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Originally Posted by Voldemort

Lastly, I'll leave you with The House Bunny: meet Gizmo, fur person in residence in the Team Heir Apparent home. Observant readers will note that Gizmo is...not a cat. Gizmo himself seems unaware of this. Apparently he has species orientation issues. Enjoy the cuteness.

I was trying to read through all three pages before I commented, but this picture most certainly deserves an awwwwwwww!!!

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Hmm, picketing for or against public education? AND, in my current state, I did read that wrong,as in, I left out the "l."

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Marti and I just got back from five hours of enjoying Disneyland.

Well, mostly.

Alas, it would appear that we have encountered something I had fervently hoped to avoid: Spring Break. The park was teeming with people, major crowds. This wasn't too much of a problem at first, but by the time we left...hoo boy. I just hope that some of these folks get gone come Sunday and Monday; otherwise completing Marti's training will become problematic.

Be that as it may....seeing as how this is Marti's first trip to DL, I figured we'd begin with some quick educational material:

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Things were quiet enough in the lobby area that she was able to come out for a demonstration of an essential ninja skill : stillness.

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Shortly after that pic was taken a bunch of smaller kids came into the room, and one of the first things I heard was a squeal of "KITTY!" But like I said previously, Marti is a quick learner and immediately went into concealment mode (better known as hiding back in my bag). The kitty-spotter was pulled along with the rest of her gaggle to the other side of the room. Safe in the knowledge of effective concealment, my bag purred.

Can you blame her?

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There's more from the evening, but the fact that I got 3 hrs. of sleep last night is really starting to catch up with me, so I'm going to get some sleep before I do a faceplant into the desk. More tomorrow; thanks to all who are reading along.

[JustaT]

You girls sound like you are having a fab time. That crunch roll looks delicious!

Marti is as adorable as ever! Poor little darlin' hope those kids didn't spook him too much!

[llama]

Voldy - first let me assure you that I am still the ardent kittah lover I have always been. I believe every word she says about her trials at Chez Dopey - and as I have been in several Gusthaus' in Austria I can attest to how severely poor young things in dirndls are treated.....

However, I must embarrassingly admit that I am intimidated by Frau Dopey and she has my address.

Carry on the excellent training - it's obvious that Marti's superior intelligence will allow her to soar with the eagles (so to speak).

[Cielei]

Love it! Hope ya'll are having a wonderful time. (I think marti should go to training camp , there is a good one at California Adventure!)

[Dopey]

Originally Posted by llama

Voldy - first let me assure you that I am still the ardent kittah lover I have always been. I believe every word she says about her trials at Chez Dopey - and as I have been in several Gusthaus' in Austria I can attest to how severely poor young things in dirndls are treated.....

However, I must embarrassingly admit that I am intimidated by Frau Dopey and she has my address.

Carry on the excellent training - it's obvious that Marti's superior intelligence will allow her to soar with the eagles (so to speak).

Missus Llama, you should have written the above in invisible ink
Also, you must pick a direction already, it does not do to wave that flag to one side and then the other.

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Good morning, cat fanciers. Let's pick up our review of last night.

After watching the short film, we went off to enjoy ourselves in the park. Our first stop: the Haunted Mansion, which had been decked in its NBC duds the last two times I was here. I'd been looking forward to seeing it as its regular self and it seemed like a good first target.

On the way, I stopped to show Marti Sleeping Beauty Castle, thereby fulfilling half of Peppy's list . It was so pretty: the sun starting to set, the flowering trees in full bloom... See for yourself.

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Marti seemed to be impressed with the size of SBC. "This would be a lot easier to clean than that other one," she said. Sigh. I had to remind her to think like a ninja, not a chambermaid. When we go back to do the walkthrough, she's been instructed to look specifically for places from which to spring to the attack, and NOT with a feather duster.

When we reached HM there was a line, but the posted wait time was only 20 minutes and things seemed to be moving along. Turns out they were, and rather smartly -- it was only 14 minutes before we boarded. The line was so brisk, in fact, that it limited our picture-taking, although I was able to get a shot of Marti's favorite monument in the pet cemetary....

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Plus a couple of others as well...Marti hissed at the dog.

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Our next stop:

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PotC would have been its usual great time if not for the people in the boat behind us. Two little boys and their upper-teenage big sister (or aunt or babysitter or whatever she was; she definitely was not mom), none of whom shut up during the entire ride. The girl was also taking pictures of everything in sight. FLASH pictures.

They were very distracting...and if they'd given any indication of speaking English I would have asked them to please stop. For the record, I'm not sure WHAT they were speaking, but it was very fast and very loud.