Disneyland: Day three

Thursday was the last day, and also my mom's birthday! This was pretty much the reason why we were going in the first place, so we tried to make it very special for her. After another nice breakfast, we celebrated it in my parent's hotelroom. We sang for her, and then she unpacked our gifts. Dylan and I both gave her a Pandora bead for her bracelet, but my siblings forgot to take their gifts to France so that was kind of funny. My dad gave her a  cardboard phone, symbolizing the new smartphone she can pick for herself when her contract ends. Then, we packed our belongings, checked out, put our things in the car and went to Disneyland for the last time.

We started out in the movie studio's, to do some rides for the last time and see if one of the rides we hadn't done yet was less busy now. After the tower of terror and the rock 'n rollercoaster, we went to 'Crush's Coaster' from the movie 'Finding Nemo', which Dylan was really excited about. Unfortunately, the line was still 45 minutes long, but this time we decided to go and wait anyway,  because it had to be something special if everyone wanted to go on it! We played 'I spy with my little eye' and 'twenty questions' over and over again (Dylan's initiative of course) until it was finally our turn. We got into a cart that looked like a turtle shell, two peope facing forward and two facing backwards. It was a really cool ride, at first it was quite peaceful, you really got the feeling that you were under water, but soon it got dark and scary and wild, the whole cart was spinning around so that gave the ride an extra dimension. It was quite thrilling! We then decided that this was our favorite rollercoaster.

Then we went to the 'normal' park again, we started by taking some more pictures of the pink castle and then we walked on to adventureland, where we went on the 'Pirates of the Carribean' ride that was closed before. Dylan got all excited about being a pirate again, haha! We then got a fastpass (a tickets which allows you to go come back later and join a special line, which saves you generally about 30 minutes of waiting!) for the Thunder Mountain rollercoaster, and then had lunch near it.
After enjoying that one more time, we went on to the haunted house again. This time my sister went with as well, after we convinced her that it wasn't any scarier than the tower of terror, which she loved! The wait was a lot longer than the first time, but we - once again - played twenty questions the whole time. My mom got to choose the next thing because it was her birthday, so she chose the steamboatride once again. It was lovely weather, luckily!




Afterwards, we explored discoveryland again. We went on the all the rides there again and got a fastpass for the Buzz Lightyear ride we liked so much. We looked through some souvenirshops and wanted to go on 'It's a small world' again, but unfortunately that was closed. We couldn't get back to discoveryland because the parade was just passing, so we had to wait. Officially, our fastpasses were not valid anymore but they still let us join the line. Then, it was time to say goodbye to the park and have dinner in one of the restaurants just outside of it. It was quite good food, and the atmosphere was really nice. In the reservation the man had said that it was for my mom's birthday, so when it was time for desert, the halloween music changed into happy birthday (in French) and about 8 waiters and waitresses came singing at our table! That was a really fun surprise, my mom got a cup of icecream with a candle, very cute :)


After dinner, we bought a ton of souvenirs that we'd been looking at during our stay. Dylan and Max both bought a Star Wars mug, I bought some things related to Marie (the little cute white cat from 'The Aristocats'), my sister bought a Tinkerbell mug and a keychain, and my mom also bought a mug. Then we took the bus back to the hotel, and we got into the car. We wanted to see the Disney Dreams show again, but it was getting late and my dad still had to drive for 5 hours... So we left at about 8pm, and arrived home safely at 1am. It has been an amazing trip!