Club 33 (No, Not that Club 33)-A Trip Report -1/21 Bonus! (Club 34)

[Eight]

Another update so soon? Well, soon by my standards.

Let's just say I have a bit of a reason to finish this trip report. And that's all I feel comfortable saying for now since nothing is booked yet. Oooh...

I'm sure you were all on the edge of your seats trying to figure out what I saw that was so important in New Orleans Square.

It was Tiana!

I've never been a big fan of the princesses, but I loved the Princess and the Frog. And I LOVED Tiana's Showboat Jubilee. I know it's long gone, but I still have a bit of an obsession with that show. For those of you who aren't sure what Tiana's Showboat Jubilee was, it was a show they did on the Mark Twain with Tiana, Naveen, Louis, and Dr. Facillier, along with backup singers and dancers, singing songs from the movie. It was fantastic! And I wish they still had it. A lot. Since I'll probably never have a chance to share these pictures with you for any other reason, I'm going to put them in right here.

Tiana's Showboat Jubilee picture spam!!

Sorry about that. I just loved that show so much.

Let's move along, because I could spend all day reminiscing about this show. So here are some pictures from September of places you could have seen Tiana's Showboat Jubilee.

Okay, moving along for real this time.

Since we were in New Orleans Square, the only logical thing to do next was to go on Pirates, of course! There was no line, and we immediately boarded our boat.

I tried to take pictures, and failed miserably.

This is actually the best picture I've taken of Jack, but as you can see, that's not saying much.

Next I had to stop in my favorite spot in all of Disneyland, Court Des Anges.

As we walked in, we saw the Bootstrappers coming down the stairs. One of them motioned for me to come over.

And then he proceeded to strangle me.

(it was very difficult to make a scared face, as I was trying so hard not to laugh)
(this is quite possibly one of my favorite pictures taken of me at Disneyland)

I think you'll understand why I had to take this next photo?

Continued next post...

 

[Eight]

After all the photo opps, we were walking over to Big Thunder, when we saw that the Bootstrappers were performing. I had never watched them before, so we took the time to watch their performance. It was well worth it, very funny and enjoyable. The only bad part were the groupies. There were several middle aged women who obviously were big fans and must watch them quite frequently as they knew all the words to songs. And were singing along to all the songs. I don't mind people mouthing the words or cheering a lot as they were, but the fact that they were actually singing along was pretty distracting.

It was a bit embarrassing, at one point they were naming their favorite drinks, and then one of them came up to me and asked my favorite drink. I stared at him like a deer in headlights, my mind went blank, and there was a long pause.

Until I said (rather loudly), "alcohol!"

Smooth, Rachel. Real smooth. I don't even know what I was thinking.

Anyway.

Our next adventure would take us on the wildest ride in the wilderness! I hate to say this, but Big Thunder Mountain is not quite as exciting as it was when I was a little kid. At this point, it's not a must ride for me, but my mom loves it, so I'll go on it for her. As long as the line is short. But as I'm sure you can guess, it was!

Next up was a visit to Fantasyland. Normally I skip this because you know, lots of little kids, but since the crowds were so light, we decided to stop.

But first! A photo opp. Bet you didn't see that coming.

Unfortunately, I was unable to pull it out.

Our first ride, and only ride, in Fantasyland was the carousel.

This was my very pretty horse.

I don't know, maybe there were long lines in Fantasyland, since according to my notes, we then we straight to Tomorrowland.

Ooh, random filler images.

Continued next post...

 

[Eight]

Of course, we had to get fast passes for Space Mountain, and then....

Yeah, go to the last page on the first post, now go back to this picture..
I just had to.

I'll just repeat what I said on the first page about Captain EO, since I felt the same way the second time around.

(for the record, I thought it was amazing. It was so ridiculous, ALIENS! MICHEAL JACKSON! SINGING! DANCING! RANDOM SEAT BOUNCING! How could I not love it?)

Seriously, how could I not love it?

I'm not sure if we then used our fast passes for Space Mountain, or just waited in the stand-by line, but either way, we rode it. And it was awesome, because Space Mountain is always awesome. Except for the last time we would ride it on this trip. But I'll get to that later.

Empty Space Mountain queue!

I look real cool. (oh and yeah, I guess you can see my mom in that photo. I still haven't talked to her, but I figured this was so small and blurry..)

I have something to confess now. I think I committed a Disney sin. You see, we decided to take the Monorail to Downtown Disney, and okay, I admit it. I kind of, sort of, not really, maybe cut in front of the family walking in front of us in the queue. They were walking so incredibly slow, the monorail had just pulled in to the station, and dang it, I wanted to get on that monorail! So I politely said, "excuse me" and walked past them. I don't know, is that cutting? They didn't call me out on it, but I did feel pretty bad.

Perhaps it was karma, but we didn't make that monorail.

I think I must have taken these from the monorail station while waiting.

But the next one pulled up shortly, and we were able to ride in the very back car with a family of four. It was pretty cool back there. I had never ridden back there before.

The family of four had a little girl who was probably, I'm really not sure, maybe 6 or 7, and she was really interested in my camera. She told me I should take a picture of my mom's arm, because as she said, "that's cool." I don't even know. So I did, but I will not share that photo as it's a bit of an unflattering photo of my mom's arm. But I was terribly amused by the whole thing.

She then asked if she could take a picture, so I let her, although her mom was terrified that she would drop my camera and break it. Luckily she didn't, and here's the photo that she took.

Thanks, 6 or 7 year old little girl!

Before going back to our room and resting, we made a quick stop at D-Street where they were finally doing trading.

It was deserted. I just viewed this image full size, and I can only spot one person. Can you find him? Hint: He's wearing a white shirt. It's like Where's Waldo.

Then it was back to our room to rest up for our big night of World of Color, or as I would later rename it, World of Anxiety!

 

[Eight]

So, the big news I'd like to announce first is I'll be going to Disney World next January! I'm super excited to say the least. I've started a pre-trip report, which you can find here.

And here's the chapter we've all been waiting for, the World of Color chapter! Okay, maybe we haven't all been waiting for it, but it's kind of important since this was the whole reason this trip was planned. Would it live up to my expectations? There's only one way to find out!

We went back to our room to eat the picnic meals that we had picked up earlier. I don't have any pictures of them, but they were pretty good. My mom had the American with fried chicken, and I had the European and I have no recollection of that had besides cheese and the tiramisu. The only problem was that the fridge in the room was very cold, and nearly froze the fresh mozzarella in mine. I still ate it. I had some of my mom's chicken and I really liked it, and I also loved the tiramisu that came with mine. Overall, I would recommend them, especially if you want to make sure you get a viewing pass. Err.. I would recommend them if they're still doing that. I have no clue, actually. I haven't really been following the latest World of Color news.

Around 6, we went back to California Adventure. Another example of shoddy notetaking, I don't remember what time they allowed you to line up for World of Color, I think it may have been around 7:30? We knew we had some time before that, so guess where we went.

Yes, Off the Page. Again.

We then watched about the first ten minutes of the Glow Fest show.

I have to say, I was not impressed by the ten minutes I saw. It was odd, I didn't really get the point of it. There was a guy in a ball rolling around, and then some dancers..? Maybe if I had stayed longer, it would have gotten better, but I was already getting nervous about getting a good spot for World of Color, so I suggested we go over to Paradise Pier to find out when and where we could wait.

One thing that you should know about me is that I'm the sort of person who's obsessed with getting the best spot for everything. For example, I'll go to unpopular movies that have been out for two weeks 20 - 30 minutes early just to make sure I get a good seat. I've waited 5 hours for Fantasmic! just so I could have a front row view. When I'm waiting for something that doesn't have assigned seating, I tend to feel very anxious until I'm actually in my spot.

Another thing that makes me anxious is not knowing how things will work. A major problem we encountered in asking CMs about World of Color was that they all had conflicting information regarding how queuing for World of Color would work. So I was getting very frustrating trying to figure out what time I should be there and what I should expect.

So between the anxiety about getting a good spot and the anxiety about not knowing how I was even going to get this good spot, well, you can probably guess I was more than a bit stressed and anxious.

When we got to Paradise Pier, we were able to talk to a very nice CM who patiently explained what would happen. This would turn out to be the most accurate information we were given, although at the time it just seemed like more conflicting advice. We decided we'd hang around in the area for a while.

We sat on a bench for a while, until my mom suggested I walk over to Tower of Terror to see if they had any Vinylmation to trade. I figured I had enough time, so I went over there, and if I recall correctly, my mom went back to our room. Why she went back to our room, I have no clue, but I remember her going back for some reason.

We met back up, and waited on the bench some more. This is what my notes have to say about this:

Waited waited waited
ANXIOUS!

Yes, the anxious is in all caps and underlined in my notebook. I was really starting not to like this World of Color.

Finally they started putting up these barricades that we were supposed to line up behind. We were near the front, but it was awful. Being surrounded by people in a crowd also makes me anxious, so yeah, this was really not fun for me. I don't remember how long we waited there, but it seemed liked forever. At one point a CM came over and made us take an oath that when they opened the barricades so we could get to our spots on the pier, we would not push or shove.

A lot of good that did.

I think it must have been around 8 or so when they finally opened the barricades a bit to let people in to the pier. No one remembered that oath we had just taken, and I was nearly knocked over by the woman behind me. The CMs actually had to close the barricades and stop people from coming through. The second time they opened them, we were able to get through with minimal shoving. Ugh. It was terrible.

The good part? We were able to get a pretty decent spot. Not quite the best, as there was a pole off to the right that blocked some, but I was happy with it. We were in blue section, in the very front part of the pier, so we pulled out our ponchos since there was a sign saying we might get wet in this section.

Our view.

I was bored, so I took some pictures while I waited.

Then the pre-show started. The puppets were so cool!

Finally, finally, World of Color started!

I loved it. I'm not entirely sure it was worth all the anxiety it had caused, but I thought it was amazingly well done. From my view point, I did miss some of the images on the water screens, but it wasn't too bad as I didn't really like those anyway. Even on the ones I could see well, I thought some of the scenes were a little unclear, especially when there was a lot going on. I was amazed by how bright the fountains were, and how they did all the lighting. I saw all the promo pics, but I have to admit, I was skeptical that the fountains would really be that bright and colorful in real life. They were though! I probably would have been entertained just watching the jets of water shoot up and do the color changes.

I didn't take any pictures during the show since I didn't want to be distracted by my camera the first time I saw it. I was able to take some after, and I think they turned out okay.

After one ride on Tower of Terror, and getting some delicious beignets, we decided that it was time to get to bed since we had early (by our standards) breakfast at Storyteller's Cafe.

Unfortunately, when we arrived back at our room, we discovered the toilet wasn't working. Thankfully, they sent someone up to fix it pretty fast, but still, not the kind of thing you want to deal with at 11:30 at night when you really just want to go to bed.

And with that, I have finally completed the first day! It only took, what, two months? Just one more to go! Plus some pictures from the last morning, as I didn't take notes on what we did that morning. I think was too depressed to be leaving to take proper notes.

 

[BecomingObsessed]

YAY!! More trip report!! I'm so happy to see you're back and writing about the rest of your adventure

Your WOC tale terrifies me! If someone pushed one of my girls, we'd be having a throwdown which would only lead to more congestion and no one wants that. I've decided to just forego it for our December trip. I know it's going to be wildly busy and I've read some other reviews that it can be a little scary for the littles.

I love all your silly photos I can't wait to see more from day 2! I'm also excited (for you!) to read you're going to WDW! I've always wanted to go! It's part of my five year plan. The girls have to be big enough to at least sorta remember it first I'm going to read your PTR now!

 

[Eight]

YAY!! More trip report!! I'm so happy to see you're back and writing about the rest of your adventure

Your WOC tale terrifies me! If someone pushed one of my girls, we'd be having a throwdown which would only lead to more congestion and no one wants that. I've decided to just forego it for our December trip. I know it's going to be wildly busy and I've read some other reviews that it can be a little scary for the littles.

I love all your silly photos I can't wait to see more from day 2! I'm also excited (for you!) to read you're going to WDW! I've always wanted to go! It's part of my five year plan. The girls have to be big enough to at least sorta remember it first I'm going to read your PTR now!

And I'm happy to have you reading it! I figured if I was going to be taking another trip, I had a responsibility to finish this first.

You're not going to go to World of Color? That's too bad, but I can totally understand why you would skip it. It's a great show, but like I said, I really don't know if it was worth all the stress. I'm not sure I know when in December your trip is, but we're halfway through November so in my mind, you must be getting close! That's exciting!

I think if I ever have kids, I'd wait until they were older to bring them to Disney World too. Partly so they can remember more of it, and partly because I tend to take longer trips to Disney World, and man, it gets tiring! For me, if I'm not completely exhausted by the end of a trip to Disney World, I haven't done it right.

 

[reyasmommy]

Great update, and Night pictures. You do have a pretty nice camera, mine doesn't take the best night pictures, but yours sure does.

You've made me a little nervous about seeing WORLD OF COLOR now. Being in a situation like that with all those people pushing and shoving is scary, especially when you have young kids with you. It's amazing how rude people can become. It's especially disapointing when your at the happiest place on earth.

Looking forward to more.

 

[Eight]

Great update, and Night pictures. You do have a pretty nice camera, mine doesn't take the best night pictures, but yours sure does.

You've made me a little nervous about seeing WORLD OF COLOR now. Being in a situation like that with all those people pushing and shoving is scary, especially when you have young kids with you. It's amazing how rude people can become. It's especially disapointing when your at the happiest place on earth.

Looking forward to more.

I'm sorry about making you nervous. You're going next June, right? Maybe by then they'll have figured out a better system. Or if not, I think knowing to expect that, well, it's hard to say it helps since there's still people pushing and shoving, but I don't know. I didn't read too many posts about World of Color before I went, because I didn't want to be spoiled, but in retrospect, it may have made it less stressful.

 

[BecomingObsessed]

I think by next June, it won't be as crowded because it won't be so new still? I'm hoping not. It must calm down SOME time because I want to see it at some point. Just not during super crazy holiday season!

Miss Eight, I'm not allowed to mention the exact dates that we're going to Disney because my hubby is a worry wart. We are going soon though! I started counting at 115 days out and now I only have three rows of dates left to X out on my countdown calendar I can't wait to surprise my 3 year old. She is going to FREAK OUT and I'm going to love every minute of it. I'm batting around different ideas about how to tell her. Nothing is in the lead yet though.

I agree with reyasmommy about your camera. Your night pictures were pretty! What kind of camera do you have? I have a DSLR that I'm thinking of taking, but it's bulky. I might make my hubby carry it

 

[Eight]

I think by next June, it won't be as crowded because it won't be so new still? I'm hoping not. It must calm down SOME time because I want to see it at some point. Just not during super crazy holiday season!

Miss Eight, I'm not allowed to mention the exact dates that we're going to Disney because my hubby is a worry wart. We are going soon though! I started counting at 115 days out and now I only have three rows of dates left to X out on my countdown calendar I can't wait to surprise my 3 year old. She is going to FREAK OUT and I'm going to love every minute of it. I'm batting around different ideas about how to tell her. Nothing is in the lead yet though.

I agree with reyasmommy about your camera. Your night pictures were pretty! What kind of camera do you have? I have a DSLR that I'm thinking of taking, but it's bulky. I might make my hubby carry it

I suspect it'll still be pretty busy next June, since it's only a year old, but I really hope they'll have figured out a more efficient way of getting people in to viewing area.

Then you are getting close! Disneyland during the holiday season is great. That's so awesome that you're surprising your 3 year old. I bet she'll be very excited!

My mom did something like that when I was four. It was her birthday, and that morning, she told me we were going to go to Disneyland for her birthday. I didn't believe her at all! Of course, once it was clear that we really were going, I was thrilled.

I have a Canon PowerShot G9. I guess I'd say it's a point and shoot camera that is a bit nicer and allows you to do more with settings than your average point and shoot. They don't make G9s anymore though, they now make G11s and G12s.

 

[magichusky]

OMG how very funny! What a terrific surprise!! Those guys are crazy! Maybe the groupies singing along w/ them were their wives or something- if not, then that is exceedingly strange. Haha. I LOVED all of your other pics, too!

I totally agree w/ you about the WOC queueing fiasco. I HATE that entire system they cooked up. I don't know how else you could do it, but they need to make some changes. It's impossible to get a good viewing location for that darn show unless you exert a tremendous amount of energy and spend an equally tremendous amount of time waiting and scheming.

What excitement about WDW in January!!!! I shall head on over to your PTR ASAP. I'm hoping to do a PTR over Thanksgiving break, although I'm already quite close to departure, PTR wise at least banana:)- but better late than never I guess!

 

[Eight]

OMG how very funny! What a terrific surprise!! Those guys are crazy! Maybe the groupies singing along w/ them were their wives or something- if not, then that is exceedingly strange. Haha. I LOVED all of your other pics, too!

I totally agree w/ you about the WOC queueing fiasco. I HATE that entire system they cooked up. I don't know how else you could do it, but they need to make some changes. It's impossible to get a good viewing location for that darn show unless you exert a tremendous amount of energy and spend an equally tremendous amount of time waiting and scheming.

What excitement about WDW in January!!!! I shall head on over to your PTR ASAP. I'm hoping to do a PTR over Thanksgiving break, although I'm already quite close to departure, PTR wise at least banana:)- but better late than never I guess!

I'm glad you like the picture. Somehow I don't think they were their wives though... It was just strange.

That's the problem, it's a horrible system, but how else could they do it? I mean, I guess they could make it like Fantasmic! and you would just have to get a spot as early as possible, but that's not a great system either.

I'm so excited! And yes, you should go check out my PTR and see if you can guess where I'm staying. I realize Thanksgiving break is pretty much over at this point, but do a PTR anyway! I like reading about other people's plans. Are you going to do a TR for this WDW trip? I'm kind of jealous you're going during the holidays, I think it would be fun to see all the decorations.


I should go work on my next update now...

 

[Eight]

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

I really have to finish this TR up! I estimate I have about three more updates after this one. Hopefully I can churn them out.

After the World of Color stress, we decided to sleep in. We originally had plans to go to Storyteller's Cafe for breakfast, but we rescheduled that for the next day.

When we finally got up, our first park was Disneyland. We asked again if Peter Pan would be out, but he was still fighting pirates! What a busy guy.

My mom really wanted to watch the footage of Disneyland's opening that was playing in the Main Street theatre. I was slightly reluctant, why couldn't we go ride Space Mountain or something? But I thoroughly enjoyed it. I love old photos of Disneyland, so I'm not sure why I didn't want to go in at first, but I'm so glad we did. It's amazing how Disneyland has evolved.

The ticket lady kind of freaked me out though...

We watched most of the movie clips, then headed over to Indiana Jones. There was only a ten minute line!

After narrowly escaping danger, it was time for something a little calmer, like the train. We planned on riding it all the way around, but we got off in Toon Town since it was delayed due to technical difficulties.

Since we were so close to Fantasyland, I had to stop and take a ride on the teacups. I got a yellow one, of course.

Suddenly I realized I was late for a very important date. What this date was and how I realized this without wearing a watch is still unknown.

Or maybe it was my date to meet the Fairy Godmother, Suzy, and Perla? I'd never seen them out before, so I had to get a picture. They had really great interactions with the kids in front of me. It was very cute to watch.

My mom had mentioned she really wanted to see the Aladdin show on this trip, so we looked at the time schedule and saw that there was show starting shortly. So we raced over to California Adventure to get in line.

I have a pouch that you can wear around your neck to carry your passes and fast passes in it that I got at Tokyo Disneyland. I don't have a picture of it, but it has Stitch in front of the Tower of Terror and Shiriku Utundu. The story behind the Tower or Terror is different at Tokyo DisneySea. If you're curious, you can read about that version on Wikipedia. Essentially, Shiriki Utundu is this cursed idol, and the reason your elevator drops. On the back of the pouch, Stitch is being cursed (it looks like he's being electrocuted, for lack of a better word. You can see his bones) by Shiriki Utundu.

I bring this up because this little girl in front of us in line was fascinated by the pouch. She kept staring at it. Finally she asked in a very small voice, "is Stitch scared?" So we started talking to her, and asked her if she had been on the Tower of Terror here. She hadn't as she was too scared. We asked her about her favorite rides and such, and then at some point, my mom showed her the back where Stitch is being cursed. It freaked the little girl out. I was like, "great mom. Now she'll never go on the Tower of Terror because she'll think she's going to get electrocuted like that. Nice going."

We finally got inside, and we were seated in the second to last row in the very front middle section. Great seats. Once again, we encountered people who thought it was totally appropriate to sing and talk throughout the show. Seriously?

See? Great view!

That elephant is my favorite thing.

I love this show. I'm a little sad that the Toy Story show is taking its place, but hopefully that will be just as good.

 

[magichusky]

OMG you had really nice seats for Aladdin! Your pics are like a million times better than mine! I of course waltzed in at the last second and was practically in the last row of the topmost section. That was a different Aladdin from the one I saw (my Aladdin had a T-shirt tan!). And I'm so jealous about your encounter w/ the fairy godmother- I almost never see characters wandering around DL.

 

[Eight]

OMG you had really nice seats for Aladdin! Your pics are like a million times better than mine! I of course waltzed in at the last second and was practically in the last row of the topmost section. That was a different Aladdin from the one I saw (my Aladdin had a T-shirt tan!). And I'm so jealous about your encounter w/ the fairy godmother- I almost never see characters wandering around DL.

Aladdin with a t-shirt tan? I am laughing at that mental image.
We saw a lot of characters wandering around this trip, or at least it seemed like it. Except Peter Pan. We never saw Peter Pan, and of course, that's who I really wanted to see.

 

[Eight]

Here's to hoping you all had a wonderful holiday season, and to a fabulous new year!

It's been a while, I know, I'm bad at this.

Anyway.

After we watched the Aladdin show, it was time for lunch! We walked up to Ariel's Grotto, but as I expected, we would have to wait an incredibly long time to get a table.

So Pizza Oom Mow Mow it was! And I believe that's not there any more, am I right? Too bad. I mean, it's not like the food was the greatest or anything, but the surfing theme was fun.

Then it was off to ride the Silly Symphony Swings for the first time. Err, first time as the Silly Symphony Swings. I rode it when it was the Orange Stinger, although not in many years. Can't say I really miss that big old orange.

We wanted to go on the Maliboomer one last time before it closed, but it was closed when we walked by. Too bad. Can't say I'll really miss that either, though it was fun...

Making our way around Paradise Pier, our next stop was Mickey's Fun Wheel. We took the swinging side, of course.

A look down at the World of Color fountains.

We had two other people in our car. If I remember correctly, they were from Australia. We had a nice time talking with them. The ride seemed so short though! I thought it went around more than once, but I guess I had remembered incorrectly.

Screamin' would have been our next ride, had it not gone down for technical difficulties as soon as we got in line.

Leaving Paradise Pier we saw the Toy Story Army Men.

We followed them for a bit to the Hollywood Backlot where we literally walked on to Monsters Inc. I know I've said we've walked on to other rides, but this was the first time where we were the only people in the queue and the cars in front of us, as well as behind us, were completely empty. It was a little eerie.

When we got out we noticed that Drawn to the Magic was starting soon. I had never seen this show, so we decided to watch. I thought it was pretty cute, but that's gone now too, isn't it?

I really wanted to see Turtle Talk with Crush again, so that was our next stop. I even got to ask Crush a question! I asked if he had any advice for beginning surfers. He gave me some pretty good advice, like only taking a wave you feel comfortable with, and followed with a story about how he met Shelly, his "turtledove" while surfing. Once again, the show was very cute, though it seemed shorter than it had the first time we saw it this trip.

Since we had done everything we wanted to do at California Adventure, we went to Disneyland. We wanted to ride Splash Mountain since it was hot, but everyone else had the same idea because it had the longest line in the park at 35 minutes. I refused to wait that long, so we got some Fast Passes for Space Mountain, took some Photopass pictures, and bought a Muppet blind box Vinylmation. At this point, between trading and buying, I was only missing Sweetums and the Kermit chaser from the Muppets series, so I was really hoping to pull either one of those.

By this point, I was getting very hungry, so we headed to Downtown Disney for lunch. First we stopped at Napoli, but it was too warm in the restaurant and we wanted air conditioning since it was still pretty hot out. Then we stopped at Jazz Express, but decided not to eat there since we have to eat outside. Finally, we walked down to Rainforest Cafe, and it was just right. We were able to sit in the bar without a wait and there was air conditioning.

I opened the Muppet Vinylmation I had bought, and I pulled Sweetums! I was pretty excited since all I need was the Kermit chaser. (Follow up: I stopped buying the Muppet series after that since the odds of pulling a chaser were not in my favor. But for Christmas, my mom bought Kermit online for me. )

Our dinner was pretty good, though the best meal was still Storyteller's Cafe.

Alright, I'm going to leave it here. Take care!

Up next: Wishes AND World of Color in one night? Can it be done?

 

[Eight]

After dinner, we went back to our room to put on long pants since it was cooling down quite quickly.

We had been debating whether or not we wanted to see World of Color again. I wanted to see it again I had no desire to go through the whole ordeal of just getting a spot again. Of course, I didn't even know if we could still get passes for a spot at this point in the evening. So we headed to Paradise Pier to scope things out.

Once again, there more misinformation regarding World of Color and how things were being done. One CM told us that there were no passes left while another told us there were some left, and one gave us a good piece of advice that would come in to play later that night. We figured it was worth it to at least see if there were any passes left, so we went and checked.

There were none left. Oh well. Off to Disneyland then!

It was much, much more crowded that night than it had been the past two days. I don't have any pictures, but it appeared that the luck we had had with crowds was over.

The first ride of the evening was Space Mountain since we had picked up Fast Passes earlier.

If you're wondering what I'm doing in the picture, I was plugging my ears because the two girls behind us screamed the entire time. And not like, "oh, I'm having so much fun on this wild roller coaster" type screaming, this was like "I'm going to make the most obnoxiously high, shrill scream I can because I can" type screaming. It was a more than a little annoying.

I'll let the next picture tell you what happened next.

Yeah, I got an AP! : My mom and I both figured I'd be back at Disneyland within the next year, so why not? I haven't used it yet, but I'm sure I will. Maybe I should try and plan a birthday trip...? Hm...

We staked out a spot at the end of Main Street and watched Magical. I don't have any pictures as I was pretty far back.

There wasn't much left in Disneyland we wanted to do since the lines were all fairly long (or at least long compared to what they had been. We had been so spoiled by the low crowds.), so we debated some more whether or not we should try and see World of Color at 10:15. Finally we decided we should at least go and at least look to see if there were any spots. If there was a spot, great, and if not, well, we had just seen it the night before.

So, I said that one cast member gave a good piece of advice, right? He had told us that we should check up on the bridge near Ariel's Grotto since there was a section where you could view it without a pass. I was expecting that spot to be fully taken, but when we arrived around 10, there were only a few people there.

Looks like we'd be watching World of Color again.

This was our view.

Pretty good, yeah? It was way better than the view we had the previous night. Not to mention we only had to wait 15 minutes for the show.

And I took a ton during the show. Most of them didn't turn out though.

I love all the colors! It's so pretty!

Having seen both Magical and World of Color, it was time to call it a night.

A really good night.

 

[Eight]

Well, it's time to say good bye to this trip report. We have reached the last chapter. And it's probably going to be a pretty boring chapter, since I didn't take any notes on what we did that morning, so it's mostly going to be just pictures.

I'm oddly sad to be ending this. It's been fun reliving the trip through this. But I'm pretty sure this won't be my last trip to Disneyland or my last trip report (shameless plug: look for my WDW trip report coming next February!).

Anyway.

That morning, we got up, packed, and went to breakfast at Storyteller's Cafe. It was pretty, and way more crowded than the breakfast at Paradise Pier had been. It was pretty good, but I think I liked the Surf's Up breakfast better.

Apparently we left through California Adventure, but the only thing we did was stop for some photos.

When we entered Disneyland, there were several characters out in the entrance.

Not entirely sure what Cruella is doing in that picture, but I had to get a picture of her since she's one of my mom's favorite characters.

We didn't ride anything, we just walked around and took pictures.

And... yeah. That's pretty much it. I told you it would be boring. Eventually we had to go back to our hotel room, check out, and drive back to airport. I was kind of sad. It had been such a great trip after all.

THE END

Thanks for reading! I've enjoyed all your comments and company and such, I always get so excited when I see someone has posted.

Oh yeah, there's a possibility I'll be going to Disneyland this coming weekend. I'm going to LA to visit some friends, but I have some free time, and I'm debating whether or not I should go to Disneyland. I'd love to, just not entirely sure how I'd get there since no one wants to come with me. But I'm sure I could find a way to make it work. It might just be my first solo visit or something. We'll see.

Take care and thank you again for reading! :

 

[magichusky]

So sad that this TR is over! I didn't know about that "secret" Ariel's Grotto passless viewing location for WOC- that sounds so much better than doing the whole pass thing and waiting for hours! And dude, you should've PMed me about your potential DL excursion- we could've had a crazy DISmeet! However a 3-day weekend is a very dangerous time to venture into DL!

 

[Eight]

So sad that this TR is over! I didn't know about that "secret" Ariel's Grotto passless viewing location for WOC- that sounds so much better than doing the whole pass thing and waiting for hours! And dude, you should've PMed me about your potential DL excursion- we could've had a crazy DISmeet! However a 3-day weekend is a very dangerous time to venture into DL!

You know, it wasn't as dangerous as I thought it would be. But next time, yes, I'll PM you.