Just got back from Grad Nite, and I must say, I have more energy now than I did at any point during Grad Nite. (24+ hours without sleep! yay!) Overall, it was fun but also tiring at the same time. I have never been in a line so long to get in a ride nor have I ever seen so many crazy kids in Disneyland at one time. Thank you once again for inviting me, Albert!
Let’s start with getting there. I went and picked up Albert, Raymond, and Derek and we got dropped off at the parking lot around 9:20, 10 minutes before we were supposed to meet up. We waited there for about an hour for everyone to get there, so by the time we got on the busses, (#4!! of 6) it was about 10:30 already. The trip there was pretty fun. It took about an hour and all Albert and I did was talk about Death Note while Chris slept and Raymond talked to other people. We got in a debate what L’s assistant was named, and we ended up calling Mitsue about it — and it turns out she was right about him being called Watari! (I was close. I thought of Wataru) When we got there, we got a speech about what not to bring, etc. We weren’t supposed to wear anything with a logo bigger than our fist, so Raymond had to take off his shirt (since the Ecko logo covered half his shirt) and wear his thin undershirt for the rest of the night, XD. Then the lady said in about 10 minutes, a guy would come to get us out and lead us to the gate, but that took about an hour. So by the time we got out of the bus, it was around 12. In order to get through, we had to get patted down, and surprisingly, even though the girl’s line was longer, I finished way quicker than the guys.
We immediately went to Space Mountain, but we didn’t get a chance to go then because the wait was 120 minutes (aka 2 hours). We ended up just walking around for awhile through a huge throng of people. They were all dancing crazily to all these weird rap/pop songs that Raymond knew all the lyrics to. When we were getting to the Haunted Mansion (is that what it is called?), a slow rock-ish song was played. Raymond said, “No one can dance to something like this!”, but then, some girl walked past us dancing to it. PWNED! But yeah, so we went to the Haunted Mansion. The wait was maybe 30 minutes or less. It wasn’t that bad. The ride was just as normal, and I get a really old ghost at the end, XD.
After Haunted Mansion, we looked at a lot of the rides, and noticed all of them were pretty long. An upwards of 50+ minutes wait. So we decided to eat first, then go wait 2 hours for Space Mountain. Of course, the food as very expensive. A slice of pizza and a drink = ~$10. Then, we literally waited for 2 hours to get to Space Mountain. I think it was worth it though. All that time falling asleep in the line, and right after, I was wide awake. It seemed really fast and cold in there. The picture didn’t come out all that great. Raymond didn’t make a face, Chris was asleep, Albert = ?, and I made bunny ears on Chris. Oh, and while waiting in line for the ride, Chris kept falling asleep, so we had to keep pushing him along. One of the times, he rolled up into a little ball and was squating on the ground. Some girl behind us almost tripped on him, XD.
After that, we walked around, and by this time, most of the people were pretty dead already. Maybe around 3-4? Either they were dancing or just sitting/sleeping on benches. We saw Billy, Sarah Guest (?), and Michael Cossey, so we went to the Indiana Jones train ride with them! The ride had been closed, but then right when they came, it opened! We were lucky and the wait was less than 5 minutes. The ride was pretty fun. Not as intense as I remembered though. I ended up getting paired up with Raymond and Billy on this ride, and they just kept talking about how Albert had asked me to Grad Nite, but I was not spending enough time with him, and then they started comparing me to a prom date who didn’t spend time with her date. (I sort of didn’t get this) After that, we went our separate ways because Billy said he wanted to go dancing/raving.
We went to the Buzz Lightyear ride (Space Blasters?) afterward. I got level 3, over 33,000 points. Chris was asleep the whole time, but he still got 4,000 points (he had his hand on the button the whole time, and miraculously hit that many targets).
We walked around again, and we didn’t know what to do, so we went back to Space Mountain to see the time on it. It was still two hours, so we played around with that big marble ball - trying to see if we could stop it and how fast we could spin it. We ended up running in to Billy again, so we went on the Pirates ride with them. That was pretty boring, and I almost fell asleep again.
Around 5-6 now, people really were dead. None of the lines had people in it. We went back to Space Mountain, and not a single person was there. Seriously. We ran to the ride and got yelled at by the lady in the podium for the “Honey I Shrunk the Audience” ride. There was seriously 0 minutes waiting time, so we went on it. It was supppperrrr fun, and Derek and Anita was in the ride before us. We were going to go again, but we didn’t have time. I was very disappointed. DD:
So we went home after this. Everyone was pretty tired. Everyone just slept the whole way back. Not one person was awake (except Jon Lau) or talking. I was actually pretty hyper after. I mean, I have the energy to type up this wordpress post. ;DD Derek looked like he was drunk when he got home. He was swaying back and forth as he tried to get to his front door. It was really funny.
The order of the rides is probably out of order. I seriously don’t remember much! I was too tired then.
OH! There were also these girls that came from Hawaii there. They had a funny accent. :3
I forgot to mention that there were no trams there. The trip to and from the park, we had to WALK. I had a serious cramp in my right leg from walking all that way.