Danauk
<font color=green>I would be sitting on the patio
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The cast:
Me, Karen - 32 (going on 8 as I spend my day teaching 8 year olds!)
DH, Pete - 33 (he puts up with my Disney obsession but loves our Disney trips!)
The reason for the trip:
To celebrate our 10th wedding anniversary. We went to Disneyland Paris on our honeymoon, celebrated our 5th in WDW so figured DL for our 10th!
Monday 11th August 2008
The day had finally arrived, today we are off to Disneyland!! We got up at 4:45am and my parents drove us to London Heathrow airport. We got there by 8am and dropped the bags off quickly, we had done on line check in and printed our boarding passes the night before. We had a quick breakfast with my parents before we said our good bye and went through security. Our flight wasn't until 11:30 and we had a few hours to pass so we went into the airport lounge to relax. At 11:00 we were called to the gate and started boarding and took off on time. We had decided this trip to upgrade to the Premium cabin which we were glad we had done. We got extra leg room, a dedicated cabin so there was a seperate cabin crew for our section, meals served on propper plates and lots of drinks available (including a glass sparkling wine before we had taken off and Baileys after our main meal). We had a great flight, just some turbulance over Canada but soon we were flying over California.
Because of good weather we landed early at 2:15pm California time (10:15pm UK time) so our flight was 10 1/2 hours instead of 11. We got through immigration and security quickly and our bags were 1st off the plane so by 2:50pm we were in our town car on the way to Disneyland!!
By 3:50pm we were here. The security guard greeted us with a 'Welcome home!'
And soon we were passing through the front doors.
We checked in and as we did so the front desk CM said she had something out back for us. She returned with 1st visit pins, anniversary pins, an anniversary card and some balloons for us! Soon we were on our way to our room. I had ordered some baskets to be in our room on arrival which were lovely.
As we had been up for 19 hours at this point we decided to have a bit of a relax as we unpacked our stuff. So we decided to enjoy a glass of wine and the chocolate covered strawberries out on our balcony. Our balcony had a great view
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We could see Grizzly Peak:
The drop on the Grizzly River Run:
And the Tower of Terror:
Plus we could see the monorail going past.
At 5:30pm after we had relaxed and changed clothes we decided to head into the park. We went into California Adventure through the hotel entrance and went straight to Toy Story Midway Mania. Thanks to the tips from fellow dissers we knew this would be a good time to go, we only waited 20 minutes. Then we decided to take it easy and have a wonder around to take in the atmosphere and take some photos.
We also did a little (OK, I did a lot) of pin shopping and then decided to go on Monsters Inc.
By now it was nearly 8pm so we went to check in for our seating for the electrical parade. We were given a box of goodies and a glass of wine to enjoy. For us the seating was a great way to start our trip. Soon the parade started:
After the parade we decided to take a few more pictures:
I loved the reflection of the sun wheel in the water!
Then as we had been up for over 25 hours we decided to head back to the room to bed, taking a few pictures from the balcony before I went to sleep.
Me, Karen - 32 (going on 8 as I spend my day teaching 8 year olds!)
DH, Pete - 33 (he puts up with my Disney obsession but loves our Disney trips!)
The reason for the trip:
To celebrate our 10th wedding anniversary. We went to Disneyland Paris on our honeymoon, celebrated our 5th in WDW so figured DL for our 10th!
Monday 11th August 2008
The day had finally arrived, today we are off to Disneyland!! We got up at 4:45am and my parents drove us to London Heathrow airport. We got there by 8am and dropped the bags off quickly, we had done on line check in and printed our boarding passes the night before. We had a quick breakfast with my parents before we said our good bye and went through security. Our flight wasn't until 11:30 and we had a few hours to pass so we went into the airport lounge to relax. At 11:00 we were called to the gate and started boarding and took off on time. We had decided this trip to upgrade to the Premium cabin which we were glad we had done. We got extra leg room, a dedicated cabin so there was a seperate cabin crew for our section, meals served on propper plates and lots of drinks available (including a glass sparkling wine before we had taken off and Baileys after our main meal). We had a great flight, just some turbulance over Canada but soon we were flying over California.

Because of good weather we landed early at 2:15pm California time (10:15pm UK time) so our flight was 10 1/2 hours instead of 11. We got through immigration and security quickly and our bags were 1st off the plane so by 2:50pm we were in our town car on the way to Disneyland!!
By 3:50pm we were here. The security guard greeted us with a 'Welcome home!'

And soon we were passing through the front doors.

We checked in and as we did so the front desk CM said she had something out back for us. She returned with 1st visit pins, anniversary pins, an anniversary card and some balloons for us! Soon we were on our way to our room. I had ordered some baskets to be in our room on arrival which were lovely.



As we had been up for 19 hours at this point we decided to have a bit of a relax as we unpacked our stuff. So we decided to enjoy a glass of wine and the chocolate covered strawberries out on our balcony. Our balcony had a great view

We could see Grizzly Peak:

The drop on the Grizzly River Run:

And the Tower of Terror:

Plus we could see the monorail going past.

At 5:30pm after we had relaxed and changed clothes we decided to head into the park. We went into California Adventure through the hotel entrance and went straight to Toy Story Midway Mania. Thanks to the tips from fellow dissers we knew this would be a good time to go, we only waited 20 minutes. Then we decided to take it easy and have a wonder around to take in the atmosphere and take some photos.


We also did a little (OK, I did a lot) of pin shopping and then decided to go on Monsters Inc.
By now it was nearly 8pm so we went to check in for our seating for the electrical parade. We were given a box of goodies and a glass of wine to enjoy. For us the seating was a great way to start our trip. Soon the parade started:





After the parade we decided to take a few more pictures:



I loved the reflection of the sun wheel in the water!


Then as we had been up for over 25 hours we decided to head back to the room to bed, taking a few pictures from the balcony before I went to sleep.

