I remember being 9 years old (almost 10) and my dad brought home a newspaper article about "something has gotten into the matterhorn." They had enclosed the track to make it seem more like riding down a real mountain, and they had put a 9 foot tall image of the abominable snowman into it. I was so excited I could hardly stand it. I didn't sleep at all the night before we went.
Anyway. Disneyland has always been a place that I have enjoyed, and I have also really enjoyed taking my own kids there. We go during this time of year because the weather is usually super nice (high 60's or low 70's), and since school is still in, there is *nobody* there. Here are the pictures from our latest trip:
Here we are at 5:00 am in the morning trying to get out the door to catch our plane. That was dumb. Next time we'll fly in the evening and go to bed when we get there.
On the plane. Owen was very concerned about Airline Safety.
Walking from our hotel. Note similar shirts. It has become something of a tradition for us to wear the same shirts. It makes it so we don't lose anyone, and it is kind of fun to figure out what kind of shirt we'll make. We use the iron on transfers that you can print out from your inkjet printer. This shirt has the toy story little green men on it.
Space mountain is one of our favorites. Owen can go on it, but he decided that he didn't like it. "I don't like rides that drop you." he says.
Charlie enthralled on the jungle cruise. He was the only one on the boat who *honestly* laughed at the jokes the driver made.
Bengal Grill. This is the best place to eat in disneyland. It costs you a million dollars like everywhere else, but this food is REALLY good. Chicken and beef skewers. And bacon wrapped asparagus, grilled. Delicious.
After lunch, you can have a Pineapple Dole Whip. Mmmm.
C'mon Audrey!!!
Dumbos. It's funny how we like this ride so much. I still think it is fun.
Seth loves the roller coasters. "Let's go on the 'Wildest Ride in the Wilderness' again Dad!"
My favorite shirt we did this year was the BnL sweatshirt. I was happy they had a place we could take our picture. I was mad that wall-e wasn't an actual 3-d thing. This sweat shirt was cool because people recognized it but they didn't know what from. They would look and look. And some would say, "BnL, where is that from?" and some even fewer would get it and say "Oh man that is SOOO cool! Where did you get that?" To which we proudly replied, "It was audrey's idea. And we made them."
The second day the rain came in.
We were prepared. Disneyland is awesome in the rain. No one is there. They still run all the rides.
Zoom in close on this picture. Look toward the rear of the train. Jenny and Audrey are riding this thing (california screamin') full on in the rain. It was cold, but we went on it like 6 times in a row because no one else was there. Owen and I got a little tired of the carosel right next to it. :o)
Charlie is too cool for his glasses. You need the 3d glasses for the midway mania ride which is cool as heck. My high score? 167,000. Not really very good when the daily high scores are like 490,000. Hmmm... I'll have to surf the internet and find the secrets.
Finding nemo. It is surprising that so many people wait in line for this thing. There was never any wait for pirates of the caribbean, space mountain, splash mountain (mom's favorite), indiana jones, big thunder mountain, and buzz light year. The longest wait was midway mania, which was about 25 minutes. Nemo was about 20 minutes too.
Mom and Seth and the girls went on tower of terror (behind us). Charlie and I and Owen wanted our picture taken with Mr. Incredible. You can see that the rain blew over periodically, long enouch for us to take our rain ponchos off.
We had a blast. The time came and went too fast, as all vacations do.
