Thursday, February 12, 2009

Disneyland evening – day two

Our favorite hotel to stay at is the Anaheim Desert Inn and Suites, which is right across the street from Disneyland.  The rooms are nice, the price is great, and most of all, it’s a short easy walk to the main entrance.  It’s perfect for catching an early afternoon nap.  After our siesta today we headed over to Disney’s California Dentures.  We took Karen and Wendy over to the Hollywood Tower Hotel, which is our second favorite hotel.  We would stay there but the elevators are too unpredictable, and Lisette is scared we will get sucked into a vortex or something.  Where does she get such silly ideas?  She must watch too many old TV shows from the early 60’s.  No more late night Twilight Zone episodes for her!

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We stayed and the California Misadventure park to catch the Pixar Play Parade.  It was pretty entertaining, and Melinda saved us a great spot at the start of the parade route, since she stayed behind with Saffy who doesn’t appreciate creepy old hotels.

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We headed back to Disneyland and enjoyed the lights come on Main Street USA.

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I missed going on Big Thunder Mountain yesterday, so we got in line for it again tonight.  Lisette, Miles, and Ian really love Big Thunder, and it’s especially fun at night when the tunnels are all dark.

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Melinda again saved us a great spot to view Fantasmic!  I didn’t get very good pictures, but it was a great show.  It had Mickey, fireworks, movie clips projected on water screens, barges with princesses and screeching monkeys (on separate barges).  Although, thinking about it, it might be more entertaining to put the screeching monkeys on the same barge with the princesses.  Hmm…  Oh yeah, it also had Peter Pan fighting Hook on a pirate ship, a giant fire breathing dragon, witches, fire on the water, and a grand finale with all the Disney characters waving from the Mark Twain.  Oh yeah, more fireworks. Pretty fun stuff.

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2 comments:

Lisette said...

Were do you get such silly ideas?

Eric said...

From my silly children, of course! ;)