Except for those bushes on the bottom right. What a pretty display of fireworks!
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Seriously snuggly
Chip and Dale were her favorite. Even though she confused the with the Alvin n Chipmunk movie she'd just seen. She cuddled with these guys every time we saw them.
Bonfire at our resort
We made smores and Chip and Dale (the Disney characters, people!) came by for Anna hugs.
She hated Mickey, LOVED Minnie
Apparently Mickey had a "big nose" and "big ears" and freaked her the hell out. She preferred Minnie Mouse. Must be a girl thing.
ROLLER COASTER!
Anna's first roller coaster ride was at Barnstormer at Disney World. She LOVED it and we had to ride again. At the end of the first ride I heard a squeal and grunt and looked over to what I expected to be a fearful little face who wanted off. But the squal was followed by "THAT WAS FUN!! Let's ride again!!". Whew, relief. We were proud!!!
Monday, January 4, 2010
By the way, this week while everyone is going back to work from their nice vacations, I am at the AIAA conference in Orlando. I'm staying at the kick ass Marriott World resort, the largest Marriott in the world. It's very cool and I'm learning tons!
It just worker out that the conference ends the day we were planning to fly to Orlando as a family for the Disney Half marathon. So I'll be here already and the rest will join me thurs and we'll be moving to the Disney Wilderness cabins. We loved them last year!
Anna runs her 100m dash on Friday and our Half is Sat morn. I am confident I'll make my best time ever, though it'll show under Carrie's name.
This is our second year doing the Half and Anna's second year doing the 100 m dash.
Last year none of the rides scared her. But this year she might be of that age where she gets scared. Will be interesting to see how she does.
It gets harder to say goodbye to Anna the older she gets! She doesn't cry or anything but she is more aware and misses me more. Last night she called to sing to me :) and asked me to sing to her. And I realize I miss her more the older she gets
We get home from Disney on Wednesday the 13th.
Meet Carrie
I registered Paul and Me for the Disney Half Marathon back in Jan 27 2009 through Active.com. Good thing, too, because it sold out in April.
In May I registered Anna for the kids 100m dash. It too has since sold out.
Since then I have paid for airline tickets, made vacation arrangements, and paid Disney for our stay at the Wilderness cabins, which starts Friday.
I have gotten up to run at 4am regularly with a group of stranger-friends as part of my training.
Which is why you can understand how I temporarily lost all control of voluntary body function 3 nights ago when I dowload Paul's and Anna's race waivers but couldn't find mine online. Next click showed I wasn't even registered at all.
My meticulous planning had built a perfectly deceptive world that Tara R was going to run in the 2010 Disney World Half Marathon.
As it turns out, she is not running. But Carrie H is. Let's cheer her on because she will be me since I found her on Craigslist as someone who needed to sell her Disney Half entry. The results of my run this year will be posted under Carrie's name. My race bib will say Carrie and not Tara.
Not a bad name. But holy s*** The universe apparently feels I needed a good exercise in "how to be resourceful when s*** seriously goes wrong. Because yes, it's been awhile since s*** has seriously gone wrong.
I sure got lucky to find her. Not many are selling but there are plenty of posts out there who need tickets like me. Carrie's original buyer backed out.
And no, even though Disney and Active.com felt bad for me there was nothing they can do.
Go, Carrie!
Thursday, December 31, 2009
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