May 10th DAY 7: Clarice and the Munks

Mickey and Stitch called us at 8am this morning. Ugh! Need. More. Sleep. So we said “Screw you, Mickey!” (in a nice Disney way, of course…) and snoozed for another 45 minutes. Dad and Debbie were already on their way home. We decided that this would be kind of a kick back day. A day to recuperate before we ran ourselves into the ground tomorrow for our last full day.

MGM was on our list today. As we were walking toward the big ol hat we spotted them… Chip and Dale! ::jumps up and down and claps hands like a school girl:: Wheee!!! My favorites! And whats this?? Who’s with them?! Clarice! You know, the sexy girl chipmunk (or at least as sexy as a chipmunk can be)! Double Wheeee! So we had to get our picture with them and so we did!

Awesomeness! I was so excited to see Clarice!

We found Dopey!

Our first stop was to see the One Man’s Dream exhibit. I’d seen the movie before at DCA but Mark never had. The exhibits themselves were really well done and they had some really cool things in there like Walk Disney’s childhood desk as well as his office that those darn Florida people stole from us in California and I’m still waiting for it to return. ::gives Florida a dirty look:: But it was nice to see it again. I would suggest this exhibit to anyone interested in Walt himself. It was really fun to look at. And the movie itself was well done. It through me off because last time I saw it, Eisner did the opening but its since been changed (more appropriately) to Julie Andrews.

Mickey got grumpy with me because I put the backpack in the wrong spot for the picture. Sheesh! Sorry Mickey!

Walt's desk.

We had a mission to see Lights Motors Action! for Mark. But we were starving! What to do? We had lunch plans at the 50’s Primetime Café so we didn’t want to eat a lot. We headed towards the LMA area and found the “Herbie” food cart place. I’m sure it has a more creative name than that. They had humbow! Oh, I’m in heaven! Sure they called the humbow “Steamed Pork Buns” but it looked like humbow to me. So I got two of those and Mark got a huge pretzel and we took them into LMA with us. Oh my goodness! Those buns were the best snack ever. The day they come to Disneyland I’m renewing my Annual Pass just so I can go get one whenever I want with out having to use one of Mark’s sign-ins. I’d be there 4 times a week! They were that good.

The show was good. Its so loud. I sound old when I say that but… it really is loud!!! But Mark loved it and that’s all that matters. It was time for our lunch reservations so we headed off to the decade of poodle skirts and boys named “Skippy”. Our server was slooooooooow and boring. It was rather disappointing. She did try to pull off the act but just didn’t quite make it. It made me wonder if she was just new and didn’t have her “character” down yet. I’m going to say that’s what the deal was and give her a pass this one time. Aren’t I nice? I also had some sort of alcoholic beverage which may have made me more forgiving. LOL! Luckily we were surrounded by some really great servers so at least we got to be entertained by them harassing their tables. We both had the pot roast. Mine was really good. Mark’s said his was “meh”. And then we both got desserts. Good thing we’re doing so much walking on this trip! We decided we’d still eat there again even though this time was a less than stellar visit. I think, though, that we should go for dinner rather than lunch. I assume that’s when they’d have their more experienced wait staff working and there would be more people for them to interact with.

Mark waits for "mom" to call us to dinner.

I check out dessert on the nifty Viewmaster!

With full (really full) bellies we did a attraction marathon to complete everything we wanted to do at MGM. First off was the Great Movie Ride followed by the Tower of Terror. We stopped in one of the shops that has all the cooking items. Mark decided to take a closer look at some utensils that were hanging on a wall display. He grabbed a whisk with a Mickey head handle. He put it back but it wouldn’t stay and then fell off knocking off all the other utensils on the way down. He tried to catch them but they were slippery little buggers and went through his hands. He looked around to make sure no body had seen ut but since it made more noise than LMA every one HAD seen it. He started picking them up and putting them back and every third of fourth one fell back down taking more with it. LOL! It was like something out of a bad 80’s sitcom. We finally got them all put away and then held our breath as we walked out of the store.

Look! We found our home on a map at MGM! It was very exciting!

Then we got seats for Beauty and the Beast. I had heard this was really good but I was a little disappointed by it. I didn’t think the singers were all that great. They weren’t BAD by any means but they weren’t great. Just OK. Still, I’m glad we watched it. After the show we went to ride Rock N’ Rollercoaster. And it still made my tooth hurt. What’s up with that?! Stupid sinus pressure.

Here is Mark taking a picture of me to make sure my camera still works after I dropped it. Whoops!

We were done with this park. So long MGM! See you next time!

We headed to Downtown Disney to do souvenir shopping and to get dinner. We headed to Earl of Sandwich for dinner. We’d been wanting to try this place for a long time. I *think* Mark had the Cannonballs sandwich (meatballs) and I had the Scuddeto sandwich (salami, capicola, ham and mortadella with fresh sliced mozzarella, roma tomatoes and marinara). This place was well worth the wait. The whole ordering thing seems a little hectic as its different from most places you go to and they don’t really explain how they’d like you to place your order but it wasn’t all that hard to figure out and the food was awesome! I wish Anaheim’s DTD had a place like this. Next it was time to find some presents. The World of Disney Store had a really cool Pirates of the Caribbean display up. Mark and I found presents for his parents and sister. It was a little dicey there for a bit but we found things we thought they’d each like.

Christmas cards for 2007 perhaps? Hmmmm...

After looking around for a bit more we decided to head back to the hotel for an evening of drinks by the pool. We caught the bus back to the hotel and I was unfortunate to have a group of teenagers standing over me. Not that I dislike teenagers in general but this a group of the inconsiderate kind. You know the kind that let go of the handrail while they’re standing and the bus is moving and hit people in the head because they’re tickling each other and pushing each other. I thought I was going to have to put the smack down on Clumpy Deodorant Pit and her friends. Finally we made it back to the ASS and got away from Clumpy Deodorant Pit’s crew with out getting knocked in the head too many times and without her deodorant clumps raining down on me… I was very worried about that. LOL!

We headed to the pool and I got us some drinky drinks. And we spent the next hour or so talking about our favorite parts of the trip so far and getting a game plan in gear for tomorrow.

Relaxing with our drinks!