Midnight

Chapter 23:

"I thought Burbank was in California…"

I wrote this chapter during one of my "I'm- angry- at- the-world- so- if- you- value- your- life- you'll- leave- me- alone" moods, so if it seems like Bella is a bit of a bi*** I apologize in advance.

BPOV

The iPod kept Emmett entertained the entire time we were boarding the airplane. His eyes were glued to the thing; he didn't look up once.

Once we were on the plane, we chose seats farther back. The plane was only slightly full, not entirely sold out, so we were able to take up as many rows as we pleased. So, we sat in pairs. Esme and Carlisle in the very back, Emmett and Rose in the row across from them, Alice and Jasper in front of them, and Edward and I in front of Carlisle and Esme. It made it easy to talk amongst each other, without having to yell over one or two rows to talk to someone.

The plane ride wasn't very long. Emmett still had no clue we were in California instead of South Dakota, and we landed safely.

We had to rely on Edward's mindreading and Esme's iPod to keep our location a secret. I had learned that even though Em is a vampire, he still likes to celebrate his human birthday, which is on Saturday. That's why we were going to Burbank first. And, then, in a week's time, it was going to be the third of July. That's why we were going to South Dakota. Esme had heard talk of Mt. Rushmore's fireworks on the Fourth being spectacular, wonderful, amazing, and a list of other things (A/N: they really are! Lol)

We got our rental car, which was another suburban, and began our journey to the hotel.

Remember how I said we were able to keep our location a secret? Well, we were, up until we got to the hotel. It just hadto say 'Welcome to Burbank!' in nice big, bright red letters, right before we entered. Emmett noticed; he's not THAT moronic. He can be smart and observant when he wants to be.

"Ah-ha!" he exclaimed, pointing up to the banner. He turned back around, and admitted, "I don't know why I said 'ah-ha,' but I thought Burbank was in California." Then he gasped. "Ohh! There's a Burbank in South Dakota too, huh?"

We all groaned. He was useless!

Then, he huffed, and gestured to the bronze Mickey Mouse statue that was next to some Disneyland brochures. "Look! They even have a Mickey Mouse statue!" He turned around to face us, and after a while of just looking at us, he yelled, "Hey, wait a minute!" as he spun back around to inspect the place. "I know this place..."

Rose grabbed his arm and pulled him to the elevators. "Come on, you big dope!"

Carlisle was checking us in, and we were all going to check out the rest of the hotel.

Edward and I began heading out the back doors, while Rose and Em travelled upstairs, and Alice and Jasper decided to stay and check out the main room of the hotel.

The first thing we saw outside was the pools. There were four or them altogether, and each one was unique.

The first one (the one in the middle,) was oddly shaped, and looked like a whirlpool. The one to the left of it was much fancier and looked like it could have been the deeper one of the four, and had a beautiful waterfall.

The one behind it also had a waterfall, only much smaller, and it had one of those bars that you don't have to get out of the water to go to.

And then the last one had the most magnificent waterfall of the four.

Edward play- elbowed me. "We could replay our special waterfall cave there, huh?" I nodded. It looked almost exactly like our cave, too.

Then, the cell phone started buzzing. He took it out of his pocket, glanced at it for a second, and then took my arm. "They have the hotel rooms," he told me as he dragged me back to the inside.

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After we were settled in, we headed back to the car, so we could go to Disneyland. Emmett still was being a dope and didn't realize that we had entered the park until AFTER wards.

But, he didn't realize because of the Disney music playing, of the big Mickey head made out of flowers in the main entrance, while we were getting the wheelchair (no one needed it, but we're smart. Wheelchair lines) or even Main Street. He only realized where we were when he saw the big Sleeping Beauty castle smack dab in the middle of the park. Yes, it took him that long.

"Oh my GAUUD! WE'RE AT DISNEYLAND, NOT SOUTH DAKOTA!!!!!" Then he squealed like a girl, and ran over to the Adventureland sign. "CAN WE RIDE PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN (A/N: my first favorite ride) FIRST? PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAASSSSSSSEEEE!!!!!!"

Carlisle chuckled. "Yes, Emmett, we can ride Pirates of the Caribbean first."

Emmett squealed again and took off into Adventureland. We all laughed to ourselves and began to follow him into Adventureland.

I had missed this place with every fiber of my being; Disneyland was my second home when I was younger and I was more than happy to be home.

I pointed out Jungle Cruise, and Indiana Jones (A/N: my third favorite ride) to Edward along the way. I also pointed out Tarzan's Tree house and Tom Sawyer's Island before we reached the Pirates ride. We went ahead to the wheelchair line, which was located at the exit of the ride, and were lucky to be the first ones in the line. (A/N: Sorry, that's how my parents do it, and have always done it, so I have no experience with lines at Disneyland. Please excuse my limited knowledge on lines. But I can tell you about everything else! LOL)

(Doin' this all from memory, so forgive me if I mess up and forget something…)

After we told the attendant how many people we had in our group, she let us on. Emmett asked for the front, and, since the attendant was a nice lady, she gave us the first two rows.

We all got onto the little boat beneath the sign saying: Lafitte's Landing, and once everyone else was on, and the recorded message was through telling us to keep our hands, arms, feet, and legs inside the boat at all times, we were pushed from the dock, and into the murky waters.

We continued down the track, passing fireflies and floating houses, when we reached 'Bill.' Bill was the man sitting in a rocking chair on his floating house, smoking a pipe. We called him Bill because it was funny. Then we entered the tunnel.

"Psst, Avast thar. It be too late to alter course mate. Come seekin' adventure and salty ol' pirates, aye? Well you've come to the proper place. But beware, because Dead Men Tell No Tales. Sit closer together, and keep yer ruddy hands in board. That be the best way to repel boarders," the talking skull and crossbones told us right before we crashed down the waterfall.

We got soaked! But what else did I expect; after all, I WAS sitting in the front row.

"Yo Ho Yo Ho a pirate's life for me!" sang pirates, as we continued down the colorful cave, just before crashing down another, longer waterfall. Down here, there was no music.

We passed what looked like a beach. I guess it was supposed to portray three pirates that had killed each other, so they could have the treasure to themselves. Two of the dead skeletons had swords in their backs, and the last one was holding onto the treasure chest for dear life. Too bad he was a skeleton as well.

The next scene we passed was supposed to be a crashed pirate ship, which was unfortunate to have been cough in a storm. As lightning crashed from behind, and the rain kept pounding, a lone skeleton remained loyal to his post, still at the helm, steering the ship to nowhere.

Next, we passed a tavern scene, with two skeletons occupied in their game of chess, and two more skeletons busy drinking down their never- ending rum.

The 'Captain's Quarters' was next. Poor captain skeleton lay in his bed, holding a microscope, while his haunted piano continued to play "A Pirate's Life For Me."

Then we passed the treasure room, which was entirely full of everything gold you could imagine. One skeleton was lucky enough to make it here, too bad he didn't live long enough to spend some of it.

"Dead Men Tell No Tales…" a ghostly voice kept repeating. We turned a corner, and saw that the only way out was through a waterfall. Davy Jones appeared then, and told us that only dead men passed through here, and disappeared. The boat went under it, and we found that it wasn't really water, but just fog that made the fall like that.

Once out of the cave, we found ourselves caught in between a cannonball fight between the city and the Wicked Wench, Barbossa in the lead. "Bring us jack Sparrow, or we'll burn the city to the ground!" he threatened again before the shot the cannons, making a huge splash.

After that nice little adventure, we turned into the city to find yet another captain, drowning the poor mayor in the well, telling him to bring Jack Sparrow to him as well.

"Don't tell him, Carlos! Don't be chickeeaan!" A plump lady called down below, before being shot at and closing the curtain just in time.

Jack, being the 'smart' guy he is, was hiding behind some dresses, looking around to make his escape.

After that, a fat man with a blue suit on was sitting on a barrel, boasting about how Jack was never going to lay eyes on his treasure map, when Jack himself pops up out of the barrel, and eyes the map very quick before ducking back in before he was caught.

The city we were in was in ruins, still blazing from the fire that drunken pirates had set, while singing "A Pirate's Life For Me." And we passed some more of that before entering a dungeon, with three men trying to get a dogs attention, so they could escape. Too bad for them it wasn't working.

We turned a corner, and entered an area that was falling apart, before entering a room with more drunken pirates in the middle of a shoot down, and it just so happened that the room was full of explosives, and we were right in the middle of it all!

The boat started crawling up a hill, and to the left we saw Jack, sitting in a room full of gold, rocking back and forth, toasting to people he knew, and just being Jack.

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I wrote that from memory, so I hope I did a good job. So, how was the first chapter of their trip to Disneyland? Future chapters will be longer, because I am going to include three of four rides (in detail) in each of them, and the Pirates ride was…… (Counting…) over 800 words… so they're gonna be pretty long. And pirates isn't even the longest ride there! Not even close… Review! I want a minimum of four reviews this time… THX everyone!!!!