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Day 2 - Thursday February 2, 2012
So to catch up...this was day 2 and I hadn't been able to sleep the night before, which was odd because I was soooo tired the previous day, as it was travel day and who can sleep the night before travel day?
So after an awesome Africa Trek, I felt very weird.....not tired, and I actually think that freaked me out more than anything because I should have been exhausted!
We spent a few hours just laying down and watching Stacey before getting ready to go to DTD. Dinner tonight was at Raglan Road!
We were on our way around 5pm.
We did a little shopping at WOD and basically just wandered from store to store. How cute is this shirt!?
We got to Raglan Road around 6:30 (had a 7pm ADR) and were told we could either sit outside now or take a pager and wait. I was really excited about eating at this restaurant, especially because of the Irish dancers so we chose to wait.
We wandered around the little gift shop and at this point, I was really starting to feel very odd, like I could have a panic attack at any minute. I just couldn't stop thinking about not being able to sleep...but THINKING too much is most likely the problem in the first place. It's such a vicious cycle!! I just remember walking around the gift shop thinking, what if I never sleep again?! I knew that if I tried to sleep at that very moment, I wouldn't be able to. So what to do? Even though I didn't feel right I decided right then and there that BEER would have to be the solution - really what other choice did I have?
I'm joking obviously but part of me really thought I just needed to relax so beers it is!
Finally, we were paged and were led to our seats right in the middle of the restaurant!
Tom ordered a Guinness and I ordered a Harp.
This restaurant was really fun! There was a band playing Irish music and when they took their breaks, two guys and one girl would either take turns dancing on a very small stage right in the middle or they would all dance together on the main stage. It was great!
A little video....
For our meals, I got the jerk chicken (app) and a ceasar salad. Both were REALLY good!
Tom got Bangers and Mash
This was really cute - when one of the men got up to dance, the second man was walking by and saw these kids trying to do the dance so he stopped for a second to show them a few moves!
In total, I had three beers and I was really feeling better. Most likely because of the music and the food...and the drinks. It definitely kept my mind off of the anxiety. It was probably the perfect place to go that night!
Tom had two more beers after his first Guinness too and they were also Guinness but different kids. Whatever it is that makes the Guinness so "foamy" the second Guinness he got was LESS foamy and the third one was MORE foamy. He was like Goldilocks and the three beers!
We also had a good laugh over this beer description. Tom was almost tempted to try it!
When we left Raglan Road around 9pm, we decided to torture ourselves and walk up the street of Pleasure Island. I can not stress enough how deeply saddened it makes me to see what has become of Pleasure Island. I remember when there was always a party going on, a DJ in the booth, dancers on the stage, people packed into the streets and a band playing on the West End Stage - and most of those memories come from when I was a kid! Luckily, I had a few adult trips where I was able to enjoy it before its demise.
So we wandered up the practically empty street and had to stop at the Adventurer's Club. I loved a lot of places on PI - 8trax, the Jazz Club, the Comedy Warehouse...but the Adventurer's Club was really something special.
So it was really a knife in the chest to see what had become of it.
The last time we were there, it had been closed for a couple of years but still looked the same. Now to see the signage gone and the front just lined with giant potted plants was heartbreaking.
We stayed a good 15-20 minutes before moving on to the West Side. We made our way to D-Street, were we were soon suckered into a very popular Disney Parks past-time - Vinylmations!
I have NO desire to buy or trade them (I can't stand things that have no purpose) but Tom has bought a few in the past and he likes the store. The ONLY Vinylmation I have is actually a chaser from one of the Park Series a few years ago. It's the Colonel from the Adventurer's Club!!
So while we were in the store, we saw a new line of Vinylmations - Park Starz.
These were unlike any other Vinylmations because they are not the same shape as all the others. That also made them more expensive. I can't remember all of them but most of them were pretty awesome! There was a kid/goat from Small World, Big Al, a Tiki Bird....but the best one was the Bride from Haunted Mansion. Just standing there for a few minutes, we heard a lot of people walking by saying how cool the Bride is. THAT'S the one that everyone wants. One woman had just traded and then bought another one...she was trying for the Bride but got this weird moon thing. It wasn't even in the display case because it was the Chaser. (For those of you who don't know, the "chaser" is like a bonus one that isn't officially part of the series and may or may not even be in the case of them.) This moon looked SOOOOO familiar to me but I just couldn't place it.
So of course, after standing around talking about them for a while, Tom HAD to try for the Bride himself.
The weird thing about these is because they are not all the same size, they also don't weigh the same! So here is Tom shaking them to try to "feel" the Bride!
(Oh and you can sort of see the other ones. Looks like a Yeti, the blue guy from Blizzard Beach, a pirate, some squid?)
He bought it and right away he felt through the package what he had gotten...
This is him turning to the girl who showed us her moon and saying..."I got the moon!"
Now that he had it, it was killing me that I couldn't place where the moon was from. I asked the CMs behind the counter and most of them were clueless but then this one CM said, "I think it used to be the old Pleasure Island logo or something..."
OF COURSE!!!!
After I had just spent a good 30 minutes lamenting over the demise of Pleasure Island, we now had the logo! And when she asked if we wanted to trade, that's when I said, "We're keeping the moon!"
I googled him on the way home and he has a name - The Funmiester!
Here's the logo...
So now he appropriately sits next to the Colonel - two past figures of Pleasure Island whom I miss immensely.
So after our little adventure, we decided it was finally time to head to the bus and back to WL.
Luckily, I slept just find that night! Phew!
So to catch up...this was day 2 and I hadn't been able to sleep the night before, which was odd because I was soooo tired the previous day, as it was travel day and who can sleep the night before travel day?
So after an awesome Africa Trek, I felt very weird.....not tired, and I actually think that freaked me out more than anything because I should have been exhausted!
We spent a few hours just laying down and watching Stacey before getting ready to go to DTD. Dinner tonight was at Raglan Road!
We were on our way around 5pm.
We did a little shopping at WOD and basically just wandered from store to store. How cute is this shirt!?
We got to Raglan Road around 6:30 (had a 7pm ADR) and were told we could either sit outside now or take a pager and wait. I was really excited about eating at this restaurant, especially because of the Irish dancers so we chose to wait.
We wandered around the little gift shop and at this point, I was really starting to feel very odd, like I could have a panic attack at any minute. I just couldn't stop thinking about not being able to sleep...but THINKING too much is most likely the problem in the first place. It's such a vicious cycle!! I just remember walking around the gift shop thinking, what if I never sleep again?! I knew that if I tried to sleep at that very moment, I wouldn't be able to. So what to do? Even though I didn't feel right I decided right then and there that BEER would have to be the solution - really what other choice did I have?
I'm joking obviously but part of me really thought I just needed to relax so beers it is!
Finally, we were paged and were led to our seats right in the middle of the restaurant!
Tom ordered a Guinness and I ordered a Harp.
This restaurant was really fun! There was a band playing Irish music and when they took their breaks, two guys and one girl would either take turns dancing on a very small stage right in the middle or they would all dance together on the main stage. It was great!
A little video....
For our meals, I got the jerk chicken (app) and a ceasar salad. Both were REALLY good!
Tom got Bangers and Mash
This was really cute - when one of the men got up to dance, the second man was walking by and saw these kids trying to do the dance so he stopped for a second to show them a few moves!
In total, I had three beers and I was really feeling better. Most likely because of the music and the food...and the drinks. It definitely kept my mind off of the anxiety. It was probably the perfect place to go that night!
Tom had two more beers after his first Guinness too and they were also Guinness but different kids. Whatever it is that makes the Guinness so "foamy" the second Guinness he got was LESS foamy and the third one was MORE foamy. He was like Goldilocks and the three beers!
We also had a good laugh over this beer description. Tom was almost tempted to try it!
When we left Raglan Road around 9pm, we decided to torture ourselves and walk up the street of Pleasure Island. I can not stress enough how deeply saddened it makes me to see what has become of Pleasure Island. I remember when there was always a party going on, a DJ in the booth, dancers on the stage, people packed into the streets and a band playing on the West End Stage - and most of those memories come from when I was a kid! Luckily, I had a few adult trips where I was able to enjoy it before its demise.
So we wandered up the practically empty street and had to stop at the Adventurer's Club. I loved a lot of places on PI - 8trax, the Jazz Club, the Comedy Warehouse...but the Adventurer's Club was really something special.
So it was really a knife in the chest to see what had become of it.
The last time we were there, it had been closed for a couple of years but still looked the same. Now to see the signage gone and the front just lined with giant potted plants was heartbreaking.
We stayed a good 15-20 minutes before moving on to the West Side. We made our way to D-Street, were we were soon suckered into a very popular Disney Parks past-time - Vinylmations!
I have NO desire to buy or trade them (I can't stand things that have no purpose) but Tom has bought a few in the past and he likes the store. The ONLY Vinylmation I have is actually a chaser from one of the Park Series a few years ago. It's the Colonel from the Adventurer's Club!!
So while we were in the store, we saw a new line of Vinylmations - Park Starz.
These were unlike any other Vinylmations because they are not the same shape as all the others. That also made them more expensive. I can't remember all of them but most of them were pretty awesome! There was a kid/goat from Small World, Big Al, a Tiki Bird....but the best one was the Bride from Haunted Mansion. Just standing there for a few minutes, we heard a lot of people walking by saying how cool the Bride is. THAT'S the one that everyone wants. One woman had just traded and then bought another one...she was trying for the Bride but got this weird moon thing. It wasn't even in the display case because it was the Chaser. (For those of you who don't know, the "chaser" is like a bonus one that isn't officially part of the series and may or may not even be in the case of them.) This moon looked SOOOOO familiar to me but I just couldn't place it.
So of course, after standing around talking about them for a while, Tom HAD to try for the Bride himself.
The weird thing about these is because they are not all the same size, they also don't weigh the same! So here is Tom shaking them to try to "feel" the Bride!
(Oh and you can sort of see the other ones. Looks like a Yeti, the blue guy from Blizzard Beach, a pirate, some squid?)
He bought it and right away he felt through the package what he had gotten...
This is him turning to the girl who showed us her moon and saying..."I got the moon!"
Now that he had it, it was killing me that I couldn't place where the moon was from. I asked the CMs behind the counter and most of them were clueless but then this one CM said, "I think it used to be the old Pleasure Island logo or something..."
OF COURSE!!!!
After I had just spent a good 30 minutes lamenting over the demise of Pleasure Island, we now had the logo! And when she asked if we wanted to trade, that's when I said, "We're keeping the moon!"
I googled him on the way home and he has a name - The Funmiester!
Here's the logo...
So now he appropriately sits next to the Colonel - two past figures of Pleasure Island whom I miss immensely.
So after our little adventure, we decided it was finally time to head to the bus and back to WL.
Luckily, I slept just find that night! Phew!
But, I saw the next title that you finally slept! yay! 
I think I will have to investigate that for October! I like to do at least one thing a bit different whilst I'm there, and I think the Trek might be it for this year!! So - thank you for bringing it to my attention!! 
I remember walking through it during the day with my parents once, but then when I started going back as an adult, it already closed. 
When you started it and people were guessing, and I finally figured out that it was about Vinylmations, I googled moon Vinylmations and that one came up! The Park Starz are really cute, I didn't want to be addicted to Vinyls, but I am! They are pretty useless, though! 
