Awesome character meet pictures with Pooh and friends.
That is one dramatic hair cut for Tracy. I think I agree with her.....another 1/2 inch or inch longer would be where I would have lopped it to. Glad it grew out quick. And congrats to her for breaking 200K on TSMM.
How amazing is that Rice Krispie treat? I have to admit that I prefer the marshmallow treats instead. Marshmallow dipped in milk chocolate, rolled in mini M&Ms topped with white chocolate drizzle. That's my fave.
Thanks! We were glad to get to meet the Pooh characters because they're some of my favorites.
Tracy's hair cut was, indeed, dramatic. Now, however, it's grown out so much that it looks so short in these pictures from just a few months ago.
We LOVED the Rice Krispie treat, but I have to agree that we may prefer the Marshmallow Wands slightly. Everything is delicious, though, so why choose?
Happy (belated) birthday! Glad to hear you got to spend it in the parks and have the fried chicken
So cool about the Randall/HM Wallpaper thing. I'll have to watch out for that next time I ride it.
Great Lion King drawing
Pretty photos of the Mark Twain.
I think there was more I meant to comment on but I can't remember now
Thanks! I had a really fun birthday, and it was great to top it off with fried chicken
Definitely keep an eye out for Randall. It happens really quickly, but it's really cool to see.
Glad you liked the Lion King drawing and the photos from the Mark Twain
If you think of anything else you meant to comment on, feel free to add another comment below!
I know what you mean about grad nites. We were there last year in May and you definitely could tell which nights were and which weren't. I thought they were talking about limiting them to one park only. You are right, they should give them their own space, like start grad nite at 9 p.m. and stay open most of the night. The kids would love that...and so would we!
Love Tracy's new hair. Very cute!
Love your drawing of the Lion King characters. You are one very talented dude! You can sing and dance and play the piano and draw too! Oh, and write.
As usual I am reading all your posts with great interest and getting some wonderful ideas and tips for our visit STARTING TOMORROW!
We didn't drive down to Anaheim on Thursday. Just decided that with the drive that would probably include a few traffic jams, the busy parks because of Halloween and it just being a couple more days until we were right across the street, we just hung around here and enjoyed the sunshine and the pool.
Yesterday we went to Griffith Park and visited the Autry National Center right next to the LA zoo. Very worth the visit, lots of cool Old West stuff like a real chuckwagon, stage coach, steam engine, lots of costumes and clothing from the era, lots of history. We loved it.
Ugh, Grad Nites... The thing is that (from what I understand) they used to just have DCA all to themselves at night and that was the extent of it. Annoying for the cast members, I'm sure, but at least it keeps them separated from the rest of the guests. Maybe they'll go back to that someday...
Glad you like Tracy's haircut. And you flatter me a little too much with my multitude of interests
I mostly just like to dabble in things, and I'm lucky that everything right-brained comes pretty easily to me.
I can't believe at this time tomorrow, your
Disneyland experience will be well underway! Probably for the best that you avoided Halloween because I'm sure it was pretty crazy... Plus, a pool day is always great anyway.
That's great that you got to go to Griffith Park. Did you check out the carousel where Walt came up with the idea for Disneyland? Visiting Griffith Park is definitely on our bucket list for that Disney connection alone, and I'm sure we'd really enjoy everything else there is to do there as well.
Hope you have a blast tomorrow and all week!! I think we'll probably be back at the parks at least briefly one of the days before we leave for CO, but don't know when just yet. If you happen to see us, please come up and say hi!
I love the R2D2 bucket! I was tempted to get it on our trip in July, but I had already bought 2 Dumbo popcorn buckets for the kids, and it's impossible to get away with buying just 1 of anything with my kids! It didn't have fries in it when I saw it. I think it was a snack pack with yogurt and carrot sticks or something and I think it was much more than $12 (certainly way more than I was planning to spend and not nearly enough food in it to justify buying it!)
We love the R2 bucket as well! I understand not wanting to get yet another popcorn bucket though, since we had the exact same dilemma. When you have to get 2 of everything, I'm sure that shelling out the cash for 2 Dumbos was quite enough for one trip! Plus it sounds like you didn't miss out on much not getting that snack pack anyway!
Hi from Australia!
I've really enjoyed your report, both the Disney and non-Disney parts.
As a tourist who can only visit every few years it's been really interesting to "see" Disney from a local's point of view. When you've only got 2 weeks or so out of a 6-8 week trip to spend at Disneyland (or WDW), you tend to go commando-style most days just in the hopes of not missing anything.
I think it's great that you and Tracey can pop in for a few hours here and there and just enjoy a few things at a time in more detail. Not to mention all that yummy food.
I'm looking forward to the rest of your report.
Hi!
I always love having more Australian readers, and I'm so glad to hear you're enjoying!
I definitely understand the commando-style touring when you're just here for a short amount of time because that's how we always were before we moved here. Now we definitely love being able to take things a little slower, though.
Hopefully you'll keep enjoying reading about all our shenanigans!
During me trying to convince her you guys really are good guys her 18 year old sister was on the couch saying, "Play it again!". 
I don't know how I got so behind!
