Tiana's Showboat Jubilee was over and our pineapple spears were long gone. We headed over to Haunted Mansion and walked right in. I actually missed standing in line and winding around back by the graveyard. Again, I tried to enjoy the Holiday version, but I think I ended up picturing the regular set up as we rode along. Maybe if I had seen the movie before, I would have enjoyed the change???
When going through my pictures, I noticed that I enjoy lamp posts and lights.
Next we headed over to Splash Mountain. It was almost 12:30 by the time we got off. We had PS at 1:45 for Rain Forest Cafe, so we headed back toward the Monorail Station and tried to get in touch with the others.
There was only 1 person getting a picture taken by the Partners Statue, so we decided it was a good time to get a photo of it. As we were walking up, DS9 asked, "Oh, is that Martin Luther King, Jr. with Mickey Mouse?" Silence.
"No...That would be Walt Disney." (Last week there was a Scholastic Book Fair at the kids' school. I was shopping around and found a book called "Who is Walt Disney?" It looks like a good one, not too long. So I bought it with plans to give it to him for Christmas. The next day he handed me his "wish list" from the book fair that they compiled during Library time, and that book was on it!
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Moving on...we heard from the others by this time. They were making their way over to our area after taking a ride on Pirates. So DS9 went on Astro Orbitor while we waited.
Forgive my ignorance, but what are these?
Yellow fruits, but too round to be lemons. I've never noticed them before. You can see some that aren't ripe yet. Do people ever help themsleves to these?
The whole family got together again and we headed toward the Monorail. DS3 asked "Does this ride have fast hills?" We had fun pointing out our hotel as we rode past HOJO. We arrived in DTD a little early, so we decided to go to the
Lego store, having to practically DRAG the kids in...
Besides the impressive giraffe and Darth Vader, we all really liked that 3-D hologram thing. You could hold a Lego set up to a scanner, and then you could see yourself on this screen holding the set and this 3-D image of the set was sitting on top of the box so you could see what it looks like when it is built. Not sure if I'm explaining it very well, but it was really cool.
I really liked the palm tree view outside of the store.
Time for our late lunch at RFC. We were seated next to this guy:
Here is what we ate:
DH thought his steak was just alright.
I really liked my soup. I think it was called Jungle Safari or something like that. It had sausage, zucchini, garbanzo beans, pasta, and I can't remember what else. Oh, and parmesan cheese on top. It was really good - not a very appetizing picture, I'm afraid.
We also got these pita quesadillas. Slightly dry and tasteless, and served with not nearly enough pico de gallo and sour cream. They willingly brought me more when I requested them. I would proabably order them again.
The kids all had the pepperoni pizza.
Sometimes when restaurants serve pizza - when pizza isn't their specialty - it's kind of weird looking and doesn't taste very good. This pizza was really good - all the kids loved it.
We forgot to use our $10 off coupon when we paid our bill. When our server came back, we asked if it was too late to use it, and she happily adjusted our bill. Each of the kids pressed a penny on the way out.
We decided to head back to Disneyland by way of walking through DTD, since we had never been there. It's a fun walk. We decided to ride Soarin' since we were in the vicinity. Less than a 5 minute wait. I saw the queue area that was empty and was glad we didn't need to wait in that kind of line. I was hoping no one would lose their lunch. No one did.
Heading back into Disneyland for our debut performance in the Tiana's Showboat Jubilee show!