Disneyland Journal, Part 5. I Stayed Up Til Midnight Which Is 1 In Arizona Time

As we have covered most everything that a family does on a trip to Disneyland, this final chapter will not be as detailed as the last four. In fact, we will not do the time of day or any of that, we will just include pictures and a few interesting (at least to us) stories from the trip's final two days.



Friday for lunch, we decided to go and eat while watching one of our favorite shows at Disneyland, Billy Hill and the Hillbillies. If you have never seen this show, it is hilarious and even though the show is pretty much the same every time, the main guy is good enough that you keep coming back time after time. Anyway, it was getting pretty crowded and so this nice family asked if they could share a table with us. When the husband asked where we were from, Shannon told them Thatcher, AZ. She overheard just a short time later the husband tell the wife that we were from Thatcher, you know that place where Spencer Kimball was from. We are thinking they were Mormons



We finally made our way into Innoventions in Disneyland which is a very large building that spins around. When we got inside, we realized the entire top floor is video games. I'm surprised Braden isn't still there.



That night, we got with Danae and Lamar and family and hit all the big rides together. We got Logan to agree to try Splash Mountain again as long as he could wear Shannon's sweatshirt to keep him from getting wet. He loved it and went twice.



We stayed at the park until about 11:30 p.m. As Braden was still letting us know what time it was locally as well as AZ time (Yes, he kept it up the entire week) he was very excited to let us know that he was going to stay up until Midnight and that would be 1:00 a.m. Arizona time. Not sure what was so exciting about that, but it he let us know this fact no less than 20 times leading up to and then after the actual event.



The next day we went to California Adventure for a short time before heading home. Our last ride of the trip? Soarin' Over California. Greatest ride ever. We even got them to let us ride on the top row. To end our trip, we went back to the hotel and kept a promise we made to our kids from the minute we had arrived and had lunch at IHOP before leaving. My kids must love pancakes because that was almost as impressive to them as any Disneyland ride.

After another 13 hours in the car and another night spent in Prescott, we made it home. It was nice to be home and in our own bed. But even before the day ended, the comment was made that we wished were back in that magical place. But then I promised Shannon I would try and wait for a few months at least. And since then...Logan has begged to go back just about every day since. I think he was impressed.