February 4th 2008

Instant update! It's true Adam and I failed on our quest last year to do every attraction at Disneyland. Actually we failed hard, we came into some problems (mainly me never really wanting to carry Yoda on my back all of the time, though Adam never offered to carry him) but this year we will attempt to do it again, and succeed.

Last Night was our first trip together since Adam's birthday, as well as the first time we had seen each other since then. We hit up our normal spots at the parks (sadly TSMM had broken down when we went over) as well as some things we never tend to do, such as Muppets 3D and the Golden Horseshoe performance. I'm not sure how many of you have ever been into the Golden Horseshoe (I myself didn't discover it until early last year) but there was a band who played shows in there known as Billy Hill and The Hillbillies, which I found to be a great combination of music and comedy. Unfortunately the Billies are no longer the residents in the Horseshoe and now a new Frontierland show has taken stage. I was weary at first but boy was I wrong, the show had me laughing harder than I had in the longest time, I assure everyone that their time will be well spent.

As we were exiting Fantasyland at the end of the night Adam and I spotted the line for Peter Pan, which to our surprise looked to be about a 10 minute wait, which we had never seen before. After some thinking it over we hopped in line for the ride. We spent a total time of 14 minutes waiting in line and riding the ride, a length most people wait twice as long just to get onto the ride. Great.

Adam will have the pictures posted shortly.

The Long Overdue Adam's 23rd Birthday Post

Yes, this post is two months late, but at least you're finally getting to see it.. right?! On November 15th, myself (Adam) and five of my closest friends spent the smokey Orange County day at Disneyland to celebrate my 23rd birthday. That morning, fires flared up in Yorba Linda and Anaheim Hills, casting an orange glow and smokey skies over Disneyland for nearly the entire day. For a Saturday, the park seemed more empty than normal, probably due to smart people wanting to stay out of the smoke. Too bad we aren't smart enough for that, or maybe, just maybe, we love Disneyland too much for a little smoke to stop us! We spent the early part of the day at California Adventure, before heading to Disneyland, then ESPNzone for dinner, and back to Disneyland to close out the celebration. Of course, we have pictures to document parts of the day. What would this update be without pictures???


(Truthfully I felt that if we were going to burn to death in a fire, no better place for it to happen than Disneyland. Am I right? -Ruben)











(My superior and yet to be beaten by my friends high score on TSMM which was achieved that day- Ruben)

10/22 Update

To all of those out there in Disneyland-land, it's been a while. But we are back, and better than ever. On October 22, Ruben and I went to Mickey's Trick-or-Treat Party, and to say we had a blast would be putting it lightly. Our goal for the night was to get character pictures, since there were numerous designated areas to do so. We only got on one ride, Toy Story Midway Mania, and I lost but got my highest score ever and finally got that damn black cat as my prize! There's not much else to write about, so I will leave you with our pictures from the night. We will be back with posts in the coming weeks, as we will be at the parks on Saturday for my birthday party, and again on the 25th for my official birthday day!

(I was an Aquabat, even though I forgot my power belt :( and Adam was druggie version of Adam- Ruben)

10/12

So yesterday I (Ruben) went to the parks Sans Adam, he was caught up with The Pats and Avs games to which now he must avenge them like Simba avenged his fathers death. Being a weekend the parks were a little too crowded for my liking. But I still got on the rides that mattered. A tip for those going to the NBC Haunted Mansion- Get in line during the fireworks. We did this last night and the wait was only 30 minutes, way better than the 60+ the rest of the day. Being that I did not grab my camera when leaving yesterday all I have are some lovely cameraphone pictures, I came so close to my high score on TSMM yesterday- still something for Adam to try and top.


Also being thats its Halloween time they had some decorations up my favorite being this



Cheshire Cat pumpkin. How rad.

They had some Day Of The Dead things up nearby Big Thunder Mountain, I thought that they were pretty rad.

9/20 Update.

Weren't we just here a few days ago? Adam and I hit up the parks again for a little while today as we were heading off to see H2O and Rancid (I don't really even like Rancid) at the House Of Blue at Downtown Disney.
The Parks were easily the most crowded I had seen them all summer, which is kinda weird since technically summer is over. Our first destination was going to be the Princess Fair because I personally wanted some pictures with some princesses. We took the Railroad around to Toontown where I noticed the line for Rodger Rabbit was insanely long, and unfortunately we realized the line for the Princess Fair was also insanely long. Since we had other plans we made our way back to the entrance of Disneyland and over to California Adventure.
While there we rode Heimlich's Train, which... just has some of the funniest Dialogue I have heard, then we went off to get a good spot for the ever so amazing Pixar's Play Parade. Which if you haven't seen is easily one of the most fun parades with a catchy song to it. My good friend Mychal (who can be seen in the picture of us with Sorcerer Mickey in the previous post) is a green army man in the parade which is why we finally saw it the other day.
After the parade we met up with another one of my good friends Lindsey and we got on California Screamin'- which we don't do enough, as well as the Tower of Terror.
I'm pretty sure I creeped out some lady on Tower, but thats half the fun.

Here are some pictures below, Adam will add the ones from the rides when he gets home later.

9/17 Update.

Ruben and I went to the parks from 2pm-8pm on Wednesday. Total ride counts for the year have been updated, bringing us to a grand total of 165 for the year. Here are some pictures from the trip:







(Ruben's Note: That's right. I finally beat Adam on TSMM)

8/20 Update

Here are pictures from last night's adventure.. Story-time will follow tonight.

(Ruben's Note: The Above picture is a game, called where's Ruben)