Showing posts with label Disneyland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Disneyland. Show all posts

Thursday, 27 January 2011

The Happiest Place on Earth

TRAVEL ~ Day 20

  Yesterday I was celebrating my birthday at Disneyland with my sister.

Cinderella's Castle from Fantasyland.

 First stop the Carousel.

My sister has been horse crazy since the age of 5.

Storybook Ride
Alice in Wonderland's village

 Aladin's village

Toad Hall

 When I was a kid I so wanted to be small enough to move into this wonderful place!  I was also a big fan of The Borrowers stories!
We had lunch at a wonderful outdoor restaurant in New Orleans Square:  Gumbo, goat cheese salad and a treat!

Can you tell it's a Mickey shaped cream puff?
Yummy!

While in The French Quarter, I shared with her what little I know about Club 33.  She has enough interesting friends, she just might wangle an invitation.  I told her she'd better include me and I'd fly out at a moment's notice!

Over-exposed, this captures the feel of some of the warmer places in the Park.  Knowing my husband has been shoveling snow most of this month, I'm awfully grateful to be here where it's sunny and warm.  I know how much he loves this ride.

 The back side of water.

Our daughter thinks when we retire, we should move to Orlando, FL or Anaheim, CA and my husband should get a job on the Jungle Cruise.  Not only does he love all the puns, he probably would come up with new ones!

 Waiting for the Matterhorn ride, we were lulled by these beautiful flowers.

Sis loves this ride but didn't know it had been made a lot faster!
It kinda scared me as a kid, but I always went on it.  It was lots of fun yesterday!

I learned something new about my sister . . .
She loves Barbershop Quartets!

We stayed all day and came home tired & happy!

Thursday, 9 April 2009

Happy Birthday from Disneyland


My mom and I went to Disneyland on her birthday. Admission to a single park is their gift to everyone on their birthday, you just have to sign up online before you go.



Despite its very irritating song, "It's a Small World" is a very pretty ride. It has recently been renovated and hey, my mom wanted to go on it!



Tom Sawyer's Island has always been a favorite of my mom. Our yearly family vacations were tent camping or backpacking in the Sierra. If we could have camped out here she would have been so happy!



I hope I look this good at 80!



I learned about this magical place here. I don't know the password, and I haven't been behind the door, but I love knowing it is a fabulous secret place! Visiting is on my bucket list!



It was a wonderful day!