February 26th
The last day of our Big Fat
Disneyland Roadtrip started out as usual. We dressed and had big plans to go to Main Street U.S.A. at the Carnation Café, but the Kids Eat Free feature of the Holiday Inn we stayed at was too tempting for us cheapskates. The parks did not open that day till 10:00 AM so this turned out to be a win win situation.
Today was to be our “Favorites” day. The parks are so close that we really could do all of our favorites. A neat little tid bit to keep in mind is, Soarin’ opens at 9:30! We were very first in line at California Adventure, with time to burn.
My boys doing their Mervyn’s commercial imitation, “Open, Open, Open”!
Here is a clever little Hidden Mickey I found! Just outside the gates of California Adventure. Look closely at the sea-glass in the concrete…
The gates opened, and we high tailed it (Yes, I RAN) to Soarin’ and I waited with Norah while the UtahDudes rode. I told them to go middle front so they wouldn’t have feet in their view. Feet don’t exactly ruin the ride, but still.
My phone rang and I couldn’t see who it was because the screen was just black! No caller ID. I hoped it was someone I wanted to talk to! “Hello???” I answered.
“Hey, Wendy This is Sid” She said something like that anyway. Probably much cooler than that.
WHO is this Sid you may ask? Sid is a DISer who goes by the user name SDY.
Weirdly, I had thought she was a HE at one point and probably may have flirted with “him” like I do (harmlessly, of course!). I had only recently known him to be a her. Kapeashe?
Just before I left, Sid had PM’d me expressing the fact she wasn’t a stalker or weirdo and she wanted to meet me. SDY wanted to meet ME??? She is cool. She is glamorous. But I gave her my cell-phone number and wondered what would come of it.
While waiting for my turn to ride Soarin’, I talked with Sid. And laughed. She really is funny! We arranged to meet later on that night.
I also was looking forward to meeting another really cool DISer by the name DLMama! We had talked WHILE in the Tiki Room (I was discreet!) and while eating the yummy Dole whip the other day. We’d be hooking up today before lunch which wasn’t too long from now.
Meanwhile, it was my turn to ride Soarin’. I never get sick of that ride! I have the soundtrack in my mind. I just love love love it!
After Soarin’ the park was officially open so we went to the Tower of Terror. Have you ever noticed it always says Ride time: 13 minutes? Again we ride share and I wait first. I love to people watch outside of this ride. Newbies look hesitant. Oldbies (?) cant get in line fast enough! I rolled my eyes (to myself) at how many people didn’t know that the 13 was a joke. It was pretty much a walk on ride.
I took this picture in the lobby because I had taken one similar at WDW.
And this is the same at MGM: Funny huh?
Well wouldn’t you know, I road with this mother dragging on her 6 year old DD. She explained that she really did like the ride, but was acting up. No, me thinks your DD is terrified of this ride, Lady! This little girl was hysterical. She begged her mother not to make her ride. I told her I’d stay with her if she wanted to? The little girl looked SO comforted that this nice stranger would relieve her of having to ride. Oh but no. The mother wouldn’t have THAT. I swore I would not kidnap her and we’d wait just at the exit for her…NOPE. Well ok then! So the ride of all the others was ruined with fretting over this little girl who would someday grow up to pick out her mother’s retirement home….
Usually, I love this ride. I usually scream a half a second before anyone else. Just because. But this time I didn’t want to add to this poor little girl’s terror so I zipped it. I took the red-neck picture of us after wards. My thighs looked too wide so I didn’t post it here, but the little girl breaks my heart.
Riley looked so cute. He too kept quiet and felt horrible for this little girl. He had held my hand and given me the 3 squeezes for “I Love You” as we entered a new dimension together. I love that kid!
Listen Up, Florida Disney parks’ fans. The next ride was Monster’s Inc. It was so cute! I don’t know what style to compare it to. Maybe a little like Pooh, or Snow White, or Mr. Toad’s (oh, wait no Mr. Toad in Florida! Woops!) but BIGGER and more sophisticated animatronically. Humor is everywhere you look.
In the queue, there’s a huge snack vending machine. The Blort is delicious. The Bag-o-calories I do not recommend!
Put this ride on your must see list, if you like Monster’s Inc., you’ll get a kick out of this ride!
Here is my Utah Ute's Fan son, Dallen (DS8) outside of Monster's Inc.
Muppetvision 3-D is nearly identical to Florida’s with the exception of the outside queue area and the non-existant muppits dump shop! They do have a little cart with a few muppets’ merchandise but that’s it. I was all set to buy more Miss Piggy stuff for my collection. I’ll have to wait till we go to WDW next September.
Muppets: Humor is EVERYWHERE!
Another really cool thing to do is the Animation Acadamy. You get step by step instructions on drawing classic characters. We got to draw Donald Duck. Even Norah enjoyed this class.
In Belle’s Library I took the quiz to see which character I was most like. It answered Ariel. So I did it over. I gave my mean mama answers and it said Ursula. YES!!! I love that witch! That made me very happy to tell my kids I was Ursula! But I think they already knew that….
While in the area, we then did Turtle Talk with Crush. My boys sat right in the front and had questions all ready but were not called on. Which made me a little sad at their disappointment. Can you see their silouette's?
Next time....Met DL mama, ate at Pacific Warf, saw a chubby Jasmin (really!), rode the carousel and more!
NOT if you Blast the radio, and roll all the windows down!
Whew... I am tired but I love it...awesome. You make me want to go to DL! Love, Love, Love the pictures. I really like the pictures taken a night! Beautiful! 
Now that you are an AP holder and all.....You must go to the premier of AWE in May. Perhaps you can meet JDepp
