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Utah schools will be closed for fall break on Thursday and Friday, and many residents along the Wasatch Front will find themselves going south.

Utah teachers will go to Sandy's South Town Exposition Center, where the Utah Education Association convention and exposition takes place.

Many Utah families will head to southern Utah to for warm weather and recreation; and some will go the distance to Southern California, where the Disneyland and California Adventure parks await. (Some people have been known to claim that UEA really stands for Utahns Escaping to Anaheim.)

Disney does not share its attendance figures, but "Utah is an important market for the Disneyland Resort," a spokesperson told The Tribune in a recent email. "Many guests visit the resort with their families each year from Utah, visiting both by car and by air. "

For those who plan to see Mickey and the gang in Anaheim, we offer these 10 Disney food facts:

1. There are 146 food and beverage locations at Disneyland. The most, 104, are quick serve; 26 are full-service restaurants and 16 are nightclubs, lounges and outdoor bars.

2. In all, there are 6,700 food items available at the park, from apples and french fries to pork shanks and turkey legs.

3. Disneyland guests enjoy 700,000 Mickey-shaped waffles each year. No word on how much syrup that requires.

4. Guests also drink 5.9 million bottles of water annually.

5. Hamburgers are nearly twice as popular as hot dogs. Each year, Disneyland sells 2.1 million burgers, compared with 1.1 million dogs.

6. Guests also consume 1.9 million pounds of french fries and 85,000 pounds of ketchup.

7. There is healthy food, too. Guests consume more than 800,000 apples each year. If laid end-to-end, those apples would equal more than 82 miles and could line the Monorail 33 times.

8. The number of bananas consumed at Disneyland each year could feed Abu — the beloved monkey in the movie "Aladdin" — 20 bananas a day for 62 years.

9. Feeding everyone requires more than just food. Disneyland goes through 20 million forks, spoons and knives; 95 million paper napkins; and 23 million paper cups each year.

10. Finally, if Walt Disney Parks and Resorts were a restaurant chain, it would rank 97th in the U.S. for its food sales.