So Nans drives us to a secret destination and it turns out to be a huge mall with designer outlets. All sales. So my something of a clothes horse husband starts drooling and pointing. Pointing at Brooks Brothers, Banana Republic, The Gap, etc etc but best of all, Ralph Lauren's factory outlet! That thing above is their equivalent of a shopping basket. Nans and my husband and I all scored new spring RL stuff.
Here's my tops. I had enough denim and leggings already, although both my husband and Nans informed me you never can own enough jeans


My husband physically had to drag me away from the perfume shops TRESOR! Woo Hoo!  and especially Godiva's chocolates shop 

Tomorrow we hit Disneyland. My meanie husband just reminded me: "and the long queues, the muscle aches, the screaming children..."  
Ah, vacations!  Then home and the evil Librarian making me write more.

       
 

Disneyland is the happiest place on earth, but you don't see the seedy underbelly of horror, disease and destruction known as the Disneyland aftermath syndrome, otherwise known as complete exhaustion and sore feet. You walk from a little past 9 am pretty much straight through until 6 pm with about a half hour to eat your overpriced meal. We hit Main Street, Fantasyland, Tomorrowland, Frontierland, IndianaJones land, Thatcutemusicisdrivingmenutsland, Toohighapriceland, Ireallydon'tneedaChipandDalechipmunkhatbutit'ssocuteland, etc. (You buy overpriced stuff from the shops, too.) You go on rides (I personally never want to hear "It's a small world after all." ever again) You go on a pirate ship, right? (Complete with a genuine canon, uh I mean cannon.) The pirate ship breaks down. Yes, folks, the pirate ship we went on actually was held up for about 15-20 min, because the motor conked out or something. Talk about Timelash, the pirates were walking around talking to a grimfaced Disneyland mechanic, while we, the public, were on cell phones. Era error? (Try saying that three times fast) My husband's cell battery gave out, I was forced to throw him overboard because he couldn't take any more pictures for me.  (He says Flipper saved him )Blue Shrew saved the day and has more pictures.  We were lost at sea for about a hour days, and all my husband had left for provisions was cranberries, Smartwater, and mouse shaped Chip and Dale pretzels. We considered eating the other passengers to survive, and my husband suggested we could snack on the children. We survived, and hit land until Blue Shrew took us on the jungle adventure boat, and the female captain (maybe Virginia Lake in another life?) had to shoot a charging bull elephant, and several hippo to get us safely home.
Denise, the only fairy I could find was Tinkerbelle, but we did see Captain Jack Sparrow, Cruella deVille, and Cinderella and Snow White! Blue Shrew bought us a Chip and Dale lanyard, and pin, a Thumper charm and pin, pink rhinestone mouse hair barrettes, and other goodies. My husband now has a pen sword, which as Blue Shrew pointed out to us, really confuses the issue about the pen being mightier than the sword, when the sword is the pen. Or the pen is the sword. See what Disneyland does to you?
I wanted to go and be made up as a princess,  but my husband pointed out that I wouldn't fit into a 5 year old's sparkly ballgown. (I tied him to the Disneyland train tracks for that statement, but he cut himself loose with the sword pen. Pen sword? Oh forget it..)
We found Skydiver! Kinda. Hopefully Blue Shrew aka Nans' pictures came out well. 
Pictures soon, and Matt, you'd love it there. You could go there on this in no time at all. 

It sounds like you had a rip-roaring adventure!  The pirate ride was down when we visited, so we didn't get to enjoy it.  Although I've heard it's been revamped since POTC.  Glad you got to go on it, even if it did conk out on you.  Tinkerbell is my least favorite fairy, but some of her friends are nice.  (My granddaughters have the movies.)

Anyway, recover from your vacation soon and get back to writing!  You were missed. 

Write Rat wrote on Mar 31^st, 2011 at 7:08pm:

Amelia, I'm glad you and Ed enjoyed your time at Disneyland. And your visit with Nans! Finding a new plot bunny is always fun!

Being a freshman writer, (well a sophmore now) I was greatly honored by your kind words. It's good to know that my stories have brought joy to some, and opened doors for others. Just knowing that a tale, written by me, put a smile on someone's face is worth more than all the riches in the world!

Hey Matt thought you might enjoy this shot of the Nautilus