OregonMomToWDW
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My 2 morning meetings got cancelled so I am pretty much free until 11 or until something else comes up.
So, I left off that we just left California Adventure and were headed to Disneyland. We pass through the gates and really have no clue what we want to do. People are beginning to line up for parade and America's College Band is playing. We take a few photopass pictures and head toward the castle and Fantasyland. We see a door and decide to tour Sleeping Beauty's castle. It is somewhat cute. It has little pictures depicting the movie and such. We then take the path past BBB and toward the Princess Hall place. The day before we saw Rapunzel and Flynn meeting and we wanted to see if Flynn was out. Nope, but it was Merida. I was happy because we had read before the trip that she had stopped greeting, but maybe they just took away her dedicated meet and greet place. So, we had fun with her. Marissa asked her what her favorite ride was. She said she had never been asked that one before. Marissa narrowed it down to her favorite mountain and she talked about loving to go to Grizzly Peak Recreation Area and climbing through there, but she had been banned because she and her brothers went swimming in the river. I told her that she wasn't supposed to be drowning her brothers is why. She said it wasn't her fault that her brothers heads got caught under her hands. It was really a fun interaction.
We then saw that there was noone in line for the Princess Hall meet and greet place. The Belle show was going on, so maybe that is why. We waited less than 2 minutes before they let us in. Around the corner and our first princess was Ariel. Then rounded another corner to Cinderella. Our last princess was Snow White. We rounded a corner and our hearts melted. There was a companion dog meeting her. She was sitting on the ground rubbing his tummy and he was in heaven. He laid his head on her lap and just looked up at her lovingly. I had to take a picture. He did not want to leave Snow White. He had to be carried out and he was kind of a big dog. After we left Snow White, we exited the door and saw...Flynn!!! Another great character meet. He was fun. By this time, it was hot and Marissa was ready for another water ride and wanted to go to Splash Mountain. We walked over there and the line was already 90 minutes. Fast pass time. 3 of us got a return time of 7:10 - 8:10 and one got 7:15 - 8:15. So, with our RSR fastpasses at 8:30, it was going to be a rush.
We were hot and hungry so we stopped right across at Hungry Bear again. Chelsea got the Nestle chocolate chip cookie icecream sandwich. I got the lemon "bumblebee" cupcake (so good). Marissa got the funnel cake with only powdered sugar and Jacob got his funnel cake with powdered sugar, strawberries and whipped cream. We headed to the downstairs seating. The little cute ducks were wondering around begging for food. We didn't feed them, but once Marissa reached down to get in her bag and the mean duck bit her finger! Beware of the ducks! We decide it is time to head to Tomorrowland. Chelsea and I ride Buzz Lightyear (again about 10 minutes) and Jacob and Marissa head to Innoventions for the Captain America meet & greet. Chelsea and I ride and head over to get in the Captian America line too. We were behind Jacob and Marissa by several families. At one point, the line gets to a common area and the CM asks for us to fill in all the gaps, but the people in front of us are refusing and staying in line. I ask the CM if I can join Jacob and Marissa and he tells me sure. Finally we are up and talking to the CM named Arturo. He was there in April and he really is fantastic. Soon we are meeting Captain America and he assigns us super hero poses. I hated mine and I think the photopass picture turned out stupid. Not at all pleased about it.
At this time, Jacob and Marissa are wanting to shop Main Street and Chelsea doesn't. So, I agree to take her to Enchanted Tiki Room. I had never done it. Now that I have, I really don't have any desire to do it again. She really wanted me to go on Jungle Cruise, so we went next door and got in line. Not too long of a wait, but more than 10 minutes. Jacob and Marissa had gone to Mr. Lincoln and Jacob found his Tinker Bell cup. We meet back up with them and try to figure out what to do next. Chelsea wants to do Star Tours but it was a bit of a line. We are able to get fastpasses, so our return time was 6:35 - 7:35. I was surprised because I didn't think they let you overlap fastpass times. So, it is about 5 and we have time to kill, again. Back to Fantasyland.
We ride Snow White's Scary Adventure. Marissa is excited to sit in a seat that millions of behinds have sat in for so many years. She was surprised it was so dark. Just wait for the next ride. She and Chelsea ride it together and Jacob and I ride. We are onto Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. This is a crazy storyline. We end up getting hit by a train and going to hell. Yup. Disney sent us to hell. What a ride! The faces of Marissa and Chelsea when we got off was funny. They were kind of shocked that Disney would actually have us die and go to hell on a ride.
Jacob is hungry but not the rest of us, but our three fastpasses are back to back and across the park and at a different park, so better eat now. We head to Village Haus. We liked this at WDW so thought to try it at Disneyland. Chelsea and I share a cheeseburger. Marissa gets a burger and Jacob chooses the Pastrami Cheeseburger without the horseradish sauce. We all enjoyed our food. Jacob then decided that he needed the souvenir cup. He had $7.65 left. The cup was $6.99 and he needed help with the tax. I figured it out for him and told him the amount with tax and that he had enough. He wasn't too sure I was right.
Even though Oregon doesn't have sales tax, I have lived in many states with it and can figure out what things will cost. He went up and ordered it and his total was what I told him. 
Time for Star Tours. The wasn't too long. Not sure why you would need to fastpass this ride either. It lets you skip the outside queue but you join the standby line fairly early. We had to wait 30 minutes to ride. We got the back row. I have never had the back row, but was surprised that my feet didn't touch the ground. The CM made a comment about how Marissa would be thrown around the most because she was by the door. Yup, we were bruised and beaten after that ride. I will never sit in the back row again. Without feet touching, you can't brace yourself. We now have to rush across the park to Splash Mountain. The Standby line is no longer posting the wait minutes. They have completely filled the extended queue. It looked like at least 3 hours. We were thankful to have the fast pass. We were on and off in 20 minutes. In that 20 minutes, I am not sure what happened, because the fastpass line now had a 90 minute expected wait.
I really felt sorry for those people. But, we had to rush to California Adventure (not rush too much, because we took the train) for the RSR. We got there 3 minutes before our fastpass time according to our phones, but I noticed the clock at the ride already said 8:30 so I said let's go. Jacob was not happy about this. It was not 8:30 by his clock...darn the Asperger's. I convince him it is ok and we are finally in line. Only about 20 minutes and our car lost. I think standing in line for the picture took longer than the wait and ride did combined. Marissa really wanted to ride ToT at dark, so she and Jacob took off and Chelsea and I got in the line for Mater's tractors again. When we got off, Marissa had texted that the line was too long for Tot and they were sitting on a bench by the Mad T Party. We met them there, but when I passed ToT the line didn't look too long, so I made them go, even though they were tired. Chelsea and I hung out and did some bench dancing and watched others dance down the street. It took them 25 minutes and it was just a few minutes till park close, so we headed out. Waited forever for our bus and where back to our room by 11. I tried to write my notes and quickly crashed.
So, I left off that we just left California Adventure and were headed to Disneyland. We pass through the gates and really have no clue what we want to do. People are beginning to line up for parade and America's College Band is playing. We take a few photopass pictures and head toward the castle and Fantasyland. We see a door and decide to tour Sleeping Beauty's castle. It is somewhat cute. It has little pictures depicting the movie and such. We then take the path past BBB and toward the Princess Hall place. The day before we saw Rapunzel and Flynn meeting and we wanted to see if Flynn was out. Nope, but it was Merida. I was happy because we had read before the trip that she had stopped greeting, but maybe they just took away her dedicated meet and greet place. So, we had fun with her. Marissa asked her what her favorite ride was. She said she had never been asked that one before. Marissa narrowed it down to her favorite mountain and she talked about loving to go to Grizzly Peak Recreation Area and climbing through there, but she had been banned because she and her brothers went swimming in the river. I told her that she wasn't supposed to be drowning her brothers is why. She said it wasn't her fault that her brothers heads got caught under her hands. It was really a fun interaction.
We then saw that there was noone in line for the Princess Hall meet and greet place. The Belle show was going on, so maybe that is why. We waited less than 2 minutes before they let us in. Around the corner and our first princess was Ariel. Then rounded another corner to Cinderella. Our last princess was Snow White. We rounded a corner and our hearts melted. There was a companion dog meeting her. She was sitting on the ground rubbing his tummy and he was in heaven. He laid his head on her lap and just looked up at her lovingly. I had to take a picture. He did not want to leave Snow White. He had to be carried out and he was kind of a big dog. After we left Snow White, we exited the door and saw...Flynn!!! Another great character meet. He was fun. By this time, it was hot and Marissa was ready for another water ride and wanted to go to Splash Mountain. We walked over there and the line was already 90 minutes. Fast pass time. 3 of us got a return time of 7:10 - 8:10 and one got 7:15 - 8:15. So, with our RSR fastpasses at 8:30, it was going to be a rush.
We were hot and hungry so we stopped right across at Hungry Bear again. Chelsea got the Nestle chocolate chip cookie icecream sandwich. I got the lemon "bumblebee" cupcake (so good). Marissa got the funnel cake with only powdered sugar and Jacob got his funnel cake with powdered sugar, strawberries and whipped cream. We headed to the downstairs seating. The little cute ducks were wondering around begging for food. We didn't feed them, but once Marissa reached down to get in her bag and the mean duck bit her finger! Beware of the ducks! We decide it is time to head to Tomorrowland. Chelsea and I ride Buzz Lightyear (again about 10 minutes) and Jacob and Marissa head to Innoventions for the Captain America meet & greet. Chelsea and I ride and head over to get in the Captian America line too. We were behind Jacob and Marissa by several families. At one point, the line gets to a common area and the CM asks for us to fill in all the gaps, but the people in front of us are refusing and staying in line. I ask the CM if I can join Jacob and Marissa and he tells me sure. Finally we are up and talking to the CM named Arturo. He was there in April and he really is fantastic. Soon we are meeting Captain America and he assigns us super hero poses. I hated mine and I think the photopass picture turned out stupid. Not at all pleased about it.
At this time, Jacob and Marissa are wanting to shop Main Street and Chelsea doesn't. So, I agree to take her to Enchanted Tiki Room. I had never done it. Now that I have, I really don't have any desire to do it again. She really wanted me to go on Jungle Cruise, so we went next door and got in line. Not too long of a wait, but more than 10 minutes. Jacob and Marissa had gone to Mr. Lincoln and Jacob found his Tinker Bell cup. We meet back up with them and try to figure out what to do next. Chelsea wants to do Star Tours but it was a bit of a line. We are able to get fastpasses, so our return time was 6:35 - 7:35. I was surprised because I didn't think they let you overlap fastpass times. So, it is about 5 and we have time to kill, again. Back to Fantasyland.
We ride Snow White's Scary Adventure. Marissa is excited to sit in a seat that millions of behinds have sat in for so many years. She was surprised it was so dark. Just wait for the next ride. She and Chelsea ride it together and Jacob and I ride. We are onto Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. This is a crazy storyline. We end up getting hit by a train and going to hell. Yup. Disney sent us to hell. What a ride! The faces of Marissa and Chelsea when we got off was funny. They were kind of shocked that Disney would actually have us die and go to hell on a ride.
Jacob is hungry but not the rest of us, but our three fastpasses are back to back and across the park and at a different park, so better eat now. We head to Village Haus. We liked this at WDW so thought to try it at Disneyland. Chelsea and I share a cheeseburger. Marissa gets a burger and Jacob chooses the Pastrami Cheeseburger without the horseradish sauce. We all enjoyed our food. Jacob then decided that he needed the souvenir cup. He had $7.65 left. The cup was $6.99 and he needed help with the tax. I figured it out for him and told him the amount with tax and that he had enough. He wasn't too sure I was right.
Even though Oregon doesn't have sales tax, I have lived in many states with it and can figure out what things will cost. He went up and ordered it and his total was what I told him. Time for Star Tours. The wasn't too long. Not sure why you would need to fastpass this ride either. It lets you skip the outside queue but you join the standby line fairly early. We had to wait 30 minutes to ride. We got the back row. I have never had the back row, but was surprised that my feet didn't touch the ground. The CM made a comment about how Marissa would be thrown around the most because she was by the door. Yup, we were bruised and beaten after that ride. I will never sit in the back row again. Without feet touching, you can't brace yourself. We now have to rush across the park to Splash Mountain. The Standby line is no longer posting the wait minutes. They have completely filled the extended queue. It looked like at least 3 hours. We were thankful to have the fast pass. We were on and off in 20 minutes. In that 20 minutes, I am not sure what happened, because the fastpass line now had a 90 minute expected wait.
I really felt sorry for those people. But, we had to rush to California Adventure (not rush too much, because we took the train) for the RSR. We got there 3 minutes before our fastpass time according to our phones, but I noticed the clock at the ride already said 8:30 so I said let's go. Jacob was not happy about this. It was not 8:30 by his clock...darn the Asperger's. I convince him it is ok and we are finally in line. Only about 20 minutes and our car lost. I think standing in line for the picture took longer than the wait and ride did combined. Marissa really wanted to ride ToT at dark, so she and Jacob took off and Chelsea and I got in the line for Mater's tractors again. When we got off, Marissa had texted that the line was too long for Tot and they were sitting on a bench by the Mad T Party. We met them there, but when I passed ToT the line didn't look too long, so I made them go, even though they were tired. Chelsea and I hung out and did some bench dancing and watched others dance down the street. It took them 25 minutes and it was just a few minutes till park close, so we headed out. Waited forever for our bus and where back to our room by 11. I tried to write my notes and quickly crashed. 
I told her she needed to give it to the CM and tell her, but she didn't want to make a scene. So, I forced her to. The poor CMs face. Her eyes were huge and she turned a bit of a greenish hue. We pointed to the car. The CM asked if it came from the ride or the car. Marissa said it was dark so she wasn't sure. Just that she felt it land on her foot. She thanked us and off we went. We later heard that Space Mountain was down for maintenance but it was for less than an hour. 
We get seated right away. Apparently, Marissa doesn't like thunder. However, she was being determined to have us see the movie. She checked out times and prices. So, looks like we would see a movie and the rest of the day was up in the air.
I absolutely can not wait to see the photos!!! 
Just kidding. I do think it is funny about this one person. She spent around $5,000 on her new oven/stove. Had it specially painted Fierrari red, but she wouldn't pay extra for "free" fastpasses.
Chelsea is very picky. She bought one pair of boots, so we will probably still need to do some shoe shopping. I did end up buying Marissa 3 pairs of shoes, so she should be set.
Everytime she boarded a ride, I think she looked at the other people to see if any happened to be the same woman. I don't think she would have ridden another if she had spotted her on the same ride.
