Leap Day at Disneyland

[Ghoulish Delight]

Some favorite moments from my brief 4 hour stint:

* 3AM Big Thunder
* Holding NA and BtD hostage
* Hugs, hugs, hugs
* Stellar Jungle Cruise skipper (Andrew/Jenny) who managed to match and surpass our manic energy
* Brilliant Storybook skipper David
* A moment I happened to witness outside of Small World at around 5AM when two people who apparently knew each other and were surprised to bump into each other embraced in sheer giddy joy
* An exhausted crowd of people summoning the last of their energy to leap and dance with the Pearly Band at 5:30
* Emerging from Peter Pan to find daylight
* Lineup of white-Mickey-gloved CMs saying goodbye/good morning as we exited, with pajama-robed characters waving from the train station.

Nights like that don't, and can't, happen enough.

[BarTopDancer]

That was so much fun! I actually left around 4 trying to beat the mass exodus and the line for the Toy Story bus was 45 minutes long. Went back in the park (10 minute line at the single turn style), met back up at Jungle Cruise. So glad I did.

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

* Stellar Jungle Cruise skipper (Andrew/Jenny) who managed to match and surpass our manic energy

Andrew/Jenny was amazing!

A/J - "That was a big explosion. Let's go closer!"
Us - "YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!"
A/J - cracking up so hard he missed 3 jokes.

Facebook, Twitter and the overall data connection was jack and squat. We drained our phones looking for signal and spent over an hour hovered around the single outlet in Hungry Bear charging our phones. Next time we bring a power strip and multiple iPhone chargers. Much thanks to KS for allowing me to borrow her charger and to Moonie for letting me use his portable charger.

[innerSpaceman]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Nights like that don't, and can't, happen enough.

Well it sure seems like that, the last one having been 25 years ago. But on that occasion, it was the third overnight "in a row" ('85 - 30th birthday, '86 - opening of EO, '87 - opening of Star Tours) - and I gotta tell ya, it was wearing thin. I heard many people express that opinion who'd been to all three in as many years.

And there was some rowdy behavior in the Park, apparently, and they stopped having the overnights. Um, going by the mania of last night - I think something between Every Year and Once a Quarter Century is warranted.

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Someone tweeted this morning that it was the best time at the Park since the 50th, and I happened to read that just as I was scanning some photos from the 50th into digital form (from the prints GD and CP were kind enough to give me) ... and I noticed an odd thing: The only couples, gay or straight*, in "our group" who are still together 6.5 years later are the ones who were married.

Hmmm.



*I'm not sure if Eric and Matthew are still together ... I lost track of them. If so, it proves gay couples are more durable than straight couples. If not, it proves only marriage can keep couples together - and we gay people want that!.