Disneyland with thousands of Seniors?

So I went to Grad Nite '06 with most of the other seniors at my school (minus those who were all "cus disnyland is teh suck")

Stuff happened. Hilarity ensued, sorta.

Our bus driver's name? Tutti-Frutti. Apparently she has a reputation for being exceptionally cool. She lives up to it. The Tutti-Frutti Party Bus was ridiculously loud and fun. Watched a few movies on the way (it was an 8-hour-ish drive, after all) and passed around the junk food (Justin and Richard made a Costco run before we left and bought like $30 of stuff

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We started in California Adventure. Being the only one in our group with any real knowledge of the place, I played tour guide. We got hot dogs for dinner and headed for Tower of Terror. I repeatedly yelled "YOUR MOM!!!" from the top, which was cool.

Next stop was Soarin' over California. We saw Monterey and excitedly pointed it out to everyone else in the theater, but they probably couldn't hear us. So meh.

Then we ran to the back of the park for California Screamin', which was fun... for most of us. One member of our group (who shall remain nameless) has an issue with coasters and didn't want to go. We more or less forced him to, and the results... well, have you ever heard the term "bad trip"? It usually applies to LSD. In other words: not good.

After recovery, we took a slow walk to the front of the park to get the heck out. But first we stopped for a picture. (Left to right: Donovan, Justin, Brian, Self, Richard. Not pictured are the two girls in our group, who did their own picture. Which probably helped their sanity.) (Yes, it's ridiculously blurry. Don't blame me.

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By now it was midnightish and we could enter Disneyland. (Yay.) I played tour guide again, and actually had some success because unlike DCA, they didn't have half of the paths blocked off. <_< First stop was Indiana Jones, which had a ridiculous line but was still worth it. After exiting, we walked like half a foot and went on the Jungle Cruise (one of my personal favorites), which was a walk-on. Our skipper wasn't the best, but wasn't the worst either. Moving on to...

The Haunted Mansion, another walk-on, but a great one. Nothing like telling your friends "nah, it's not a scary haunted house, it's a silly one" and then showing them a suicide.

Afterwards...

Splash Mountain. Don't you love getting soaked at 3:30(ish) in the morning? Yeah, me too. Results can be found in this photo. (I also made a wallpaper version here -- you probably won't want to use it as such, but you can see us better.)

Yup, that's me. The one person in the entire log who isn't holding on. Directly in front of me is my polar opposite, Justin the emofest. Directly behind me is Richard, or part of him, anyway. The rest of our group was in a different log.

Honda (really, we didn't have a trip to Disneyland as much as to Hondaland) was doing some giveaway thing where the winner would get a scooter and a $1000 scholarship. We entered that next and probably didn't win. They also gave us these weird "light-effect glasses" that, when worn, made Honda logos appear to glow around light sources. (You've probably seen the same thing at Christmas, except those ones make little stars appear around your Christmas lights.)

We moved next into Tomorrowland, and rode Star Tours because Justin is a wannabe Jedi. The ride exits into a store filled with Star Wars stuff, so while he geeked out and bought stuff, the rest of us rode Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters, which is basically a ride-through video game, complete with a high-score list. I was the #40 player for the event.

I beat Donovan.

After regrouping, we went to ~~Space~~ RockIt Mountain. (Yes, RockIt -- not Rocket). This was by far the best part of the night -- not because of the ride itself (I'd rather have the daytime version), but because the nearby DJ played a version of "My Humps" which was censored to the point of hilarity. "My h--, my h--, my h--" -- your what? Your hiccups? I didn't even know what I was supposed to be listening to for a minute or two. But it was freakin' great.

Anyhoo, RockIt Mountain. Where Space Mountain is almost entirely dark (but with stars projected EVERYWHERE), RockIt Mountain is significantly brighter due to the "special" lighting effects that were added (namely, multicolored "siren"-type lights along the track, and an iPod-commercial-esque dancing silhouette projected on the wall). Where Space Mountain has cool music (composed by the guy that did the music for The Incredibles synchronized with the motion of the ride, RockIt Mountain has a not-really-synchronized version of Hoobastank's "Let It Out." And where Space Mountain has this cool effect up the second lift, RockIt Mountain has... well, a WinAmp visualization. And somehow, with all of this, it didn't suck.

After riding, we went shopping and left. Most of us passed out within 15 minutes or so of hitting the bus. We woke up in Buttonwillow (essentially a town built around a truck stop) for breakfast at Subway and Taco Bell, then slept again. Got back to school around 1:30. We had the rest of the day off, so I went to Jamba Juice for a Coldbuster (the Tutti-Frutti Party Bus and yelling "YOUR MOM!!!" from thirteen stories did a number on my throat). Went home and slept, after a bit.

Hopefully this made some sense. I may return to sleep now.