8/10 Update

Ruben and I ventured to the park Sunday night from 8:30pm-12am. Thankfully, we met our goal of the night and got there early enough to get in a ride on Toy Story Midway Mania. I won (as usual) and finally broke the 150,000 point barrier to get the CAT prize at the end. On our way out of the park, we decided to venture through A Bug's Land since neither of us has really explored that area. Everything was already closed as it was after 9, but we got some pictures with the character displays and found a few rides that we've never been on but would like to experience in the very near future (possibly tonight!). Once inside Disneyland, we went straight to Jungle Cruise, which has become our routine as of late, and we were lucky enough to have Nathan, the best skipper I can ever remember having in my hundreds of journeys through the jungle. Hardly any of his jokes were the typical jokes you hear, and the way he delivered each joke was exceptional. On our way out of the park, we were sure to give him one of the new verbal compliment cards at City Hall. We also experienced another very nice cast member named Dani while exiting Storybook Land. She was with another family talking about taking them to ride Casey Jr., to which I had to profess my ever-growing love for the ride. While waiting in line, she asked us if we wanted to go on any other Fantasyland rides, to which we exclaimed "PETER PAN!!!", and she basically turned into Genie from Aladdin and walked us across Fantasyland, up the exit, and right onto Peter Pan!!! No wait for us!!! To be honest, I was kind of hoping for her skin to turn blue and for her to belt out a rendition of "Friend Like Me", but a free pass to the front of the Peter Pan line was good enough for me! We of course left her a verbal compliment card at the end of the night as well, even though she informed us she would only be working at Disneyland for another two weeks. We finished the night with our typical assortment of Fantasyland rides, though we didn't get on the Matterhorn as we had hoped for. I think we will be returning to the park tonight so there should be another update in the coming days.

Here are some pictures from last night for your enjoyment:







The addition of more pictures (you can all tell how lazy I, Ruben, am when it comes to this can't you?)

Pan + No Flash = can't see much of a picture.

Adam only adds pictures of himself. How self centered can he be! Anyways agreeing with Adam, Nathan was easily the funniest skipper I have experienced all year, though he did have a few of the typical jokes. His delivery is what set him apart from telling the same jokes as all of the other skippers. When Dani asked if we wanted to go on any other rides our first reaction wasn't Peter Pan, it was more us staring at each other thinking "what rides are there?" until I realized and said "Oh... what about Pan?" Its funny because we never go on it. We do a lot of fantasyland rides, probably because you can do so many in such a short time.