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After we got the Disneyland 60th Stein at the Jolly Holiday Bakery, DAW wanted to do one more thing until she was satisfy with all the stuff she wanted to do at the DLR. The last thing she wanted to do was go and see Disney’s Aladdin – A Musical Spectacular. She always enjoy watching the Aladdin show at DCA which we haven’t done yet during the trip. She like the Genie part the most of his funny jokes.
So we head on out of DL and on over to DCA to see the 2:20pm show. It was cutting it close since it was around 1:50pm when we left Tomorrowland and on over to DCA. But we were able to make it in time for the 2:20pm show which we were able to get the Orchestra Row. We spent about 10 minutes in the queue and get decent seats for the show which we were on the left hand side of the Hyperion Theater.
I used the telephoto lens for the shots and I was satisfy with the shots where some were not good while some were good.
Also I noticed during the show that I haven’t seen in previous shows is when Aladdin goes down the Cave of Wonder, he would be walking down from the top but he was walking on the ground which was a surprise. They did use the scene where he jumped really high from the guards but that was kind of surprising to see.
DAW enjoyed the Aladdin show and it was nice to hear the Genie’s and his funny jokes. She wasn’t that satisfy during the last time we watched the show back in March but this time it was way better.
After the show was over, we still had some time to do one more thing until we had to go and leave the DLR and back to the hotel to pickup our stuff and catch our flight back home to Sactown.
I wanted to go back to DL and see the sneak peek of the movie “Tomorrowland” at the Magic Eye Theater. I wasn’t able to see the movie until a few days until I got back from Sacramento after those two DLR trips on a 6 days at the DLR out of 7 days.
So we walked all the way back to DL and see the sneak peek of “Tomorrowland”. I thought the movie was okay when I saw it in person and I was wondering what is it all about and this was not a good storytelling movie.
The queue to enter the Magic Eye Theater had all sorts of pictures, designs, from the 1964 World’s Fair along with production pictures from the movie as well.
Watching the sneak peek from the Magic Eye Theater is nice where they have shown all different sorts of sneak peeks of other movies since the theater was converted to Captain EO a few years ago. They had Big Hero 6 which was there last year.
After seeing the sneak peek, we went to the Starcade building which housed the “Tomorrowland” Exhibit which showed drawings, artwork, pictures, props from the movie.
Disney also showed “The 1952 Box” which has contents of art, photos, memos, books, blueprints, and props that was hidden in the labryrinth beneath the Walt Disney Studios.
After being in the Tomorrowland Exhibit, it was time to leave the DLR and head on back to the hotel. But it wasn’t even time yet, DAW started to get hungry when we left Tomorrowland. It was around 4:30pm when we decided it was time to head on back and have something to eat before we are picked up at the hotel.
When we left the DLR, we head on over to Tony Roma’s for dinner. I do enjoy eating at Tony Roma’s on Harbor Blvd when I stay at one of the hotels on Harbor Blvd.
We spent quite a lot of time in the restaurant since we didn’t have to leave immediately back to the hotel. For diner, I had the Filet Medallions & Ribs Combo that night while DAW just had a salad. I thought she would eat more that night but she was fine with what she ate.
After dinner, we head on back to Best Western Park Place Inn to get our luggage and waited for the SuperShuttle to pick us up from BWPPI to John Wayne Airport in Orange County. We could have spent more time that day, but she wants to be there early just in case if something goes wrong when we get to SNA.
We got to SNA around 7:30pm and we just waited until our 9:25pm flight left from Orange County to Sacramento. It took about an hour and 10 minutes to get back home to Sacramento. We got home around 11pm that night which was late. Cousin C picked us up at the airport and he took us home.
This concludes “Back to the Diamonds at the Happiest Place on Earth” trip report on May 30th to June 1st. This was another great trip which we were able to see the new nighttime shows at DL and DCA. I went before to see the new shows after my Vegas business trip in which I was able to see them before the next one. I was lucky to come back in such a short time. DAW had a fun time as well which we were able to see my cousin and her BF during the trip. It was fun for them to join us for that one night where we waited four hours just to see a parade that night.
Now that this one concludes, I was able to go on a few times since this trip which I went in early July since I was there for “Anime Expo” at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Anime Expo (or AX for short) is the largest Anime show in the U.S. It was nice to go back for a few days and to hang out with Alison @franandaj that day which we were able to go on Star Tours and see the 11:10pm Paint the Night parade.
This trip is over and a new one is right around the corner. Yup, I will be back down south in a few more days which I will be going back down with DAF for the D23 Expo at the Anaheim Convention Center. This is the fourth (2009, 2011, 2013) annual D23 Expo which I have attended all four while DAW has attend 3 of the four. I will try to do a live trip report during the Expo which I will spend part of my time in the morning staking out a spot in order to get inside the Expo.
Please stay tune for live updates from the D23 Expo next week (August 14th – 16th).
