Birthdays, Small Worlds, and Guy Fieris

After dropping the birthday girl off at work, Emmett and I went down to Anaheim to meet up with the Lew clan for another day of Disney fun (everyone was jealous of Emmett’s NINE trips to Disneyland).

Among the more memorable things about this trip: Guy Fieri from Food Network was there filming a special!!!

Guy Fieri is this guy (host of Drive-Ins, Diners and Dives):

And here he is at Disneyland (apparently wearing the same shirt):

Such was our brush with “celebrity”.  (He’s a lot bigger in person.)

We went on the Haunted Mansion Ride, reworked for Christmas:

Is it me, or do they all look the same height?

A gingerbread coffin

Emmett in his white sweater under the black light

While everyone else went on Indiana Jones, Emmett and I went to go look at the newly revamped Cinderella Sleeping Beauty (thanks, hannah) Castle:

Looks the same from the outside

They had redone all of the little “scenes” in the Cinderella Sleeping Beauty story with new technology that allows animation like never before:

Emmett and one of his Biu-Kao-Foos outside the Tiki Room

Emmett likes to imagine that he's big people

It's good to see that all is well and organized at Disneyland

The "new" Small World, revamped for Christmas

New boats, same water?

Waiting for the Boat to go

Emmett enjoyed the ride

After Small World, we ate lunch in Tomorrowland, and then went to Toontown for a bit.  Emmett and I decided to go home at that point, and we returned later with the Birthday Girl to celebrate at Rainforest Cafe:

Emmett running towards the Blue Elephant because his safari was about to begin (not really)

Emmett got the Pot Roast (not really)

We got the volcano!

And a birthday song:

A good way to celebrate a birthday.  And we were stuffed up to our eyeballs.