It's been a while since our last post.

Right now the big topic around here has to be the fires burning through out San Diego County. Thankfully the fires are not threatening us in the Tierrasanta area. The Ceder Fire of 2003 was nothing compared to the fires going right now... the Witch Creek Fire, Harris Fire, Rice Canyon Fire, and the Mt Miguel Fire. NBC 7/39 here in San Diego has dubbed this as FIRESTORM 2007. Over 300,000 people have been evacuated from there homes, ending up in evacuation sites like local high schools and Qualcomm Stadium right down the road from my house. Here is probably the most popular picture on the Internet right now... the satellite photo of the fires from yesterday.


Saturday, before all the hubbub started we spent the day up in Anaheim at Disneyland. We still had one day left on our passes from January, so Kristi figured this would be the day to use it. We were there from just after the park opened till around 10:30 pm. You can tell it's Halloween Time at Disneyland...

We got some really good pictures that day. These are the pumpkin characters on top of the entrance gates to the park.

Gabriella had to drag us on the Mad Hatter's Tea Party! Sean HATES any kind of ride that spins so he sat outside the fence and took a picture and this video...



Ya know I can ride just about any ride... roller coasters, log rides, those towers that take you like 200 feet up then drop you. I'll ride anything, but I know why Sean hates spinning rides. They just give me a headache.

Sean wanted to go over to Tom Sawyer's Island so we boarded the raft and found out that the island has been transformed in to a pirate hideout. Sean's sitting on a barrel of Dynamite munching an apple.

The kids got to see Captain Jack Sparrow over there. Kristi said this guy was so good she almost thought it was Johnny Depp.


On the way over to check the lines on the Indiana Jones ride we stopped to watch the show in New Orleans Square. Gabriella always gets picked out of the crowd for things like this, everyone knows how outgoing this girl is!

Kristi used a program called ridemax to plan our trip (January's and this one) and a hint she got for this trip was a good spot to catch the afternoon parade. We were front row and the other side of the street was the fence around the Matterhorn, so the whole parade was focused on us.

The last ride we did for the day was the new Finding Nemo Submarine Adventure. The original Submarine Adventure ride stopped running a few years back and Disneyworld went and filled in their lagoon with cement. Last year while we were here we saw the fence with the signs saying they were bringing back the subs and adding a Finding Nemo theme. We talked about saving a day on our passes and coming back to ride it a few months after it opened... Umm yeah right. Kristi put this one in the ridemax program and it said there was an average wait time of over 2 hours, but we decided to check the line right after the parade ended because we were close. The line looked a lot shorter than earlier so we jumped in. We got through the line in an hour and 15 minutes.

While we waited in line a Disney Cast Member handed out activity cards with puzzles and trivia questions about the ride. It said there are little Nemo's hidden around the area... i found a couple carved into a rock. Sean found one in the lagoon under the water. Some of the plants and rocks had been arranged to look like Nemo.

Here are the submarines... i remember the first time I went to Disneyland the subs were gray to look like navy subs. then the next time I came here back in '92 they had been changed to yellow. Pretty much from what I remember not much changed except for when you enter the grotto under the waterfall. Inside there they found a way to do holograms under water from the movie Finding Nemo... Kind of like the hologram ghosts in the haunted mansion.

Well that's all for now. I'll try to post some Pictures from Baseball here really soon. Sean's playing in the winter league here mostly playing catcher.