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| My Dr. Seuss Room for this year! Sadly I might have to take down the trees because the safety commissioner thinks they could be a fire hazard. The whole school is filled with paper, the whole school is a fire hazard! |
If you have been following the blog/facebook/ or something else, you probably know that we signed up way back at the beginning of the year to run a half marthon. Long story short, Michael and I both injured ourselves in June and we hoped we could do it. Well, we took the plunge and tried. We succeeded and feel GREAT!!
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| Our Toy Story Themed hotel room. Don't you love the Aliens just staring at you? |
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| Our view from the hotel. We could see the Fireworks at night. It was nice to have a hotel so close to the parks. |
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| The day we picked up our running bibs 10733 and 10734. There were only 14000 people running with us. We didn't get any pictures of the race itself, well we did but it was on our phone and those were horrible pictures. We also bought a few from the photographers, but they weren't digital and we don't have them yet. |
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The race started at 6:00 but we had to wake up around 4:00 to eat and be at the starting line on time. It was so much fun! We got to our corral on time with the other 14000 people, it was super crowded. They started the race with Micky, Minnie, Goofy, Donald and Daisy cheering us on. The first 2 miles was going around Californa Theme Park. This is when my knee started to give me problems. It hurt to run on it. Michael told me to go to medical, but I didn't want to because they would pull me out and I HAD to finish (I did have 25 third graders expecting a medal). I was able to speed walk, so that exactly what I did for the other 11.1 miles.
We entered Disneyland Park and went through all the lands with all the characters cheering us on that belonged to the land (like Tomorrowland had Buzz Lightyear, Critterpark had Winnie the Pooh etc.)
We made it through the park and got to run behind the scenes of the park too! After that we were running through Aneheim. All along the way there were high school marching bands, cheerleaders and other groups of performers cheering us. It was really fun because our bibs had our names on them so the groups would cheer us on by name!
About Mile 9 We got to run around the bases and be on the Jumbo tron at Angels Stadium. We finished the race after running through California park with more Characters cheering us on (like Phineus and Ferb)
The best part was seeing the finish line and being able to High Five Mickey and Goofy! oh and being done too! We made it with 12 minutes to spare. Not to bad for our first 1/2 marathon, and being injured!
After the race we went and iced off then went right back to Disneyland where I forgot the Camera! Whoops! We had a hopper pass so we went home after about 2-3 hours and took a 2-3 hour nap. We were exhausted! When we woke up we headed back to the park and I remembered my camera!
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| When I went to Disneyland with my family years ago, the Fantasmic show was new. We got to watch it again and This was still my favorite part. Probably because most of the characters were on it. |
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| The Castle |
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| My first time EVER on Splash Mountain! I always have that face when going downhill, so there isn't anything new for me here, but I love Michaels face! He says it is like that because it was dark and he couldn't remember how far down it was. As Our P.T. said when we showed this to him "That is definitely true terror". Well I would give credit to Mike, but looking at the other picture..... I don't think it was because of the dark ;-) |
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| This one was in the middle of the day the next day. THey look about the same don't you think? |
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| We loved riding this through Main Street. It was nice to not have to walk. |
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| First time on the Matterhorn |
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| Going through Monstro the whale from Pinocchio, you can see his teeth. |
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| The Coolest Mouse EVER!! |
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| Love Peter Pan! |
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| Love the Chimney Sweeps |
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| Love This Mouse! |
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| Love his expression! ;-) |
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| We went to the World of Color in California Theme Park. It was amazing! |
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| Buzz and Woody being displayed though the mist! Pretty cool! |
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GREAT EXPERIENCE!! Coast to Coast 2013, here I come!
4 comments:
That looks like so much fuN! (Except for the running part- HA!)
I can't believe you'd never been on SPlash Mountain or Matterhorn before- you must have been little when we went as a family last? I can't even remember. Even Carly and SPencer have been on both of those! :P Love the pics though. Classic!
Awesome! I'm so doing this next year. Which hotel did you guys stay in?
Fairfield. It is within walking distance to the park! I am going to do the coast to coast (hopefully) in 2013
haha i love splash mountain pictures. Love it all it looks like you guys had an awesome time!
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