Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to disneyland we go!!
As you all know...well...maybe not all but most of you know...I went to Disneyland last week. I don't know what it is about that place but it's like as soon as I step through the gates, all of my depressuon, worries, stress just disappears and I am filled with happiness!!
We planned on going because it's the "season of the force" ...so they have all their star wars stuff out. This includes costumes and props displayed, meet and greets with the characters and even changed up some of the rides to star wars themes!!
I'm getting ahead of myself though, because I really have to tell you about this crazy adventure...even just getting there!!
Normally from Vegas, disneyland is only a 4 hour drive....4.5 hours if you hit traffic. It's a straight shot on the highway, no weird turn offs or back roads, just boom you're there in 4 hours.
So we leave around 2pm...we make it out of vegas and my GPS states that's there's a bunch of traffic on the high way so to save time we should take this back road. I normally don't veer off the path I know but I figured, what the hell. Oh by the way. ..we brought my puppy gambit with us because he is currently being trained to be a service dog and we have to test his limits in crowds, being left in a kennel, long car rides etc etc. Anyways....back to the hills have eyes story....opps...I'm giving away spoilers already...
So I turn on this road off the highway, of course it's right by some maximum security prison lol and we follow it for about 30 minutes before the pavement ends...literally just ends and we are now on a dirt road of nothing. My GPS is still working and I want to turn around but my husband says no no keep following the GPS. I look into my rear view and see a van behind us, so I think to myself "ok well...at least we aren't going to get murdered alone". I also see a car far up in the distance. The dirt road seems to go on forever. It's in the middle of the desert....there is nothing around. The van stayed behind us the whole time. After about an HOUR I see the car in front of us turn right on another dirt path...but my GPS still says straight so I just go straight. The van behind us also goes straight. Suddenly the ground gets super soft and it's no longer a little dirt road...it's soft dune sand and my car comes to a hault...stuck in the sand. The van behind us starts to turn around and sees we are stuck. Turns out the guy is an old military vet with his wife and kid. Their GPS tried to kill them too. The guy helped my husband get my car out of the sand and we managed to get back to solid dirt. We followed where the other car turned off and it brought us back to the road. From there we saw the highway, which was DEAD STOPPED. the little road we were on got us only slightly ahead of the traffic. Now by now...where we ended up would only take 40 minutes to an hour from vegas. It's a little place called Primm. We had been driving for 3 hours already. I told my husband we were turning around and he said no no maybe the traffic let's up. Mind you...I have a dog also that's thirsty and probably needs to pee.
We stop at a gas station in the Primm area and it seems everyone from the highway was pulling off too because everything had a line around the building. I just wanted to get water but I couldn't even do that. So we got back in our car and back on the highway. We were stuck for another hour before we hit smooth sailing...but that was short lived...as we hit traffic yet again about hour down the road. We were stuck for another 2 hours.
By the time we got to Anaheim it was 930pm....and we had to be up early to get to Disney the next day so we crashed as soon as got there. But we were finally there!
We wake up and go to disney. Drop gambit off at the kennels and the first thing we do is hit up the star wars stuff.
We went on star tours first, which of course was amazing....and if you've ever been on star tours, they randomly take a picture of someone in the spaceship and say they are the rebel spy and display their picture on the screen....my hubby got picked!!!! Hahah I was like "omg it's YOU!!" And since we are both sith lords...he got mad and was like no way! Lol. We got chased by Slave 1 and got to see jaaku (the new addition to the ride).
Here's us in line for star tours.
Then we met Kylo Ren and of my course my future husband Boba Fett :) Not to mention all the awesome costumes and such on display.
The first day we were there , there was media broadcasting and we ended up getting 2 free tickets so we brought my husbands niece and nephew the next 2 days we were there. They had a blast!
Here's me, hubby and the niece and nephew on hyperspace mountain.
And here we are on splash mountain lol. My hubs and I are totally meant to be together lol we so the same pose as each other...not planned!
Unfortunately it was incredibly hot and super packed. I've never seen disney do packed. Every ride had a wait time of over an hour. It was ridiculous. I always tell myself never again but then I end up going again haha. If I could afford to go to disneyworld...I would totally go. It would be my dream.
Anyways...yea....so it was an adventure...but it was fun. I managed to snag a kick ass star wars bag, which replaced my marvel Backpack and some awesome star wars PJ pants.....which btw...had a MD sticker on them and on the hanger (they were out of smalls so I compromised with a med) and I get home to wear them and they are a XXL. Ugh...story of my life lol. I wore them anyways and just safety pinned them together lol.
We drove home the same day we did the last day of disney which wasn't the plan but we didn't want to get stuck in traffic again. The ride home? 3.5 hours.... lol
Fun times!!
Xoxox
Mara
PS: If you haven't yet...check out my star wars themed set in MR "Mandalorian" :)
PSS: and just so it's on record....my husband and I compete whenever we ride "Toy Story". You have to shoot at targets with 3d glasses on. We try to beat each others scores....I kicked his ass...he tried to say his machine was broken....but no...it wasn't. Proof is here...I'm player 1....just saying.
