So am I right in assuming that you've NEVER ridden Splash Mountain?!? Oh, that's one of my favorites! (It seems like I've been saying that about every ride...except TOT!) It's so fun..
It sounds like you have good memories of sitting on benches and staring at lights too. Too funny!I have ridden Splash Mountain at WDW, never at DL and my entire family has never ridden at either. DH has an aversion to being wet!
I haven't been to WDW, so I can't comment on Splash similarities and differences. So what's the boys' reason?
The first shuttle left at 7:30, with Magic Morning starting at 8:00. Hmmmm. This just did not sound good. But that's OK...I'm going to Disneyland.
So I guess GRR is out for DH too, huh?
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That's it for now. I have to upload more pics. But first I need to go watch the YouTube video of Bret Michaels and Casey James singing "Every Rose Has It's Thorn" one more time. My favorite moment of the American Idol finale last night. That was one of my favorite songs when I was in high school. I pretty much wore out that section on my mix tape that I made by recording songs off the radio. Lots of rewinding and playing it again over and over. Yep, I'm an 80s girl.
I'm at Disneyland! 
Such a big difference from my last (and first) Magic Morning. 
Anyway, I ended up skipping the Matterhorn once I saw the line. They were only running the Fantasyland side, but the line stretched clear around, nearly to Tomorrowland Terrace. If I had waited I may have only gotten 2 rides during my MM time. 
) Just adorable! I decided to just watch and follow them for a bit from a distance. One of the beauties of alone time at Disneyland. 
I never could have done that if someone else was with me. Warning: Duck picture overload ahead...
...they were born at Disneyland!
....But first I need to go watch the YouTube video of Bret Michaels and Casey James singing "Every Rose Has It's Thorn" one more time. My favorite moment of the American Idol finale last night. That was one of my favorite songs when I was in high school. I pretty much wore out that section on my mix tape that I made by recording songs off the radio. Lots of rewinding and playing it again over and over. Yep, I'm an 80s girl.
The boys are like their father! I think on our next trip to DL we'll wear our suits and to GRR and then go back and change.
I loved Bret Michaels on the AI final too!! What a warrior to be doing that so soon after his brain hemorrhage. Now you've got me going to youtube too.
Thanks for the update as always a good one!
If she was cheating, it's probably because HE was cheating!! SO funny! I love Bret, and he's a great guy and was always really nice to me, and a lot of fun to be around, but that story about "Every Rose" is a bit of a stretch!!
I did purchase the Casey/Bret music video on iTunes. I didn't know you were so well acquainted with him
(I have other pictures posted on Facebook that were a bit too risque to post on the DIS - rockers will be rockers, after all!!) A lot of the people from the old Poison days, who hung out in that circle, are on my Facebook friend list, as is Bret's tour manager/partner/assistant/production assistant, Janna. Janna was the one who sent me the photo release form to sign last year so they could use a couple of my old grainy photos in Bret's autobiography - which may or may not ever get released at this rate.
Oh yes! I haven't talked to Bret directly in about 13 years, but I used to work for Bret/Poison back in the '80s, and we went to Disneyland and hung out and it was all sorts of fun! I still have a little gift he gave me when Poison made their first trip to Japan and came home (he brought back gifts for everyone). I have a platinum album that I received for my work hanging on my wall. I have pictures of Bret scattered about in my TR - a couple of them are on the first page, and others are spread around on other pages inside the TR. I even have a picture or two of the crazy stripper who inspired "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" in my TR!!
Anyway, I digress...Deejdigsdis - I LOVE those duck pictures!! I love that they are so comfortable just waddling all around Disneyland, not afraid of people (seemingly). They are probably so used to people by now that they don't care. But I would have been worried like you were that someone would step on them. People are always in such a hurry to get wherever they are going in DL that they knock into children. I would hate to see what happens to a poor duck family!! I wonder how the resident park ducks get along with the feral cats around the park?
That bathroom near the Alice ride has to be one of the all-time best bathrooms in terms of cuteness!! The stall doors are adorable. the light fixture is great. The bathroom signs on the door are cute (from what I recall). Then, outside...the flowers (as we saw in the flower photo thread) that look as though they are partially painted are just divine. The White Rabbit statue is great. The Cheshire Cat in the rock is great. The lamp with the heart shape on it (in my TR) is awesome. That whole designated 'Alice area' of DL is just magical, isn't it?
And by the way...could the sky be any more blue in some of your photos? It is really striking how blue and clear it is. It comes alive in your photos! I know that whenever we have a day like that and there are no clouds in the sky, I always marvel at just how blue and gorgeous the sky can be!!
And very interesting about the story behind "Every Rose." I never heard any background on it -- I just really liked it in high school. Yeah, after hearing the REAL story it does sound like a bit of a stretch. It's a great song, though. Not sure how many times I've watched the Bret/Casey AI performance on YouTube. My husband will walk by and say, "You're watching that AGAIN?!?" He was an 80s guy himself but didn't get the 80s music that I love so much. He was more of a classic 70s rock-listening teenager. He likes the 70s Chicago stuff and I like the 80s Chicago stuff. Speaking of Chicago and the American Idol finale...did you notice how the majority of performers were old school? I mean REALLY old school! I kept saying to my husband, "I wonder what today's teenagers are thinking of this finale? All these people are so old!" Alice Cooper? Isn't he nearing 70? Just so many old people!!! Going back to Bret...how cool that some of your pictures might be in the autobiography! Also - I hadn't heard of him as being a possible Simon replacement. I heard Madonna's name being thrown around, and I can't remember who else. I will miss Simon. I know he could be somewhat rude at times, but I think for the most part he was dead on with his comments.
So, my Deluxe AP cost $263 instead of $299. (I tried not to think about the fact that I could have paid only $90 at the end of my trip last fall to upgrade to an AP then...and had my April 2010 trip and Fall 2010 trip covered, but I never would have dreamed I'd be returning like I did/am.) It was an exciting time for me...leaving the AP Processing Center with a pass good for entry to Disneyland for the next year! Even though I won't get more than the fall trip out of it, it's still fun to have (and I have pulled it out of my purse MANY times since just to look at it and make sure it's real ). When I was done upgrading the first thing I did was take a pic of my AP and send it to my sister.
I always see people walk out of the show and it makes me sad. I hope DL doesn't keep track of all the people that walk out and decide to get rid of this attraction. Anyway, we had about a 10 minute wait before showtime. Time to take some more pictures.
Nice installment. I would have giddily been my AP if I was lucky enough to have another visit this year! I'm sad that you have posted the last light picture of the trip. Oh no, the end must be near
I've really enjoyed your trip. I'm amazed how much more there is to see (aka how much I've missed) at DL and DCA. Must mean I need to go back!
Are you going to do a TR for your trip to WDW this December? I hope so!
Aw, thanks TK! The end is definitely near. I'm glad you joined me. I didn't feel like I was just talking to myself with you chiming in.
I sure will!
My favorite part of the meal was my hot chocolate and my husband's potatoes. Those potatoes were so good! I would love to have had a plate of those and some fruit. I must say that I much preferred our lunch experience in November over our breakfast experience in April. I'm glad that I experienced breakfast at least once. Actually I want to do breakfast again and get the cinnamon roll french toast. That had been my plan all along and then I changed my mind at the last second. 
It really was all that. There were some neat effects and Genie, of course, was incredible. I kept finding myself thinking, "Oh, the boys would have loved that" or "The boys would have thought that was so cool" or "The boys would have thought that was so funny" and so on. I'm glad we got the chance to see it. Just wish the boys were with us.
Another excellent installment! I must say I agree with you on the Carnation Cafe breakfast not being up to par with the lunch...don't feel bad about not having the french toast - it could have been as dry as my pancakes in December. Too funny about your banana...I thought the same thing!
I'm glad you like Aladdin. We loved it so much we tried to see it twice....
If you want to see my recent craft project mini-post I posted this on the scrapbooking board http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2479000
Waiting to see your last few hours at DL....
It kind of feels like the trip is ending all over again and the post-Disneyland blues will be taking over. Sigh.
I remember reading about your pancakes. They did not sound good at all.
OK, I just checked out your craftiness. WOW! That turned out great! I love that color of green. It's all so clever and creative. The Tink rub-ons look like they came out great on the handle despite the lines in the handle. Will the rub-ons rub off? I also really like your choice of the pearl so you can see how much is left. But my favorite part...the most clever part...the Hidden Mickey! Love it! Thanks so much for sharing. Do you have scrapbook pages hanging around over there somewhere? I used to scrap a lot but it was getting a little overwhelming trying to "get it all done". I hated that it was turning into somewhat of a chore as opposed to my fun way to unwind. I have taken a break from my traditional scrapbooking. For the past year and a half I've been doing the picture-a-day thing. I take a picture every day and then add a bit of journaling for each day. It's so easy to just slide my 4x6 pictures into divided protectors along with 2x3 journaling cards, all part of the Becky Higgins kit I use. I love that it captures the "bigger picture" of our everyday life but I'm starting to miss the creativity of traditional scrapping.
Well, I hopped on here to finish the TR, but I'm a little tired so I'll finish it tomorrow. Can you tell I'm procrastinating that last installment?
So much to do, so little time.
I like that we have more of your trip to look forward to.
As for my tool, the matte finish is supposed to protect the rub ons. Let's hope. As for scrapbooking, I go for one 4-day weekend a year and crank out about 80 pages. I *used* to be current with Disney vacations but not any more. My sons are all scrapbooked up through high school graduation last year. I do make mini-albums now and enjoy purchasing scrapbook supplies
Hope to see the final installment soon!
mad will be up when I go back in the fall.
I got 3 of the last 4 Tigger Tails on display and headed over to the front porch where I found DH gnawing on a Turkey Leg. 
"Uhhhh...did you get the Mickey cookies?" "This is as far as I got." 
So I headed to the bakery and picked up the cookies.} CHECK! The line was way too long. I never would have made it. I thought, "No worries, I'll just go down Main Street to that little out-of-the-way Cone Shop." I thought I was so clever. I never see a line there. I rounded the corner and . It's closed! So so sad. I trudged back to the front porch where DH was happily chewing on a Mickey Pretzel now. I sat there and ate a Mickey Truffle that I picked up at Pooh Corner. Not the same as ice cream, but it was chocolate so it wasn't a totally bad situation. 
We walked out of Disneyland at 3:05pm so we could catch the 3:20 shuttle back to the Hyatt. Super Shuttle picked us up at 3:55. One last picture out the shuttle window as we were being whisked off to the airport.
She talked about World of Color and how she wasn't happy with how they ended up working it all out, saying it wouldn't be a good set up for the tourists. Her prediction was that it would be a mess. This was over a month ago, so I'm sure there has been many a change made since she talked to us. Another interesting thing was that she thanked us several times for going to Disneyland. She even thanked me for buying the t-shirt I was wearing! Anyway, it was fun to chat with her. It kind of extended our Disney experience.
