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Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor
We're so there with the Friday night AP rush. I can't imagine what your trip will be like!
Snowflake, I'd love it if you posted your memories of DL from when you were last there!
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Well, this particualr trip to DL was a day trip for me and a cousin visiting from CT. My parents put us on a plane from San Jose and I'm assuming we landed in Orange County. I remember taking a cab to Disneyland, which was pretty exciting in itself. The cab dropped us at the Disneyland Hotel and we rode the monorail in to the park (the first time I'd ever done that). When the family made trips we stayed at a place I recall being named The Whaler Inn.
This visit was in September, before school started for the year, and apparently after school started in LA. I remember this only because we were there on a weekday and the park was empty.
Space Mountain was a new ride and we did have a bit of a wait for it, and I remember it was fabulously fast. But, for me, the best part of the trip was a never ending ride on the Matterhorn. There was NO ONE, so we would get on, then go around the queue and get right back on. Finally after the 3rd or 4th time, the CM just let us stay on. We rode, it had to have been 8 times and I loved every second of it!
I remember my cousin hating the Mr. Toad ride and loving the Rocket Jets. I loved cooling down in the movie theater on Main Street and watching Roscoe Arbuckle and Chaplin in The Rounders and Mickey Steamboat Willie. Then heading over to Sunkist for the best damn orange juice!
I also loved Adventures Thru Inner Space and feeling of cold in there as we were shrinking. I can still remember Paul Frees voice narrating it. I also remember being taken aback some years later when I was watching George Steven's film A Place in the Sun and catching that voice, at the end, as George goes off to the death chamber, a chill went up my spine when I recognized the voice!
We rode Pirates several times, had the boat to ourselves. Same with Haunted Mansion. We also ran around Tom Sawyer Island and I remember still being able to squeeze through some of the caves. David could not, much taller than me! We ate at Tahitian Terrace and also saw the Enchanted Tiki Room and rode the jungle cruise. The Tiki Room always has a warm spot in my heart. My Mom loved it and re-created it on the patio back home, except the birds were not animatronic. It was kitchsy as all hell, but still fun.
The thing I remember about this trip, a day of jumbled memories and fun, but moe than that, this feeling we had the park to ourselves. It seemed that un-crowded. It was a fabulous day in the park. We monorailed back to the hotel, took a cab and flew home.
Donna