Hello world. How am I going to make this into a successful blog? All “successful” blogs have a focus - some talk about just food, some talk about just technology and gadgets, and some - they juts talk about nothing. So what will set me apart? I don’t know the answer to that yet. Right now I am writing, just for the sake of writing and hopefully one day, a lightbulb will turn on in my head and I will know what to focus on. Maybe a multitude of things is in order, I could talk about food - but I do not get a chance to go to many popular restaurants often. I could talk about gadgets and technology - but Gizmodo, Engadget basically have that covered. I could cover current events and news - but Reddit and Digg have that covered too. I could spout out office quotes, but OfficeTally and TheOfficeQuotes website have that already as well!
So what is left for someone like me?
Simply put, I don’t know.
Disneyland - I went there on Saturday and Sunday. No rides on Saturday, just a nice dinner @ California adventure and a parade. Sunday was the full 13 hour experience, got to the park at 11am and left at 12am. Amazing - I wasn’t too excited about it at first, especially after seeing the sheer amount of people that were in the park on Saturday. Easter weekend is one of the most frequented weekends at Disneyland, with attendance of about 70,000-80,000 people in Disneyland alone. On average, Disneyland gets 40,000 visitors a day - so Easter weekend almost doubles that. The lines were ridiculous, 95 minutes for Splash mountain - a 1.5 minute ride. 65 Minutes for Indiana Jones, 45 Minutes for California Screamin, and 65+ Minutes for Space Mountain. Luckily for me and my “party” - which consisted of Olin’s family plus three friends of Olin’s little sister Casey, we all had super fastpasses. Normally the procedure at Disneyland for a fastpass is simple - you go to the ride you want to go on, go to the fastpass distribution center there, stick your admission ticket into a machine and it gives you a fastpass for a designated time (i.e. 3:15-4:25pm). So you get your fastpass (you can only have 1 at a time), and then you walk around the park until the designated time on your fastpass, you come back at the said time and then bypass the stand-by wait line, and go through the fastpass line. Splash Mountain’s fastpass line was 7 minutes compared to the 95 minute stand-by wait.
So then, what is a super fastpass? I don’t know, it’s somewhere between “ultra and mega, and it sort of crosses into the dimension of hyper“. Yeah, so the bold words were actually a topic of debate on the way to Disneyland in the morning on Sunday. Anyways, these super fastpasses allowed us to keep the fastpass, instead of having it for a one-time use. It didn’t have a specific time frame designated on it, so we could go on any ride we wanted, however many times we wanted, at any time during the day. As long as the ride was fastpass enabled (which all the popular rides were). Disneyland Cast Members [employees] had never even seen these super fastpasses. It was valid for the full day: 3/23/2008.
How does one acquire these fastpasses? I’m not sure. After researching around on the internet for quite some time, I still do not have a clear answer. I am planning on asking Cecilia and Carlos Montalvo when I go home for the weekend on Friday.
I really want to learn to SCUBA dive, I know what it stands for - but have never gotten the chance to go. Hopefully this summer I will be able to go to Hawaii with Olin and get to experience the best of what Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparati(?) has to offer me. Snorkeling would be cool too. I will write more on this later. Gotta go for now.
The famed super fastpass 
