A Day in Disneyland
Posted by Christa Umphrey on 08/20 at 09:00 PM
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I don’t think any of us are actually really very big Disneyland fans, so I’m not sure why we feel we need to go. I think everyone likes the days at the beach just as much. I don’t think we’ll ever be one of those week-long Disneyland vacation families (unless maybe we make it to DisneyWorld) but it seems like fun once we’ve left and can just remember the select highlights. (Now if I could just get my kids to stop saying all those new bad words they picked up listening to Dev enjoy the Disneyland atmosphere all day long...)
The 3-D glasses worked a little too well for Zoran and Azia. Zoran thought monsters were coming to get him and Azia just hid for the whole show. She also hid for much of Pirates of the Caribbean, The Haunted Mansion (though she later said it was her favorite), and pretty much all of Splash Mountain. (She was so far down in the boat she didn’t even show up in the photo they take when you go down the waterfall.)
Our age range made it a little difficult to formulate a plan for the day so for about half of it we split up. Zoran, Azia and I spent a lot of time in Fantasyland on rides like Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Pinocchio, and riding carousel horses and sitting in teacups. Israel and Dev tried out the more adventurous rides.
Ariel was very excited to talk to Ariel...until she got close to her. Then it was too scary. Zoran was brave though so eventually she decided to go with him.
We spent way too long waiting in lines. Even going midweek didn’t seem to help. I think you can only go in January or February. At least in this line (and then once we got on the boat) Zoran kept himself busy “hunting” all the animal-shaped shrubbery. I think he killed a deer and a buffalo. It seemed like there was an elk or moose, too.
It was a very long day for everyone, but Zoran didn’t quite make it out of the gates before he feel asleep.
Long Beach
Posted by Christa Umphrey on 08/19 at 08:44 PM
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One of the days we we spent driving the Orange County section of the Pacific Coast Highway looking for good beaches. We ended the evening down in Long Beach where we explored the aquarium, went on a Harbor Cruise, and then had a good dinner at Outback. (We meant to get Mexican or seafood but they didn’t have those restaurants on the Bay when we got off the boat at 8:00 and we were too hungry to explore.)
