So instead of our annual Memorial Day trip (well, annual for the past 3 years) we decided (kind of due to gas prices) that we would just head down to Disney and Knott's for Thursday and Friday of last week. We left the house at about 730am on last Thursday and made it to Disney shortly after the 9am opening.
Waiting for the tram:
Josh is ready for Superman:
We get to the entrance gates and see a HUGE line for Disneyland. They had just opened up the gates for DCA so we opted to head over there first since we still wanted to eat breakfast.
Mmmm ... This is Kristi and Gregg's first Cinnamon Roll in like 2+ years:
After grabbing some Soarin' FPs we headed for Monsters Inc.:
Then to Tower where we got 2 rides because somebody was videotaping:
We then headed for Paradise Pier:
We hit up Screamin' with little wait and then headed for the Sun Wheel, which also didn't have a wait.
Amanda took a nice picture of us:
Josh looks worried on the Sun Wheel:
The four of us on Mulholland Madness:
Gregg, Amanda and Joshua go on GRR:
We had lunch at WhiteWater so Amanda and Josh had to say hi to the bear:
We then headed over to Disneyland, the new Dapper Dans were out:
Big Thunder before the chain broke and was down for 3 days:
We then did the Mansion, Train, Space Mtn and a couple of other things and headed to Knott's about 4pm.
Amanda waiting for Silver Bullet (it was a bit bumpy)
Waiting for the Log Ride:
The back-side of water ... Knott's style:
I liked this shot of Xcelerator:
Josh went on Montezooma's Revenge for the first time ... and loved it:
So after an hour and a half at Knott's we were done. Went and checked into our Hotel (The Hyatt Garden Grove), had dinner at Red Robin and pretty much spent the rest of the night chilling in the hotel since we wanted to be at Disney early on Friday.