Disney Pics

Since my wonderful and loving daughter sent me all of the pictures off of the camera I thought I would share some of our Disney fun. The trip was great. We did a lot of fun stuff and saw many of the little shows and such that you usually do not have time for when you go with kids. Any one planning a trip to Disney really needs to check out the show at the Golden Horseshoe - it was so fun and we saw it twice, The Muppet's 4-D, and It's tough to be a bug (this will scare the little ones but was really neat). D's favorite rides were Soarin over California, Space Mountain, California Screamin and the new Toy Story Ride.

This is the Mark Twain riverboat which goes on the river around Frontierland. We were sitting on the top deck waiting for it to start when the captain came down and asked if would like to join him in the wheelhouse which is the little room you see at the top of the boat. D got to blow the whistle and ring the bell. It was very neat and I think D really enjoyed that part. Orlando was our driver and he was very nice and talked to us all about Disney.

Our trip home was a nightmare. Since we were flying standby there is always that fear that you won't get on the plane. We were flying from Long Beach to Vegas and then to Salt Lake. Our initial flight out of Long Beach looked like we would not get on but we did. The Long Beach airport is really small. You board and unboard the planes outside and the luggage returns are outside, very strange. We got our tickets and got on the plane and were on our way to Vegas. The flight to Vegas was really bumpy, there were storms between California and Nevada and the pilot tried to go around them so we went a ways out of the way. On our first approach to Vegas he had to abort because the weather was too bad. We finally landed, thank goodness, before both D and I lost our cookies. We were on the same plane to go to Salt Lake but they made us de-plane and go pick up new tickets (standby rules) and then get back on the plane. We were supposed to land in Salt Lake at 7:15 pm but due to the storms and such we did not leave Vegas until 8:00. We sat on the plane for almost 2 hours. Fortunatly the trip to Salt Lake was smooth and we landed without incident at 9:15 got in our car and drove home very thankful to finally be home.