Okay.........this post will finish up my First Disneyland trip story! I promise! LOL!
We had Priority Seating Reservations at Ariel's Grotto hosted by Captain Mickey at 4:40 for dinner. (I called too late and was given this rather early time slot) It was very windy, cool and drizzling a bit so we were all looking forward to this meal.
Although the food is nothing to write home about, they do give you three courses with a little bit of everything. My boys all enjoyed the Mickey Mouse Shaped Chicken nuggets that were served in a beach pail with fries on the bottom and the ketchup on the shovel! They also loved the cotton candy that came along with the dessert they ordered (they all had root beer floats) Lots of sugar to keep them going!
There were LOTS of characters in there for dinner. The characters and the games made this dinner well worth the inflated price! We saw Mickey, Minnie, Chip, Dale, Donald Duck (a big HIT with my youngest), Goofy, Max, and Pluto! I don't think I have ever seen as many characters at just one meal before. There was some crazy guy dressed up like a "Captain" who led the fun and games. They played the limbo, did some line dancing, danced with maracas YOU NAME IT! I was tempted to pretend I was a child so I could join in! Of course my 4 year can't stop singing "I don't want to be a duck........so shake your butt!" They were singing this while tickling Donald (FUNNY side note: My 7 year old announced that Donald Duck was a girl because he heard her laughing when they were tickling her!) This was a great way to end our time in the parks! I took TONS of pictures!!!!
I guess the light rain the cold weather drove people away from the park early so when we left the Grotto, Paradise Pier was empty. We could ride anything and everything with no waiting time at all! And so Screamin' got another turn (not for me though!) plus Maliboomer (only the 7 year old again), Mulholland Madness, Sun Wheel (awesome views in the dark!), Orange Stinger, the Golden Zephyr (had to ride this as I have a picture of my grandmother riding an attraction just like this years ago at an amusement park that no longer exists), and the Jumpin' Jellyfish (had to ride this THREE times with my four year old)
By this time we were frozen and Golden Dreams sounded good since they promised us that it was warm inside! I won't say too much about this...........except that with two History Majors (myself and my father) watching this movie about CA History...............you can imagine our comments! HA, HA! We did save the comments until after we left the show!
My children were ready for bed and so were my parents so we went back to the hotel. I was also pretty tired and I could see the crowds heading back into the parks as we were leaving (the rain had stopped by then) We decided not to go back in as the boys wanted to go to bed.
We did get one last MAGICAL Surprise on our very last night...........
Our room offered a FANTASTIC VIEW of the FIREWORKS Show at 9:30. We opened our doors and could even hear the soundtrack loud and clear! What a treat that was!!!! And a nice way to end our time at Disneyland!
I felt like crying when it was time to move onto to the next portion of our trip!
Soooooooooooooooooooooo Our thoughts on Disneyland! We will RETURN Or in the words of your "infamous" governor I'LL BE BACK!
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