If you ever have the chance, stop by the Frontier Tower of the Disneyland Hotel. There's a fantastic model of Big Thunder Mountain Railroad on display in the lobby. You can see all the little details you may otherwise miss while riding.
It also serves as a great testament to the incredible work imagineers do to create these attractions.
Disney fans have a thing for anything around the parks. But, I guess that's a testament to the level of themeing the Imagineers put into their work. One thing is the trash cans. Have you ever noticed that even the trash cans are themed? Check this one out from Buena Vista Street.
Here's a shot from a while back of Splash Mountain. I really can't wait to get back to Disneyland to get more shots. I also really just need to get back into the swing of posting more photos in general.
This last weekend we celebrated not just our anniversary, but the anniversary of two other close friends. How do we do that? Rent a condo at the beach and just relax. It honestly was very much needed and a getaway with friends to spend time just hanging out, playing games and not doing much but just talking and laughing made for a great time.
Mine?
Concentrate...
It's amazing to see the color gradient in the water.
Well, now that it's out in the open and 'Facebook official', we're pregnant! Well, Hailey is. I'm just along for the ride, trying to make sure she gets what she wants with her cravings, or add a pillow to help her sore back. I'm a pregnancy assistant.
It's really crazy. I won't lie, there's days I still don't think I'm a dad, but I am. I've been told, and I believe it, but it'll snap into my head the closer we get to the due date in July.
So far, we've had a few appointments since the announcement (if you wanna watch the video, it'll be at the bottom of the post). Baby's doing good, mom's doing good (despite feeling pretty bad during the first trimester). I'm doing great, but who cares about me, it's about momma and the kiddo, right? Heartbeat has been rising more and more each time we've heard it, and the last two times we've had an ultrasound, the baby's been moving nonstop!
Seriously, if the kid moves as much out of the womb as it does in it, Hailey and I are gonna be rocking and rolling non-stop, which I'm excited for anyway. It'll keep me young and moving.
That said, I gotta write about an experience I've had today.
Today, I tried to do some research on gender reveals. Did you know that there's only about 20 ideas for a gender reveal, and every mommy blogger from here to Gymboree reposts them as 'the best ideas of *insert year here*'?
Because that's basically what it is. I want originality, or at least an idea I haven't seen before. But balloons out of a box, colored cake, silly string...blue or pink, blue or pink....it's dizzying.
The trick that makes it hard is the fact Hailey and I want to be surprised with everyone else. So outside of cutting a cake or just opening an envelope...how do we do that without knowing before?
It's a quandary, and gets hard to find a good idea that isn't the norm that everyone else does. The search will continue...we've got a month before we find out, anyway....
