Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Disneyland, CA

Drove down on Wednesday, 2 days at the parks Thu and Fri then Saturday just lounging around the hotel's water play area. Upgraded 3-day passes for annual ones so we could come and go whenever we wanted rather than cram everything into 3 days - we kept missing the fireworks display in front of the castle and wanted to just turn up one the evening to watch them. We plan to come back within a year anyway so it made sense to upgrade.

The 4 of us are staying at the Howard Johnson (HoJo) just across the street - takes us about 7 mins to get to the Park entrances on foot. First few days were painful on the legs/feet but it got easier after that.

Neil and Arran spent most of the latter days on the California Screamin' roller coaster and the Hollywood Tower Hotel. Both excellent rides.

Kay and Iona spent most of the latter days exploring Bugs Life and the other smaller attractions - as well as PlayHouse Disney of course. Iona takes much persuading to go on new rides but usually likes them in the end. It took a lot of effort to get her on the Autopia cars ride but she really loved it in the end - wanting to go on it again and again and again... There were a few Princesses around too!

Drove back Tuesday - took 6 hours each way including short stops so not too bad.

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