Awesome So Cal day. Love that In-n-Out hat. Very fetching.
Oh yes, quite fetching. I should have worn it around the parks!
Bummer the InB items weren't ready though. And, yay on going to Harvey's. Can't wait to see what you got. The room seems really nice, but I'm worried about your foreshadowing about the deliberate room assignment. Hmmm...
Yeah, I was hoping they'd be ready - I would have worn that outfit for the half! Oh well.
And,
Archie!!
I will pass your "hello" along to Archie.
Ohhhh, an
@Ariel484 TR! Loving it so far!
Yay, thanks!
What a great day! That car rental deal was amazing- I'm so glad you go to visit those places! Your In&Out looks good- I think I had it one time in Texas on a college trip, but I would love to try it again.
Yeah, I was surprised! It was for a compact car for 6 hours.
I did not know that your love for purses was stronger than these things! Do you have a favorite brand? (Harvey's?) Or a "ultimate purse goal?" (Mine is a LV, but that will probably never happen haha)
I guess my love for all of those things is equal! My favorite brand right now is Harveys.
I went through a period where I wanted a LV (MM Neverfull...Damier exterior with red interior, but not that I seriously looked or anything...
) but I think I'm actually at a point where I'm pretty happy with what I have. you know, for now.
I really liked that Princess gave them out after the half- so convenient to carry everything, including my multiple bottles of beverages.
It would be really nice if rD did this after every race.
Yeah, I was surprised to see them in the gear bag! It was so nice to have them handed to us at the finish line at Princess.
And I agree, they should do them for every race!
Oh how I could go for in-n-out right now!!!
What a fun adventure and productive day!
The room is adorable!
Um, me too!! I would love that exact same order right now!!
Yay, trip report! I'm thinking I'm going to put mine today in an actual TR like you did instead of inside my journal.
WOOHOO welcome to the Dark Side!
Ok, I don't want to spoiler anything you have coming but I think I know exactly why you took back your half I did it shirt, because it's why I had one on my hand and then put it back before buying. I'll wait to see if I was right.
I would say partially because it looked very similar to the race shirt and partially because I wanted to stick it to runDisney a little bit....because they made me mad!!
Archie is like "what are you doing?" and then he's like "eh, I don't care" At least that's how I read his cute little face in the pics.
That's pretty much what happened!!
You're view from your hotel is quite lovely...so I am sorry something didn't go right (I already know...but again...will not spoil)
Me too!! It was mostly good though...
Thoughts on shirts...I think as a group they are weird together...not cohesive. When I was in the park seeing the shirts by themselves though they looked better. Like seeing the 10k shirt on someone in their jean shorts or whatever, it looked pretty good.
YES, I totally agree with this! Normally the shirts sort of coordinate with the bibs and medal ribbons, and with each other - this set of shirts was so weird!
And the half shirt actually worked better than I thought it would once I paired it with clothes I had brought. I still don't like the challenge shirt at all though...why is Tink Navy Blue and White and roadkill????
Seriously, after someone points out that Tink looks dead on the challenge shirt, I can't unsee that!
They shoulda made the 5k tech material and striped blue and white like Smee. The 10k shoulda been pan green or a lighter blue. The challenge should have been more like the I Did It's color scheme. Done!
Can you just take over the runDisney shirt design department (that's totally a thing, right?)...because these are awesome ideas.
Mmmm I do love me some In N Out. You may not like this because you're a picky eater, but every time I ask for my cheeseburger to be "animal style" (just extra dressing, onions, and pickles). My hubby asks for animal style fries (fries topped with cheese, spread, and onions), but that's going a bit far even for me
Gah, the guy who took my order tried to get me to upgrade my fries to "animal style." NOPE NOPE NOPE
That's pretty cool that it's so cheap and easy to rent a car from DTD. It sounds like you had a really nice afternoon! And I'm looking forward to seeing your Harvey's purchase too!
It was pretty easy! I am a fan!
In-n-Out looks good! I've been to So-Cal twice and yet I've never stopped there somehow. It's sad InB didn't have your clothes in stock. At least you got to look around. I love your expo purchases. I'm not really sure how I feel about the shirts that were given out for the races. The 10k color combo is odd but I like The Lost Boys. I feel like the PDC stop coloring is just off. I guess asking for a nice PDC AND a nice PDC medal is too much.
It was good, definitely worth a stop if you're already driving around!
If I had to choose between the nicer PDC medal or the nicer shirt, the medal wins out. I really like that medal a lot.
I'm following along, too, although I'll admit that I almost stopped reading when you got to In-N-Out because that makes me SO HOMESICK for the west coast. Cheeseburger, spread only, animal style, with well-done fries? YES PLEASE.
Oh no!! I'm glad you decided to stick around!
I love the RD wine glasses!! That one is especially nice too, although clearly the puppy doesn't appreciate it!!
Me too! We were getting to the point where we needed new wine glasses since some of ours broke - now I have 4 rD ones!
First In-N-Out visit ... I feel like that's a California right of passage. And I love the hat!
Yes, I think I've found my new look.
Excellent stops on your shopping expedition ... very SoCal of you.
I probably should have gone to a beach to surf to REALLY So Cal it up.
I forgot to ask you about how the toggles worked out! I'm guessing we'll get to that when we get to the races, so I'll wait until then to find out, but ... I'm interested to see if you had better luck with the toggles than I did.
Toggles were good! But I didn't adjust my SPIbelt well enough and the belt itself was scooting around on me.
Now that runDisney has moved to metal medals for the 5K, I'm surprised that they haven't moved to tech shirts & women's cuts. I'm guessing its because they already have to do kids and adult sizes, so they don't want to start adding in another style, but ... that's something I would like to see them do. I basically only wear by 5K shirts when cleaning.
I never wear them - unisex-cut shirts just do not fit me well. It's a point I plan on addressing in the very, very long email I am sending them regarding my thoughts on Tink weekend...
I like that you got free stuff from runDisney travel, but ... why are they giving you a 60th luggage tag? The 60th is long over.
Ha! That's a good point.
The 60th is over and Minnie's eye isn't colored in. Beggers can't be choosers??