Saturday, January 24, 2009

Cheese!

Just a bit of fun while I work on the birthday party mega-post:

apparently, we have trained her to say "cheese" when she sees any sort of camera...

Friday, January 16, 2009

Festival of Lights (nice nice kitty...)

A few days after Christmas, we stopped by the Wild Animal Park to see the Festival of Lights., where they do up the park with all these christmassy and animal-themed light sculptures. We figured Lily would like that, but what we were REALLY excited about what that they advertised having a real snow sledding hill. Snow!! Lily has never in your young life seen snow, so we figured this would be pretty neat.


Unfortunately, the hill itself was a bit underwhelming. More like Sno(tm) than snow (as in Sno-Cones? Get it? Heh...ok, moving on...). Nonetheless, mama gamely takes Lily on her fist sled ride. Whee!




Since we were already there, we figured we'd walk around a bit and see the lights, maybe see an animal or two. Here you see Pinky and Lily with a OH MY GOSH LOOK OUT BEHIND YOU!! GIANT FEROCIOUS CARNIVORE!! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES...oh, wait, it's behind glass, false alarm.

This was actually the coolest thing we saw that night in my opinion. All three lions were hanging out right by the glass (they heat the rocks at night there, so it's a favorite spot).


One challenged Lily to a starting contest, but as you can see, was quickly cowed by her steely glare.




Next year, they'll be moving the festival to the Zoo instead of the Wild Animal park, so we're glad we got to see it. Very cool!

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

The Disney mega-movie post

The day after we got back from Aspen, we decided to take Lily on her very first trip to Disneyland! Accompanied by Tata Rina, Toto Tom, and cousins Madi and Mallory, we spent the day at the Happiest Place on Earth. Or as I like to call it, based on Lily's reaction, the Ambivalentest Place on earth.


As it happens, thanks to the heavy use it got the previous few days in Aspen, our digital camera was nearly out of batteries, so we have relatively few pictures. However, we DID have the video camera, so this is gonna be a video-heavy post. Here goes!


First stop was the famous teacups. As you can see, Lily is somewhat less than enthusiastic.






Next was the train. Lily maintains her poker face quite nicely!






The Dumbo ride. Is it just me, or is Lily actually starting to look a bit pissed off?





Meeting Mickey Mouse. You know, I think Mickey is probably accustomed to a slightly more enthusiastic reaction...






In fairness to Lily, she WAS jet-lagged, and had a short night to boot. But finally, in ToonTown, we found something that she could get excited about:






Hm. Maybe this IS the Happiest Place on Earth after all! Whee!!