Day 3: Disneyland
We were up at 9ish for breakfast round the pool, were quite enjoying our morning time eating at the pool. No need for the car today as Disneyland is only 10 mins up the road, we decided to walk up there and took us about 15 mins, on the way there we popped into a tat shop, jayne bought some new sunglasses as we think the night before she lost them in mcdonalds car park when parking thr car.
We got to the park entrance at around 11am and after grabbing a few photo's out front we made our way in onto Main St USA, the set up is the same as Florida and looks exactly the same just on a ever so smaller scale but still the magic remained ! jayne had her pic taken with Mary Poppins and we made our way up to Cinderellas Castle, the crowds were ok seen as it was Labour Day but it was decieving as most people were already off Main St by now. We decided to go back to front and hit Tomorrowland first, first port of call was into the big shop there to buy our "ears", i bought jayne a nice minnie mouse eared baseball cap, i got a pair of silver "flashing" mickey ears, wot a sight we looked ready for the day, getting right in the spirt hahaha !
First ride we went on was Honey i Shrunk the Audience then we went on Space Mountain, it was different to Floridas one as we sat 2 in a row, it seemed better than Florida and longer, one of Disneys best rides. We walked round a bit in this area and then looked at our show sheet to see that the Jedi Training Academy was on , we decided to watch it and what a show it was, they invited around 20 or so kids up to be dressed in Jedi outfits and battle Darth Vader with toy lightsabres, each kid got a big round of applause it was quite cute, oh how i wish i could have done this when i was younger, what a dream for the kids ! We had lunch after this and then decided to move onto another part of the park, we rode the Matterhorn ride (seemed like one of DL's oldest rides) we then went to Toontown while the mid afternoon parade was on, the crowds had gone cos of the parade so we had a nice time in here and got an ice cream and many pics, we ate our ice cream in Mickeys house it was roasting outside well into the 100's ! then we went to Mickey himself there was no Queue so we went straight in and me and JAyne had our pics taken with him, i was well made up ! when we got out i got to have my pic taken with Goofy and a woman in the Queue commented on our fancy ears and told jayne i was the biggest kid in the park.... a total compliment hahaha !
We made our way round to Frontierland but didnt go any rides as the queues were too big so we headed for the haunted mansion and pirates of the caribbean, this ride was waaaay better than florida, much longer and featured jack sparrow from the movie in it, lots more drops and visuals as well, i wish we had rode it twice as there was a lot to take in. By now it was around 5ish so we decided to take the railroad around the park adn got off back at tomorrowland where we could get spots fro the 6pm parade, we got great spots although this parade seemed alot shorter than florida's one but still just as good and was very full. After that we went into frontierland to try and get onto Indiana Jones ride but it was closed, oh well we were coming back on friday so wernt out of luck.
It was getting dark and we were both tired so we decided to call it a day and headed down main street and make our way home so we could relax round the pool with some smirnoffs, we went in a few shops but didnt buy anything there was plenty more time for that. We had missed the shuttle so decided to walk it back, our legs were aching by now and was trying to find any food place could , we had to settle for Carls Jr burger place near our hotel as we couldnt be bothered walking round, we popped in the garage for more drinks and sat round the pool at the hotel and relaxed, it was good to finally sit down, unfortunatley some new rather large family (in numbers and size hahhaa) who we nicknamed "The Klumps" had nicked our table and chairs so we sat on the loungers and hoped they went staying long at our hotel. After a tiring day we were in bed by midnight, back in the car tomorrow to navigate Hollywood itself, yikes !
We got to the park entrance at around 11am and after grabbing a few photo's out front we made our way in onto Main St USA, the set up is the same as Florida and looks exactly the same just on a ever so smaller scale but still the magic remained ! jayne had her pic taken with Mary Poppins and we made our way up to Cinderellas Castle, the crowds were ok seen as it was Labour Day but it was decieving as most people were already off Main St by now. We decided to go back to front and hit Tomorrowland first, first port of call was into the big shop there to buy our "ears", i bought jayne a nice minnie mouse eared baseball cap, i got a pair of silver "flashing" mickey ears, wot a sight we looked ready for the day, getting right in the spirt hahaha !
First ride we went on was Honey i Shrunk the Audience then we went on Space Mountain, it was different to Floridas one as we sat 2 in a row, it seemed better than Florida and longer, one of Disneys best rides. We walked round a bit in this area and then looked at our show sheet to see that the Jedi Training Academy was on , we decided to watch it and what a show it was, they invited around 20 or so kids up to be dressed in Jedi outfits and battle Darth Vader with toy lightsabres, each kid got a big round of applause it was quite cute, oh how i wish i could have done this when i was younger, what a dream for the kids ! We had lunch after this and then decided to move onto another part of the park, we rode the Matterhorn ride (seemed like one of DL's oldest rides) we then went to Toontown while the mid afternoon parade was on, the crowds had gone cos of the parade so we had a nice time in here and got an ice cream and many pics, we ate our ice cream in Mickeys house it was roasting outside well into the 100's ! then we went to Mickey himself there was no Queue so we went straight in and me and JAyne had our pics taken with him, i was well made up ! when we got out i got to have my pic taken with Goofy and a woman in the Queue commented on our fancy ears and told jayne i was the biggest kid in the park.... a total compliment hahaha !
We made our way round to Frontierland but didnt go any rides as the queues were too big so we headed for the haunted mansion and pirates of the caribbean, this ride was waaaay better than florida, much longer and featured jack sparrow from the movie in it, lots more drops and visuals as well, i wish we had rode it twice as there was a lot to take in. By now it was around 5ish so we decided to take the railroad around the park adn got off back at tomorrowland where we could get spots fro the 6pm parade, we got great spots although this parade seemed alot shorter than florida's one but still just as good and was very full. After that we went into frontierland to try and get onto Indiana Jones ride but it was closed, oh well we were coming back on friday so wernt out of luck.
It was getting dark and we were both tired so we decided to call it a day and headed down main street and make our way home so we could relax round the pool with some smirnoffs, we went in a few shops but didnt buy anything there was plenty more time for that. We had missed the shuttle so decided to walk it back, our legs were aching by now and was trying to find any food place could , we had to settle for Carls Jr burger place near our hotel as we couldnt be bothered walking round, we popped in the garage for more drinks and sat round the pool at the hotel and relaxed, it was good to finally sit down, unfortunatley some new rather large family (in numbers and size hahhaa) who we nicknamed "The Klumps" had nicked our table and chairs so we sat on the loungers and hoped they went staying long at our hotel. After a tiring day we were in bed by midnight, back in the car tomorrow to navigate Hollywood itself, yikes !
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