Several weeks ago the space shuttle Endeavor took its last "flight" over CA, before it went to its new home at the California Science Museum in LA. One of the fly over spots on it's CA tour was Disneyland. My Mom and I went up to the parks and had a really nice breakfast at Storytellers Cafe, which is apart of the Grand Californian hotel, and then went into the park to get a glimpse of the flyover!
There were many different stories on where the fly over would take place, and in fact, the media was set up in DCA and ended up being faced the wrong way---most missed the flyover all together. We took our chances with a spot right in front of the castle. We felt pretty good about our spot, because there were official Disney cameras crews up on the roofs of Main Street facing the castle.
As we were standing in front of the castle, the park voiceover came on and announced that the flyover was about to happen (but we still didn't know from where), the area around the castle, statue and up Main Street was packed with onlookers and their cameras ready to go! All of a sudden from the left of the castle the plane comes flying over the crowd nice and slow, the crowd erupted the cheers and clapping and for a moment there were chants of, "U-S-A, U-S-A". It was quite a moment to be apart of! So, so glad we braved some crowds to be a part of this historic moment.
I love the shot of it flying over Space Mountain...seems pretty fitting. : )
