Holy wow. It’s Wednesday and I’m still worn out from it all. I’m finally starting to wind down…
No. Not really. It’s still crazy around here.
Let me start with Friday. Lovely Friday. The end of the week. The calm before the storm of weekend fun.
It started with a text from my Mom, saying she had the flu. Crap. She is the one watching the Littles while we go Disneyland! We have NO ONE else to watch them. She ended up being ok-ish enough. But she is amazing and I owe her and my Dad chocolate. Lot’s of chocolate. Dove Milk and Dove Dark. lol
Anyway… The Littles and I were headed out to Modesto Friday evening for some party supplies. What I didn’t add to my October Schedule post was the surprise party we were having for my mother in law, Roxanne! I didn’t want to give it away, right? She is a faithful blog reader and everything!
Back to my story. So, I’m driving, when my driver side tire starts making a noise. What the heck? Our other car is already dead in the water at the moment. You’ve got to be kidding me that something is wrong with our van too!
I get out of the van and take a little look-see. I touch some stuff. And guess what happens next? A lugnut, with part of the bolt falls out in my hand! The other half is still in my rotor! I only had ONE tight lugnut. This story gets very long so the short version is this: American Tire in Modesto over torqued my lugnuts by over 20 pounds! Not 5 or even 10 pounds. 20! I recommend NOT going to them. They don’t know what they are doing and tons of people are driving around with lugnuts that could loosen and break at any moment. My tire could have fallen off on the freeway! Don’t even get me started. Let’s just say, after many tears and a couple of beers (lame rhyme. sorry.), I was feeling better by 10pm. All this crap started at 5pm!
And we still had Disneyland to look forward to at 12:30am!
My Dad drove us to the college campus because he didn’t want their car sitting all day. I can understand that. Seeing how neither of our cars were running. He gets us dropped off and there is already a line of people! All of us were there and checked in so we left a little before 1am. We made one stop in Newhall for breakfast and still arrived at the park by 7:30am!

It was so gorgeous out! Sunny and balmy. I love California.

Our view from the above photo:

Isn’t that the BEST?! My heart just swells up when I get on Disney’s Main Street. It’s like I’m six years old and in heaven!
We headed to Space Mountain first. AWESOME! I could ride that all day. They had it Halloweened out, but it wasn’t scary. Just different and fun. There was a fire dude graphic flying around different parts and reaching out to you. You can see more of it if you sit on the left side of the car. So much fun!!
Because we didn’t have the kids, we pretty much flew to all the main big rides we wanted to go on. We didn’t wait more than 20 minute for anything. It was great.
Pirates of the Caribbean
Indiana Jones
This Oogie Boogie was turning the popcorn machine, moving up and down. I managed to take the perfect picture of him! Jason loves Nightmare Before Christmas and even has some tattoos of the characters.
Outside Haunted Mansion
After we did some more fun stuff, we headed over to California Adventure. I should have taken a photo of the pumpkin and candy corn covered bridge. It was so cool! Most of the photos I took are in the California park.
Giant sun in the back of the courtyard area:

The whole place was decorated in candy corn! I loved it.

We realized when we saw some characters that we didn’t see any in Disneyland. None. We had to get some photos with the characters!
Look! It’s Mickey the Candy Corn farmer! lol


The Goofy photo is my favorite! When we walked up to him, he put his arms around me and shooed Jason away! People were in line, laughing. Jason pretended to kick him in the booty. lol
It cracks me up how far away I am standing from Pluto! Like I don’t want dog hair or something.
We headed over to the new Toy Story Mania ride. AWESOME! We waited over an hour but it was so fun! It’s a 3-D arcade style ride. Like Buzz Lightyear but not. lol Mr. Potato Head talks to you and cracks really bad jokes while you wait.


We saw these cool Green Army Men too:

We rode California Screamin’ three times! This is a biggy for me. I don’t do roller coasters. I’m terrified of them to the point of making myself sick. It’s bad. I had been on this one before but still, I was not looking forward to it. The first time it was fun and I kept my eyes closed. The next two times…eyes open! Even in the upside down part!! Jason bought me ice cream, he was so proud. lol
Giant Candy Corn being eatin’. Do we look a little tired? Just a little bit. Zzzzz…..

Look who is eating the candy corn!

Not great photos but it was cool that the caterpillar popped up in the shot. lol
Our view eating chicken salad with apples and walnuts (yum) from a bread bowl (double yum):

It even changes colors!

Leaving from California Adventure and hopping back into Disneyland I had to take a photo of Jason with the letter R!

He looks so exhausted. lol
We wanted to see the Halloween Screamin’ fireworks show. Man o man. It was great. I fell asleep standing up just long enough to start falling over. lol I’m not kidding! Jason was irritated and laughing all at once. I’m sorry! Tons of people, loud music, very little sleep in the past 48 hours. What’s a girl to do? lol I didn’t take photos of the fireworks. I was having a hard enough time hold myself up, let alone our camera. It was a great show, with all the villains and Zero flys out.
It was 11:30pm when we boarded the bus back to the Modesto campus. In true add-to-the-craziness-of-the-weekend style, we arrived two hours early! Hey, that’s great right? No. It’s not great. We didn’t have a car! I had to wake my poor Dad up and have him come and get us. Thanks Dad!
We get home and crash on the couch. I got 30 minutes before Miranda and Aiden were awake. That’s it. Jason slept till 11am. Lazy bum. lol Just kidding. One of us had to function. We were about to throw a party for Roxie Mom’s 60th birthday!
In the end, it all went well. The party was super fun, she was totally surprised. Yeah for us!
I fell asleep at 9:30pm, only to wake up twice with Aiden. He has been waking up two and last night three times in the night! I was really getting used to sleeping all night too. His teeth are really coming in and I think its one of those things where he’ll get them all at once.
So yeah, I’m still winding down! I’ve left more than half the details out and it’s still a long crazy post!
I’m off to take a nap at my desk…
Be a fountain, not a drain. ~ Rex Hudler
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