Disneyland Day 2 & California Adventure Park

  Anaheim, California
Thursday, May 14, 2009

Today we used the second day of our Disneyland Pass.  As we are staying in a Disneyland Resort we were able to enter an hour before the general public.  This was great as the busier rides that had long wait on day one we got on straight away. 

Our first ride was Finding Nemo, this ride took you under the water in a submarine at the Great Barrier Reef.  It was excellent you felt like you were there, clown fishes, sharks and turtles swimming around and coral on the ocean floor. We were then off to the Buss Light Years astro blaster, this was fantastic brought back the child in us all and was in 3D.  We went around the ride on the train and had to use our laser guns to shoot the targets and get point to help Buzz.  Haydn won of course.


Next stop Fantasy land. First stop here was the Matterhorn bobsleds,this is a roller coaster that goes around the mountain, through water and has lots of sharp turns and as you can not go to Disneyland without doing the Mad Tea Party ride and the Alice in Wonderland ride were next on our hit list.  Haydn sat these ones out and play the paparazzi for the duration of the rides.  Then we all relaxed on the Storybook Land Canal boats. 


We were then off to the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique to get Celise a Cinderella makeover.  They did her hair, makeup, fingernails to look just like a fairy princess.  Then when Celise's said the magic words the mirror lit up with all parkling lights and the transformation was complete.




Then we were off to finish the rides at Tomorrowland.  This land is all about the future.  The Innoventions featured a dream home and electronics of the future.  We watch a 3D experience called Honey I shrunk the audience, the inventor shrunk us all, this was Celise's first 3D experience and was a bit nervous to start with.  The floor vibrated so we felt like there were mice calling through our feet.


We then went on It's a small world ride, and believe us if we never heae the song it's a small world again it will be to soon, we did a quick walk through Mickey Toontown and met Pluto and Mickey.  Julie and Celise had a couple of rides here, this part of Disneyland is all for the children.

We all decided to leave the park to have lunch as the food is all crap.  Went to Denny's for a late lunch as had a walk around the shops.  Then Celise wanted to go to California disney.  Being a hot day we decided that we would head to a water ride so off Grizzly River Run we went and believe me it looked like we had pulled our clothes out the washer and put them on before they had a chance to spin.basically it was like a wheely bin of water was thrown at us.  Then we wanted to go on the big roller coaster but the line was about 1 hour long so opted for Toy Story Midway Mania 4D in this we were in cars and had guns in front of us and had to hit targets to gain point Nikki came out on top at this one.  Celise also had a go on the swing chair.  As the park closed at 6 pm we headed to Soarin' California which is a simulated ride which is like you are hang gliding over California.  Pretty cool.  We decided because of the poor food choices available that we would go to the 7 eleven to pick up some bread, ham and cheese to  make simple sandwiches for dinner.



Stay tuned for more exciting adventures from Haydn, Julie Celise and Nikki