I ordered my Mickey watch on Friday!
I am so excited. I am going to wear it on my
Adventures by Disney trip (honeymoon), trip to WDW in September, and
DCL cruise in December! DF thought I needed a watch that I don't have to worry about getting wet, etc.
It should be here next week
We have hotel reservations for our honeymoon, now we need restaurant reservations and winery reservations. Ack so many decisions! I will post an update when we get our reservations nailed down, but here is what we have so far:
Hollywood
The Hollywood/DL part of trip is of course already taken care of since we're doing the Adventures by Disney trip. (If we really like this trip, we are considering doing another one for our birthdays next year since they are both in March. There is an adults-only trip to Australia that is during both of our birthdays! We've never been to Australia!) The first day in Hollywood, we'll eat lunch on our own (probably InNOut since there is one not too far from the hotel!) I want to go see a movie at the El Capitan that night. The new Pixar movie UP! will be showing! The previews look so cute!
The second night we'll try to go to the Jimmy Kimmel show, and then need somewhere close by to eat dinner (maybe the burger restaurant at the Roosevelt Hotel, since we want to check the hotel out anyway, and it looked so fun in Disneygrl36's trip report
I'd also love to try Pink's Hot Dogs but I think it might be a little too far away.
Disneyland
We will need a place to eat dinner our second night at DL. I am thinking we'll either eat Food & Wine stuff at CA, or do that plus drinks and appetizers at Napa Rose, or just do Napa Rose for dinner. Not sure yet. Also haven't figured out lunch the third day at DL. Since our tour will be in CA that day, we will probably eat somewhere there (either something connected with F&W, or Wine Country Trattoria, or Tastepilot Grill burgers.) One thing I know is that we HAVE to try a tigger tail!!!
San Francisco
DF told me his nickname when he as a baby was Tigger
In SF we'll be staying at the Intercontinental Mark Hopkins on Nob Hill. GREAT rates on SF rooms right now, by the way! Unbelieveably cheap. I know it must be because of the bad economy
but the positive part is that we can stay at a great hotel for a good rate.
We'll definitely go to the Top of the Mark one night for a cocktail and to enjoy the view!
So far I know that our first night in San Francisco, we'll be eating somewhere
We are thinking about Slanted Door, a famous Vietnamese restaurant. Our first full day there, we're going on a self-guided walking tour of all the major sites (Fisherman's Wharf, Ghiradelli Square, cable car ride, Lombard Street, Coit Tower, North Beach, Chinatown...whew sounds like a lot of walking but we have a guide book (Frommer's) that recommends this as a one day walking tour!) Our second day, we'll eat lunch somewhere, maybe make a quick trip to see something we missed the day before or take a bay cruise, and stop to see the view from the Marin Headlands on our way to Napa when we're leaving the city. We're picking up our rental car (a convertible of course!) on our last day in SF and keeping it while we are in Napa.
Napa/Sonoma/Wine Country in general
On the way to Napa, we'll probably stop at a few wineries
Our first night, we're staying at Hotel Healdsburg. I am very excited about this hotel. It looks very clean and simple but so luxurious! Here is the lobby (taken from hotel website)
And here is a guestroom
We are having a couple's massage treatment at the hotel spa. We will probably need it after all the walking around DL and SF!!! The hotel is in downtown Healdsburg and it looks like there are lots of great little restaurants within walking distance. The next day, we'll have breakfast at the hotel, then check out and visit some wineries, and then on to our next hotel for the final 3 nights of our trip: Carneros Inn. This place has an outdoor shower...I think it might feel weird to take a shower outside even if it is closed off so no one can see? There is an inside shower too thank goodness. We need to make plans for the rest of our time in Napa. We want to eat at Ubuntu, a really cool sounding vegetarian place. And we'll also eat at Girl and a Fig (I love the name!) We haven't decided on the wineries we'll visit yet. I am planning on getting picnic lunches for us to take to the wineries and eat in the picnic grounds that some of them have. And we might use bikes at the hotel to ride around and visit some of the wineries that aren't too far from the hotel. I think this part of our trip will definitely be the most relaxing part