Our Disney photos are coming soon, and here’s a preview of the final leg of our adventure: After our nap on Tuesday we went back to Disneyland and tried to ride the Matterhorn and Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. Neither ride materialized; the Matterhorn’s line was too long and BTMR was shut down temporarily for repairs. These have long been my favorite rides and I was disappointed. I did however get to ride them on Wednesday morning. Tuesday afternoon John Daniel rode on the carosel, which was met with mixed reviews, and Heimlich’s Chew Chew train, which was a roaring success. We also rode the classic and timeless ‘It’s a Small World’. He loved it and the song will now be in our ears for weeks to come. It’s times like this that I appreciate that mom and dad went on it with me 3 times in one day.
Tuesday afternoon we also tried to get a photo with Mickey and Minnie on main street. Unfortunately, a group of Germans were a little too pushy with them and their handler and they were spirited away. At which point, the German fellow flipped off Disney’s most famous mice. Well, there’s the spirit of the ‘Happiest Place on Earth’ for you. Glad that JD was too young to know what was going on…luckily, we saw Mickey again the next morning right before we left and John got a photo op.
The other character we saw was a big, green, beasty from Monsters, Inc. (I think). John gave a little cry and then a totally puzzled look, but did stay long enough for a photo with him too.
After we were thoroughly exhausted, but starving, we went to the Rainforst Cafe for dinner. I will say that it is loud enough to cover all the kiddos screaming for food. John among them. I have never seen him so het up about eating (or about anything). Of course, I picked that meal to forget his bread so we had to ask the waitress to bring a bun while we waited for our main course. I don’t know, maybe the loud atmosphere was a bad thing because she failed to see how much duress we were in. Just to get a bun, no meat, no cheese, no condiments, just bun, it took her over 15 minutes. When your son is screaming, 15 minutes can be an eternity. Finally she came and JD calmed down a bit with the bread filling his tummy. He also had some jarred winter squash and fresh avocado. Daddy wanted him to try a french fry, but we’re going to hold off on that one.
When we got back to the hotel, we put the overly-tired little man down after a bottle of half formula, half milk (we’re trying to wean, anyone got any advice?) and Rob and I needed a treat. The Disneyland hotel snack bar had either a Mickey ice cream bar or a ice cream cookie sandwich. We opted for the ice cream sandwich. Has anyone ever tried the Nestle Toll House chocolate chip cookie ice cream sandwich? OH.MY.GOSH. Those will be my divine once-a-year treats. They are decadent. And fat and calorie filled. But I heard that if you eat them standing up while watching Late Night with David Letterman they don’t have any calories….;)
Speaking of decadent sweets, I was amused today to see a Nutella commercial touting the usefullness of this product at breakfast. Keep in mind that Nutella is primarily chocoate. A chocolate spread with some hazelnuts and milk. Lots of sugar, too. The commerical is quite ingenious, really, telling consumers that if you put Nutella on whole wheat bread it will help get your kids to eat healthier (meaning the piece of whole wheat bread on which is spread Nutella). Let me just say that I love Nutella. Hazelnuts are amazingly good and as a general rule let’s try and mix more things with chocolate. But for kids at breakfast? Nutella must also be hurting from the economic downturn…they apparently needed a new consumer pool and are now targeting overwrought and frustrated parents who as a last resort to get their kids to eat healthy are spreading something bad on something good. Sheesh!
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