{"id":77456,"date":"2021-04-30T15:48:17","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T15:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelbaseonline.com\/?p=77456"},"modified":"2021-04-30T15:48:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T15:48:17","slug":"we-have-waited-so-long-for-this-disneyland-reopens-after-412-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travelbaseonline.com\/holiday-guides\/we-have-waited-so-long-for-this-disneyland-reopens-after-412-days\/","title":{"rendered":"‘We have waited so long for this’: Disneyland reopens after 412 days"},"content":{"rendered":"
Disney’s California theme parks had been silent 412 days, except for Imagineers and crew working on new attractions and revamping some of the classics.<\/p>\n
But Friday, Disneyland and Disney California Adventure Park reopened at 8 a.m. local time with the first guests cheering, clapping and waving as they came through the gates.\u00a0The\u00a0Anaheim parks are only\u00a0open\u00a0to California residents at limited capacity for now.<\/p>\n
Kate Fail of Los Angeles couldn\u2019t hold back the tears, she was so happy to be back in Disneyland.<\/p>\n
\u201cSpending time with friends and just riding rides again\u201d is what she most was looking forward to as she entered the park.\u00a0First stop for Fail: Space Mountain.<\/p>\n
Kevin Pryor, from Fountain Valley, California,\u00a0and Brittany Roth, from Santa Ana,\u00a0met at Disneyland just before the pandemic and have been dating since. They stopped at Town Square to kiss, re-enacting the famous photograph of a\u00a0kiss between a sailor and nurse at the end of WWII. The kiss\u00a0was symbolic of the park reopening as a victory over COVID-19, similar to the\u00a0victory at the end of WWII, Pryor told the USA TODAY Network.<\/p>\n
The morning started at 6:50 a.m. with the raising of the American and California flags by the Disneyland color guard at Town Square on Main Street.<\/p>\n