[post=51652400]Last Installment of the Trip Report[/post]
Day 3 –April 27th, 2014 – Part 2
Back & Forward to both Parks + Lunch at ESPN Zone
Just when we finished riding Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, it was time to head on back over to Disney California Adventure in order to use our FastPasses for Radiator Springs Racers. Talk about just one ride at DL and heading on back to DCA. But we had to use them since we can’t ride on RSR during other times unless the ride breakdown during our return time. We have rode RSR and the ride was broken during our return ride and was able to ride it later during the day which is nice.
While walking on out of BTMRR, the wait time had jumped from 20 minute wait time to 30 minute wait time. It went up just a little but from the crowd level that day, it was going to be a busy day at the parks.
More and more people are now entering DL that morning where we are going back to DCA.
Luckily, it wasn’t that busy heading on in DCA that morning.
It is always nice to walk through Buena Vista Street when entering DCA. I do miss the old version of DCA with the Golden Gate Bridge. I can’t believe it has been a couple of years since BVS has been open and time goes by quickly.
So we head on over to Cars Land in order to use our FP’s for that morning. Luckily DCA wasn’t that busy that morning where we were able to ride RSR around 10am. Even though the park started to get a little busy that day, the wait time to get on RSR was only 85 minutes during the standby queue was not that bad. I would not even wait that long even if it is under 90 minutes.
Stanley Oasis Water Tower
We had to wait about 10 minutes to go through the FP queue and to ride RSR. Unfortunately we were in the backseat during the ride. It almost feels like every time I ride RSR, I’m always in the backseat.
It was nice to use the Tokina lens during the ride of RSR. But I did have some problems using the lens with the focusing. Some of the photos are nice while some of them are blurry. The other thing was that since the Tokina lens was so wide, I got a lot of the vehicle in the picture along with the other people it the car with us.
Also, I was using the GoPro that was on my head with the head strap just like when I used it during BMTRR that morning. It was neat to be able to do two things at once again and I wasn’t too worried about the GoPro head strap coming off my hat since it worked really well when riding BTMRR.
I can never get tired of seeing Radiator Falls waterfall.
With the wide angle lens, I was able to get a lot in the picture where it was a little difficult with the other lenses that I have used on RSR.
We went through Ramone’s House of Body Art.
Our picture while riding RSR. As you can see from my picture that I had my GoPro on my head during the ride.
Just when we got off RSR, DAF wanted to get another FP for RSR. It was past 10am and it was possible that all the FP’s for RSR are gone at that time. It was a possibility that we might be able to get some FP’s that night.
When we walked on over towards RSR FP entrance, there were times available that night. Luckily the times won’t conflict when we are planning on watching World of Color that night. We got a second pair of RSR FP’s later that day so we will be able to ride RSR at night which I haven’t done for a while. DAF was able to ride RSR at night during the November 2013 trip when her colleague and her family was with us during the holiday season.
After getting RSR FP’s, we head straight on over towards A Bug’s Life Theater so DAF will be able to see the Maleficent sneak peak. I was able to see the preview the other day with Alison and Fran now DAF wanted to see it this time.
She was impressed with the movie sneak peak of Maleficent and she told me that she will want to see the movie as well as me. When you see a preview of a movie, you got to see it no matter what. I did that when Maleficient was released last month and I saw it the first day. DAF was able to see it later during the week and she like the movie.
After we watched the Maleficent preview, it was time to hop on over to DL that afternoon. This is why I like the Disneyland Resort over Walt Disney World when hopping on over to another park where DL & DCA are adjacent to each other while at WDW you will have to take a transportation to get to another park. This does save you time when taking a bus, monorail, boat, etc. when at WDW.
It was a cloudy day at DCA that afternoon but from the weather report, it was highly unlikely that it will rain where it did rain on Friday night.
Back on over to DL that afternoon.
The first thing when we got back in DL that afternoon, was to ride the Disneyland Railroad. One of the trains was at the Main Street station and we were able to get on the train.
We rode the train all the way around until we got on over to the Tomorrowland Railroad station.
When we got off the DLRR, it was time to go on my favorite ride at DL. It was the Disneyland Monorail. So we head on over to the Tomorrowland Monorail station to ride the Monorail. DAF got to see the construction walls of the Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage and she was wondering when it will reopen and I told her that it will be open in September. When we come back in November, we will be able to go back on the ride when it reopens.
Monorail Mark VII Orange was at the station and we rode it towards Downtown Disney.
When we got to the DTD station, we decided to get off the monorail and go in DTD. Mostly we would ride monorail roundtrip back to DL but we were planning on having lunch at the ESPN Zone. We just ate at the ESPN Zone on Friday night and all of a sudden we are eating at the ESPN Zone again during the trip. DAF wanted to watch the NBA Playoffs in the ESPN Zone and since it was a Sunday afternoon, the playoffs was going on.
Luckily, the ESPN Zone just opened a while ago for lunch so it didn’t take too long until we were seated where we didn’t have any reservation that afternoon.
We always enjoy eating in the room with the giant projection screen with all the different games to watch. This is why we like to eat in this area where you can watch a lot of different games at once.
Since it was during the NBA Playoffs and it was a Golden State Warriors and Los Angeles Clippers game, the restaurant will let the customers stay in the room where we got to pay $10 per person per hour in order to stay and watch the games. This is for big games like the playoffs, NFL, etc. We stayed in the ESPN Zone for 3 hours to watch all the different games. It does sound like a long time where we stayed at the Napa Rose on Saturday with Alison and Fran for 3 hours which was long as well.
After lunch, we left the restaurant and started to go to our next destination that afternoon. You will find out on the next update.
It isn’t too long until my trip which is about to come up shortly in less than a week. DAW and I are looking forward to going back to the DLR next week.
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Its amazing. 
Indeed my family would have love a 20 min wait for TSMM. We found on our December trip that going there first was the best thing for us as most head to RSR. I think your tip is a great one - many times RSR takes a bit of maintenance in the morning. We get our Fps when the park opens (after early entry time is up) 
