We had finally made it to friday! Unfortunately, the week was going by far too fast. We decided to spend most of the day at Disneyland, and hit up all the rides that we wanted before we left. We got there, and went right away to get a fast pass for Splash Mountain (you can't just ride it once!)
After getting that fast pass, we noticed that the projected wait time for pirates of the carribean was only 10 minutes (turned out to be a little longer, but not too bad). Note in this picture that my face is fairly red and sunburned...remember that when you look at the next picture.
So i realize that this is a really unnattractive picture, and pretty much looks like a mug shot, but I had to include it. While we were standing in line for Pirates, I started getting really light headed and naseous feeling...I honestly think it was almost the sickest I ever felt. Luckily, when we got into the airconditioned building right as I thought I might pass out. I started feeling better. But if you look at this picture, my face is completely pale and drained of all the color that was in it..thats how my mom knew i was actually sick :( We figured that I was really affected by the heat, and the fact that i only hate like half a muffin for breakfast might have contributed to feeling so sick..haha.
So here we are standing in line (still) for pirates of the Caribbean! I didn't really get any pictures of anything from this ride, but I really liked it! They added a lot of stuff from the movies, including Jack Sparrow. I love the few drops that you go off of while your on the boat, especially the ones in the pitch dark! I've had this recurring nightmare since I was 4 about this ride, I'm not sure why! I love all the special effects though! I kind of got a headache at the end when there were fake guns giong off right by head!
There is a train that goes all around the park, so we decided to ride it from Frontierland over to Tomorrow land! It was a nice leisurely ride, and we got to see parts of the park that we hadn't yet been too. We passed by "it's a small world", which sadly wasn't open due to renovations, but it looks like they are redoing the whole thing! I definitely enjoyed riding the train because it was slightly less hot!
So after we rode the train to tomorrowland, we bought one of those spray water bottles (definitely would have been nice to have at the beginning!), and then went back to Splash Mountain! I didn't notice this sign during our first time through splash, but I loved the quote when I saw it, so I had to take a picture :-D
Ha ha I love our picture from Splash Mountain! It's even funnier in real life..I think Michael is hilarious :-D Can you tell I knew exactly where the camera was?!
We got totally soaked this time around! I'm not sure why this picture turned out so bright..hmm
Right as we were getting out of Splash, we noticed that there were characters from Winnie the Pooh! Michael and I went to go stand in line to see Tigger, Pooh, and Eeyore. I gotta say, Pooh was so creepy looking! If I was a little kid, I would probably have cried. Eeyore definitely had to be my favorite...haha. He hit me in the face with my little brother's autograph. It hurt! Here he was trying to make up for it by hugging and kissing me. That was interesting.
Time for lunch! We went to this cute little cafe, I think it was called the Carnation Cafe, or something like that, and it was yummy! We had read a lot of reviews about Disneyland and that all the food wasn't very good, but I beg to differ! Even though it was real expensive, it was definitely very good! This place had sandwiches and soup. I got this really good chicken sandwich on a croissant with fresh fruit. My parents got this really good baked potato soup! It was a nice place to cool off as well :)
So definitely one of the highlights of my whole trip was being serenaded by the Dapper Dan's quartet on Disney's main street. We were just watching them singing, and one of the looked at me video recording them, and was like "Hey, do you want to get a picture with us." Of course I said yes! And I was absolutely THRILLED when they said they were going to sing to me! They sang to me "Let me call you sweetheart" which is one of my favorite quartet songs, and I was just about in cloud nine! They had me play a "game", where whenever they stopped singing, I was supposed to fill in the word "you". Boy did I feel silly! It was awesome though :-D
The line for the matterhorn had been pretty long every time we passed by it, so when we saw that the wait was about 15 minutes long, we jumped right in it! Well, my mom and dad did. Me and michael ran over to get fast passes for space mountain, and by the time we got back, it was almost our turn! Unfortunately, the ride got shut down for about 15 minutes due to 'techincal difficulties', but we just waited, and finally we got on! This ride is so cool! It kind of freaked me out that it was completely dark, especially when we were getting pulled up to the top, but it was really fun! The yeti wasn't nearly as scary or intimidating as I seemed to have remembered! he he.
So I think the most popular ride at Disneyland is Indiana Jones. Last time we were here, I wasn't tall enough to go on it, so my mom and i spent a lot of the day in Mickey's Toon Town, but I'm pleased to say, i was definitely tall enough now! Once again, we used our wonderful fast passes, but we still had to wait about 15 minutes. Not too shabby though, considering the standby line was over 100 minutes! This is definitely one of my very favorite rides of the trip! It's pretty exciting, but bumpy. Not a ride for the faint hearted. At the end of the ride, tragedy struck. Not really, but when it was pitch dark and we went down a hill type thing, I flew forward and somehow hit my nose/mouth on the seat in front of me. It hurt so bad, I was really thinking I might either have a bloody nose, or a broken one! ha ha. None of those two things happened, but it definitely hurt for about 4 days afterwards!
There was this weirdo fortune telling machine on main street that we kept passing by! The manquin person inside was really creepy. Michael got a fortune from her...However, I don't believe it has come true yet!
So we went back to the hotel to rest for awhile, and to have dinner (I won't be talking about the place we went for dinner. All i can say is...I really don't like when salad and spaghetti are sitting on about an inch of water!). We went back to the park to watch the spectacular fireworks show! It was so cool! The program was narrated by Julie Andrews, and there was a lot of really cool music and special effects! My favorite part was when tinker bell came flying out. It was an actual person, attached to a wire. It was SO cool! I just love fireworks :-D
Our fast pass for Space mountain wasn't until 930 at night, so after the fireworks, me, my dad and michael headed over to get in line (my mom opted out of this one..she'd been a good sport on gone on every ride, but she really didn't want to go on this one!). This is SUCH a neat ride! You had no idea where you were going, and there were stars everywhere! It's a really cool indoor rollercoaster, and it definitely jolts you around. I really wanted to go again, but it didn't work out. I would post the picture of us on the ride, but it really distorted what we looked like, and I most definitely would never put it online for anyone to see!
While we were on space mountain, my mom got in line for Finding Nemo Submarines. So this ride always had an extremely long line. Even at 1030 at night, it was about 60 minutes long. At different points during the day it got up to 2 1/2 hours. I gotta say..It's totally not worth more than a 20 minute wait. I felt so claustrophobic in the submarine, and I almost fell asleep as well! It was pretty much just watching the movie Finding Nemo underwater. Little kids would probably like it, but I really don't think i'll ever wait in line for this ride again! And Diana, the sign that is in the picture here, reminded us of you. Can you guess why?! ha ha
We ended up leaving the park around 1130, and we were exhausted! It was a very fun last full day in California :)
2 comments:
Very entertaining! Good memories!!
I can't beleive how pale you were! I am glad that the air conditioned part came in the nick of time!
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