Jack and a couple of slimy friends
Dylann and her race winning snail
The kids had to get down to cheer them on
Whoever said snails are slow has never raced them. They can move!
The city of Anaheim would be nothing if it weren't for Disneyland. Nothing except for a string of sketchy looking strip malls that all contain Chinese food buffets. Curiously, there seem to be no dogs in the city either...anyway, like all things Disney, making families happy (read: costing them as much money as possible) is the main objective. Anaheim provides buses at all of the hotels within a 50 mile radius of Disneyland (for a nominal fee, of course) to transport everyone to the park without the hassle of parking. The hassle of entertaining large families (everyone there was from Utah, they should just expand the borders of California to include Utah) of over-stimulated children who have just gorged themselves on the protein-free, high -sugar, complimentary breakfast while waiting for the bus is another story. Lucky for us, Jack the little nature explorer found snails. After quickly discovering that neither Katie or Ty liked snails at all (Jack put one in Kate's backpack just to be sure), he talked the other kids into snail races. Mommy had to pick them up for Izzi, she was all for the racing but not the slime. The buses are supposed to be on a 20 minute schedule, however most days we waited long enough for the kids to have several races. They always invited the other kids that were waiting too, but the mother's would give me "that look" and force the kids to sit on the bench far away from our family. It was either the snails or the fact that Dave was the only man and he had 3 grown women with him...and we were from Utah...Jack kept wanting to bring a snail to Disneyland with him. I told him no, and that we for sure couldn't bring one home with us. Somehow he smuggled one on the bus with us once though, and made several people gag on the 1/2 mile trip to the park as it slimed it's way up his arm. We let it go once we were at Disneyland. It will give the groundskeepers something to do. There are literally NO BUGS of any kind that I saw there. Can snails multiply on their own?
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I barely recognize Jack. Hmmm. Has it been that long since he came to work?
If you want, I'll bring him to your house so you can recognize him better. Say for a week or so?
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