Oh, Turkey leg you done wrong by me! A Complete Trip Report w/ Pictures!

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This trip is quite last minute because originally we didn't have anything planned for our Spring break. I told my mami I really wanted her to go to Disneyland with me and she thought it would be good idea because my little sister told my her "Mami, during spring break you are not going to do any chores!". Well, that's that I guess
Because funds are limited, I paid for my sister's ticket but not for me because I finally smartened up and bought an annual pass. Since they are offering the 2fer offer we are so taking advantage of it! We're going to Disneyland! As for the DCA portion, well I won't say because I might get bashed, but they might exchange hands.

Cast & Itinerary
On the Road Again
Trouble on Main St., Adventureland and some Zzzz's
Thrills, Chills, and Pizza!
Fantastic Time in Fantasyland
Postcards and The Year of a Million Pictures
Sneaky Fast Pass Users & Anais' Top Picks
Last Minute Shopping, Turkey Leg Strikes Back, & Saying 'Goodbye'

 

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Before I continue, I really should let you know who is joining this little spring romp.

Introducing the Cast​

DM, aka Mami. SAHM who is going back to school to become a nurse. She likes the classic Disney characters but favors the villains, her favorite being Maleficent. Has to eat a "real" meal, one where you get served

Cristabel, me. I lovelovelove Disney and I can't seem to get enough of it! I bought my first annual pass this year and I've already planned at least five visits! I am an obsessive planner and need to know the game plan BEFORE we get to the park. None of this "winging it"

DSis, Anais. She is the self-proclaimed Opera singer. I am woken up SUPER early by her opera singing. She sings in the shower, getting dressed, eating breakfast etc! She is so loving to us and quite different from me and my older sister in the fact that she is very sensitive. She likes Disneyland but doesn't seem to get as excited as I do

Itinerary​

Monday, April 7th
Disneyland
Park Hours: 9am - 11pm

6:00am - Departure
8:00am - Mickey & Friends Parking Structure
8:20am - Front Gates
8:35am - Go to City Hall and upgrade my AP, grab birthday pin for my aunt, maps & postcards (I'm an honorary Fairy godmailer)

10pm or 11pm - Leave the Park
*maybe drive to my uncle's house and sleepover


More specific Itinerary (like food!) coming soon!

 

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Okay, no more funny business (we'll save that for the trip), now let's get down to the serious stuff:

FOOD ​

Breakfast - ??? Mainstreet

Lunch - Pizzaport

Dinner - Riverbelle Terrace or The Blue Bayou

 

[tksbaskets]

Looking forward to your trippie You are off to a great start.

 

[toocherie]

6:00am - Departure
8:00am - Mickey & Friends Parking Structure
8:20am - Front Gates
8:35am - Go to City Hall and upgrade my AP, grab birthday pin for my aunt, maps & postcards (I'm an honorary Fairy godmailer)

10pm or 11pm - Leave the Park
*maybe drive to my uncle's house and sleepover


More specific Itinerary (like food!) coming soon!

Christabel: just a tip--you would upgrade your AP at the Bank across the street from City Hall I believe . . . . .

 

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Christabel: just a tip--you would upgrade your AP at the Bank across the street from City Hall I believe . . . . .

Oh yeah, I don't know why I wrote city hall. I guess it just sounds like the place to do it, huh?

Thanks!

 

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Forecast​

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Looks like a chilly day tomorrow but because the sun is strong, I think we'll be doing layers. I know after running around we get a bit warm.

I'm just not sure about my AP. Should I upgrade to the So. California Annual Pass (215 days) or the Deluxe? The difference is $90 (both would include parking).
Any ideas?

 

[toocherie]

Forecast​

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Looks like a chilly day tomorrow but because the sun is strong, I think we'll be doing layers. I know after running around we get a bit warm.

I'm just not sure about my AP. Should I upgrade to the So. California Annual Pass (215 days) or the Deluxe? The difference is $90 (both would include parking).
Any ideas?

Only you can make the determination of how much you would use it and how much flexibility you have . . . . . you can always upgrade to the Deluxe later, can't you? (I would ask at the Bank). Definitely get parking--I bought a Premium Annual Pass because I live so close and wanted the flexibility of going on Saturdays . . . . and the cost I would have paid to date in daily parking almost makes up for the upgrade for me to Premium~

 

[toocherie]

oh, and HAVE FUN~!~~~~~

It was really cold when we were there last week . . . we also did the layers . . . . but I never took mine off (but I'm always cold anyway)!!

 

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Hi everyone (or the one or two people reading my TR) I've been back from Disneyland for about one hour. I'm not exhausted so I think I'll start my TR tonight.

 

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Nothing went as I had planned.

I originally told my mom we would be leaving at 6am so we could be at the front gates by 8:15am. She asked "do we really have to leave at 6am?". I replied "Oh no, we could get there anytime really.....COME ON, OF COURSE WE DO!". What was she thinking? I don't know how my mother became disenchanted with Disneyland. It must have been a trip without me that caused it.

BLOOOOOOP. BLOOOOOP. My alarm goes off at 6am and I snooze it.
Yes, I snoozed the alarm clock that is in charge of waking me up to go to Disneyland. I didn't get much sleep so I was pooped. I fall back asleep.

I wake up. What time is it?! I check my phone and it's dun dun dun! 6:55am! What happened? So I jump out of bed, run to the dryer and grab my pants, go back upstairs and continue getting ready. I'm done by 7:30am. My mother on the other hand is still going through urban renewal or something, upstairs.

She's finally ready to leave and we are down our street at the light by 8:23! How did my plans go so horribly awry?!

After 20 minutes on the 5 freeway of this


we see this


Even with traffic we make it to the Disneyland freeway exit by 9:29am. Not a bad time considering we suffered the most of LA traffic.

As we take the Disney Parks express way we run into this



and this



Apparently we weren't the only ones who thought Disneyland wouldn't be crowded this Monday.

After cutting line and disobeying those nice people in striped pants, we go to a yet to be opened parking lane and get a spot closer to the tram walkway. I know, we're horrible people Right now my mom and I are freezing, while Anais is as snug as a bug in a rug. We make it down to the tram along with everyone else and their mother!

We make it to DTD and through security like it's nothing. We enter the parks with our Disney Store plastic card tickets without a hitch. First we Oooo and Ahhhh at the Tinkerbell and sparkling Mickey head in the plants. After five seconds, we head over to Disneyland bank to get my OFFICIAL Disneyland Annual Pass. After seeing all my future planned trips to Disneyland weren't blocked, I upgraded to the Southern California Annual Pass with parking for only $88 because they credited the $11 we spent for parking toward my pass. And once again, I wasn't the only one who wanted to go to Disneyland every day of their life.




Oh and that bleach blonde girl in front was wearing WAY too much foundation that was the wrong color for her skin and there was a teenage couple who kissed like 46435168763521 times in 2 minutes. I guess I tend to complain and nitpick while waiting in long lines...we'll see how this day goes Hopefully I don't punched out half way through Adventureland!

I'm not lying, that camera adds about 10 pounds to your face! Ugh, I looked like I had my wisdom teeth removed right before taking the picture. Scary!

As I exit Disneyland bank, I call my mom and discover that she and Anais are at the Fire Station. I spotted Cruella De Vil by right hand entrance of Disneyland, right by City Hall and tell her to speed it up OH to take some pictures.

She told us to strike a pose, while Anais did, I just pleasantly smiled. It was really neat because I was wearing my Cruella De Vil shirt today, too!

Alrighty, after a mob of Asian tourists tried cutting in line for a Cruella De Vil Photo Op but failed, we go back to the fire station for Anais. I took this lovely picture of the two on the old fire "engine"


To be continued...

Up next, my longest visit on Main St. BEFORE any rides

 

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After that brief yet classic photo shoot, we headed over to the emporium to buy some postcards for my Fairy godmailees. Yes, you were my number 1 priority! So I buy a variety of postcards and head to the locker area to buy Disney stamps. I buy a package of ten. With the stamps in my hand, we march out of that little alley and go in search of a pen until I realize that my stamps are gone! Yes, Disney decided it would be a really good idea to put stamps in OPEN, plastic sleeves and yes, I decided to keep my stamps in my hand so I wouldn't lose them. I was a bit frustrated because we re-traced our steps and they were missing. Someone picked up my stamps and ran off with them. Sneaky stamp thieves! After that sad mess up, I post-poned buying some more until I had time to sit down and address them.

For breakfast we went to Riverbelle Terrace, which with the renovation has a much more open floor plan yet seemed smaller to me. Anais and my mom had the Steamboat while I had the Mark Twain. OH, the coffee was amazing! Or it could have been that I was in desperate need of caffeine.

Ok, enough dilly dallying Off to the rides!

First up, the Jungle Cruise


Which is a must because it's just classic.

After that adventure, we did pirates where we sat in the front, front. And, consequently got quite wet. Note to self - Wear a jacket while in the front, front of POTC! Coming out of POTC, we browsed several of the New Orleans shops before moseying to the Haunted Mansion, which Anais had supposedly become deathly afraid of. She was whining about not going on and I was not going to have it! She's been on that ride since she was 2 years old and has not had any problems but she hid in my mom's jacket anyway. She says she likes it when Jack Skellington is there "much more better", talk about repeating yourself

Winnie the Pooh was not a long wait either



After grabbing some refreshing fruit, we happened upon a mini Mardi Gras celebration. I was watching the band and singer perform and finally thought to myself, Hey I should get a picture of this! I always forget to do it.


On our way to the "train of terror" (thanks Anais), aka Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, we stopped in to see if we could catch the next show at the Golden Horseshoe. My mom was still under the impression that they had the cowboy and saloon type show that we saw previously (like 5 years ago!). Now it is the home of Billy Hill and the Hillbillies. Well we arrived at 2:10 and the show didn't start until 2:35pm. We went upstairs to rest and wait, where we found some semi-comfortable sofas.


After ten minutes


Anais and my mom actually fell asleep at Disneyland. What a story!

That's all for now, I'll finish up tomorrow!

 

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After that nice little nap the show started. Since all the tables were taken we just stood around them and watched Billy Hill and the Hillbillies.


We didn't stay the whole time because my mom thought it was "alright". From the Golden Horseshoe we went to the BTMRR. Here Anais and I are holding up the line to take a picture (aren't we great!)


Here's Anais getting in and we were lucky enough to get the front, front again!


After our thrilling ride on BTMRR, we were HUNGRY! We had already unanimously decided to eat at Pizza Port for lunch. So we trekked from Frontierland across the hub to Tomorrowland. But not before we took pictures with the partners statue.



The funny part was that my mom took this picture of us while I was asking if Anais was blocking Mickey, she didn't tell me when she would be taking the picture.

We're enjoying a couple of laughs while finishing up at the Pizza Port atrium

 

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After our delectable cuisine of pizza and salad, we decided it was high time to go to Fantasyland. Of course we had to stop and take pictures at the hat stand.

If you can't see it, my sister is making the perfect goofy face. She has two big front teeth, which I so lovingly call "chiclets", so she is sticking them out like Goofy.

Our first was Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, where I was seriously annoyed with a mother in line. Her daughter was throwing a fit and screaming like a banshee and she did nothing to stop it. She held her but didn't discipline her at all. People who let their kids get away with disrespect and tantrums really tick me off! It may seem severe to some people but a little smack in the butt goes a long way. I was spanked and no, it was not child abuse but it did get me to listen and obey my parents. You can't reason with a 3 or 4 year old by saying "Could you please stop that". Come on! They're not going to be "oh sorry mother, so terribly sorry for my horrendous behavior"
A picture with the man with motormania, himself


After my sister got a little scared going through the "Hell" part, we went on Pinocchio and Snow White's Scary Adventures. We planned on going on Peter Pan but of course the line was 132146876135 people long. So we decided it wasn't worth the wait for a 2 minute ride.

Because we just ate, we didn't go on the teacups just yet. We did get in line for Alice in Wonderland. I like that ride and the last couple times I have been it has been closed.The line for Alice in Wonderland is always REALLY long but we decided it was worth the wait.
Here's Anais checking up on the White Rabbit, making sure he's on time!


After those main rides we wanted some coffee and sweets, so took the train over to Main St.

 

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Once we arrived on Main Street, I got my only decent shot of the Castle, even though there are tons of heads in the way.


For our dessert needs we went to the Blue Ribbon Bakery where I ordered the cinnamon roll and a double caffe Mocha. It was already close to the time of the second parade so we crossed Main St. and sat a the tables by the locker room. I finished first so I went and bought more Disney stamps. As I was about to start addressing the postcards the parade started, which totally threw off my concentration. I decided "forget it, I'm getting pictures of the parade!". I never get to see the parades because we always focus on rides. So I packed up my postcards and stamps and I got some really good shots of the parade.
Here are just a few of my favorites:

Okay, Okay that's pretty much all of them
As I was addressing the postcards I realized I would need MORE stamps for the folks in Canada. So went back and bought the Canadian postage.


MORE TO COME.

 

[toocherie]

Your parade photos are great! What kind of camera do you use?

 

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Your parade photos are great! What kind of camera do you use?

It's a Panasonic video camera. The model is ...Panasonic Sorry I don't know the model but I'll find out for you

 

[mommaU4]

I love all the pics!!

 

[DearDaisyinDurham]

I had so much fun reading this! And your title was awesome, Oh Turkey Leg.....thanks for sharing your trip!!

xoxoxoxoxo

 

[LoveThatMouse!]

Oh THANK YOU Fairy Godmailer!!!!
We can't WAIT to get our postcard!!!!! Our little guy is not gonna believe it!!!!

Your trippie is hilarious! and I LOVE the pictures!

Thanks again!!!
You're the BEST!!!!