A couple times a month, Mark and I have Disney dates. I meet him at work on Friday and at 3:30 when he gets off we drive to Disneyland! By the time we get into the park it's around 5 pm and we get some fast passes and go on some of the less popular rides (I refuse to wait more than 30 minutes and when you get there near the end of the day all the bigger rides are jam packed so we only go on them with fast passes) and then we try a new restaurant each time (with our passes we get 20% off at restaurants so it's not any more expensive than a regular restaurant outside of Disney). After dinner we use our fast passes, maybe see a parade or fireworks, do a few more rides and, depending on how full we are, get ice cream on Main Street before heading home.
Last Friday we finally went to California Adventure instead of Disneyland. I never think there's that much to do over there (except for all the fun stuff you have to get there early for before fast passes run out aka my favorite ride of all time, Radiator Springs Racers!) but we were pleasantly surprised at how much we found to do and we even did a few things for the first time!
First, we headed straight to Soarin' Over California (best ride ever!) but all the fast passes were gone and the wait was 45 min. So we kept looking!
We always do the Ariel ride which never has a wait (which is weird because all the fantasy land rides at Disney have at least 20 minute waits usually even when it's slow but whatever, not complaining!) Ariel is my favorite anyway :)
After that we went on our new favorite ride, Goofy's Sky School! That ride is awesome! We didn't have to wait very long either, it was so much fun! We got fast passes to ride it again later. Then we walked around Cars Land for kicks...on Route 66 ;)
Maybe it was the wonderful spirit that is Cars Land but we started to get optimistic about the wait time for Radiator Springs. We even thought about going Single Rider. But the Single Rider wasn't going or something (the wait time was blacked out) and the regular line? 80 minutes! Ugh. No one's got time for that!
So then we went to Bug's Land and saw "It's Tough to be a Bug" for the first time there (we've done it at DisneyWorld).
I swear I act like a 3 year old in that show, screaming and grabbing Mark's arm constantly. It's a pretty terrifying experience actually! Huge 3D spiders that launch things at you, thick fog that comes down followed by spiders from the ceiling, and all the things stinging you in the back and sliding under your seat. I don't know if I'll be bringing my kids on that until they're maybe 12, haha.
After that we ran into a Mad Tea party (outdoor concert with stilt walkers and musicians all dressed like rabbits and flamingo's and stuff haha) and then did the Monster's Inc ride.
At the end of the ride I decided to take a video of the scary receptionist who says "I'm watching you Wuzowski...always watching" and discovered she was real!! I don't know if there was someone inside her or just controlling the voice or what but she started talking to me! I got embarrassed and quickly stopped recording so this is all I got...
Hahaha after that she said, "I'm ready for my closeup. Cheeeeeese!!" She thought I was taking a picture, haha. I was honestly so taken aback by it.
After that we had time for one more thing before dinner. We did Turtle Talk with Crush (always a good time) and then headed to Wine Country Trattoria where we had reservations.
I was in a bad mood when we sat down. It was so beautiful outside with all the lights and view but they seated us inside and it was freezing. So that didn't help.
I tried to cheer up but Turtle Talk with Crush had made me a little sad. We are currently still trying for a baby and I had gotten my period the day before. Disney is fun for us but it's even more fun with children. There are families everywhere and everything is geared for people with children, especially Turtle Talk which we had just done. Sometimes it's sad that we still don't have any and aren't any closer to having any. I feel like we have been trying forever and I have nightmares of infertility... But I digress.
When our food came I wasn't that impressed. I got Bolognese with Campanelle pasta which was basically just like spaghetti and meat sauce but the pasta was overcooked. We make better tasting spaghetti with sauce out of a jar every week! Not to mention it was pretty pricey. Mark got lamb that was pretty good but I was still pretty annoyed.
There was a couple at the next table with a boy around 7 or 8 years old and they were fighting most of the time. It wasn't really bothering us but we did comment on it. The wife kept saying "Shut it!" in a loud whisper to her husband. Their son was completely unaffected by any of this, as though it was their normal. He was just playing and talking to them as they quietly fought. By the end of the meal though, I don't know what the dad was saying but he was making his wife very upset. Finally the boy started yelling "Shut up!" over and over at his dad and holding his mom. It was so odd.
Then something even weirder happened. She paid for our meal! The waiter brought back our bill and said "You don't need to sign." I was confused but Mark didn't seem to be. We left and Mark said, "That lady paid for our meal. I heard her ask if she could." Then the waiter came back out to us and said she had paid for our meal! So crazy! I felt so bad! I mean, she was the one having a terrible night, fighting with her husband and SHE paid for our meal! I'm sure it's because they were fighting and felt bad we had to listen to it but it really didn't affect our meal that much. I was already upset about other things. But that definitely cheered us both up!
After dinner, we walked back and forth in order to get a glimpse of The World of Color show (we didn't have fast passes and you need them to see the show, pretty annoying) and then we shared a banana split from the Ghirardelli Ice Cream & Soda Fountain!
So the whole date cost us $11, not too shabby ;)
