The Magical Mystery Trip - Day 3 Part 5 - Cali Grill **Updated 2/14 by Melissa** - Page 24 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
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Continued for Chewy baby. My sister is also having a problem with her cat (Peanut) who has an ear infection that just won't go away. It's been almost 3 months now.
In the picture where you say you are educating Tommy about something, it looks to me like you are brandishing your fork and saying, "LISTEN, buddy. We have to limit potty breaks to four a day. Don't mess with me, I have plastic utensils and I'm not afraid to use them."
I'm sorry you had to wait on T&K so long, but I'm glad we got to see the resulting BC pictures. Can't wait to hear about AK!
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Thanks for all of the laughter. I enjoy reading your (mis)adventures. Hope things work out with T&K. It sounds like you may have to attach "who's shoes" tags on their shoe laces and go on without them. Oh!!! Can't do that they are family. My mom always told me that patience is a virtue. You must be a very virtuous woman judging from what I have read so far. Still waiting for the pics of the fairy fellow and his friend.
Must say though that you take wonderful pictures even when you are bored...(and one day your in-laws will say they had a part in those wonderful extra pictures that you took that came out so great....lol)
Okay, I've had my pictures uploaded for about a week now.....I've got some extra time at work, I'm gonna go ahead and give an update. It won't be nearly as entertaining since I don't have Andy's sick sense of humor to add in. Maybe he'll add something later.....
Anyway... we finally made it to the AK.
We hit up a Photopass guy at the entrance and got a few photos made. I'll post those when I get home later... Once we got in the park Karen was immediately enthralled. Her brain switched to teacher mode and she was totally digging all the CMs standing around with their little critters. Me however, was standing there, not so patiently, saying to Andy that we didn't want to get caught by the AK ploy of distracting people from getting the rides so quickly. C'mon T & K....get with the program. So I jumped up and was like "we'll totally take our time walking through here on our way out..." yeah....that's the ticket....
So we finally came in viewing distance of the tree. And when we did, I could have cried. Behind me came sounds of "Oh my goodness...wow. That's soooo pretty" T & K were totally impressed with the Tree. I immediately got all misty and had to walk ahead a bit to gain my composure
After a few minutes of Karen taking some photos we were headed through Dinoland. On the way we came across Tigger....and my MIL almost freaked out. I know I stood there for a minute in awe. There was my MIL, getting all excited about seeing Tigger! "Ohh, he's just so cute...I was watching the Pooh Christmas special the other night and he was dressed like Santa..and yada yada yada" she just kept going and going It was soooo funny!! So of course, we hopped in line to get our picture with, as I just found out, Karen's favorite character. (Information that would have been nice to know YESTERDAY when we checked in at the BC and told them it was her bday and they asked me who her fav character was But anyway....I love the picture... Her photopass pics are so cute, too. My pic with Tigger is on the photopass CD, too, so I'll post those later. Of course while we were with Tigger, where was T??? In the bathroom of course. I mean c'mon people. It had been like 45 minutes since he last went. It was obviously time for another bathroom break
While we walked through Dinoland I had a major moment of verbal diarrhea and started spouting off everything I knew about that particular area based on what I learned in the Imagineer's Guide...... To which we have my MIL on video saying "Do we have to pay you for this service?" But I think they were totally digging it.
We decided to throw them in head first and go straight for Dinosaur. My MIL has a bad shoulder, almost had to have surgery, so we were afraid she wouldn't ride anything. But she was game, so we were on our way.
Anytime Andy sees me take a picture he has to act like a dork.....
The ride = one word = HILARIOUS! It was so funny to hear T & K laughing and being silly just like us. We totally put Tommy in the "Sucker Seat" as Eileen so wonderfully coined it. When the ride was over we of course got more of the engineering aspect of it as Tommy broke down the fact that he knew he was in a bad spot b/c everything up until that point had happened on the left so he knew something big was going to happen on his side. What a nerd. And then he broke it down for us how they could fit that ride into a small space based on the turns and directions we went...blah blah blah... I lost him somewhere around Triceratop Spin.
We continued on around towards Everest. On the way we were greeted with "TWO MINUTES TILL FINDING NEMO" over and over this lady yelled. We were like "hey, I think it's two minutes till finding nemo...maybe...yea..." Karen made us sit for a picture, but I couldn't shut my mouth. I think I was actually saying "Hey I think it's two minutes till finding nemo" And I'm gonna stop here....b/c it's time to leave....and it's Friday...and I'm outta here I will cont. this evening so that Andy can have input. I know he wants to say some things about our experiences here, too. Good times, good times More to come.....
Great update! And glad T & K are enjoying AK so far. How cute that Karen loves Tigger so much!
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We continued on around towards Everest. On the way we were greeted with "TWO MINUTES TILL FINDING NEMO" over and over this lady yelled. We were like "hey, I think it's two minutes till finding nemo...maybe...yea..." Karen made us sit for a picture, but I couldn't shut my mouth. I think I was actually saying "Hey I think it's two minutes till finding nemo"
That's exactly what it looks like you're saying!! Can't wait for more (and Andy's side too)!
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It was soooo funny!! So of course, we hopped in line to get our picture with, as I just found out, Karen's favorite character. (Information that would have been nice to know YESTERDAY when we checked in at the BC and told them it was her bday and they asked me who her fav character was 
But anyway....I love the picture...
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