The Blonde Diaries

So yesterday I posted this photo for my weekly Wordless Wednesday meme. So now I’m going to tell you about it since it is…

The photo yesterday is from the new Toy Story Mania ride at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. Can I tell you that that is a difficult ride to get on? It is the newest attraction at Walt Disney World (and possibly Disneyland as well) and as such, everyone runs to ride it first. Now back to the photo. When you are in the queue for the ride you pass through these rooms which are decorated in kid toys and games. There is a huge talking Mr. Potatohead, a barrel of moneys hanging around, and this wall of the game Candyland among other things. Candyland was my all time favorite game growing up. In fact, just a couple of years ago, I bought a new game so I could replace the beat up (and torn up one) from my childhood. Every now and then I drag it out for Mike to play with me. So you could only imagine my excitement when I walked in and saw that. The ride was pretty awesome too. So next time you are at DHS make sure to hit this ride up first.

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Can you think of a better way to celebrate 2009 than with a contest to win a free trip to either Walt Disney World Resort in Florida or the Disneyland Resort in California? I know I can’t! Disney is offering just that. A free trip for four people to travel to one of these Disney parks to meet with Tinkerbell and her four Fairy Friends. The prize package includes 4 park hopper tickets, a special meet and greet with Tink and the Fairies in Pixie Hollow, round-trip airfare for 4, and hotel accommodations at the Disney Resort.

Now the important stuff: How to Enter. All you have to do is head over to Disney’s Fairy website, PixieHollow.com, and sign in with your Disney.com account name and password and then enter the name of your favorite Disney Fairy before Midnight on January 31, 2009. It is that simple. While you are there you can learn more about the new meet and greet at the Disney Parks in Pixie Hollow and play some fun games with your favorite fairies. Good luck and I hope that if I can’t win then one of my readers will!

Earlier today (or was it yesterday) I mentioned that one of our Christmas gifts went missing or we never brought it home from Toys R Us and we were going to have to face the crowds today.  Well, Mike and I hit up Target around 2:30 today and let me tell you it was starting to turn into a madhouse.  I figured it would be relatively safe with people being at work but it seems like people took the week off like the two of us have.  It was a manageable crowd though so I can’t really complain.  We didn’t leave worn out and needing a nap or tylenol to kill a splitting headache.  We were just cold as the temperature never got above 39 degrees here in Houston today.

So our trip to Target wasn’t too terrible.  We went to replace the “lost” Lily doll from the Hannah Montana tv series that we bought Mike’s youngest niece, Sophie (age 6).  We did not find another Lily but we did manage to find THE LAST Christmas Carolling Singing Hannah Montana doll in the entire store.  This was exciting to us, not because it was the last one, but because it is exactly what she asked Uncle Michael for at Thanksgiving and we had already bought the Lily doll and pink purse for her so we weren’t going to be able to get it for her.  I swear I think her little angel swooped down to misplace that Lily doll and put that Hannah on the store shelf today so that we could make her Christmas.  I was super excited and just told Mike to ignore the $30 price tag when I found it on the shelf and just buy it for her. LOL.  I can’t wait to hear about her reaction this weekend.

Imagine the possibilities behind the door.