Disneyland (part II)

So the next day, we decided to go to a place where I don't have to go on rides to have fun. So, we went to the Sea World! We got lost on the way there, and because our GPS device stopped working on our drive from Vancouver to Seattle, we decided to leave it behind. Good thing mommy printed out the directions from MapQuest! Sea World have rides now -- roller coaster type rides! I guess they want to make it into an actual theme park. Unfortunately, I couldn't go on it. By the way, Shamu is still alive! It's been so many years since I've last been to Sea World, and it's Shamu! It's Shamu!



The day after that, we went to the San Diego Zoo. I'm somewhat against having animals locked up like this, but I couldn't help but kept thinking how educational a zoo could be on top of it all. They had some endangered animals, and I guess without the zoo, they probably wouldn't be around anymore. The shows were interesting. The sea lion and sea otter show wasn't as entertaining as those at Sea World, but still pretty awesome nonetheless. Something I learned from the zoo was that white wolves are actually really shy towards people (or at least that's what the zoo people said). Though, would I have the courage to pet one? Maybe. Maybe not. However, I think after I returned back to Vancouver, those stereotypes about white wolves came back again. I guess it just makes movies more entertaining that way.



The next day was Universal Studios! I felt a lot better that day and was able to go on rides again. Universal Studios felt alot smaller to me for some reason. Or maybe it was because the one that I remembered was in Florida and not LA. They no longer have the Back to the Future ride. Instead, they replaced it with The Simpson's ride. It's not too bad, but Back to the Future was a classic! I was still too scared to go on the Jurrasic Park Ride, so I skipped out on that while my mom and my brother went on that.



On our very last day there, we spent it at both California Adventure AND Disneyland! Since it was our last day, we decided to make the most of it! We went on the California Screamin' Roller Coaster TWICE! It was soooo scary, but soooo much fun at the same time. It kinda made me wonder why human beings enjoy being scared. We were smart this time and brought our own lunch that we bought from 7-Eleven. The food inside the theme parks are crazy expensive! After that, we went over to Disneyland and rode on all the rides there (well, almost)! We even went on some of the really kiddie ones. They had a "mini" (A Bug's Life) theme park inside Disneyland, and all the rides were really meant for little kids, but since we had no idea, we decided to try one of them. After the ride, we were like "what the...". It was... interesting. Anyway, after watching all the fireworks and stuff, we decided to go on Space Mountain, our last ride of the trip. While lining up, I was shaking because I was so nervous. My mom kept asking me, "what are you so scared about? You were fine when you went on California Screamin'... TWICE!" As a side note, I was not fine. I get extremely nervous when it comes to roller coaster rides. I enjoy them, but I get scared.

We were supposed to leave the day after that at night time. So we spent the day shopping at Disney Downtown, and my mom was able to do some last minute indulgences before we said bye to LA.



So that's pretty much it for my Disneyland trip. I hope you all enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed being through it (minus all the illness)!

Disneyland (part I)

So I went to Disneyland this December and came back not too long ago. It was Christmas season, so everything at Disneyland was decorated to fit the season. Christmas is my favorite season, and to be able to spend it at Disneyland was absolutely wonderful!

On the first day there, it was pouring rain with extremely strong winds. After checking into the hotel, it was already the afternoon. So we went to Disney Downtown and checked out their stores. Since it was raining so hard, we bought 2 umbrellas. That was our first purchase. We checked out the stores at Disney Downtown in the afternoon and the malls around the areas later on in the evening. Afterwards, we went to go pick up our City passes from Disneyland. The city pass provides us with 1 Seaworld, 1 San Diego Zoo and 1 Universal Studios and 3 Disneyland tickets.

So we headed off to Disneyland the second day we were there. The day before, I saw this girl with a Minnie Mouse Santa hat, when I asked her where she got it, she said that she got it inside the park. I couldn't wait and the first thing we did when we got inside the park was go into one of the stores on Main Street to buy Santa hats. I ended up buying one for myself and a Mickey one for Hanson. Jeffrey got a Goofy Santa hat since he already has a Mickey one and Mommy also got a Minnie Mouse Santa hat. Afterwards, We went to play on the typical rides. Thank god it was all sunny that day. It got colder in the evening, but still bearable -- unlike Vancouver. Disneyland was honestly the happiest place on earth.

That night (or I guess you'd consider it the next morning), I woke up at 4:30am and threw up in the washroom -- twice! I didn't get much sleep after that and was so tired the next morning. Before we even went out the door, I had to go the bathroom twice (details not included). We headed off to California Adventure that day. At the park, I couldn't stop gagging. I felt my stomach just twisting and turning inside of me non-stop. We went on the Toy Story ride, and afterwards I had to go to the bathroom again and I started gagging. My mom came with me and a lady inside the bathroom asked my mom, "what ride did she just go on?" -- I thought that was quite funny when she told me afterwards. I couldn't last anymore and had to go back to the hotel room to rest. The walk back to the hotel was supposed to be around 15 minutes, but it felt more like it was 45 minutes. I spent the rest of the day in the hotel room - what a waste!

... To be continued!