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I Won't Be Home For Christmas: Part III

Let us know how your day at the park was.
Postby Director_Guy on February 29th, 2008, 2:40 am
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"I see it, James! It's right there!"
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"As soon as we get through this bloody crowd of ugly we will be at the happiest place on earth."

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This family was incredible. The all had the super power of looking ridiculous and being able to stand out in a crowd.

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As you can see, there were already mobs of people here.

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HI WALT!

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"She just said she wanted to eat my soul!"

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Dear lord! Looks like we're not getting on Indiana Jones any time soon.
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My God, look at this mess of people!
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Good lord! It's like a swarm of ants climbing over a dropped chocolate bar.

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HMH only has... and hour wait... Let's do that.
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James pouts because of the mobs of people.
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I love when they re-do the mansion to be like The Nightmare Before Christmas. It's like combing my two favorite things in the world into one big happy awesome amazing thing.

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This is cool, you can see The Haunted Mansion in his eye!

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Mine said I'm with stupid.

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Gingerbread!
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Hidden Mickey! Hidden Mickey! Right there! See? See?! I found an ACTUAL Hidden Mickey this time!

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Ick, there are just so many people here.

Let's not let that stop our fun. Let's grab a single rider on Splash Mountain.
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It's the truth. It's actual.
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We figured the best way to get away from the ugly crowds would be to venture over to Tom Sawyer Island.
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They had some awesome new stuff here related to Pirates of the Carribean.

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It's hard to do these without a tripod.
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"James! I'm stuck! Go on without me!"
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Coolies.
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"I'm in da ball!"

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It's a little scary being in these caves. Especially when there's so many people.
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Not to mention, being as tall as I am.

There was even a point where I wanted to get out of the cave, and a hoard of people came rushing in.

I saw a squirrel....
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It was doin' like this!

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This owl feels very uncomfortable right meow.

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Lundy and Lundy. Here to kick ass and chew bubble gum. And we're all out of gum.

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Hmmm.... the waterfall is off today.

I forgot to mention that we had chowed down on an amazing funnel cake at Magic Mountain the day before and it was delicious. I'm very sad to report that Disneyland's funnel cake was major suckage.
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What's even worse is, it looks so delicious. But it's not.

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Rasta mouse

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The line for the subs was outrageous! You can even see it here stretching all along the side of Matterhorn reaching into Fantasyland.

After molesting a giant Lego,
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We park-hopped over into DCA.

However we did not ride this,
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and it made me sad.

On the list of things ridden in DCA,
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was this.

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Single Rider. An impatient bastard's best friend.
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I'd like to add, that this thing was very nifty and should be in all roller coasters.
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Lucky us, the single rider line still let us sit next to each other during our ride. It was great!
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We then walked around some more, looking at stuff...
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We also tried out our MAD surfing skillz.
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I, obviously, lack all skillz. And I call my self a Californian. Shame.
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I thought this was pretty cool, it squirted out water when you pressed down on it.
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"Who the f*** are these kids?!"

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"Hey, boss! I spy nudes!"

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Bah ha ha ha! Captions can not do enough justice for this photo.

We then left Disney's California Adventure, back into Disneyland
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It was just way too crowded and not enough exciting things to do there. Plus James wanted to get to Toontown before it closed.

Getting off the monorail I notice that even at Disney, the LA traffic sucks...
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Toontown would be a great place to live if you're drunk. All the lines would be straight.
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James noticed a slight miscalculation in scale when they were building this person's apartment.
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Someone please tell me... what the hell?
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James, a coke fiend in Toontown. Tapping into water colors, Eddie?

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Vrooooo, errrt vrooooooo! RRRRRTTttt ERrrrtttt, thubb thubb......vrrooooo.
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Dear God there's nobody driving! AHHH!
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The only way to drive.
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Minnie's well needed some cleaning.

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"King o' de castle, king o' de castle."
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Sexy?
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I didn't have the heart to tell him it wasn't real.
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Look how amazing this picture spot is! It's so picture worthy! OMG!
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James loves lamp.
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"Almost got? Oh crap, the fuzz! Cheese it!"

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The only picture I took of us on Pirates of the Caribbean.

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Well, it's getting dark around the magic kingdom, why don't we hit some rides while people are waiting for Fantastmic! or something.

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Splash without single rider was now down to fifteen minutes. Score!
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We even met this most excellent castmember who had the amazing name of "Sin". Go her!
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Since there was no single rider, we rode together this time.
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"Grrr, I am wet!"
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"Oh! I am wet!"

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Indiana Jones fastpass time has come ahahahaha!
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"Chris! Chrriiiisssss. Hey! ahhhhhh Hi."
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"This is why we can't have nice things!"
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James says, "I want to touch!"
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Spoooookkkkkyyyy
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Touch.
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Foreshadowing the awesome things to come.

Indy was amazing as always. And since Jungle Cruise was right there with zero wait, we hopped on.
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This was our skipper. I don't recall his name at all, but it definitely wasn't cool like Sin's.

Hey, James. It's time for Matterhorn!
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James excitement was so much, that he made the guy behind him drop down dead immediately following this picture.
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Matty looks kind of gross. I mean, I know she's almost 50, but c'mon.
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James-sledding.
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Gopher!

More castle stuff
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I am so tired.
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Let's to Big Thunder and call it a day.
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Weeeeee!
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What a great day.
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Good night, Walt!

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After an exhausting day of amazing Disneyland fun and putting up with swarms of people, it's nice to get some sleep. In fact that's what took so long getting this up, I've been sleeping this whole time.
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It's always great to see my cousin James, and it's even better to go to theme parks with him. I couldn't ask for a better way to end my "coastering" each year than to go to Disneyland and it's even better when Magic Mountain is included in my last set of outtings.

I hope next year will be as amazing as last year, because it'll be tough to beat.

But who knows,
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The night is still young.

Take care folks. See you next season.

The End.
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Postby w00dland on February 29th, 2008, 3:41 am
Aw, Cute ending Lundy.

I especially enjoyed the "This is why we can't have nice things" line. Mad Props.
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Postby MerryDeath on March 3rd, 2008, 9:47 pm
you have the funniest captions ever, it's like i was there, laughing with you ir at you while pointing!

amazingness!
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Postby ttd rox on March 3rd, 2008, 9:55 pm
TOT there looks cooler than the one at DS.
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Postby Colonel Mustard on March 4th, 2008, 12:10 am
I like DHS' Tower look better. I think the DCA and Overseas ones look bulky.
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Postby cycamps on March 4th, 2008, 12:21 am
Great TR!!!
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Postby Danhockey04 on March 4th, 2008, 1:05 am
I saw Brer Rabbit, did that rabbit run away again? I thought he learned his lesson. :?
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Postby jm2775 on March 4th, 2008, 10:59 am
Those caves do make you feel terrible. I hated trying to squeeze thru them and wanting it to be over.
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Postby cycamps on March 4th, 2008, 5:32 pm
I'd love to make a trip out there some day. It'd be neat to visit the original. Isn't it surrounded by crappy buildings though? (outside the park)
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Postby ttd rox on March 4th, 2008, 7:09 pm
jm2775 wrote:Those caves do make you feel terrible. I hated trying to squeeze thru them and wanting it to be over.


Me too! Except I'm only 5-2 so it wouldn't be as bad. Unless..you get ran over that is. :lol:
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Postby Director_Guy on March 5th, 2008, 1:44 am
cycamps wrote:I'd love to make a trip out there some day. It'd be neat to visit the original. Isn't it surrounded by crappy buildings though? (outside the park)


No, not at all. Anaheim is a very nice area. Disney made it that way, really. It is surrounded by a city though, but it's hardly apparent when you're in the park. As opposed to Magic Kingdom where there's nothing around for miles, there's a highway on the other side of Space Mountain. But still, you don't notice.
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Postby cycamps on March 6th, 2008, 6:33 pm
Maybe it was a while ago. I could have sworn that I've seen on the Travel Channel that the area surrounding it didn't used to be as nice...
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Postby ttd rox on March 6th, 2008, 6:45 pm
^Maybe they did a complete renovation in the past few years! :lol:
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Postby Trailblazer Tony on March 8th, 2008, 11:45 am
You might be thinking of Magic Mountain.....
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Postby zjohn1988 on March 8th, 2008, 12:46 pm
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Postby ttd rox on March 8th, 2008, 1:00 pm
Trailblazer Tony wrote:You might be thinking of Magic Mountain.....


Why? Is Valencie not the nicest place to be in? Well, since it's right next to LA you never know, unless you've been there. :wink: I want to go to MM so bad!
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Postby Director_Guy on March 8th, 2008, 1:04 pm
^No.... Valencia is a very nice place as well (when it's not on fire).

When Disneyland first opened, Harbor Blvd was a very not-so-nice place to have a kid friendly theme park. Lots of bright neon sign proclaiming XXX shops and whathaveyou (or so the legend says). Today, it's very clean, shiny, and a very safe place to be.
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Postby ttd rox on March 8th, 2008, 1:30 pm
^Well that's good! I'll have to visit Valencia when we go out west next summer!
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Postby Trailblazer Tony on March 8th, 2008, 4:55 pm
Valencia is okay, but it's neighbors aren't the greatest (from what i've heard, Chris would know much better than i would).
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Postby ttd rox on March 8th, 2008, 6:03 pm
I only want to visit Valencia for MM.
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Postby cycamps on March 9th, 2008, 4:32 pm
Director_Guy wrote:^No.... Valencia is a very nice place as well (when it's not on fire).

When Disneyland first opened, Harbor Blvd was a very not-so-nice place to have a kid friendly theme park. Lots of bright neon sign proclaiming XXX shops and whathaveyou (or so the legend says). Today, it's very clean, shiny, and a very safe place to be.

Thank you. That's exactly what I was talking about.
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