The Happiest Place on Earth

What's a vacation away from the North Pole without a visit to Disneyland?  Like any good tourist, Prim wanted to visit the House of the Mouse and see for herself if it really was the Happiest Place on Earth.

The only problem is that Disneyland is overrun with excited, inquisitive children who all know about the story of the Elf on the Shelf and who all wholeheartedly believe in the elf's magical powers.  So not wanting to risk exposing the fact that she's an Elf off the Shelf, Prim experienced most of Disneyland from the pocket of my purse. 

In California Adventure, she did, however, get to experience the terror and horror of Mickey's Fun Wheel. 

But how can Mickey's Fun Wheel be horrible?  What could possibly be bad about a giant ferris wheel?  It's a wheel of fun for goodness sake!

See the beautiful views of the park from up on the fun wheel? 

 

See how high the fun wheel takes you? 

See how you have to hang on for dear life as your pod on the fun wheel swings back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and back and forth as the fun wheel goes round and round and round and round? 

 

Well, as it turns out, Prim is prone to motion sickness.

At least whatever Disney Imagineer dreamed up the fun wheel had the foresight to include barf bags in each pod.  That made it fun for everyone.