DLR TR

[GalacticHero]

SPOILER WARNING!!!!! IF YOU WANT TO EXPERIENCE THE 50 ON YOUR OWN, TURN BACK NOW!!!!!

 

So, Mother's Day was Sunday. Me & my mom decided to head to Disneyland to check out the 50 anniversary. We thought that if it were too crowded, we could always just leave, since we are APs. We arrived at about...9:30. We stopped in front of the park and my mom picked up her pink carnation. Originally, we had wanted to walk right through the castle, but that was not possible, due to the tappings of Live With Regis & Kelly. Wahhhhhhhh!

 

Anyway, we checked out the wait at Buzz. 35 minutes and we decided to FastPass it. Our return time was for 12:30. We went and checked out the First 50 Magical Years. I have to admit, the model where the White House used to be was remarkable. The film , IMO, was mediocre, although it made my mom tear up. So we checked out Indy after the show concluded. Great ride, and it was only a 20 minute wait. We couldn't pass it up.

 

We got off of Indy and I heard a deep boom coming from the Jungle cruise. Naturally, we decided to check it out. 15 minutes. Not bad. But the first thing that caught my eye was the sign on the right wall of the entrance building that says this in big, bold print. YOU MAY GET WET. I point it out to my mom who is NOT a big water ride fan, but we head on in. As luck would have it, we boarded the freshly painted gold Congo Queen. The first noticable thing for an AP is that Bob, the idol, has been moved forward and kind of cut out of the script. Next, the animals on the rock looking towards the dead zebra had been removed. But we cary on. All of a sudden, there's a gigantic explosion in the middle of the water. Everybody in the front of the boat got wet. We were in the back left. At the scene where the monkies have taken over camp, there is now a monkey with a gun and a monkey with a couple sticks of dynamite!!! The monkey with the gun shoots at you as you pass by the camp, while the monkey with dynamite throws 2 sticks, one in front of the boat, and one just after you leave. But that's not all. Remember the dangerous river rapids, right before Trader Sam? Yeah, well there are no longer dangerous river rapids. Instead, your guide informs that we are now entering piranha infested waters. After you pass the boa H-I-S-S-I-N-G in the tree, a bunch of piranhas swarm the boat. It basically gives everryone on the left side of the boat a shower. There's a new Trader Sam AA and the ride is over.

 

We went to eat at Rancho del Zocalo. This was a somewhat unpleasent experience. There was a clump of hair in my burrito. So our meal was free. We used our FastPasses at Buzz and my score was 1,038,000. #1 for the rest of the day. BooYa! I have to go to dinner with my parents so I'll finish the rest of this later. See Ya'll.

[GalacticHero]

Okay, I'm back for part 2.

 

After Buzz, we went to Autopia. It was a 45 minute wait. This was the longest wait we saw all day, but we FasstPassed it. We went to the Matterhorn. Can I just say, they need FastPass for this attraction. I mean, they could have FastPass on one side and stand-by on the other! I think they should really consider this. Anyway, it was the Matterhorn and I can't say much more. So that took the perfect amount of time for our FastPasses to be valid. We waited about 10 minutes. I checked my driver's liscense and so did my mom. But her's was a winner. So afer we went by and picked up our little car. It was sort of like a little Mother's Day gift from the resort. So I guess that was pretty special. Then we went on the Mad Tea Party. Waited for the gold tea cup and then staked out our positions for the Parade of Dreams.

 

This parade is awesome with a captal A. The floats are just out of this world. My personal favorite was the Lion King float. It had the rhino in the front of all the people on stilts and when it stops, Walt gives the opening line of his famous speech. "To all who come to this happy place,"; at this point, all of the performers freeze and there's a dramatic pause. "Welcome" All of a sudden, everybody springs into action. The birds spin, the performers on stilts jump, and the bungie girls bungie. After the 5 minute splurge of fun, the concession moves farther along the parade root.

 

So, we FastPassed Splash Mountain and went and rode the Haunted Mansion. This attraction has my favorite hidden 50 out of all of them. It's a giant spider web right above the door. Then we went and saw the Tiki Room. People must've been on crack to come up with this thing, but with the new AA's and all, it was pretty good. But 2 words sum it up. Dole Whip.

 

It had come time for our FastPass at Splash Mountain, but we arrived only to find the ride broken down. We grabbed a piece of tiger butter fudge and FasstPassed BTMR. My mom was hungry again so we took a seat at the Golden Horseshoe and ate some motzarella strips. When we finished we went to BTMR and rode. We got off and still saw no logs going down the big drop on Splash, so we hit pirates. 10 minute wait. Kind of boring at the end, but entertaining. Finally, Splas was open. We used our FastPasses and I recieved the front seat. I was glad to see that they were using the back seat again. So...I got soaked, plain and simple. We left Splash just in time to catch the parade again. We left as the Monorail passed over our heads and we headed back to the tram. But getting home was a whole other story.

 

So we originally had gone through Harbor Boulevard to park in the lot, not the parking structure. But they had re-directed us to the parking structure. No biggie. I think of it as there aren't going to be a lot of people ther today. So first we go up the wrong escalator. Then we have to find our car. That was a 15 minute ordeal. We finally find the exit, and my mom doesn't want to go on the freeway, so we almost get in a major acident. My mom gets in the left hand turn lane and the light finally turns green. She makes a freakin' U-Turn back into the parking structure! Seriously, I'm not making this up. By the time we got out of the resort, the fireworks were going off and we finally made it home around 10:15. So our Mother's day at DLR was pretty exciting. I was kind of sad about not being able to see Block Party Bash, but I can't complain. I hope to be back ther soon to see the re-opening of Space Mountain. Yup.

[Coasters 4 ever]

Does anyone know if they did that with the Jungle Cruise in WDW? Go monkeys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[socalMAN123]

What they did to the Jungle Cruise sounds AMAZING! It's probably WAY better than the original one! Anyway, nice TR and hope it was cool.

---Brent 8)