Frick & Frack's Flight
Day 1 cont.
Eek! Where did I leave off? Duh, girl! We were just leaving. Now how to do the actrual drive there justice. Give me a minute to think this one through.
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Actually, that sums it up pretty much. Anyone who has ever driven along I-5 knows it's not the most entertaining of experiences in the world. If you ask me, driving at night is even worse - especially when your passenger is passed out and fast asleep meaning you can't blast your music from the stereo to keep yourself awake. I think boring is an understatement, and that's with a capital B!!
Oh yeah, so once we hit L.A. and we actually have some sunlight, we break out the Flip video camcorder thing-a-ma-jig that I borrowed from my dad and decided to entertain ourselves by being the dorks that we are. We'd made a nice long (and I mean long) playlist on my iPod for our drive that had all of our favorite Disney songs and pretty much the entire track list from those Musical History of
Disneyland discs, even if we had to skip some because they were just putting a tired me to sleep - not very conducive for driving! At least one honorable mention has to go "I'll Make a Man Out of You" from Mulan, which I will refer to as the Man Song until the day I die.
Frick will demonstrate our usual silliness if you want to check out this video
here. We also had to throw a few of our favorites from outseide the world of Disney into the mix which included a lot of what my mother would call noise - with a look of disgust on her face in the process - and then Cobra Starship, Family Force 5, and a whole bunch of random other sings from over the years (anyone remember MTV's 2gether movies?? We had some songs from the soundtrack on there as well). Now, since I posted that video of Frick, I guess it's only fair to make a complete fool out of myself and post this video of us being dorks while listening to Cobra Starship's spoof on Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl", properly titled "I Kissed a Boy".
Here you go. Shoot me now, please. Oh well, we were having fun, and that's what matters here. And just a warning, you may go deaf by the horrible singing.
I don't know if I want to say how good of time we made on the drive.
Frick's car is very deceiving and half of the time I was driving a whole heck of a lot faster that I thought I was! Add in very little traffic, and we were parking at the hotel before 7:30 a.m. and I had been expecting at least another 20 minutes on the road. Heck, we were there before the park was even open! Talk about making this little lady very, very, very happy!
Alright, I totally forgot to take pictures of the hotel which I am now kicking myself for. I was just so eager to get to the park that I told myself I would come back and do it another day because at this point all we could do was check out luggage for them to hold so we could go straight to the park until we could get into our room. I always take pictures of everything - the hotel sign, the lobby, the envelope they give you your room key-cards in, every inch of the room itself - and this time I got nothing. I just kept getting too distracted by everything. As soon as we finished check our bags and doing the paperwork for check in wanted to make a mad dash over to the park! The walk was sorter than I had mentally prepared myself for, although a certain somebody kept trying to face plant and give the cement a big old kiss - and for once it wasn't me! I thought I was supposed to be the klutz in this duo, but it looks like
Frick took the bad walking karma off my shoulders for the weekend.
It was so exciting to see all of the banners lining the street and the big Disneyland Resort sign with the celebration balloons at the Harbor Blvd. entrance. And of course, as it would turn out there's another photo op. I'm still kicking myself for missing! I will never tell myself
"Oh, I'll get pictures of it later" ever again after this trip. Sometimes you have to learn your lesson the hard way. But in my defense I
really wanted to get inside the park!
By the way, I swear I have pictures coming. In the end (if I post even half of what I took) you may get sick of them at some point! Then again, if you do, we may have to kick you off the boards!
Habit is what it is.
