Just before leaving our room, we realized that Christian's iPhone was lost!! We spent the next half hour calling the lost and found departments at Medieval Times, Walmart and our motel. No luck :-(
Got to California adventure just before opening time and waited in a big, huge glob of people. Then got in line for the popular, new Radiator Springs Cars ride. We had to wait over an hour for this one. The ride was okay, but not "all that." At one point it was like you were drag raceing another car, and that part was pretty fun.
Next we went on California Screamin' roller coaster, then Toy Story Mania (which is the ride where you play virtual carnival games),
and then rode the Ferris wheel in one of the swinging pods.
We went back to the motel for lunch and almost died of heat stroke on walk back! We were astonished to find these plates with a note in Spanish which said our maid had found Bud's iPod in the trash!!!! We sure lucked out and were so grateful that we had Guadalupe called to our room and had Buddy give her $10.
We ate them while in line for the Jungle Cruise and they were amazing!
Next we went on Star Tours, and it turns out that Christian was the rebel that we were protecting from the alliance! We saw his photo up on the dash screen, and everything!!
We went in the Innovations building and saw these cool Iron Man Suits.
We even met Thor there and posed like the other Avengers!
We did the Roger Rabbit ride and looked at chip and dales treehouse and the other stuff in Toon Town. We decided to skip the long wait to get a pic with Mickey.
We had to wait in line 40 minutes to ride The Matterhorn. Most of the lines had been 20 minutes or less, so not bad. It was a much rougher ride than I remembered!
Headed back to the motel where the kids and I changed into our swimsuits and went to the pool while Tony (who doesn't like to swim) did the laundry and picked up dinner (guacamole bacon burgers) from Carl's Jr. What a guy!
The pool was very cold so I sat in the hot tub while the kids swam. For the last little bit, Christian came in the hot tub with me and Faith finally joined us at the end.
We ate lunch at Café Orleans where we ordered two regular monte cristo sandwiches and one three-cheese (Swiss, mozzarella & Brie). They were $17.99 each!! But they were delicious!
He did it! He trained as a Jedi with a light saber and then got to fight Darth Maul.
then walked back to Disneyland to watch the parade. We put on some miles, baby!
We ate leftovers for dinner that day. That evening when I went to take the kids swimming again, we found that our motel's pool was closed for repairs. We were pretty bummed until we learned that they could swim at the hotel next door's indoor pool!
Next, we went to the Aladdin live show in California Adventure. Tony even took Christian to go to the restroom before the show so he got to see the whole thing this time!
Afterwards we browsed some monsters University gear while Tony refilled the water bottles,
On our way to the candy shop, a little girl stopped Faith to ask her if she wanted to trade pins. Tony had gotten 11 older Disneyland pins from a guy off KSL for just $10 and the kids had brought those along with their original pins to do some trading. They could trade off of the black boards in the shops, as well as some employees' lanyards and had done a bit of that just for fun. Faith was thrilled to be asked and traded her strawberry Mickey head for the girl's Mickey Mouse. It was so adorable!
We also made a quick stop to go on Mr. toads Wild Ride, then got some cool caramel apples at the candy shop Christian got Olaf, the snowman from Frozen, and Faith got Mini Mouse.
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