Monday, June 09, 2008

California Adventure Revisited and Disney Fireworks- Friday- Day 8

We decided Friday would be "Late day" since we wanted to see the fireworks, so we didn't get to the park until 10:30, but of course ended up staying until 10:30 that night.
We went back to California Adventure to see the Alladin production (thanks Becky for the recommendation) which was really well done. Soarin' Over California had been shut down the last time we were there, so we caught that, as well as another trip down the Grizzly River Run, the High School Musical show, as well as some other rides we had missed before.

While I took my turn on the roller coaster with the big kids Brad took Abby back to "Bug's World" and went to the bumper cars. Brad said to Abby "Let's go on this one" (pictured below) and Abby refused. Brad asked "Why not? What's wrong with it?' to which she replied "It has a unibrow! I don't like unibrows?" LOL, what a weirdo!

Here she is on an acceptable bumper car----) grrr... I still can't get the videos to upload... I'm working on it.)

We decided to eat at "Downtown Disney" for Friday night, and we ended up with what I believe has been our most expensive family dinner ever at Rainforest Cafe. We then had to go back to the stores to spend the remaining money the kids had left.
Overall they ended up with
Samantha- pair of Mickey Mouse crocs
Elise- a Pluto mug & Mickey mouse cap
Ethan- the long sucker, a pirate hologram "necklace", a football, and a mickey mouse watch
Abby- her Minnie Mouse hat, a princess wallet, and a sucker.

There was a cool lego store in downtown Disney with this big giraffe made out of legos
We returned to Disneyland for the fireworks, which were really great. They do a fantastic job! Again, we thought after we were done with the fireworks, we would beat the crowd and head over to Fantasyland for the "kiddie" rides, but again, everyone had the same idea and we ended up waiting for 20 min. in line for Dumbo. But I figured we HAD to go to Dumbo because a trip to Disney is not complete without a ride on Dumbo!! Right??

3 comments:

Christie said...

We had to wait in a wicked long line for Dumbo too. SO silly. I guess everyone thinks it's not a trip to Disney without riding Dumbo. :-) What fun pictures, I love how the kids are all wild and excited in the night time one. :-)

Becky said...

Lol--unibrow comment! Wow, I never even noticed!

SJacobus said...

Unibrow:) Love all the personality in the 2nd to last photo. So great.