Mousefriends

Which way should we go?

The first idea was to fly to New York and drive to Disneyland California via Philadelphia, Lancaster (Amish), Nashville, Memphis, Dallas, El Paso, Phoenix, San Diego and LA.

But we've been thinking. Maybe it would be more fun to start in San Fransisco and drive to Disneyworld, Orlando via Sequoia, Las Vegas, Phoenix, El Paso, Houston and New Orleans.

What do you recommend? We have been to New York, San Diego, Las Vegas and LA before. We would really like to hear your oppinion on this. Should we drive towards the morning sun or the sunset?

Cheers
Hjörtur

We Caught the Mouse!

I knew it. The mouse couldn't resist the enticing scent of the chocolate. The mouse walked into to the trap again. And this time, we didn't wait, we took it outside and released it into a lava cave about. So now we have a happy, free mouse running around enjoying the freedom. And we don't have a mouse in the garage. I think.

But just in case, I'm keeping the mouse trap with the chocolate bait.

Hjörtur

ps. maybe I should have tagged the mouse. Not so someone could deliver it back "home", but so that if I catch another mouse, I could see if it's the same one or not.

Developing Story: The Mouse Escaped Again!

I'm not kidding. Remember how I put the mouse in a closed plastic container, into another container, a blanket over that container and kept it in the garage? Well, that mouse's first name isn't Mickey. It's Houdini.

When I was going to take it out and release into the lava behind the house, guess what. There was no mouse. It had chewed it's way through the plastic container and was all gone.

So we are back on square one. The mouse escaped and is back in the garage. So, I've set up the mousetrap again and this time, I'm trying another bait. I'm not going count on the mouse falling for the same trick twice. So, this time I chose this nice white chocolate with some cocos in it and a nice, tempting scent. It's got to fall for that. I know I couldn't resist (I really know, because I actually ate half of the bait :P).

Hopefully, we'll have a mouse tomorrow.

Hjörtur - still chasing the mouse

ps. look at the hole on the lid, how perfect the circle is.

A Mouse in the House

We love the mouse. Not any mouse, but THE mouse. Mickey Mouse. We love that mouse so much that we are willing to cross continents to meet him. Maybe that is crossing the creek to get some water. We don't actually need to go anywhere to meet A mouse.

Friday night I cought a mouse in my garage. I had set up a trap with smoked Icelandic lamb as the bait and mmmm, doesn't that smell tempting? :) Since there was a winter storm raging outside I decided not to release it immediatly, but instead I put it in a large plastic container on a shelf in one of the bathrooms and closed the doors. The kids immediatly fell in love with the mouse and named it Rósa Líf. But they were not to get to keep it.

Last night my son noticed that the door was open into the bathroom and when he checked the container there was NO MOUSE!!! And not only that, but every single door in the house was open meaning that the mouse could be in any room. A frantic search started for the mouse, the kids finding it very ammusing but my wife not, remembering the 16 days chase for the rat in our house in Denmark a few years back. "We found it" the kids shouted soon as they checked the corner behind the couch. There it was, tiny, little, cute mouse. Antonius (my son) stuck his foot under the couch to close escape routes while I went behind the couch, cornering the mouse and catching it! Hurray!

It was so soft and sweet as it lay in my palms. But soon it wanted to get out and started to push my fingers with it's nose searching for a way out. We found a small plastic container with a lid on and decided to put it there. My wife put the container on the kitchen table ready to smack as soon as the mouse got in. I put my hands inside ready to release the mouse into the box. As soon as I let it go I pulled my hands back very fast accidently hitting the edge of the container and throwing it off the table. Everyone screamed! The mouse tried to jump out of the container as it fell but I managed to catch it in the air. We put it back in and this time we managed to close the container. You can see the mouse inside the container in the picture. We are keeping the mouse over the night in the container, putting into a bigger container, covered with a cloth so it can't possibly escape.

Tomorrow we will release it outside. We don't want it to escape again.

Hjörtur - mouse chaser

Mommy here!

Well, hello there! Nice "meeting" you! It´s me, THE mommy!

So, we´re in planning mode. Actually a great and fun mode to be in. Although I love spontaneous, last minute trips, I must admit that a great part of the fun of travelling is all the planning. And believe me, with a family of soon to be 7, there´s a great deal of planning to be done.

Our "Times Atlas of the World" has been through a lot lately and pages 106-109 (coast to coast USA) have been exposed to hands of all sizes, snacks, food and an unknown liquid.

Since I´m a theme park freak, I can´t help but wonder whether we should try to incorporate San Antonio into our route. That way we could visit Sea World in San Antonio, which would mean we would have visited all Sea World parks. Anyone been to all 3 parks and can tell me if it´s worth it? If we don´t go to San Antonio we will still of course go to Sea World in San Diego, so it´s not like we´d skip Shamu all together.

Back to the map....

Later!

Seven on the road

We're not off yet, but coming fall we are going to tell you about our coast-to-coast drive from New York to Disneyland, LA. Until then, we are going to need your help to plan the trip.

We are a family of seven: mom, dad and kids aged 13, 11, 6, 3 and 5 months old. We come from a far-a-way country called Iceland where we don't have Disney. This isn't our first time to Disney though. Our once in a life-time trip was to Florida in 2003 and we have been back almost every year since. In 2004 we drove from Copenhagen (Denmark) where we lived at the time to Disneyland Paris. In 2006 we flew to LA and visited Disneyland in Anaheim as well as "Disneyland for Adults" Las Vegas and "it ain't no Disneyland" Tijuana.

We haven't been to Disney in Hong Kong nor Tokyo, but the day will come :). Last spring, we decided to make a little trip out of our Disneyvacation and flew to New York, rented a car and drove down the east coast with a stop over in Washington DC and North Carolina. We even managed to see a space shuttle launched on Canaveral and that was impressive. Really impressive.

This year we would like to go again, fly to New York and drive to Disney. Since we've done the east coast we were thinking of driving to the west coast. So hop on board and join us on our journey to the American dream :) All tips and advices for this trip are well appreciated.

Our best
Hjörtur
(California does sound tempting while writing this in freezing Iceland whit (almost) no other light than the dancing Northern lights)