Yesterday..Part of those free tickets, were "2-fer tickets", which for us So Cal residents- you get to come back to the other park free- so since last time we went to DisneyLand it meant we could come back free to Disney California Adventure. (well.. nothing's exactly free.. especially when you add in the parking, drinks, food, etc.. but.. I digress...) It's right there, turn one way go into DisneyLand, turn the other way off the plaza and you go into CA adventure...
So.. we went to use those tickets- a full 4 days before they expired. Larry had the day off, so we said, "hey, why not?"Unbelievably- Disney ran out of parking. By 11 am when we got there.
Let me repeat that - DISNEY- with the largest parking garage in North America, I think- ran out of parking and diverted their parking to every other lot/garage in the area and provided buses.
So.. Last time we said "hey, next time we go, Larry will drop us off near the front and we'll wait through the bag inspection line, get a locker for our towels/changes of clothes, etc.. and wait for him there- it will avoid the lines for the elevator in the parking garage, the tram lines, etc.. with stroller, kids, etc.." So.. I had no idea they had run out of parking as we walked our way down to the inspect your bags, entry lines, etc.. I would have probably had second thoughts had I known about the parking- I'm not a big fan of crowds and all...
So.. we get through and get into CA adventure.. I can tell you most of those people probably went into DisneyLand because I wouldn't qualify it as insanely crowded. And California adventure was a disappointment as far as Disney goes- fewer rides, more stores and "stuff"- kinda like they were trying to be Universal Studios (at least like the one in FL- without the cool rides- haven't been to the CA univeral Studios to compare them... but again.. I digress)
The "cool" rides had a 60 minute or longer wait and well.. I'm not sure any of the rides there were worth waiting 60 minutes for. There were tons of 3D stuff- At least 4 times we were putting on 3D glasses for something- mostly shows with some "extra" special effects. I'd say the best ride was the Toy Story one- complete with 3D glasses you got to shoot your virtual gun at targets- like you were on a midway- but.. well.. the return on investment - time spent for amount of fun was lacking.
At least the line to see Cinderella was short :-) They wisked Characters on and off location about every 15 minutes, so if you saw one, you ran to it/him/her, and got in line and knew that you'd be waiting under 30 minutes to have your picture taken.
The kids thought it was cool, but the adults were pretty disappointed. It really seemed to limit it's stuff to focus on Disney-Pixar stuff, and well.. that's kinda limited and the Pixar movies were better than the rides and stuff they made from them. (in my not always humble opinion)
But we did everything we wanted to and still had time to spare before the park closed. (and I mentioned we got there at 11 instead of the minute it opened, right? I think by the time Larry got from the remote parking lot to the bus to the gate, it was probably closer to 12. I had fed the kids their packed lunches there waiting so we didn't have to break the "no-outside food" rule too much in the park and lug it around and we didn't have to stop to eat.
It was the boy's turn to get Mickey Ears hats. Last time the girls HAD to have the princess ear hats, but the boys were less interested in them. Joey wanted a Light Saber souvenir and ONLY a Light Saber last time and was fixated on the fact that he wanted a light saber, and not only a light saber, but the giant build-you-own $34 10 foot long lightsaber. And you and I both know light sabers are good for only 1 thing and that would be swinging around hitting stuff - things, siblings, dogs.. etc.. and I was not ready to bring something into our house that was going to cause that much temptation to hit. There seems to be plenty of temptation around here already.
Anyway.. since last visit it has been taking a considerable amount of effort to keep the princess ears off JM, so I decided he needed his own non-princess ears and then Joey decided he wanted some, too.
It was kinda funny, but you'll see Joey has a balloon- a super cool Mickey ears balloon. We were walking and this young couple came up to Joey and the guy asked him "hey, can you hold this for me?" waved and smiled at me and took off. It made his day. He thought he was the most special kid with the most special balloon.. And no, we didn't buy 3 others to compensate. Life isn't always equal. And that sucker was in fact huge and 4 of them in the car would have been TOO much. Managing the one through the park was enough. (and I'm sure once they couple realized what a pain in the neck it was to try to get that thing on rides they willingly gave it away. We at least had a stroller to tie it to)
So.. That's all the fun that's fit to print and what we've been up to lately. Still no word on the house situation, no word on where Larry will be reporting to July 19th or which unit he will be assigned to, we're still in the daily limbo of living daily life waiting for something significant to happen while trying to manage the chaos that is our lives around us..
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