19 July 2009 @ 10:43 am
Year older  
On Friday I went to California Adventure at Disneyland with my mom for my birthday, and it was quite fun! She'd never been to CA before, and I was getting in free anyway, so I figured hey, I'd just show her around! We did pretty much everything there (the place isn't nearly as big as DL so this isn't a difficult thing to do), including Soarin', all of the Animation building, California Screamin' (which ended up being a mistake, oops...) the new Toy Story Mania ride, River Rapids, the Monsters Inc ride, and the Muppets and Aladdin show. She enjoyed the shows and the Toy Story ride, but you'd have to be nuts not to enjoy the Toy Story ride.

It looks like they're installing a water and lights show there, kinda like Illuminations...but hey, since they're trying to turn this place into Pixarland anyways, they'll probably get better about making the money they need for it.

We also had some pizza for dinner at the Naples restaurant in Downtown Disney, and I got a couple of nice things! :D I got Lilo and Stitch on DVD, since I didn't own it yet and it's good stuff, some cash from the bro, and I also got an FFVII Cloud Play Arts figure. Swank! I also got a vinylmation Mickey figure: a blank one, so you can paint on it. The thing is, I NOW NEED TO DECIDE WHAT TO PAINT ON IT. I'm not sure yet. o_o

Also also, got a pair of sunglasses, since I was desperately in need of them. Funny story about this: we walked into the big fancy sunglasses store in Downtown Disney. I started trying on a few, only to quickly discover that these sunglasses were $200+ 8( We asked if there was anything around, say, the $40 range, and the sales lady looked a little peeved and showed us a tiny little rack of them. That wasn't working, so we went to the World of Disney store next door where they had some sunglasses tucked back with the rest of the clothes. There, we found a pair of sunglasses that were cute, looked good on me, seemed pretty durable...and cost a total of $17.00 A difference of ten times the cost there, for something that ultimately looks better on me and actually fits. Wooooow, sunglasses.

And when we got home, there was cake! A very good day indeed! And thank you thank you to everyone who sent well wishes, you dudes are the best! ♥♥♥

And now back to running around like crazy for con aaaahhhh

Drawing: Need to do homeworks for digital painting

Writing: Tags and related...
 
 
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[identity profile] daisy-the-mage1.livejournal.com on July 19th, 2009 06:23 pm (UTC)
Wow, glad that you had a fun birthday!

I'm curious about the Toy Story ride.
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[identity profile] lynxgriffin.livejournal.com on July 19th, 2009 06:30 pm (UTC)
'Twas! :D

It's basically the latest 3D ride they've done, but they really perfected the technology on it. It's a ride in that you move around in a car in a dark space, but it's also like the Buzz Lightyear ride in that you shoot targets and get points for them. Just with this one instead of lasers, you put on 3D glasses and shoot stuff like pies, darts, rings and etc. in a carnival-like theme. It's fun!
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[identity profile] daisy-the-mage1.livejournal.com on July 19th, 2009 06:32 pm (UTC)
Carnival-like theme? That sounds so cool!
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[identity profile] princealia.livejournal.com on July 19th, 2009 06:56 pm (UTC)
And it's insane! Don't forget insane! Every few moments you're like "askjdfnkajdsfOH GOD WHAT DO I SHOOT AHHHHHH *SHOOTS EVERYTHING ON THE SCREEN*" XDD
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[identity profile] lynxgriffin.livejournal.com on July 19th, 2009 07:00 pm (UTC)
And then I always try to shoot for the really high-point ones, which makes my accuracy go down. XD But the insanity part makes it even MORE fun!
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[identity profile] princealia.livejournal.com on July 19th, 2009 07:08 pm (UTC)
It was funny cause when I went with my friend I noticed those in the corner and she didn't, so I would get those and rack up my score. At the end she'd be confused as to how I just basically shot everything all crazy like and somehow still managed to beat her XDD
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[identity profile] princealia.livejournal.com on July 19th, 2009 06:55 pm (UTC)
Aladdin musical askjdnfaksjd. I wanna see it in perrrrrrrrson D:

Have you not seen the concept art for World of Color? :O It's IllumiNations and Fantasmic's baby xDDD

http://disneylandnewstoday.com/archives/4788
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[identity profile] lynxgriffin.livejournal.com on July 19th, 2009 06:59 pm (UTC)
OMG you would love it. 8D Genie is absolutely the best part of the show, all of the jokes are as current as they can make them!

And dang, we were going to go into the Blue Sky Cellar to see the concept art and then we missed it. I wish we'd have gone!
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[identity profile] princealia.livejournal.com on July 19th, 2009 07:05 pm (UTC)
My friend sent me a tape of it in 2005, but that was four years ago. I wanna see it now and in person and bawwwww D:

lskjdfhald you should have!! It makes me wanna plan a trip for next year when it opens.
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[identity profile] lynxgriffin.livejournal.com on July 19th, 2009 07:07 pm (UTC)
Yeah, currently he's making jokes about Twitter and MySpace and Congressional bailouts, so they must update it frequently. XD
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[identity profile] ecojak.livejournal.com on July 19th, 2009 07:43 pm (UTC)
*tilts head* Which Cloud? AC or CC because I will eat your face if it's CC in jealousy.
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[identity profile] lynxgriffin.livejournal.com on July 19th, 2009 07:44 pm (UTC)
I believe it's just FFVII. :O
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[identity profile] ecojak.livejournal.com on July 19th, 2009 07:48 pm (UTC)
...

Dorky purple outfit and weird-ass single pauldron Cloud? o.o

*readies cannons*
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[identity profile] lynxgriffin.livejournal.com on July 19th, 2009 07:49 pm (UTC)
Um...yes? >>
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[identity profile] ecojak.livejournal.com on July 19th, 2009 07:51 pm (UTC)
aaaaaicantevenfindthatraaaaage

Lucky. >:
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[identity profile] ecojak.livejournal.com on July 19th, 2009 07:52 pm (UTC)
















oh wait i have final form sora so REVENGE.
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[identity profile] lynxgriffin.livejournal.com on July 19th, 2009 07:58 pm (UTC)
I've got Final Form Sora, too. :|
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[identity profile] ecojak.livejournal.com on July 19th, 2009 08:04 pm (UTC)
;~;

You are hurtful.
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[identity profile] chobit001.livejournal.com on July 19th, 2009 08:25 pm (UTC)
Happy belated birthday!

Dude the world of color illuminations sounds awesome! I saw the concept art for the WALL-E portion and my heart just melted! Makes me wish I was back in California!
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[identity profile] lynxgriffin.livejournal.com on July 19th, 2009 08:31 pm (UTC)
Thank yous!

Yeah, I think it's pretty cool that they're using some Pixar movies. XD It'll be interesting to see how it looks when it's done!
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