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Welcome to my weekly update for March 2, 2025!
My husband is on call for emergencies at the hospital this weekend so I’m taking it easy around our camper. It’s cool and cloudy anyway, so it’s perfect for staying indoors.
He didn’t have to work Thursday so we decided to spend the day at Disneyland! This was our first visit (though we have been to Disney California Adventure). It was surprisingly busy for a weekday in February but we were able to ride everything on our must-do list thanks to our Lightning Lane passes. We didn’t get to Tiana’s Bayou Adventure (formerly Splash Mountain) but we weren’t sure we wanted to take a chance on getting wet anyway, even though it was almost 90° F (32° C). We go to one Disney or Universal park every couple of years but we haven’t ridden any of the Star Wars rides on either coast yet. We rode them all on this visit and loved them! Rise of the Resistance was, by far, our favorite ride in the park. We had a great day!
Slideshow:
All images © Jennifer G. at Introverted Reader 2025
My husband has better pictures but we haven’t sorted through them and combined them yet so mine will have to do.
- Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
- Bayou Country was decorated for Mardi Gras. I don’t know if it’s like this year-round as part of the theming or if it was because we’re so close to the big day.
- I’m pretty sure one of my husband’s childhood dreams came true when he got to pilot the Millennium Falcon on the Smuggler’s Run ride!
- I definitively won on Buzz Lightyear’s Astro Blasters and had to memorialize the moment.
Posted:
Nothing. I disappeared down the rabbit hole of planning a last-minute Disneyland day and didn’t do anything on the blog.
Read:
Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Cerulean Chronicles #2) by TJ Klune–4.5 Stars
I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever by Barbara Rae-Venter–4 Stars
Currently Reading:
Mairelon the Magician (Mairelon #1) by Patricia Wrede
The Bookshop on the Shore (Kirrinfief #2) by Jenny Colgan, read by Eilidh Beaton
Down the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell’s 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon by Edward Dolnick
Up Next:
I requested The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald from the library a week or so ago and I picked it up on Friday so I’ll be reading it next. It’s a beautiful old hardcover edition with illustrations by Arthur Hughes. I sent a picture of it to my friend who loves vintage fantasy books and she said that she might “lose” that book and just reimburse the library for it! I would never do that but it is tempting!
What did your week look like?
Hosts:
Deb Nance at Readerbuzz hosts The Sunday Salon and Kimberly at Caffeinated Book Reviewer hosts Sunday Post. Kathryn at Book Date hosts It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?
14 Comments
I would love to go to Disney one day! It certainly sounds fun. It would be worth missing some blog posts. Have a great week!
My husband and I had tickets to all the parks in Orlando for years. Before my youngest granddaughter started school we took her to Busch Gardens almost ever day and let her ride the train as many times as she wanted because she loved it. Plus it was accessible for my husband who was in a wheelchair. I love roller coasters, they’ve been my favorite ride since I was in elementary school. I’m going to check out I Know Who You Are: and Somewhere Beyond the Sea
I could almost convince my husband to visit Disneyland because of the Star Wars things now. Almost!
Have a great week!
Sounds like a fun last-minute trip! Rise is a wonderful ride, and one of my favorites for sure. New Orleans Square is generally decorated for Mardi Gras unless there’s another event (like Halloween or Christmas) that takes over instead.
Disney sounds like a great escape from the all-too-awful reality of the country.
We used to go to Disneyland because my aunts lived there before they moved to Reno, NV. But then first cousins lived there and we visited a few times. The last time we went was 2001 when my daughter was about 5. But she’s been to Disneyworld much more often because my brother and the those first cousins live in Florida. I had a bunch of work events in FL in the 1990s too. The last time was 2008. So we haven’t gone to either in awhile. Thanks for sharing your photos!
Anne – Books of My Heart This is my Sunday Post
Disney day sounds fun and love the pics! Have a great week!
How fun! A day at disneyland!
I’m glad you had fun at Disneyland! I’d love to go there. Maybe when the kid is older and more mature.
Gosh that’s warm weather given it’s still winter (I think?), I hope you wore sunscreen 🙂
Have a wonderful reading week
Gosh it’s been 10 years since I went to Disneyland. I love it and what keeps me from going all the time isn’t the ungodly price but the dreaded drive from L.A. to Anaheim. LOL I’m a huge fan of the “Everything I ate at Disneyland” TikToks. There are so many cute foods there. I’ve never been to California Adventure, Disney world, or Epcot. Sigh…
I’ve never been to anything Disney. Maybe one day! Thanks for sharing your adventure with us.
I am eager to hear more about Down the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell’s 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon. I hope you will read it soon.
I Know Who You Are sounds interesting, i read my first crime novel this year about the Zodiac. I wouldn’t mid reading another. i hope you enjoy that library book.
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Your Disneyland days sounds fun!