Disneyland- Day Three

The continental breakfast included with our hotel was pretty good. It saved us lots of money we would have spent on breakfast. Preston would usually eat a bowl of cereal and either a pancake or waffle. He eats breakfast good.

Kate loved to try all their foods from yogurt to waffles to croissant, egg and sausage sandwich. I loved their powdered donuts. So bad, but so so good. Kyle got a loaf of bread from a mini mart near by and I had packed peanut butter and jam so a couple days we took a lunch into the park.

On Friday morning we went to California Adventure again to get fast pass tickets for World of Color which is a light and color show at night. We've heard it's a must see show. We needed to be there early to get the 8pm show (we didn't want the later 9:15pm show). We also wanted to get fast passes for Radiator Springs Racer again. Kyle stood in line for that and I went with the kids to the World of Color fast pass area. Well, Kyle took a little longer so I had to wait for him (you need the park tickets to get fast passes and so I had to let people go ahead of me and wait for Kyle to bring them to me after he used them). It was kind of stressful because when Kyle finally got over to me the tickets wouldn't work for the World of Color fast passes. Somehow the scanner at the gate entrance didn't scan the cards right. The worker at the Radiator fast pass line helped Kyle get those fast passes. Anyway, I had to run over to an entrance and get the cards re-scanned then go back and get the World of Color fast passes. It worked out fine in the end and we got the time and location we wanted. Phew. 

We checked out some rides we didn't get to on Thursday in California Adventure. Monster's Inc was first. 

And of course, Kate wanted to get Mrs. Incredible's autograph and picture. 

We also rode Tower of Terror. We took Preston on it and he didn't want to go on anymore rides (it was only 10am and he already was saying that- yikes!). We dragged him on and during the ride I thought "we are SO mean" because I was scared and this little boy was probably super scared. Afterwards, I asked him if it was scary or fun and he said fun. He didn't want to go on it again though. 

Little Mermaid Ride- I love singing these songs. 

After this ride, we walked outside and it was raining really hard and then it started to hail!!! People were scattering and running for shelter. We ran into a random building and ended up waiting in there until the rain let up. We ate lunch while we waited. It was crazy to get such a rain storm and hail when it's supposed to be sunny here! We knew there was a chance of rain so luckily we brought our umbrella, but our stroller got wet. Lots of people wore rain ponchos the rest of the day. It would rain then stop and did that off and on throughout the day. It was cold and wet. My socks were wet. 

We went back over to Disneyland to finish the rides we didn't do on Wednesday. You can see blue skies in this picture, but then a big storm cloud would blow over and dump rain. It was sporadic. We went to Fantasyland first and got in the long line for Peter Pan. The ride was super short so that was a disappointment. It was cool though to seem like you're flying. I wish it lasted longer though.

A view of Fantasyland from the carousel.    

You can't see Preston very good because he was busy moving the lever to make the elephant go up and down. He loved Dumbo and wanted to do it again. He loves elephants.

This is where Preston stood while meeting Rapunzel and Flynn Rider. haha! 

Flynn Rider told Kate, "we have another blondie!" and was impressed she knew his real name, Eugene. I love that they are in character. 

We headed over to Tomorrow Land to ride Space Tours. It's still cool like I remembered it

Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters was like another arcade game where you used a laser gun to shoot all the "Z's" to defeat Zurg. 

We went back to Adventure Land to ride the Jungle Cruise (funny guide). Then, Kate and Kyle rode Indiana Jones again. 

We went shopping to World of Disney for souvenirs and then went back to the hotel. We went hot tubbing (it was so cold and we still went. What we do for kids.). I put on new dry socks. :) Then we went to Denny's to eat dinner.

We came back to the park early enough to ride the Radiator Springs Racer with our fast passes we got in the morning. It started raining pretty hard right before we got on the ride. When we got off it had stopped raining. I thought this was a pretty view with the rocks all lit up. We also rode California Screamin' before heading over to World of Color. Kate couldn't get enough of that ride.

We lined up for World of Color in California Adventure on Friday night around 7pm. It was chilly so we bundled up and drank hot cocoa, but it didn't rain during the show so that was a blessing. 

The pictures don't do it justice. It was an amazing show. There were lights, water shooting and blasting into the air, fire, music and even movie scenes projected onto the water. It was pretty cool. Just think Bellagio Hotel water show in Vegas, but way more.

As we were walking out of California Adventure we stopped to watch the fireworks lighting up the sky above Disneyland. Preston fell asleep while we watched the fireworks. He was exhausted. We went to our hotel and had to pack up because we had to check out of the hotel early in the morning before going to the park.