On the trip there I got sick twice. Once on the flight and once on the ride to the hotel. Thank goodness I did not loose it IN the van!!! How embarrassing would that be. Anyway, let's move on. Our hotel was wonderful, breathtaking lobby and our room was nice, with a view of the California Adventures Park. We had some friends and family warn us that it was not as good as Disney world, and there was not as much to do. However, we were pleasantly surprised by both parks, especially the Disneyland park! It was very similar to the Magic Kingdom in Disney world. They did not have as many rides, but the ones that were there were great, some being better than Disney world. They recently updated the "It's a small world" attraction and we loved it, rode it twice! Mike rode all of the wild rides by himself, and we took advantage of the fast pass option, so there were only a few times that we had to stand in awful long lines. We spent about 2 days in each park, so by Monday we were left with nothing to do. Which was OK, because the weather was awful all day on Monday. SO we went to a movie in Downtown Disney. We also got to celebrate Valentines day a night early. Everything was all booked up for Saturday night (duh), so we went to a nice restaurant in the hotel on Friday. On Saturday, we could find nothing available for dining, so we got some Mexican food to go and ate it in the room. A Valentines we won't forget=) We also indulged and got ice cream every single night we were there.........YUM! Thank goodness I did not gain any weight from all that!
Overall, the trip was wonderful, but we were ready to come home to our boy and our bed! The return trip was awful, for some reason I could not tolerate the flights, and I got sick SIX times yesterday!!!!!!!! Black! I have recovered today though and unpacked us all. Enjoy the pictures!!
Check out the snack machine we came across (it was in the Monsters Inc ride!)
For some reason, I am not happy with the way any of the pictures Mike and I took together turned out, therefore you won't see many. This one is the two of us sharing a churro, a yummy cinammon dessert that Mike indulged in every day!
Our one and only character breakfast....they REALLY need the dining plan! We (stupidly) ate without checking the price of the meal. So $50 later we decided that there would be no more character breakfasts for us!
They had a VERY small section in the Magic kingdom that remotely reminded us of Epcot. Mike participated in a computer enhancing program that showed him what he would look like (much) fatter, with sun damage, and if he smoked. Nice huh!!! I also nabbed this sweet photo of a bunch of fat....makes you rethink what you eat huh?
(very) recently renovated 'It's a small world'. Great landscaping work!
Toontown....we loved this section of the Magic Kingdom. Though it is intended for kids...we thought it was precious! The way they had it set up, you felt like you were really in a small cartoon city. Check out the picture with the "mountains" in the backdrop. We could not get over how real they looked!
Some pictures from New Orleans Square. Mike got panicked when he walked in to this skull booby trap and could not find his way out.....and we rode on a real pirate ship!
Cave on Mark Twains Island in New Orleans Square, and Mickeys' house!
California Adventures theme park. We spent the total of a day in this park (actually part of two seperate days). We compared it to Animal Kingdom and MGM. They had a few rides from both of those Disney world parks entwined in to this one.
Mike and I stood in line for almost 2 hours to get this picture with Mickey!!! They did not have characters walking around often, and I told Mike we could not travel that far and NOT get a picture with the mouse.....little did we know, the very next day, Mickey was walking around taking pictures, no lines in sight....grrrrr!
Goofy however required no line, no waiting at all=)
We saw the most AWESOME 'Aladdin' musical. I have never seen a Broadway show, but I would think this is what it would have been like. They even flew on their magic carpet out into the audience.
This last picture is of a store in Downtown Disney that we passed everyday. Each time we sopped in front, trying to figure out what the name of the store was. We finally ventured inside on the last day and figured it out. Can you guess???
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