The Journey to the Magic Kingdom

Okay so here was my plan: Get the last flight out on Friday night, which left around 8:30, beat most of the holiday traffic getting there, rent a car, get to our hotel about 1 am, sleep go to disneyland. Sounds simple enough right? Well the first few steps went off without a hitch. That is all of them up to rent a car. I went online to Hotwire and found the best price that I could, Hertz, no big deal.... that was until we arrived at the rental agency on Friday nigth at 12 midnight to a line of Disneyland proportions, as a matter of fact it was the longest line that we waited in all weekend long. How long you ask? Oh 2 and a half hours long..... that's right folks, we didn't leave the airport until almost 3 in the AM on Saturday morning. CRAZY! We finally made it to our hotel around 4 and after a breakfast at Denny's hit our pillows at about 5. My grand plan before the rental car fiasco was to be at the park when it opened at 8 am. Can we just say that didn't happen, with a 5 am bed time. We got up around 10 and hit the park about 11 so that wasn't too bad. The park was crowded but not terrible. We did the traditional first ride, which in my family is pirates of the carribean. Got our fastpasses for Indiana Jones, (if you don't know what a fast pass is and are planning a trip to disneyland, find out, they are wonderful!) Then went and ate the most expensive lunch of my life at the blue bayou. That is the restaraunt that sits inside the pirates of the carribean ride. Cool right? Well we were seated on the back wall in sort of a little corner where we could see nothing. Oh well, the food was alright, and now we can say we've been there. We did Splash Mountain, got soaked! But had a blast, then we headed over to the California park.... very fun! More later, too tired now :P