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We had a great trip despite forgetting to bring all our tickets. We went to Utah for Thanksgiving and then went straight to Anaheim. We didn't realize the mistake until Sunday, the day before we went. We caused a domino effect by our mistake and had a problem every day except Friday at Universal Studios, but everyone was so good to us. Very customer oriented. We are SO glad we stayed at a Disney hotel.
Tuesday we had breakfast at the hotel with the characters. It was really fun.
We rode Pirates a number of times, as well as my favorite, the Tower of Terror, which is different every time you ride it. The lines were pretty short, about 15 min or less for most of the rides. We did a LOT of walking and were grateful on Friday that Universal was fairly small in area. We actually had really good food in the park. It was a bit cool but we braved the Splash Mountain ride because the Brer Rabbit story part of the ride is SO cute but because they had had some technical difficulties when they restarted the ride they speeded it up. It was way to fast, really bumpy, and we got really wet without enjoying the story. But we had planned to go back and change clothes before we went to CA Adventure that day.
The fireworks were wonderful and the castle was so breathtaking. Even Scott thought so. He doesn't like the parades, or waiting for them so I only got to see glimpses of them.
The Aladdin stage show was a favorite of ours last time we went and it is still great. 45 minutes long.
The Haunted Mansion was transformed into the Nightmare Before Christmas. It was really cool. We even went on It's a Small World because they changed most of it to Christmas music, so you don't get so sick of the repetative music.
I was able to use the free internet in our room and got a 4 star hotel on Priceline.com. That was the first time I ever let it choose for me. We got a room at the Hilton for $79. It was a nice room, BUT they charge for everything. Parking $18, Internet cost but I didn't use it.
We stopped to visit Scott's aunt and uncle in Alhambra on Sat am before driving home. It's nice to be back in my own bed, but yulk, gotta go back to work tomorrow.
BTW- I didn't diet at Disneyland, and actually ate lots of yummies. I only gained 1 lb back so I thought I did ok. Back on the diet tomorrow and back to the gym.
