We awoke around 7am on Wednesday. Everyone needed that good night's sleep. The crew was anxious to get going, so we grabbed a quick bite to eat and headed straight to Disneyland. Since this was our 3rd year at Disneyland, we pretty much knew the park and had a rough plan. Our first stop was Indiana Jones. We were hoping J-man would be tall enough to ride, but he was still about 3 inches too short. We had to split up. J-man and Tri-Guy checked out some stores while Supergirl and I headed into the ride. We lucked out and were put in the spot to be in the first row of the ride. We were about to get on, when the ride broke down. A few minutes turned into about 10 and Supergirl turned to me and said "I guess sometimes Disneyland isn't the happiest place on earth." I had to agree she was right. Ten minutes turned into 20 and they finally decided the ride needed to be closed indefinitely. We left the ride bummed. Maybe Pirates of the Caribbean would be more successful. We had not been on the ride during our past 2 years because it was closed for renovation. We all headed onto the ride. If you have never been on the ride, it is a boat ride with two small hills at the beginning of it. I was riding with J-man and I noticed that after the first hill he had scooted closer to me. After the second hill, he was clinging to my arm. Then the pirate scenery started. I thought J-man would be all excited, but instead, he was holding my arm even closer. As we finished the ride, he declared, "That ride was too scary." Little did I know that we would hear that phrase over and over again.
We thought we would go to a ride J-man knew, so we tried Haunted Mansion. I am aware that as you read this, you can already tell that if you have a child that did not like Pirates, then Haunted Mansion would not be the best ride to follow. But it was right next door, and we weren't thinking... J-man didn't really care for Haunted Mansion. He didn't declare it a scary ride, but he also didn't rave about it when it was done. We finally started to catch on and headed for Winnie the Pooh. While Supergirl, Tri-Guy, and I were all rolling our eyes a little on this elementary ride, J-man was in his happy place. He was smiling, laughing, singing, and pointing to everything on the ride. The next stop was Big Thunder Mountain (another roller coaster) and we figured J-man had had enough for the morning. Supergirl and Tri-Guy headed off to the roller coaster and J-man and I stayed at Winnie the Pooh for another ride. While Supergirl and Tri-Guy were screaming in delight during one of their favorite rides, J-man and I were lucky enough to run into Winnie-the-Pooh outside of the ride and took a picture and had Pooh sign Jack's autograph book.
We linked up and made our way to Space Mountain. We figured it wouldn't be so crowded since it was still early - and we were right. J-man told us that he did want to ride this ride. Though we had doubts, we went ahead and let him ride it. Again, a mistake, as the poor child was hiding his head and was in tears at the end of the ride. I guess we didn't read our own past blogs to know that J-man and Space Mountain just don't mix. To make up for the trauma, we next went to J-man's favorite ride - Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters. It was here that Tri-Guy kicked all of our tushies and scored an impressive amount of points during the ride. (On this ride you have a blaster and shoot at targets for points throughout the ride.)
We made our way through the park, riding lots of our favorite rides. As we walked, J-man pointed out stroller after stroller. "That stroller looks like mine," he would say longingly. You see, since he proved he could hike the Grand Canyon we decided he didn't need a stroller in Disneyland. It seems some relationships are hard to break.
Another interesting transformation was happening this year. Supergirl was noticing that all the rides that she used to think had loud sounds in them (like gunshots or explosions) didn't really have loud sounds at all. In fact, she decided they were pretty small sounds. And all of the allure of the princesses and other such Disney magic, wasn't as magical as it used to be. She was a good sport for J-man, but it was kinda sad and exciting at the same time to see her growing up in front of our eyes. We also noticed that she wanted to do all of the bigger rides over and over again. I would say she is definitely a tween now.
We thought we should call it a night early, so we left the park around 5:30pm and grabbed dinner at The Rainforest Cafe. With our bellies full, we had no trouble falling asleep.
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| Vacation Pics March 2007 Day 4 |
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