While in Cali, we did venture off to Disneyland's California Adventure Theme Park to visit the new CarsLand. (mouthful). It was AMAZING. Yes. My three yr old loves Cars and it did not disappoint. We got there early and stayed past closing. Thanks to Grammy for helping with the kids or the day may have been a bust. We did most of the rides and the lines weren't terrible. Love FastPass. Love Soaring Over California because it embodies all the wonderful memories I have: the beach, horseback riding around the honor farm and at Montana De Oro, River rafting with best friends, PGA West with family, Honeymooning at Lake Shasta, the smell of Oranges, and Disneyland - fond memories from childhood and grad night from High School. Basically if my life were a ride, it would be that one.
The kids loved Radiator Springs in CarsLand. It was almost an exact replica. Oh, Disney - you never cease to Amaze! Reagan's favorite ride was Mator's Junkyard or something like that.... You would ride in a cart behind the tractors that he tipped in the movie and swing around like tea cups. We rode it twice! Also to note, we did manage to get FastPasses for Radiator Racers which was a good thing because the stand-by line was never shorter than 2 hours. The FastPasses were out by 9:30am for the day!!! So, our time was 6 pm. The line with FastPass at that time was an hour. So, we waited. No joke - 10 seconds into the ride it stopped. Mechanical difficulty. We were actually evacuated. I feel the need to digress into a back story here - I have the worst luck on amusement park rides. I've been stuck on many, Indiana Jones, for sure - and others but I've never actually been evacuated. My kids were bummed. Not as much as I was though. And, of course, I was totally to blame for the ride failure..... However, we scored some extra FastPasses and off we went. By 10:00 pm the ride was back online and we were able to ride it in its entirety. It did not disappoint. The kids were able to talk Grammy into going and the park let the ride stay open 30 minutes after closing to accommodate more who were affected by the break down. Yay for us!!
It was a great day. Expensive. But great!
I think my 16 year old had the most fun and it had me wondering how many more of these experiences I will get the chance to share with her. Kids grow too quickly I've decided. Unfortunately there is nothing I can do about that but hug 'em and love 'em while I've got 'em!!! And that is very likely!!!!
Here are some pictures of the kids at Cars Land. Cousing Maggie is with us!
What??? No pictures to show of this fabulous new CarsLand?!?!!? I'm sad:( Glad your family had a great time but one quesition, how'd you get the little ones to stay up well past 10pm?!?!?! Were there many tantrums?? Glad you had fun and I agree, hug your kids because they do grow up way too fast!!
ReplyDeleteHeather - I don't know how to upload pictures yet and my IT department (Jayme) has been out of the office (camp) all week. So maybe next week for pictures....
ReplyDeleteAnd not a single melt down. We rented 2 strollers and the kids miraculously took naps while we played. My older 3 are big helpers with the 2 littles and there was Grammy there to help out. However, the next day we were all pretty worn out and didn't even make it out of the house!