You can take the girl out of Disney, BUT

[jenseib]

I continued my walk around Toon Lagoon while I waited for my soon to be drench rats.

This is another area that is very stimulating on the eyes.

I was worried about being late back to find Skip and Claire, so I never went inside any of these places. I wish I would’ve though. But hunger was also calling my name, so I basically just did a quick walk and snapped away.

Yes we are!!!

I went back to the Popeye area and Skip and Claire were just getting off….and they were wet!

Claire was very excited about how wet she was too. She was soaked right through and even the shorts she had on under her skirt were soaked.

Skip told me that they had a spot to put the bag in and it was completely dry. Thank goodness for that. I was worried his phone would be no good…and he has an old phone as it is, so I’m sure it wouldn’t take much for it to die.

After Claire told me all about her exciting wet ride, we proceeded on. Our mission now was lunch! I couldn’t wait any longer.

I’m not sure why that person has an umbrella. No rain in site…I’m guessing she was shading the sun?

As we walked we discussed dining options. I was impressed when Skip mentioned there was a NASCAR restaurant…that meant he really read and paid attention to my tip sheet! I told him it didn’t matter, that was a good choice, or Bubba Gumps…which proceeded into a conversation of Does it have seafood? Does it have anything else?...or Margaretville as another option.

Even on the fly and starving to death, I thought to get a picture of the rental building. LOL

Bye Bye IoA!!!

Food here we come!!!

 

[scottmel]

Enjoying your report, just got caught up. Last time we went was Potter's opening weekend, need I say more.....So we go again in June for 1 night/2 days at US then over to Disney. But do you think Psoidons Fury is CRAZY loud in there? DD13 had a complete new eardrum grafted 3 years ago and I know I am over the top worry but I have head it was LOUD but how loud is loud? Any thoughts? thanks melissa

 

[jenseib]

Enjoying your report, just got caught up. Last time we went was Potter's opening weekend, need I say more.....So we go again in June for 1 night/2 days at US then over to Disney. But do you think Psoidons Fury is CRAZY loud in there? DD13 had a complete new eardrum grafted 3 years ago and I know I am over the top worry but I have head it was LOUD but how loud is loud? Any thoughts? thanks melissa

hmmm. I can't remember too much. I think it is loud, but not enough that it annoyed me. I would say the last room was probably the loudest. Can she put cotton or earplugs in if needed?

I know a couple of people who went for opening weekend too. They loved it, but it was just plain crazy.
I'm worried how the new Fantasyland will be. It's predicted to open in the fall and of course we are going in Nov. so we might be there during the early stages....I really want to check it out, but I don't want to be with 5 zillion others either.

 

[dizneeat]

Great update, Jen!

I love all the photos, makes me realize, even though we have been to UO often, that there is still a lot we missed.

Good idea NOT to ride the rafts if you don't want to get wet. As far as I can remember, EVERYONE gets wet on that one.

 

[jenseib]

Great update, Jen!

I love all the photos, makes me realize, even though we have been to UO often, that there is still a lot we missed.

Good idea NOT to ride the rafts if you don't want to get wet. As far as I can remember, EVERYONE gets wet on that one.

Skip told me that some guy really got wet on the ride, Worse than them...and I thought, How could it be worse?

 

[jenseib]

It's always a good day when Mom calls and asks you to go to lunch. I told her sure, I needed to look at printers anyways, so Claire and I heaed into town and met Mom at Best Buy. Now I was just planning to go and look and review and price them out. Mom started point out expensive ones..and I told her my budget was low! So then she told me she would give $100 towards one and went looking for a sales guy. We decided on a Canon. I can't remember the model number right now, but many people have told me they are happy with their Canon printers. I went to go get a shopping cart and Mom pulled out some replacement ink cartridges and when we got to the register she said she would just pay for it all. And she got a 2 year extended warranty. I would've never gotten it, but she insisted I should.
I'm intimidated byu it of course....and so far it is sitting in it's box still. I'll probably pull it out tomorrow and set it up as I have some things I need to print .
I have found that the old printer will print if connected to the laptop, so I'll do that when I need to print some bulk flyers, etc and use up the last two cartridges of ink...knock on wood....
We went to Red Lobster and stuffed ourself silly and then over to the mall. Mom wanted new shoes so we just browsed while she tried on a few pairs. I wanted to go to payless and get Claire some basic shoes, as her feet once again grew and not much in the way of every day shoes fit anymore.
As we headed that way, Mom wanted to stop in the kid Gap store....and Claire made out like a bandit. Mom bought her 3 dresses, 2 pairs of sandals, 2 pairs of leggings, 2 t-shirt type tops, 1 pair of shorts, and a sweater.

We did make it to Payless where I got Claire 2 new pair of basic shoes and off to the Disney store where Claire scored and large barbie looking type Ariel doll that sings (It's much bigger than a Barbie though). Mom bought my niece Abby a cute Minnie dress. I wish they had it in Claire's size too because it was so adorable.
We were whipped after that and Mom dropped me back off at my car and Claire and I made a quick stop at Target for some lightbulbs and back home to unload the trunk of goodies!

I pretty much got nothing done today, but it was a fun day. WE might go see a movie tonight. Skip is still thinking about it. It's the 3 stooges, something I have no desire to see, but he and Claire do. I can handle going and eating a little popcorn...OK, a LOT of popcorn! If it's really bad, I'll just take a nap!

 

[reelmom]

Let us know how the 3 Stooges is. My boys are wanting to go see it but I don't want to waste the money if it stinks.

 

[francis6306]

Can your mom adopt me?! Sounds like you got PLENTY done today! I went shopping myself for the upcoming birthday party for my girls!

 

[dizneeat]

Sounds like a very fun day, Jen!

congrats on the new printer .... I loved my Canon, unfortunately the cartridges got very expensive about 3 months after I had bought it.
I now have an Epson and it works well too!

Your mom sounds like a fun kind of a shopping partner.

So? Did you go to the movies yesterday?

 

[GoofyWife]

moms rock! my mom would do that too, especially buying things for my daughter when she was little - she is her only granddaughter, the rest are boys - even my sister would buy her tons of stuff when we visited (until her son got married and gave her a grandson - now he is the spoiled cutie!). My father was the funniest - he would slip them money when he thought I wasn't looking and tell them not to tell me! of course, they couldn't wait to show me their stash

 

[jenseib]

Let us know how the 3 Stooges is. My boys are wanting to go see it but I don't want to waste the money if it stinks.

We ended up not going last night. Skip was just so tired. Of Course Claire cried and told him that he broke her heart. LOL!

Can your mom adopt me?! Sounds like you got PLENTY done today! I went shopping myself for the upcoming birthday party for my girls!

It was fun! Claire wil lbe able to do a fashion show...and I can print off the flyers for it!

Sounds like a very fun day, Jen!

congrats on the new printer .... I loved my Canon, unfortunately the cartridges got very expensive about 3 months after I had bought it.
I now have an Epson and it works well too!

Your mom sounds like a fun kind of a shopping partner.

So? Did you go to the movies yesterday?

I heard good things about Canon...and in the past about Epson too. I did have an epson years ago. It was ano OK printer...just a very basic printer. I have used some really nice epsons for photography class back when I used to take them...and wow, they are great!
I did check the ink prices and they run about the same as others. I had a DEll and the Canon prices look cheaper to me.

moms rock! my mom would do that too, especially buying things for my daughter when she was little - she is her only granddaughter, the rest are boys - even my sister would buy her tons of stuff when we visited (until her son got married and gave her a grandson - now he is the spoiled cutie!). My father was the funniest - he would slip them money when he thought I wasn't looking and tell them not to tell me! of course, they couldn't wait to show me their stash

My grandpa used to do that to us too. He would slip us a $5 and say here is some walking around money.

 

[Caretames1]

US is so eye catching, I can see why it's such a huge attraction! Kadence is so enjoying looking at your photos. She just asked Daddy if we can go there some day. I may have to start looking seriously into it for 2013.


You had great shopping day! We did too, starting with the American Girl outlet store! Kadence made out way ahead, thanks to Grandma as well Christmas is gonna be crazy at Grandmas and Thanks to me, Kadence and her doll now have matching outifts( Frosty Party outfit) for Christmas! I'm still thinking of a way to show John and convince him how much we saved!

The Justice, Old Navy, & Childrens Place outlets were awesome too! 74% off! I may hide those out fits for a while.....

 

[rndmr2]

You got some great pics while you were waiting. Wow they really did get wet! I hope you got some food soon...

Sounds like you had a great day shopping with your Mom and Claire.

 

[mickeystoontown]

Wow! Mama deserves a big old hug for buying you and Claire all those goodies!

 

[Kathy Jetson]

I didn't do that water ride either. I did the same as you just walked around and took pictures.I have no desire to walk around in wet clothes. I just had River wear his bathing suit there so he could get as wet as he wanted and it would dry quick.

I was going to ask if your mom could adopt me but someone beat me to it. Tell her that her family is about to get bigger and that she has quite the fan club here. My mom just gave me 200.00 because I haven't been working, you gotta love moms!

We were going to see the Three Stooges this weekend too. But River woke up with a very bad attitude yesterday so he was not allowed to go. We'll try again next weekend. I think he will like it a lot more than I do with all the slapstick humor.

 

[jenseib]

US is so eye catching, I can see why it's such a huge attraction! Kadence is so enjoying looking at your photos. She just asked Daddy if we can go there some day. I may have to start looking seriously into it for 2013.


You had great shopping day! We did too, starting with the American Girl outlet store! Kadence made out way ahead, thanks to Grandma as well Christmas is gonna be crazy at Grandmas and Thanks to me, Kadence and her doll now have matching outifts( Frosty Party outfit) for Christmas! I'm still thinking of a way to show John and convince him how much we saved!

The Justice, Old Navy, & Childrens Place outlets were awesome too! 74% off! I may hide those out fits for a while.....

US is very eye catching. We had a good time there and I do hope we get a chance to go again and hit some more of the attractions.

74% off is awesome~! I am trying to savemomey and not spend.... but I am not doing so good!

You got some great pics while you were waiting. Wow they really did get wet! I hope you got some food soon...

Sounds like you had a great day shopping with your Mom and Claire.

I just hate being that wet myself. I think the last time I rode something where I got totally drenched was like 20 plus years ago.
It was a good shopping day.

Wow! Mama deserves a big old hug for buying you and Claire all those goodies!

Yes she does!

I didn't do that water ride either. I did the same as you just walked around and took pictures.I have no desire to walk around in wet clothes. I just had River wear his bathing suit there so he could get as wet as he wanted and it would dry quick.

I was going to ask if your mom could adopt me but someone beat me to it. Tell her that her family is about to get bigger and that she has quite the fan club here. My mom just gave me 200.00 because I haven't been working, you gotta love moms!

We were going to see the Three Stooges this weekend too. But River woke up with a very bad attitude yesterday so he was not allowed to go. We'll try again next weekend. I think he will like it a lot more than I do with all the slapstick humor.

I had thought of putting her suit on under her clothes, but then it was forgotten when we got dressed.

I did see the 3 stooges yesterday. Skip decided to go out for breakfast and then to the movie.
It was OK. It started out pretty slow...and I was like oh well, maybe take a nap if it doesn't get better...but it did. There were some parts that were so funny I was choking on my laughs...but other parts are pretty dumb. I really don't like all the hitting they do to each other, I don't find it funny, but they did have some funny jokes, or were just so dumb that you couldn't help but laugh.

 

[jenseib]

I forgot to mention that we did look at the wait for Spiderman as we walked by. It was 50 minutes. We passed on that. Maybe we could check it out later.

We are now off in search of lunch.
The first place we came across was Jimmy Buffets Margaretville.

Skip said to take a look and see if it had a wait.

Nope there was no wait at all. They asked if we wanted inside or out. I asked how cold it was inside. I surely didn’t want my wet little Claire complaining through the meal about how cold she was. Skip said let’s just go outside. It was a great decision. It was nice there. There was a breeze and they had fans blowing and it was the perfect temperature.

We debated on what to eat. I asked Skip if he wanted to share the nachos and he said yes. My thinking was we could get dessert then too! Skip said he was going to get a turkey club as well. I told him that I was pretty sure the nachos were big and he wouldn’t need a sandwich, but he didn’t believe me. He said he didn’t want to get stuck with 12 nachos to share. Ok then, I won’t argue.

We had an excellent server and we made our order. I told him I was just sharing the nachos and he said OK, but I almost felt like he thought I wouldn’t have enough to eat….but I swear I had seen pictures of here before and the nachos were fairly big.

Claire colored while we waited.

She did complain a bit about being wet. I had a change of clothes for her in the car, but she was wet right down to the underwear and I didn’t have an extra pair of those with me…..I knew I should’ve as in years past we have had to change her right down to the underwear. Oh well. She said she was fine, but she did grumble.

Soon the nachos arrive….Let’s just say I told you so!

I think Skip’s jaw fell off.
They were huge and good. We did notice later though, that the table next to us just had a big bowl of guacamole and chips and we kind of wish we had just went with that option. Claire loves guacamole…or as she calls it “morraca~ole” and she would’ve eaten more that way. And I think I would’ve too as after a bit, the bottom layer got soggy. But it was still good!

Not long after the nachos arrived we also got this!

I ended up eating half of Skips sandwich too. It was to die for. I’m not usually a club kind of person, but this one was REALLY good.

Claire got her usual…chicken strips and she ate almost everything, with the exception of a few fries. She was a hungry girl too. And she had only had a small donut for breakfast and then half a churro later on.

It was nice and relaxing. I had a water and it never tasted so good. I had a headache from the heat and hunger, so I did take a couple of ibuprofen and they were working their magic as well. Skip did tell me I looked awful and red….Can you feel the love?...….he said not sunburn, just red from heat…and I told him I felt awful too. The rest and food was exactly what I needed.

Perry had to help finish off the nachos though!

Claire and I headed off to the bathroom and I didn’t think to leave my AAA card with Skip. So we did miss out on the 10% off there, as he paid while we were in there. I took off Claire’s shorts she had on under the skirt and she felt a little better with that. We also put her skirt under the hand dryer and tried to dry her up a little better.

The waiter gave me a plastic bag and we threw her shorts in there (they were red and we didn’t want them dying anything they touched) and then we put the bag in the famous backsack.

With bellies now full and feeling much better, we headed off to Universal Studios park!

Skip was starting to complain about his feet and shins hurting too. I have had this before, and I knew how awful it was, so I showed him some stretches to do to help relieve the pain. We just walked slowly over to the park.

I love palm trees!

We’ve made it!

This area looked very slow…..I was hoping that was a good sign.

 

[francis6306]

Those nachos were HUGE!!! Wow! Yummy looking too!

I'm thinking US will have to be on our to-do in a few years. I just don't think there is enough for Catie being so young right now.

 

[jenseib]

Those nachos were HUGE!!! Wow! Yummy looking too!

I'm thinking US will have to be on our to-do in a few years. I just don't think there is enough for Catie being so young right now.

Universal does have some nice kid areas...but many more taller kids/adult rides. Claire was tall enough for everything, so that was a plus....but not neccessarily a dare devil to try them though.

 

[dizneeat]

Great update! Thankfully I had just had dinner before I read your review!

Walking those parks can wear you out, and I can hear you on being hot and headaches ..... been there, done that.

Hope the rest of your day was super fun too and Skip and Claire dried off soon.