California Adventure Disneyland day 3

Today we decided to go over to California Adventure for day number three.  This park has a lot of things for the big kids so we let them loose to run from ride to ride while the adults and little kids went in search of fun.  Here are the pictures of our very fun day.

Here we are will Sully from Monsters Inc.  We just got off the
ride that took us through the movie in taxi cabs.

Here is one of the taxi cabs we rode on the Monsters Inc. ride.  The
kids loved climbing on it after we saw Sully.

This is a vending machine just outside the "scare floor" of Monsters Inc. 
Click the picture to read what is available .  funny!

The Tower of Terror.  An elevator ride that falls.  We got there at a good
time of the morning and went on 3 times (the older kids went 5).  Cami went on it once,
but said it was nothing like the hotels' elevator. 

Our picture at the top of the tower before we fell again.  It was so fun!
In the back is Chet, Wyat, Tagert and Vicki from our group.  The
front row is me, Cami, Cody, Dalyon, Eric, Kora and Mady.  Mady is
such a joker.

Next we went into a Bugs Life and rode some calmer rides.  This is Heimlich and his
train. He loves to eat, and burp on this ride.  When we got off he said he missed us already. 

The kids and Chet on the Lady Bug ride.  He (the ladybug) said
over and over that he is NOT a lady.

Tagert and Cami on a used Popsicle stick bench.  I love how Disneyland thinks
of everything!

Dalyon, me, Cami and Grandma in the Bugs Life 3-D movie,
with our bug eyes on. 

A character shot with Chip and Dale.

Here we are with the Cars characters Mater and Lightening McQueen.  They
will be opening up a whole new section dedicated to them in 2012 and it looks like it
is going to be amazingly fun!  They are some of our favorite characters.

Eric, Mady, Dalyon, Cami, MICKEY MOUSE, me, Cody and Grandma Ellen.
Mickey was on the Paradise Peer on our way to California Screamin'. 

Cami, Mady, Dalyon, Eric, Wyat, and Cody in front of the Paradise
Peer Ferris wheel and California Screemin'.  We rode the roller coaster as much as we could.
It is one of the best rides in the park.  We discovered that if we used every ones fast passes,
and only a few of us went, then we could go twice, so we did.  Vickie and I got off the last time
and walked like drunk women because we had had enough of the circles and upside down motions. 

Another great ride was Grizzly Mountain.  It is a water rapid ride that
gets you wet!  Everyone was drenched except me, until I got to the old
Faithful Geyser which went off as I went under it.  I ended up being the wettest
of us all.

Here we are in front of the Grizzly Rapids store with my new
towel.  I was so cold! 



Across from the rapids is a serene place that you can sit
and listen to guitar music while the kids do obstacle courses
and climb on rocks.  This is Eric taking a minute here.



Uncle Chet taking advantage of the bench,
the serene music, and the time. 

Later we went over to the Muppet's 3-D movie, then rode the Monsters Inc. ride again because we were there and liked it before.  Along the Hollywood backstage there are stores and places to learn about how they make the films for Disney.   There are a lot of Characters there and we got to explore through some of the rooms made up to appear like the different movies.  All of the rooms were interactive.  We even got to sing for Ursula the sea witch from The Little Mermaid.  She told us our voices were "interesting" and that she wouldn't be taking them from us. 

Here is the library from Beauty and the Beast.  The picture of
the prince/beast changes.  Cody is answering some questions
to see what Disney character he is most like.  He was Aladdin, I was
Cinderella

The final ride we enjoyed was Soaring Over California, which was a really good ending to our day.  We were all sunburned this time, probably a combination of not any sunscreen and the water ride, and we were exhausted.   Cami and Tagert fell asleep while we were eating our dinner at Denny's.  It was good to go to bed because tomorrow the girls perform!