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July 11th, 2009
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08:43 pm - Trip report: Victoria's 6th birthday @ Disneyland
First to City Hall, to pick up a set of We're Celebrating buttons, then the double-decker bus (after waiting forever for it to show up) to the hub.
Lunch at Pizza Port. I revisited the question of why they didn't name it Pizza Planet, to which ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ariel10575 came up with a number of ideas: lack of Chuck E. Cheese style games within the restaurant, licensing concerns pre-dating the Disney/Pixar buyout, potential restaurant chain with less hemmed-in locations.
Buzz Lightyear's Astro Blaster. Alex got a much higher score than usual; the bonus targets refused to give me or ariel10575 any points, I guess they were working triple overtime for him for whatever reason.
ariel10575 took Victoria to get a princess makeover and see Small World. The makeover turned out to consist of her existing Cinderella dress, a sash, a hair bow and glitter, and some light makeup.
Meanwhile, I took the boys to Innoventions, Honey I Shrunk the Audience, and rides on the railroad and Mark Twain. Innoventions promised Asimo, but that area was apparently closed that day; instead, we mostly indulged in modern-day Zeerust in the form of a model home with several dozen Microsoft Surfaces, each with a different clunky interface.
We met up again, I took Matthew and Victoria on the tea cups, then we headed over to California Adventure for dinner (Ariel's Grotto; everyone who shouts "woo!" while singing Happy Birthday needs to die in a fire) and the Electrical Parade (minor changes to the music which I found muddled or otherwise annoying; minor changes to the float lineup which I was neutral about, apart from Pete's Dragon which I still wish they'd ditch). By then, the kids were tired, so we took the tram back to the parking garage and watched fireworks through the trees (Fantasmic will be better anyway after they finish debugging the new Maleficent prop).
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