Fiction Friday

I’m sitting in Starbucks, reading The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, and it occurred to me that’s it’s been awhile since I did a Fiction Friday. It’s been almost two months, actually! It’s definitely time. 

I basically did a bookish photo dump. I thought I had more, but I must have deleted a lot! I did have a few pics of me reading in Disney, which always makes me giggle. I highly suggest something small and fluffy, so that it fits in your bag easily, doesn’t get too heavy, and doesn’t require your full attention. Cozy mysteries are perfect!

I cannot wait for this next one. I have the screenshot in my pics to remind me to borrow it from the library. Or buy it if I have to. The series was so good, and I’m looking forward to this one. 

More Disney reading. How do you eat in Beast’s Castle without reading a little? 

My March TBR. I’m reading like 5 books right now. Seriously. I definitely bit off a large chunk of buddy reading this year. Luckily, I’m reading many of them one chapter a day. The Stephen King books are usually about 20-30 pages a day. I’ll only read half of these, but it’s nice to have choices. Many of them will get carried over to April.

Another pic I keep in my phone. When the hubs finally has wall to wall shelves built in the front room, I’m getting these. Total life goals!

Ahhhhhh my newest Once Upon a Book Club box. I am looking forward to this one. It looks fun!! Use BARKINGMADRUN10 at checkout if you want to try them at a discount!

I am finally reading this one, and will watch the series afterwards. I bought this one in Savannah a couple of years ago. I adore Jane Austen, and this started slow, but it’s picking up. I’m reading a chapter a day. For now. That could change once it starts really moving!

Look at this quilt! I want one just like it, but they must be so spendy. The work alone it would require to make it! 

My Jane Austen group is buddy reading this one as well. It’s just starting to pick up. We are reading a chapter a day. 

I started this challenge on a whim in December. My friends recommended every book! I just got the March book from the library and will start it after I finish Deliverance Dane. The first two were so good, and I never would have chosen them on my own. Best challenge idea ever.

My February reads. The two book covers are books I was still reading into March. It was a great month of reading, plus we listened to To Kill a Mockingbird, read by Sissy Spacek, while we drove to and from NOLA. Highly recommend this one if you like listening to books. 

 What are you reading right now? I don’t actually need any help with a TBR list, I have over 200 books to still be read, but that doesn’t mean I won’t add more anyway….

Travel Thursday, Disney Edition

 Now that traveling is a thing once more, I’m hoping to dedicate one post a week to my travels. They may be somewhere far away, like Disney or NOLA, or it might be somewhere I can Day Trip visit. 

Luckily, I was just in Disney, and I can dedicate quite a few blogs to the parks we visited. 

Last week, I posted about Animal Kingdom, so this week I will post about EPCOT. This visit was bitter sweet, since it was the scene of the crime that morning during the 5k. 

It’s also my favorite park, with AK a close second. So I was still pretty excited to visit. Our first stop was to secure me a jazzy, so that I could actually enjoy myself. I’m not gonna lie, it had its benefits. You can cut part of the line fairly often (usually a time save of maybe ten minutes, nothing significant) and your feet don’t get tired. It also had its downfalls. You cease to become a human being, apparently. People would step right in front of me, cross right in front of me, stop short in front of me, race in front  of me to cut me in line even though I was in front of them. There is no brake, you take your finger off the bar that moves it, and you stop short. Repeatedly. It was disheartening, but it was also Disney so I ignored as much of it as I could.

I basically did a photo dump, but I will explain them all. This first pic is actually one of the last things we did. 

Y’all. Gone is the virtual queue, and we waited on line for Ratatouille for two hours. Two.hours. And we might have read books while we waited. There was another girl doing the same. I was so proud.

The aquarium at the end of the Nemo ride was so fun!

I loved all of the sculptures that were still up from the Art Festival the week before. At least, I think that’s why they were up? I don’t know. I just know I loved them.

I love the boat tour in the Land section. Seeing how Disney grows all the things is so interesting. Plus you get to rest for awhile, which was important for Sarah and Cary.

Nemo! Such a cute ride. 

Reading while we waited for Ratatouille. 

This is the fountain in front of the Ratatouille ride. So much detail. It’s all wine bottles and mice! The ride was fun, lots of craziness, and it’s a trackless ride. Sarah didn’t like it as much. It’s not good for people who get motion sickness!

On the Nemo ride…..

View from a jazzy….

We had dinner at Teppan Edo. This is a traditional hibachi restaurant, with amazing food and entertainment. Our chef was super talented and the food was amazing. The family we shared our table with was fun, too. It was a perfect end to our…. Well, our trip over to Ratatouille! 

We went on the Figment ride as well, but I didn’t take any pics. We had so much fun, but we definitely moved slowly so that Sarah and Cary didn’t get too worn out. They still had two more races to so! 

Stay tuned for Hollywood Studios and the Magic Kingdom!

Disney Princess 5k….. with a Golf Cart Parade

 I haven’t made it a secret that I only managed two miles of the Disney Princess 5k. After a long weekend in NOLA, averaging 15k steps a day, a couple of days off, and then a day in Animal Kingdom, my feet were toast.

On race morning, we walked 3/4 of a mile from our room to the bus, and then another 1.25 miles from the bus to the start. Why Disney can’t manage to drop us off closer to the start I’ll never know. Before the race even started, I’d walked 2 miles. 

We waited a while for the race to start, moving along slowly to the start line, adding more time on my poor feet.  Within a half mile after we started, my friends had pulled ahead of me. I could barely go below a 22 minute mile. Every step was agony. I was determined to finish, since I knew that I wouldn’t be able to start the next two races. 

I did get some great character shots.

 

My friends waited for me inside EPCOT, and stayed with my until I got to around mile two and I realized I wasn’t going to make it. The pain was insane and I still had days of Disney to get through. I walked up to a security officer and asked for a ride to the finish. It took about 40 minutes, since I had to wait for all of the runners and walkers to go by, but eventually my chariot arrived.

They were so sweet. They even slowed down when they saw I was taking a pic! They said they would take me all the way to the finish, or I could try and walk it in. I had them drop me off at mile 3 and walked the last tenth. The commentators were so sweet to us, and I got to cross the finish line and get my medal.

We then walked another mile to the busses. So let’s do the math. Two miles before the race. Two miles of the race. One mile to the bus. Five miles total. 

Someone who is supposed to a friend insinuated I don’t deserve my medal because I didn’t finish. I wear it proudly. 

I spent the rest of the day in EPCOT on a jazzy. I’ll post more about that later. I learned a lot of things about people from that jazzy. Most of it wasn’t good. We all need to better humans!

Stay tuned….