Chapter 36
Christmas is Over?
We walked to the back of the restaurant and found what we were looking forthe pretzel spinner! Unfortunately, all the pretzels in there looked like they were hours old. I may have poked one to confirm my suspicions. Tracy reprimanded me later, saying that I probably could have found a more hygienic way to figure out that the pretzels were stale. The point, however, is that these were not the Mickey pretzels we were looking for. We wanted a fresh one. So I went up to the cast member at the register and asked if they could make a fresh batch. Since we were literally the only ones in the whole place, she quickly obliged and asked the kitchen staff to start working on some new pretzels.
We waited for a few minutes while our pretzel got heated up. Heres the (now empty) spinner after the cast member threw away the old pretzels.
Finally, out our treat came. It was piping hot, and we had to wait for it to cool for several minutes before digging in. Of course, we got the requisite side of nacho cheese to dip it in.
To say this was a glorious snack would be a gross understatement. At the time, we were swearing it was the best possible thing we could imagine eating. Disney food does that to you, and we had been deprived of this kind of snack for far too long. We gobbled down our pretzel and then didnt stay too much longer at Downtown Disney.
We also discovered this cool thrift store near us that is run by two of the people on the show Storage Wars. We had never seen the show, and then we happened to catch an episode about a week before we accidentally found this place.
On our first visit, the display that caught our eyes most quickly was several Disney pins priced very reasonably (about $3 each). This was obviously a collection that someone had prided themselves on at some point. We jumped at these really cool Autopia drivers license pins as well as this cool Minnie nametag cast member pin. We later looked them up on eBay to see if we had made some good finds and they were selling for over $50 each. Not that we were looking to sell. We just thought they were really cool, and they cost us less than $10 total.
These were actually the last few days of maintaining the routine to which we had become accustomed. The times, they were a-changin starting the very next week.
Those Mickey pretzels look so yummy!
I have watched Storage Wars and I think you went to the thrift store run by the married couple? Atleast one of the other bidders on the show also has a thrift store, but they just show the men. There is only one couple on the CA version. I would love to poke around that shop and hear them arguing!
looking forward to more of your journey/story!
They DID have some other really cool Disney memorabilia, however, including someone's whole collection of old Mickey Mouse watches, but everything was a little too expensive for us.
Sam's dad just bumped into the Claudia Schiffer lookalike and is googly-eyed. 
In fact I made it just the other night with some beautiful brioche which I bought from our local "Good Food & Wine Show". Yum! 
)) and her portrayal of Leslie is one of my favorite performances of late. Just lots of funny, all the time. I like most all the characters on P&R, so it makes for good tv watchings!
