- the trip was all formulated after two break ups, and jenny being gifted a two night hotel voucher from her travel agent aunt who suggested a girls weekend. well, a very girls weekend it was. drove down saturday morning, checked in to our hotel (that wasn't as swanky as advertised) and then walked to the park.
- a battle with will call machines being down, and then we were in to the parks. we were hoping to get fast passes for radiator springs racers, but they were long gone. decided to deal with those the next morning. spent a little bit of time in california adventure.
- toy story mania round 1. jenny won this one, but not by much!
- i was feeling exceptionally brave, and with a 10 minute wait (probably less than that. we got swept right in and on the ride) i experienced my first upside down roller coaster. it freaks me out a little bit still, but i would probably go on it again in the future. well, at least that one.
- we wandered through to the other side of the park, and the pixar parade was happening. got a quick snap of my main hero before wandering through the rest of the park and eventually onward to downtown disney.
- the idea was for dinner at the rainforest cafe, but it was a hot mess. stopped by the lego store for a few pictures, and then headed in to disneyland for some pizza port. mmm pizza.
- for the first time EVER it was appropriate for me to get a happy birthday button from town hall. so yeah, i was all over that like no other. jenny got a "i'm celebrating" button, which all the characters saw first before mine. and awkwardly pointed at her. haha.
- hidden mickey? maybe? randomly seen after a troop of hooligans in front of us for splash mountain pointed it out. so yeah, i instagrammed it. like a boss.
- mickey mouse pretzel. need i say more?
- i'm pretty sure i've seen the "believe" holiday fireworks show more times than anything else done at disneyland. okay, that may be a slight dramatization... i feel like it used to be narrated by julie andrews though. or maybe that's the voice i expect to hear in my head. she's like the disney version of morgan freeman as far as narrations go.
- monday we wound our way through LA traffic after hotel check out and swung by duff's cake mix... and boy was i excited to FINALLY be able to taste some charm city cakes style goodness. of course, it's still on my bucket list to make it to the show location in baltimore, but this totally hit the spot. and makes me want more more more.
- i mean SERIOUSLY?? a rex cake? wait, a rex that is BOWLING cake?? no way could mr. cake boss come up with something of this caliber. i saw a screen cap of this on a show or something (i follow duff on twitter... so that may have been where i saw it) and when i saw this cake in the store still... HAD to take a picture.
stay tuned for next week's collection of stretch armstrong pictures, plus some character photos!
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