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[RiverLou]

Talk about a long and busy weekend! I am so behind with everything and now getting sick. Boo! I'll get my next round of updates in today for sure!

It's aliiive!

 

[Belle Ella]

It's aliiive!

Hey, I could say the same about you. So ya'll are officially going?

 

[RiverLou]

Hey, I could say the same about you. So ya'll are officially going?

Yup, June 5th-10th. I'm excited!

 

[Belle Ella]

Nice. What I wouldn't give for my parents to want to go. Ever. Would save my butt a lot of money.

 

[Belle Ella]

Pixies at play
Day 3​

Never before have I really been able to go to DLR and wake up and think to myself "I'm actually here for day #3"! It's not 100% true, but since I've started coming on my own, my days were very limited to less than 2 full days, really. Talk about a big deal for me. So this is day #3, and I really spent the whole day thinking it was unbelievable that I got a whole day, and it wasn't even our last day.

So Sunday morning when we woke up, it was pretty obvious that it wasn't going to be as nice of a day as Friday and Saturday had been. I'm a sunny/hot weather person so I wasn't really looking forward to a day of dreary-ness, but hey, we were still at Disneyland. So it was all good.

I know not everyone is a do DCA in one day typpe, and not everyone is a true park hopper doing both parks in one day. We chose to save DCA for one day, which ended up being Sunday. I don't know about Frick, but with all the walking added up I don't really think that walking back and forth between DL and DCA all day would have been a good idea for me, and then to have to walk back to the hotel. Besides we kept pretty busy at just the one park so far already, it hadn't really been an option. But to maximize our time we still hit DL first for a couple of hours to go on some rides in the early morning and to gather up the fastpasses.

I'm thinking someone made another pit stop by the ATM machine, while I stopped in line to get my picture taken with Minnie Mouse. Since we had been looking for a particular pair of mouse ears all weekend long but hadn't actually bought them yet, we side stepped into the Mad Hatter on Main Street to pick ourselves up a couple!

I love these!!

We also ended up stopping by Pixie Hollow while we were walking around, since it was just before 9:00 a.m. and there was such a short line. We probably would have never done it if we had to wait any longer than we did. I think I prefer having that area as the Ariel meet and greet since I'm not really a Pixie-person, but ho-hum. It was fun nonetheless. We had to spot al of the Pixies they had in the line-area. Some cute little decorations, that's for sure. We saw Tinker Bell and Iradessa.

We made our way back to Fanasyland at that point so we could do a couple of rides that we had missed on Saturday morning - like Alice in Wonderland! On the way we took another pit stop by the restrooms over there, and posed for a couple of pictures with a certain rabbit.

Being late is not my forte

Next up, DCA, here we come!

 

[DizNee Luver]

LOVE the ears...... have a sexy, sassy quality about them!!!
Great pics!!!

 

[RiverLou]

LOVE the ears...... have a sexy, sassy quality about them!!!
Great pics!!!

Don't they just? I have mine hanging on the wall in my bedroom.

 

[Teki]

woo hoo I finally caught up! tee hee great pics cant wait to read the rest (homework alowing)

 

[RiverLou]

I swear I look like wax here. Someone plop me somewhere in Madame Tussaud's!

 

[Belle Ella]

I swear I look like wax here. Someone plop me somewhere in Madame Tussaud's!

If you's say so!! But remember ... you'll be stuck there and wont be able to make it to Disneyland again.

So I have tried to take a couple days off from editing pictures because my wrists are killing me, killing me!! I am kind of being bad and doing a batch process to the Aladdin show photos because I am terrified of going through individually to edit them, so I'm just changing the file type so I can upload them and nothing more, which means I'll have a whole lot to update on the next ocuple of days.

OOH! Sharks first game of the playoffs is tonight!! Down with the Ducks, I say!!!

 

[RiverLou]

If you's say so!! But remember ... you'll be stuck there and wont be able to make it to Disneyland again.

So I have tried to take a couple days off from editing pictures because my wrists are killing me, killing me!! I am kind of being bad and doing a batch process to the Aladdin show photos because I am terrified of going through individually to edit them, so I'm just changing the file type so I can upload them and nothing more, which means I'll have a whole lot to update on the next ocuple of days.

OOH! Sharks first game of the playoffs is tonight!! Down with the Ducks, I say!!!

Heck yes! Puck the Ducks! (Heh, I can say that here right? Riiight)

 

[Belle Ella]

California, here we come
Day 3 cont.​

I'm not going to lie, I haven't ever been that impressed with DCA. Or at the very least I have never really had any urge to really go spend any time there. It probably has something to do with the fact that the last time I made my way down to DLR I was barely there for 2 days and there was just no way that I had the time with everything that I had going on. After the time spent there on Sunday, I think I'll try and make a little more time for DCA for my trip in September.

It was just about 10:00 a.m. when we started to make our way over, and it didn't take long before we were in, had our park maps and were deciding where to start first. The only thing we knew for sure that we were going to do was see the Aladdin musical at Hyperion Theater for the first showing sometime after noon. I had been looking forward to seeing this for a while, and it would be my first time. It looked like fun. But we obviously had a couple of hours to kill. First up (after our first DCA PhotoPass opportunity inf ront of a very familiar sight for the both of us, the Golden Gate Bridge) was a couple of character meet and greets at Sunshine Plaza with Minnie Mouse and Stitch.

Afterwards we decided to make our way over to the Hollywood Pictures Backlot area because Frick wanted to show me a couple of things that she knew I would love in the Animation Studio and you had better believe she was right!! But we got derailed first by a couple of superheroes and a big furry blue thing (according to my little sister who surprisingly hasn't seen Monsters Inc.).

The Animation Studio was by far a great way to start off the morning. I can't say that it was my favorite part of DCA because of the whole Aladdin Musical, but it ranked high up there. I had no idea what fun we would have inside, and I totally forgot that's where Turtle Talk with Crush was located. So we go in and first hit up (I forget what it's called and will fill in this blank when someone reminds me), but none of the displays were lit up yet except for the Woody & Jesse (someone please help me remember what it's called again) thing so we figured we could come back and we made our way over to the Scorcerer's Workshop where she was being so mysterious about how much I was just going to love what I was about to walk into. It may not be based on my favorite Disney Princess story, but it would come in a close second. Of course, I had no idea what she was talking about. Walking into the Beast's Library was like waking up on Christmas morning for me, I was that excited. And of course, we had to find out what character I am!

the right tale, the wrong character

Next up was Ursula's Grotto which was just as much fun! You actually get to put your voice into scenese from Disney movies! We didn't dare try to sing anything but we did act out two scenes. First we did the one with Belle and the Beast and that was a total flop! The dialogue just moved too fast for us too get it right so we did one with Jafar and Iago instead, and well ... it wasn't much better only this time we caught it on video camera! Watch and listen if you dare ... http://www.flickr.com/photos/14076660@N02/3403915779/in/set-72157616134007991/

The part of Iago was played by Frick
The part of Jafar was played by Frack

Next up was Turtle Talk with Crush, which is a definite MUST for anyone, kids or adults. It was just so funny and I don't even have words for it. I knew going into it that it was an interactive thing (hence the title) but I really had no idea. I loved how Crush would ask for someone's name and then say something like Righteous Rob or something like that. It reminded me of a name game we played in my speech class once and how I got my nickname, Jazz. I think the hide & seek was my favorite part. Duuuuuuuuude. I don't ever want to know the details of how it's all done, because that was just ... totally awesome!

 

[kaoden39]

You know the first few times I visited DCA I was kind of underwhelmed by it. But on our last trip in March 2007, I really enjoyed myself. I still don't think that I would want to spend more than a day there but we were actually able to keep happily busy for the whole day.

 

[Belle Ella]

A musical spectacular, SPECTACULAR
Day 3 cont.​

By the time we headed out of the Animation Studio I needed a little pick me up so we went off to find an open Churro cart because I wanted one like I can't tell you! Another success because it was perfectly 'fresh' in all of it's warm and cinnamon sugar goodness. And after that we decided to head back over towards the Hyperion Theater and wait there for them to start letting us in. I had been doing a lot of looking into where exactly we should sit, and our big concern was where we could get the pictures that we wanted. We decided on the Mezzanine section and we got the seats we wanted, directly center stage and right on the balcony! I was a happy camper and I spent the time waiting for the show to start to get my camera on the settings that I wanted. I will not touch auto unless I have no other choice because auto usually goes with the super long shutter speed which is definitely now what I wanted!

Oh, and here's a pretty funny story as far as we're concerned. While standing outside before they lead us up the crazy staircases to the upper sections (I feel bad for anyone sitting in Balcony because that is a hike) we were studying the DCA map and we came across a pretty funny sight. Nobody I have ever met knows where the heck our dinky little (and it's not even that small) of a town is. We're an Amtrak station/antique shop town. It's ridiculous and boring. Anyways, right smack dab on that map was one of the Disneyland name tags that said non other than Danielle, Martinez, CA. I had to do a big old double take. Talk about freaky.

And some other photos that I took while we were waiting for what felt like a ridiculously long time.

It was a good thing that when they finally let us up the stairs that they actually have CM's walk you up - or at least walk in front of you so there isn't some kind of stampede. Much more orderly than anything I have waited at recently (I keep thinking back to the Twilight Tour when it hit San Francisco if anyone heard about that madness). But oh my goodness! It was so windy. I had to take off my mouse ears and even in my hands I was sure they were going to fly away and never be seen again and I would have to cry for hours on end. It was also right about then we got those first doubts and tinges of fear and regret for not bringing my tripod with me the night before. Oh no! What if the fireworks were canceled tonight because of the wind? It wasn't half this windy the last time I was there and the fireworks were pretty much canceled that whole week. It was a stressful little dark cloud on at least my mind for that whole entire day. Talk about crying for hours on end.

We got a little separated on that stair-hike and I did end up saving a seat, even if we were told not to. It's not like anyone came over and wanted to sit there anyways, so it was all good. Then we had a good 10 minutes or so to get everything in order the way we saw fit and I took in the total awesomeness that is the Hyperion Theater.

Now, I will try and share a whole bunch of my photos from the show, but I am warning you. I took just shy of 400 photos during that 40 minutes. Needless to say, there are way too many to post in this thread alone, but I did get some great ones (I think). I did get lazy with the editing and didn't do any, so ... yeah. They will be coming soon.

This was just what it says in the title, SPECTACULAR. I loved every second of it, and I had had the time I would have gone back to see it again, and again, and again. It was fun, funny, and fantastic and the Geenie was just awesome. I loved all the funny references to things that we all hear about.

 

[Belle Ella]

Aladdin: A Musical Spectacular
Part I

 

[Belle Ella]

Aladdin: A Musical Spectacular
Part II

 

[Belle Ella]

Aladdin: A Musical Spectacular
Part III

 

[Belle Ella]

Aladdin: A Musical Spectacular
Part IV

 

[Belle Ella]

Aladdin: A Musical Spectacular
Pat V

 

[kaoden39]

I have never seen Alladin. I need to take the time and watch it sometime.