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It was a great afternoon at the Disneyland resort. The weather was mild the crowds did not seem heavy and it was just a relaxing time. On arrival at the Resort I was a little worried as I got stuck in the last row on the 5th floor at 2pm... and the Lazygeek was on the roof a few minutes later.

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Disneyland Items:

• Over at Disneyland it seemed much more crowded. The lines still were not too bad with around 30 minutes for Pirates and HM in the late afternoon

• While on Pirates we spotted several of the newly painted boats, we saw three of them and were able to ride in one. It would be great if they repainted them all that way... looks much better than the 60s colors.

• Pirates seemed to be much slower than usual. With the boat barely moving through most of the attraction. It was great because you got to see more of the details, but something seemed weird.

• Speaking of Pirates, we had are nomination for the stupid person of the day, did not get a picture though. The group in front of us was a family. Mom, Dad, two kids both under 10. The mom and dad sat on the left side, with the smallest kid on the far right. Well throughout the attraction the kid kept standing up... and some of his timing was plain out scary, for example he stood up right before the first drop.. we were just about ready to reach out and push him down but luckily he plopped back into his seat just in time. Then at the end he kept putting his hands down into the water and the rails were close. Both the lazygeek and myself commented quite loudly several times throughout the attraction how you were to remain seated and hands inside the boat. The oblivious parents never got the drift and totall ignored both their kids the whole time... made for a stressful trip for us...oh well, some people will never learn and then if something was to happen they would probably sue Disney for millions...

• Went to the Billy Hill show and it was great as usual. They had a fill in for one of zthe Billies. It appeared to be one of the Barncats from DCA.
  

DCA Items:

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  Headed to DCA first to see Lucky the dinosaur, its a new audioanimatronic figure from WDI.. a small crowd gathered close to show time. A couple CMs came out and said that Lucky would not be coming out at all on Friday and might be on Tuesday but they did not know.
• There were Low Crowds at DCA all afternoon, picked up a bit in the evening. Soarin' and GRR were both around 20 minute waits at 2:00pm.
• At the Wharf stage was a great Band, The Doo-Wah Riders. They played a nice mix of Classic Country and Oldies.. I really enjoyed the show and they drew some fairly decent crowds.
• Over at GRR Geysers working again, but still not the ones in the flume, just the ones on the rocks.
• The lines for the Aladdin shows were really long, almost to the point where they were during the first weeks of the show. Does that mean lots of Tourists or are APs ready to see it again?
• We did the hike up to the Balcony level of the Hyperion to get some Tower construction shots. It seems to be closing in fast on finishing up the bulk of the construction. We saw them testing the center elevator shaft most of the afternoon. A little surprised to see the cars did not go much higher than the top set of doors. That leaves a lot of space above the cars... seems like much more than Florida.

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