If you like your blog reading to contain picture after picture then your eyes are in for a treat!
Here we go, queue James Franco as Alien: "Sprang Breeaak Fooooreva!"
So, here's the low down. Spring break was last week! My older brother accepted this real life, adult, job offer and has to move across the country this summer. My mom planned a little spring break family vacation to celebrate. We went to Disneyland/California Adventure and it was the first time I've been that I'll actually be able to acknowledge (i.e. the only other time I've ever been, I was a wee little baby).
That's chubby little me in the front with my older brother.
My mom had purchased a 2 day park hopper deal from Costco (big shocker because she buys everything from Costco) that included random things like a starter pin trading kit, a Character Dining experience, and early park access with our Disney hotel stay. We stayed at the Paradise Pier Hotel and got a room with one heck of a view.
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We started first thing Monday morning in line for early access to California Adventure and hit all the big rides first thing. The rest of the afternoon was spent hanging out at the park stuffing our faces with churros and meals from Flo's V8 Cafe, spotting a few characters, that sort of such.
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Towards Monday evening we found our way into Disneyland in search of Indiana Jones. Thank goodness we found it. Indiana Jones is my mom's favorite attraction and is the one she remembers best from way back when. I can easily say that it falls in my top three favorites.
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We had spent that evening in early, eating pizza from a restaurant across the street from Disney called The Pizza Press and OMG I'm drooling just remembering it. We got a white pizza and a pepperoni/vegetable one. Thin crust with the perfect sauce to cheese ratio, just like in your dreams. If white pizza is bomb.com this white pizza would be bomb.com/yourmom. Typical me not bringing a camera with me because if I did, this would be the only picture necessary to explain my break.
Tuesday morning was cloudy and more foggy than us Arizonians (?) are used to. The whole day was filled with all things Disney or Mickey Mouse shaped.
As it turns out, Big Thunder Mountain was my absolute favorite ride at the park, something about the old coaster feel but it was smooth and fast and just that kind of enjoyable that's exactly the same for the first and twenty third ride. We finished our time in the park at the Blue Bayou restaurant inside the Pirates of the Caribbean ride. Food was real good but would be a tid-bit pricey for the average family, we had a meal voucher given my moms frugal Costco purchase!
Wednesday morning before heading back down the west coast, we stopped to take advantage of our Character Dining voucher. Mission beach was our final stop before heading back home.
Even though Disney was not as magical as it would have been had I been younger, seeing the small children get swept away with their imagination and the shock of meeting their favorite character was magic in and of itself. I think my favorite part of the whole trip was watching Chip of Chip and Dale catch a small boy running after him with a hug then grabbing his hand and showing him around the park as his parents followed behind. The boy was absolutely over the moon for the 10 or so minutes of attention that Chip devoted to him.
Safe to say I'd like my next vacation in the Disney World/Universal Studios direction cause I think having the same fun but with Harry Potter would just be one giant out of body experience!
Have you ever made the trip to Disneyland/Disney World? Tell me what your favorite attraction was and we can geek out together about the adrenaline filled goodness!
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P.S. Because I didn't have my dslr with me for this vacation my brother kindly allowed me to use a few of his photos. You'll know which are his as an asterisk "*" will directly follow the image. The editing and resizing was done by me (even his photographs) but you can check out more of my brother's work on his Instagram page @petes_pix
