Tonichelle's 11 hour whirlwind adventure - *updated 3/14* About This Page:

[Tonichelle]

I will post a report here in a few... just starting off with the photos... which are better than any report I can offer at the moment... major writer's block lol

a couple of 'teasers'



and the rest can be found here

Yikes! I just realized what time it was! will be back in a couple hours with the report... *begins scurrying and singing like the white Rabbit.*

[Chrissi]

What a great TR Teaser! Can't wait to read all about it!

[ilovedisney0_0]

Love your pictures!

[tdandboys]

Those are great. I can not wait to see them as well. Gets us all excited about going to Disney.

[duck addict]

Great photos!

[Mauimouse]

Great photos!

[DyanKJ130]

Nice teaser!! Great photos!!

[mrsmac2001]

You tease!

[Colexis Mom]

More please

[clio]

Nice pictures. Can't wait for the rest of the story.
Liz

[Tonichelle]

hee hee

Alright let's see where to begin

ah yes. My best friend and I have known each other 8 years when she moved to Kenai our freshman year of high school. We were best friends all through that time and then beyond. When we graduated she was accepted to teh Western Culinary Institute in Portland, OR. I stayed back in the great state of AK and it's been tough on us because we can't just jump in the car and head out on some adventure.

so each year one of us travels to see the other. if we can afford it. I was able to swing a 10 day trip with her in August. We decided our road trip would take us to GrassValley, CA where my grampy and most of my mom's side of the family lives. Well when Erin -my best friend- heard CA she immediately thought DisneyLand.

My aunt -who I live with- said that it was impossible and that it takes something like 12+ hours to get there. It deflated us for a moment but then I was talking with my cousin who told me that it was an easy 9 hours if you go the speed limit (my best friend does not know what a speed limit is) and we figured what the heck.

Because this was a trip for us to visit, really, my CA family we couldn't just drive there and hang out for a few days, but we did want to spend a full day in the park. We had planned to drive down teh night before stay at a hotel (she works for the Marriott chain and so she gets cheap-o rates) get up early the next morning, spend 12 hours in the park and then as soon as possible drive back to GrassValley (which would have us back there, we figured, by 2 or 3am)

my dad found out about that plan WHILE WE WERE IN CA and freaked and called some random cousin of his that lived in LA and behind our back got us a room for free at their house lol so we called the hotel back and cancelled the room.

ok fast forward past the travel down there and get to the morning of our DL day... it would have been fine, but the directions we got from DisneyLand did not work, apparently the map system they use did not recognise some street name changes, so it was impossible for us to find it (we're navigationally challenged anyway). We stopped at an Anaheim Marriot, and asked the front desk and the girl said that Disney was at least an hour away. I knew that was bogus, but my best friend took the directions as gospel and we ended up in Santa Ana before I convinced her we were going the wrong way.

we turned around and finally found the way thanks to a nice man at a gas station.

We got that photo on Erin's camera, and she won't let me have a copy on my computer cuz she's mean lol and because she's afraid I'd crop her out (I'll admit that's what I planned to do for my myspace page *whistles innocently*)

We went on Splash Mountain -twice- the second time we were up front (it's a good thing we have a sense of humor because the guy in charge was all 'you want the heavy people up front for a bigger splash' and then he put my best friend and I up front. We're not stupid, we are heavyset, but it was still at little rude, but we had the last laugh later lol) but we did get majorly soaked. To the point where I hated walking because my clothes were riding up my booty. But it didn't matter cuz we went onto the Matterhorn (I LOVE that ride). It was Erin's first time on that (when she was little her brother told her some horror story of a guy's head getting ripped off by the Yeti and she refused to go on lol) and she loved it. We have it all on tape -even the part where I dropped the camera into the bottom of the sled on a rather hard bump lol.

We experienced the Tiki Room -my first time at DL- which I have to say is more fun than the one at WDW. And we even waved to Walt when we left after the fireworks. I admit I cried when it was over... it was just so much fun... I hate leaving. If they'd let me live there I would!

so yeah that's my really random report. I'm awful at reports, so hopefully you understood some of that garbled post.

[jimmymac]

Nice report. Glad you had such a good time

[loobyoxlip]

What a FABULOUS sig pic? Did you take that???

Great report - LOL about the Splash Mt. incident. I can't believe a CM would really say that. Sheesh!!

[ilovedisney0_0]

I had a CM embarrass me at Mulholland Madness once because of weight, and I was not so good-natured about it. Great TR! It sounds like you and your BF had a blast! We would love to see some more pics, if you feel like posting them (hint, hint).

[Tonichelle]

Originally Posted by loobyoxlip

What a FABULOUS sig pic? Did you take that???

thanks! it's actually a very *bad* manipulation of two photos that I spliced together in my computer... but yes I took the photos

I am planning to get way better photos this June as I'll have a decent camera this time around