Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Anaheim: Thursday, February 19, 2009 - TORY'S 16TH BIRTHDAY!

Today is Tory's 16th Birthday and she's in Spain. *snif* I tried calling her, left a voice mail on her calling card and sent an email, but was unable to reach her. I hope she's having a great time!

The park was crowded! It still wasn’t as bad as it was at New Years, but there were a lot more bodies, and longer lines. It was also HOT! Temperatures were in the low 80’s, but when you’re wearing jeans and a thick shirt, it’s hot! Eric was wearing shorts, so he doesn’t think it was as hot as I did.

We managed to go on the new Finding Nemo ride. I vaguely remember, maybe going on the submarine ride when I was really little, so this was a fairly new experience for me. We waited 45 minutes to get on it. The seats on it were so small, we figure they didn’t upgrade those since the 70’s. The ride itself was rather hum-drum, with the first part probably a duplicate of the original ride, and the second part in a cave with holographic (or projected) images from Finding Nemo. Neat for a one time thing, probably never need to go on it again...unless it’s something that Tory wants to go on when we bring her back this summer.

Next we headed to Peter Pan’s Flight...and lo and behold we found the smallest line for that ride since we’d arrived, so we jumped on in. We waited perhaps 20 minutes. I just love that ride. It’s so ... original.

We then hit a few of our favorite rides (Big Thunder Mountain Rail Road, The Haunted Mansion, Pirates of the Caribbean and Indiana Jones & the Temple of the Forbidden Eye) before heading out of the park.

That night we had dinner at Outback Steak House & it was very relaxing as we prepared for home.

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