The Secret is out

Thank you

There experiences unique to DL and it's much smaller so a little easier to get around if my research is accurate. I'll post things as we go. I think I know the feeling of anticipation that parents feel Christmas morning.

After 3 weeks in 114 degrees I'm ready for sow thing else lol. It is a major travel city with lots to do. But our addiction is really focused lol. We will see the Bellagio show, treasure iand and those little things. Fremont really upset me due to all the people that needed help. Just broke my heart. So limited in what I could do for them, I'm way tender hearted.

We have arrived at disneyland. DH was certain we were going to San Diego since that is what the signs all said. Having fun. First observation is that we can hit all or favs in park hoping really easily. We also loved Alladin. Great show.

We have parked ourselves for supper at the plaza inn. Nice little counter service place where both got the fried chicken. I can honestly say we are both overly full. Sorry no food porn as it is now a stack of bones. The fireworks show is about to begin over sleeping beauty's castle. Thank goodness she's not the jealous type or we would see a serious case of castle envy in Florida Cute but tiny. The highlights for day one

1.Making a 50 year old man squill like a 3 year old girl as we are driving 80 miles an hour headed to the land Uncle Walt built. I think the speed limit might have been 80 at some point. Oops

2. The all American college band. As a former music major this group of very talented kids blew me away. Really a highlight I have missed in Florida is the marching bands.

3.Watching DH blow up Facebook with all his updates.

I'll see what kind of pictures I can get uploaded. But the no plan approach seems to be working out ok so far.

Day 2, Or as it will be remembered, naps are great day.

We are having a blast. The 2 hour time difference is in our favor for getting up early enough for rope drops. We started our day at the California adventure where we road radiator springs. Just WOW, for us this is the first ride where the theming from pre que to completion really rivals WDW. I can see why so many had hoped to see this in hollywood studios. This heavy hitter also left our favorites soarin and toy story midway mania with walk on waits even an hour after park opening. The time difference does making closing the parks feel like 2 am so we are realizing that in the middle of all this awesomeness that we are further from 21 than we will ever admit. Today we "practiced" the full midday nap thing to be certain we can do it well in December with the littles. Mission accomplished after a 3 hour break we were back in DL to finish up on some missed rides. Pirates is substantially longer here and still as much fun for us. The final closing show for us to see is world of color. Actually we are in the que for it right now. This at completion will be a 2 hour wait so I'm hoping it lives up to the hype. I'll let you know in a bit.

Day 3 time to go.

We started day 3 with our normal final day routine of hitting all our favs one last time. This was much easier here in DL than in WDW. The lines are so much shorter. 20 min for TSMM and walked right on to Soarin. We did have a ten min wait for buzz light year but what normally takes us half a day to do we did in 3 hours including shopping. After hitting everything we wanted to do we both looked at each other and agreed it was time to go. Since we were leaving so early I decided to hit the beach. So we headed to Huntington Beach which completed our Atlantic to pacific tour.

For those thinking about DL I say do it. My highs and lows

Highs:

Rides that WDW doesn't have:
Alice in wonderland
Pinochio
Mr toads wild ride
Snow White
Materhorn
The whole radiator springs
California screaming
Steam trains: here there are scenes to take in beyond the park

Shows only in DL

World of color: This was amazing. People that would not stop complaining about the wait ended up saying how they can't wait to see it again.

The all American college band. Wow they put on a show.

Disneyland band: I miss the marching bands in WDW. I'd like to see them back.
Aladdin: really amazing show great comedy

There are way more things beyond what I listed, but with only a weekend to take it all in we skipped many things that don't work for us. We actually skipped CA screaming as that is just not our thing. The two parks are much smaller which makes park hopping feel like moving from space mountain to haunted mansion.

Lows:

Loading of rides. WDW has this down. We noticed a lack of urgency loading people here. I can only imagine how smooth it could be with the same loading abilities.

Cast members: they are seen any where from the parking lot to an area beyond their uniforms. The theme really gets broken with that. Also felt like several cast members hated their jobs and I saw a couple actually go ballistic over people moving past the yellow line loading buzz light year. The worst part of that is the people that did it were well past him. So we really appreciate our WDW cast a little more.

We had a great time. DH loved his surprise. And I looking to go again next year...nope. This one can wait. But I do encourage anyone that has not done it to go for it.