Chapter 166 A Grand Old Time After our Matt Damon sighting and Christmas castle photoshoot, we tried to ride the Matterhorn using our return time, but it was down (doesn’t it always seem to be?). We waited for several minutes on a nearby bench in case the ride would come back up, but in the …
May 29, 2014 Chapter 29 I Think We Can Previous Post | Next Post Table of Contents It’s Day Six, so here we have yet another Personal Navigator. I must say it’s a little odd going to bed out in the middle of the ocean and then waking up and throwing open the curtains to find …
Chapter 10 Spinning After dinner, Tracy and I walked over to the Frontier Tower because I wanted to show her the model of Big Thunder Mountain in the lobby—it is her favorite attraction, after all. I love how even the opossums got included. We thought briefly about going over to Trader Sam’s to complete our mission …
Chapter 165 Bears and Bournes November 1-3, 2013 Our first trip back to Disneyland post-Halloween happened on Saturday, November 2nd, and these decorations at the tram stop already indicated that the seasons were a-changin’. Of course, the Halloween decorations along the route were still there too… We started our day at Downtown Disney, going through …
Chapter 32 When I Was Eight (Originally posted August 21, 2012) Once we were out of the car, we still had the entire parade to go by behind us, and we’d never taken the time out to watch this parade before. Now we had a prime location. Some of the characters acknowledged us in particular …
Chapter 31 Pink Elephants on Parade Previous Post | Next Post Table of Contents By about halfway down Main Street, I could certainly understand what Brick meant about your arms getting tired. I must have switched waving hands no fewer than ten times along the route because it’s a little exhausting. My face also definitely …
Chapter 30 Before the Parade Passes By Previous Post | Next Post Table of Contents As we emerged from the gate that led backstage, the music for the Celebrate a Dream Come True Parade started playing in the first of many loops that we would hear along the route. The car only drove what I …
Chapter 29 Don’t Rain on My Parade Previous Post | Next Post Table of Contents We made our way back through Liberty Square toward the hub. The ropes were already getting set up for the parade to start! It was still a little early, so we stopped for a few Photopass pictures in the hub. …
Chapter 28 Warming Up After a Cold Day Previous Post | Next Post Table of Contents Immediately after we headed back inside from glacier-watching, we went back up on deck to grab a snack. We saw that they had brought a big chunk of ice from the fjord on board the ship, and there was a line …
Chapter 9 Meat Under the Stars I mentioned in the last update that we were heading over to the Disneyland Hotel for dinner. Though I’m not 100-percent sure, I think we rode the Monorail over and then made the quick jaunt across the far side of Downtown Disney. We had a reservation at one of the …