This post will chronicle what D & I ate at Disneyland last Sat. Looking back, it seems pretty gross, but it was just one day, and we walked A LOT. (We spent a total of 15.5 hours on the Disney grounds). Anyways, our mid-morning snack was the Dole Pineapple Whip:

You can find this treat by the Tiki Room. It was $2.75 and I thought it was pretty tasty. It’s pineapple soft serve! The only problem is that they swirl it all around the outside of the cup so it looks like a lot, but there was nothing in the middle! The floats looked good too…it’s made with pineapple juice and the whip on top, but those were $4.50 🙁

I made reservations the previous Monday for the Blue Bayou. Our reservations were for the first seating, at 11:30 a.m. and they were already booked up for the rest of the day! This is the restaurant inside of the Pirates of the Carribean, in case you didn’t know. When we got there I asked the hostess if we could be seated by the water, and she assured us, “Oh, you’ll get water.” The boats float past the restaurant at the beginning of the ride. One rider shouted “How do you like your dinner?” It’s dark inside, so it always seems like night, I guess. D also pointed out that in the South, they call lunch “dinner” and dinner “supper” so technically they were using the correct terminology. Anyways, we split an order of the vegetable gumbo and the famed Monte Cristo sandwich, which comes with a side of pasta salad. They also serve rolls, and if you order a soda, it is bottomless…the servers don’t let it go past being 3/4 full! This was more than enough food for us. D rated the gumbo a “9” and the sandwich a “6”.

The Monte Cristo is a turkey, ham and swiss sandwich that is dipped in batter, fried, sprinkled with powdered sugar and served with blackberry jam (more like a sauce). It was a bit heavy for my liking, but it’s one of those things that I had to check off my list.

For an afternoon snack, D bought a Mickey shaped ice cream bar, which I did not approve of. I’m so mean sometimes.

For dinner we went to Bengal BBQ near the Indiana Jones ride. We ordered a chicken kebab, a bacon-wrapped asparagus kebab and tigger tail breadsticks.

The bacon-wrapped asparagus (in the middle) was the best…with a squeeze of lemon, yum! I want to try to make that at home. The chicken and breadsticks were only alright.

Post-dinner we shared a corn dog from the truck near Carnation Plaza. Oh yeah, and we also shared a cherry lemonade while waiting for the fireworks. Yay for theme park food.

Last Sat. D and I went to Disneyland and bought 2fer tickets. I hadn’t been since I worked there about ten years ago, and D and I had never been together. Plus, Disneyland is celebrating their 50th Anniversay so I thought it would be a good time to go. Here are some pictures of all of the “50’s” that we saw throughout the park.

OK, enough about the LA Auto Show. More about last Sat., though. After spending 3 hours at the show, we ventured out to the SGV to meet up with Derek’s ex-roommate at IU who was visiting from NJ. We had some time to kill, so we ate lunch at a place called Ajisen. I had some milky pork ramen and D had some CA rolls and gyoza. Then we met up with Dan at Tea Station. Thankfully, there were no plastic tops to contend with at this boba place! Then we ate dinner to celebrate my little sis’ birthday. Afterward my family played a game of Apples to Apples and it was actually fun! My mom always tries to get us to play games without much success. However, she read about this game on Amazon and one of the reviews said it’s good even if you don’t really like games, and I must agree.

Here are yet some more pics from the auto show.

D & a Monster Truck


Look, my shirt is the same color as the electric car!

NICE!

Melissa, this one’s for you.

Dad, this one’s for you.

Michael J. Fox, this one’s for you.

Suzuki…gotta love those Japanese!

Since watching The Apprentice, I’ve become more aware of the thought that goes into marketing campaigns. Here are some of the more creative set-ups at the auto show. The top picture is of a pod at the VW display. When you turn around in it, there’s a video screen and there’s surround sound. The second picture is a water display by Buick. The third picture is in the Porsche “lounge”. Lastly, I can’t believe Volvo made their reps wear these turquoise suits with white shoes…so not cool. D also used the Chevy penny machine to make a penny stamped with the Chevrolet logo, but the picture didn’t turn out very well.

Before the CX-7 came along, D was obsessed with the Subaru Outback (It has AWD! Look at the ground clearance!) So, of course we had to check it out.

Yesterday D & I went to the LA Auto Show (shout out to K for getting us tickets). This will be a multi-part post because we took a lot of pictures, and the thought of one big post is too over-whelming. Anyway, D was excited to see the new Mazda CX-7, (a cross-over) which had its first unveiling at the LA Auto Show. D was disappointed that the doors were locked, but he liked how it looked from the outside. Now he says we are going to get one in a year and a half, but we’ll see how long that lasts! 🙂