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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?
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I haven’t been to Disneyland since my daughter was young. Gosh, it’s probably been 12 or so years. I wonder what it’s like as an adult with no kids. Probably super fun!
Splash Mountain is gone?! Shows how long it’s been since I’ve been to Disneyland. We started going in the late 60s, and once I was in high school we’d drive up from San Diego with a bunch of friends. I have a memory of my high school boyfriend locking his keys in his car and we didn’t realize it until it was time to go home. His poor father had to drive all the way up from Solana Beach with the spare keys! We also had Grad Nite at Disney in 1980. We only took our daughters there once (in the late 80s). Lots of fun memories of that place.
Splash Mountain was only recently removed/rethemed. Tiana’s Bayou Adventure is essentially the same physical ride from what I understand but all the theming is from The Princess and the Frog now. It only reopened as Tiana in November, so you aren’t too far behind 😉
Those do sound like fun memories! And that poor dad!
We have never been to Disneyland, but it is on our bucket list. We love Disney World. So glad you got a chance to go. The blog will be here waiting for you. Enjoy your week.
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I hope you get to go to Disneyland some day!
Disneyland does look like fun. I visited more than forty years ago and remember enjoying all the activities. Patricia Wrede is one of my favorite authors. I hope you enjoy her book. Come see my week here. Happy reading!
I love Patricia C. Wrede’s Enchanted Forest Chronicles. I liked Mairelon but not as much as that series.
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!
We love going to Disney as a treat every now and then! I hope you get to visit someday!
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
What nice memories you three made at Busch Gardens! Thanks for sharing! I didn’t discover a love for roller coasters until late in high school, and I do have limits (I don’t like to be dropped essentially straight down) but I still love riding them!
I could almost convince my husband to visit Disneyland because of the Star Wars things now. Almost!
Have a great week!
Maybe he’ll give in one day! They had three Star Wars rides at Disneyland. They were all excellent but Rise of the Resistance was our favorite ride all day.
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.
Thanks for clarifying! I thought that might be the case but with the timing of our visit, I couldn’t be sure.
Disney sounds like a great escape from the all-too-awful reality of the country.
It truly was.
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!
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We always have a good time when we go to any of the Disney parks. Well, there was one time when it was so crowded that you couldn’t move at Magic Kingdom and everyone was hot and cranky. That was miserable. But all the other times have been fun!
Disney day sounds fun and love the pics! Have a great week!
It was! Thanks!
How fun! A day at disneyland!
It was a lot of fun!
I’m glad you had fun at Disneyland! I’d love to go there. Maybe when the kid is older and more mature.
I hope you get to visit sometime! I’m not a mom but I don’t understand parents who are there with infants. They all look miserable to me and that baby will not remember that trip. Waiting until kids are older seems like the way to go to me. But what do I know? 😀
Gosh that’s warm weather given it’s still winter (I think?), I hope you wore sunscreen 🙂
Have a wonderful reading week
It’s still winter here; that was just a freakishly hot week. We both had sunscreen on. Even my husband did and he doesn’t like to wear it on his face. He’s always complaining about it burning his eyes. We knew we needed it that day though.
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…
Traffic is so bad! I don’t blame you for avoiding that drive. We’re trying to watch what we eat at the moment so we were reasonably good at Disney. I did need some Mickey beignets though. And my husband needed a Ronto Wrap. And I wanted to try Blue Milk. But I think that was it 🙂
Epcot was the last Disney World park I ever got around to visiting. I thought it sounded boring. But now it’s one of my favorite parks. I like going in the spring during the Flower and Garden Festival. We were not watching what we ate the last time we attended that event and there are so many extra food booths, I thought it was a food festival. We bought so many little trays of food to try that my credit card company texted to make sure that was really us! Oops.
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.
We always have a lot of fun at a Disney park!
Down the Great Unknown is great so far. I’m reading it pretty slowly though. I don’t think I’ll ever raft the Grand Canyon. I can only barely swim so rafting has never been high on my list of things to do but this sounds so dangerous that it is definitely out as a possible activity. My uncle has rafted it three times, once with each of his children after they graduated from high school.
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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I don’t know anything about the Zodiac Killer. I should read about him sometime.
Your Disneyland days sounds fun!
It was!