Want to Go to Disneyland?

If you want to go to Disneyland, you should go the first week of November. Jill, who is a Disney aficionado (Disney World last December, Disneyland in August and last week), sends along evidence from last Thursday.

Here's a shot of us at our turnstile - first in line!
Then coming down Main Street and realizing that we were the third and fourth people in the park. We had been lucky at our turnstile - the woman scanned our tickets and gave us maps before the parks even opened. So they counted down and we were OFF. (The kid and his mom who are the only people in front of us - they were first at the turnstile next to us and there was a mechanical error and it looked like their turnstile was having issues. As the clock neared nine, the kid - who was celebrating his seventh birthday - was just looking more and more distraught. Poor little thing. So we let him go in front of us. Luckily, they turned at Tomorrowland, so I didn't have to hip check him out of my way outside of Peter Pan.)
The first boat to Never Never Land!
The view from Dumbo of an empty Fantasyland.
A shot of the area near Big Thunder from this summer ...
and the same area (within an hour or two of the same time) in November. The Fastpass machines at Big Thunder were turned off.