Like oh my gawd!!!!! love the eighties, love that they are over!!! That is so awesome about your friend. Sounds good so far.
Charmama, you crack me up!
O.k., we're going to flash forward to our day at Disney. I love my family and friends, but let's get to the more important parts of the trip.Here we go.
By the time we got out the door and had to run a minor errand, we finally made our way to the Disneyland parking lot.Thanks to my sister in law, she lent us one of our nieces and we were able to park for free. The tram ride is the first and last ride we take at the park. We met Chris* at the La Brea Bakery in front of the only tram stop. (*Chris is a friend from high school I've reconnected with through Facebook. He asked me prior to Disney day if we had plans to visit any theme parks. I told him we probably wouldn't do DL since MK#4 couldn't scale a fence fast enough. This generous friend and cast member who works for the DL hotels, passed in our family as his guests.) A tip my sister in law gave us was to flash our Disney Visa card and ask if they were still honoring free stroller rental. Monday was our lucky day folks, we got the stroller for free too.
I was excited about entering the park. My excitement was some what deflated when the kids HAD to go to the bathroom. What a great first memory, visiting the restroom. After visiting the restroom, I wanted to get MK#4 his first visit pin and an early birthday pin. It was there at the Town Hall I stood in the shortest line in the park. After receiving our buttons, we were ready to walk down Main Street.
The first shop we crept by was the Arribas Brothers Crystal Shop. Monsterpop and I used to work for the company so we wanted to see if we'd spot someone we knew. We didn't dare go in for fear our MKs would touch something. We didn't see our former co-worker so we sped up our pace and headed toward Tomorrow Land. My sister in law arrived with our youngest niece who is close to my MK#4's age. We stood around for a little bit trying to decided which would be our first ride together. Actually, it was the wait time signs that helped determine what we were going to ride first. Space Mountain's wait time was close to an hour, Star Tours, and Buzz were almost 45 minutes long too. We decided, 'Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage' was going to be first because the wait time was a 33 minutes. I have childhood memories of this ride before it was Nemo themed. I remember the subs being gray and the air was stuffy. Once the capsule closed this time, I was thankful for air cycling through so my Closterphbia wouldn't go into over drive. I really liked the Nemo Sub Voyage. The story line is cute and both sides of the subs saw the same narrations, I didn't feel cheated.
After that ride was over, we walked over to Space Mountain to get Fast Passes. Fast Pass time was to be around 6:15PM. Why so late?! Whatever! Let's move on I thought. The smell of food lured us to Redd Rockett's Pizza Port. I decided to have a walnut, grape, and blue cheese salad. It was very yummy. With bellies full, we waddled over to Autotopia. At the Magic Kingdom, the whole track is themed around the Indianapolis 500. So, seeing the DL track without the Indy theme made me feel a little sad. My wonderful SIL volunteered to watch the youngest munchkins as Monsterpop and I took the other kids on the ride. After that ride, the park felt more packed so we decided to head over to Calfornia Adventure. It was there we had our own '2319' moment straight out of the movie, Monsters Inc. ***
I'm going to keep stringing you along folks, so have some string cheese while you wait.
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