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Summer has arrived and so have the crowds at the Disneyland resort. It was nothing totally unbearable, but most attractions at Disneyland had decent waits throughout the afternoon and evening. DCA was more crowded that usual, but still nothing to write home about.

Just want to do my normal complaining about the parking garage. It was ridiculus, I was about a dozen cars from the exit and was supposed to drive all the way around to get out... oh well... a good note, I managed to get some really entertaining tram CMs.

We have moved our trip rundowns and mileage reports to our Park Miles section.

Disneyland Items:

• Most of the construction walls around the park are starting to come down as the park is in full summer mode. There was a lot of entertainment choices ranging from the College Band to Mambo dancing to Club Buzz to Fantasmic. You could easily occupy your evening with the groups around the parks.

• The All American College Band is back again. Only one SC person in the band.. They are playing the same type of schedule:
  Fri/Sat/Tue-Thur: 4 Plaza Garden, 5:30 Castle Forecourt(Disney Tunes), 6:30 Town Square(Flag Retreat), 7:30 (pre-parade) 8:30 Main Street Train Station(variety set).
  Wed/Thur: 4:30 Plaza Gardens, 5:30 Castle Forecourt, 7:30 Tomorrowland

• On our voyage aboard the Mark Twain someone asked to go up to the bridge to take a picture. The CM said that was not allowed anymore while the boat is in motion due to "Safety Issues".

• Fantasmic was running, the show was great as usual. The film sections looked brighter and the fountains looked a little stronger. Other than that nothing jumped out as too different. The Little Mermaid barge did not go by. Also the Mark Twain had an extremely sparse offering of characters. My guess is this was due to the Island construction going on... I really hope they did not cut that out becuase of budget issues.

DCA Items:

• There seemed to be a lot of teenagers in the park. I am guessing because of the KIIS FM event that was to take place after park closing.

• From the Sun Wheel you could see a portion of the Timon lot blocked off. They were just installing the fence. Guess it only takes a couple weeks to install an arena. I really hope its covered. The concert series last year was nice, but way too hot and exposed to the sun.

• Ate dinner at Award Weiners @ DCA. Total for a hot dog, fries, and cup of Ice water (tap water) was $5.81.. price was not my main point, everyone knows Disney is expensive, my issue is the hot dog sure seemed a lot smaller than the once I bought about six months ago there. The bun was still the large Deli roll, but the hot dog seemed dwarfed in it. Fries are still among the best on property.

   

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