Okay, I feel like I was just writing a post about us going to Disneyland. October, was it? Well whatever it was Chloe's birthday (as you know)and as a gift we told her we would take her....but we never told her when.
I guess this marks year 3 of us going to Disneyland (on or around) Chloe's birthday. In the last 2 years, we actually managed to be there ON Chloe's actual birthday. This year, however, we were about a week late. Really the only bummer about that is they literally just took down all of the Christmas decor and some of the areas and attractions are not running for various reasons. Lucky for us, Chloe has her main rides and attractions that she likes to do so all in all, no big deal.
The big thing they are touting right now is their whole "Season Of The Force" thing in which they basically transform "Tomorrowland" into (more) "Star Wars" themed attractions. "Space Mountain" became "Hyperspace Mountain" and they opened an entire building which used to be their "innoventions" building into a split level Star Wars museum thing where you could stand in line for 45 minutes and meet Darth Vader or Chewbacka (which Chloe did not want to do) or go upstairs and it's like superhero themed stuff. They have new versions of what happens on the "Star Tours" ride which actually was pretty awesome. If you have been on the ride in the last few years they do this thing where they take a picture of someone in the seats while they are waiting for the ride to start, and that persons picture becomes part of the story. They put the photo up on a screen and say something about how the ship needs to return because this passenger has something important they need..well anyway the only time we got to go on the ride IT WAS CHLOE! She was so jazzed. As I recall, on one of our previous trips it was Heather. So far it has not been me. Anyway, The "hyperspace mountain" thing was cool, I'm not super into Star Wars but I can appreciate what they are trying to do. To me, the coolest part of the whole thing was they randomly had these "Storm Troopers" on patrol walking around taking pictures with people but either I had never noticed before or this is new but they were now able to "talk" to people. "STAND HERE!!" they would say as they point to the ground and then people get pictures with them. Anyway, they are starting to step up their game on their character interaction which I think is really cool.
Nothing highly out of the ordinary to report from this trip. We learned that Chloe (with shoes on) is over 48 inches which on pretty much enables her to do any ride she wants. We did the "Silly Symphony Swings" like 5 times and each time they measured her and asked how old she was. Chloe would say "6" and each time the response was "WOW! YOU ARE A TALL 6 YEAR OLD" and I would be like "yeah, she just turned 6 a week ago." Apparently, you still have to be 7 years old to not have to ride on a tandem swing..but she didn't care. Next year.
Here are just a few pics from the trip. Once again the signature book was a big hit so we tried to get as many characters as we came across. Have a great weekend, folks. =)
-B
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