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Hello all,

Wow two great Saturdays in the month of January at the Disneyland Resort, hard to beat the great weather, mild crowds, and Disneyland! Overall the crowds were less than a few weeks ago, due to it not being a holiday weekend or a major convention in town. The waits for most major attractions were well under an hour, most in the 30-40 minute range.

Jason

Trip logs and mileage reports are in the Park Miles section.

Disneyland & DCA Thoughts and Observations:

• Parking was much smoother this week due to the smaller crowds, but the trams still seemed backed up most of the day with waits testing our patience so several of the people I spoke with ended up walking one or both directions.
  
  
• Toy Story Midway Mania seemed to have the longest line in DCA for most of the day. Each time we went by or heard people talking it was between 30-40 minutes. I managed to get on a couple times using the single rider line and they are still asking people if its ok for a single rider to join them, so far I have only seen one or two say no and I think it was because they did not understand the question, they seemed confused.
  
  
• As you saw in the pictorial update the walls on Main Street have moved slightly as the paving project is on going. If the plan is to re pave everything this off season they seem to be moving rather slowly and not in a pattern that makes sense.. they did the east side of the hub, have the parade gate blocked off now and have a portion of the street in the middle blocked off half way. Wonder how much will get done before the Spring break crowds come. Also saw some more access ramps, or what I am assuming will be access ramps going in... hopefully this is not the start of the removal of all curbs in the hub and many in the Town Square area like WDW has. I really thought that made the area look odd and I think the curbs are great to sit on of course!
  
  
• I finally caught the current (new) version of the Playhouse Disney show, seemed my schedule and theirs never lined up (also we had a toddler with us so it was a perfect excuse). The show was pretty much identical to WDWs and the kids in the audience seemed to really enjoy the show and the effects (falling leaves, lights, etc...).
  
  
• As we walked around Disneyland we saw a group of a handful or so military (I believe Army) people being shown around. Looked to be some sort of outreach as they were taken to many of the shows and even allowed to play around a bit with some lighting at Tomorrowland Terrace during the Elvis set. It looked like a great program, anyone know anything about this?
  
  
• I took in a couple sets of Scot Bruce (Elvis) at the Tomorrowland Terrace and he had a healthy crowd each time. Great to see entertainment continuing in the off season.
  
  
• Remember started late, with no explanation, it appeared not to be weather related as the test balloon seemed ok. Also no Tinkerbell again, was she given some time off since the show is only running on Saturday nights I believe.
  

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