Blogs from Anaheim, Los Angeles, California, United States, North America - page 3

So despite the dramas of last night we all still managed to get to Disneyland park at about 10 to 9.00am. Not a bad effort given Lola and Lisa did not return from hospital until about 2.00am. The morning was again typified by Greta taking an eternity to get ready and thinking of every excuse in the book as to why she can't eat her breakfast. I pity any one who wants to go on the Amazing Race with that girl Once again we headed straight to the Cars ride for an encore. We didn't know the gates opened an hour earlier on Fridays and as such just beat the general admission hordes which were surging towards the ride. It worked perfectly cos we were in and out in 15 minutes. The girls then went on ... read more

Two trips to Disneyland in 2 weeks, that is right. Are we crazy? Well maybe but this was thought thru carefully. We have taken our older grandkids to Disneyland twice, once when they were little and a couple of years ago when we stayed 2 days/2 parks and staying at the Disneyland Hotel. So now it was time to introduce the youngest ones. We have 2 granddaughters, 2 and 3, and 2 grandsons, 3 and 5. The grandsons are, of course, into boy things: running, jumping, yelling. The 3 year old granddaughter is a princess, all princess all the time, wearing princess dresses and princess shoes. Taking the girls and then the boys to Disneyland separately made it much easier to focus on what the kids would like. Since the kids are young a 1 day ... read more

Disneyyyyyyyyyy Day! Disney day started very, very early. I had to catch a bus into LA at 5:55am... plus do check-out and walk to the stop, so I got up at 5am. Le sigh. I decided to change hostels for the rest of the trip so that I’m not destroying sleep time every morning. The drive into LA was interesting – I took a different bus since I was going to Union Station; it took the highway and traffic was heavier going west/south out of LA than it was going in... I found that odd, but then again I have no idea where people work and how those logistics work. It was also 6am, so that might change during real rush hour. Anywho, I took the Amtrak to Anaheim... totally fell asleep, but they announce the ... read more

Disney morning felt like a longtime coming and we coud not wait! We got the three day access tickets to Disneyland and Disney California! We were like small excitable children and set off straight after breakfast (more pancakes please!) and found ourselves there in no time at all thanks to Mitch's navigation! It was fairly overcast but still warm but hey we couldn't care, we'd had over a week of California sun and we were off to the happiest place in the world! Excitement on overload we were pretty much in with no queing time whatsoever and straight into smiles and fairytales! We both remember going as kids but this was amazing! They were setting up for Christmas and there was a huge Christmas tree infront of the Princess Castle (my new home!) it was quite ... read more

After a disapointedly crowded Magic Morning (a special perk with some tickets that gets you into Disneyland an hour before gates open, but is limited to only certain sections of the park), we turned in our park hopper tickets for Annual Passes and headed from Disneyland to spend some time in California Adventure. As we walked to the back of the park to Paradise Pier, there was a long line of people at the recently finished Little Mermaid ride Ariel's Undersea Adventure that was not to officially open for another 4 days. What was going on? We just had to stop and ask. To our luck, they were having an Annual Passholder Sneak Preview for the ride. So before it officially opened, we got to join the very large crowd of annual passholders already in line ... read more