Friends in my ward did a girls' trip again this year. Due to my Disney World trip in January, I told them I was out this year. But then we got the news that the friend, Emily, that hosts everyone in her family time share in CA is moving to Papua New Guinea. This trip turned into the last one for the next 3 years and a final hurrah with my friend, so I decided to jump on the bandwagon.
A handful of women flew out Wednesday night; the rest of us flew out Thursday night. We did Disneyland on Friday all day till midnight. We got there 30 minutes before it opened so we could increase our chances of getting boarding passes on Rise of the Resistance, a new ride. The previous day the passes had all sold out 6 minutes after the park opened! The park was absolutely silent at 8am when the park officially opened as everyone was busily trying to secure boarding passes. Periodically a group of people would cheer and scream signaling their success. The seconds felt like minutes. But finally 2 minutes later we celebrated as our group secured passes for that afternoon, group 82.
Our first ride of the day: Cars in California Adventure
Blurry Space Mountain pic
By the end of the night we did kiddie rides that people had never done before.
Alice in Wonderland
Because one of our friends on the trip had just recently moved from Anaheim and was still technically a Disney Employee (she worked on the Splash Mountain ride), she was able to get us a few nice hook-ups in terms of extra fast passes and some discounts. We waited in line 30 minutes for a couple of rides, but everything else was shorter. We rode a ton of rides!
Saturday morning everyone slept in; we had stayed up talking for another hour after Disneyland. I ran 8 miles along the beach in preparation for my race the next weekend. My friend, Laisa, ran 4 of them with me. Some women did surfing lessons, hiking, pedicures/manicures. I chatted with friends, played games, and went to lunch with Emily and Laisa. We tried going to bed earlier on Saturday night, but still stayed up till almost midnight talking. We were up at 5:30 the next morning cleaning up and heading to the airport for our 8:30 flight. Not a lot of sleep on the trip, but it was fun to get to know new friends and acquaintances on a deeper level. Matt was so generous in pushing me to go and held up the fort just fine at home!
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