Went to Disney....again!!

I got to go to Disney for the second time. I LOVE it there!!! I went for the first time in 2006. I would go every year if I could afford it. Its my goal to go at least three more times in my life. I can't say enough good things about Disney. They go above and beyond to make everything perfect.

Again while I was there I did everything that I could and acted like a big giant kid. Disney was just as perfect the second time as it was the first. I can't wait to go back!!

I found Winnie the Pooh again!!!



Sadly, Dale didn't remember me. So I decided to make him jealous by hooking up with his brother.



We took a movie prop tour (I highly required it-at the MGM studios). Can you guess what movie this is from??? Its the steam roller that squished Judge Doom in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit"

We went to several parades in Disney, but the Disney Lights Parade was my favorite! I loved the huge fish!!



We had breakfast at Chef Mickey's where I saw Goofy again. He looks like he is saying "Who is this crazy woman?"

I also met Donald there too. He had the tightest grasp on me. It actually hurt! I had to make sure I didn't have any bruises on my waist when he left.

We watched Beauty and the Beast live show. It was very cute.

OH MY GOD! Donald found me! This is what nightmares of made of.

In Epcot, we again ate at the Food and Wine Festival. I ate so much I thought I was going to die (you can kind of see that in this picture). We thought it would be cute to take a picture of us with our food in front of the menu. The problem in 90% of my photos the way I wore my jeans and my shirt made me look pregnant. This was the best one. I guess it was the luck of the Irish!

This time around, we did ALL the roller coasters in Disney. This was the Twilight Zone's Tower of Terror. Sooooo scary and sooooo much fun!

This was my second favorite ride at Disney. It was the Aerosmith Rockin Roller Coaster. This ride doesn't wait, it shoots you right in. Usually I have time to know when twists are coming but not with this one. I think we went upside down. All I remember is hearing "Sweet Emotion" and trying to hold my bag down as we were hurled upside down.

My FAVORITE roller coaster at Disney! The Expedition Everest ride was so fast and so scary that at the end my eyes wouldn't stop tearing. It went forward for one half and then backwards the second half. It.Was.Great.

After being on roller coaster all day, nothing better then to having some Chinese food and booze. This place was so good and the guy cooking our food was a riot. He was a Red Sox fan which makes him a great guy in my eyes!

We got to go to the Not so Scary Halloween Party/Parade at the Magic Kingdom! It was great! This picture is during the fireworks. I love how evil it looks.

I was hungry and decided to try the Fried dough with powdered sugar!! Just so you know, this was the hardest thing to take a picture of.

At the animal Kingdom we went to another parade (I told you we did everything). Some jerk there got in my face!

This was from a Bird Show we went to at the Animal Kingdom. The Bald Eagle was beautiful in person.

My favorite part was the the Animal Safari (I will be making a separate post for it because it was THAT great). I got to see animals closer then I will ever see them in my life.

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Where we stayed: Caribbean Beach Resort- So nice there! We had our own little beach by our room. I sat on a hammock there and read a book which was so relaxing!

My Favorite Roller Coaster: Expedition Everest- It made my eyes water. It was that good!

Best attraction: The Animal Kingdom Safari- its like going to Africa-minus the disease.

My favorite snack: A chocolate chip cookie ice cream sandwich -at a bakery in the Magic kingdom. It was HUGE and needs to be shared!

Took a cake decorating class

I love to bake. I think that I should have been a baker. I make great cookies and pies but never tried making cakes. I just was never good at making them look as good as they tasted. You would think that it would be easy to frost a cake, but for me it isn't. I would always pull the cake up with the frosting and at the end my cake would always look liked like a hill covered in dirty snow. So I always bought cakes that where way overpriced instead of making them myself.


I was browsing online and found that Michaels craft store does cake decorating classes. I really wanted to learn something new, so I signed up for it. The class would meet once a week for a month. I was very excited!


The class itself was not pricey. I believe it was only $50 to join. It was all the items that you had to purchase for the class that made it expensive. I had to purchase a starter kit which included all the tips for piping, a cake holder so I could transfer the cake back and forth, pipping bags, a decorating turntable, 4 containers of frosting and 4 cake mixes to bring a cake to every class. My $50 class quickly turned into a $200 class.
The first class I learned the basics; How to frost a cake. This had to be the hardest thing for me to learn. I wanted my cake to have a smooth look to it but as you can see, my cake wasn't that smooth. It requires alot of frosting. I went through an entire container of frosting just doing this. I would need to get more frosting just to decorate the darn cake.

When I got home, I went on youtube.com to see if I could learn anymore about how to frost a cake. I found this video and learned alot. After watching this, I was able to frost a decently smooth cake.
The next class I learned how to do basic decorations. A simple shell border, stars and roses. My cake looks so pathetic. I apparently was afraid to use more gel coloring in my frosting. The pink showed up nicely, but I actually used purple for the top border and the roses.

Here is a closeup of my first attempt to making roses. They look like swirl blobs. These guys were hard to do. My frosting was getting too soft in my hand so my roses would droop. I also decided that the more petals I did the better. This is not the case. The more I did roses, the more I found that doing only 5 or 6 petals was perfect.
The last class I was getting pretty darn good. I was not afraid to use color in my icing. We learned how to make clown bodies. It looked strange but then when you add the little clown head pick, it brought it all together. I was so proud of this cake!
A closeup of my little clown. See I even crossed his little legs! My roses aren't that bad either! I actually got really good at doing borders.
This was my 100% edible Halloween cake that I did a few weeks after the class ended. With my new skills, I was able to create this cake. Everyone raved about it. The black frosting was created chocolate frosting and black food gel. I got fancy and did a basket weave on the side (very easy to do!) The ghost and gravestones where candy molds I bought. I dyed white chocolate with black candy coloring to make it gray. When the candy set, I rubbed the gravestone with black food coloring to make it look like it was stone. I also took a toothpick and painted the ghost eyes and mouths.

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Michaels- Where I took the classes and bought all the supplies

Wiltons- The class was designed by them. They also are the ones who made all the supplies for cake decorating.