the hungry runner

So this week I went to Disneyland with my two best friends and we definitely took advantage of all the yummy food they had to offer! What makes Disneyland so amazing is the great experience, from the rides, to the characters, and of course to the food! This Disneyland trip was one of the best, we went at a good time. Oddly my school decided to give us the wierdest winter break, so since the rest of the world outisde of Santa Clarita valley is going to school and work, my friends and I headed over to Disneyland where there wasn’t a line wait over 20 minutes, and no stress over large crowds. We basically toured the park before it got dark so we were able to relax and sit down to try all the yummy food.

Before we even entered the park, we decided to have some breakfast over at La Brea Bakery. Not surprisingly it was very expensive so we all decided to split a breakfast plate amongst the 3 of us. The bacon was very crispy!

The breakfast fueled us for the morning, but once we saw the churro stand we just couldn’t avoid it! As usual, it was very satisfying! (Sorry for the terrible picture)

For lunch we decided to head over to Tomorrowland at the Pizza Port to have some delicious pasta. It seemed like a cross between mac n’ cheese and fettucine alfredo. It was cheesy and delicious! This is a great place to stop by for lunch in Disneyland!

So while killing some time while we waited for our fastpass returns at the Indiana Jones Ride we decided to head over to New Orleans Square for some Mint Juleps. It’s basically sprite and mint with lemon and cherry garnishings. It’s very refreshing on a hot summers day..and even in the bizzarely 75 degree weather in the middle of January. 

While we were at New Orleans Square we decided to buy some Beignets served inside a bag filled with an abundance of powdered sugar. It was messy but it was so amazing! They were warm and fluffy and covered in all that sugar!!!

As the park was coming to a close we decided to end the day with Disneyland’s famous Pineapple Dolewhip. We decided to get the standard serving and then some dole whip topping some fresh pineapple juice. We sat in the Tikki Room and ate our Dole whip as we watched all the animatronic birds and flowers singing to us!

After we left the park we had some dinner at the ESPN zone in Downtown Disney and they had tv’s for each stall in the bathroom!!! LOL

So Last night I attended my school’s prom yesterday. It was located at the Park Plaza in Los Angeles, the same place where that scary movie Prom Night was filmed. eeeeek. Luckily there aren’t any psychotic teacher murderers walking around my school. At least, I hope there isn’t. I was very excited about the food, ‘cus I was told it was going to be extra yummy. Although, it wasn’t ALL that. 

The dinner included the classic salad, some pasta, cheesy potatoes, and chicken. Everything was pretty good except the chicken, I thought it was really hard to cut. But for catered food, it wasn’t too bad.

But to end my midnight cravings, my friends and I took a trip to Denny’s after a fun night of dancing. I ordered my favorite breakfast items: HASHBROWNS. yummy!

Baconalia!

For dinner, I ate some family-style Italian food. Chi Chi’s is a family owned Italian restaurant that makes there own pasta. I heard a lot of great reviews about Chi Chi’s pizza, but for some reason I never got around to trying it…until now. And after eating dinner there, the question in my head was WHAT TOOK ME SO LONG? I love me some yummy pasta. Plus, this was very refreshing from those typical Italian-franchised restaurants (ehemmm…Buca di Beppo…since when do you serve single-sized portions?) Anyways, Carb it up!

mmm…bread rolls

BUTTER

My mom ordered the classic spaghetti with their famous meat sauce.

My dad ordered his favorite Italian dish, eggplant parmigiana. His response was “this has got to be the best eggplant parmigiana I’ve ever had.” So I’m guessing it was good…

And I ordered the ravioli, which also had their famous meat sauce. This was simple and downright good. I’ll definitely be going back to Chi Chi’s pizza.