Remember the days when you'd see some dude win the Super Bowl and some camera was right in his face shouting, "Walter Payton, you've just won the Super Bowl! What are you going to do next?!?"
"I'm goin'a Dib-Nee-Lan'!!!"
Well, we won the Super Bowl, so we went to Disneyland. I don't know what that's supposed to mean, but it sounded better in my head. The first and only other time we went, we drove. Everything was awesome...except for the driving. I swore in my wrath that our family would never drive the Road to Disneyland again. My children don't drive well. You might literally see the flames of the Infernal Pit exiting the crevasses of our van when we go on road trips. Grrr. So we flew JetBlue and it ROCKED.
Like I said in an earlier post, I only took 272 pictures. Only. It might have been more, had the camera not suffered an ignominious death on the concrete ground of Universal Studios.
I'm not sure why, but I didn't break out the camera until we actually hit the park. On the first day Marshall got to visit and hug Winnie the Pooh. He loved Pooh. He hugged him over and over and over.
The next morning we went to Goofy's kitchen for brunch. Holy shnikees. If you have the money and the opportunity, please visit Goofy's kitchen. Every single Disney character you can think of will come to your table and sit with the kids and get pictures, etc. Marshall also chased Goofy around the restaurant and hugged him. I think he might be Goofy's first stalker. It got a little scary. Oh, and the food is...I.....uh....wha....words cannot express. It is SO good.
Guess what the longest wait was for a ride during the week of Halloween? 'Bout 10 minutes for Indiana Jones and 25 minutes for the Toy Story ride. Everything else was nearly a straight walk-through. BEST time to go!!!
We stayed at the Howard Johnson just down the road. It took about 10 minutes to get from hotel to park entrance. The first time we went we stayed at the Disneyland Hotel. The walk from the Disneyland Hotel was longer than the walk from the HoJo. 'Twas awesome, PLUS we got a kids suite which is essentially another room with a set of bunk beds and a fold-out bed. Way coolio.
We hopped between parks every day and just had a blast for 3 days.
The 4th day we visited the beach (Corona del Mar) and had a blast in the 56 degree water. NIPPLY!!! Blake found this live mussel:
On the 4th night we went to a Knight's Dinner. This was the knight we cheered for:
Yes, that's the back of his head. He was the first knight killed by the "bad guy". We got served ribs and chicken and soup and bread and ate it all with our hands. Yup, drank the soup right from the bowl.
The last day we visited Universal Studios. If you had to ask everyone the most boring part of the trip, this was it. It has a couple cool rides, but it ain't no Dib-nee-lan'! We never waited in any lines, but it was a little hot and stuffy and more like a sit-down park. The Water World feature was worth the entire day. SO COOL. Then we ate dinner at Hard Rock Cafe in downtown Universal and broke every speed limit possible in getting to Long Beach airport in the nick of time.
Without a doubt, the best family vacation we've ever had...sort of "once-in-a-lifetime", if you know what I mean.
1 comment:
That sounds like an amazing trip. How fun! I just love the pictures. That medieval joint is a fun one too. Glad you still blog. Seems many waste away on FB these days.
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