Wednesday morning Holl and I drove with Hillari, Keith and Sareny to Anaheim (with the traditional prescribed stop at an In-and-Out Burger in Pomona) and staked our claim on the beds. Believe me, sleeping arrangements were a bigger issue than they needed to be, but we all managed to work it out. We took a quick nap before everyone else arrived, and walked around Downtown Disney for a while before celebrating my sister-in-law Cassidy's birthday at dinner that night.
That was the calm before the storm...
The next day, and each subsequent day thereafter, we were up early to get in line to be the first people inside the park. I was amazed to see grown adults running into the park after they were let in. But, I've got to hand it to them - when you're the first in the park, there's hardly a wait in any of the rides. We chose to ride Splash Mountain first, which was wise, because I spent the rest of the day drying off.
Then the other rides came: Haunted Mansion, Pirates of the Carribean, Indiana Jones, Jungle Cruise, Space Mountain, Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters, Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, etc, etc...not to mention Hollywood Tower of Terror, California Screamin', Maliboomer, and Mullholland Madness in the California Adventure park.
A few of us did...well, honestly, I think MOST of us ended up sick. Holli and I are still sick to a certain extent, but were forcing ourselves to get back to the daily grind.
The trip was just flat out fun, no one can deny that. I hadn't been to Disneyland since I was a senior in High School, and even then, it was only for a few hours in the middle of the night. We're talking about 40 hours spent in the park over three days...needless to say, we got out Disney fill for the next two years at least.
With that, I think I'll stop, because I'm sure my wife will have something better to add. She's usually the better story teller anyway!
2 comments:
i'm glad your holiday was so fun!
here's a question for you. why do i have the phrase, "an old jew," stuck in my head? i know you said it and it still cracks me up but i can't remember why it ever happened. an ollllld jew. hmmmm. bail me out, bambo!
Kimbo - holy cow, I don't remember!! I mean, I remember saying it, and I remember how it was said, but what's it from?
Was it from the Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)? Was it from one of the Monty Python skits we did in Speech?
Oh man...let's Google it and see what we come back with...
JR
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