When I'm Supreme Leader of Disneyland, I'll have anybody making the "add a loop" joke exiled to Six Flags... NEW ORLEANS! :evil:

Friday at Disneyland in the rain wasn't too bad. It mostly just misted all day, so it wasn't TOO damp, yet for a Friday during holiday time, it was empty. Dumbo was a walk on. Mickey's movie barn was a walk in. It was kind of awesome.

On the other hand, the line for the warming ovens of hell was unnaturally long.

Aww, I'm all nostalgic for the evening that GD and I ducked under the awning at the closed Carnation Cafe with a hot cocoa and watched everyone leave during a quick downpour...then scurried back into Fantasyland when the rain let up. Walked onto Dumbo and gleefully sat in wet seats. Rode Peter Pan a couple times in a row.

BTW, I've been peeking into this thread for vicarious thrills. :blush:

Disneyland in the rain has provided some of our favorite memories.

Me too. The opening night of Indy was a hurricane. There was no one in the park except the indy line.

The day I first rode Space Mountain was a Christmas Eve in a torrential downpour. By the end of the night the whole of the old parking lot was under a uniform 2 inch lake. The place was deserted. Heaven.

I moved to California from New York in the early 80s, when it was a big El Nino year. We stayed by Disneyland until our belongings arrived and I spent 3 glorious days in the rain at Disneyland. Fun times, those were. Of all the times I had previously visited, I had never seen it (or even imagined it) so dead. It was like having the park to myself for three days and it was wonderful.

Every time it rains like this, it reminds me of those times.

Oh, lunch at the Carnation Cafe was heaven. We had priority seating thingies, so we got one of the coveted tables against the bakery door. Got bowls of the baked potato soup, which was the perfect meal. Oscar was there!

Nice!

My favorite Disneyland rainy days were when I worked there, the park would empty out, and you'd spend all day pushing water towards drains with a pushbroom. The other thing I liked was that all the indoor show attractions would suddenly become popular again. And now I've made myself miss Circlevision, Country Bears, and America Sings. Well, there's still Billy Hill (no Golden Horseshoe Revue, but still fun) and the edited due to time constraints Tiki Room. On rainy days they should restore the Offenbach. :D

That sounds like the perfect birthday lunch!