Part Three
We left off back at the Fairfield Inn and Jey was getting changed into her brand new dress and I was putting stuff into my brand new clutch. It was 3 o'clock and we needed to be at the very back of Disneyland by 3:30.
Can we do it?
Well, surprisingly, we did! But we hadn't really thought about the fact that there was a parade going to be started - we had completely forgotten about the Soundsational parade so we were moving quickly trying to get through before the parade.
We made it!
It actually wasn't that horrible; Disneyland makes way more sense than Disney World when it comes to the amount of space people are given to move, so it wasn't too much of a hassle. We did just squeak over to New Orleans Square juuuuuuust on time, but whatever, we made it!
Though before we even got into the park proper we had to stop and get this lovely picture of Belle:
She's my friend Liz's favorite so I had to snap this for her (anyone familiar with my WDW TRs is familiar with Liz, a childhood best friend who goes to school in Florida and works in the parks who I try to see once a visit).
I also had to snap this:
While we were walking I did have to get a picture of this only because it's been my favorite Disney pun name for a long time.
Anyway.
Where we were eating?
Yeah, lol, no. I just couldn't resist the picture. No, THIS is where we were eating:
Thanks to the DiS and friends this was the one restaurant I had really wanted to eat at. I had pushed for it when we had been planning but because of our planning we had initially said "just one sit down meal" and I gave the choice to Jey for where that dinner would be. She had chosen Ariel's Grotto so I figured that was that.
But when I had told Jey's mum about Blue Bayou on Monday while we were eating lunch she was interested in eating there too and we decided that it would be a good place for us to eat and made the reservation.
This is my oh, so spectacular picture of the restaurant:
We had a very nice waiter at the beginning and a wonderful waitress by the end (always something you worry about when your waiter/waitress has to change shifts). I got a regular old diet coke and some water and was apparently dying of thirst because I drank so many refills! Jey got the mint julep out of curiosity and really liked it. I tried it as well (I really hate the taste of limes so I'm very hesitant to get anything with limes even associated with it) and it did have a really good mint taste! It would have just been a little too sweet for me (she says, drinking the diet coke).
I got the salad and the salmon which were both yummy. I was really glad we went; it was a nice, relaxing atmosphere and a great meal.
Stuffed, we decided to do the walkthrough of the castle. It's a novelty for us and it would be some good exercise to get ourselves de-stuffed.
I just couldn't get enough of the castle. It's so pretty and it was seriously surreal to see it in person every day.
I loved that it was even bannered on the back too:
I took pictures of the walk through but they were pretty cruddy so I didn't keep them. We had a fourth person to our party during it - a teeny tiny little girl kept up with us and not her grandma and mum. We kept waiting for them but she was bound and determined to continue with us because we were going faster. It was kind of adorable but I did worry she was going to get lost.
We kind of started to roam aimlessly. I snapped this picture as we did:
We were heading over to Indy to pull new FPs for it since we wanted to ride it again. Then we kind of just....walked around. Aimlessly.
This was when Jey's mum said those fateful words - "Oh my aching tentacles!"
We both stared at her and asked what she meant. She laughed and said "you know, people say 'oh my aching' something else and it's not Disney appropriate so I thought Ursula and said tentacles!" Neither of us had ever heard the original saying before but the new version was hysterical to us! So I say it all the time now
We finally did an entire rotation around the park again and saw that Buzz had a fifteen minute wait so we hopped into the line. I saw this little Periwinkle in the water and thought it was incredibly sweet
I did so much better on Buzz with the guns that you can pick up than I've ever done before! I didn't do great because I was by myself and I can't steer and shoot to save my life. I still probably got the lowest score out of the three of us but hey, whatever!
After that we got another Dole Whip since we hadn't had a dessert with dinner. We ate them and headed over to Pirates to try for a better, non-gross-sex-talk-by-teenagers ride. And believe me, it was a lot better! We even got called up early because we were a party of three and they needed a party of three two boats before we would have gotten on.
We wanted to try our luck so we headed over here:
At the split we got away from a group of teenage girls who weren't all that rude or anything, just a little loud, and ended up right behind a really nice, large family. Once we got to the wall and stopped we all sat down. Everyone but Jey. Seriously, the entire row just sat as one except Jey, who looked around at us and was like "oh. I guess I didn't get the memo." And sheepishly sat with us.
Which is, of course, the second we started moving again!
Poor Jey.
I went by myself because I wanted to get a picture of the Hatbox Ghost to share with my parents. This is the best I got:
We left the 999 happy haunts and went to ride Indy with our FPs. By the time we got out it was around 8 and we were pretty much unable to get anywhere. We wandered around the entirety of the park before stopping at the restrooms behind the Plaza to figure out what we were going to do. I was exhausted and there were no good places to sit to wait for the fireworks because it was too close and I finally just said "we should go home for the night" when Jey asked what we should do. She wasn't thrilled with the idea - it was barely 9 pm - but I reminded her that the next day was a Magical Morning so we could get everything we wanted done in the park early and be able to see the fireworks, and Jey's mum was definitely flagging at that point so we agreed to head back to the hotel.
It was actually nice to be back early. We got drinks and I was able to shower early and read a bit before falling asleep.
