Day Two

Day Two was spent at California Adventure. We woke up early and headed over for a full day of fun. It was a bit cloudy and cooler so the crowds stayed away and we enjoyed all the rides with no lines!

The ferris wheel is huge and the focal point of the pier area. It is impressive during the day but it really shines at night! Get it... shines?? Anyway. I am not a big fan of heights and this one is REALLY high. As you go get in line you have to make a choice. Swinging cage or non swinging cage, we chose the latter! The view was amazing, when I was brave enough to peek out!

The Paradise Pier wraps around the ferris wheel and has lots of midway games and "old fashioned" rides. The food was amazing too! Great healthy choices and lots of fun kids food!

We had a chance to meet some characters too!

There is a part of the park that is themed after A Bugs Life. The rides where right at J Man's level, the girls even had some fun on the 'toddler' rides. We went to watch a live show there thinking it would be great. There was a sign saying that some parts might be scary. We asked the lady what was scary and she said some darkness and fog. We can handle that! Well, she forgot to mention the 10ft man eating grasshopper that appears out of nowhere! Instant tears from all our kids and we high tailed it out of there! There may be some long term damage done.

I already mentioned how good the food was right? Well, one of the food areas is set up like the Wharf in San Francisco that I have been to. The sealions are replaced here by ducks but you can still get some amazing chowder in a fresh backed bread bowl, yummy!

Here is a little sample of the rides we did on day two.

One of our favourite things to do was to go talk to Crush from Finding Nemo. I still have no idea how they pull this off but it is really cool. Us adults enjoyed it perhaps more than the kids! Grace even got a chance to talk to the turtle and now Paul and I are in a contest to see who can say "Dude" the best!

Well, that's it for Day Two. Three more left. I have no idea how I will finish all this. Our life has been crazy since we got back on Sat. We barely even made it through Halloween! Halloween this year was certainly overshadowed by Disney Fun! Those pictures will have to wait in line! The rest of these posts may have to take a rest too as I am going to be out of commission for a while due to a surgery I am having. Maybe I will move my computer upstairs and blog from there with all my upcoming free time!