Pumpkins, and candy, and Mickey, oh my! (TR complete!)

[pixleyyy]

Oh man, my DD would LOVE that castle cookie. I'll have to think about that for her next time we're there.

 

[disneegrl4eva]

hey everybody....im back and can see i have ALOT to catch up to...Im so tired physically and mentally but we had a really good time....it was so flippin hot the first 2 days but by today it was actual fall weather...figures right??? anyways I will start reading tomorrow

 

[travelmel]

Ruben really does sound like a prince!

I'm a sucky editor!

Anyway, I loved the castle cookies, SO CUTE!

Those turkey legs are not too bad.. especially if you're hungry and BROKE which I, unfortunately, have been at DL in years past.

 

[travelmel]

hey everybody....im back and can see i have ALOT to catch up to...Im so tired physically and mentally but we had a really good time....it was so flippin hot the first 2 days but by today it was actual fall weather...figures right??? anyways I will start reading tomorrow

Welcome back! It's been really nice up here in the PNW.
P.S. I just love that haunted bat-mickey graphic!

 

[avalon451]

Loving your trip report, Beth!

Honestly, we must have been crisscrossing paths, because I swear I was in all the same places you were, at the same time, on Tuesday! I wish we'd seen each others' LGMMHs!

You know those kids and grownup women who were chasing Jack Sparrow? I was one of those grownup women... Well, on Thursday, anyway.

Can't wait to hear more!

 

[jordansmomma]

Ruben just got home and brought me a birthday present from his coworkers. So thoughtful of them! I guess since I am always sending in my baked goods they wanted to get me something as a thank-you.
Really I just love to bake, and sending it in keeps it out of my mouth! And off my hips. LOL (Gotta get to my weight loss goal!)

Anyway, they bought me the Twilight book! Finally I'll get to read it and see what all the fuss is about.

I just thought I'd share that since I know some of you reading along are Twilight fans.

OMG!! You have not read Twilight yet??

Thanks! Did you get a hangover for me too?

The first day was heavenly. One of those nice, uncrowded days. It was warmer then I'd like, but no biggie.



How fun! I want some swag too!!

If she didn't have a hangover for you, I sure did!! I swear BB & I partied with the pirates on Friday night!!

They all hopped on Big Thunder Mountain while I went to refill our water bottles at the Mexican restaurant, and from there we were off to Big Thunder Ranch. I love it back there during the holidays. Halloween and Christmas both. So festive.

Just look at all the wonderful pumpkin carvings!

We found a CM hard at work on some new carvings. Such skill and patience. I'd never be able to do that.

Some pics from inside the cabin they have there at the ranch and the petting zoo.

During Christmas at the ranch they sell snowman and Christmas tree sugar cookies to decorate and we did those last December. And near the Princess Fantasy Faire they sell castle sugar cookies to decorate and we did those in June. So of course we had to buy the cookies for Halloween too. They offer bats and pumpkins and we opted for the pumpkins. These are not cheap. $6 a cookie. I was happy only the twins were interested. LOL

They have picnic tables where you can sit and decorate your cookie or do some coloring which is what Noelle wanted to do. She loves anything to do with art.

The cookies:

I'm at my image limit, so I'll have to continue Day Three later. Up next....Dumbo drama.

Oh we did the cookies on Christmas Eve Last year. It was so fun!!

 

[mommaU4]

In the meantime, we look down at him and he is watering the shrub. Too late! Thank goodness only those right next to us could see what was happening.

OMG, how funny!

Oh man, my DD would LOVE that castle cookie. I'll have to think about that for her next time we're there.

They are really cute.

hey everybody....im back and can see i have ALOT to catch up to...Im so tired physically and mentally but we had a really good time....it was so flippin hot the first 2 days but by today it was actual fall weather...figures right??? anyways I will start reading tomorrow

Welcome back!!! Sorry it was hot. It's still so dang hot here. 89 today when we are supposed to be around 75.

Ruben really does sound like a prince!

I'm a sucky editor!

That's too funny. Need to take out that turkey leg and replace it with a rose.

Loving your trip report, Beth!

Honestly, we must have been crisscrossing paths, because I swear I was in all the same places you were, at the same time, on Tuesday! I wish we'd seen each others' LGMMHs!

You know those kids and grownup women who were chasing Jack Sparrow? I was one of those grownup women... Well, on Thursday, anyway.

Can't wait to hear more!

Thanks, I'm loving your too!! I wish we had run into each other. I thought about you while I was there. One night I saw a lady alone with what appeared to be her DD and I wondered if that was you. Now having seen your pics I know it wasn't. Oh well. Good thing I didn't walk up to her and ask if she was Avalon.

OMG!! You have not read Twilight yet??

Nope, not yet. LOL I know I'm one of the few who hasn't.

 

[mommaU4]

Ruben was off today so we decided to head down to the Strip and see how they decorated the Bellagio conservatory for Fall. It's so pretty! I took some pics that I will share here a bit later.

I told Ruben that living here surrounded by temps in the upper 80's and a bunch of cactus, going to the Bellagio was the only way we were going to see any Fall color. LOL

 

[JaneJetson]

Welcome back!!! Sorry it was hot. It's still so dang hot here. 89 today when we are supposed to be around 75.

It's 5pm here right now. It's 43 degrees out but the windchill is only 36! It's going to get down to the 20's overnight! EEK!

 

[kaoden39]

I wanted to share a picture of Oprah from the O You! seminar on Saturday. Sorry it isn't better.

 

[avalon451]

Nope, not yet. LOL I know I'm one of the few who hasn't.

Beth... maybe you won't be one of those bitten ( pun intentional) by the Twilight bug...

All I can say is, be thankful that you got a copy of it AFTER your big trip.

I started it 10 days before... and was up till 11:30 the night before we left, because I HAD to finish the last book before we got on the plane. And I did very little else except throw together my packing... after 6 months of over-obsessive planning, it all fell apart around the NEED to finish the Twilight series!

"Team Jacob... because I prefer my men with a pulse, thank you."

 

[jeminni]

Those pumpkin carvings are great. And so are your girls pumpkin cookies.

Ooh and I finally get to see a pic of your honey. You all are such a lovely family. Hopefully one day I'll get to meet you at wdw.

 

[mommaU4]

I started it 10 days before... and was up till 11:30 the night before we left, because I HAD to finish the last book before we got on the plane. And I did very little else except throw together my packing... after 6 months of over-obsessive planning, it all fell apart around the NEED to finish the Twilight series!

"Team Jacob... because I prefer my men with a pulse, thank you."

LOL That sounds like me with a good book. I have to finish it!

Those pumpkin carvings are great. And so are your girls pumpkin cookies.

Ooh and I finally get to see a pic of your honey. You all are such a lovely family. Hopefully one day I'll get to meet you at wdw.

Thank you. I hope to meet up with you one day too! Maybe at DL......

 

[tinkermell]

Beth I have a request.

Do you remember the cute Disney Halloween video for kids, that someone, (Lynn?) posted. I want to find it, and try to get my DIL to get the songs downloaded for our Halloween booth. It was on your old pre trippie thread.

Do you know how to find it, without spending hours going through all of your replies?

Thanks!

 

[mommaU4]

Beth I have a request.

Do you remember the cute Disney Halloween video for kids, that someone, (Lynn?) posted. I want to find it, and try to get my DIL to get the songs downloaded for our Halloween booth. It was on your old pre trippie thread.

Do you know how to find it, without spending hours going through all of your replies?

Thanks!

Yes, we own that video.

http://www.amazon.com/Disneys-Sing-...ef=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1225164048&sr=1-1

Do you want me to post a list of the songs?

ETA: Here the are: "It's Halloween", "Five Little Pumpkins", "Grim Grinning Ghosts", "Chicken Lips and Lizard Hips", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (a.k.a. "The Headless Horseman"), "Five Little Witches", "Spooky Scary Skeletons", "Casting My Spell", "Trick or Treat", "Monster Mash"

 

[tinkermell]

Yes, we own that video.

http://www.amazon.com/Disneys-Sing-...ef=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1225164048&sr=1-1

Do you want me to post a list of the songs?

ETA: Here the are: "It's Halloween", "Five Little Pumpkins", "Grim Grinning Ghosts", "Chicken Lips and Lizard Hips", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (a.k.a. "The Headless Horseman"), "Five Little Witches", "Spooky Scary Skeletons", "Casting My Spell", "Trick or Treat", "Monster Mash"

I knew I could count on you to find it nice and quick.

Thanks!!!

 

[mommaU4]

After Big Thunder Ranch we made our way over to Fantasyland. The line for Dumbo wasn't that long so the kids and I got in line. Something must have just happened (I overheard someone saying a person fell) because a medic and security were both exiting the ride area.

Anyway, we waited in line, and when it was almost our turn there was a lady (looked to be about mid 30's) who apparently fell while walking to her elephant and soon everyone was running and calling for security and the medic who had just left to come back. I didn't see her fall but when I looked at her, she seemed ok. No bleeding or scrapes were visible.

So we all waited while all sorts of personnel came to see what had happened. Finally they told everyone who was already seated to exit the ride, and had all of us waiting in line exit as well. They ended up bring a wheelchair for the lady and wheeling her over to the carousel where more personnel arrived including more medics with a stretcher. The whole thing seemed really weird since she had no visible injuries. Maybe she was diabetic or something and that's what made her fall. Either that or walking to get on Dumbo is much more dangerous then any of us ever knew!

Here is some of what it looked like before the stretcher and everyone arrived:

I have no clue how much time we wasted all total waiting for a Dumbo ride we never went on. LOL So much for it being a short line. Oh well, hopefully she was ok.

The girls wanted to do the carousel so I let them go on that. The line had opened back up for Dumbo so we ran back over there and were able to ride it twice in a row.

From there it was on to the tea cups. Well, not for me and Ruben. Blech! No thanks!!

Alice was up next and that is when I saw my first lime green mickey head EVER! LOL There was a lady in line who had one in her lanyard with a name written on it. She had blondish-brown hair and if I recall correctly a light blue tee. I could only read part of the name but it said Blue-something. She was too far back in the line though for me to get her attention. Oh well.

After Alice I was done with Fantasyland. Too crowded compared to the rest of the park, so we went to the First Aid to refill our water bottles. First time we'd ever done that. Thanks for the tip Callie!

Since this day was our snack day, while we were in that area, we had to grab some more snacks!

From the Coca Cola corner we got a Mickey pretzel with cheese. He's so cute! And a Coke with a splash of cherry in it. Yum.

A corn dog with apple slices came from the red cart. Also yum!

We sat and enjoyed our snacks, then were off to Tomorrowland. I don't know how they did it, but the kids convinced me to try Space Mountain. I used to love that ride growing up. Not so much anymore. My eyes were shut the whole time and the pic at the end came out so terrible!! LOL I simply cannot post it.

Next came Autopia, Buzz, Star Tours, Astro Orbitors. I won't do Star Tours but the kids love it. Gives me a headache.

The few bites of corn dog and pretzel were wearing off and the kids were getting hungry again. (We don't each get our own snack, we share. Cheaper, and allows you to sample more variety of goodies that way.)
So we headed to the Golden Horseshoe for a show and some grub. The kids each got chicken nugget kids meals while Ruben got the chili in a bread bowl.

I ran over to Riverbelle Terrace and grabbed a turkey sandwich for myself. They just give you the sandwich and you have to add the toppings and condiments. It was good but rather pricey at $13.

For dessert we had the Dreams cake.

After that, it was getting late. Disneyland closed early that day at 8, so we snuck in a few more things. The Mark Twain, another ride on Big Thunder, Splash Mountain, Pinocchio and ended the day with Mr. Toad.

I thought it was a great day. For being such shortened park hours, we accomplished a lot! I can't think of anything we wanted to do that we weren't able to.

After the park closed we walked back to the HoJo to meet up with my in-laws. They had checked in earlier that day and were going to spend the night so they'd be there in the morning to watch the kids while Ruben and I did some walking in Walt's footsteps. Stay tuned!

 

[mommaU4]

I knew I could count on you to find it nice and quick.

Thanks!!!

No problem. Glad I could help.

 

[wendylady36]

Mmmmm you just made me hungry. I SO cannot wait for March!

That one medic looks like he could be a cutie, too bad I wasn't there to "fall"

I'm happy that you were finally able to ride Dumbo, especially twice because I never got the chance to go on it...or any other ride except Pirates and Mark Twain!

 

[mommaU4]

Mmmmm you just made me hungry. I SO cannot wait for March!

That one medic looks like he could be a cutie, too bad I wasn't there to "fall"

I'm happy that you were finally able to ride Dumbo, especially twice because I never got the chance to go on it...or any other ride except Pirates and Mark Twain!

Pirates and Mark Twain twice no less! LOL Hey, in March I'm going to suggest we all go on Pirates and Mark Twain first! It's tradition now for you. LOL


They had so many medics and other park personnel there I couldn't keep track. I told Adam when we went on Dumbo that I wanted him to fall on the way to the elephant. He says "OKay mom. I'll make it a good one and fall in the water." We were kidding of course. He has my warped sense of humor.