Well, the Moroccan place was neat. The earthquake was perfect! But Paul ordered up one more surprise... a night in Disneyland at the California Hotel. SWEET!
We left after work on January 9th (why? Because the parks are only open to about 6 PM on the weekdays, yea... no thanks!). We got down and checked into the hotel, and since I was hungry, Paul scouted out some restaurants and half mentioned the steak house because it is after all, my birthday surprise, not his. But it sounded like a great idea. So we changed into nice clothes, then bundled up to walk through Downtown Disney to the Disneyland Hotel and the Steakhouse 55. It was blowing wind like crazy! And it wasn't the warmest feeling wind either.
The Disneyland Hotel is this funny 70's style hotel that looks dated from the outside, but has fun, fantastic decorations and style on the inside. We got seated right away with our call ahead seating (go Paul!) and we ordered family style food and some steak. Wow, I was so full! Here is a picture of our expensive bread (LOL):
We hurried back to the room to change, and dashed off to Disneyland. Now it was my birthday and everything so I HAD to decide what we were going to ride (but I got vetoed on Its a Small World). We went by Space Mountain but it had a 60 minute wait; it turned out to be good that we skipped that because when we passed by later, it was broken. We beelined for Finding Nemo, stood in line for a while, and then got smooshed onto a submarine with a bunch of wiggly kids. But the ride was worth it (mental note- next time the parents come, they have to see that ride too). Since SM was down, we ran all the way across the park to Indiana Jones and stood in the LONG line. It was an hour before close and I wasn't sure we would make it on, but we made it and were the last CAR! Funny though, the Harrison Ford at the end was broken, so he was talking, but not moving. It was better than the time that I went on it after work and got stuck in the dark tunnel.
So that was some good birthday luck!
The next morning we got up and went to California adventure. We didn't have quite as much luck there... we got in line for Toy Story Mania (all the rides my folks missed on their trip! Obviously 8 hours is NOT enough time to see two parks). But while we were in line, the ride broke. We had even gotten our glasses! So we walked over to Screaming, but our fast passes weren't good for another 10 minutes, so we got in line. We waited through the line once and then went back and rode it again with our fast passes!
We also stopped by Monsters Inc (mainly because Paul had gotten me some scrap booking stickers with those characters on it, so I needed to ride the ride so I could use them, duh!) It was a really well done little ride.
For a grand finale, we rode Tower of Terror. I might have left hand prints on Paul's leg. That ride scares the BUGGERS out of me!
We called it a day after picking up some carrots and ranch dressing in a Mickey ear shape.
Thanks a million Paul!
We left after work on January 9th (why? Because the parks are only open to about 6 PM on the weekdays, yea... no thanks!). We got down and checked into the hotel, and since I was hungry, Paul scouted out some restaurants and half mentioned the steak house because it is after all, my birthday surprise, not his. But it sounded like a great idea. So we changed into nice clothes, then bundled up to walk through Downtown Disney to the Disneyland Hotel and the Steakhouse 55. It was blowing wind like crazy! And it wasn't the warmest feeling wind either.
The Disneyland Hotel is this funny 70's style hotel that looks dated from the outside, but has fun, fantastic decorations and style on the inside. We got seated right away with our call ahead seating (go Paul!) and we ordered family style food and some steak. Wow, I was so full! Here is a picture of our expensive bread (LOL):
We hurried back to the room to change, and dashed off to Disneyland. Now it was my birthday and everything so I HAD to decide what we were going to ride (but I got vetoed on Its a Small World). We went by Space Mountain but it had a 60 minute wait; it turned out to be good that we skipped that because when we passed by later, it was broken. We beelined for Finding Nemo, stood in line for a while, and then got smooshed onto a submarine with a bunch of wiggly kids. But the ride was worth it (mental note- next time the parents come, they have to see that ride too). Since SM was down, we ran all the way across the park to Indiana Jones and stood in the LONG line. It was an hour before close and I wasn't sure we would make it on, but we made it and were the last CAR! Funny though, the Harrison Ford at the end was broken, so he was talking, but not moving. It was better than the time that I went on it after work and got stuck in the dark tunnel.
So that was some good birthday luck!
The next morning we got up and went to California adventure. We didn't have quite as much luck there... we got in line for Toy Story Mania (all the rides my folks missed on their trip! Obviously 8 hours is NOT enough time to see two parks). But while we were in line, the ride broke. We had even gotten our glasses! So we walked over to Screaming, but our fast passes weren't good for another 10 minutes, so we got in line. We waited through the line once and then went back and rode it again with our fast passes!
We also stopped by Monsters Inc (mainly because Paul had gotten me some scrap booking stickers with those characters on it, so I needed to ride the ride so I could use them, duh!) It was a really well done little ride.
For a grand finale, we rode Tower of Terror. I might have left hand prints on Paul's leg. That ride scares the BUGGERS out of me!
We called it a day after picking up some carrots and ranch dressing in a Mickey ear shape.
Thanks a million Paul!
1 Comments:
You missed blogging about the part where we got in line for Toy Story a SECOND time that day... and then it broke down again.
Our luck with that ride sucked, didn't it?
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