Disneyland Haps April – June 2024

3 April Went to the park with Gary and Kaylie for a couple of days. Went to the blue bayou for lunch the first day
Incredible fish
They were behind me on Mr toad and the ride went down. They got taken off right away but I was further in so it took awhile for me
You can hear Alice in wonderland! 😊
Storybook
Corn on the cob yum
4 Apr butter cake with strawberries
Watched world of color from lamplight. they were enchanted
Loved Guardians!
Runaway
Loved the dancing bit. Kaylie and I did anyway. Gary just wanted to capture our enthusiasm
The scooter sure is nice at times!
6 April Gary and Kaylie spent their third day with Kaylie’s sister and niece while I hung out with the Hakes fam…Cami, Kira, Darin. I showed them a really fun time!
Went in the Jungle Cruise on my scooter!
Waiting at the exit for our turn on the Nile Princess
My friend Victoria was the skipper and she was awesome!
Fun magic shots at the castle
Pirates!
Took off that afternoon for Texas to see the eclipse
11 Apr Me and my friend Jules
They took a Boats cast photo. Didn’t get to be in it 😥
But those are my river buddies!

I spent a lot of April at home since it seemed pointless to be not working, but living in CA. But I did make a few trips back down.

24 Apr Came down for the Cast Preview of the new Pixar parade with my roommate Mackensie and her friend from GR
They gave us some popcorn for the show
I found the iC! crowd and sat next to them
And my friend Rachel came and joined us! Our good friend Kaity is a dancer in it (Yay for her finally getting in a parade!) and we wanted to support her
What a fun night!

Took a road trip up the coast for a few days (see CA Road Trip April 24)

29 April Did a cast preview of the Railroad Tour and got to ride in the Lilly Belle!
She’s beautiful!
There was a cast preview for the Railroad tour so i took it!
We ended up getting stuck in the Grand Canyon section for like 15 minutes. It got pretty hot haha
They had us disembark at Main Street instead of going all the way back around to Toontown where we got on.
That was fine for most people but i am not very mobile right now and I had to wait on the steps for 15 minutes while a tour guide walked back to toontown and returned in my scooter
Fun tour and awesome experience!
Spicy Mac nuggets
Fergus Fizz
Beautiful Coco cupcake
30 April For Pixar Fest, they had cute car couches set up to view shorts like in a drive in
Pineapple shake yum
Took some characters photos
Met up with my old friend Tiff Sperry Day and her friend when we could park hop. Had a lovely rest of the day!
I love the fun things they do with dole whip at tropical hideaway
Rocked Guardians
Went to the pharmacy backstage and got all of this for like $18! So cheap!!
1 May Spicy pineapple dole whip
Duck patrol
Eventually found all the hidden pizza planet trucks!
2 May would have gone home for my birthday but I had a PRP injection that day. Had a lovely birthday at the park afterward
Chowder and fritters for lunch
Here’s the famous Dawn Redwood that until discovered in the 1900s in china was thought to he extinct for 150 million years!
Got bibbidied for my birthday
We had a little birthday party for me and Jeanette’s daughter, TinTin, whose birthday is also today!
Jeanette made the cake and some amazing Filipino food!
Had a great time hanging out. Mackensie on my right. Jeanette and Steve on the other end. Unfortunately Ken couldn’t make it. Work stuff.
3 May got to hang out with Serena. I love her so much!
She’s on the test team for Tiana’s so she slyly posed with her hat (she was headed to a shift right after)
Lemon meringue shake
Incredible new tortellini cone with fresh cheese
For Season of the Force, they choreographed a fireworks show seen from galaxy’s edge with Star Wars music.
The incredible thing is that is actually the Pixar fireworks show! Two totally different shows using the same fireworks!
What a fun return time card!
Got my best ever score on webslingers!
Stayed until the fourth so that I could enter my first ever speed puzzling event! My roommate Mackensie had never done one either
Fun snacks themed for May the Fourth
We were just a team of 2 competing against teams of 4 and we took 2nd place!!!
Team These Are Not the Pieces You Are Looking For 😊
We finished in an hour and 17 minutes. The team that took first only finished a few minutes quicker and they had 4 people
A proud day!
Special May the Fourth Lego
S’mores donuts at lamplight
Mackensie was working the VIP section of World of Color last night and it wasn’t full when the second show was about the start so she let me pull my scooter up to the railing.
Dang! best viewing I have ever had! That’s the way to go 😊
5 May went into the park in the morning on my way out. Did the Shrunken Ned for the first time 😊
17 May came back down to get some more things, tie up some loose ends, see fantasmic when it opened. Enjoy some Pixar Fest food. Ratatouille pizza and a gasteaus cookie
Yummy pasta
Turning Red cake
Finally found the last Pizza Planet truck

Did another few day road trip (see CA Road Trip May 24)

21 May. Finally caught up with Alex for dinner. Since she quit I have hardly seen her

Went back into the park and had some beignets
24 May Hung out with Gary for the day. Used one of my days so we could see fantasmic on opening night
Fantasmic is back!!!! Yay for Peter Pan 😊
We got a lovely spot at the second show because of awesome friends who hooked me up but it was CROWDED.
25 May so sad to leave this place
2 June entered the cast duck races. Had my nieces and nephews decorate ducks to enter. Claire’ strawberry..,
…and Emily’s ladybug 😊
7 June Echo did a Love Bug 😊
Here they all are on the entry table
So many fun entries!!!
So amazing!
They race through Small World
I met Autumn and her mom there!!
Race time!
Here they come!
None of mine
placed but some of them at least survived 😊
I also saw a couple of iC friends, Katie and Lily
Afterward, we took a giant photo back in Toontown with Donald (happy birthday!)
Spent the rest of that day treating Gary and Kaylie to a day in the parks. She flew down for the weekend.
Twinners!
Mexican for lunch
Elemental themed food
Watched fantasmic from the disability section at Riverbelle, a really nice spot
8 June just wandered and enjoyed. Love the bootstrappers
17 June One last trip down before my surgery. Met Davon, Callie, and Mikki for dinner in Newport Beach. Hit the beach around sunset.
I willI miss her when I’m in landlocked Utah

18 June. Started the day with Mikki, Callie, Davon, and Destiny
Then Cherish and Presley finally made it!
Went to Toontown which they loved and had fun meeting Goofy…
Well at least I did! 😊
Cherish stayed in fantasyland with present but ended up really stressed out and was ready to leave but we convinced her to stay and we had a great afternoon.
Rode Pirates. Met Jack Sparrow
honestly more for cherish 😊
Davon kicked it up a notch with a bubble wand for Presley
Finally she wanted to wear her princess dress!
They LOVED Galaxy’s Edge!!!!
Davon tries piloting of a new kind…while rockin the blue milk
We made it this far on Rise before it broke down. We hit free return times but it never came back up in time 😊
Cherish took Presley back to the hotel while the rest of us hit the Matterhorn and then headed over to DCA to finish out the evening.
Callie and I ended up with Ratstoulle sweatshirts
Saw a rocket launch from SpaceX. So amazing!
Rocked Guardians
Mikki and I rockin our matching Groot shirts
Rocked guardians again!!
Callie sat that one out
19 June went one more time for a few hours before I took off. Yummy esquite bowl at rancho
While I was driving back, Davon was doing this!
So happy for them! 💚
He had down me a picture of the ring and told me about his plans. She was totally floored!