 | | Okie Dokie... heading to Anaheim via Amtrak thursday night.. while i'm sick... ack. A couple of bags of Halls are packed!
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 | | Here's the choo-choo. It's a two hour ride or so, i have my work laptop to check e-mail so i can do some work friday since i can't go in. And I can play MULE on the train.
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 | | Not the most high tech but it works. The dude is checking tickets and puts a slip of paper above your head to indicate which stop you are going to.
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 | | Kathy and Yo picked me up at Anaheim and we went out to dinner at the Cheesecake Factory. I saw this sign and it screamed Momo... one of the Witmeyer foster kids...
Anaheim, CA
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 | | The Anaheim Convention Center, home of the 2008 AOA Academy. Kathy is looking to start her own practice and i'm hear to help check out vendors, etc.
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 | | So we breeze through the vendors and get lots of handouts and some swag... and walk across the street to Disneyland!!!
Disneyland, CA
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 | | Downtown Mainstreet... it's friday so it's not too crowded. See, there are spaces between the folks (and it's october so the crowds are really down).
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 | | We first hit up astroblasters and then Space Mountain but it's closed. Bummer.. but the Matterhorn is just around the corner.
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 | | Today it's just Kathy, Me, and Greg enjoying the park! The lines are next to nothing small so it's great. Michelle will come tomorrow (sat) but she's got a bun in the oven so no scary rides for her.
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 | | Yeah baby, Thunder Mountain... there's one particular spot on this ride that just made me crap my pants when i was small. I had more motion sickness back when i was tiny... now roller coasters are just a neat little ride w/ no adrenaline movement...
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 | | The fast choo-choo.
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 | | Pirates of the Caribbean! The wife auction scene.
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 | | On the old Tom Sawyer Island... now Pirate Island or something like that... there are some interactive displays the do stuff. This bone arms from the movie pops out with an eye.
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 | | The steamboat.. that killed a dude a few years ago...
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 | | Another interactive display.... we though we had to pump it dry but it did it on it's own after we triggered it. The skeletons become visible when the water drains.
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 | | Kathy didn't want to follow me and Greg through some tunnels and we ended up in different areas. So we went down, and she came up to find us. Ha... in a minute we found out we switched places to find each other : )
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 | | Me and my baby at the Haunted Mansion! It's all decked out in Halloween fare.
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 | | I tried to memorize these when i was a kid so i could make some halloween props of my own. The best i could do was remember one or two... but now we have digital cameras...
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 | | Part of the Halloween version of Haunted Mansion.
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 | | Ohhh... Splash Mountain... why did Greg and Kathy want to go on it? It's named that for a reason...
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 | | Ha! I videoed the big drop and splash... hahaha... kathy got SOAKED!!!! We're too cheap to buy the print though : )
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 | | See.. kathy was in the front seat and got the worst of it. Oh yeah.. head to toe... except for the hems of her pants she's sopping wet!
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 | | Told you...
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 | | Yeah buddy! The best ride ever! Astro Blasters! The Steele's are going down!
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 | | Mr Smith vs Mr Steele... 639600 vs ... it doesn't matter...
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 | | Friday night scene in the Main Street. A bit more croweded...
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 | | So we wanted to check out the new submarine ride/Nemo the last time we were here but it wasn't open yet. But we're getting on this time, 1 hour wait or not!
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 | | Getting on the boat.. it looks like a tubby is going to sink the vessel...
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 | | What the inside of the boat looks like. The ride is almost 50 years old, and the operator has to stand to operate the boat. Bummer... 'cause i think shifts are many hours long.
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 | | A big grouper underwater as seen from the 'sub'.
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 | | The other bestest ride at disneyland! Space Mountain! It's not as retro looking with the old FedEx logos everywhere but it's still a great ride.
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 | | Hehehe.. me and Kathy posing for the cameras in Space Mountain.
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 | | Pimp Daddy and K-miss waiting for Sir Gregory and Dame.
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 | | The disneyland castle... where we got engaged : )
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 | | The view of tomorrowland from the circle in the middle of the park.
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 | | The cute Steele's... about to get a smackdown. They should stick to posing for photos : )
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 | | I'm dissapointed with my score but at least i ranked. Kathy done alright too.
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 | | Fantasyland, dumbo is on the right, carosel on the left, and the defunct skyride ahead in the trees.
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 | | Yeah, that ain't a giant penis or anything. Welcome to the LSD infused creation called the Tiki Room. Those imagineers were on on some strong shit in the summer of 1963....
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 | | The Golden Horseshoe Saloon! See americana gouge themselves on icecream, burgers, fries, and HFCS based drinks... but we're here to see Billy Hill and the Hillbillies.. and Greg is in line to get some deep fried starch bits.
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 | | The Hillbillies... it's a good show. A nice respite if you're feet are tired and you need a break from the hot grind of walking about.
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 | | Me and Greg saturday afternoon waiting for Kathy, she ditched us to go to some Low Vision meeting... we're meeting up between the parks to head over to California Adventure.
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 | | Hey! We had a few minute until kathy showed up so we went back to disneyland for some trinket shopping... and mr hillbilly was there!
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 | | Trinket shopping circa 2008.
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 | | So they have this new ride in California Adventure called Midway Mania.. it's kinda like Astro Blasters but it's more VR like a video game... sorry about the smackdown babe...
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 | | The happy couple on Midway Mania.
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 | | Saturday night in California Adventure.
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 | | Kathy taking a picture of the Steele's.
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 | | California Screaming, the roller coaster with the linear induction motors!
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 | | Midway Mania is so cool we have to do it again. This is what the ride section looks like. You shoot at video screens with mounted pull-string guns.
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 | | Yeah... gergery was a only child and never knew what it was to get beat on... i'm just contributing to his education here : )
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 | | Night shot of the defunct ferris wheel and california screaming, and the general midway area.
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 | | We had the 3-day park hopper (for $99!!!, a 2-day hopper is $160) so we hopped back over to disneyland for shits and giggles. This is downtown saturday night late october. Great california weather!
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 | | Tomorrowland at night! I'm not a big fan of the 1800's retro look... i like the 1970's space look much much better.
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 | | The Matterhorn at night. Sorry about the light in the foreground but we had some time to kill so me and Greg sat around and took night shots of various things.
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 | | Another shot of Mainstreet from the circle.
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 | | The disneyland castle!
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 | | *yawn* Time to hit the sack! Our hotel room at the Mariott.
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 | | Did i mention we like the new Midway Mania ride? Here's kathy on her way to kicking my ass!
California Adventure, Disneyland, CA
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 | | Hi Cutie!
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 | | Ahhh! My reign is over. My honor has been slapped. Dammm... we'll have to come back : )
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 | | The happy couple again!
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 | | More posing on California Screaming. The bowfingers... the Japanese do that. See http://www.ziggyworks.com/adventures/viewadventures.asp?advid=12, scroll to the bottom!
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 | | So continuing on, it's sunday now, the Steele's are on their way home but we had another day on our pass so we decided to poke around some more. Here's the mainstreet area of california adventure.
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 | | The second to last stop before we break for San Diego/home... lunch! We stopped for cookies afterwards to give us energy for the drive back!
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