I also added some photos from the evening on Facebook!

YAY FACEBOOK!!!!!!!!!

And Google+

Practically Perfect is what I'd call yesterday...this morning. I'm STILL giddy, smiling at everything, and very happy. I love going in with no grand expectations, watching and reacting to things as they unfold, letting the fun just happen and just having a ball with it.

It wasn't what Disney did. It wasn't the crowd. It was US at our favorite place, doing what we do best - enjoying each other.

There's was some fun influence from the outside:
Steve's curmudgeonly tweets lead to some good times. Thank you for the line "Back in the '80s....."

Heidi's unexpected discovery of the hot MC controversy over Victorian vs Edwardian architecture leading to a locked thread (really?????) was so damn fun to play with - and we now have 2 more styles to discuss. Erodeian and Imodium.

However, I still wish we had found NM at Zocalo, silently walked up as he was with his staff, picked him up and carried him off.....

When we got home, we had pugs and cats happy to see us and our happiness rubbed off on them. It took me a while to get to sleep because I was both exhausted and nauseous. I guess an intake consisting of carbs, coffee, shellfish in cream sauce and lots of cheese will cause a mess. One antacid later and I feel asleep just as it was starting to get light outside. I smiled thinking of those of you just saying your goodbyes at the park, but still happy to be home in bed.

Good times.

The one thing I should have done: popped three Advil before going to bed this morning.

Yeah yeah... whatever.


Disneyland / Overnight / Shellfish / Friends / Yadda Yadda

I'm glad I stayed home.

:rolleyes:
:p

I second Teresa's comments.

I was all ready to go to the park around 9 or 10 (along with the rest of Southern California, apparently) and got cold feet by the reports of the clusterfvck in the parking.

The next time there's an opportunity to hang with my friends in such a cool and unique way (whether it be Disney related or not), I'm determined to go for it.

It's not the Disney experience I feel I missed out on (although I've heard reports that they changed all the BGM at the MK in WDW - I would have loved to experience that), it the social experience that would have made my month.

It was fun to monitor the goings on from afar, updating the MP reports, but next time I might like to be there. I could use more joy.

At one point I was headed over to Beaumark's place to borrow his handicap placard with the hare-brained idea of ditching my car in some neighborhood relatively near the Resort just to avoid the parking nightmare, but then I found out that streets were backed up for miles, too. Le Bah.


Still - I should have tried something ... and just being content to miss the whole thing makes me feel as if old age is indeed creeping up on me. Lame.

But I'll agree with this:

We ended up stumbling back to our car parked in the parking structure. They were running trams frequently but there were just too many trying to board trams so we decided to walk or what was close to walking lol...

I feel like I've lost an entire day but at least today I'm more human (still yearning for more sleep and normal Friday's I'd be in bed sleeping). I still think it definitely was the group of US that made our experience that much more amazing since Disney really didn't step it up hate to say that.

I'm so glad that we went after all the problems we encountered but once we met up with the group that all sort of faded away at that point.