The Disneyland weekend adventure continues.
After our day and late night at Disneyland, I woke up the next morning feeling as though I had been hit by a bus. I was still so tired and and my voice was hoarse (there had been a lot of screaming, and yelling the day before). However this didn't matter, because day 2 was ahead of us.
We ate another sad breakfast (which maybe I should give more credit to, at least we didn't have to ask for milk like Nate and Emily had to do at the Day's Inn) and headed back to the parks.
This time we were headed for California Adventure. We of course went straight to the Cars ride fast pass line-which was already huge by the time we got there. It was worth it though, because 10 minutes to get a fast pass saved us about 100 minutes of a waiting in the actual line.
Emily: *appropriately reacting
Nate: "Ooh is that a caterpillar I see?"
Tiffany: "hmmm whaaa? the light....it's...so bright. yeah i'm up, i'm up"
Me: * hands on the dash in the middle of performing a ritual
It's sprinkled a bit on and off throughout the morning, but we didn't mind. If anything, it probably deterred the Californians from coming to the park that day.
It may shock you to learn that the only snack we bought that day was a cheese jalapeno pretzel. It was so good we almost devoured the whole thing before we snagged a photo.
This lack of snack buying was brought to you in part by Nate and Emily. They packed lunch for us, which included muddy buddies (the food we will all eat in heaven). We sure know how to pick our travel partners. Brownie points, kudos, shout outs, and three cheers for The Bartholomew's.
We once again we able to truly master the fast past system and ride every ride we wanted to multiple times.
Which meant we rode California Screamin three times.
Were we tired from our weekend, or was the ride just not doing it for us anymore?
The sky did make an appearance for a brief part of the day.
We learned from our Splash Mountain experience, and made a shoe change when we went on the "Grizzly River Run", which is a white water rafting ride. I also realized how convenient it is to have a rain coat on a wet ride. My life is changed.
In California adventure there is the Hyperion theater, where you can watch an hour long play version of Frozen. After missing the first show, we went back to try to get into the second showing. The rule is, you have to be in line at least 30 minutes before the show starts. Unfortunately that landed on the same time we were able to get new fast passes. Fast passes are life, so that wasn't something we were just going to pass up. We figured we could make it work if we divided and conquered. Tiffany would stand in line for the show, Nate would get the fast passes, Emily would stop in Cars land to buy a snack for her and Nate, and I would go to the restroom.
Then, a hitch in the plan struck. They wouldn't let Tiffany in without her whole group. I showed up soon after, but Nate and Emily were far behind. Emily's food line was moving at an all time slow, and Nate was still in a different section of the park. The minutes ticked by and they still weren't showing up. We called Nate and told him to run, and told Emily to give up on the food and high tail it to the theater. Were we going to make it into the show? Were we going to witness "Let It Go" in real life? Most importantly, were were going to have to come back to this dang theater for a third time? Blood pressures were rising. Heart rates were elevated. Stress levels were at an all time high.
Not really.
They both showed up running to the theater, and jumped the rope to where we were waiting. Nate had the fast passes, but Emily had to give up on the food. Back in the food line with Emily, everyone was stressing about how they weren't going to make it in time for the Frozen show. I hope their chili cones were worth it.
Dinner.
It was good.
Throughout the day, we would make a special effort to stop by the Ghiradelli shop to snag the free samples. We were always excited when it was a new employee passing them out. We got five total.
Cars land at night is my favorite. They play music from the 50's and it feels like you really are in radiator springs.
We of course ended the night by watching World of Color. Which is pretty much nostalgia on steroids.
Sadly our trip was at a close. We said goodbye to Nate and Emily, and made the trek back to out hotel.
The next day, Tiffany and I popped into a church building for sacrament meeting before driving back to Palo Alto, and who did we see walking in the chapel?? Nate and Emily. They had had the same idea. It was like being in the Provo YSA 98th ward all over again.
Overall, it was a practically perfect weekend. If anyone ever wants to take a personal guide to Disneyland with them, I would gladly volunteer.
and if you just can't get enough information about this weekend, here is a small video montage of the trip:
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