The 2nd Happiest Place on Earth

Disneyland pales in comparison to DisneyWorld, but it still proves to be a good time. If you can make your way around all of the double-wide babystrollers and slow moving electric wheelchairs. But it was still fun!

Upon entering the gates eagerly anticipating the "Magical Day" all the staff had wished us on our way in, we made a bee-line (or rather, I did) for Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. For all of you Disney enthusiasts, you know that DisneyWorld mistakingly got rid of Mr. Toad's Wild Ride and replaced it with Winnie the Pooh. How sad.
Having not been on this ride in over twenty years, I was very excited to go on. And it was just like I remembered. At the end of the ride you get hit by a train, and go to hell. Maybe that's why DisneyWorld replaced it with Pooh?



We had purchased park hopper tickets so that we could also go the Disneyland's sister park, California Adventure. It's kind of like all of the best parts of MGM Studios and Epcot Center thrown into one smaller park. Disneyland was way crowded, so we decided to go next door and see if the lines for the rides were any shorter, and they were. We were psyched to find that our favorite ride, The Tower of Terror, was also in California. The line was only twenty minutes long. Sweet.
This is probably the only ride that Matt and I could go on and on and on and on and NEVER get tired of. Every time you ride it, it is different. The basic plot of the ride is that you are checking into The Hollywood Tower Hotel, and it only has one workable service elevator. However, this hotel is in another dimension, or the twilight zone. So, when you go up the elevator it breaks, it falls, it shoots back up, it falls again, and so on. You never know what it's going to do. It's the best!

We made it back into Disney for dinner, and rode on Big Thunder Mountain, The Matterhorn Bobsleds,
and Pirates of the Caribbean. They have changed the Pirates ride to accommodate the movies that have come out, so now there is a Johnny Depp "Captain Jack Sparrow" animatronic pirate who lurks around the ride. I wasn't too impressed with it, but Matt enjoyed it.



Oh, how could I forget? Our last ride of the night was Buzz Lightyear's Astro Blasters, another one of our favorite rides. While we were in Florida for our honeymoon, Matt and I went on certain rides multiple times so we could anticipate when the 'hidden cameras' would capture us on film enjoying the ride, but we would pose for the pictures. My favorite was when we 'fell asleep' on the ride. I completely forgot about this out here in CA (it must be all of the sun), and my heart was set on killing the Evil Zurg. Matt was apparently intent on reading the park map for our next destination.