Anniversaries, Birthdays, & the tea cups at Disneyland

We had the grand opportunity of celebrating our anniversary (13 years) and Lia's Birthday (5 years old) at Disneyland! Hannah had been once when she was 5 and now it was Lia's turn. (By the way, you get in free on your birthday to Disneyland for 2009). We had our share of pictures with princesses and fairies, and riding on Splash Mountain, Space Mountain, Star Tours, and of course the tea cups! I was smart enough to just watch this time and not go on the tea cups. (I learned my lesson last time.)

The tea cups aren't really a ride. Rollercoasters are rides... even the "Flying Dumbo" is a ride. Rides are to be fun, not nauseating! Everyone got on smiling, but 3 minutes later you're not smiling as much! People get on excited to do nothing but spin in circles until your head hurts and that Churo they just ate wants to say hello to their neighbor. They fake a smile when they get off, but deep down everyone really knows what's going on inside. Their head is rattling "OUCH! You Idiot, what did you do that for?" Their eyes are tearing, not from joy but pain. Their mouths are laughing, but really would rather be saying, "Watch out below!" (can you say "Mount Saint Helen's"?)

Who pays $95 just to get into Disneyland (the happiest place on earth) and make themselves throw up? We are a strange and sick society. And yet we go long to go there often!

All in all it was a blast! I'm sure I would go back too, there's no place like it.

We're home now and preparing to leave in February. On my list: packing bags, selling items, and of course opening a new theme park called "Dizzyland" while charge $100 to make people forget their woes by focusing on throwing up. Smile for the camera...truly it will be a magical and happy place.