Disneyland with Friends

We met a friend and her little boy at Disneyland today. One of the reasons for going today was to get on the new Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage. Yesterday was the grand opening, and according to some of my message boards, the wait to get on the ride yesterday afternoon was between 4-6 hours!!!!!

Our goal this morning was to get to Disneyland as close to opening as possible. We left our house at 8, and Carolyn headed for Disneyland after dropping her daughter off at school. After battling the crowds to get into the gates, the girls and I went straight for the Nemo Submarines to find a line so long it wrapped into Fantasyland. We didn't get in line and here's why... translated: 3 1/2 hours!!! The park had only been open an hour and already the line was over 3 hours! We met up with Carolyn and Matthew and went to check out the submarine lagoon. We decided a trip on the monorail would be fun, and since they've painted a monorail to look like one of the submarines, we waited for that monorail. We were in the front of the line and got to ride up front with the driver for the round trip. After our ride aboard the monorail, we did a few more things in Disneyland and then went over to California Adventure. Disneyland was extremely crowded today. The past couple of times we've gone there have been quite a few school groups on their end of the year promotion trips, etc and today was no different, we followed ten school buses into the parking structure this morning. While California Adventure was busy, it's a lot more open and doesn't feel as crowded.

Now that Hannah is 7, she's at the magical age that lets her on rides all by herself at Disneyland. Today was the first time she got to use that new found privilege. She had her own bumper car, while myself and Carolyn rode with the younger kids. We finished out our trip today with letting the kids play in the leaky faucet in Bugs Land. Hannah got soaked. Times past I've brought a change of clothes, but I forgot this time. It was warm enough that she dried off fairly quickly.