Fifth Day

Sunday

1. disneyland. kim dropped sarah and i off at sarah’s house, we grabbed the car and dipped. traffic wasn’t too bad, so we were there around 11, there were little to no lines at the ticket window, so we got our tics and walked in. it was sweet.

2. first up: main street u.s.a. greeted with a marching band led by mickey, performing on the town’s bandstand by the quaint city square.

3. next up: adventureland. surrounded by jungle foliage, arabian bazaars, morroccon buildings, and the promise of adventure, we went on the jungle cruise river adventure, seeing hippos, lions eating zebras, amazonian natives, piranhas, waterfalls, gorillas playing rifles like trumpets, rhinos chasing explorers up poles, all with a snarky sarcastic river guide at the helm of our boat. i like that at disneyland there’s no bullshit with the rides, you don’t enter and then have to pay more money or tickets to get on a ride, you just go jump on something.

4. next up indiana jones’ jeep ride. we wandered through a mine to get on to a giant jeep that drove crazily through said mine, tire squealing, hairpin turns, screaming curves, drops, trying to escape specters, GIANT cobras, blow guns, boobie traps, and the eye of mata, ooooohhoooohh. there was also sections completely in the dark as the jeep went crazy and a part where a giant boulder came rolling right at us, until we dropped down slope and drove under the rock at the last moment. i don’t ride rides, so even though this was kind of a dinky one, it was a big one for me. had fun though.

5. after that we had a chicken skewer in polynesian sauce and headed for fantasyland.

6. mister toad’s wild ride. whoo hoo.

7. took pictures of monstro the whale.

8. sarah went on big thunder mountain railroad. i should have gone on it with her. i’m a big weenie and the commercials always make the ride look crazy. then i went to the other side of the mountain to watch it while she rode, and it’s kind of dinky, not drops and loops, just fast curves.

9. it’s a small world. it’s a small world friggin rules. i’ve only been to disneyworld and that was almost twenty years ago. i didn’t remember it’s a small world being this sweet. on a digital camera that only shoots 15 minutes of moving footage, i shot probably ten minutes on the small world boat ride.

10. toon town, which consisted of seeing goofy, blowing something up, visiting minnie’s house, chip ‘n dale’s treehouse, and hot dogs and chips.

11 tomorrowland. sarah tried to get on the bobsleds, but they were down for a little bit, so we went to innoventions, which is a walk through exhibition with interactive computers, which was s little boring but we did get to program a fireworks show which was fun. after that we went to space mountain so sarah could ride that. she wanted me to ride on this one a lot, but when i was a kid? space mountain was the ride that scared one shitless. i know there’s all these crazy ass roller coasters these days and that space mountain is old school but growing up, a roller coaster, diving and rocketing through the dark was the craziness. unfortunately for her it was down also, so we went to little nemo’s submarine, but as it had just reopened recently, the wait was 75 minutes, so f’ that, we went back to main street and got mint chocolate ice cream.

12. delicious.

13. a little bit of a parade then back to tomorrowland for space mountain. sarah went up and i watched honey i shrunk the audience, a 3d show involving exploding glass courtesy of a miniature rick moranis, masses of escaped mice, me being shrunk, a big python wanting to eat me, a 6 year old lifting the entire theater, and a big dog. left and waited for space mountain. turned out sarah was about to ride off in it and instead of gong on the track, the ship went into room where they were told the ride still need work so she got a fast pass to cut a long line another ride.

14. saddened, we went to pirates of the carribbean. which was sweet except for the couple behind us who kept talking the whole time, and who we learned from such statements as “your girlfriend” and “this is fun.””what is?””cheating!” and the wedding ring on the woman’s hand we saw afterwards, that the two of them were having an affair. they also kept smooching, talking about boobs and handjobs and sex, it was extremely uncomfortable and weird. we did get to see the sweet black sky of the louisiana swamps captured inside a building and got to watch drunken pirates cackle and shoot and battle and party.

15. after this we went to splash mountain for the last ride of the day. i felt bad that sarah had had to ride her rides alone all day, so even though there’s a crazy drop in it, i went on it with her. courtesy of the fast pass, we jumped the 45 minute wait and with my weenie heart thumping we got into the first two seats of a giant carved out log, which took us along a stream and through the tales of brer rabbit, bear and fox, and the other critters of song of the south, where brer rabbit was flung into a briar patch at the end and us with him as the river dropped out under us and we slid steeply down for 40-50 feet. sheesh. my tummy.

16. wet and happy we took a picture in front of pooh’s honey, got hats for sarah’s friends blaire and dennis, and headed home.

17. got some in-n-out and went back to kim’s and watched talladega nights. fell asleep but it was funny. hugged sarah tightly , walked her to her car, kissed her, and said bye.