Disneyland Everyday

Here is your daily reminder to check the weather. Make sure you are keeping detailed records of the high and low temperatures and wind speed. Keep an Excel spreadsheet that you update every four hours so we can not only see the expected temps but also the trend line. This is also your daily reminder to get yourself mentally ready for rope drop. We do not want to miss it. I know, you're on vacation and want to sleep in.  Well, I got news for you: this ain't no vacation. This is Disneyland. It's kill or be killed out there! You can sleep some other time! What? You want to linger around the motel breakfast? Too bad-Lissa got a place that doesn't even offer breakfast because she knows how important rope drop is. Oh, and here's a few pics of us eating at a previous hotel breakfast: Do you know what's a good breakfast? The Waffle Cristo sandwich. It's waffles with ham and cheese and syrup for dipping: You know what else is good? The breakfast chimi: Nothing beats

A week from today we will depart St. George and head for California. This is your now daily reminder to check the weather forecast for Anaheim several times a day. You can text me to talk about it if you want. We can discuss shorts, jeans, sweatshirts, sweaters, tank tops, ponchos, shoes, snacks, and rides. The other thing I want to add is the importance of rope drop.  Many of you probably don't know that the disability passes have changed dramatically. The most important thing is that they only let three other people piggy-back on the disabled person.  That means we need like 6 disabled people in our group to make the DAS pass work. If we count Gage I think we only have four! :) Anyway, that makes being at rope drop so important.  The first few hours at the park are so good and we need to be there for it! Here's a video: Here are a few other pics, you know, to give this post a bit of meat: The long story is coming to an end soon: Something Strange in the Air Still, despite t

I said it a few days agon and I'll say it again: I'm running out of stuff! First, let me remind you to check the weather! Make sure it hasn't changed too much. I don't mind if it gets a bit chilly or a bit warn, but I don't want rain or wind. Fingers crossed on that one. If it is nice and warm maybe I'll do Grizzly River Run again.  Or, maybe I'll just take more pics like these: One adjustment we've made the last few trips is to go to Downtown Disney the night before we hit the parks. In the past we would tell ourselves that on the last day, as we leave the parks, we would wander through Downtown Disney. Well, by then we are tired, grumpy, and most definitely broke. None of us have any appetite for walking around Downtown Disney. But, going the night before is great!  They have good burgers there and it's fun to walk through the Disney store on fresh legs and full wallets. The long story: Something Strange in the Air The families continued their slow

Today marks the day I start to check the weather forecast for Anaheim. I will check it roughly 10 times a day, everyday, until we go. I will check on the St. George forecast so I can know what running kit to bring for my Monday morning run along the river. By the way, all are welcome to run/jog/walk. I suspect we'll do that at around 7 or 8am. More details to come on that one. Now check out this video of the park at night: Anyway, back to the weather. Of course, we want it to be a low of 55, a high of 72, and plenty of sunshine. That's ideal.  Come on, ideal! But it could also rain or be windy.   Or it could be a hurricane.  Here's actual footage from when the hurricane passed over the Jungle Cruise: Or maybe it will be bright and sunny and awesome! Long story: What is Happening to Us? By now, the rest of the family had cleared security, but something felt undeniably off. Maybe it was the dog incident, maybe it was the confiscated scissors, or maybe it was the over-the-top

Hopefully everyone had a good Halloween full of tricks and treats. The daily blog plows along. Here are two really fun pictures. I have never really wanted to get pictures with the characters, but I always like looking at the pics when we do get them. Of course, my favorite character interaction was the infamous story of Jeff's hat and Captain Hook. Let's talk Alison Wonderland. I've told this story before, but it bears repeating. The short of it is this ride, Alison Wonderland, was the catalyst for me deciding it might be fun to ride bigger, faster rides. Way back, Karen came with us to Disneyland. She wanted to ride the Matterhorn. I told her I didn't want to. I was scared, but acted like the ride just wasn't cool enough for a guy like me. Instead, we jumped on Alison Wonderland. This ride was pretty lame for a young teenager, but there was one little, teeny tiny drop, and when we went on that "drop" it seemed pretty cool.  And hey, where some is good pe

I've been to the parks a few times when there is no holiday overlay.  It's just plain old Disneyland. I've also been to the parks one time during the Christmas overlay. I have been to Disneyland many times during Halloween. Plain Disneyland is fantastic-in May they offer Hyperspace Mountain, my all-time favorite ride.  At Christmas there are a lot of peppermint treats, which are not my favorite, but the Christmas tree is cool.  But Halloween?  Oh yeah. It's not scary, just cool. Pumpkins and bats and stuff everywhere.  And the treats, oh man, the treats! One thing about Halloween is the villains come out a bit more. Mickey is no villain, but this is his Halloween costume: This churro is a Halloween time churro that I've only had one time and never seen again. Truth be told, it was just okay, but it was novel. It's the Red Hots churro.  They ground up the Red Hots candy and rolled the churro in it.  Then they gave me a little cup of cream cheese icing for dipping