OhioStateBuckeye
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Sep 7, 2007
Hello!!
If you didn't know, my trip report title is the beginning of this little gem:
"Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls! Disneyland proudly presents our spectacular festival pageant of nighttime magic and imagination. In thousands of sparkling lights, and electro-synthe-magnetic musical sounds: the Main Street Electrical Parade!"
I love love love the Electrical Parade. I'm sorry that it is not at DL anymore, but I have been able to watch it at WDW so I'm still happy.
I think I love the parade so much because it has most of my favorite things: Disney, nighttime, lights and music that sounds like it belongs on an old school Nintendo video game.
All right, lets get down to details.
I'm going to post a picture from WDW, but I want to open with this picture because I think it will give you, the reader, an adequate warning of what your about to get into.
We are the two in the back.
All right, everyone has been sufficiently warned.
If your still here, did you skip over the picture? Just kidding. Anyway, I am Rachel and the guy with me is my long suffering boyfriend Brian. We have been to WDW a lot of times, more than I'll admit, and we've been to DL I believe 3 times now (with this trip being our 4th).
Even though I could stay at DL for an entire vacation, Brian likes to get out and explore California. After seeing some of the places we've traveled, I have to agree with him. So far our trips to DL have included Hollywood, San Diego, Joshua Tree, Anza Borrego, a drive up the coast to San Francisco, Yosemite and many more! They are all in my old trip reports that I have linked to my signature.
Here's the plan for this trip:
January 11 Sunday- Wednesday 21.
The reason behind the whole trip was to run the inaugural Star Wars Half Marathon! I am a huge Star Wars nerd, and we had both ran the WDW Tower of Terror 10 mile race for 3 years, so it only made sense that this would be our first half marathon. We plan on getting the coast to coast medal if we are able to sign up for WDW's Wine and Dine half for November of this year.
Originally we were going to arrive on Tuesday, but DL decided to shut down half it's rides on Monday (I'm really not kidding) so we tacked on a few extra days. Brian's mom and sister would be joining us on Tuesday night.
This was my itinerary:
Sunday 11: arrive early morning and go to the parks until they closed, then drive a few hours towards our next destination
Monday 12: complete our drive to Death Valley! Then spend the day hiking and exploring
Tuesday 13: Death Valley, leaving late at night to meet up with Brian's family at DL
Wednesday 14: park day
Thursday 15: the Star Wars expo and parks all day
Friday 16: parks day
Saturday 17: day off to rest up for the half
Sunday 18: SW half very early in the morning, rest of the day off
Monday 19: day off from parks
Tuesday 20: parks day
Wednesday 21: sleep in and head back home
You might have noticed that we had a lot of down days. We really couldn't afford DL APs, so we were stuck with the 5 day tickets Brian's mom and sister (Stephanie) got the premier passes since they'd be coming back to DL to run the Tinkerbell half and would be traveling to the WDW Wine and Dine, so they got to go every day. I was pretty jealous.
Anyway, I know this opening has been picture light, I am working on getting Day 1 uploaded to photobucket so there will be plenty of pics to come.
Let me leave you with these Disney inspired running quotes so we can all get in the mood for my half marathon:
One jump ahead of the hoofbeats (Vandal!)
One hop ahead of the hump (Streetrat!)
One trick ahead of disaster (Scandal!)
They're quick, but I'm much faster (Take that!)
Here goes, better throw my hand in
Wish me happy landin'
All I gotta do is jump
-Aladdin, that street rat knows a thing or 2 about out running the law
I am on my way - I can go the distance!
I don't care how far - Somehow I'll be strong
I know every mile will be worth my while
I would go most anywhere to find where I belong
-Herc, he really knows how to go from zero to hero so I try to listen to his advice
Well here I come, and I'm so not scared
Got my pedal to the metal, got my hands in the air
Look out, you take your blinders off
Everybody's lookin' for a way to get real gone
Real gone
Real gone
Real gone
Real gone
-Lightning McQueen knows how to chew up the pavement (haha, get it? in car racing and in tearing up the road)
Anyone know any other Disney running songs/quotes?
If you didn't know, my trip report title is the beginning of this little gem:
"Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls! Disneyland proudly presents our spectacular festival pageant of nighttime magic and imagination. In thousands of sparkling lights, and electro-synthe-magnetic musical sounds: the Main Street Electrical Parade!"
I love love love the Electrical Parade. I'm sorry that it is not at DL anymore, but I have been able to watch it at WDW so I'm still happy.
I think I love the parade so much because it has most of my favorite things: Disney, nighttime, lights and music that sounds like it belongs on an old school Nintendo video game.
All right, lets get down to details.
I'm going to post a picture from WDW, but I want to open with this picture because I think it will give you, the reader, an adequate warning of what your about to get into.
We are the two in the back.
All right, everyone has been sufficiently warned.
If your still here, did you skip over the picture? Just kidding. Anyway, I am Rachel and the guy with me is my long suffering boyfriend Brian. We have been to WDW a lot of times, more than I'll admit, and we've been to DL I believe 3 times now (with this trip being our 4th).
Even though I could stay at DL for an entire vacation, Brian likes to get out and explore California. After seeing some of the places we've traveled, I have to agree with him. So far our trips to DL have included Hollywood, San Diego, Joshua Tree, Anza Borrego, a drive up the coast to San Francisco, Yosemite and many more! They are all in my old trip reports that I have linked to my signature.
Here's the plan for this trip:
January 11 Sunday- Wednesday 21.
The reason behind the whole trip was to run the inaugural Star Wars Half Marathon! I am a huge Star Wars nerd, and we had both ran the WDW Tower of Terror 10 mile race for 3 years, so it only made sense that this would be our first half marathon. We plan on getting the coast to coast medal if we are able to sign up for WDW's Wine and Dine half for November of this year.
Originally we were going to arrive on Tuesday, but DL decided to shut down half it's rides on Monday (I'm really not kidding) so we tacked on a few extra days. Brian's mom and sister would be joining us on Tuesday night.
This was my itinerary:
Sunday 11: arrive early morning and go to the parks until they closed, then drive a few hours towards our next destination
Monday 12: complete our drive to Death Valley! Then spend the day hiking and exploring
Tuesday 13: Death Valley, leaving late at night to meet up with Brian's family at DL
Wednesday 14: park day
Thursday 15: the Star Wars expo and parks all day
Friday 16: parks day
Saturday 17: day off to rest up for the half
Sunday 18: SW half very early in the morning, rest of the day off
Monday 19: day off from parks
Tuesday 20: parks day
Wednesday 21: sleep in and head back home
You might have noticed that we had a lot of down days. We really couldn't afford DL APs, so we were stuck with the 5 day tickets Brian's mom and sister (Stephanie) got the premier passes since they'd be coming back to DL to run the Tinkerbell half and would be traveling to the WDW Wine and Dine, so they got to go every day. I was pretty jealous.
Anyway, I know this opening has been picture light, I am working on getting Day 1 uploaded to photobucket so there will be plenty of pics to come.
Let me leave you with these Disney inspired running quotes so we can all get in the mood for my half marathon:
One jump ahead of the hoofbeats (Vandal!)
One hop ahead of the hump (Streetrat!)
One trick ahead of disaster (Scandal!)
They're quick, but I'm much faster (Take that!)
Here goes, better throw my hand in
Wish me happy landin'
All I gotta do is jump
-Aladdin, that street rat knows a thing or 2 about out running the law
I am on my way - I can go the distance!
I don't care how far - Somehow I'll be strong
I know every mile will be worth my while
I would go most anywhere to find where I belong
-Herc, he really knows how to go from zero to hero so I try to listen to his advice
Well here I come, and I'm so not scared
Got my pedal to the metal, got my hands in the air
Look out, you take your blinders off
Everybody's lookin' for a way to get real gone
Real gone
Real gone
Real gone
Real gone
-Lightning McQueen knows how to chew up the pavement (haha, get it? in car racing and in tearing up the road)
Anyone know any other Disney running songs/quotes?