deejdigsdis
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Aug 28, 2009
I didn't have a whole lot of priorities this trip. In my eyes, it was a complete bonus trip. Unplanned and unexpected. Instead of looking at it like, "Bummer...we only have most of Tuesday, all of Wednesday, and half of Thursday at Disneyland...", I looked at the situation like, "Wow! I can't believe I get to back so soon! It will be so great to just kind of wander and do whatever we feel like..."
My list of priorities included:
* Ride The Haunted Mansion lots and lots of times. It's been nearly 14 years since I've ridden the original and I could. not. wait! I wasn't a fan of the impostor holiday overlay that had taken over the mansion in November. I ended up closing my eyes and picturing the REAL thing as I rode along in my Doom Buggy.
* Ride Jungle Cruise at night.
* Watch Aladdin before it goes away. I had never seen it. I had a time picked out to watch it last fall, but I ended up being in Tiana's Showboat Jubilee instead. I figured this was a one-time chance to do that and that Aladdin would always be there the next time we returned...in maybe 2 years. Little did I know.
* Arm myself with the Hidden Mickey book I got for Christmas and take pictures of Hidden Mickeys -- at the request of DS10. It was the least I could do.
* Watch the Flag Retreat Ceremony, another thing I'd never seen.
* Ride Tower of Terror. I didn't get to do this last fall either. The plan was for DH to ride with DS10 first, then I'd ride with DS10 later. Well...DS10 ended up hating it. It really freaked him out. I had no interest in going alone, so it just didn't happen.
*Spend a lot of time just sitting on Main Street, preferably in those wooden chairs on the front porch. I've wanted to sit in one of those chairs my whole life, but they were always occupied when I walked by. Oh yeah, and eat ice cream while I'm sitting there. If it's during the day. If it's at night, the plan was to be sipping hot chocolate.
So that was my list. Anything else that happened beyond this list would be even more of a bonus.
Let's close this installment with a couple of Hidden Mickeys, shall we?
My list of priorities included:
* Ride The Haunted Mansion lots and lots of times. It's been nearly 14 years since I've ridden the original and I could. not. wait! I wasn't a fan of the impostor holiday overlay that had taken over the mansion in November. I ended up closing my eyes and picturing the REAL thing as I rode along in my Doom Buggy.
* Ride Jungle Cruise at night.
* Watch Aladdin before it goes away. I had never seen it. I had a time picked out to watch it last fall, but I ended up being in Tiana's Showboat Jubilee instead. I figured this was a one-time chance to do that and that Aladdin would always be there the next time we returned...in maybe 2 years. Little did I know.
* Arm myself with the Hidden Mickey book I got for Christmas and take pictures of Hidden Mickeys -- at the request of DS10. It was the least I could do.
* Watch the Flag Retreat Ceremony, another thing I'd never seen.
* Ride Tower of Terror. I didn't get to do this last fall either. The plan was for DH to ride with DS10 first, then I'd ride with DS10 later. Well...DS10 ended up hating it. It really freaked him out. I had no interest in going alone, so it just didn't happen.
*Spend a lot of time just sitting on Main Street, preferably in those wooden chairs on the front porch. I've wanted to sit in one of those chairs my whole life, but they were always occupied when I walked by. Oh yeah, and eat ice cream while I'm sitting there. If it's during the day. If it's at night, the plan was to be sipping hot chocolate.
So that was my list. Anything else that happened beyond this list would be even more of a bonus.
Let's close this installment with a couple of Hidden Mickeys, shall we?