Today was Saturday, and I got to sleep in til 9am no rope drop for me! When I got up, I decided it might be nice to munch on a chocolate peanut butter Ghirardelli square for breakfast. Unfortunately, fate had other plans...
This is how hot it got in Jenseys car yesterday
Fortunately for me, Little Debbie Snack Cakes can withstand temperatures up to and exceeding those of a nuclear blast.
Also, I discovered that Id been left some towel animals in my window I never get towel animals!
The plan for the day was to meet up with Nathan & Jensey & Amelia (Jenseys sister) for lunch at the Plaza in the Magic Kingdom, ride a few rides with Lori, help out at PassPorters first Decade of Dreams meet, have dinner at Todd Englishs bluezoo, and then meet Nathan & Jensey & Amelia again at Disney bride Christins IllumiNations cocktail hour. (OK, this sounds like a lot, but I dont think its gonna take me a week to describe all this like it did with Day 1... I hope...).
Because I wasnt planning to come back to the room, I thought Id better wear something that would look appropriate at Christins wedding that night. I put on my black-and-white print skirt cuz it was hot and I dont do the shorts thing, and I thought my black sleeveless wrap top might class up my outfit enough to cancel out my big ol ugly-but-comfy black sandals. However, that darn hat makes every outfit feel like it came from Holly Golightlys closet, and when I put it on, I felt waaaay overdressed for a day of park touring.
I decided that the solution was to wear casual earrings (I dunno, I was prolly delirious from all the sugar Id ingested already that day), except Id forgotten to bring anything but ginormous statement earrings. So I decide the solution to
that was to go earring shopping as soon as I hit Main Street, U.S.A.
Me on the Monorail to the Magic Kingdom do you like my outfit?
Dont worry there are some good MK pix coming up as soon as the Roots get there!
I stopped in at the Main Street Bakery to unravel the Mystery of Special Occasion Cakes at the Magic Kingdom. I mention the
DIS Cake Chatter thread a lot its sort of a hobby of mine to figure out all the ways to get a special occasion cake at WDW because Disney is so stingy with the info, and I see so many lost and desperate people posting on the that thread for help with celebrating their kids birthday/graduation/teething, etc. People are always asking whether the Main Street Bakery sells whole cakes, so I went to investigate.
Not for sale...
According to the CM I spoke to, the only whole cake you can buy there is the same 6-inch frozen deal you get if you ask for a cake at the podium of any MK restaurant: $21, made by Sara Lee, and they need a few hours notice so they can thaw it out. (I have since been corrected by occasional DIS poster and WDW baker CakeManBri who says WDW is no longer selling Sara Lee cakes. Which is a shame because they
tasted a whole lot better than the ones Disney makes! But I digress...)
On my quest for earrings, I hit up one of the Main Street shops that was selling some of the same stuff they sell at Tren-D on Downtown Disney.
I am very careful not to own any clothing/accessories/housewares/etc. with Disney characters or icons on them (I have this idea that it allows me to pass for a Normal in the real world), so my goal was to find earrings that were not overtly Disneyish. Inexplicably, there were no mirrors in the shop, so I had to take pictures of myself and the candidates.
Unfortunately, the ones that looked best were also ginormous and dressy looking, so there went any idea that I could go incognito simply by wearing the right earrings! Oh well...
I also found a very cool Souvenir of the Day for DH (I forgot to mention that I was assuaging my guilt over leaving him at home by buying him a souvenir for each day that I was gone. Fridays was a pair of Vinylmation pins).
It says Its easy being green
On my way out of the shop, I ran into my pal The Suffragette (from our anniversary trip), who didnt remember me but looooved my hat!
So this is when it really hit me how much DH helps me with my trip reports and live blog and general connectivity on our trips. I was stumbling around Main Street juggling my iPhone and the real camera, simultaneously live-blogging, snapping real pictures, taking calls and sending text messages to try to coordinate schedules with everyone I was sposed to meet. I spent most of the morning standing in corners or plopping down on benches recording each scintillating moment of my day in the MKwhich consisted entirely of standing in corners or plopping down on benches recording each scintillating moment of my day in the MK! It was very vérité but no way to enjoy a vacation....
Really, was getting this shot and posting it for the world to see THAT important?
Fortunately, help was on its way. At that very moment, the Roots were speeding to my rescue on the Monorail!
Heres what my day looked like to them:
Oooh! Apparently I started my day at the Polynesian!
<--- (Like that, only with typing instead of drinking coffee...)
And lucky you with your four trips - maybe our paths will cross.
OK, my next update should be all posted in about, oh, 20 minutes, so get ready!
So funny - unlike LurkyLoo I would be decked out in my most chic outfit to travel on the red eye from LAX to MCO (or anywhere for that matter!), but once locked in the privacy of my hotel room the comfy sweats would be out in full force!
That is a blue lemon slushie I got at Epcot during last year's Food & Wine Festival. I don't know if it's always available there though because I tried to get one on this trip and none of the stands in Future World sold them.
Too much hangin' with the girls, I guess, lol!!
