Disneyland for Christmas

During the week between Christmas and New Year’s, I got the brilliant idea to take Kendi and Taisley to Disneyland when we took Grandma Doris home . . . BIG MISTAKE! We left her home in Corona at around 10 a.m. on Monday, December 29 - drove about 20 minutes to the entrance of the Magic Kingdom - then waited in line to park (at a cost of $12 per car . . . and there were thousands of cars). Then we walked and walked and walked to the gate to buy tickets . . . at a cost of $69 for the park jumper pass or $99 each for Disneyland only!!! When we finally got our tickets at 2 p.m. (Yes, that’s right . . . 4 hours from when we first pulled off Ball Avenue and onto Disney property), we were told the park hopper passes were cheaper, but we would not be able to go to Disneyland until after 5 p.m. (California Adventure was our option during the day). Lucky for us the park didn’t close until midnight which gave us plenty of time to go on maybe six rides because there were approximately 150,000 people in the park. I have been to Disneyland dozens of times in my lifetime . . . and have NEVER seen so many people in one place before! Assuming every person in the park spent an average of $200 each (counting parking, entrance fees, food and souvenirs), we estimated the day we spent there was a $10,000,000 day for Disney!

To quote your Dad: "I love Disneyland . . . it’s the expense, the people, the traffic, and the rides I don’t like!"