Brody mentioned that it seemed like it had been awhile since we had a Disneyland (not California Adventure) night---So we went Friday night, it was a great night to go. The big rides had longer lines (30mins+) so we headed to some of the shorter lines....like Haunted Mansion, which looked pretty cool that night with the moon over it mixed with fog (which I don't think you can really see in the photo---but there really was creepy fog around it).
I have this APP for my iPhone called 'GotPlans', for Disneyland. It tells you the up-to-date wait times (that people at the parks submit) for rides and many other things (has all the menus for the restaurants too---came in handy for us that night) that make your trip to the park easier.
Since I help out some by submitting wait times and other info while in the park ---they sent me (and many others) a $5 dollar gift card to the park! I was so excited. It may not seem like much, but hey, it's always nice to have some free money to spend at a place you spend money at anyway. I assume it is a little incentive to all of us App people to continue to help keep the ride times up to date so it continues to be useful to everyone. : )
After we had a nice dinner in New Orleans Square (Sorry AZ, no 'food photo' of dinner) and went on several rides.....it started to rain!
...but we started getting flashbacks of about a month ago when we were there during the BIG rain storm and got soaked to the bone......so we left! haha : )
...and stopped off at 7 Eleven---one of our new favorite spots for hot chocolate, to warm up! It is hot, creamy, milk chocolate that you can serve yourself and add fun flavors---I love adding Hazelnut to it!
And you can get two of any size for less than one Starbucks! It's more fun too! : )
Saturday night was our 2nd stop on our little Broadway ticket package, "The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber". It was much different than we were expecting it to be. It turned out to be more of a concert, and not really what you would think of as being put into the Broadway Play category. After we separated it from the "Broadway Play" thought, and accepted it as more of a concert.....there was a lot to love.
The music was amazing and the voices even better. It was really fun to hear songs from other plays we didn't know (some we liked, some not so much), and songs we have always loved. Our favorite part (and by the reaction of the theater, everyone elses as well) was when it came time to hear 5 songs from "The Phantom of the Opera". They dropped the curtain and projected the mask on it while they played the overture.....and then lifted a couple other curtains until the stage was again revealed all covered in smoke. The guy who sang the Phantoms' part had played the role on Broadway for a record-setting 2,500 times. He was SO good. When he would come out before, and sing songs from other plays (before he came out as the Phantom), Brody and I were like, "Oh, there's Phantom again"---he just had that distinct 'Phantom voice'! : )
It was a great weekend.....
