{"id":440,"date":"2009-12-04T16:27:01","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T23:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/?p=440"},"modified":"2009-12-04T16:27:01","modified_gmt":"2009-12-04T23:27:01","slug":"mic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/?p=440","title":{"rendered":"Mic….."},"content":{"rendered":"

So, next year I hit the Big Six Oh.\u00c2\u00a0 This year, we went to Disneyland.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

A few weeks ago I found The Disneyland Encyclopedia<\/em> at the library.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a fascinating compendium of everything that’s been at Disneyland from the beginning to sometime last year (a few things have changed since then).\u00c2\u00a0 When we figured out that yes, we could afford to go this year, I went out and bought our own copy of the book.\u00c2\u00a0 It was well worth the investment.<\/p>\n

I made copies of all the maps in the front of the book, and then marked the attractions we wanted to get a better look at, and we took those pages along with us rather than toting the whole book.\u00c2\u00a0 Thus, we spent probably 60% of the day walking around looking at interesting stuff, 30% riding rides and 10% eating.\u00c2\u00a0 We’ve been to Disneyland multiple times, but there was still a lot to look at that we’d never seen before.<\/p>\n

For some reason, we’d never really gotten around to going into the shops that are on the right hand side of Main street as you walk toward the castle.\u00c2\u00a0 Made up for that this time around, and then some.\u00c2\u00a0 We found the Disney Gallery, which is now right next to the right-hand gate and much expanded from when it was upstairs over the Pirates.\u00c2\u00a0 We were delighted to see that the Big Thunder BBQ had been revived, but disgusted to find out what it costs these days (ate dinner at Casa del Zocalo instead).\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I was dismayed to find out that the Jack Sparrow mouse ears I’d passed up buying two years ago were discontinued.\u00c2\u00a0 Pfui.\u00c2\u00a0 I did buy a pin with Minnie (my favorite character) as Princess Leia, though.<\/p>\n

The benches in the center of the circle right by the entrance were amazingly empty when it came time for the Christmas parade, and thus we got to see it from nice comfortable seats instead of cold, hard pavement.\u00c2\u00a0 This is a definite plus for an old lady like me.\u00c2\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

We even braved It’s A Small World for the first time since we had small children.\u00c2\u00a0 They’d mixed Jingle Bells in with the usual music so it didn’t turn into an earworm.\u00c2\u00a0 And we got out just in time for the fireworks, and right by Small World is one of the best, and least crowded, places to watch.<\/p>\n

We were there from about 45 minutes after the park opened till about 20 minutes past closing time.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t think we’ve ever stayed that long.\u00c2\u00a0 And, thanks to the book, we never ran out of things to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, next year I hit the Big Six Oh.\u00c2\u00a0 This year, we went to Disneyland.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42 A few weeks ago I found The Disneyland Encyclopedia at the library.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a fascinating compendium of everything that’s been at Disneyland from the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[94,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}