Okay, so what does the seminal 80s flick The Karate Kid have to do with anything?! Sure, The Karate Kid is a great movie and everyone loves them a little Daniel and Mr. Miyagi action, but what do it have to do with The Park? Well, we're glad you asked, because there is in fact a reason. The whole idea came to fruition a couple of weekends ago after Chad had watched the movie with his kids on Saturday night (must have been 20 years since he'd last seen it all the way through). For some reason the mental image of Pat Morita yelling out the word "Banzai!" at every five minute mark during the movie stuck with us. Stumbling around the house looking for something to do on Sunday, with Stephanie yelling at him to "Find something to do. Why don't you just go to Disneyland?", Chad picked up the phone, called Mark, and the words that will henceforth live in infamy poured forth: "You wanna make a banzai run into The Park?" Consider history made.
Part of the beauty of having Annual Passes, and living so close to The Park (we're about 40 minutes away), is that when there is nothing else going on, and evening gets a distinctive dull to it, we do have the capability of dropping everything (all nothing of it) and heading out to The Park. We should probably say we don't often do it, but there are a few times in our past when we have. Most of the time, we try to do things just like everyone else. We try to make an entire day of it. We'll go out earlier in the morning (we're not "rope-droppers"), we'll take our time about things and ride whatever we want when we get a desire to, we'll see a lot of indoor shows, have some meals and snacks, sit and chill quite a bit; just enjoy things a little bit on the slower side so we're not wiped out at the end of the day.
"Banzai Runs" are nothing like that. When you're making a "Run" the way we do, the entire object is to blow in, do as much as you can in a 2-3 hour period of time, and blow out of there like a cyclone on a Kansas farmhouse. We're not saying we knock people over and run around like complete nuts, but from the moment we hit the gates we never stop. We're constantly in motion from one thing to another and it doesn't stop until we hit the bus on our way back to The Parking Lot. You might not think it, but it's pretty tiring when you get right down to it.
Our last "Run" went a little something like this (we got to The Park around 7pm):
Since we've pretty much adopted the term for ourselves and plan on using it a lot, we thought it best to introduce you to the concept of "Banzai Runs" with a post. They really can be a lot of fun and very productive. Just make sure you make the proper preparations and stretch beforehand and keep yourself properly hydrated (may we recommend the Dole Whip Floats at The Enchanted Tiki Room?).
Just remember to have fun with however you choose to go to The Park ("Banzai Run" or not) and always be respectful of everyone around you. Have fun!
Part of the beauty of having Annual Passes, and living so close to The Park (we're about 40 minutes away), is that when there is nothing else going on, and evening gets a distinctive dull to it, we do have the capability of dropping everything (all nothing of it) and heading out to The Park. We should probably say we don't often do it, but there are a few times in our past when we have. Most of the time, we try to do things just like everyone else. We try to make an entire day of it. We'll go out earlier in the morning (we're not "rope-droppers"), we'll take our time about things and ride whatever we want when we get a desire to, we'll see a lot of indoor shows, have some meals and snacks, sit and chill quite a bit; just enjoy things a little bit on the slower side so we're not wiped out at the end of the day.
"Banzai Runs" are nothing like that. When you're making a "Run" the way we do, the entire object is to blow in, do as much as you can in a 2-3 hour period of time, and blow out of there like a cyclone on a Kansas farmhouse. We're not saying we knock people over and run around like complete nuts, but from the moment we hit the gates we never stop. We're constantly in motion from one thing to another and it doesn't stop until we hit the bus on our way back to The Parking Lot. You might not think it, but it's pretty tiring when you get right down to it.
Our last "Run" went a little something like this (we got to The Park around 7pm):
- Train to New Orleans Square
- The Haunted Mansion
- Splash Mountain
- Fireworks in New Orleans Square
- "Fantasmic!" in New Orleans Square
- Pirates of the Carribean
Since we've pretty much adopted the term for ourselves and plan on using it a lot, we thought it best to introduce you to the concept of "Banzai Runs" with a post. They really can be a lot of fun and very productive. Just make sure you make the proper preparations and stretch beforehand and keep yourself properly hydrated (may we recommend the Dole Whip Floats at The Enchanted Tiki Room?).
Just remember to have fun with however you choose to go to The Park ("Banzai Run" or not) and always be respectful of everyone around you. Have fun!
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"Here's to little trees!"
"No no no! Not Bonsai! BANZAI!"
Glad someone enjoyed it as much as we enjoyed writing about it. :)
We did a Bonzai run last week, we got to the parks at 7pm, we went into California Adventure and got on 5 different rides: Soaring Over California (Noah's new fave!), Heimlich's Chew-Chew Train, Francis' LadyBug Boogie, Flik's Flyers, and Monsters Inc: Mike and Sully to the Rescue. We even had time to shop and do some pin trading before heading back to the Toy Story buses. Did I mention we didn't take a stroller and the girls walked the whole time! I like this "Banzai Run" I believe it shall stick!
Thanks for the approval, Erin. I'm glad people are getting what it's all about. And it sounds like you made a Banzai Run to the tee. Well done. :)
Banzai!!!
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