The Bertana-English Dictionary

So we got going on Saturday, made it through security and down to the park and through the gates when they opened. A lot of folks were wearing halloween stuff and it was a amazing. A lot of ooohing and awwing in line. We got our selves to the hotel line and into tomorrow land at our time. We hit Space Mountain and the Astro Rockets before rope drop. Then we hit our list (more on that later)and this was kind of our day both days.

We did head into DCA that night for getting on Guardians Mission Breakout after Dark. The line was long and we were told at 7pm the line was 120 minutes. While inline they shut down the normal line for the night so fast passes were all they were taking. Guys in line with us had started a timer when we got in line. We made it through in 62 minutes and the ride was hella fun. Tivan's collection has broken out and Rocket wants your help to distract the monsters while he rescues baby groot. The lights through the queue are weird and red and the video screens keep glitching showing fuzzy security footage of the guards and the assistants running and fighting things in smoke. We got in our gantry and we were in the front row. I was on the edge of the gantry and I did not look down the shaft. The usual ride has nice fun drops and good story bits in between but this one was fast and seriously we had so much airtime out of our seats that ari's water bottle escaped and hit her front teeth before she caught it. It was wild, scary as heck and so much fun.

Also, they had a headless horseman you could interact with with your magic band... which was amazing.

We headed back into Disneyland and did a few things on my bucket list which was watching the fireworks show and then we got to see Phantasmic. I had watched/red a bunch of blogs/videos to help us get things like where to see things. So we headed through the park, avoiding a parade and made it to Its a small world just as the parade was moving past so we were able to get seats right at the corner on a curb with a nice fence for a back and sat watching the most amazing show. Then we headed over to Rivers of America/French Quarter to go see Phantasmic. We setup at the corner as you head into Pirates and a castmember went up to the guy standing next to me and asked if it was just the 3 of us (him, me and ari), guy looked to me and said nope is the 4 of us (including his buddy). The castmember was "I got you." and pulled us to a reserved section dead center for the show. It was standing, not leaning against the wall of pirates but omg was it cool. Like seriously, how do you hide the Columbia in the fog? But it was fun. And to close out the night we went on Pirates.

So Ari and I had a bucket list and then we just started adding all the things we did to document things. It was a fun way to track things and make sure we did the things we wanted.

So the list:
Rides
Peter Pan never made it while it was open or had a good wait time
Storylandboats at drop sign book under refurb
After dark guardians
Ride the railroad all the way around (ari had never seen the backside dioramas)
Ride the ship not mark twain no longer available
Tiana’s
Cars race
Space mountain
Matterhorn
Astro rockets
Mickey Runaway Railway
Haunted Mansion
Roger Rabbit
Mickeys house
Alice in Wonderland
Pirates of the Caribbean x3
Canoes
Snow White
Finding Nemo
Treehouse
Ariel’s ride
Goofy’s Sky School
Soaring’
Luigi’s Roadsters
Mater’s Jamboree
Grizzly Rapids
Monsters inc
Monorail
Indiana jones
Smugglers run
Pooh Bear it went down when we wanted to go on it.

Other things
Saw ofrenda in the plaza familia
Disneyland Band performing in Frontierland
Seeing paint the night parade
See Phantasmic
See the fireworks show always at Its a small world

Food
Blue Bayou Lunch
Apple cider donuts at Daisy Mays omg! always get donuts here
Ate ridiculous food at Pyms Kitchen (big and little chicken sammiches...both on the same size bun)
Lamplighter bar on Pixar pier for brunch (best wait staff)
Ate at Belle Terrace
Ate at the Craftman Grill dinner
Churro from Frontierland
DoleWhip
Beignets on our way out on Monday from downtown disney

Characters
Met Count Mater!
Met Jack when he scared the crap out of ari
Saw Jack and Sally
Met Tianna
Met Eeyor
Met Mulan
Saw Lady Tremaine and the Sisters
Saw Capt American Wilson


Due to both our food allergies I think for future eating dinner in DCA is easier. More adult style food options that aren't just fair food. We also got kinda nerfed on things due to Oogie Boogie Bash being on Sunday night so we couldn't be in DCA after 6pm. We managed to leave it at 245pm while soaking wet from the river rapids. We did have a nice time in DCA. We got there and first rode Ariel, and then Goofy's Sky School and we had fast passed for Radiator Springs Racers but the timing was a bit later in the AM so we meandered around and happened upon Tow Mater dressed up as Count Mater and got the photo. We rode both of the other cars rides and explored the halloween version of Cars. The Cosy Cone motel was so fun for the season and then we got brunch at the Lamplighter on Pixar Pier. If I could have drunk Mimosas the Mimosa flight would have been perfect but I had a Beermosa with OJ/Orange beer from San Diego. So good. The staff was awesome without allergies and we had good noms. Then we did some shopping, waiting way to long for Monsters Inc but we've done it and now its off the list. We went back to the hotel to drop off things and change into clothes we didn't care got wet and hit the river run. We got on with 4 teenage boys and their aunt/uncle and us. Adults on one side, kids on the other and the weight distro made it so all the boys, though we got wet too but not like them. It was fun. We then headed back into Disneyland cause the lines for Oogie Boogie were insane and we had fast past into Indiana Jones and we took the monorail and when we saw the lines it was nuts. We really got the hang of the fast pass on Sunday. For what we wanted to do on Saturday it wasn't much of a thing but I think we did well on Sunday. You just have to get things early and then push times as your stuff changes. We just had a nice time in the park and hitting all the things we had missed. We hit Smugglers Run with a family who can't fly but Ari and I kept that ship going well.

It was nice and easy on Sunday and we had dinner at Belle Terrace with a wonderful server. We then tried to hit Winnie the Pooh but it went down just as we got there and so after a bit of a meander we hit Pirates and then we got stuck...on pirates....for like 15 mins. We were sitting for so long that I figured out we were missing a parrot in the area we were in cause they were singing counter point but were no where. So we were under the bridge almost looking at this pirate for a while. We got done and then were just DONE. We had to circumvent a parade on our way out and hit the last gift shop and a cast member asked us if "we like characters" and we said yes and walked into a side area and there was Mickey and Goofy!!!!!!!!!!. We got pictures and that was so awesome. So we hobbled back out of the park and did a bit of final shopping in Downtown Disney (legos and print shop) before collapsing into our room.

All in all it was a good trip. We needed it. Next time 3 days much easier but man we really really packed a lot in. We were both were sad to have work on the Tuesday but it was okay. And that was our trip. Link to full album here