Yesterday was a court holiday for me. Thank you, Mr. Lincoln! Mr. W took a personal day off from his work so that we could hang out and celebrate Valentine’s Day early. We still had Jayne come at her regular time (which is getting later and later :/ ) to take care of Allie.

The first thing we did was hit the gym. It’s been too long and too sporadic for me. I felt really good working out and was happy doing it, like I did the last time I worked out before that, and thought once again about how I really should regularly return to the gym. I’ve just gotta figure out when/how. We used to gym during lunchtime on weekdays, but Mr. W isn’t so much into it anymore. He’d rather use that as “lunch date” time since with Allie we can’t go on regular evening dates or outings. I’m considering doing Insanity on my own at work during lunch, but Mr. W isn’t happy to lose his lunch dates.

After the gym, Mr. W found a hotel restaurant that makes sustainable food dishes, so off we went to try out 6ix. He had the breakfast buffet which I thought was just standard continental breakfast hotel stuff, and I had corned beef hash which had 2 poached eggs. I wasn’t sure if corned beef hash was something I’d like, and altho I was pleasantly surprised to find it’s not overly salty like I’d expected, it wasn’t anything to write home about. The smoked salmon and lox from the buffet bar that Mr. W got, however, was excellent, and also not overly salted/smoked.

And then we went to the “pièce de résistance” of our day: Disneyland. We now know our upcoming vacation dates for the year, and were considering a “stay-cation,” as he put it, instead of a trip somewhere far. Mr. W thought it may be fun to take Allie to Disneyland/California Adventure for a few days in the mornings when the crowds aren’t bad, and have her back in time for her noon nap. And then for a few more days, we can say in San Diego for the San Diego Zoo. Of course this means annual passes would be needed. So after years of not having annual passes, Mr. W and I got a lower-level annual pass for each of us yesterday. The price had almost tripled since our last pass-holding about 5 years ago. Over $350 per person! Good Goofy and Oh My Mickey! We opted not to add on more money for included parking, so we just parked in the area for Downtown Disney and ordered a drink each at the Uva Bar for the parking validation. The two drinks cost $30, so actually, we may has well have paid for parking that day and saved ourselves the calories. =P

Disneyland and California Adventure was fun. We only rode the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, Toy Story’s Astro Blasters, and a new Little Mermaid “underwater” ride, since the lines were irresistibly short. The purpose of the trip was mainly a scouting mission to check out the new Cars Land (meh) in California Adventure and to see where we would take Allie so our future trips with her would be efficient.
I’ve never noticed how many babies were at Disneyland before. Or maybe there are more babies there now than there used to be (they’re free until age 2). I watched a mom buy a Mickey-head-shaped ice cream sandwich and feed it to her baby in the stroller. The kid couldn’t have been more than 7-8 months old, and it wasn’t like the mom was eating the ice cream herself. She seemed to have bought it solely for the baby, who didn’t even seem particularly interested. She opened her mouth, but didn’t know how to bite down on the sandwich, so she closed her mouth again, and when the mom kept trying and the baby got some ice cream, she kind of pulled away from the coldness and made a face. Mom kept trying to feed it to her. I don’t know what the point is. Isn’t it good to keep the junk food away from the baby when the baby isn’t even asking for it, yet? When we left the area, the baby had taken a few bites the mom was still trying to get more in the baby’s mouth. It was at Disneyland that I had first seen baby bottles filled with Coke, too.

After Disneyland, we got home early to snatch up a crabby Allie (she only napped an hour, even tho she normally naps less with Jayne than with us for whatever reason) and a yowling Dodo and had a family trip to the vet. It was a long-overdue visit so the vet could teach us how to administer shots to Dodo to help with his severe anemia. Thankfully, Mr. W said he could do the shots. I didn’t think I’d heard right when he first said it, and I made him confirm it. He thinks shots are easier than administering liquid meds into Dodo’s mouth which Mr. W has always refused to do. Granted, the shots are a once-a-day, every-other-day thing for a 2-week course, so it’s only 6 shots, and the meds are twice a day, every day, 5 oral syringes’ worth daily. But I still have the heebie jeebies about stabbing living things with needles. The vet demonstrated for Mr. W with a saline shot into the skin of Dodo’s upper back, Mr. W did a practice shot with the saline, and then he did a “real” shot with the medication. Dodo was great and very tolerant, but I did see him flinch when Mr. W stabbed him. 🙁 My poor baby boy.