Just like yesterday, we woke up before 7:00, and started our long day. We decided to get breakfast outside of California Adventure; at a small coffee shop. After that, we got into the park, booked our Lightening Lanes, and went over to Soarin’.  We wandered over to Toy Story Mania, and had some fun there. Julie, Caroline, and Ellie went to the Incredicoaster while Desi wandered around and found some cool art. After the Incredicoaster, we met back up at a shady bench and discussed how we liked the ride. (The minute there was an inch of space, it was instantly filled with people, so finding somewhere to sit is a lot harder than it sounds. Ellie loved the roller coaster, Caroline thought it was too intense, and Julie thought it was “incredible”. To further our plans, we tried to book Goofy’s Fly School, but it was closed. For our troubles it gave us a free Lightening Lane to be used anywhere. We may have exploited that multiple times. With our Lightening Lane we went on Radiator Springs, it was amazing.  Getting hungry, we walked over to the Avenger Campus and got on the new Spider Man ride: Web Slingers. There were some problems with the ride, so we had the chance to ride it twice, but, alas, we were starving and went on a hunt for food. There was a Shawarma truck, so we got some, and walked over to Pacific Wharf, got Ellie a burger, and sat down to eat. The shawarma was too spicy for us, and most of the bread was dry. When we were done we went over the Pixar Pier shops and picked out a sketch for an artist to draw for us. We finally decided on one where Stitch was playing ukulele and Lilu was dancing. However, both the artist and the shop lead were on lunch, so we decided to head to the biggest attraction of all- the Mickey Farris Wheel. We waited, and went on one of the swinging gondolas, which was highly nauseating for Desi. We headed to an ice cream place, that only had lemon and mango soft serve. Ellie and Desi both got lemon, Caroline got mango, and Julie got a lemon parfet. The parfet had lemon and blue raspberry, affectively turning Julie’s mouth green. After finishing our various delicacies, we went back to the store to order the picture. We then split up Caroline and Mommy went on Guardians of the Galaxy (formerly Tower of Terror) and Daddy and Ellie went on Monsters Inc. Guardians of the Galaxy was redecorated nicely. Although we did not know this at the time, one of the Collector’s creatures was one of the original Figments from the ride at Disney World. Monsters Inc. was “cute” and the usual story ride. After our split adventure we got some pictures in front of the waterfall and then convinced Daddy to ride the roller coaster. After the coaster Daddy was ready to sit, the high intensity was somewhat overwhelming. We then returned to the shop with the artist, to see if she had started our artwork. She was just about to start when we arrived. A few minutes in, we realized, she was doing the wrong picture, and she corrected her error, and started again. Watching her sketch was fascinating. After a short break we used our park hoppers to hop back to Disney Land. Ellie and Caroline used Lightening Lanes to  go on Dumbo. Then, we all went over to Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride, and sat in line for 10 minutes. After crashing through several mines, and various doors, we used our last lightening lane to go on Pinnochio’s Daring Journey. In between rides we took various pictures. When we were done there, we hopped back over to California Adventure to go to our dinner reservation at Wine Country Trattoria. The food was very good all around; the steak and pastas were especially delicious. After dinner we decided to go on a few more rides. First up was Ariel’s Adventure, best clamshells ever! We ran over to Goofy’s Flight School and actually rode it this time. It was just like the one at Disney World, but still fun and goofy. After that, we went over to where we thought the World of Color Desert Party would line up, it was not there. We asked a few cast members, and found our way to a mostly empty pathway and waited for the check-in-guy to check us in. We played the hand-slapping game for a while. By the time we actually got checked in and escorted to our table we still had about 45 minutes before the show started. All of the mini-desserts were delicious, and the show began with a splash! Literally, there was water shooting up everywhere. The only problem was that they had everyone who was not sitting at a dessert table to stand up, which blocked some of our view. Anyway, the show was still amazing, the beautiful colors were magical. After the performance, we got out of the park and headed towards bed.

Tomorrow: Dad’s Birthday and a long travel day to HI