave. I even asked, “mind if I swoop in and take your table when you’re all done?” Yes I DID! They were cleaning up there wrappers and napkins seconds before our swoop. SCORE! I KNOW it’s not good DIS manners to hold a table but I had my recovering baby to hold and a corn dog getting cold, and a diet Pepsi to drink, so I sat. It was forever before the rest of my family joined us. So I chatted with a nice older couple. When they left they gave me a Tinker Bell pin! I guess the pin they aquired had one pin to keep, and one pin for them to give. The card attached to the Tinker Bell pin said: “Just wanted to spread the magic by giving you this exclusive Pixie Dust pin. After all, this is the place where dreams come true.” Isn’t that sweet???? I thanked them profusely and put her on my lanyard.

As I ate the World’s Best Corndog, I called TwinkieMama, my real life DIS friend. But I forgot what we chatted about. Do you SEE the importance of keeping accurate Trip Reporting notes??? I’ll assume I told her about Peter Pan? Maybe that the screen on my cell phone was broken? Probably about her now famous road trip game PNDQ? Maybe she can fill us in because I really cant remember. Surprised?

My DH and DSx2 joined us and he had the chicken sammich (the bun looked good) and the boys each got the mini-corndogs. They were mini- alright! This was their “Jedi-Meal” and for $4.99 each, they got 4 teeny tiny corn dogs. Hardly enough to keep any Jedi healthy and strong! Shirley they are kidding with this kids’ meal!

Time had passed and Norah is right as rain and is back to her normal pleasant self so we decided to ride the Matterhorn!

Since her ears were fine and she didn’t have any signs of sickness we rode this classic ride together. I took a picture of her standing in front of the height-guide sign. She’s plenty tall enough to ride. *Note her kitty leash! She LIKES her kitty leash! "Meow!"

Have I ever told you my mother rode this ride when she was BIG pregnant with me? I KNOW!
Jeez, that’s what’s wrong with me! She claims they let her, no problem! Hokayyyy! My birth came later on that week back in ’67! She says that used to be the scarriest ride, “back in the day”! She’s a little freaked out I put her 2 year old grand daughter on that ride, but I’ll tell you what I told her….”SHE LOVED IT!”
My son’s thought the Abominable Snowman was a leetle cheesey after having the soul scared out of them by the Yeti on Expedition Everest!

The ONLY thing to get Norah off this ride was the promise of going to It’s a Small World! To which my boys went ape **** over. They claim to hate that ride. I think they secretly adore IASW. So I drag them on it as often as possible. The exterior of this ride it amazing! Especially during the holidays and in the evenings. This was my favorite ride growing up. I just loved it as I KNOW my kids do, as they roll their eyes so far back into their skulls I tell the they will stick that way if they don’t knock it off!
Exterior of It's a Small World:

I called this the poodle tree:

See? she's fine! Me applying yet more lip gloss...

For ZZUB if he happens to grace this TR ("Please grace this TR, ZZUB!!!!")

See? Riley LOVES this ride!

Lookie, some real ducks at the exit on a platform!

Next we went to Toon Town!
This Toon Town is Rockin! I cant even compare it to WDW! It’s like night and day!!! UN-believable!

First we went on Roger Rabbit’s Car Toon Spin. This has tons of humor throughout, which I must say is the BEST friggin ride!

Dallen and Riley posing outside Roger Rabbit:

After this ride, I sat with the napping toddler while the males went and explores Mickey’s house and Goofy’s Playhouse. I decided to stroll over to the Princess Fantasy Faire to see what all the hubub was about. Holy Pink Glitter! It’s outdoors and set up with stands of places where your princess can get her hair done and face panted and nails done and the like. Of course, if you wanted, you can buy any Princess gown and accessories you could ever want too. And while her face is painted and she’s wearing a $65 dollar gown, why not frost a cupcake???? ((Stayyy asleeeeep little girl in my stroller!))

I did buy her some fake Barbie hair for her pony tail later. How fun is fake Barbie hair, I ask? VERY!

Next, I met up with my guys at Space Mountain so we could finally use our Fast Passs I forgot to tell you we got earlier. The guys rode first and exited toward me with those big, goofy, “Your-gonna-LIKE-this-ride, mama” faces! I love when I ‘m second to ride after a baby-swap! So I grabbed the nearest boy (luckily, it was MINE) and headed onto our Rockin Space Mountain ride. I was worried about the theming. WHY would the Red Hot Chili Peppers be blasted on a SPACE ride? As it turns out, it isn’t a space ride per say anymore. It’s a sad dark ride with cool music. Everyone liked it though. I felt sorry for it. It was trying really hard to be cool like Rockin Rollercoaster in WDW. So sad! Chili Peppers lyrics are generally very, very racey and naughty. So the song chosen is not exactly a top 10 hit, if you know what I mean. I would have really liked “Californication” or “Give it away, give it away now…” Hey, they Disnified “Love in an Elevator” for Aerosmith didn’t they? Anyway, sad ride if you’ve been on Rockin’ Roller Coaster is all I’m sayin’.

WHY do I pose like this??? I think it's to freak out my DS17!

We had 5:30 ressies for Blue Bayou. YAY! I was SO excited for this dinner! We had a chance to catch our breaths before dinner as we sat in the waiting area of the Blue Bayou. I hadn’t been here for 20 years! How exciting to dine right there in Louisiana on the Bayou with fireflies and gators! Our table wasn’t at all close to the boats as they drifted past full of tourists. But it was very nice anyway. Me and DH drank mint Julippes as we waited for our meals. These are a green colored non-alcoholic drink made with key lime juice and fresh mint. Awwwww! So good! I asked our sever, Dennis, if the mahi mahi is ever dry and he nicely answered maybe I’d like to try the salmon. “Why yes, that sounds delightful!” I said. DH ordered the Tesoro Island Chicken and the boys thought they’d go out on a limb and try the mac n cheese( Jeeeez!!!!). I was all set to try and make fun of the wedge salad. The wedge salad looks exactly like ¼ th of a head of iceburg lettuce with a few teeny pieces of sausage and a slice of avocado and a slice of tomato with a drizzling of vinegrette zig- zagged artfully a-top it. The idea of paying for that was funny, but it ended up the joke was on me…it was just delicious! Oh YES! Bring on the wedge salad next time! I only ate half of it because me and DH did the ol’eat-half-and-switch-maneuver of the truly cheap. He had the New Orleans Gumbo, which also was to die for! I LOVE Cajun food. So spicy and yummy!

Then the main courses came out. My slab of salmon was pretty huge! It was absolutely the best salmon I have ever eaten. I usually order salmon if it is a choice, because it is my favorite. Sometimes at Disney, it can be too dry or in the case of 50’s Prime Time, raw! But the Blue Bayou salmon is flakey and tender and moist and SO flavorful! My DH’s chicken also was very good (not nearly as good as my fish, though!).

After dinner outside the veranda...* note her new Barbie hair pony tail:

Here is a photo of the Haunted Mansion....(SOOOOO COOL!!!!)

Which has more to it that at WDW. Like there's the attic scene where there's tons of opened wedding gifts and wedding albums and wedding photos. Again, Norah is NOT scared of this ride at all! I am only mildly disturbed by this, though.

Next we rode the Pooh ride in "Critter Country" Land. I love this ride! Check out Pissy's face:

We rode Big Thunder Mountain next. I love this at night. The one difference I could tell between DL and MK was this:

It was nearing Fireworks time and the park was beyond crowded! I havent riden on the Astro Orbitors since they'd been re-done years ago...so me and Riley crammed ourselves onto this while Dallen rode by himself. Of course there's this sign in the queue reminding you to "stand....NOT dance!"

Prior to fireworks, DH snapped this little beauty of the tiny castle of Sleeping Beauty:

We have eaten at the Tomorrowland terrace (us teens being the hungriest most ravenous kind of human beings) for breakfast and it was pretty good. Don't know much about lunch though. My cousin and best friend (20yo) got a kick out of the star wars show and kept trying to go on stage when they asked for volunteers but us girls kept them at the table

 

[dohgusgus]

Where did you get that stuffed Crocodile? I want one!

 

[sorul82?]

Where did you get that stuffed Crocodile? I want one!

You have to join the croc exchange thread. It's on the community board.

 

[MAGICFOR2]

I personally can not imagine, though I can't speak for anyone else! Maybe they should build one of those next door to "Wendy's Beaver." That would be quite a town, then!

 

[disneyfanatic4]

I am loving you TR

 

[DISUNC]

DISUNC!!!! My all time flavorite Disser-Extraordinaire!

I guess I'll hear what REALLY happened that week 10-20 years down the road!!

Well if its "the worse" then most likely 9 months!

I didn't get any phone calls from my neighbor spys, though.!!

He paid them off!

The pets made it unscathed too. He'll be a real live adult in May, so I have to cut the umbilical cord soonish.

My Mom is STILL trying to do that!

 

[DISUNC]

And a LIMEGREEN Blouse to boot! Ya did us PROUD!

 

[DISUNC]

I love the product placement. Ha hahaha! Now quit raising the bar for us lame not technically inclined trip reporters. ok?

You are SOOOOOO Pretty. Thanks for the good-bye! Hope you all have a wonderful time!

I thought i was 'techy' cause i could type! Heck it work on my bosses for the past 29 years in IT!