Tales of the Flowers

Sunday, June 16, 2013

Richard and Chi comes to visit and we celebrate Father's Day

Richard and Chi came out to visit from Michigan.
It's been a fun week together. First off they were able to join us for our prenatal appointment and were there with us when we found out the sex of the new baby.

So is new Baby Flowers going to be a Girl or a Boy?

We just had our appointment on Tuesday to find out what we're having!
This is how we told our friends and family. Make sure the sound is on and don't read the rest of this report without watching the video.

Theresa was impressed with my creativity with the gender announcement. She said it was better than any other baby gender reveal she's ever seen.

The Wedors join us at Disneyland

Well this had the beginnings of a very very short trip report.
Let's start with some background. A single day park-hopper to Disneyland is now $130 a day. Yikes! Out at Walt Disney World in Florida, they offer tickets at similar prices, but with one unique difference. A "No Expiration" option on multi-day tickets. For the past 6-7 years now, some of our family has been using the little known trick that a valid WDW ticket is also good at Disneyland. That means if you can afford the up-front costs of a 10-day no expiration day ticket for ~$689, your effective cost for a single day at Disneyland could be as low as $68.90 a day.

At least that's how it has worked up until today.

A typical exchange at the ticket gate is informing the cast member that you're using a WDW ticket and then waiting off to the side while a manager is called. The manager takes the ticket, heads off to a back room where they subtract a day from your WDW ticket and give you a paper ticket to Disneyland. The whole process usually takes 5 minutes or so.
That's what happened on Saturday morning, except after the manager took the WDW tickets, he came back 5 minutes later saying they weren't doing that anymore... Uh.... Okay....

So I guess that's it then. Time to pack up and head home.

Tiny Flowers

So, how did we end up telling our friends and family that we were expecting a new addition? With just a little bit of misdirection, I suppose.

Normally I'd put all my photos on the blog here, but in this case, I made a site specifically for this. We then sent an email to each person and called them at the same time, telling them to check out a new direction I was thinking about going with my photography. Instead of just taking photos, I told them that I was experimenting with video, and to check out my first video with some of my favorite tiny flowers.

And then I included a few more photos of various flowers below it, just to make it a little more believable. I think everyone who saw it was surprised.