Who writes like that? Honestly. Amazing. X. Atencio, Disney Imagineer… he’s “the M.F.S.” as we say in my family. It’s just so well-done. I wish that I could write like that. Side note: at Disneyland, the floor in the stretching room goes down, at Walt Disney World, the ceiling goes up.
To tie it in to the blog… I’m anxious. I bet you can see it on my face. But, today’s a much better day than yesterday. I’m puttin’ my behind in my past and moving on. Reopened a lot of baby gifts from Courtney Ryalls… just feeling really blessed. I bought giraffe thank you notes and sat them on the kitchen counter at the old house. After 2 weeks of searching and not finding them, I broke down and bought some lesser thank you notes. I didn’t want to do it, but I mean, c’mon… it’s been almost 2 freakin’ weeks.
I’m listening to a Disney Theme Park Audio radio station right now that happens to be playing the entire Haunted Mansion ride from Disneyland. I think I sat down at the computer right as he said the bit about the disquieting metamorphosis. I love that ride. I am so homesick for Disney World.
The Disney Vacation Club Member Cruise is happening this week. Dad wanted to go, but we opted not to because of the baby. What if he came early, you know? Of course now, sitting here, I can see we’re no where close. He’s still up way high and everything. The doc checked my cervix and isn’t worried. We would have been fine.
Then again… we need to save Tom’s days off for the weeks after the baby and our anniversary in December. So, I guess we really couldn’t afford it.
Now the music from El Rio del Tiempo in Mexico at Epcot is on. Takes me back. I can smell it. If you’re not in my family, that probably makes no sense. I think our new anniversary tradition is trying something new every year. Last year, Tom and I ate at San Angel Inn for the first time and had priority seating for the Candlelight Processional. It was so romantic. Everything is romantic with Tommy, but it was just really neat. I’ve ridden past our table countless times while I was on the ride and always wondered what it would be like. Last year we got to find out.
Mexico at twilight… always at twilight.
Temple with Donald’s Gran Fiesta Tour boats passing. Tom’s ear.
Dessert! Natilla de Cajeta: Caramelized “cajeta” custard cream served
with seasonal berries and sugar powder.
One of these years I think we’ll do Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party at the Magic Kingdom. Maybe when the baby is 5 or so. One of these years I want to do a private fireworks cruise. One of these years I want to celebrate Christmas with a sleigh ride at Fort Wilderness. I guess the new thing this year is that we’re taking another person with us. I think I will wait in line for as long as it takes to get baby’s picture with Mickey Mouse.
While I’ve got you… WHAT THE HECK SHOULD I NAME MY KID?! You may think that we’re being aloof. We’re not. I still don’t have a boy’s name that I love. We’re dangerously close to Mickey if we don’t come up with something.
I just read a blog post that I wrote a while back hoping baby would be born on 10/11/12. I had totally forgotten about that! I’ve just been so excited to see what he looks like, I was hoping he’d come asap. Now I’m thinkin’ it’d be cool to hold off. Oh well.
That La Kid 
It’s funny, I was just telling Haley that I really think you SHOULD name him Mickey. Seems appropriate to me. On the other hand, I’ve been practicing calling him Bruce all week.
I love it when you comment.
Tom’s mom thinks Bruce is kind of hard to pronounce, but his dad seemed tickled with it. They both said, “Hey, it’s your kid.” And his dad said that the good thing about the American name is that if the kid doesn’t like it, he can change it when he’s 18.
Tule said something like Tommy or Jerry is easier to pronounce. Tommy. Jerry. Mickey. 🙂
His dad said we should call him (sounds like) Luong (like saying long + lung at the same time) Jy-e (rhymes with dye, but you ask a question with the e), or Dragon Kid. 🙂
How about Lee Johnson La…You said you wanted Lee…It would break up the lee la thing…and have your family name…He could still