Disney Trip 2023 - Day 7 & 8: Even More Disney Fun

Thursday and Friday got a lot busier at the parks.  Thursday was just mildly busy, but Friday was nutso busy.  We ended up leaving early on Thursday to have dinner outside the park at the hotel and of course we had Joe's Italian Ice. Super yummy stuff.  

Because it was so busy, we decided to eat lunch outside of the park at the Earl of Sandwiches.  After I took the boys on the monorail to go back to the park while Tony, Margie, and the girls went to the Disney hotels to get the medallions from their machines.  Margie got all the medallions for the 100-year anniversary.  It didn't take them very long and they met us back at Disneyland while they boys were riding Star Tours.  

We were able to ride Mickey's Runaway Railway again on Thursday.  It broke down right before we were done on the ride, and we had to get exhorted off the ride.  But they gave us a lighting lane pass to come back and ride it again...so we did.  It really is a great ride.  

We got another queue pass on Friday for that ride, and it was pretty busy.  We waited in the line and the ride ended up breaking down.  We decided to wait it out.  They said it typically goes down for like an hour before they get it back up.  But our feet were tired, and the park was busy, so we figured that we'd have to wait in a line no matter what, so we might as well wait it out. 

We saw lots of characters and rode the Mark Twain boat before deciding to have some ice cream.  It tasted extra good that day.  After that we decided to go on Rise of the Resistance again.  It said in was like a 60-minute wait, but then it quickly changed to 120 minutes.  That was way too long.  So instead, we ate some dinner at the Plaza and then we did the rest of our shopping at the stores.  I then took back Josh, Megan, and Allie to the hotel.  They were all so tired and their poor feet hurt so bad from 5 days at the park.  Tony, Margie, and Tyler were strong and stayed back to go on more rides.  They went over to DCA and rode a bunch of rides that you can do single rider.  Then they finished the night waiting for Guardians of the Galaxy.  The park was then closed so they considered going back to Disneyland, but it still was so busy that they just called it a night.  What an amazing time at Disneyland we all had!