A QUICK TRIP!!

For a little while now, Andy has been having the Disneyland itch. He has been trying to talk our friends into the idea, and then finally decided that we were going, and that was that. We were both super excited and then talked to our friends Tonya and David, and they said that they would love to come too!! Hooray, trip planned!! :)

Since everyone had to work on Friday, we decided that we would make it a QUICK trip and would leave Saturday morning, and then come home after we left the park on Sunday night. Tonya had never been to Disneyland and David had gone once when he was about 12. We were going to have SO MUCH FUN!!


Everyone was in and the car was ready to go Saturday morning at 8:45. Off we went. On the way we drove through this really cool windmill farm, and I tried to take some pictures as we drove. Later on we stopped at McDonalds in Indio for lunch, and had a nice stretch, and then checked into our hotel about 2:30. Saturday night we decided that we would appease me and go to H&M and Pinkberry then head to dinner and hang out in Downtown Disney for fireworks and then retire to bed early for an early start. Everything went great until we tried to go to Downtown Disney and David had a pocketknife in his pocket and a creepy Disney security guard came up to him and said, you have a knife in your right pocket, we do not allow knifes in the park. It was TOTALLY CRAZY!! David never took the knife out of his pocket, HOW DID THEY KNOW?!? Well that was a good giggle and we decided to return to the car. On the way back, the fireworks started and so we watched them where we were.


Sunday morning we were able to get up and get Tonya and David's tickets and be in the park by 8:15!! WAY TO GO!! We had a super great day! The best ride ended up being Autopia (the little cars on a track,) and we didn't even ride it! After standing in line for about 10 min, they came over the loud speaker and said that the ride had technical difficulties and they would not be able to open the ride for 1/2 hour or so. As we were watching to see what to do, people kept staying in line in front of us but everyone behind us went out the back. We started to leave and then a park employee told us to stay and get a "remit" ticket. Not knowing what a remit ticket was we were really skeptical, and then we found out it would let you skip the line on any attraction in either park except Toy Story Mania. Then, to make it even better, a guy told us to split up and then we could get 2 for our group!! AWESOME!! We ended up using one for Splash Mountain and bypassed that 50 min line, and then right before we were about to leave David started talking about Alice in Wonderland and I asked him if he wanted to go on the Alice in Wonderland ride. We tried to use our second remit ticket for it, the guy let us on and then told us to keep it and use it on Peter Pan. I think he thought we were crazy for using such a valuable thing for Alice in Wonderland. When we were finished we used it for Peter Pan. Right before the fireworks Tonya and David made a detour through Tomorrowland where they were able to make their very own light sabers!! They were HILARIOUS!!


The fireworks were good, but we listened to some not so great advice and sat right behind a tree for the fireworks.... oh well. It was still fun. After the fireworks we headed home. It was A LONG NIGHT! We finally got home about 5:00 am, and were ALL exhausted!!

Thanks guys for such a great QUICK trip!!