I'll admit it, I've enjoyed having the passes to Disneyland, but I'm not getting them next year. It's just so much money and then we can't do any of the other cool parks and such throughout the year. I think we will save it and do it every couple years if we do it again at all.
We got down there early this time, before noon! We were there about 8 hours and got on almost all the rides. We even had dinner there. Mmm..Mexican food. My boys are too big for kids meals though, so this eating out stuff is expensive. We don't always eat there though, this was special. You know what made it special? I desperately wanted to eat there! :))
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| ASIMO in Action |
I have a few complaints about Disneyland the last few times I've been there. Going there is like getting a huge dose of humanities flaws all at once. I leave desperately wanting aliens to land, find us all creepy and destructive, and wipe us out so they can colonize the planet. Not really, I'm just getting ugly about it.
Here's a list:
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| Going to Disneyland on XBOX Kinect |
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| Tom is dreaming of a vehicle of his own. |
1. The whole park looks as though someone went over it with a fine tooth comb looking for things that might be unsafe, from the trams and the stupid doors, to putting up hideous scaffolding under the leaf part of Alice in Wonderland so people can't fall out if they somehow scoot around and out of the bars of the caterpillar. It's ridiculous.
2. The ride operators are rude. Back in my day (insert crotchety old person voice here), you would be busted big time for ignoring the guests or treating them as if they were cattle. We joked about it with the guests and did tease them a bit, but we were trying to interact and if any one in the lines tried to get our attention we were all over it. Last time a cast member at Space Mountain walked by the cue with his hand out not even looking at us, to get the fast passes. When my son didn't realize what he wanted, the guy stood there and just held out his hand waiting, not saying a word. Geez! And then there is all the construction going on, painting and such, areas blocked off while guys are working. It's lame, totally pulls you out of the experience. The whole point of a theme park is to transport your mind to that theme and butt crack painters is not part of the Main Street experience.
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| Tea Cups! |
I changed my mind about the list. Too negative. I love Disneyland. Actually, I love theme parks. And next year I think I'd rather experience more than just this one.
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| He's not really mad...he's just pretending! |
Here are some pictures of the day. We spent some time in Innoventions for the first time. The boys liked it. There was a whole set up about cells and microbiology. It was very cool. And they had the Asimo robot. That thing gave the creeps walking out. He's here to take over the world! And we got to play with the XBOX Kinect and now I WANT one! :))
We got down there early this time, before noon! We were there about 8 hours and got on almost all the rides. We even had dinner there. Mmm..Mexican food. My boys are too big for kids meals though, so this eating out stuff is expensive. We don't always eat there though, this was special. You know what made it special? I desperately wanted to eat there! :))
