Have a Magical Day
Feb. 27th, 2014 05:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
in_the_blue...I just got back from Disneyland.
Best things overheard:
1. Near the Hundred Acre Wood, an insistent little guy: "I want to go on THAT one!"
Tired Mom in response: "That's a restaurant."
2. A toddler, maybe 3 years old, in his Buzz Lightyear hoodie singing YOU GOT A FRIEND IN ME YOU GOT A FRIEND IN ME YOU GOT A FRIEND IN ME YOU GOT A FRIEND IN ME all the way down the hall, completely off-key and completely heartfelt.
3. One of the attendants at the Tower of Terror: "You might have heard this ride is scary. It's really just like It's a Small World... if that dropped 13 stories at a rate of 32 feet per second squared." *door slams on us*
So that was fun. This was a belated high-school graduation present for my wistful teen. My husband didn't want to go, so we went, and we each had a friend with us. We stayed at the Grand Californian because of easy access to the parks, and went back and forth with such reckless abandon that I don't think I'll ever get the ultraviolet hand stamps erased from my skin.
Sadly, Splash Mountain and Big Thunder Mountain Railroad were both closed at Disneyland, and Soaring Over California was closed at California Adventure, but everything else was fair game. My favorite rides are the crazy ones: California Screaming, Tower of Terror, Indiana Jones, Space Mountain. Who's surprised, raise your hands. We also balanced that out with mellow things like Pirates of the Caribbean and the Haunted Mansion and went on a few acid-laced rides like The Little Mermaid and Winnie the Pooh, and managed to wait through one line for the Toy Story video game ride, which is way more fun when you share the ride with someone you know. We also tested the Radiator Springs race car thing, I don't know its official name and I've never seen the Cars movies, but that was pretty fun too. PRO TIP: go in the single rider line. It'll save you an hour.
We walked. And walked. And walked until we could barely move, then walked all over Downtown Disney which is much smaller than it seemed the first time I was there. I'm plenty Disneyed out now, but it was all a whole lot of fun.
Back to our regularly scheduled program. They really did keep telling me to have a magical day, so I did.
Best things overheard:
1. Near the Hundred Acre Wood, an insistent little guy: "I want to go on THAT one!"
Tired Mom in response: "That's a restaurant."
2. A toddler, maybe 3 years old, in his Buzz Lightyear hoodie singing YOU GOT A FRIEND IN ME YOU GOT A FRIEND IN ME YOU GOT A FRIEND IN ME YOU GOT A FRIEND IN ME all the way down the hall, completely off-key and completely heartfelt.
3. One of the attendants at the Tower of Terror: "You might have heard this ride is scary. It's really just like It's a Small World... if that dropped 13 stories at a rate of 32 feet per second squared." *door slams on us*
So that was fun. This was a belated high-school graduation present for my wistful teen. My husband didn't want to go, so we went, and we each had a friend with us. We stayed at the Grand Californian because of easy access to the parks, and went back and forth with such reckless abandon that I don't think I'll ever get the ultraviolet hand stamps erased from my skin.
Sadly, Splash Mountain and Big Thunder Mountain Railroad were both closed at Disneyland, and Soaring Over California was closed at California Adventure, but everything else was fair game. My favorite rides are the crazy ones: California Screaming, Tower of Terror, Indiana Jones, Space Mountain. Who's surprised, raise your hands. We also balanced that out with mellow things like Pirates of the Caribbean and the Haunted Mansion and went on a few acid-laced rides like The Little Mermaid and Winnie the Pooh, and managed to wait through one line for the Toy Story video game ride, which is way more fun when you share the ride with someone you know. We also tested the Radiator Springs race car thing, I don't know its official name and I've never seen the Cars movies, but that was pretty fun too. PRO TIP: go in the single rider line. It'll save you an hour.
We walked. And walked. And walked until we could barely move, then walked all over Downtown Disney which is much smaller than it seemed the first time I was there. I'm plenty Disneyed out now, but it was all a whole lot of fun.
Back to our regularly scheduled program. They really did keep telling me to have a magical day, so I did.
