Matt and Rose do the Disneyland Death March

[CoasterMatt]

We went and rode 'Pinocchio's Daring Journey' - Sing a long!

Hi diddle dee dee - a pole is lifting me!

Moving right along-

Midnight was drawing closer!
Fog was rolling in!

Matterhorn nearly disappeared-

Believe! There are fireworks up there!

The holiday fireworks pretty much became "Castle Light Show with Explosion Sounds"

Until they blew Mickey up... or maybe that was my Christmas Fantasy.

I woke up in the Haunted Mansion...

Which ended badly, I think.

So after all that, it was time for Piratey fun again.

Somebody asked if this was based on that Johnny Depp movie while we
were in line- I nearly beat them to death with their own churro.

Moving on- back across the park, we saw a powerful beam of light!

So we headed to Space Mountain and used some fastpasses from earlier.
After Space, it was getting pretty close to midnight (around 11:40ish) and we noticed that there was NO LINE for the submariney things!

Submarine Voyage? Or World of Color underwater view - you be the judge!
Either way, this turned out to be the last photo I took in 2011 - a horribly composed, out of focus mess. WOOHOO!
We knew it was super close to time, but we knew it was too foggy for any
real good fireworks fun - when we noticed "Matterhorn Bobsleds is RUNNING!"
We hurried over, and nearly ran directly on to a sled. Midnight hit just as we made the turn off the lift - I snapped this pic of the Crystals-
and it timestamped 12:00AM 1/1/2012

A whole bunch of LOUD explosions greeted us as we made the left turn that
goes outside just before the first encounter with Harold.
I screamed all the way down the run, it was so fun, and so loud!
There was some party time goin' on at Small World Mall... but not too much else.

The fog made for some neat things to see around the park-












We stuck around and heard the
"Disneyland is closed, please leave your wallets on Main Street, and remove your corpses from the premises"
recording, then waited for a hot beverage, before sauntering back to the parking lot tram.

We managed to get home without any real interference from drunks or police.

We got home around this time.

If you want to see any of these pics in larger size, just click on them.

Have a happy and blessed year everyone!