So for Gay Days weekend, we decided that we would actually stay over. I pushed my luck and asked if we could stay Friday night too, and booked both nights in a studio at 11 months. Well who knew that Carol Channing was going to have a fundraising event for her charity to bring music back into the schools on the last night! Fran was having me call every day to see if I could extend our stay through Sunday! No dice, but I love how it used to be me asking we could stay two nights and now she is wondering if we need more points so that we can stay in 1 bedrooms all the time!
We checked in, but our room wasnt ready. She had bought two of the hyenas from the Lion King the week prior, but didnt get Ed. She had called all over So Cal seeking Ed and actually found him, so instead of go and hang out at the resort, we decided to head to the store that had Ed. It was at Southcoast Plaza which was about 20 minutes from DL. This place practically costs you just to walk into the mall!
OMG They had a Charlie Palmer Restaurant there, Bloomingdales, every freakin high end store you could think of. Valet parking, I mean this place gives Rodeo Drive a run for its money! Youre talking people with money shop here! But we just went to the
Disney store, got our critter and headed back out.
Just as we were pulling back up to the hotel at 3:57 I got the text with the room number. 4504! For those of you who have stayed in studios at the VGC, the 04 rooms have the best views. Floor, 6, then 5 and 4 or 3. Anything lower than that and you cant see over the fence. So here is our view.
Our plan for the evening was to have dinner at Trader Sams Bar. We had eaten there a few weeks back and it was really good, but we were also overtired that night and sat in the outside. This time we wanted to sit inside. However, before we went over there, we wanted to meet up with Hawleys who was flying in with her wife and they intended to attend Mickeys Halloween Party. Their plane was delayed so we passed the time by visiting the Gay Days information center, to purchase pins, souvenirs and pick up our tickets for the Carol Channing event on Sunday.
We went back to the room for a little while, and received a text from Hawleys shortly thereafter that they were on their way to the Halloween Party and were dressed in their costumes, Huey, Duey and Luey.
So we decided to head over to the bar. Great Theming!
This window because very animated when customers ordered various kinds of drinks, like the Volcano, it would appear to spout smoke, another drink would cause rain to fall. It was fun.
We ordered an Uh Oal
We also ordered the Lettuce Cups and Fish Tacos
There was a little ritual when the drink arrived, they lit it on fire and then we tossed cinnamon into the drink to make extra flames. Then our server extinguished the fire and put the straws in.
Our appetizers arrived.
Fish Tacos
And the Lettuce cups, these were awesome! I highly recommend them!
After that round of food and drinks, we were still hungry so we ordered another round of stuff.
I got a Ka-Blue-ie!
Fran ordered at HippopotoMaiTai
They were out of souvenir glasses, so she just got a regular drink.
We considered, but decided against the Tiki, tiki, tiki, tiki, tiki Rum
We ordered a BBQ pulled pork flat bread and the green beans
Finally we were full and tired and headed back to the room. But I snapped a few pictures of the outside seating area. We sat there last time, and were probably too tired to handle all the inside quirks at that time. However, inside was a lot of fun this time!
This is the view we came back to in our room
Our next stay at VGC will be Nov 12!
Sorry about the allergies...my kitties are such a large part of my life, I don't know what I would do without them!
Only 10 days left until I find out just how cool Harry Potter land is!
: so many choices! 
), pick up a small package of complete pancake mix and a little bottle of syrup, and make pancakes with bacon, make bacon and eggs and have breakfast for dinner, or if you like pasta, you can make pasta carbonara (with cream and eggs, and crumbled bacon). 
I would be more likely to make French Toast over pancakes. On our previous to last trip I made carbonara one night because we had all that stuff on hand. I just checked the contents of my OL and we have spaghetti in there. I was thinking I could get a can of clams and we could have spaghetti and clam sauce, but Fran didn't like that idea. As I said, must start on that shopping list!
