19, April, 2006

Wanna know one of the greatest places on the whole planet? Wanna, wanna WANNA? DISNEYLAND! It is one of the most awesome places on earth! I was so excited I could barely sleep last night. I’ve been their several times before but every time it is more exciting and fun!
The park opened at 8:00 so we made it our goal to get there as early as possible. We arrived 20 minutes after it opened, that’s awfully good for the family who’s never early. If all ya’ll aren’t aware, it’s Disney’s 50th anniversary this year and let me tell ya, they know how to celebrate! We started with the classic rides, you know, the teacups, the Dumbo ride, and one of the most annoying ones in the whole park – It’s a Small World. Yea, the ride itself is very cool, but I can’t STAND the song! The song gets stuck in your head for three flipping days. You find yourself humming, singing, dancing, and skipping along with it. What a NIGHTMARE! One of the neat things is that they did for the 50th is that on some of the more classic and popular rides they have a special gold seat ride thingy. You know, the thing that you sit in. They had a gold Dumbo and a gold teacup, and more.
Around 2:00 we ran out to the RV to whoof down some lunch before heading back to see the parade. Katty was awed by the parade, as she was two years ago. The characters and the performers in the parade were sweating like mad. It was flippin hot out, I can’t imagine being the Beast and having to wear all that fur and whatnot.
After the parade, we grabbed a couple fast passes and hit Buzz Lightyear Star command and Space Mountain. Katty’s first rollercoaster, Matterhorn bobsled’s, didn’t go to well. She was fine with the ride, but you go through a couple dark tunnels where “monstews” pop out at you. After we finished the ride, my mom turned around to face my dad and Katty and asked “Are you ok Katty?” Bad idea. Katty started to ball, obviously not pleased with the rollercoaster. After that, we went on the scarier rides while a parent and Katty did something else.
My all time favorite ride is the Indiana Jones ride. It isn’t like a rollercoaster, but the it feels like your in the adventure. There are also some pretty weird illusions that are really cool. Katty’s fav ride was the Pooh’s Honeypot ride. We didn’t have to wait in line very long, and that was great. It was pretty crowded.
Later that night, we plopped down for the fireworks, and bought some cookies, which we hungrily ate. At this point, the main area of the park was packed with people wanting to see the fireworks. We got pretty good seats although some people were really rude. By that point Katty was exhausted, on the way to the Fantasmic show, she said, “Mommy I’m tired. Can Daddy carry me?” My dad took Katty and she fell asleep insantly – sleeping through all of Fantasmic, which included bombs, fireworks, and deafining noises.
We arrived back at the RV at 12:30 –all of us exhausted. The only downside of the day was that we didn’t make it to see Pooh and his friends. Eeyore is my favorite Disney character and I only saw him briefly in the parade.

Miss ya’ll,
Morgan