Disneyland!

Nate and I drove to California over President's Day weekend to go to DISNEYLAND! It was nice to get out of Provo. We stayed with his parents in Irvine, which was only 15 minutes away! We stayed for 10 hours at the park both days we were there. It rained both days (ALOT), but we were well stocked with umbrellas, Gatorade, and Famous Amos cookies and hence had a fabulous trip. The pictures below were snapped between torrents.



Outside Sleeping Beauty's castle. It's smaller than the one in disneyworld, but...dare I say it? I think I like this one more! There's something so rustic and charming about it. I couldn't stop staring at it every time we walked by.




Outside the haunted mansion. Is it weird that this ride still gives me the creeps? We went on it twice, and that was quite enough.



This was taken in Tarzan's treehouse. I think around the corner is the huge plastic leopard Sabor that roared in my face and made me very frightened.



We caught a 3-D show (love the glasses), "Captain EO", which Nate insisted on seeing because of all his "fond childhood memories" of it. I had no idea what I was getting myself into. Apparently George Lucas, Michael Jackson, and Steven Spielberg all teamed up to make this little classic. It was...well, I think it falls (along with Australian Musk Sticks and 2001 A Space Odyssey) under the category of "something you have to experience once but need never endure again". Basically Michael Jackson flies his starship to a planet full of creepy TV-cable people and uses his magic musical powers to turn them all into colorfully clad dancers.

Here's a short clip, for your viewing pleasure :)



Strange, no?



GORGEOUS flowers we found in California Adventure during one of our sunny hours. I had to take a picture. I think its my favorite of the lot!



At the end of the day - wet, exhausted, stuffed with cookies, and very, very satisfied.

We got a lot done! We went on Indiana Jones five times, Tower of Terror five times (3 too many for me), Matterhorn (an abominable snowman roller coaster - my new favorite!) 4ish times - a note on that one, we got to skip ahead in line 4 times because we only had two people! Woohoo! Space mountain 3 times (what an amazing ride), Soarin' twice, Peter Pan twice, Pirates of the Caribbean twice, and pretty much everything else at least once. Yet somehow we never did make it to It's a Small World...