California Adventures

The ticket you get when you go to Disneyland on your birthday is a two-fer, which means you can go back and go to California Adventure for free within 30 days. Amanda said she'd go with me if we went on a day her pass wasn't blocked out before she started her internship, which was today.

I caught the train in Solana Beach just befor e9 and met Amanda in Fullerton a little after 10. We drove down to Anaheim and made our way to the park. It was a beautiful SoCal day for us, and not too crowded. I snagged an exit pass and a "Just Graduated" button. I don't know if I can go back to not walking around Disneyland wearing a button that merits a "congratulations" haha

We went on Soaring over California and California Screaming right away. I hadn't been on CA Screaming before, it was a lot of fun. It has great drops, and a loop that was actually enjoyable. We went through the bakery and tortilla factories there and got samples of sourdough bread and flour and corn tortillas. I ate the sandwich I had brought for lunch and we shared a delicious chocolate shake.

Since it was getting quite warm out, we thought going on the rapids ride would be a good idea. We shared our "raft" with this cute family from Davis whose son was very excited about everything. Upon leaving the ride sufficiently wet, we went on the Monsters Inc ride, very cute. We squeezed in one last ride on the orange spinning swings and took a few pictures.

Now comes the added adventure. We forgot to account in the time it takes to walk from the park to the parking lot, so we ended up leaving about 10 minutes before my train was to leave. Needless to say, I missed my train.

Well that's fabulous.

The next train wasn't for 2 hours, and I needed to be home before then so I could get ready for community band, hmm. time to be creative.

I then remembered that Dave was going to be in Orange County that day doing stuff for the fall. Time to swallow some pride and pull out the cell phone.

"Hey Dave, where are you?"

I was in luck, he was still in Orange County. I ran into the nearby convenience store and got him a large diet pepsi as a thank you, and Amanda drove me down to Anaheim to meet him. He drove me the rest of the way home and it was actually quite an enjoyable ride home. We talked about a lot of different things and discovered some mutual music tastes.

I made it home about the same time I would have had I caught my train. Band was quite sleepy for me, but I made it. And oddly enough Dave picked me up from band too. (He had been on his way to the video store and mom asked if he would stop by to get me on his way home).

Another delightfully fun Disney day.

Speaking of Disney, I saw Up last week with Raelene and absolutely loved it. It may now be in the runnings to be tied with Nemo for my favorite Pixar movie. Pretty sure I cried as much as I laughed in it, but it has some great messages. I was also able to use my Coldstone birthday coupon, which makes anything even better :)