Day 4 - September 4th - Disney's California Adventure
My eyes opened to the sparkling ring beside me (as I couldn't wear it, putting it on the bedside table like an allnament (bad spelling i know) had to do
gig) i still couldn't believe I had it and how gorgeous it was. I looked at the time and it had just gone 10 abit of a lay in compaired to yesterdays early morning but we both still could of slept in for longer, i forgot to mention this before but the beds here had to be one of the comfiest I have ever slept in, in my life. We seriously had difficulty dragging ourselves ourt of them, but hey we were in California I wasn't going to be letting us waste our time sleeping.
So we soon got up and were ready to go get some breakfast around 11.30, we decided to head to Denny's today and had a all American grand slam for Darren and a build your own slam for me plus 2 cokes, were we finished about 12 and payed the $20 bill and then headed back to the hotel for a few relxing hours by the poll before we headed to Disney's California Adventure.
We headed up just before 3 to freshen up and grab everything we needed, after a shower i noticed my chest was quite red and blotchy I was hoping it was just the ehat and would go down once it started to cool down and as i was out of the sun for a bit so didn't bother wasting time going to the chemist to get anything for it. Once ready we made our way downstairs to the front entrance of the hotel and caught the 3.30 shuttle to the parks, the shuttles from the Sheraton is a private one and just runs between them and the park and was really good. Always on time, it left the hotel on the hour and half past the hour and left the parks 15 & 45mins past the hour and the last one from the parks was a hour and half after park closing.
We arrived at the parks quickly and once through bag search we had to take our pictures by one or two of the big California letters outside the park
Photos taken we headed into the park, where there was a photopass lady taken pictures with the bridge in the background, a couple of pictures taken and we carried on towards Monsters Inc, about a 5 minute que so we headed on that. Once done we spotted a smoothie place so decided to grab a couple of drinks Mango smoothie for Darren & pineapple juice for me, it was just gone 4pm by now and I really wanted to watch the 4.15 showing of Alladin as it was the last one for the day so we headed to the theatre for that, with a few pictures along the way and a quick meeting with Goofy.
We got to the theatre and were told no food or drinks allowed, so drinks quickly consummed we headed in and it was packed. We looked around for 2 seats but couldn't find any, a CM pointed us to 2 free seats near the front so we took those and settled for the show. I didn't really know what to expect with this show but I read it was fantastic and that the Gennie was hilarious and as I love the Alladin film i really wanted to see it. Well I was not dissapointed, it really was a great show and the Genie had us laughing most of the way through. I reallyw ish we had a camcorder with us so we could have recorded it, as i'd love to watch it back at home. So if you are headed to Disneyland don't miss it.
Once the show was finished and we were out of the theatre, we had a slow walk around the park and headed to Paradise pier, and grab a couple of fastpasses for Soarin' along the way. I was quite surprised with the crowd levels, it was now the friday evening of Labor day weekend and I really expected bigger crowds than this.
Once at Paradise pier we sat down for an Ice cream in the shade and Darren noticed my blotchy chest was now very much a bad rash and very red, it was really starting to itch but hey i'm in Disneyland and i'm not going to worry about it now i'll worry and get something for it later when we leave, while eating our Ice creams we watched California Screamin coaster a few times and I was certain as soon as I finished I was going to join the que for that. Knowing there was NO chance of Darren joining me, i headed to the entrance for a single rider ticket so I didn't have to wait in the 20minute que. I was on the ride within about 5 minutes and have to say I loved it, was deffiently one of my favourite rides of the whole trip. We walked down to see how long the que was for Toy story but it was 35 minutes and neither of us love queing so we decided to skip that and we headed to Bugs Land.
We did a few of the rides there and watched 'It's tough to be a bug' which was really good fun and worth seeing. It was gone 6.30pm by now and we hadn't had anything but our ice creams since breakfast so both were feeling rather hungry so headed to Pilots grill for some dinner. Cheeseburger meal & coke for Darren & a BBQ chicken burger meal & coke for me and we shared a side of onion rings which came to $28 both satisfied and stuffed we headed towards the Animation academy, there was about a 10minute wait till the next draw a character was starting so we decided to wait for that, and once in sat down with our pencil & paper we were told we'd be drawing Grumpy, this is a really fun thing to do and we had a laugh trying our best and not being half as good as the CM who's drawing was wonderful. Once done we decided that we had a laugh in there so waited for the next one to start which was Pluto, this gave us even more laughs as mine looked like he hadn't eaten in months and Darrens had two extra cheeksgig:
My rash which i'm sure you can notice in my pictures, was really aggrivating me now and was extremely itchy, I have a scar near my colar bone where the neck ends and meets your chest and that was really red and the rash was bad around it which made the scar extremely itchy and so difficult not to itch, determind not to let it ruin my night and force me to leave DCA early i carried on trying my best to ignore it. We had another walk around taking more pictures now it was dark and all the lights were on before calling it a night and leaving.
My eyes opened to the sparkling ring beside me (as I couldn't wear it, putting it on the bedside table like an allnament (bad spelling i know) had to do
gig) i still couldn't believe I had it and how gorgeous it was. I looked at the time and it had just gone 10 abit of a lay in compaired to yesterdays early morning but we both still could of slept in for longer, i forgot to mention this before but the beds here had to be one of the comfiest I have ever slept in, in my life. We seriously had difficulty dragging ourselves ourt of them, but hey we were in California I wasn't going to be letting us waste our time sleeping. So we soon got up and were ready to go get some breakfast around 11.30, we decided to head to Denny's today and had a all American grand slam for Darren and a build your own slam for me plus 2 cokes, were we finished about 12 and payed the $20 bill and then headed back to the hotel for a few relxing hours by the poll before we headed to Disney's California Adventure.
We headed up just before 3 to freshen up and grab everything we needed, after a shower i noticed my chest was quite red and blotchy I was hoping it was just the ehat and would go down once it started to cool down and as i was out of the sun for a bit so didn't bother wasting time going to the chemist to get anything for it. Once ready we made our way downstairs to the front entrance of the hotel and caught the 3.30 shuttle to the parks, the shuttles from the Sheraton is a private one and just runs between them and the park and was really good. Always on time, it left the hotel on the hour and half past the hour and left the parks 15 & 45mins past the hour and the last one from the parks was a hour and half after park closing.
We arrived at the parks quickly and once through bag search we had to take our pictures by one or two of the big California letters outside the park
Photos taken we headed into the park, where there was a photopass lady taken pictures with the bridge in the background, a couple of pictures taken and we carried on towards Monsters Inc, about a 5 minute que so we headed on that. Once done we spotted a smoothie place so decided to grab a couple of drinks Mango smoothie for Darren & pineapple juice for me, it was just gone 4pm by now and I really wanted to watch the 4.15 showing of Alladin as it was the last one for the day so we headed to the theatre for that, with a few pictures along the way and a quick meeting with Goofy.
We got to the theatre and were told no food or drinks allowed, so drinks quickly consummed we headed in and it was packed. We looked around for 2 seats but couldn't find any, a CM pointed us to 2 free seats near the front so we took those and settled for the show. I didn't really know what to expect with this show but I read it was fantastic and that the Gennie was hilarious and as I love the Alladin film i really wanted to see it. Well I was not dissapointed, it really was a great show and the Genie had us laughing most of the way through. I reallyw ish we had a camcorder with us so we could have recorded it, as i'd love to watch it back at home. So if you are headed to Disneyland don't miss it.
Once the show was finished and we were out of the theatre, we had a slow walk around the park and headed to Paradise pier, and grab a couple of fastpasses for Soarin' along the way. I was quite surprised with the crowd levels, it was now the friday evening of Labor day weekend and I really expected bigger crowds than this.
Once at Paradise pier we sat down for an Ice cream in the shade and Darren noticed my blotchy chest was now very much a bad rash and very red, it was really starting to itch but hey i'm in Disneyland and i'm not going to worry about it now i'll worry and get something for it later when we leave, while eating our Ice creams we watched California Screamin coaster a few times and I was certain as soon as I finished I was going to join the que for that. Knowing there was NO chance of Darren joining me, i headed to the entrance for a single rider ticket so I didn't have to wait in the 20minute que. I was on the ride within about 5 minutes and have to say I loved it, was deffiently one of my favourite rides of the whole trip. We walked down to see how long the que was for Toy story but it was 35 minutes and neither of us love queing so we decided to skip that and we headed to Bugs Land.
We did a few of the rides there and watched 'It's tough to be a bug' which was really good fun and worth seeing. It was gone 6.30pm by now and we hadn't had anything but our ice creams since breakfast so both were feeling rather hungry so headed to Pilots grill for some dinner. Cheeseburger meal & coke for Darren & a BBQ chicken burger meal & coke for me and we shared a side of onion rings which came to $28 both satisfied and stuffed we headed towards the Animation academy, there was about a 10minute wait till the next draw a character was starting so we decided to wait for that, and once in sat down with our pencil & paper we were told we'd be drawing Grumpy, this is a really fun thing to do and we had a laugh trying our best and not being half as good as the CM who's drawing was wonderful. Once done we decided that we had a laugh in there so waited for the next one to start which was Pluto, this gave us even more laughs as mine looked like he hadn't eaten in months and Darrens had two extra cheeks
gig:
My rash which i'm sure you can notice in my pictures, was really aggrivating me now and was extremely itchy, I have a scar near my colar bone where the neck ends and meets your chest and that was really red and the rash was bad around it which made the scar extremely itchy and so difficult not to itch, determind not to let it ruin my night and force me to leave DCA early i carried on trying my best to ignore it. We had another walk around taking more pictures now it was dark and all the lights were on before calling it a night and leaving.
and we both fancied a drink, so we picked up our stuff and had a walk along the beach and to get a drink. Spotting swings along the way, the child in me couldn't resist a play on them 
seems I had driven quite a bit past our turning and it seemed to have taken forever just to get there, it was gone 9 by now oops I hope we make it back in time for those ribs but it wasn't looking likely. Heading back up PCH i took one of the turnings and anyway to cut a long detailed route of where we drove short we got lost again :nonono:
and didn't get back to Anaheim till about 10.30pm haha well that was a journey back to say the least. Both too tired to bother getting showered and changed to go to Tony Roma's we just decided to grab something quick Darren picked KFC which don't do beans or fries which we found very strange espically the fries bit, but what came next really threw us and gave us a laugh apparently at KFC in America with your chicken you choose between mash & gravy and wait for it.......Macceroni cheese haha macceroni cheese now i've never heard of that before. I don't particually like KFC so opted for a Subway food purchased we headed back to the hotel to tuck in as Darren pulled he's tray of food out he noticed something strange sitting on the chicken and i commented how it looked like a scone, to recieve a sarcastic laugh & look from Darren and for him to recieve an 'I told you so' fromme, yes seriously sitting there with mash & chicken was a scone!! 
we decided to try Red Robin who were also closed, gawd we weren't having luck today. Deciding that most restaurants will probably all be closed or closing we just decided to head back tot he hotel and order room service. I can't remember what either of us order now but it was pretty good, we spent the night trying to get our bits together and pack up ready for our drive to Vegas tomorrow and probably headed to bed to watch tv around 12.30/1am and alarm set for 9am.
You missed out girl!!!
