This morning, I woke the girls up for school, but this wasn't a typical morning. When I went in their rooms, I told them they had two choices...school or Disneyland? The look of shock was priceless and the decision was easy. We quickly packed up snacks and sunscreen and headed out the door. Unfortunately, when we got in the car, the tire pressure light was on in my car. After a 1 hour delay at the car dealership to patch up a nail hole (Thanks Tim!), we were on our way.
We bought Park Hopper passes so we could go back and forth between the two parks. We started the morning in California Adventure so we could rush to the new Cars Land ride...Radiator Springs Racers.
Cars Land is a great new area in the park with all things from the movie Cars. We waited in the single rider line and were on the ride in 8 minutes, instead of the standby line which was an hour!
It was the perfect ride...displaying great scenes from the movie and high speed when we raced another vehicle around the track! It reminded us of Test Track at DisneyWorld.
We even spotted Lightning McQueen on our way to Paradise Pier.
We loved the new Toy Story ride, Midway Mania where we had a chance to show off our target shooting skills. We also did the Silly Symphony Swings and the Golden Zephyr before making our way to Soarin' Over California. Most rides only had 5-10 minute waits!
We exited California Adventure with a hand-stamp and walked across to Disneyland.
The castle was our first stop before racing over to Space Mountain. Only a 20 minute wait!
We pretty much walked on Autopia Speedway,
Haunted Mansion and Pirates of the Caribbean.
The Matterhorn had cool new individual seats
and we loved the updated 3D Star Tours ride. Although our feet were about dead at this point, we still had enough energy to wait 25 minutes for Indiana Jones and walk back over to California Adventure to finish off the night.
We gave our feet a break and sat down to watch the Pixar Friends parade. It was a pretty quick one, but we enjoyed seeing all of the characters from Monsters Inc, A Bug's Life, Finding Nemo, Toy Story and The Incredibles.
We continued to take it easy at the Ghiradelli Chocolate Shop. Ice cream seemed to cure our tired feet!
We finished strong with stops at Mater's Junkyard Jamboree, Luigi's Flying Tires and one more ride on Radiator Springs Riders. Our final attempt was Monsters Inc, but we had to walk out halfway through the ride due to technical difficulties. It was also starting to get a little chilly so it seemed like the perfect time to head home.
I was so happy I was able to surprise the girls and reward them for another wonderful school year. It was a great day spent together!!
