Day 159

Un autre jour magnifique, et je suis vraiment fatigue!

I woke up at 6:30 again and was ready before anyone else. Good! Everyone else got ready, and we headed down for breakfast. Tim had told me I could go down with the boys ahead of time, but by the time Josh finished getting his shoes on, Heloise was ready. I couldn't find the toast again...so I settled for a pain au chocolat. Sigh. Maybe I'll have toast and honey for lunch tomorrow. It's a craving that needs to be filled. Anyway, we left there, grabbed our things from the hotel room, Tim checked us out, and we headed to the park. I carried Zach again. It's funny, on this vacation it's like he's been attached at my hip. I expect that will end Monday though.

We walked into the main village, and Heloise asked Tim if we had time to stop for Starbucks. No one was making up their minds, and then said the park wasn't open yet...so I made up their minds for them. I said if it wasn't open, I was grabbing myself a coffee, and asked Heloise if she wanted one. She followed me in. The guy that had recognized me the day before, was the one making the drinks today. He said hi as I walked in the door, and asked how much longer I was visiting the park. After I ordered, he told the cashier to give me a discount. What a sweetie, and what a great way to start my day :D When we went outside however, Tim had gone ahead with the boys, and by the time we reached them, he was pacing back and forth. Heloise and I were not impressed, and kept our comments...no...that's not true...I kept my comments between the two of us, she was a little more vocal about hers. It was a whole time issue, and us not being able to have time for a coffee at breakfast, then him telling us we could stop, then being angry that we stopped, and then having the nerve to drink some of her coffee because he had told her to get a large so he could have some. MON DIEU!

We went into the actual park area, and began our day. I can't remember what ride we went on first, but what I can tell you, is that when we were standing in line for the carousel...I saw the gorgeous guy again! It was from afar, but still made me smile. Sadly, that was the last viewing I had of him. We did a little bit of Disney first, and then quickly made our way to the Studios park. When we got there, none of the rides had opened yet. The boys still really wanted to go on the "Crush" Rollercoaster, and the line was already an hour and a half long, so while they stood in that...I went off to the "Tower of Terror". It was AWESOME! Honestly one of the best rides I've ever been on! I'm getting ahead of myself though. First, I got in the line...the very long line. Then people began to leave, and I got closer to the front. One of the employees was saying there was a technical difficulty and the ride could be shut anywhere from 5 minutes, to 2 hours. I decided to wait. He came back when I was about 5 minutes from the front of the line, and told us we had 2 options. He said not to waste the day standing around, to either line up to get a fast pass, or go to a different ride and come back. He told us not to just stand there. Thinking I was getting in the way, I decided to go to the fast pass line...You can guess what happened next. That's right. As soon as I got there...not 5 minutes later, they opened the line and I had to run to the back...where I had been standing in the first place. Luckily it moved relatively fast, or I would have been extremely upset. Anyways, once I finished the ride, I came out into the store. There was a really nice Tower of Terror green shirt that I wanted to get, but they only had it in small. I did buy the picture of me on the ride though.

I walked out of the store, and figured I still had some time, so as I walked back to "Crush" to meet the others...I decided to take some fun pictures. After all, Goofy and Pluto were just walking around messing with people...and it was something I Wanted to do, but knew I'd get ridiculed for by the others, so now was my chance. How can you go to Disney and not get a picture with a character? I had been hoping for Tigger...but oh well. I waited my turn, and then asked Goofy if I could get a pic with him. He forcefully grabbed my hand and camera and I had no idea what he was doing. I asked him not to break it, and then he passed it off to some random guy standing there. I had seen him take someone else's sunglasses and put them on someone else, so I hadn't clued in to what he was trying to do. I had been prepared to take the pic myself, but he was getting this random guy to do it for us. He put his arm around me, and brought me down to the ground. Then when the guy knelt down to take our picture, Goofy stood up, pulling me with him so that the camera man would have to follow. He did this twice, and I eventually got my picture. I couldn't stop laughing. I went by the ride the boys were on, and I couldn't see them. I wondered if they were in the line inside, or if they had finished earlier than expected, and disappeared. Oh well. I clearly wasn't too bothered, I liked being able to do what I wanted, where and when I wanted. That's when I saw Daisy. Another photo op. She was a little more laid back. After her, I went to Donald, but his security guard was getting ready to help him get back to Daisy, so I walked away. Back to the ride line up where I waited...and waited. I asked a few people as they came off, whether they had been in line from the time the ride opened. They said yes. I stood and waited longer, and eventually saw Heloise (who was supposed to be on the ride), standing by the rail. I went over to talk to her. She's not a huge rollercoaster fan, so she decided against it. The two of us stood there waiting, and luckily she remembered what the people in front of them were wearing, so I was able to catch them on camera when they came out of the cave on the rollercoaster. They walked out soon after that, and we went for lunch at the oldest restaurant at any Disneyland location. It was a little diner type place on a caravan. It was cute, and played good oldies music. When we finished there, Nathaniel, Tim and Josh headed off to the Aerosmith ride because they had fast passes. Heloise, Zach and I went to meet Jack Sparrow. We couldn't find him, and met up with the others...then we asked where he was supposed to be, and went and got our pictures taken. Unfortunately it's not a great picture because Tim took it...but what can you do. Jack was a little bit of an ass I think. We followed him for about 10 minutes before he stood with us. I can't tell if it's cuz he was trying to be in character, or cuz he didn't want to deal with children...but he was freaking Zach out. I had asked him if we could get a picture, he said yes, and walked away. It was after a number of other tables and people he visited that he turned around and saw us again and said ah yes, and walked towards us. We almost got to pose, when Tim took the picture. - It took Zach a minute to shake his hand, and I could completely understand where he was coming from, but didn't want to pass on my hatrid for mascots, so I told him it was fine, and to do it - He was happy he did in the end.

After that, Tim and I fast passed Tower of Terror. Tim hates heights. He said in the car afterwards that it was his favourite ride...but I'm still not sure he really enjoyed it. I still did though. When we came out, Heloise and the boys were in Cinemagique. A show that apparently was really good, and perhaps I should have seen. Anyway, Tim went off to get fast pass tickets for Indiana Jones - that he didn't end up getting - and I went shopping, and looked around. We headed back to the Disneyland park when everyone was together again, and we hit up some more rides. Josh, Tim and I went on Indiana Jones twice...no fast pass required, it was pretty much a straight walk on. Not busy at all. It wasn't my favourite ride though, so twice was enough for me. Once was really, but Josh wanted to go again. He killed my hand...AGAIN...- he tries to hold on to it, and the metal bit on the harness, and it just doesn't work - We came out of the ride and walked across a bridge in Adventureland, and we were in some kind of a treehouse type thing. It was pretty cool. We met up with the others, and I saw that Genie was standing in front of us. I told Zach, and you should have seen his face! Now this was a guy he wanted his picture taken with. But not without me. We went over, and Josh attempted to take our pic. Tons of people were waiting, and he can never quite manage to do it quickly, so someone took over for him, and he got in the picture with us. We went back to sit on the steps with everyone, when they told us Mickey was close by as well. That was our next mission. We got that done, and then sat on the steps to relax a bit. Some not so quick decision making happened, and we split up. Zach, Heloise and I were going on "It's A Small World", and the others were going on the Pirates of the Caribbean one again. - I had told them I didn't need to go on that for a 3rd time, and would stay with Zach because he didn't want to either, but he wanted Heloise to come with us as well -

We got to the line, and after smelling some disgusting man smoking a cigar in line, and waiting a few minutes...the others were behind us. They decided that was the place to be instead of waiting in the longer lineup at Pirates. We went through before them, and then waited for them to finish. I think that was our last ride. We then hoofed it to the car so that we wouldn't miss our train ride back. Everyone aside from Tim fell asleep in the car for a bit, and we arrived at the Chunnel early so we got to get on one that would get us home sooner. We grabbed some food, and then boarded. In the car, I put the Goonies on my laptop and we watched the first half hour or so. Then on the drive from the chunnel home, we listened to James Morrison, and everyone but Tim and I fell asleep. I began to in the last 5-10 minutes, but I woke myself up, and soon enough we were home. I unloaded the car, and exhausted, I decided to hop in the shower so that I could wake up enough to write this, check e-mails, check my farm, and speak to my Brother and my Mom.

Now that my Mom is online, I'm going to go. Good Night xx