JessicaFaye508
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Update #17: More Shopping and Back to Giuseppe's!
August 23rd, 2012
This was our last full day already! Time just flies when you're on vacation! I woke up this morning and Dad and Jonathan had gone fishing. Mom and I woke up, took showers, and we went to go get Mickey Waffles! Our last ones of the trip! They tasted magical and delicious as always! I love Mickey Waffles with my whole heart! YUMMY!
We went in the gift shop and I got a black mickey pin with rainbow colored jewels on it. It was really pretty!
They had a REALLY tricky trivia question today what are the names of Daisy Ducks 3 nieces? Does anyone know the answer?
They are April, May, and June!
I dont think Ill forget that one now! The CM let me look up the answer on my iPhone because I really had no idea. I didnt get a pin but I got some candy still so that was nice.
Then we went to the front desk, we had to get new keys because of our extended day, and I looked at the pin book really quick. They didnt have anything new (I pretty much cleared that place out!) so we went to the car and headed back to the outlet malls!
We started at Tanger 2 and our first stop was Pac Sun. They didnt have anything there so we went to Banana Republic. Everything in that store made me wish that I worked in an office!! I looked so cute in all of the business clothes!
I ended up finding an ADORABLE skirt and shirt that were both on sale! I also found the prettiest sparkly belt that was 40% off! Major score!
Then we went over to the Columbia store and I found a BEAUTIFUL purplish blue fleece that is normally $50 for only $21! I could not pass up that deal! I can DEFINITELY use that in the winter! We also got dad some nice cargo shorts that were $15 cheaper than usual too!
Then we went to the Loft Outlet and I did not expect to find anything in there, but they had SUCH cute stuff! I ended up buying a green shirt that would go wonderfully with my new black skirt! Their accessories were also beautiful! I found 3 really cute headbands and a silver necklace buy one, get one half off!
After looking in a couple more stores with no luck, it started POURING! We waited it and then decided to go over to the Tanger 1 outlet! That one is a little further down the road.
We looked in the Ralph Lauren store and found nothing, and then we realized that it was already 1 oclock in the afternoon! It was lunchtime and we were hungry and soaked from the rain! So we found an Olive Garden!
Mom and I both got the soup, salad, and breadsticks for lunch! YUM!!!
I never had that chicken and gnocchi soup before and thats probably one of my new favorites! Holy cow, that tasted unbelievable!
And THOSE BREAD STICKS! Wow, they were the best bread sticks I have eaten at any Olive Garden EVER. They were so soft and fluffy and it seemed like they were truly cooked the perfect amount of time right down to the second! I had two of them because they were that good! YUM.
That was probably the fastest and cheapest meal at Olive Garden ever! Once we finished up, we went back to shopping. We looked in a bunch of stores and found ourselves at Famous Footwear. I got some knock-off gray sperrys that were REALLY comfortable and some heels to wear for auditions at school/any fancy outfit that I will be wearing in the near future.
Then we didnt find anything until the Tommy Hilfiger store! That place is super preppy and I love it! The girl who was working in the dressing room was such a sweetheart! Her and my Mom became friends. She was in her 20s and she had lived in HHI all her life! She was really helpful and thought that all of the clothes looked adorable on me!
I decided on getting a plain old purple button down shirt, because for some reason I was really into the idea of a classy button down shirt and jeans on this day. I mean, it will be an adorable look to wear in the fall! Also on the way out, Mom found this scarf that matched the shirt PERFECTLY, so we had to get it. It was on sale!
I was going to get two other shirts too, but I decided to put them back at the last minute. They were cute but I didnt love them, so I decided not to spend any extra money.
After that, we stopped in another store or two and we got drove back to HHI. It was still raining, which was really unfortunate. I thought those storms were supposed to stop after ten minutes! Ah well.
We stopped at the front desk again to pick up Dad and Jonathans new keys and look in the pin book again. The CM, Maureen, that helped us out lives in the same city as us, and one of her relatives used to work in our town! We chatted for a long while and she was such a sweetheart!
I asked to look in the pin book and someone had just put in an Animation Academy pin with Mickey Mouse on it! I knew that you could not buy these anywhere, and I have the Pluto version at home from many years ago. I decided that I should trade for it!
Maureen asked me if I was looking for any pins in particular and I told her haunted mansion pins. Unfortunately they didnt have any at the time, so I told her that was okay. We thanked her so much and then went back to the room.
We got back and I was looking at my pins. I traded for these two at some point during this day. The mickey one was from a higher up CM who was walking around the resort, and the Roo one was from the pin book!
I also ate a Mickey bar that we had in the fridge from the other day. It was DELICIOUS, of course!
I noticed that one of the gems from my black Mickey pin was off and I was sad. So I decided to go back to the gift shop and see if I could exchange it. The same CM that sold it to me was still there, so she had no problem letting me get a new one!
She was SO adorable and Dad and I talked with her for a while. She was like I always tell my husband, if the worst addiction I have is a Disney addiction, then I think were doing pretty good! You go, lady. You know whats up!
We got back to the room and Mom was ALL excited. She said that Maureen just called the room and said that a little boy just traded a haunted mansion pin to them! She was holding it for me until I could get down there!! She knew our room number because she knew we were the family from her same city thank goodness!! How much more perfect could that be!?
Dad and I went right down to the front desk and got my pin! She just gave it to me no trade! What a sweetheart. It was actually one that I didnt have yet, either, so I was REALLY excited! Yay, yay, yay!!!
Here's the beautiful pin book. I LOVE PINS!
Then we walked back to the room. Clearly you could tell it was raining a lot this day.
Can you spot the hidden mickey!? My Dad actually showed me this one - he learned about it when he took the nature walk tour!
We got to the room, I did some packing, then we decided it was time to go to dinner! For our last night we wanted to go back to our favorite spot Giuseppis! I needed some more pizza!
We only had to wait about 15 minutes and we were seated at the back booth on the other side of the restaurant as last time.
Mom, Jonathan, and I split a large Pepperoni Pizza and some garlic bread.
DOESN'T THAT LOOK AMAZING!?
Dad got the shrimp pesto pasta and he REALLY liked that!
Everything was INCREDIBLE once again! This was my top favorite restaurant that we visited all week. Everything tasted great and I am so happy we got to go back!
We left there and went back to the room. I had a little more of that red velvet fudge from the other day and then I pretty much just did some disboarding for the rest of the night.
It was STILL raining so the pool was closed. I also didnt want to sit in the rain to watch the movie. It was Tangled that night, so I was sad that they weather was bad. Ah well. Maybe next time.
I actually unwrapped my tie-dye shirt and washed it. It came out WONDERFULLY! Here is the finished product!
Awesome!!
I went a little crazy and started stalking ebay for some pins that I don't own. I found a set of chip and dale food pins that I had to invest in... so that happened.
After talking with Preston and finishing my ebay stalking, I finally fell asleep at 2 o'clock am. I slept like a rock!
Continued in Next Post
August 23rd, 2012
This was our last full day already! Time just flies when you're on vacation! I woke up this morning and Dad and Jonathan had gone fishing. Mom and I woke up, took showers, and we went to go get Mickey Waffles! Our last ones of the trip! They tasted magical and delicious as always! I love Mickey Waffles with my whole heart! YUMMY!
We went in the gift shop and I got a black mickey pin with rainbow colored jewels on it. It was really pretty!
They had a REALLY tricky trivia question today what are the names of Daisy Ducks 3 nieces? Does anyone know the answer?
They are April, May, and June!
I dont think Ill forget that one now! The CM let me look up the answer on my iPhone because I really had no idea. I didnt get a pin but I got some candy still so that was nice.
Then we went to the front desk, we had to get new keys because of our extended day, and I looked at the pin book really quick. They didnt have anything new (I pretty much cleared that place out!) so we went to the car and headed back to the outlet malls!
We started at Tanger 2 and our first stop was Pac Sun. They didnt have anything there so we went to Banana Republic. Everything in that store made me wish that I worked in an office!! I looked so cute in all of the business clothes!
I ended up finding an ADORABLE skirt and shirt that were both on sale! I also found the prettiest sparkly belt that was 40% off! Major score!
Then we went over to the Columbia store and I found a BEAUTIFUL purplish blue fleece that is normally $50 for only $21! I could not pass up that deal! I can DEFINITELY use that in the winter! We also got dad some nice cargo shorts that were $15 cheaper than usual too!
Then we went to the Loft Outlet and I did not expect to find anything in there, but they had SUCH cute stuff! I ended up buying a green shirt that would go wonderfully with my new black skirt! Their accessories were also beautiful! I found 3 really cute headbands and a silver necklace buy one, get one half off!
After looking in a couple more stores with no luck, it started POURING! We waited it and then decided to go over to the Tanger 1 outlet! That one is a little further down the road.
We looked in the Ralph Lauren store and found nothing, and then we realized that it was already 1 oclock in the afternoon! It was lunchtime and we were hungry and soaked from the rain! So we found an Olive Garden!
Mom and I both got the soup, salad, and breadsticks for lunch! YUM!!!
I never had that chicken and gnocchi soup before and thats probably one of my new favorites! Holy cow, that tasted unbelievable!
And THOSE BREAD STICKS! Wow, they were the best bread sticks I have eaten at any Olive Garden EVER. They were so soft and fluffy and it seemed like they were truly cooked the perfect amount of time right down to the second! I had two of them because they were that good! YUM.
That was probably the fastest and cheapest meal at Olive Garden ever! Once we finished up, we went back to shopping. We looked in a bunch of stores and found ourselves at Famous Footwear. I got some knock-off gray sperrys that were REALLY comfortable and some heels to wear for auditions at school/any fancy outfit that I will be wearing in the near future.
Then we didnt find anything until the Tommy Hilfiger store! That place is super preppy and I love it! The girl who was working in the dressing room was such a sweetheart! Her and my Mom became friends. She was in her 20s and she had lived in HHI all her life! She was really helpful and thought that all of the clothes looked adorable on me!
I decided on getting a plain old purple button down shirt, because for some reason I was really into the idea of a classy button down shirt and jeans on this day. I mean, it will be an adorable look to wear in the fall! Also on the way out, Mom found this scarf that matched the shirt PERFECTLY, so we had to get it. It was on sale!
I was going to get two other shirts too, but I decided to put them back at the last minute. They were cute but I didnt love them, so I decided not to spend any extra money.
After that, we stopped in another store or two and we got drove back to HHI. It was still raining, which was really unfortunate. I thought those storms were supposed to stop after ten minutes! Ah well.
We stopped at the front desk again to pick up Dad and Jonathans new keys and look in the pin book again. The CM, Maureen, that helped us out lives in the same city as us, and one of her relatives used to work in our town! We chatted for a long while and she was such a sweetheart!
I asked to look in the pin book and someone had just put in an Animation Academy pin with Mickey Mouse on it! I knew that you could not buy these anywhere, and I have the Pluto version at home from many years ago. I decided that I should trade for it!
Maureen asked me if I was looking for any pins in particular and I told her haunted mansion pins. Unfortunately they didnt have any at the time, so I told her that was okay. We thanked her so much and then went back to the room.
We got back and I was looking at my pins. I traded for these two at some point during this day. The mickey one was from a higher up CM who was walking around the resort, and the Roo one was from the pin book!
I also ate a Mickey bar that we had in the fridge from the other day. It was DELICIOUS, of course!
I noticed that one of the gems from my black Mickey pin was off and I was sad. So I decided to go back to the gift shop and see if I could exchange it. The same CM that sold it to me was still there, so she had no problem letting me get a new one!
She was SO adorable and Dad and I talked with her for a while. She was like I always tell my husband, if the worst addiction I have is a Disney addiction, then I think were doing pretty good! You go, lady. You know whats up!
We got back to the room and Mom was ALL excited. She said that Maureen just called the room and said that a little boy just traded a haunted mansion pin to them! She was holding it for me until I could get down there!! She knew our room number because she knew we were the family from her same city thank goodness!! How much more perfect could that be!?
Dad and I went right down to the front desk and got my pin! She just gave it to me no trade! What a sweetheart. It was actually one that I didnt have yet, either, so I was REALLY excited! Yay, yay, yay!!!
Here's the beautiful pin book. I LOVE PINS!
Then we walked back to the room. Clearly you could tell it was raining a lot this day.
Can you spot the hidden mickey!? My Dad actually showed me this one - he learned about it when he took the nature walk tour!
We got to the room, I did some packing, then we decided it was time to go to dinner! For our last night we wanted to go back to our favorite spot Giuseppis! I needed some more pizza!
We only had to wait about 15 minutes and we were seated at the back booth on the other side of the restaurant as last time.
Mom, Jonathan, and I split a large Pepperoni Pizza and some garlic bread.
DOESN'T THAT LOOK AMAZING!?
Dad got the shrimp pesto pasta and he REALLY liked that!
Everything was INCREDIBLE once again! This was my top favorite restaurant that we visited all week. Everything tasted great and I am so happy we got to go back!
We left there and went back to the room. I had a little more of that red velvet fudge from the other day and then I pretty much just did some disboarding for the rest of the night.
It was STILL raining so the pool was closed. I also didnt want to sit in the rain to watch the movie. It was Tangled that night, so I was sad that they weather was bad. Ah well. Maybe next time.
I actually unwrapped my tie-dye shirt and washed it. It came out WONDERFULLY! Here is the finished product!
Awesome!!
I went a little crazy and started stalking ebay for some pins that I don't own. I found a set of chip and dale food pins that I had to invest in... so that happened.
After talking with Preston and finishing my ebay stalking, I finally fell asleep at 2 o'clock am. I slept like a rock!
Continued in Next Post
LOL! 
I've loved reading about it!
