It was just myself and DH, and unfortunately we did not dine at any sit down restaurants. We tried to keep our trip as low cost as possible. We are used to going to WDW when they offer free dining, so it was a change having to pay OOP. Luckily, DH had recently won a photography contest and his prize was a $125 Disney gift card, so that helped quite a bit!
We LOVED Haunted Mansion Holiday!! Neither of us had ever seen the movie, so we watched it on the flight out to CA. I'm so glad we did, otherwise we might not have understood the ride at all.
Our favorite ride was probably California Screamin'. I hate roller coasters that take such a long time to get to the top (I'm afraid of heights), and this one was awesome! I think we rode it about 4 or 5 times.
Every ride that is duplicated at WDW, we liked better at DL, with the exception of TSM and Star Tours, which are pretty much the same.
The only downside to DL is that are a lot of rides/queues outside. WDW has most of theirs indoors because of the heat and rain, but with the weather in CA I can understand most of this being outside. We were there one day when it rained, and it kind of put a slight damper on our plans, but we still managed to have a good time!
I also liked how close everything was. We stayed at Ramada Inn Maingate, and it took only 12 minutes to walk from our hotel room door to the turnstile at DL. And then it was only 159 of my short-legged steps to get from park to park. It really is that close!!
If anyone is interested, here is a link to DH's photos on Flickr. He only posts about 1 photo a day and has over 100 from WDW on there (only 5 from DL so far, but he took about 2000!).
http://www.flickr.com/photos/51442732@N03/
Enjoy!!