A Scrap of Life

Thank you Redbox for your 5:30am wakeup call.   The text tone woke me up bright and early, despite the fact that the alarm wasn't set to go off until 7am.   I laid in bed trying to convince my body to go back to sleep but it was no use.   I finally woke everyone else up just after 7am and we got ready pretty quickly then went next door to Captain Kidds for our free breakfast.   Not exactly the tastiest start to the morning, but at least we got some food in our bellies.   It made me doubly glad we'd thought to bring muffins, as we'll be eating those the rest of the week. :)   While we were finishing up breakfast Melinda texted to let us know that she was in line, so when we got to California Adventure we met up with her.   A cast member told her that they would let us into the park at 8:30.   We were also notified that RSR was down until at least noon, both by multiple announcements by cast members and also by signs posted in the park.   Me...

After the shopping we used our BTMRR fastpasses, then it was time for the Jingle Jangle Jamboree.     We poked around at the animals but really were aimed for Santa.   It was a somewhat slow line and took us about 20 minutes to get through.   We did at least have Billy Hillbilly show to help pass the time and it was amusing to see the Country Bears show up on stage.  I loved that show when I was a kid! When it was our turn to go up and see Santa the kids all dumped their coats and bags and got a photo with the big guy.   Then Brian and I joined in and got pics with him too.   It was a pretty little area.   We left the Jingle Jangle Jamboree and walked in a few more shops, then hit main street.   It was getting super busy on the streets because of the upcoming 4pm parade.   Our goal was the shopping anyways, so we went through the shops looking for good souveniors.   On the way in we ran into Mary Pop...