Splash Mountain

We are back from our little vacation and I already want to go back. It was nice to put real life away for a few minutes and forget about everything waiting for us back home.

There is a big sign at Disneyland that says "Where elephants fly and time stands still". Lies! Time actually moves faster when you step through the magical gates. If my feet would let me, I could go every day forever. As it is, they are killing me from walking around non-stop for the last four days.

I'll post pictures from our vacay later because we had a blast and I want to share each and every mind numbing moment with you. (You're welcome.)

We went to Sea World, Legoland and both parks at Disneyland. The highlight of my entire vacation came at the end of Splash Mountain. We had just gotten off of the ride and were soaked. (I'm positive that my hair looked awesome. I refuse to believe that I looked like a drown rat. Absolutely refuse!)

As we were exiting the ride, I noticed a Disney cast member, looking not very happy coming the wrong way up the exit ramp. She was closely followed by a bunch of kids and ... Ray Romano.

Yup. The one and only.

Now, I'm fairly certain we had a private moment in the split second that he was an arms length away from me. I could be wrong, but I'm positive that he couldn't make eye contact with me because he was so overcome by my very presence. You know, I don't blame him for not wanting to make a scene in front of my husband ... after all, Jaysen has spent the better part of his deployment bulking up. I would have been intimidated, too.

Okay, here's how it really went.

We got off of the ride and Matthew made a beeline for the walkway with Jaysen following not far behind. I'm a few feet behind them, yelling "Matthew. Please stop. Wait for us, please." Then Ray Ray (as he prefers me to call him) passes through with his entourage. My face looked something like this:






Jaysen was up ahead taking care of Matthew and totally playing it cool.

Not me.

Ray was closer to me than Jaysen was and was undoubtedly praying that I didn't try to rape him in front of his children. I was desperately trying to play it cool. I whispered loud enough for Ray to hear but not loud enough for Jaysen to stop me. "Jaysen! Jaysen! Jaysen!" By then, Jaysen came back up the ramp to make sure I wasn't damaging this poor man before he could enjoy Splash Mountain. "Did you see who that was?"

Of course he did and of course he doesn't really care. Jaysen's observation? "Wow. Ray Romano does have a really big nose."

For once, he was right.