Spring Break 2009-Day Four

Greetings from the Hurst Family Spring Break Vacation. We had a great day April 13th at Disney's California Adventure and Disneyland. Art and Laura had passes for DCA that expired on the 13th so we spent the day there with them. Laura showed us the Bug Country (or whatever it is called) rides that we hadn't been to before. The Heimlich the Caterpiller ride was very good as it taught the little kids about good nutrition, which was to eat your fruits and vegetables before you got your candy. We were able to coax Laura into going through the single rider line with us at California Screaming because that is shorter than the regular line. Then she got assigned to sit in the front row. She had never ridden that roller coaster before and said that she would have taken her glasses off if she had known that it did a loop the loop. I really think she would have opted out if she had known about the loop the loop. We also got her to go on into the Tower of Terror, which she initially resisted. But we all survived. The mistake was going on Mulholland Madness. I don't know if it was because they put Laura, Art, Grethe and me in the same car, but the ride did a safety shutdown with us on the top. I was on the dropoff side, and it was not a pleasant experience. Eventually they came and took us out and down the stairs. For our inconvenience they gave us three front of the line passes, which made the experience a little better. The Midway Games ride was exempted from the passes, but it was really amazing. Anyone who goes to DCA should definitely go on this ride. It is like Astroblasters in Disneyland, but it is a 3D interactive competition between the two riders in the car. Yes, Grethe did beat me. We used one of the front of the line passes to get us all onto Soaring over California before Art and Laura went home, and then we took the others over to Disneyland where we went to the front of a 45 minute line at Finding Nemo and then to the front of a long line at Peter Pan. We walked on at Pirates and headed for home after hearing all the stale jokes on Jungle Cruise. In between all that we took in the redone Small World Ride. I didn't see what the fuss was all about. Any addition of Disney characters was done pretty much in the style of the ride. We will be back there today for another late night at Disneyland.

ERH