GRUMPY RUNNERS: Tuesday...A Big Snow Storm for PA and Nothing But Sunshine For Us...

Heidi

So once again we woke up early on Tuesday...2:30 in the morning early. WHY?? Because our children had no school and the Avon Grove School District calls your cell phone at 5:30 in the morning to let you know. That would be 2:30 our time. Yes we knew the storm and the phone calls would be coming. But in some weird way I wanted to know that my children had a snow day. So I left my phone on all night. We went back to sleep easily. Then Kristen's mother in law (who happened to be watching her children while her husband was catching a plane to Vegas) called at 5:30 in the morning. (8:30 her time of course.) Kristen answered the phone like it was no big deal and had a full on conversation. She never even let on that it was super early in the morning for us. She is a good person.

So what was there to do but get up and showered for the day. We ate breakfast at that same restaurant down the street. Yummy pancakes again for me. We had to kill some time because we were headed to California Adventure and it didn't open until 10 am. I don't even remember what we did exactly. Perhaps it was posting pictures of how beautiful the weather was on Facebook to rub it in to our friends (maybe not our friends anymore) back in Pennsylvania. We are so very considerate that way.

Somebody actually called us obnoxious for posting this...can you imagine??

Posted this one too...who wouldn't want to see that it was a beautiful day in Cali??

We arrived at California Adventure at around 9:30. We did the same routine as Saturday. Waited in line for Radiator Springs Racers FP's. It was Kristen's mission today to see how many FP's we could get. We went to Soarin' and got in line and got an FP. We were boarded and ready to go on the attraction. We saw two scenes of California and BAM!!! The ride stopped. Bummer. They gave us a Fast Pass to come back any time during the day. BONUS!!!

We then went to California Screamin'. Rode the ride and got a FP. We also got an FP for World of Color for later that evening. We also went over to Tower of Terror and rode it and got an FP. Don't ask me how... we just did. AND the bonus was...there were still FP's left for an evening ride on Radiator Springs Racers. Best Fast Pass Day ever!!!

Kristen had to take a picture of them all to prove to her husband we did this!!

The thing is...in order to acquire all of the Fast Passes, you have to actually walk across the park to get each one. I think we may have walked 8 miles. I am not kidding. On an ordinary day in Disney, no big deal. After running a half marathon on Sunday and doing the same thing on Monday, it was getting a bit ridiculous.

We finally ate lunch at the same place we ate on Saturday... Pacific Wharf Café. We both got soup bread bowls. We were starving from all of that walking we did. Kristen ate her whole bowl. I ate a little more than half. When we were walking to our next ride Kristen said, "I just ate enough bread that would have fed my whole family." She was right. It was a ridiculous amount of bread.

Soup In A Bread Bowl...again.

So we rode some more rides, saw some characters and walked a lot!!!

This is a bear, in case you can't tell.

Doug

Donald Duck

Mater's Junkyard Jamboree...just like The Whip.

While waiting for World of Color to start, Kristen decided to have a beer and I decided Ghiradelli's was calling me. ( I have no idea how I gained 6 lbs on this trip.) I had a hot fudge sundae and Kristen drank her yummy craft beer. That was our dinner for the night. We were so stuffed from lunch and our "dinner" we decided that would be enough. I have no picture of my Ghiradelli's food. So sad. No biggie. I will be in Orlando in 2.5 weeks. I will make my friend April take me to the one in Downtown Disney. It is a tradition after all.

Finally we arrived where they were showing World of Color. We were so tired we could barely walk or even stand. There isn't any real seating here but Kristen forced her way in on a set of stairs where we could sit down. Sometimes it is good to be tall. We sat and waited. Oh wait...I forgot...I ate popcorn while waiting. In my research for Disneyland...people said the popcorn at Disneyland was way better than in Disney World. OMMMM..it was the same. Too salty. Anyway, if it hadn't been for the fact that this was a show that was only in California, were would have been out of there. But we waited. And it started. And it was good. It was similar to Fantasmic with the water background but just more colorful and better songs. As soon as it was over, we bolted back to our hotel. OK, maybe me limped and walked very slowly.

The whole way back to the hotel we plotted how we were going to get stranded at the Las Vegas airport and not be able to fly into Philly. You see, our connecting flight was in Vegas. Kristen's husband was also in Vegas. Wouldn't that have been terrible to have a free hotel room in Vegas for a night because we couldn't get home to our families in Philly??? NO SUCH LUCK!!! We got off the plane in Vegas and didn't even have time to go to the bathroom. They were already lined up and ready to board the plane that wasn't even delayed. Bummer. Well Home Sweet Freezing Cold Home we came.

Our trip was an awesome girls running trip. I encourage everyone to do a Disneyland race, especially with your girlfriends. Next time however, we decided we are going when it is slightly warmer and we will be heading to the beach after the race. Too much walking for a race trip. Tink was moved to Mother's Day Weekend 2015. Coincidence??? I think not. HA HA HA. (Sorry kids...Mama is gonna race on Mother's Day....and then go lay on a beach.)

Here are some random photos from California Adventure...