This weekend was quite busy! On Friday, I cleaned and packed. On Saturday, John & I visited Lyse in the hospital (recovering from her lymphadic surgery). She was released just after we left. Yay!
Saturday afternoon / evening – went to the Bats Day Black Market with John, Missy & Ryan. Saw some cool things, but nothing I really wanted to buy.
Saturday night – Went with Missy & Ryan to the Bats Day Gala. We hung out and chatted with people, watched a prize raffle, had some snacks and people watched. We went back up to our hotel room early and just hung out til we were tired enough to pass out.
Sunday – got up super early and got ready for Bats Day in the Fun Park! We had breakfast at Denny’s, then drove into the park around 10:15am, meeting up with Erik & Ricki on the tram.
We then met up with Mike, Lacey & Steve inside the park. After getting settled into a locker and taking pee breaks, we headed for Thunder Mountain. Sarah & Emily met up with us after we got off the ride. We then went to The Adventures of Pooh, which is always psychadelic fun! Emily then met a human size Pooh and Eeyore!
Before we knew it, it was time for the 1pm Castle Meet-Up. We gathered with Missy’s friend Natelie and her cousin Jennifer. Bobby also met up with us. There were soooooooooo many people at the Castle! I had never seen that many gothies in one place! It was quite a site compared to previous years!
We lost Sarah & Emily around that time too 🙁 After that photo meet-up, we went to Space Mountain for a Fast Pass, lunch at the Pizza Port, and a ride on Buzz Lightyear. Back to Space Mountain after, where John & I had to exit the ride due to an issue with our rocket. We then got to ride again with our group immediately after!
We split from Mike, Steve, Bobby, Lacey & Ryan to head to California Adventure. We grabbed Fast Passes for Tower of Terror, then went to the Toy Story Mid-Way Games (which was super fun)! Then back to Tower of Terror to ride. On our way out of C.A., we stopped into Animation to see which character Missy was most like: Mulan! Ricki & I were most like Ariel. Haha!
We also went to see Turtle Talk with Crush. I asked him how global warming was affecting his environment. He said that turtles like warm water and asked what I wanted him to do about this issue. I asked him to send all the fish to the surface to dance and sing and freak out the humans so that we’d get off our butts and solve the problem. He said, “fish, go sing” and that was that. 🙂 It was funny!
Natalie & Jennifer wandered off after that, and the rest of us crossed back into Disneyland to have dinner. We went to the Birthday Plaza, and I got some yummy pasta and pumpkin cheesecake. Mike, Steve, Lacey & Ryan met up with us to hang out. Ryan headed home after that, and the rest of us wandered through Tomorrowland on the way to Toon Town. Mike, Lacey, Missy & Steve stopped to go on the Matterhorn, and the rest of us continued to Toontown hoping to get a Tweet from Noah with the next prize give-away. Just as we crossed the parade route, the Tweet came through. Noah was back in Tomorrowland by Honey, I Shrunk the Audience! Bah! John & Erik took off running in that direction, back across the parade route. Ricki & I followed at a relaxed pace. Turns out, the boys got there in time! John won bat eats for the Mickey hat and Erik won the pocket watch souvenir. Yay!
We finally headed to Toontown to get the Mickey hat. After that, we met back up with Mike, Steve, Lacey & Missy and went to the Haunted Mansion. It was a clusterfuck of batty people! Mike, Steve & Lacey decided to go home at that point. Ricki, Erik, Missy, John & I finally got routed to the Fast Pass “Holding Area” where we waited almost an hour to move. We made some new friends though!!! Another hour down the road and we got our picture take and went inside the Mansion. I liked the new decor for NBC! Zero seems to have more bones every year!
* Edit, per Missy: After the mansion, we went with our new friends to ride Pirates. We took up an entire boat (10 of us), and Missy, Ricki, Erik, John & Mark got soaked! I was behind Erik, and put my head down to hide my camera bag. I was fine. It was more soaking than ever before on Pirates! Sadly, Missy & Erik ate some of that water too. Eeeew. Once out of Pirates, we split up from our new friends and headed to main street. John & I split a hot chocolate (yum) and then went to a few stores to look around. We got on the tram and headed home around 11:30pm. It was a super fun weekend, exhausting and awesome all at once!
Nov 10 2008