IT'S BEEN FUN...

Andy and I decided that we would take one last trip to Disneyland before our season passports expired. He felt that since it is going to be our last trip there in a while he would spoil me and surprised me with 2 nights at the Disneyland Hotel. We left early Friday morning and drove to Anaheim. When we arrived Andy thought that it would be fun to walk around Downtown Disney, considering we couldn't check into our hotel yet. (I was led to believe we were staying in a Quality Inn down the street.) Andy told me that he had not ever stayed at the Disneyland Hotel, so he wanted to go check it out. The grounds were beautiful and they had so many fun things to do. When we left the Downtown Disney parking lot, Andy turned the wrong way and then turned into the Disneyland Hotel parking lot. I kept telling him that was for the hotel only, and then he said, "SURPRISE!" It was super sweet. When we checked in they gave us a room in the Wonder Tower on the 14th floor. In front of the Wonder Tower there were these beautiful waterfalls and elaborate pathways throughout. It was really fun!!
The rooms were great too! Everything was Disney, and it was super fun!! I took a couple pictures of us from the balcony, even though it was a "Standard View Room" it was a great view of the parking lot and California adventure. (Check out the hair clip I made for our Disney Vacay.)One of our goals for that trip was to go early and find a good seat for the fireworks. We headed over to the park on Friday night and started looking for a good spot. Most of the good spots with seats had already been taken, but one woman told us we could have her seat. We really tried not to take her seat, but she insisted. What a nice lady!! We even told her if she was uncomfortable (it was not the most comfortable seat,) we would save her a seat for when the fireworks started, and she declined. There was still some traffic that walked through the first half right in front of us, but we definitely had a MUCH, MUCH better view this time!!

After the fireworks, we were hoping to run over to the other nighttime show at Disneyland, Fantasmic. We had never seen it before, and had no idea what to expect. It turned out really fun, with light shows on walls of water, princesses floating by on boats, Peter Pan and Hook dueling it out on the Riverboat Columbia, all the Disney characters riding by on a ferryboat, and even Mickey Mouse himself battling an angry witch turned dragon. It turned out to be REALLY fun!!We ended up having a really great time!! I sure do love Disneyland, and I will totally miss my season pass.

TA TA FOR NOW!! (WE'LL BE BACK)