Y3 D360

Year three may have the best ending of the lot at this point.

Yesterday was INSANE. Me and the kid drove all night listening to this incredible playlist she put together. 4 hours of perfectly executed music that was hard in all the right places, soft in the others, and ended well. We left the house around 12:30 and rolled into Disneyland right about 6:40. Since the park doesn't open until 8 the parking lot was still closed. We stopped at Denny's to kill some time and then headed over almost right at 8am. We had a fantastic day together. One of our goals was to get an old autograph book filled. She found her old book from when she was six recently and decided to have fun with it and get signatures on this trip. After doing Star Tours, we headed over to do princesses. As we were approaching their area we saw something new - a whole new area dedicated to Brave! We ended up being some of the first people to ever get to see Merida and have her picture and autograph! Come on, give me a break. Any of you who have been reading KNOW that I am 12 year old when I am in the park and here was the first Pixar Princess. It was AWE wait for it..... SOME!!

After that we headed over to California Adventure and spent the remainder of the day there. I got 50 pins, she didn't get any more autographs, but we got Perry the Platypus ears, had good Moroccan food, rode the rides, saw Muppetvision 3-D, saw the Phineas and Ferb parade, and had fun. She was starting to feel a little sick around 1 and we ended up making that our afternoon break point.

We hopped in the car, headed to Target for some meds, then checked into the hotel. We both crashed until around 5:30. We then showered and headed back to the park to meet up with friends at 7. From 7-9 we did this scavenger hunt our friend put together. It was crazy. We were on separate teams and at one point the kid texted me saying "I have a feeling your team is having more fun". It was. My team had all the cool kids. For the hunt we had to get cast signatures on a hat, pictures on star tours, pictures of certain park objects, pictures on Jungle Cruise, teacups, in the mad hatter shop, and on Tarzan. Our team did everything and we were at the meeting point first. Bamf. The prize was more pins as most of the folks that are here for this part of the trip are pin collectors like me. In total yesterday's haul was 64 pins including finishing two sets.

At 9 we all met up at one of the restaurants for dinner. Around 10:30 we headed back to our respective hotels then met in one of the suites for late night partying. All in all it was a great day. We were in bed by 12:45 and slept soundly until now. The kid is still asleep but I am waking her up soon.

Today we are meeting her friend in the morning, hooking up with the big group around 11 for group pics, then splitting off until 5:30 for a LARGE dinner at Bucket O Meat. Today promises to be as exciting and fun as yesterday.

Throughout the whole day by the way, me and The Date were texting, sharing pics, etc. I will go out on a limb here and say that if things continue well, she may soon be upgraded in name from The Date to something better. We shall see...