What happens when the magic has technical difficulties?

After a day of packing and moving some things (and a couple other things), the Poppywongs, Emmett and Daddy went to Disneyland to see if we could see the “new” Fantasmic that is part of Disneyland’s new “Nightastic” celebration for this summer.  It opened this past weekend, and clearly, there are some kinks to be worked out.

First things first.  When we got there, the parking garage said “Disneyland: Filled to Capacity“.  Not to be turned back, we decided to go to the park to see if they would let us in.  Lo and behold, people were filing into the park as per usual.

They had some Honda Insights in the entry plaza, and Dad and I took a look.

Once we got in, the parade was about to begin, so we watched it again.

waiting for the parade to begin

clapping with the music

Straight away to the carousel

He waved at me!

over to small world

Then over to Buzz Lightyear

Where I got a personal best

... and so did Emmett!

After that, we went over to the Rivers of America to wait for the 9:00 showing of Fantasmic.  We had quite a lot of time to kill, and we had to turn away a lot of people who were eyeing our table.  Dad even got asked if he was leaving… in TAGALOG.  I guess all the sun is making us look Filipino again.  At any rate, to kill time during the wait, we:

Practiced saying names with Mah Mah

Tried on a Woody Hat

A Mickey Mouse Club cowboy hat

And a Davy Crockett coon-skin cap

we finally settled on this one because they could monogram it. The back says "Emmett"

We drank some coffee for some energy boost

So, after waiting and waiting and waiting, 9:00 finally shows up and then 9:01, 9:02… after about 5 minutes, we hear them announce that there is are “technical difficulties” that are delaying the beginning of the show.  At 9:20, we see the workers rolling up the ropes that mark off the seating area, and everyone was saying that the show was cancelled.  They finally made the announcement shortly after that, and we decided to stay for fireworks instead of brave the angry crowds right away.

Emmett and Mah Mah were noting how the "Sing-Sing" were going BOOOOM!

It was a pretty cool show

We overheard that the technical difficulties had been overcome and that the scheduled 10:30 and 11:30 shows were still going to happen, but we couldn’t stay any later than we already had, so we left and resolved to send a strongly worded email to Disneyland about how our Fantasmic experience was ruined by a non-cooperative dragon.  We’ll see what happens.

PoTW 6/6 – 6/12

Yesterday, we met Auntie Julie and Avery at the Aquarium!  This week’s Picture of the Week is when Emmett decided to ponder life and general existence in front of one of the exhibits.

We saw the seals/sea lions get their lunch

we saw the octopus for the first time in four visits!

The "Sea Dragons" are very cool.

A very cool looking fish that I don't remember the name to.

This eel was mocking me. I can feel it.

Emmett and Avery look at the seals

And our last stop was to look at the lorikeets.

PoTW 5/30 – 6/5: I realize I’ve been remiss…

… but it’s been crazy around here.

This week, we went to the LA Zoo with Adam, Timmy, and Micah Noritake.  While we were walking around the zoo, Emmett chose Timmy as his best friend du jour.  Whenever we moved from animal to animal, Emmett would look around for Timmy to hold his hand.  This was great for me, because I didn’t have to worry (as much) about Emmett wandering off by himself.  Wherever Timmy went, Emmett was there, too.

We’ll see if he remembers him next time we see the Noritakes.