It's All About Me!

Well, at least on this day it was because it was my birthday!  Yep, 39 again!!  J  The day started with a surprise phone call from a friend of ours who was in London on business, and he called just to wish me a happy birthday!  And of course my sister called with her very special birthday song (she makes up a new one every year).

 

We waited a little bit before heading across the street to Denny’s Restaurant for my free Grand Slam breakfast figuring the rush would be over, but we were wrong.  The place was packed, but we found a couple of seats at the counter.  All the servers were obviously stressed, and things were slipping through the cracks. 

Bottom line, Russ ended up getting his meal free, too!

 

Now it was time to head over to Hollywood Studios.  We had reserved a FastPass for Toy Story Mania, and even though Russ said maybe he’d let me win on my birthday, he definitely did not, beating me by 6,500 points.  Not

to worry, I’m sure my day will come!  While we were waiting for our FastPass reserved time, we caught a performance of Beauty & the Beast, one of my favorites.  These mini-productions are so well done and really capture the entire story of the full length musical.

       The park was extremely crowded, but it was a beautiful day and we were in no hurry so simply wandered around stopping for a bit to watch that magical street performer, Jack Diamond, do some of his incredible card tricks and

    spotted a street performer we had not seen before…Daisy Day with her “Hollywood or Bust” suitcase.  It was hard to miss her since she was seated on a blanket right in the middle of the street!

 

   We also stopped to watch some of the young kids who had signed up for the Jedi Training Academy where they learned to use the Force to “battle” Darth Vader, and
      near the Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular were some props where I let Russ get in a picture, too!  J

 

As we continued our stroll towards the Streets of America, we could
   hear the sounds of rock music in the air, and sure enough we found one of our favorite Disney groups Mulch, Sweat n’ Shears!  Led by “Morris Mulch” this high energy group specializes in classic rock or as they like to say “rake and roll!”  They drive up in an innocent
   looking landscaper’s pickup truck that quickly turn it into a fully functioning stage with the sound system under the hood run by “cousin Sparky”.  Their 30 minute sets are filled with fun and incredible musicianship, and they
     routinely involve the audience whether it’s having you sing along or bringing someone up to play air guitar with the band.  We had arrived in time to only see the last couple of minutes, but they would return for another set in half an hour and so did we!

All in all it was a great day though nothing really spectacular happened.  Just spent the day enjoying beautiful weather and fun with my guy in the magic of Hollywood!