For those of you who don't know my friends Belle & Aurora... please allow me to introduce them. (Belle is on the left in blue, Aurora is to the right of her, wearing black & pink (Flora must've gotten her way this time) and you all know me, Cinderella, there in the back (where the tall kids always go). Christian, Christine and I took a trip to Disneyland a few months ago. Christine and I are both BIG FANS of Disneyland, and when we realized that our friend Christian had never been, well... we had to remedy that. We were lucky enough to have some free tickets fall into our laps (thank you, Cousins Julie & Bethie!), and we even had a free place to stay (muchas gracias, Aunt Deb & Uncle Rob!)... so all we had to do was buy the gas to get there. We left after work Friday, drove to CA that night and then got up Saturday morning and spent the full day in the park (yup, from open to close). The highlights of the day were lunch at The Blue Bayou (we fell in love with the deep fried Monte Cristo... and who could blame us, really?) and the FOUR, thankyouverymuch, stops by the Dole Whip stand outside the Tiki Tiki Room. And okay, the back-to-back rides on The Matterhorn were pretty sweet... as were the four times getting off and then right back on again at Thunder Mountain Railway at closing time. Let's face it... it was a fantastic day!
We drove back to D&R's house that night totally and completely wasted, slept like the very dead, and then got up and drove back to AZ on Sunday. It was the absolute most fun I've ever packed into a 48 hour period. (And I've never been more tired in my life, I'm pretty sure.) It took us almost 3 days back at the grindstone in our daily lives before we started to wonder where else we could buy Pineapple ice cream, and wondering why on earth no one in Sunny AZ knows that they should batter & fry a Monte Cristo. (I mean, honestly, we were ordered every Monte Cristo we could find on a menu, and not one restaurant fried them up right...) We took matters into our own hands, and... gave Google a shot, hoping it would help us in our quest. Sure enough... it's true, what they say, you can find anything online. Enter the recipes for Pineapple Whip ice cream and the Disneyland Monte Cristo - and the first Princess Party.
We drove back to D&R's house that night totally and completely wasted, slept like the very dead, and then got up and drove back to AZ on Sunday. It was the absolute most fun I've ever packed into a 48 hour period. (And I've never been more tired in my life, I'm pretty sure.) It took us almost 3 days back at the grindstone in our daily lives before we started to wonder where else we could buy Pineapple ice cream, and wondering why on earth no one in Sunny AZ knows that they should batter & fry a Monte Cristo. (I mean, honestly, we were ordered every Monte Cristo we could find on a menu, and not one restaurant fried them up right...) We took matters into our own hands, and... gave Google a shot, hoping it would help us in our quest. Sure enough... it's true, what they say, you can find anything online. Enter the recipes for Pineapple Whip ice cream and the Disneyland Monte Cristo - and the first Princess Party. 
We had the first princess party in May and the pineapple ice cream and (deep fried) Monte Cristos were so fantastic that we planned our next party straightaway. Our second party was mid-June, and... our third party is scheduled for today/night. This princess party is gonna be special, because... (drum roll please), we're having a sleepover this time. Yes, you read that right folks, a full blown princess sleepover party, complete with biscuits & gravy in the morning before we disburse and go our seperate churching ways (I'm just hoping that no one puts a pea under my 22 mattress. I'd hate to wake up with my princessy hide black & blue from a cursed little pea). We're planning to swim in the princess pool, watch multiple back-to-back princess movies (Ever After is at the top of the list - since we did Beauty & The Beast and Enchanted at the previous parties, I figure it's time that I had some representation), eat ourselves under the table, and... party like we're, well... royalty or something. Wahoo!
8 comments:
Pool? Watch out for wardrobe malfunction.
A princess sleepover sounds like so much fun. I'm hoping you watch movies with your favorite "princes". Good food and watching hot men. What more could you ask for? Well, besides making out with the hot men.
Mich... bite me.
Genevra... no FREAKING kidding it'd be good to make out with the hot men. But alas, I'll have to settle for admiring my prince from afar. The good news? It's a big screen tv, so at least Prince Henry will be life sized. :)
Laurie, I have decor from my Disneyland party days, it's behind the stuff I use at school right now (to be remedied next week), but I have some fun stuff from different "lands" at Disneyland. Let me know if you're interested!
Sniff, sniff....
I'm feeling so sad because
1. I'm not with you in Disneyland right now.
2. I'm not living in Arizona up the street from you.
3. I saw your red wall in the picture and it made me remember the time we went and got your la-z-boy.
4. I really want to eat at the Blue Bayou.
Have fun. I'll be missing you!
Bennigans used to make the BEST Monte Cristos ~ Fried! But they served them with raspberry jam, so we used to bring our our grape jelly.
As for the sleepover, we are having one in two weeks when they rest of my "growing up" gang all come into town. We all grew up together in the same ward and most of us lived on the same street, and we are all excited.
I think you are a princess, you have the grace of one (and the attitude).
I wondered where you acquired such an awesome tiara from, now I know.
Dawn... HECK YEAH, I'll take Disney decorations! Oooh, I'm giddy with excitement over the mere thought of it...
Awh, Jen... I wish you were here, too. Or that I was there. Or that we were both at Disneyland. And oh yes, the red chair day. The red chair that I bought that I THOUGHT would match the red wall. Uhm... no, no it doesn't match so much. So now the purple-ish red chair is covered with a blanket so the clashing with the wall is not so offensive. Was that the same day Matt hooked up my internet? ...This is why I'll always live in this apartment. Without Matt around to unhook and re-set-up the internet connection, I would be a lost woman in a technological world. Seriously, I'd probably never blog again. Andw we can't have that now, can we?
Shelle... I'm going to still try to be your friend, even if you do eat a Monte Cristo with grape jelly. (I'm a strawberry jammer, all the way. Or... if I'm in a pinch, blackberry. But I could NEVER do grape.) Oh well, this is why they make so many different kinds of jam/jelly, I guess. Different strokes for different folks, right? And... I'm going to assume you meant that I have a regal and royal princessy attitude - and not the snotty spoiled princessy attitude - and thank you profusely. I appreciate that very much. :) Ooh, and have fun at your sleepover... they do rock, and it sounds like you're gonna have a lot of fun.
I did mean the regal and royal attitude. I really meant attitude as in Pricess Diaries 2. Where Mia is nice to everyone and sticks to her guns no matter what the consequence!
Sorry, still grape. Can we still be friends?
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