The dog, the legend, Presley.

We were really worried about parking at DL and about what to do with Presley. No need to worry or park in the sun while in the Magic Kingdom. The parking stucture which will hold 10,000 cars, has a 13’10″ clearance on the first floor. For our 9-1/2 foot Sprinter that was great. Not only was the area they flagged us to very close to the Tram but it was very close to the exit. The first day we put Presley in the Disneyland Kennels. Don’t use them if you have a choice. It is the most un-Disney like experience in Disneyland especially for your pet.

As we left the first day we saw an older van and heard a dog barking. Bing! The light bulb went on – tomorrow Mr. P. stays in his favorite place in the world, the bus!  This worked out perfectly. We spent about 3 hours in the park and then, while waiting for a fastpass, went back out to the bus to have lunch and see Presley. While it was in the low 90′s in the park, the parking structure was in the 70′s with a nice breeze blowing through it.

Go to the Grand Californian Hotel.
Find your way to the Hearthstone Lounge.
Choose any chair. For me it was a nice comfortable chair towards the southwest corner.
Order a Habanero Lime Margarita. When it comes, sit back and enjoy the ride.

Note: Best when the park is very crowded and very hot.

In no particular order . . .
Kids on a rope
Kids pushing kids in strollers
Adults pushing kids in strollers
Strollers
People looking backwards while walking forward
Tour groups following their guide’s little flag around
People walking four abreast while holding hands.
Gray haired grandmothers driving their scooters 30mph down Main Street.

Our sticky sidewalk.

Specifically, the Robins, are making a mess.

They like the cherries from the ornamental cherry tree and have been feasting for days.

There are half eaten cherries in the street, on the sidewalk and on top of my mail box. There are also pits where the cherries were fully eaten and they are so sticky the full blast from the hose won’t wash them away.

Mother Nature’s way of spreading Cherry trees.

After stripping out the rotor screw I put everything back together with the new brake pads. I called MB to order a part and was treated with the usual distain so I called Dodge. The part was ordered ($1.83) – I ordered two just in case. Of course by the time I do the brakes again, I will have no idea where the extra one is.

The part came in on time and I waited for a cooler day to finish the job of putting on a new rotor.

This time I did tap the head a couple of times with a hammer and punch. I drilled out the head and using a #4 (10mm) Pro GraBit backed the screw out with no problems. I had bought a tool to compress the pistons but as these were new brake pads, there was no problem with that but at least I will have the tool for next time. For me other than this stripped out screw, pushing the pistons back was the hardest part of the brake job.

Since this was the third time in a week I had taken a wheel off and pulled the pads I am getting pretty good and fast and a future brake job will be much easier.