I'll bet you didn't know that Disneyland had a water park ride. Either did I until Barry and I discovered the splash mountain wonder of wonders. I mentioned in the last post that I would update with more information regarding the "splash party." Well, here it is. After we had all returned to the hotel, got all the kids to bed, and made our attempt at finding a store; Barry and I noticed that we still had about an hour left of Disney fun available because it was only 11 PM and the park closed at 12. We knew that if we ran we could possibly make it on a couple of rides that we didn't make it on earlier on. We told our spouses our plan and they said sure; we then asked Matt if he wanted to come and he turned us down (this time). After that we grabbed our fastpasses and ran to Disneyland. Literally ran, we ran through crowds of people leaving the park. Most of the people just gave us weird looks as they saw two men running toward the park.
Our first stop was the Indiana Jones Ride. We made it through the line in about 5 minutes. The ride was great and we were out of there in about 15 minutes. We still wanted to ride on splash mountain before they closed; so we ran over to the mountain.
NO LINE!!! It was great. We ran through the standby line just in time to jump right into the front two seats in a log. We noticed that there were 4 other people already in the log that didn't get out when we got in. They informed us that they had already rode the right 4 times in a row with out getting out. A fact that we hadn't ever thought of before. If the lines are done but the park is still open you can ride over and over until the park closes. It was on this log ride when Barry and I discovered an amazing phenomenon. If there are a couple of larger guys in the front that use there momentum (leaning forward) when passing over the falls of the drops, everyone in the first seats gets completely soaked. In fact Barry and I after the final drop of the ride were completely soaked, not one dray spot was found us. It was incredible. The family behind us on the log loved it, they too were pretty wet. We were so impressed. After the log returned to the loading area we all asked to keep going and they let us go again. Our goal was to improve our technique in hopes to increase our wetness; I'd have to say we did just that. It was amazing. After our second ride they told us we were done because it was after 12.
Barry and I shuffled all the way back to the hotel, leaving a trail of water from splash mountain behind us. It was really funny hearing and seeing everyone as we walked past them. I don't think anyone had every seen two people so wet leaving the park before. It was great. We got back to the hotels and snuck into our rooms and went to bed.
In the morning Erin was shocked to see my clothes hanging in the bathroom still dripping wet. She asked me if I got a spot on my pants and was trying to wash it out. It laughed and told her the story and she was impressed. Our plan for the following evening was to include all the family that was interested on the "Splash Party 2008." The only taker we had on the idea was Matt.
The next night it took a little more dedication to the cause. We had to take our families back to Grandma B's house because out hotel ran out. Once the kids were in bed at it was around 10PM the three of us headed out, following Barry's GPS, back to Disneyland.
Our goal was to ride the splash as many times as we could before it closed. For some reason there were a lot more people in line this night than the night before, but we stayed committed to the cause. Each time the line got shorter. By the time the night was done we had rode the ride 5 or 6 times. The first time we road Barry, Me, and Matt; in that order, with a log full of Asian people. By the end of the ride we were completely soaked, which was our goal, and the Asians had said all the English swear words they new about a thousand times. They too were soaked. While in line for the next log experience we scared 5 people out of the line just by ringing our clothes of the water while in line. They took one look at us and decided it was too late to get that wet. The next log was probably one of my favorites. I was in the front, Matt, then Barry. Behind him was a large fellow with his two daughter behind him. The big guy loved out idea and helped our cause. By the end of the ride everyone on the ride was completely soaked. The man was pretty impressed and said that he had never gotten so wet on this ride in his whole life. The ride was over and we raced back to the start of the ride. Once again we scared a family out of the line just from our appearance. We road as many times as we could before the park closed. It was night never to forget. On the walk back to the car Barry broke a sandal strap. He looked so funny trying to walk our to the park sliding his sandal under his foot and occasionally stumbling. I know people were staring, but it was fun to have them stare.
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