John & Becky Bunting

1) My sister Lindsay has a blog! Yay!

2) How much do you tip the guy who walks up to you on the street, puts a hat on your head and a sword in your hand and says, “remember, I accept tips!”? So random!

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We were in Hollywood and we got breakfast at McDonald’s (yuck, I know, it was John’s idea).  Anyway, I was sitting near the door and I saw this family leave and throw their garbage away.  Then I saw a man walk in and dig the cup out of the garbage, take it over to the fountain to fill it with soda, then walk out.  Not a care in the world what anyone thought or what was right, he just took what he wanted and went on his way.  I was kind of irritated because we always have to pay for our John’s soda.  Can’t this guy go find a job somewhere?

On a larger scale, I heard one of the commercials on the way to work today that I cannot stand.  “Call us and we will negotiate your credit card debt so you only have to pay 10% of what you owe!”  I HATE those commercials.  It just irks me to think that people wracked up tons of debt on their credit cards buying movies and junk food and clothes and tvs and then they don’t have to pay up.  Last week we paid the last of our 20K+ in credit card debt.  We paid back every penny.  I wish we wouldn’t have had it in the first place, but I couldn’t imagine just not paying it back.

Maybe I’m heartless and cruel, but it just irritates me when people don’t take accountability.  (I hope none of you have ever had to steal sodas or negotiate your way out of credit card debt, I’m sure there are extenuating circumstances.)

I have another niece and she is so cute! Her name is Sophie Beverle Anderson. I can’t wait to meet her and her cousins Eva and Paisley when we go to Idaho in a few weeks.

Congratulations Zach and Holly! You have beautiful girls.

(I stole this picture from their blog. So far all I have seen are the hospital pics.)

We went to Disneyland again! It’s been a while so we were really missing it. We got up really early on Saturday to go for a few hours. It is nice to have a pass and not feel like we have to spend the entire day there to get our money’s worth.

We started out in Innoventions to check out the new “House of the Future”. It is really new so there are still a lot of bugs. But it is cool. It is all about computers and networking everything in the house, from the lighting and the kitchen appliances to the music, tv, and the clothes closet in the daughter’s bedroom. They do have a fun story room where we heard the story of Peter Pan and got to shoot the cannon.

We didn’t ride many rides this time. Only the Matterhorn, Monster’s Inc., Roger Rabbit Toon Town, Gadget’s Go Coaster and Mullholand Madness. John likes the more mellow rollar coasters, he will ride Space Mountain and Thunder Mountain but you will never catch him on the California Screamin’. ( He has ridden the Tower of Terror twice and hated it both times, but he promised he would ride it with me again for our 5th anniversary and our 50th.)

We ordered an I-Scream sundae from the Burr-bank ice cream shop and it was SO MUCH BETTER than the one we ordered on New Year’s. We also got an exclusive Meet and Greet with Chip and Dale and a free 5×7 picture thanks to the Disney Credit Card (don’t worry, we haven’t activated it and we never will, we used it pay down the last of our credit card debt, but that’s a whole new post).

We wanted to ride the new Toy Story Ride in California Adventure but the line was way too long. We figure we will come back another day and stand in line when it is not so hot outside. Around noon we were ready to leave, but I convinced John to let me stay to watch the Disneyland Band. They played Disney movie music of course and it was awesome. I love how it is all these old guys who just really enjoy playing their instruments. It really made me want to get my clarinet out and play some more.

Remember how I just won tickets to see Wall-E?  Well, I won 4 tickets and we only need 2 and I can’t think of anyone in their right mind who would want to go that early in the morning.  I don’t think I have very many local readers, but is there anyone out there who wants our extra tickets?  Just let me know.  They are free and breakfast is included and I hear the theater is pretty cool.