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disneystuff
03:01 PM - 12/17/2010

The topic: Some pictures from our trip last weekend

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We lucked out when we got to the hotel (The Paradise Pier Hotel) early Sunday afternoon.  Our room was ready and we could check in.

We parked the car, got the luggage out and went up to the room.  Unpacked and headed over to Disneyland.  On the way, I took a picture looking out of one of the big windows in the hallway.


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We got to Disneyland and had lunch at Carnation.  It was pretty tasty.  Then we headed over to Fantasyland to see if Gramma Pat (the best cast member ever!) was there.  No, she comes in later.  We wandered around and while I was waiting for Brian outside of one of the restrooms, I took a shot of It’s a Small World. 


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We rode the train around the park once, then to the main gate and we went over to Disney’s California Adventure.  We stopped at BurrBank and had double scoop ice creams in a dipped waffle cone, then went rode the Golden Zephyr, then figured we’d do Midway Mania. On the walk over, Brian pointed out that the Maliboomer was gone.  Brian liked it. I wasn’t all that fond of it.  I’m not really happy on elevator rides.

We got in line for Midway Madness and about a half hour in, the ride was having “technical difficulties”.  Lots of people left the line, we didn’t.  While in line, I took some photos of what I saw above me.  The sun was just going down and dusk was fast approaching.  I caught some cool images in the fading light of day. 

The moon over the roller coaster.


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I like the next four.  I like to think of them as “now you see it, now you don’t”.  In one of the pictures, you can see the roller coaster car. In the other one, it’s gone.  I took these just using regular settings on the camera, nothing special. Although I did keep clicking because I did want to catch the car in the loop.


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After waiting in line close to an hour and the ride still wasn’t going, we said the heck with it and went back over to Disneyland.  It was still mild outside (the high had been in the upper 80s) and I really wanted to speak to Gramma Pat (I sent her a package back in September and she never got it…it went to the Disneyland front office and was sent to her team manager, who never passed it on to Pat; I cancelled the gift card and was sent a new one and I got everything back in the package and sent this one directly to her home…it had arrived, but it had been a month with no word from her and I was a teeny tiny bit concerned).  The parade was just starting and we had a big crowd to go through.  We finally made it over to Fantasyland and I was told that Pat was just working the parade.  So, Brian and I went back over to the Small World area and I took another picture. 


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We waited for the parade to finish, then about fifteen more minutes and headed over to Storybook Land Canal Boats.  I finally was able to speak with Pat and she had gotten her package.  Yay!

Then we decided we were about finished.  Brian wanted to get some candy for his mother and I wanted to pick up some Disney dollars for our petsitter.  She and her boyfriend have annual passes.  Got the candy and were informed they no longer sold the dollars at the stores, we’d have to go to City Hall.  We stopped there on our way out, then left the park. 

Between the park and the hotel, we went into Tortilla Jo’s cantina and had some food and beverages.  Then we went back to the hotel.  Brian was fast asleep by nine.  It took me a little longer.

Monday morning we went back to Disneyland. We took the Monorail over from Downtown Disney.  First stop was Tomorrowland Terrace for breakfast.  Worst breakfast ever.

Juicy eggs?


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Limp, undercooked and nasty.


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You can see the puddle of bacon grease by the biscuit.


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We went into Great Moments With Mr Lincoln and were pleased to see it was back to its original glory.  Gone were the headsets and the barber snipping hair in our ears.  The next ride was Space Mountain, then we came home!

It’s nice to get away sometimes.


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catstuff
11:02 AM - 12/17/2010

The topic: Mickey is doing lots better this morning

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I’m pretty relieved. I called the vet’s office yesterday and will be picking up some potassium to add to his fluids.  His values back in October showed he had low potassium and it’s possible that is one of the reasons he had the problems he had yesterday.

He didn’t come to bed with us, but this morning around four, he did come to bed and climbed under the covers with me and slept there for a couple of hours. That was nice. And he’s been eating so that’s a good sign, too.

My poor little boy.


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dreamstuff
09:33 AM - 12/17/2010

The topic: So, we’re in the bedroom

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(not the bedroom as I know it, it’s smaller,  but it’s dream and it’s the bedroom) and I’ve brought in breakfast.  Some sort of burritos, his was different than mine.  We’re in bed watching television and all of a sudden, we hear music in the other side of the house.  We look at each other, puzzled and both got out of bed to check it out.

We walk out of the bedroom and bigsurprise WTF?  This wasn’t a house, it was a mansion!  Our mansion!  The room we went into was more like a storefront or or or…I dunno, let me describe it.  The front wall was curved and had these huge openings in it and there was no yard or sidewalk, it was immediately asphalt.  The people across the street were having a party and that’s where the music was coming from.  All of these people walking around!  Anyway, the walls of this room were a royal blue, very nice.  On the side opposite of the openings was a bar and high up on the wall was a fish.

It was like one of those painted glass fish, I could see the bones and it was very pretty.  Then, right when I was going to tell Brian to look at it, a bird came along and ate it.

I smelled cat pee (gee, big surprise there) and followed the fragrance (ha) down the hall and there was a shower.  Odd looking shower, it was more like the drainage ditch on a hill, but it was tiled in dark blue. And at the bottom of the shower was an amazing amount of dried cat urine.  I climbed into the shower (it wasn’t very wide) and turned on the water, it was one of the hose type of shower heads.  I was washing off the floor, the water going down the drain (another oddity, the drain wasn’t covered in anything, it was more like a hole in the wall; remember, the shower was more like a drainage ditch than a flat shower and gravity pulled the water down and out) I was a little concerned because that hole was large enough for a cat to go into, I looked down it, but saw nothing.  Even stranger was the water ran towards the hole, then veered off to the right through an opening in the wall and where it went after that, I have no idea.

While I was cleaning, Brian’s cell phone rang and he answered it.  He looked at me and said “it’s for you” and I asked him who it was.  Jennifer Barnes. (I don’t know anyone by that name.)

I had a difficult time getting out of the shower and I asked (with irritation in my voice) if he would mind helping me get out of it.  Just as I took his hand to climb over the wall, I woke up.


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