Vacation Day 3, California Adventure

We spent today at California Adventure. Disneyland is always great, but this park is a fun change with lots to see and do.

We went on the Toy Story ride first. David was thrilled to be holding Noah....again.

It's a fun ride with 3D glasses. The kids like that.
Emily and Alanah.

Josh and Ben.

Josh and his parents went on California Screamin' which is a great roller coast that I had never been on. It goes upside down. Emily is tall enough, but didn't want to go on it. So, we took Alanah with us and hit a few milder rides. Like the swings.

Ben was my date.

We make a cute couple.

Then we rode the Jumpin' Jellyfish.

Then, we split up from our friends as they had park hopper tickets and wanted to go back to Disneyland to ride a few things. It was warm out, so we jumped into a preview of Frankenweenie.

My kids crack me up.

I liked Emily's sweaty curly hair. She looks pretty, but she always does.  Her freckles...love them.

Then, we went into Disney's Nightclub where characters were out dancing. Captain Hook wanted to dance with Emily, but she wasn't interested. Playing hard to get.

So, he went for Ben.

Then, we did some other things and ran into Frozone from The Incredibles.

We went to a stop motion animation viewing for Frankenweenie, which was pretty cool.

Ben talks about being an animator or something similar one day, so it was neat for him to see the little scenes they create.

Then, we did this fun playground area. Noah was happy to be running around.

The kids did a zipline.


Twice...

David and Ben took off exploring.

We did the huge ferriswheel. Noah wasn't impressed.

At some point in the day, Emily said she wanted to try California Screamin', the upside down roller coaster. David didn't want to go on it, so I went with her. We were headed there when I took this picture. She was super excited and so nervous.

As we got closer and closer I thought she would back out, but we had fastpasses which means you wait about 3 minutes. There is no time to backout.

It was so fun to experience this with her. I'm glad her Mama got to be there for one of her "firsts" now that she is older. Her first upside down rollercoaster. It was fun to watch her standing in line. One second jumping up and down. The next hugging me around my waist. She did great though and we rode it a second time. I also almost saw my dinner for the second time.

Our last ride was Radiator Springs in Cars Land.

Disney had closed early due to a Halloween event, so California Adventure was filling up quickly. We had fastpasses though. We got to the ride and CLOSED. Yep. We waited about 15 minutes when they decided it was bad enough to encourage people to leave. Ben was really disappointed. I hated to end our fun filled day on a sour note.

So we got ice cream!




Yep. That made everything better.

It was a fun 2 days at Disneyland, and I'm so happy that we are headed to the beach to relax tomorrow. Tonight was this sunset...

Tomorrow, we'll watch it from the beach!