like the other blog post.. I'm inserting lyrics in from Disney songs.
***DISCLAIMER: I know the Disney characters are just actually people in costume ok? Just suspend your disbelief and allow the 8 year old in yourself to believe they're real ***
Skipping ahead to breakfast and I realized... huh I missed an episode of Pretty Little Liars .__.
"...BUT WHO CARES? NO BIG DEAAAL~~" -Ariel
"HAKUNA MATATA!" -Timon and Pumba
We went to eat at Storyteller's Cafe where we reserved seats to have an all you can eat breakfast with Disney characters! We met Chip and Dale and I got a selfie with Chip. I asked Dale what he ate for breakfast and he said he ate EEEEVERYTHING in the restaurant :P when I asked Chip, he said he ate nuts. then we met Koda and another bear i forget his name.. and that fox and bear from critter country, i forget their names too. they all gestured congrats and the fox grabbed Steven's hand and shook it a lot. and he OMNOMNOMed steven's mickey mouse hat xD and THEN we got free chocolate cupcakes because our server also saw that we were just married and hooked us up. Of course character dining was free because it was included in our Disneyland package. HOORAY FOR FREE STUFF!
Today we strategically planned to discover half of the California adventures park. We took the Streetcar to Hollywood land and stopped right in front of...
Disney Animation Studios.
We went inside and it was just the most beautiful thing I've ever seen! screens everywhere showcasing Disney movies and concept sketches before the actual release of the movie, and they also play notable songs form that movie!! Pocahontas, fantasia, little mermaid, Pinocchio.. EVERYTHING.... I went inside, laid on the carpet floor and allowed the happy tears to come to my eyes (I refuse to give up the title of Disney's biggest crybaby).There were 3 different areas to explore.
First we talked to Crush the Sea Turtle from Finding Nemo. he asked us questions and we got to ask him questions, and then he gives us turtle names! And no, he wasn't in a body suit, but he was actually ON SCREEN. and it was very interactive. when he came around to talk to me, this is how it went down:
Crush *swims over to the left* : ok let's go over to the right over here to the girl with the extra set of ears.. dude can you hear better with those things?
Me: yeah just a little bit
Crush: oh ok cool dude! awriiight whats your name?
Me: Andrea
Crush: Ariiiiiight AWESOME Andreaaaaa!! alright awesome Andrea, what's your question?
Me: What's your wife's name?
Crush *very shy, giggles and blushes*: Special Shelly.
Audience: Awwwww....
Crush: Yeah she's my special someone. Hey what about you, do you have a special someone?
Me: He's sitting right next to me :) *i gesture over to Steven*
Crush: Oh the dude with the rodent eating his head?
*Audience laughs*
Crush: alright cool cool! now what's that pin on your shirt say?
Me: Just married :)
Crush: GASP. dude. are you like, on your HONEYMOON?? WELL CONGRATULATIONS! HEY, how long have you been together?
Me: Nine years.
Crush: Aw that's pretty sweet dude. that's a pretty long time, i remember, like, when i met my wife Shelly, it felt like we've known each other for, like, eeever. do you feel that way? like you've known each other forever?
Me:...well, not really.
Crush: o-o ... um... dude. he's like, right beside you.
*Audience laughs*
Crush: Naw man I'm totally joking, GIVE IT UP FOR THE NEWLY WEDS! YOU SO TOTALLY RAWK!!!
Audience: Duuuuuuuuuude...
I felt so special :3
Then he asked a kid in the audience what he was holding or what this specific human thing was.. and he pulls out a bikini top and the adults laugh but the kids were all like.. hm... we don't know. but this kid thought it was a bow tie! so he tells Crush "it's a bow tie, you wear it on your neck when you go out" and crush was like "oh so you mean like.. i can go surf in this with my friends and totally not be made fun of?" again all the adults laugh because we know what it is and the kid was like "...um.. no..?" and we start laughing even more!!!!
so at the end of the talk, he gave us some ancient turtle wisdom: treat everyone like they're an oyster, cuz you'll never know when you might find a pearl *cue "AWWWW"*...
Crush: wasn't that a warm and fuzzy moment? *bubble streams come up from behind him because he's farting*.... well that was an even warmer fuzzy moment!!!
LOL!
Turtle session was over so we decide to make our way to the second area which was an animation room. looked like a university classroom, but with a stage and a screen to show everyone how to draw. the next time slot was reserved on how to draw OLAF from frozen. the artist really liked my Minnie mouse slippers that i bought the night before because my feet were hurting, and he really liked my hot topic Minnie mouse tights too! anyway the training started and i gotta admit.. Steven did a pretty ok job at drawing Olaf. of course i did better than he did. :P sorry hun. anyway the artist then saw our just married pins and decided to gift us with HIS Olaf sketch that he signed and dated AS A WEDDING PRESENT. OMG. i was about to burst into happy tears. I GOT A DISNEY ARTIST GIFT. EEEP!
Then we went into the last area called the sorcerer's workshop where we saw the evil queen's magic mirror. the magic mirror told us that the room we were in is a room full of moving pictures... so there was a lot of cool things to spin and look into. and we got to draw our own images and make them move. he then explained the two other rooms was a room that will tell you who you really are, and a room where we need to beware the sea witch. the next room we realized the mirror was talking about the beast's library. the library was dark and scary. The prince's portrait was slashed, and the lion statues were scratched up. over the unlit fireplace was the enchanted rose that kept dropping it's petals. then all of a sudden the room magically lit up and fixed itself as if a curse was lifted... JUST LIKE IN THE MOVIE. and i began tearing up again!!
We sat down on a chair to talk to a book. it asked us a series of questions which would reveal what Disney character we actually were. i got Mulan :| and Steven got Pooh bear :3 d'aww... the final room was Ursula's underwater hell soaked lair where i got my voice stolen. twice. i got it back though. Once was when i had to act out a scene from a movie (the lion king) and twice when i had to sing "hakuna matata." you basically just had to do voice overs.
We left the animation studios right after and their gift shop was fantabuloso.
Then we went to see Muppets3D. Mickey mouse made a special appearance xD
Performance was actually pretty good. the whole entire theatre was used as a stage so bubbles came down on us, water, wind, and then the Swedish chef blew of the theatre o-o that was pretty awesome lol they had some pretty boss Muppet movie poster too like.. the Dogfather... Greasy, starring miss piggy... PLUMP FICTION...
Then we went into the monsters inc ride. again it was a "tour of monstropolis". very slow and very nice.
The bug's life ride was also relaxing. we flew up on one of Flik's flying machines. there wasn't much else to do in that area so we went back to Hollywood land and we saw that the Aladdin stage musical was starting soon so we decided to line up. while waiting we ate a Mickey mouse soft-pretzel. it was so good but so salty. o-o
we sat in the mezzanine area and Steven made the genius decision to sit in the "boxes". two seater. so i got to see the stage up close AND into the wings. (hey i miss drama class ok?) the theatre was specifically made for Aladdin and it was probably as big as the princess of whales theatre in toronto. no i lied it had an extra floor and it was a lot wider. it was bigger than that.
Anyway the stage show was pretty awesome. and SO SOOO FUNNY. the genie broke the 4th wall so many times and made so many references outside of Aladdin. here's a few i jotted down:
"AIEAIEAIE, That zumba class i took a century ago didn't help me at all.. look at me! *rubs stomach* i look like Justin beiber at 30 years old!"
"3 rules when it comes ta wishing, Ya can't wish for someone to love ya, ya can't wish for a thousand more wishes, and Ya can't resurrect people like ya can't resurrect Fifa Brazil ok?"
"heeeey .... jafar!!... maaaan this is awkward. ya know what else is awkward? MILEY CYRUS. hey jafar, have ya seen her wrecking ball? no? cuz it looks like it hit ya in the face!"
"Hey Al, that princess is as dramatastic as the kardashians."
"Oh man sorry i'm late i was taking the elevator up from the wings but beyonce's sister BEAT me to it"
"HEY AL! LET IT GO!.... LET IT GO!..... THE CARPET NEVER BOTHERED ME ANYWAY!!!"
"... do ya wanna build a snow man?"
*prince ali proposes to jasmine* "gaaaasp THIS IS JUST LIKE WHAT THEY DO ON THE BACHELOR!"
*the end of the musical* "GAAASP THIS IS JUST LIKE THE ENDING ON THE DVD!!"
"PSH. OH no you diii' in't"
"i'm free? I'M FREE! I'M GOIN' TA DISNEYLAND!!!"
"... well if ya aren't busy, i'm gonna go find nemo now."
*when iago decides to join the good guys* "get away from us you tiki room reject, or we'll turn you into chicken nuggets" *he was referencing the tiki room bar at the Disneyland park*
*singing prince ali song* He's got slaves, he's got servants and flunkies "Just like Snooki"
*Using his lamp as a cellphone* "Hashtag ugly sultan." *jafar gives him a glare* "..... Tweet!"
"HEY! COME BACK WITH MY UMBRELLA! ELLA! ELLA! EH! EH! EEEEH!!"
and then we saw Aladdin and jasmine fly over the audience on a magic carpet ride! it was
A WHOLE NEW WOOOOORLD, A NEW FANTASTIC POINT OF VIEW, NO ONE TO TELL US "NO," OR WHERE TO GO, OR SAY WE'RE ONLY DREAMING
Anyway the show was finished so we went outside and we saw.. MICKEY DANCING IN THE STREETS WITH THE NEWSPAPER BOYS! AND MICKEY'S FACE WAS MOVING O-O HE WAS TALKING. OH MY GOD. AND BLINKING. O-O
after that was finished, we went on the cars ride. the line up was super long and it was like the hottest day in California.. so hot that people actually fainted in line. o-o fast forward to when we were actually on the ride... it was a pretty slow and air conditioned ride. we were inside at first going through another "tour of cars land" when suddenly... we made it to the other half of the ride and we had to race another car in front of us.. o-o and then it became a roller coaster ride. it gave me AND Steven a heart attack o-o those drops were CRAZYY!!!
After that we went into a bug's life 3d theatre where we saw movie posters like "the termite-ator" and "claws"... it was almost like we were underground and the style was almost like the Muppet 3d theatre where the whole theatre was the stage. it was very interactive. we had stink bomb sprayed in our faces, "bug spray" and "acid"... (it was just water) and the scariest part of all? Hopper put SPIDERS IN OUR FACES. THERE WERE SO MANY SPIDERS AROUND US i was flipping out so i removed my 3d glasses and realized they were just toys and there was actually maybe a few of them o-o... and then we had termites, ant and other creepy crawlies move under our bodies towards the exit. WHY DID IT FEEL SO REAL OMG...
We had a quick lunch (fries and chicken strips) i thought they were gonna give us a small portion but holy crap they gave like 8 large strips of chicken breast o-o and a wallop of fries... bigger portion than Canada's wonderland o-o
After lunch we decided to go back to the animation academy. this time we learned how to draw Oswald the lucky rabbit. the artist told us the history of Oswald and how he actually belongs to universal but disney was the one who created him first so Disney had to trade an actor to bring Oswald back. true story.
then after we finished we headed back into the room with many screens.. and much crying was had. for Rapunzel they had a before animation playing along with actual film when she was singing "at least i see the light" and then all of a sudden all the screens had floating lanterns and i was just so amazed that i couldn't stop crying. IT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL AND-AND MAGICAL. ;__; then we heard noise outside so we decided to leave the studio and we realized we missed half of the Disney pixar parade. we only caught a bit of finding nemo, cars, bug's life, and toy story.
We were pretty tired from the heat so we made our way back to the hotel but stopped in the centre of the park because... we saw Pluto again this time with an old timey hat! We missed goofy again, so we took another pic with Pluto.
Then from the corner of my eye... Mickey Mouse came out. we got in line to see mickey and my stomach was getting all twisted and knotted up again. "I'm finally meeting mickey mouse after 22 years of my LIFE." My turn came and i said "HI MICKEY!!" and gave him my autograph book... but then i don't know what happened, i just started crying. like when i say crying this time, i was beet red from crying, my eyes were swollen. SWOLLEN. i couldn't stop crying and i told mickey i waited my WHOLE LIFE to meet him... by this point i was just sobbing and mickey.. GAVE ME THE BIGGEST AND LONGEST HUG, and patted me on the back a few times to calm me down but that just made me more happy so i cried even more! (photographic evidence of this on Steven's page. yes i know, I'm exposing myself and letting myself be vulnerable). Tears of joy ok, not sad tears. and then mickey wiped my tears away and gestured to our marriage pins to congratulate us. and then he pointed to my mickey shirt with all the lipstick stains from Minnie so i look down and goes "Yeah i love you mickey!!" so then mickey gives me three kisses on the head and gives me another big hug and a pat pat pat on the back before we left the park. I said bye to mickey and cried all the way back to the hotel.
For dinner we went to the ESPN Zone building in Downtown Disney.
Their fish tacos were DELICIOUS. my god they were so good that i didn't even touch my fries, AND there was cilantro in my food. normally i eat my fries and ignore my greens but for some reason every vegetable/ greens in the park was good i ate, everything o-o
We called it a night because i was all cried out.
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