khertz
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Aug 10, 2008
"Does this ride have drops?" A March 2015 Disneyland Adventure
Hello, friends, and welcome to my newest TR! Although this is now my 10th TR on the DIS, it is only the third I have ever done for Disneyland. Our family is made up of three hardcore Disney fans who love visiting WDW any time we can, but we absolutely fell in love with Disneyland when we visited for the first time 3 years ago. But maybe I am getting ahead of myself. Some of you may not even know who we are!
DL 02-065 by disneymom1024, on Flickr
That’s us!
I’m your narrator and also wife and mom to the two awesome guys with me. When I’m not dreaming of or planning a Disney trip, I am working as a pediatric oncology nurse to earn enough to pay for said trips! Normally, I do my WDW favorites to kick of a TR, but here’s my DL favorites list:
Park: Disneyland Park
Ride: Radiator Springs Racers, Pirates of the Caribbean
Restaurant: The Plaza
Character: Rapunzel
Show: Mickey and the Magical Map & For the First Time in Forever Frozen Singalong
Nighttime Entertainment: World of Color
Ride: Radiator Springs Racers, Pirates of the Caribbean
Restaurant: The Plaza
Character: Rapunzel
Show: Mickey and the Magical Map & For the First Time in Forever Frozen Singalong
Nighttime Entertainment: World of Color
Along for the ride with me was DH, who is responsible for 95% of the photography you will find in this TR. He is an engineer by trade, but like me, loves looking forward to our next Disney trip. He actually started the love affair we now all have with Disneyland. Several years ago, he was in California for work and had a day off, so he decided to go to Disneyland. I was jealous, of course, but he loved it so much he couldn’t wait to take us back so we could all experience it together, and that is what prompted our first trip in 2012 as a family.
Park: Disneyland Park
Ride: Radiator Springs Racers,
Restaurant: Golden Horseshoe
Character: Donald Duck
Show: Mickey and the Magical Map
Nighttime Entertainment: World of Color
Ride: Radiator Springs Racers,
Restaurant: Golden Horseshoe
Character: Donald Duck
Show: Mickey and the Magical Map
Nighttime Entertainment: World of Color
Last but certainly not least is DS. He is about 4.5 years old, and he has been raised to be a huge Disney lover like his parents! This is his second Disneyland trip, but he has been to WDW 4 times. He is a huge fan of Cars, so DH and I were very excited to show him Carsland for the first time! Normally, he is my countdown partner before every trip, but this time around, we decided to surprise him and not tell him where we were going! He is also the inspiration behind the title, as DH and I heard that question before almost every single ride! Being so familiar with the attractions at WDW, he definitely had a fear of what he considered the "unknown" at Disneyland, which made for, shall we say, an interesting trip.
Park: Both of them
Ride: Mater’s Junkyard Jamboree, Disneyland Railroad, Roger Rabbit’s Toon Car Spin
Restaurant: None of them! Lol
Character: Lightning McQueen
Show: Disney Jr. Live on Stage
Nighttime Entertainment: Fantasmic
Ride: Mater’s Junkyard Jamboree, Disneyland Railroad, Roger Rabbit’s Toon Car Spin
Restaurant: None of them! Lol
Character: Lightning McQueen
Show: Disney Jr. Live on Stage
Nighttime Entertainment: Fantasmic
Also along for the ride was our soon-to-come DD who will be meeting the world in August! I have done a long weekend at WDW while pregnant, but this was the first time tackling a week-long Disney vacation while pregnant. I was only about 17 weeks along, so not heavily pregnant, but enough that it made the trip quite different than I was used to!
Our trip dates were February 28th-March 7th. We stayed the entire week at our nearby timeshare resort, Wyndham Dolphin’s Cove. We had many discussions of what kind of ticket media we should buy, and tossed around the idea of both a Disneyland AP and a Premier AP, but ultimately we decided just to go with a 5 day park hopper. For our “6th day” activity, we drove to Legoland for the day.
Unfortunately, we ended up missing out on a lot of favorites due to a lot of attractions being down for refurb in anticipation of the 60th anniversary, most especially devastating being World of Color. But with the points we had left for the timeshare, it was really the only week we could make it happen. Just more reason to plan another trip again soon! But before we start worrying about the next one, let’s delve into this one.