We Moved to Disneyland!! Now What ? Stories from New DLR Locals - Updated 1/15

[franandaj]

While we sat and ate, this RIDICULOUS cat came up out of nowhere. He was so sweet, and Tracy and I pet him for a little while.





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OMG!!! Has that cat been short groomed to an inch of a razor blade or is that the way it seems in the picture???

No that's a "Lion Cut". We used to get one of our cats shaved before the summer every year. He was old and had very thick fur that would become heavily matted. This time they didn't do the tail tuft, but groomers do this all the time. This is Mikey.



Nice updates, I've never been to the OC fair, but the LA County fair is even more insane sizewize. We've tried a deep fried candy bar, but not a twinkie....

Oh and this morning Fran discovered Bruxie online and wants to go to the Huntington Beach location. I'm looking forward to trying it! I hope we actually get there!

 

[tayalltheway]

OMG!!! Has that cat been short groomed to an inch of a razor blade or is that the way it seems in the picture???

You take great pictures...not just sometimes...all the time!

Glad to hear from franandaj's comment above that this cat's grooming is normal. He just looked quite silly!

And thanks I really wasn't fishing for compliments, I swear! My camera just isn't very fancy, so I thought it was cool how it figured out how to make the horse in focus and the station slightly blurry in the background.

Almost quitting time here at work, so no time for comments, but I just read thru all your recent updates thumbsup2) and just wanted to "bookmark"

Glad you caught up, and hope you keep enjoying

I'm all caught up again! It sounds like you're really settling in well, making the most of Disney but also the surrounding areas. I love that Tracey got to ride Jingles again I've just been to see Saving Mr Banks and Jingles made a star appearance and was named in it!! I felt really sorry for that poor cat on the beach he looks like a Birman and their fur doesn't tangle, I've got a Birman that looks just like that one only with fur! He's called Mushu and seems to have exactly the same personality as Mulans Mushu! Looking forward to hearing some more of your adventures xx

We are DEFINITELY getting all settled in by this point. We still love to explore whenever we're not at Disney!

I'm so jealous that you got to see Saving Mr. Banks already! I heard that Jingles makes an appearance. What did you think of the movie?

Your Mushu sounds like a pretty great cat! We really liked the fellow we met on the beach. He was very affectionate!

No that's a "Lion Cut". We used to get one of our cats shaved before the summer every year. He was old and had very thick fur that would become heavily matted. This time they didn't do the tail tuft, but groomers do this all the time. This is Mikey.



Nice updates, I've never been to the OC fair, but the LA County fair is even more insane sizewize. We've tried a deep fried candy bar, but not a twinkie....

Oh and this morning Fran discovered Bruxie online and wants to go to the Huntington Beach location. I'm looking forward to trying it! I hope we actually get there!

Glad you could clear up our kitty confusion! I like Mikey

We were interested to possibly check out the LA County Fair sometime. Maybe next summer, though I don't know how we'll handle the sensory overload if it's even BIGGER than the OC one!

You MUST get to Bruxie ASAP! It's so delicious!!

 

[tayalltheway]

Chapter 119
Some of My Best Friends Are Goats​

 

[PrincessInOz]

Love the princess poses....in RSR and by Tracy. That's a great hat.

 

[PrincessInOz]

No that's a "Lion Cut".

Oh and this morning Fran discovered Bruxie online and wants to go to the Huntington Beach location. I'm looking forward to trying it! I hope we actually get there!

A Lion cut? I don't think I've seen that style here .... yet.

And you're going to Bruxie? At some stage, I'm sure there will be food porn.

 

[tinkerbells mum]

We are DEFINITELY getting all settled in by this point. We still love to explore whenever we're not at Disney!

I'm so jealous that you got to see Saving Mr. Banks already! I heard that Jingles makes an appearance. What did you think of the movie?

Your Mushu sounds like a pretty great cat! We really liked the fellow we met on the beach. !!

I really enjoyed the film I'd watched a programme earlier in the week about the making of it PL Travers had a pretty sad life but it was well explained in the film, I can't believe how rude she was though hope you get to see it soon and if you do don't leave when the credits come up as there is a 'bit more' to the film after that xx

 

[scrpbookr]

Tracy would make an adorable Rapunzel!

 

[tayalltheway]

Love the princess poses....in RSR and by Tracy. That's a great hat.

Thanks! I think we were both VERY pretty princesses

A Lion cut? I don't think I've seen that style here .... yet.

And you're going to Bruxie? At some stage, I'm sure there will be food porn.

You should be the first one to bring the lion cut to Australia!

And I agree that we'll need to see some pictures from that Bruxie experience!

I really enjoyed the film I'd watched a programme earlier in the week about the making of it PL Travers had a pretty sad life but it was well explained in the film, I can't believe how rude she was though hope you get to see it soon and if you do don't leave when the credits come up as there is a 'bit more' to the film after that xx

Thanks for the advice to stick around until the end of the credits. I'm glad you liked the movie!! I agree that PL Travers seemed like such a rude/sad woman from everything I've heard about her. I wish that the ending of the story between she and Walt had been happier (like I think it is in the movie), but I know she went on hating the Mary Poppins film until the day she died. Oh well... The movie comes out here on Christmas Day, and you can bet we'll be among the first in line!

Tracy would make an adorable Rapunzel!

Agreed! It didn't happen this year, but maybe next Halloween...

 

[tayalltheway]

Chapter 120
Impromptu Road Trip​

 

[PrincessInOz]

Chapter 120
Impromptu Road Trip


When we got to the Australia section of the gardens, I made sure to take a picture. Any of you folks from down under recognize these plants/trees?



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That tree looks like a Ti (tea) tree (Melaleuca genus) to me. I can't tell if the bark looks like a paperbark or if it's just the standard ti-tree.



And I don't think I'll be starting any Lion Cut trends in Oz. Certainly I won't do that to either of my two cats.

 

[Luisa]

That tree looks like a Ti (tea) tree (Melaleuca genus) to me. I can't tell if the bark looks like a paperbark or if it's just the standard ti-tree. And I don't think I'll be starting any Lion Cut trends in Oz. Certainly I won't do that to either of my two cats.

I thought it looked the paperbark one with the little spiky leaves that I always manage to get caught in my hair! Also the bush down the front looks like a bottlebrush. The gardens certainly look like a great place to spend the day!

 

[tayalltheway]

That tree looks like a Ti (tea) tree (Melaleuca genus) to me. I can't tell if the bark looks like a paperbark or if it's just the standard ti-tree.

And I don't think I'll be starting any Lion Cut trends in Oz. Certainly I won't do that to either of my two cats.

I thought it looked the paperbark one with the little spiky leaves that I always manage to get caught in my hair! Also the bush down the front looks like a bottlebrush. The gardens certainly look like a great place to spend the day!

Wow, I'm very impressed by both of you! If someone asked me to identify a tree I see around here every day, I'm 99% sure I would have no idea what it was!

 

[tayalltheway]

Chapter 121
Beware of Tree Snakes​

 

[franandaj]

Glad to hear from franandaj's comment above that this cat's grooming is normal. He just looked quite silly!

Glad you could clear up our kitty confusion! I like Mikey

You MUST get to Bruxie ASAP! It's so delicious!!​

They'll either shave everything (meaning the head fur as well) or leave them with the lion cut. We had lots of older cats with very long hair that stopped grooming themselves and wouldn't let us brush them out, so we had to just shave them down in the springtime.

Mikey has gone on to the rainbow bridge quite a few years ago, but we have a whole new batch of kitties some who just arrived in the last 24 hours!

A Lion cut? I don't think I've seen that style here .... yet.

And you're going to Bruxie? At some stage, I'm sure there will be food porn.

You could be a trend setter!

I'm glad you told me that! Normally I do take pictures, but I have been lazy about it sometimes lately.

Thanks! I think we were both VERY pretty princesses
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Love it!

You should be the first one to bring the lion cut to Australia!

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It think so too!

And I agree that we'll need to see some pictures from that Bruxie experience!​

OK, OK!

Thanks for the advice to stick around until the end of the credits. I'm glad you liked the movie!! I agree that PL Travers seemed like such a rude/sad woman from everything I've heard about her. I wish that the ending of the story between she and Walt had been happier (like I think it is in the movie), but I know she went on hating the Mary Poppins film until the day she died. Oh well... The movie comes out here on Christmas Day, and you can bet we'll be among the first in line!​

Yes, I've seen it too and for the life of me, now I can't remember what the last scene was. We always stick around in Disney movies, I never know if someone I know from school will be in the credits, I saw one guy's name in Frozen. And that one too, if you haven't seen it yet. Stay till the end!

After spending a solid couple of hours at the Botanic Garden, we left and drove the short distance into town. Before long, we saw this sign beckoning us—the actual reason for our journey.

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We ran across one of these our trip to Washington DC. ACDSNY lives in Sacramento and has one right near her work and rubs it in everytime she goes there! Love this place, I wish it would come to the LA area.

While we were waiting, we looked at the menu and saw that they also had Bread Pudding as a dessert. Deciding we actually wanted to try that instead, we placed our order.

Our Bread Pudding came out, looking quite delicious.



We poured on the sauce it came with after a few bites to see how that was too.



The dessert on the whole was definitely good. The one thing it had in it that we didn’t particularly love was raisins. Neither of us really DISLIKE raisins per say, but I’m not usually a fan when they are cooked into desserts. We both mostly ended up eating around them, and the bread pudding itself was really good.​

We did this same thing tonight, but we got the Beignets AND the Bread pudding. We split a pretzel dog first so that we weren't having dessert for dinner! I didn't notice the raisins, I'm kind of the same way about them too, it was good! So were the beignets!

This picture is actually an awful capture, but the story that goes along with it is interesting. For months, we’d noticed these flocks of really loud birds that seemed to like flying way above our apartment and other places in our area. We never knew what they were, and then while we were sitting on the balcony, two parrots flew down and landed in the apple tree in our courtyard. We’re talking full-sized parrots that you would expect to see in the zoo or in a rainforest. They ate some of the apples (which they are doing somewhere in that picture—though I’ll admit, I can’t seem to see them and I took the picture…) and then they took off again after about 10 minutes. Now when we see the birds flying high up in the air, we can indeed verify that they are parrots! Apparently parrots really do live in SoCal. We thought it was something cool to learn.
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Were they green parrots? There is a flock of green parrots that started out in Belmont shore in Long Beach, they have grown so large (flocksize) that they have broken into splinter flocks. We had a flock on our street the other day and they were dive bomb fighting with some other birds, and then some crows came in and broke up the whole thing. It was really weird, I felt like I was having an Alfred Hitchcock moment with all these birds dive bombing each other on our street!​

 

[Luisa]

I think I see a green parrot about halfway down on the left! It has it's back to the camera and is turning its head to the side.
That bread pudding looks wonderful! I'm going to have to save some stale bread and make it. Hope your allergies aren't playing up too much now that Crooky has won his way in to your house.

 

[tayalltheway]

They'll either shave everything (meaning the head fur as well) or leave them with the lion cut. We had lots of older cats with very long hair that stopped grooming themselves and wouldn't let us brush them out, so we had to just shave them down in the springtime.

Mikey has gone on to the rainbow bridge quite a few years ago, but we have a whole new batch of kitties some who just arrived in the last 24 hours!

You could be a trend setter!

I'm glad you told me that! Normally I do take pictures, but I have been lazy about it sometimes lately.

Love it!

It think so too!

OK, OK!

Yes, I've seen it too and for the life of me, now I can't remember what the last scene was. We always stick around in Disney movies, I never know if someone I know from school will be in the credits, I saw one guy's name in Frozen. And that one too, if you haven't seen it yet. Stay till the end!

We ran across one of these our trip to Washington DC. ACDSNY lives in Sacramento and has one right near her work and rubs it in everytime she goes there! Love this place, I wish it would come to the LA area.

We did this same thing tonight, but we got the Beignets AND the Bread pudding. We split a pretzel dog first so that we weren't having dessert for dinner! I didn't notice the raisins, I'm kind of the same way about them too, it was good! So were the beignets!

Were they green parrots? There is a flock of green parrots that started out in Belmont shore in Long Beach, they have grown so large (flocksize) that they have broken into splinter flocks. We had a flock on our street the other day and they were dive bomb fighting with some other birds, and then some crows came in and broke up the whole thing. It was really weird, I felt like I was having an Alfred Hitchcock moment with all these birds dive bombing each other on our street!

Sounds like a full house! Hope the new kitties are adjusting well!

Looking forward to hearing your Bruxie impressions sometime soon!

We DID see Frozen, and we had read to stay till the end, so we were glad we did.

I truly have no idea why Noodles hasn't moved up to the LA area yet. I think it would do really well... Go figure...

Glad to hear you liked the RB Bread Pudding. Good idea to split that AND beignets (because how can one really choose between two delicious desserts??).

The parrots WERE green! That's interesting to hear that they started in Long Beach. We see them at least once a day around here, but they're always flying REALLY high up in the sky. We've only ever seen these two actually land. We have also seen them get into a fight before. I think it was with a hawk...

I think I see a green parrot about halfway down on the left! It has it's back to the camera and is turning its head to the side.
That bread pudding looks wonderful! I'm going to have to save some stale bread and make it. Hope your allergies aren't playing up too much now that Crooky has won his way in to your house.

I think you're right about the parrot. They blend in so well, though!

Hope the bread pudding you make turns out well.

And I'm actually much less allergic to Crooky than most other cats, luckily. Even so, he only comes in for short periods of time and is NEVER allowed in the bedroom...

 

[tayalltheway]

Chapter 122
Touring with Friends​

 

[PrincessInOz]

Looks like a couple of eventful days (and updates) coming up.

I like the blonde you have with you.

 

[franandaj]

I'll be interested to hear your take on the Expo. I'm just getting to Day three of the Expo in my TR. I hope you get to see some panels and stuff because as veterans of the previous Expos, we have planned our visits in even more detail than a WDW vacay! You need a definite plan of attack and strategy to get the biggest bang for your buck!

 

[Dizzy4DL]

Coming out of lurkdom to say how much I love your trip reports, especially this ongoing one. Thank you for taking the time to write these out, and post your pics.