Yesterday's Trivia Question: In Finding Nemo, what is the motto that the sharks use during their meeting?
Answer: "Fish Are Friends, Not Food!"
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| See You Soon!! |
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
0 Days to go! Au revoir! Have a great Trip!
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
1 more day to go!! What to pack for a race vacation!
Packing for Disney is one thing...packing for a race is another...and packing for a Run Disney race is a whole 'nuther level!
Obviously remember to bring clothes, socks, cameras, YELLOW PONCHOS (wink wink) and anything else you would like to have on your vacation. But for a race, you need to make sure all your race equipment is packed in your carry on luggage (we all know how American likes to lose our baggage!).
Remember:
Your race waivers
Shoes
Clothes (race outfit)
Socks
Hat/Visor
Sunglasses
Phone
Headphones
Armband
Go Pros (and added holding equipment)
Hydration belts
Gu (if it fits in your ziplock for the plane)
Body Glide
Bandaids
Road ID
Pre-race food (if it can pass TSA)
Duct Tape
Poncho or Trash Bag (to keep warm pre-race)
This is going to be so much fun! Sleep well tonight and we will see you soon!
Yesterday's Trivia Question: In Brave, what classic Disney / Pixar icon appears as a wooden trinket on a worktable?
Answer: The Pizza Planet Delivery Truck!
Today's Question: In Finding Nemo, what is the motto that the sharks use during their meeting?
Yesterday's Trivia Question: In Brave, what classic Disney / Pixar icon appears as a wooden trinket on a worktable?
Answer: The Pizza Planet Delivery Truck!
Today's Question: In Finding Nemo, what is the motto that the sharks use during their meeting?
Monday, January 6, 2014
2 days to go! Carb Loading!
We are just a few days out from our race and it's about time to start carb loading!
Carb loading basically means making more than 70% of your food intake to be carbs. Kenyans eat on average 75-80% carbs in their normal diet...which makes them great for long and hard distance running! We want to make sure our bodies have enough glycogen to use on race day to make it to the finish line without hitting a wall!
If you want to get real scientific, you need to eat about 10g/kg of body weight. So I weigh 158 lbs. This is about 72 kg. This means I need to make sure in a day, I eat 720 g of carbs in one day for approximately three days.
Now this can get pretty crazy. If you know that carbs are four calories per gram of carbs, that's 2,880 calories of food! My normal calorie intake is 1,600. If I eat that much, I'm going to probably throw most of it up from feeling sick, which isn't good either. So what I focus on is making sure I hit that 70% mark in my food intake for carbs. I know I will go over my 1,600 and feel fuller, maybe a little sluggish. But I know my muscles will be primed with as many carbs as I can take.
The other pitfall is eating fat instead of eating carbs. You may think that pizza looks like tons of carbs. What you don't realize is most of that pizza is cheese, which is a fat. Fat doesn't burn the same way carbs do. So hit your carb count, but don't mistake fatty dishes for carbs!
Make sure you are also drinking lots of water! With the impending travel, stress levels (read cortisols) go up and you get dehydrated fast and don't recover from simple workouts as easy! Drink drink drink!
Yesterday's Trivia Question: The 1932 Mickey Mouse cartoon, Mickey's Revue included the introduction to what famous Disney character?
Answer: Goofy!
Today's Question: In Brave, what classic Disney / Pixar icon appears as a wooden trinket on a worktable?
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| Mmmm...pasta! |
If you want to get real scientific, you need to eat about 10g/kg of body weight. So I weigh 158 lbs. This is about 72 kg. This means I need to make sure in a day, I eat 720 g of carbs in one day for approximately three days.
Now this can get pretty crazy. If you know that carbs are four calories per gram of carbs, that's 2,880 calories of food! My normal calorie intake is 1,600. If I eat that much, I'm going to probably throw most of it up from feeling sick, which isn't good either. So what I focus on is making sure I hit that 70% mark in my food intake for carbs. I know I will go over my 1,600 and feel fuller, maybe a little sluggish. But I know my muscles will be primed with as many carbs as I can take.
The other pitfall is eating fat instead of eating carbs. You may think that pizza looks like tons of carbs. What you don't realize is most of that pizza is cheese, which is a fat. Fat doesn't burn the same way carbs do. So hit your carb count, but don't mistake fatty dishes for carbs!
Make sure you are also drinking lots of water! With the impending travel, stress levels (read cortisols) go up and you get dehydrated fast and don't recover from simple workouts as easy! Drink drink drink!
Yesterday's Trivia Question: The 1932 Mickey Mouse cartoon, Mickey's Revue included the introduction to what famous Disney character?
Answer: Goofy!
Today's Question: In Brave, what classic Disney / Pixar icon appears as a wooden trinket on a worktable?
Sunday, January 5, 2014
3 days to go! The last and final throwback!
Hello everyone! We are going to look at one last throwback, to Jared and I's trip to Disney on our honeymoon!
But one of our favorite highlights of the trip, was probably this:
For your viewing nostalgia and excitement:
Yesterday's Trivia Question: In the animated feature Pocahontas, Meeko is a raccoon. What type of animal was he originally supposed to be?
Answer: A Turkey!
Today's Question: The 1932 Mickey Mouse cartoon, Mickey's Revue included the introduction to what famous Disney character?
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| We LOVED the Rockin' Roller Coaster! |
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| In front of the Disney Dream on Castaway Cay! |
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| Under the Sea! |
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| Showing our Disney Side! |
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| We had fun acting at Disney's Hollywood Studios! |
For your viewing nostalgia and excitement:
Yesterday's Trivia Question: In the animated feature Pocahontas, Meeko is a raccoon. What type of animal was he originally supposed to be?
Answer: A Turkey!
Today's Question: The 1932 Mickey Mouse cartoon, Mickey's Revue included the introduction to what famous Disney character?
Saturday, January 4, 2014
4 days to go! Our Disney Cruise!
Today we take a look back at our wonderful time on the Disney Magic!
Such a fun time!
Yesterday's Trivia Question: Which of the seven dwarfs has the longest beard?
Answer: Sleepy!
Today's Question: In the animated feature Pocahontas, Meeko is a raccoon. What type of animal was he originally supposed to be?
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| St. Thomas! |
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| Across the beach at Castaway Cay! |
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| Our beautiful Disney Magic! |
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| Embarking on our adventure! |
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| Character breakfast with Chip! |
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| Throwback Postcard! |
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| Formal portrait night! |
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| Maddie turned 16! |
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| Trying on all Maddie's new presents! |
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| Captain Mickey! |
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| Aren't we cute!? |
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| Yay Mickey! |
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| Checking out the boat! |
Yesterday's Trivia Question: Which of the seven dwarfs has the longest beard?
Answer: Sleepy!
Today's Question: In the animated feature Pocahontas, Meeko is a raccoon. What type of animal was he originally supposed to be?
Friday, January 3, 2014
5 days to go! Back to the West Coast!
We make a change and went to DisneyLAND when mom had classes to attend! Little did they know she would play hookie to hang out at Disney with us!
We also experienced New Years Eve - Disney style!
Yesterday's Trivia Question: Who voiced the famous "Ghost Host" at Disneyland's Haunted Mansion as well as Ludwig Von Drake?
Answer: Paul Frees!
Today's Question: Which of the seven dwarfs has the longest beard?
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| Mitchell eating his white chocolate sea shell! |
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| It kinda made music! Kinda... |
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| You know want to be as cool as me with a chocolate sea shell! |
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| It's Mickey! |
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| In front of Sleeping Beauty's castle! |
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| Main Street all decorated for Christmas! |
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| We are just so happy! And cold! |
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| Hanging out! |
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| Snow White! |
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| Jasmine! (In winter clothes haha!) |
Yesterday's Trivia Question: Who voiced the famous "Ghost Host" at Disneyland's Haunted Mansion as well as Ludwig Von Drake?
Answer: Paul Frees!
Today's Question: Which of the seven dwarfs has the longest beard?
Thursday, January 2, 2014
6 days to go! Throwback Thursday!
Today, we take a look at one of our most recent trips to Disneyworld!
Yesterday's Trivia Question: What nickname does Peter Pan give to Captain Hook?
Answer: Codfish!
Today's Question: Who voiced the famous "Ghost Host" at Disneyland's Haunted Mansion as well as Ludwig Von Drake?
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| We have arrived! |
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| Greeted by Mickey towels! |
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| Our view at the Wilderness Lodge! |
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| Just a day on the high seas! |
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| Maddie got to live a dream! |
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| Daddy saying hi to everyone at the Living Seas! |
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| Post Dive! |
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| So excited! |
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| Our group! |
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| Hanging with Nemo! |
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| Dinner at the Japanese pavilion for Maddie's birthday! |
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| Mitchell approves of the hat! |
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| Love our family! |
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| Mitchell, keeping it fly... |
Answer: Codfish!
Today's Question: Who voiced the famous "Ghost Host" at Disneyland's Haunted Mansion as well as Ludwig Von Drake?
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
7 days to go! Vinylmations!
So, what are Vinylmations anyway?
Vinylmations are little figurines that Disney hypes as collectables! One of Walt Disney's most famous quotes was:
And this is what inspired the Vinylmations. They are all in the figure of Mickey Mouse, but are painted to look like different characters!
However, you buy them in packs that you can't see through! You don't know what figures you are buying until after the transaction! You know they might belong to a certain set, but don't know the exact figures! Then there is a whole system where you can trade to try to get the rarest of the figures!
Or, if they have special ones, like for the Disney race, you can just buy them as a single pack!
I would really like to get a 2014 RunDisney Mickey! Hopefully they will have enough of him at the Expo!
Yesterday's Trivia Question: In Beauty and the Beast, what feature was given to Belle only so she would stand out in the village and seem that she really did not fit in?
Answer: She was the only one in the village wearing the color blue!
Today's Question: What nickname does Peter Pan give to Captain Hook?
Vinylmations are little figurines that Disney hypes as collectables! One of Walt Disney's most famous quotes was:
And this is what inspired the Vinylmations. They are all in the figure of Mickey Mouse, but are painted to look like different characters!
| Princess Leia! |
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| Disney Princesses! |
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| Toy Story! |
However, you buy them in packs that you can't see through! You don't know what figures you are buying until after the transaction! You know they might belong to a certain set, but don't know the exact figures! Then there is a whole system where you can trade to try to get the rarest of the figures!
Or, if they have special ones, like for the Disney race, you can just buy them as a single pack!
I would really like to get a 2014 RunDisney Mickey! Hopefully they will have enough of him at the Expo!
Yesterday's Trivia Question: In Beauty and the Beast, what feature was given to Belle only so she would stand out in the village and seem that she really did not fit in?
Answer: She was the only one in the village wearing the color blue!
Today's Question: What nickname does Peter Pan give to Captain Hook?
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