Ok, so I've been busy the past few days, but also kind of putting this off. I can't differentiate between our second and third days at Disneyland! Jason isn't much help, but I'll do my best. I also don't have a ton of photos for these days because it was sooo busy. But here I go!
We woke up pretty early this morning, so I let Jason get a real breakfast. We went to Mimi's. It is actually as good as everyone says! I had the Mixed Berry Pain Perdu. I'm not a breakfast kinda girl, but this was deeeelicious. It's french toast filled with cream cheese and marmalade (the marmalade was nicely toned down by the cream cheese, not too bitter) and topped with fresh berries, butter and syrup. YUM!
Jason had the Enchilada Bowl. Also really good, but more of a lunch dish if you ask me (except for the eggs!)
We wanted to go to DCA first thing this morning to get on Toy Story Mania.
We had ridden it in Disney World last year and loved it! Jason pretty much hates Buzz Lightyear now, just nowhere near as good to us. We got to the gates at about 10:02,
But we hustled over and the CM said it'd be about a 40 minute wait. We gave in and just waited, because all day Thursday the line said 45 minutes. Wow, it's hard to wait for 40 minutes first thing in the morning. There isn't even any good angles for photos. While I waited, I got J to go get us fast passes for Screamin', whee!
After our fun, but uneventful ride on TSM where J beat me, we went over to Screamin', but nope, it was just breaking down. Ok, lets go get some fast passes for Tower of Terror. So we hike all the way across the park, get some fast passes. Then we go to Monsters Inc because it's nearby. Wait about 5 minutes (of the 10 it's supposed to be), and it breaks down!
Ok, we walk over to GRR to get some fast passes so we could ride in about an hour before we head back to the hotel for our break. Fast pass machine broken down.
So we got a bit frustrated and decided to head over to DL.
I'm still sad we never rode the train
I think the first thing we did here was go get fast passes for Indiana Jones. Hopefully we'd get to ride it today! Then we went to Big Thunder
Rode it and had a great time. I think we then went to get fast passes for Space Mountain - I was excited to see the differences between DL and MK versions. Then I think we rode the Matterhorn for the first time on the Tomorrowland side. Hmm, fun! I like the old-ness of it. We got this picture later that night when we rode it on the Fantasyland side - I prefer this one!
After that ride we were getting hungry. I knew I wanted Rancho Del Zocalo, so that's what we did! It was good, not too long of a wait (the lineup for the bathrooms was longer!) We shared the Carne Asada platter, it was soooo good. I was surprised at the yumminess of DL Mexican food. This is a 'borrowed' photo, but ours looked just like this:
And a large lemonade. Not a bad price when we share and it was more than enough.
Here is Jason just outside of the restaurant looking goofy.
I think after this we rode some more rides! I want to say probably Big Thunder again, and then we went to Fantasyland and it was getting really hot and lines were long. Sadly, after wandering around for a bit we decided to just go back to the hotel for our afternoon break. Like I said, no, we didn't follow directions to get to Fantasyland early, and so no, we didn't end up doing any of the rides there. Ohhhhh well.
After our break, we headed to DTD for some dinner. We went to ESPN Zone, Jason's only choice on this trip. It was..... ok. Drinks were expensive, it was kinda loud. The menu didn't really do much for me. But, my salad was really good! I just got the BBQ Chicken Tender Salad: Lettuce, tomato and avocado, ranch dressing, bbq sauce drizzle, chicken tenders and fried onions. (another borrowed photo)
It was soooo good. Still not really the healthy meal I was looking for, fried onions? But tasty. Jason got the philly cheese steak with salad. I couldn't find any pics of this on the net, but it didn't look that great anyway. He was kind of disappointed it didn't have any peppers on it and he said it was a bit bland. But he ate it and his salad was good and we were both full.
After this we did a bit of shopping around DTD. Well, window shopping at least. Waddled to the monorail for our first ride and took it into Disneyland. This is when we rode Space with our fastpass, whee! Love that ride, but I was nervous waiting in line because I found the one at disneyworld so scary!
Then we walked by the Tomorrowland Terrace to the Matterhorn and the dancers/singers were doing Michael Jackson... ooh
We had heard about his death on the tv. So sad for his kids.
This time we rode the Tomorrowland side again. Still fun, the guy behind us was hilarious! Then we went across the park and rode Indiana with our fastpass. This was Jason's favorite ride! I liked it, once or twice, but not as many times as we rode it.... foreshadowing? Then I think we looked through some stores because it was getting busy, then went to ride Big Thunder again (yes, this one is ALWAYS fun... and the line is short!).
It was getting to be about 8:30 now and between fantasmic and fireworks things were busy and slow moving. We decided to take a break to DTD, and then we'd go back to the parks after the fireworks.
We went to the Catal Bar. It was nice, but expensive! And it was starting to get a bit chilly out even with my jeans on. Jason ordered a heineken
And I had a mai tai. Reeeeally strong.
So he switched me
After our drinks we headed back towards the DL gates. Waited in the esplanade and watched the fireworks.
Then we waited a bit longer, watching crowds come streaming out. And then we went back into the park. Wow, this was the busiest we saw it the whole trip. We went through Tomorrowland first. Buzz and Star Tours both 20 minutes (not bad!), Matternhorn 45 minutes, Space (of course) 70 minutes. Fantasyland, packed. *Sigh* We were too tired to really wait and we had used all of our fastpasses after dinner, whoops! So we did a bit of shopping/looking around. Took some bad dark photos.
Then I decided it was time..... I wanted a corn dog. We make our way over to Main Street. I spy the Red Wagon. I approach. The CM tells me they're closed, even though they're helping some people in front of me. I cry. We go back to the hotel.
Ok, that was all true, except I did manage to hold back my tears, but boy was I annoyed! Guess I didn't realize a lot of places closed at 10. Anyway, it had been another long day (we need more practise!) so we headed to bed.
Day 7 will have quite a few more photos!! Should update soon.
I love that part 
, but I think it's at the end. I was going to mention it too.
haha, I know what you mean about the tricks.
Can't wait for the next installment! 
OK, I googled it: 1915-1916 Panama -California Exposition. The trolley tour driver told us about them. This is when most of the buildings were built and a lot of them were designed to just tear down the next year, after the exposition was over. 
It was a cheesecake flan. We thought we were too full for dessert, but we gobbled it down and boy was it ever good. She also took a photo of us (with our dessert!)
so we didn't get stuck in rush hour. Unfortunately we got stuck in an accident that closed off all three lanes of the freeway right near the marine base. It added about 45 minutes to our trip. It was ok though, not too hot. Better on our short drive day than on our 13 hour day!
He couldn't stand the yummy/gross smells of kettle corn and roasted nuts etc. He wasn't hungry so we headed back to the hotel and I just took a quick stop at McDonalds for something to eat. Not quite the exciting first night I thought we would have, but I just wanted him to rest to be ready for the big day the next day.
