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Disney Donna
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Day Two - Sunday, 1/15/06
We woke up bright and early, jumped out of bed and hurried to get ready to go... okay, maybe we didn't jump out of bed... crawled would be a better word
I was sore and so was Susan... our bodies just don't spring out of bed as they used to... 
Anyway, we got ready, went outside and saw beautiful weather, in the mid 60"s with a breeze and plenty of sunshine 
not a cloud in the sky. We went next door to the "Captain Kids" restaurant to have our continental breakfast of pastries, milk, juice, cereal and coffee. We walked across the street to Disneyland with tummys full and smiles on our faces. Susan wore a fanny pack and when I asked her if she had her ticket, she couldn't remember which comparment she had put it in. While standing there waiting for her to find it, I noticed two girls standing close by, kinda watching. Finally, Susan found her ticket, but just as she did, one of the girls approached us and asked if we wanted to get into the park for free... I was a little puzzled and asked how? She told me she and her friend works for Disneyland and they are allowed to let up to 3 people in for free each. Her friend had 4 friends to get in for free so she was going to let the 4th one in for free and since it's the same "stamp" at the entrance in her "vistors" book, might has well make it 3. We said YES 
and figured then we would be able to come back into the park on the morning of the day were leaving to go back home... 
After we got in the park, we had someone take a picture of us in front of the MICKEY flowers. They were really beautiful!!! Then we went to see the "Walt Disney Story" on Main Street next to the Bank. It was very, very good. I learned some more info which is really neat and shared some of my own info to the "host cast member". The movie was well done and very enjoyable (I had seen this in October the last time I was at Disneyland, celebrating my 50th BD, but Susan hadn't seen it yet). I really enjoyed seeing it the second time and could watch it several more times. I do hope however, that they bring back Walt Disney's offices for display. I think it would be neat to keep the movie, maybe show it in the lobby, but also put Lincoln back in the auditorium.
Next, we walked up Main Street and went to check out Space Mountain. While we were walking to the ride, we saw a trash can rolling down the walk way. Susan thought it was a regular trash can and almost went to stop it, when I realized what it was,
(I hadn't seen "Push" the talking trash can before, but have read about it from other trip reports on this website). We followed it 
and had a lot of laughs 
watching people's reactions. The person controlling it was standing behind Susan. I took a picture of him while he was standing behind her... hope it turns out. We both thought that this would be a very fun job. After that, we went to "Space Mountain" and decided on a fast pass since it was a 40 minute wait. That was a good idea as we went to the "Buzz Lightyear Astro Blaster's" ride and rode it 3 times in a row trying to get a good picture to email home. Susan had a higher score each time... We then rode the "Matterhorn Bobsleds" with a about a 20 minute wait. Love this ride!!! It was almost time for our fast pass so we went to the Star Traders shop and looked around a bit and discovered people getting their pictures taken as different charactors in the Star Wars movies. It was pretty freaky when a 4 year old girl had a pciture taken of her face and it was added/formatted to a picture of an older girls body... the little girl looked like she was 12 years old. Another little girl who was only 5 years old had her picture taken and added/formatted to a picture and when she was told to smile it showed her two front teeth missing... we thought that was funny. But what was really freaky was when Susan and I had our pictures taken together and it was added/formated to younger looking girls... it looked funny to see younger bodies with older faces... After the pictures, we went on "Space Mountain". So much fun!!! Way better after they updated and refurb it... very dark, smooth, fast and the music was great! Awesome... 
Next we went to eat and got some chicken sticks with french fries... very yummy
We decided to watch the 3:00 pm parade, so Susan sat on the curb and saved me a seat while I went to get some ice-cream in a waffle cone. It's really too bad that they don't have Fantasia ice-cream any more... that was my favorite. When I got back, I saved a seat for Susan while she went to look for something to snack on. She ended up with ice-cream too. We sat on the shaded side of Main Street and people watched. The parade started and it was really beautiful and very well done. Very impressive. I was getting cold and after having ice-cream we decided to to back to the Hotel to get my jacket and to put our feet up for a little while. We relaxed for about an hour then it was up and out the door and off to California Adventure. Susan hadn't ridden "Soarin' Over California" yet, so that was what we were going to ride first. I walked up to the cast members who were standing at the beginning of the line and I asked how long the "stand-by" line was. They said it was about a 30-35 minute wait. We decided to go ahead and wait when one of the cast members asked us how many were in our party. We told them 2, and he gave us a special pass for us to go through the fast pass line... When we got to the part where we were to line up in the rows for the ride, I asked if we could get front row and center seats. They said yes, but we would have to wait about 10 minutes... we said we would and then in a few minutes, we were let in and got front and center seats. I love this ride... I love to smell the ocean, the orange groves and the pine trees... Susan really enjoyed the ride and wanted to ride again, but we decided that we would ride something else first.
I've been wanting to get her on the "ToWeR oF tErRoR" ride ever since I rode it in October. This was a ride Susan did not want to ride after hearing about it, but she decided to go ahead and try... what a "sport". She was a little nervous, but before the ride was over, it was her favorite thrill ride and we went on it 3 more times in a row. Since I have a "slipped knee cap", I would ask if we could go to the right side of the ride where there were no stairs (fast pass side) and they always let us. We would stand in line like everyone else, but just not do the stairs and it was a shorter line... much better on my knee as it's kinda hard and painful to do too many stairs.
Next we wanted to go and check out the new "Monster's Inc." ride. It was a 40 minute wait and we were tired, achy and hungry, so we decided to go on it the next day. (It was opened to the public, but I learned from another cast member that I had meant the next day, that on Sunday, Jan. 22 would be the Grand Opening and they are going to have a red carpet and movie stars...) We went to "Captain Kids" restaurant to get something to eat (next door to our Hotel). I had the buffet and it was really terrible. Susan ordered off the menu and it was okay. I wouldn't suggest having the buffet at 10:00 at night as the food is dried and tasteless, but none the less, it was something to help make our tummys not growl so we could go get some sleep. Got ready for bed and before I knew it I was fast asleep.
Next, Day 3 - We ARE going to close it down
We woke up bright and early, jumped out of bed and hurried to get ready to go... okay, maybe we didn't jump out of bed... crawled would be a better word
I was sore and so was Susan... our bodies just don't spring out of bed as they used to... Anyway, we got ready, went outside and saw beautiful weather, in the mid 60"s with a breeze and plenty of sunshine not a cloud in the sky. We went next door to the "Captain Kids" restaurant to have our continental breakfast of pastries, milk, juice, cereal and coffee. We walked across the street to Disneyland with tummys full and smiles on our faces. Susan wore a fanny pack and when I asked her if she had her ticket, she couldn't remember which comparment she had put it in. While standing there waiting for her to find it, I noticed two girls standing close by, kinda watching. Finally, Susan found her ticket, but just as she did, one of the girls approached us and asked if we wanted to get into the park for free... I was a little puzzled and asked how? She told me she and her friend works for Disneyland and they are allowed to let up to 3 people in for free each. Her friend had 4 friends to get in for free so she was going to let the 4th one in for free and since it's the same "stamp" at the entrance in her "vistors" book, might has well make it 3. We said YES and figured then we would be able to come back into the park on the morning of the day were leaving to go back home... After we got in the park, we had someone take a picture of us in front of the MICKEY flowers. They were really beautiful!!! Then we went to see the "Walt Disney Story" on Main Street next to the Bank. It was very, very good. I learned some more info which is really neat and shared some of my own info to the "host cast member". The movie was well done and very enjoyable (I had seen this in October the last time I was at Disneyland, celebrating my 50th BD, but Susan hadn't seen it yet). I really enjoyed seeing it the second time and could watch it several more times. I do hope however, that they bring back Walt Disney's offices for display. I think it would be neat to keep the movie, maybe show it in the lobby, but also put Lincoln back in the auditorium.Next, we walked up Main Street and went to check out Space Mountain. While we were walking to the ride, we saw a trash can rolling down the walk way. Susan thought it was a regular trash can and almost went to stop it, when I realized what it was,
(I hadn't seen "Push" the talking trash can before, but have read about it from other trip reports on this website). We followed it and had a lot of laughs watching people's reactions. The person controlling it was standing behind Susan. I took a picture of him while he was standing behind her... hope it turns out. We both thought that this would be a very fun job. After that, we went to "Space Mountain" and decided on a fast pass since it was a 40 minute wait. That was a good idea as we went to the "Buzz Lightyear Astro Blaster's" ride and rode it 3 times in a row trying to get a good picture to email home. Susan had a higher score each time... We then rode the "Matterhorn Bobsleds" with a about a 20 minute wait. Love this ride!!! It was almost time for our fast pass so we went to the Star Traders shop and looked around a bit and discovered people getting their pictures taken as different charactors in the Star Wars movies. It was pretty freaky when a 4 year old girl had a pciture taken of her face and it was added/formatted to a picture of an older girls body... the little girl looked like she was 12 years old. Another little girl who was only 5 years old had her picture taken and added/formatted to a picture and when she was told to smile it showed her two front teeth missing... we thought that was funny. But what was really freaky was when Susan and I had our pictures taken together and it was added/formated to younger looking girls... it looked funny to see younger bodies with older faces... After the pictures, we went on "Space Mountain". So much fun!!! Way better after they updated and refurb it... very dark, smooth, fast and the music was great! Awesome... Next we went to eat and got some chicken sticks with french fries... very yummy
We decided to watch the 3:00 pm parade, so Susan sat on the curb and saved me a seat while I went to get some ice-cream in a waffle cone. It's really too bad that they don't have Fantasia ice-cream any more... that was my favorite. When I got back, I saved a seat for Susan while she went to look for something to snack on. She ended up with ice-cream too. We sat on the shaded side of Main Street and people watched. The parade started and it was really beautiful and very well done. Very impressive. I was getting cold and after having ice-cream we decided to to back to the Hotel to get my jacket and to put our feet up for a little while. We relaxed for about an hour then it was up and out the door and off to California Adventure. Susan hadn't ridden "Soarin' Over California" yet, so that was what we were going to ride first. I walked up to the cast members who were standing at the beginning of the line and I asked how long the "stand-by" line was. They said it was about a 30-35 minute wait. We decided to go ahead and wait when one of the cast members asked us how many were in our party. We told them 2, and he gave us a special pass for us to go through the fast pass line... When we got to the part where we were to line up in the rows for the ride, I asked if we could get front row and center seats. They said yes, but we would have to wait about 10 minutes... we said we would and then in a few minutes, we were let in and got front and center seats. I love this ride... I love to smell the ocean, the orange groves and the pine trees... Susan really enjoyed the ride and wanted to ride again, but we decided that we would ride something else first.I've been wanting to get her on the "ToWeR oF tErRoR" ride ever since I rode it in October. This was a ride Susan did not want to ride after hearing about it, but she decided to go ahead and try... what a "sport". She was a little nervous, but before the ride was over, it was her favorite thrill ride and we went on it 3 more times in a row. Since I have a "slipped knee cap", I would ask if we could go to the right side of the ride where there were no stairs (fast pass side) and they always let us. We would stand in line like everyone else, but just not do the stairs and it was a shorter line... much better on my knee as it's kinda hard and painful to do too many stairs.
Next we wanted to go and check out the new "Monster's Inc." ride. It was a 40 minute wait and we were tired, achy and hungry, so we decided to go on it the next day. (It was opened to the public, but I learned from another cast member that I had meant the next day, that on Sunday, Jan. 22 would be the Grand Opening and they are going to have a red carpet and movie stars...) We went to "Captain Kids" restaurant to get something to eat (next door to our Hotel). I had the buffet and it was really terrible. Susan ordered off the menu and it was okay. I wouldn't suggest having the buffet at 10:00 at night as the food is dried and tasteless, but none the less, it was something to help make our tummys not growl so we could go get some sleep. Got ready for bed and before I knew it I was fast asleep.
Next, Day 3 - We ARE going to close it down
