disneyland!

so. on a lovely thursday afternoon with our project-linus-earned disneyland vouchers in hand, meela and friends drove for nine and a half hours down to stanton CA, a city ten to fifteen minutes south of anaheim. we arrived at about 2 in the morning (3am utah time) and due to booking the wrong weekend at our hotel, it took us another hour to find a non-sketchy hotel to stay the rest of the night in. (preferably without a cop car, drugs, gangs, or prostitution.) with the advice of a friendly though profane cop, we stayed the rest of the night in a trusty motel six. it was awesome. (sort of.) most people averaged 0-2 hours of sleep that night.

and so all thirteen of us were in disneyland park with our awesome volunteer buttons by nine a.m. running off of two hours of sleep!! We took the park by storm, managing to ride all the awesome rides without passing out. Although it was a close one with dylan on the teacups.

Here are some photos:

this is all of us prior to "captain e.o." michael jackson plus george lucas plus minimal sleep? "I felt high" (as eliza said to me after the awesome 3D movie. I agreed.)

the whole crowd in front of walt and mickey. and did I mention? we missed a snowstorm in provo for some beautiful weather in southern california.

a rather epic teacup ride. in this particular teacup: dylan, laurie, kali, paul, and tyler, who successfully recorded the whole thing on dylan's camera.

the whole group at the entrance. :)

pooh is the coolest. just ask paul.

post-splash mountain. i think paul wanted us to notice that he got his pants wet? haha.

tarzan's treehouse!! this picture is probably the epitome of our day at disneyland.

so, this was only half of our adventures in southern california. but we'll save the other half for another day.