Ahhh, Disneyland! :)

Tis that time of year! Time for our annual Disneyland visit. Since I was on Fall Break, we decided to go on Wednesday to avoid the crowds. Ha! I guess lots of other schools have Fall Break too because it was kind of crowded. We still had fun though. Here Sam and I are at the Haunted Mansion, as it's all decked out in Halloween decor! So cool!

Sam TOTALLY spoiled me this year. He made reservations for us to eat at the Blue Bayou Restaurant, the one inside of the Pirates of the Caribbean ride. Holy cow was it fun! Even though it was inside of the ride, we couldn't hear the ride. It was so peaceful and very romantic!

Here's cute Sam at the Blue Bayou Restaurant. The food there was AMAZING!! Holy cow! Sam ordered the Tesoro Island chicken and I ordered the Monte Cristo sandwich. *drool*drool* I had read reviews online about how good the Monte Cristo was, and it sure lived up to it. It was to DIE for, totally unhealthy, but to die for! The outside was so crispy and the inside was so soft. Then they had this awesome jelly to put on it. Yum! Then Sam and I ordered the creme brulee. Oh my gosh! Heavenly! We are totally coming back to the Blue Bayou. Yum yum!

After lunch, Sam and I had fun riding the rides. We first went on Space Mountain, which they had changed to Ghost something or other. The ride was MUCH faster, darker, and it had this ghost that was chasing you. It was pretty fun! We were able to ride all the usual rides, but Indiana Jones was closed for maintenance, Splash Mountain & the Jungle Cruise were both down for a few hours for repairs. It was frustrating for a while not being able to ride some of the good rides (which clogs up the other rides), but we were able to ride them eventually!

Cute Sam as he's cleaning his glasses. We had to take a break to eat our yummy churros. Gosh, I realized that we sure do eat a lot while we're there. I guess we burned up so many calories walking around the park though!

Me giving the thumbs up on Disneyland.


Tom Sawyer's Island. Doesn't it look so peaceful?!


Looking over by the Haunted Mansion area.



I LOVED that everything was all decorated Halloweeny. Usually Sam and I go between Halloween and Thanksgiving, so there are more Christmas decorations up. It was fun to see how things were decorated. I LOVED the Mickey jack-o-lantern in the back of this picture (in front of Main Street).


Ok, this is Sam's famed picture. The first time that we went on Splash Mountain on Wednesday, Sam was trying to make this ugly face at the camera as we went down the last drop. But, he wasn't able to hold the face. So then the next time we went on it, Sam decided to be a muscle man. He kept practicing on all the smaller drops so that he'd be prepared for the big drop. And, he WAS able to hold his muscle man pose for the camera, although I think his face looks HILARIOUS! It's kind of hard to tell, but he's making this face that's like "HURRY take the picture because I'm getting scared!" Then when we saw his picture, we fell in love with it. We usually don't waste our money on expensive pictures like this, but this one was too good to pass up. All the other people in our log were laughing too. Too funny!!

Well, we had a BLAST at Disneyland this year! I can't wait for next year!! :)