This was a flag on the front of our hotel
Morning run done!
While I was out running I saw a bunch of people walking. They had all done the 10K run that morning. It kind of made me wish I had signed up to do that too. Just a little though lol. Friday they had a 5k, then Saturday the 10k and then finally Sunday the ½ marathon. If you did all 3 you got another medal. You’d also have a very empty wallet because those races are NOT cheap.
all the medals you could get over the weekend
There is an AMC movie theater in Downtown Disney now and they were setting up for the “world premiere” of the movie Tomorrowland. They were building all this elaborate things for people to walk through. We thought, oh that’s cool! And took a few pictures.
Sarah with her expensive water
At one point I wandered over to this one booth where a guy
was selling these roller sticks. He looked at me and said “you have a tight IT
band” and started rolling the stick on the upper right leg. It hurt so good! It also immediately made my hip feel better.
How weird was that? So there went $35. My big purchase of the whole weekend. Totally
worth it and now my hip felt great! I never would have guess that that was an
IT band issue. I also ended up buying a few more stickers for my car (which 2
weeks later I still need to put them on).
"The Stick"
Had to buy this
They had some speakers at the Expo. I thought it was funny
listening to one that was saying the opposite of what a lot of other people
think regarding nutrition and running. I really think that all that is just up
to the individual person and what you find works the best for you. The whole
eat this before and eat this after and eat this during. It’s all trial and
error.
We actually went down and sat in the audience to listen to a
girl that won the Biggest Loser a few years ago. I quite watching The Biggest
Loser years ago because all the whining and crying really annoyed me. Plus I
used to eat ice cream while I watched it. Raise your hand if you’ve ever done
that..
Danni Allen Tinkerbell Half Marathon Expo
So this gal, her name was Danni Allen and I think she said
she won the 2014 year. She went to the auditions with her friend that really
wanted to be on the show, and to her surprised they picked her to be a
contestant.
She talked about her eating and things that led her to being
heavy, the show, and life after the show. She was really cool to hear and I
even got to ask her a question. I asked her if she monitors her calories or
just focuses on clean eating or what? She said that she does count calories and
then went into how she quit drinking Diet Coke and why. Noooo not the Diet
Coke!! (Currently I’m back to drinking it but I do try to quit every now and
then).After her the lady that was the model for Tinkerbell (Margaret Kerry) in the movie was there. She was quite a kick and told us about all the stuff she had done. She was in several movies and TV shows. When she was done we finally left the Expo.
The Original Tinkerbell
Prop Pictures
We walked down to the valet area in front of the Disneyland Hotel and caught a cab over to another hotel on the hotel strip for Sarah to pick up a Disneyland park ticket that she had bought from someone. While we were there Juli realized that she had lost her cell phone somewhere.
She remembered some guy bumping into her twice while we were
watching the Tinkerbell speaker and wondered if someone had picked her pocket
and stole it. OR maybe she lost It in the cab? Sarah called the valet service
and they called the cab driver. (There was a little area where all the cab
drivers parked and hung out). The cab driver called Sarah and was totally
confused and ended up hanging up. Sarah called him back and he told her she had
the wrong number. All this time we are calling Juli’s phone and then we started
just walking back to the Downtown Disney area. Juli called her husband to tell
him what happened. When we were walking back and trying to decide what to do I
said let’s just walk back to the Expo and ask around if anyone found a phone. We
had to walk back past the valet area. Sarah stopped to talk to the valet desk people
and Juli and I were going to go to the Expo area when I noticed the same cab
driver that had drove us sitting right there! I pointed him out to Juli and we
walked over and asked him if we could look for the phone. And wouldn’t you know
it? It was right there in the back seat? Talk about luck! I don’t know how the
guy did not hear the phone ringing over and over. Of course by the time we
found it Juli’s husband had put a hold on it so we had to wait for that to
reset for her to use it but man oh man. That was one happy outcome!
So after all that drama we were all ready for some dinner!
We started walking down Downtown Disney and saw that people were lining up waiting
for the stars to show up for the premier of Tomorrowland.
We decided hey, might as well hang out! It was only going to
be a little while until people showed up, when else in our lifetime are we
going to see famous people arrive for a movie premier and walk down a carpet?
We all ended up a little separated but in the same general
area. Eventually people started walking down the aisle. Most of them I didn’t
know but I took pictures of anyways because it was fun!
There was a girl between me and Sarah that kept getting
stars to stop and take selfies with her. How fun is that? There was a ton of
Disney channel kids stars, which, if it was a few years ago I would know them
all but not anymore. I did catch a glimpse of Ashley Tisdale though! Also Emily
Osment from Hannah Montana was there.
Faith Hill did a little dance as she walked by and I didn't see him but her husband Tim was with her too!
Eventually the grand finale of George Clooney happened. My
phone was JUST about to die any second. Of course, as soon as the big star
shows up it’s going to die! I did a little video when I heard him coming and
then a couple of pictures and then poof my phone was dead. At least I got a couple pictures of him! His wife had come probably an hour before him
(talk about a tall thin rail of a woman!) which I thought was odd but then when
he came he was so nice and stopped to sign autographs and take pictures with
people. I was like no wonder she came earlier!
Overall I was amazed at how nice most of the stars were, stopping to take pictures with fans and sign autographs. After all that craziness broke up we finally wandered off to find some food. We ended up at the same place I ate the night before because the line wasn’t very long (the Rainforest Café had a 2 hour wait!) and hello, margaritas.
While we were
sitting there eating there was a bunch of kids in prom attire walking through
to go to dinner. This cute little couple ended up coming to where we were
eating. All the tables were pretty full
so Juli went over and told them we’d save them our table for when they were
done going through the line. That’s a bunch of mom’s for you right?
Overall I was amazed at how nice most of the stars were, stopping to take pictures with fans and sign autographs. After all that craziness broke up we finally wandered off to find some food. We ended up at the same place I ate the night before because the line wasn’t very long (the Rainforest Café had a 2 hour wait!) and hello, margaritas.
View of the start line for the Tinkerbell Half
I posted about the race already, you can go here to read it.
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1 comment:
What a great little trip,punishment and George Clooney!!!
i'd run for George. :-)
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