Day 2

Day 2
We got our wake up call at 7am. Megan was excited to hear Mickey Mouse's voice on the other end. "It's time to get up, I'm so glad you're here!" Within seconds, the girls were bright eyed and ready for a fun first day in Disneyland.

GOOFY'S KITCHEN
This was probably my favorite event of the entire trip. Goofy's kitchen is located within our resort, but I think anyone can make a reservation and eat here. If you come to Disneyland you should definitely make this a must do! Expect it to cost you $100.00. We had food vouchers, so luckily it was included in our total package. Disney calls this "character dining".
Several characters will come around to your table and sign your autograph book, pose for a picture and either talk with you or play with you. The picture above shows Goofy being...well, GOOFY! He took her fork and swirled her waffle around in syrup until it was good and messy. Then he tried to feed it to her, making sure it got all over her nose and chin. It was funny.
We also saw other characters such as Alice in Wonderland, Chip & Dale, Donald Duck, Pluto, Max and Wendy.
Goofy's kitchen is a buffet. I was surprised to see so many unusual foods for breakfast. Peanut butter and Jelly pizza, Mickey mouse shaped chicken nuggets & hot dogs. Luckily there were some safer choices for me, such as spiral cut ham, eggs and tons of fruit. They even had my favorites- dried mango, apricots, cranberries & fresh pineapple. Katie was thrilled with the idea of dessert for breakfast. She ate pudding and gummy worms. Yikes! Hey- it's our vacation, so I let her.
Something very interesting happened while we were getting our food.
Katie was standing next to Goofy who was holding a large pan of dishes. Alice came up to him and grabbed the dishpan. She said "you can't put those dishes out Goofy, they haven't been washed yet."
But Goofy wasn't letting go. Katie looked like she didn't know what to do. Here was Alice and Goofy fighting! They tugged on the pan until it fell out of their hands and dishes went everywhere. It made a loud crashing noise and everyone stopped to see what was happening. Goofy started motioning for all the kids to come help him clean up. Then he started banging the dishes together and soon everyone was doing it too. The whole thing turned into a fun interactive show for the kids. Goofy began bouncing the stacks of real dishes up and down in their holders and banging some together to make noise. But when Katie tried to do this he slapped her hand away. She laughed.
We spent well over an hour there. It was a lot of fun.
Let's see...what did we do the rest of the day? Well, we did some shopping (mostly looking) in the Downtown Disney stores and of course went into Disneyland. I don't think we did to many rides. I think we did do the Matterhorn. Yes, we did. That was the day I had to keep going back to the room to change clothes because the weather kept changing. We wanted to ride Space Mountain, but it was not running when we went by it. So we got some fast passes for later. We went over to California Adventure so we could watch Pixar's Block Party Bash. Megan and & I had fun dancing to the song "Celebration" as we waved to all the Pixar characters. Katie didn't want to dance and honestly felt a little silly. So one of the dancers came over to her to try and cheer her up. Didn't work. Katie crossed her arms and got more grumpy. At one point of the parade, I think it was Buzz Lightyear...threw a bunch of little balls into the crowd. Megan retrieved balls, some yellow and some blue. Later I noticed that she only had one yellow ball. I asked her what she did with the rest. She said that she gave them away to other kids who didn't get one. What a darling.
We came back to our resort to have dinner at Hook's Point. That was a very nice upscale restaurant. I can't believe how easy it was to get in. We didn't have a reservation, but we got in with no waiting at all. I was impressed with how wonderful the service was. Everyone I noticed who worked for the resort and the parks were very nice. I might even write a letter to the head honchos to let them know how pleasant our vacation was.
Anyway, while we were waiting for our food, we all started playing table soccer with that ball Megan had from the parade. More than once, it fell on the ground. One time it fell right as the manager was walking by. He picked it up and started pretending that he was going to keep it. Megan started going after him and he turned around with a big smile. He reached out his hand to give it back, but the ball disappeared! We all laughed as he performed his best magic tricks of the disappearing ball. Such spontaneous fun!
We all loved our dinner. I especially enjoyed the grilled salmon. YUMMY! Katie had a delicious looking cheesecake for desert. By the time we were done, I was beat tired. Michael wanted to go back and ride Space Mountain. I urged him to take all four passes and have fun. The girls really wanted to go in the hot tub anyway. So that's what we did. Michael rode Space Mountain 4 times while everyone else who was there for the ride waited 90 minutes or more. Fast passes do take a little planning, but are so worth it! As long as you have a park hopper ticket, you can get a fast pass for any ride. In case you are still unsure how fast passes work, let me explain it to you.
There are machines at every ride that offers fast pass. You put your park hopper ticket into the machine like an atm card. The machine gives you a fast pass ticket with a time window on it, let's say 3:10-4:20. You must return during that window of time to use the fast pass ticket. There is a separate line for fast passes. This way you don't have to stand in a line for an hour. Trick is, you can only get ONE fast pass at a time. So don't think you can go around and get tons of fast passes. It doesn't work that way. One hopper, one fast pass good until that window of time is over. It actually worked out great! Michael had 4 fast passes because me and the girls did not use ours. If you don't end up needing your fast pass, you can give them away. We did that a couple times and people were appreciative.

Ahhh, not that I have thoroughly bored you...here's the end of the day 2: Watching Disney TV and eating chocolate cake (that's right, you heard me!) chocolate cake that Michael brought back for me...and I didn't get sick!! Yippee!!