Disney's California Adventure

The addition of Cars Land and the boys growing interest in thrill rides made California Adventure much more fun this time.

Walker loved the "Screamin" roller coaster.  He was giddy and bouncing around with joy each time he got off the ride.  It was fantastic to be there to witness this from him.  I might have gotten a little teary thinking about having a kid old enough to enjoy roller coasters.


While he was tall enough to ride, he was barely tall enough for his eyebrows to make the post-ride picture.  And he strained for that.  The first few times it was just his hair.  He saw the camera and stretched, and I almost died of laughter.

Here is a a link to the start of the ride.  Jason and Walker are on the second row.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonmccay/12897890003/

The "Racers" ride was so fun! The theming for Cars Land was amazing.  I felt 100% like we were in the movie.  The boys really benefitted from the adult ride swap.  It allows up to three riders so they got to ride most rides two times in a row for the price of one standing in line.


With all the thrill rides there was quite a bit of time where Jason and I split up the older two and the younger two.

I even rode the under the sea themed carousel with Colin and Lydia.  This is love.  Because it goes round in circles you know.  It is weird how I can ride roller coasters all day, but a carousel can be the end of me.


Sidebar: We can't decide what color her eyes are going to settle on being.  Sometimes they look brown, sometimes green, and sometimes blue.  So for now we are going with hazel, but next week we could have a completely different opinion.



The Army men were a hit with the younger two.  We were on our way to ride "The Little Mermaid"




We then made it to the mermaid ride.  Which Colin declared was, "so stupid.  a stupid girl thing. i don't like girl things."  So we talked about no saying stupid and started prepping him for where this whole sister thing is headed.

The Cozy Cone was a fun area to let a bit of freedom.


We did dinner at Carthay Circle to get the World Of Color reserved seating and Baby Girl really enjoyed the fancy lobby.


She felt like quite the big stuff.



Dinner was really good, even Colin ate well.

The reserved seating for the World of Color was definitely the way to go.  There was plenty of room and even the boys could see most of the show.  Now it was the end of a long day and past any sort of reasonable bedtime for Lydia, so it wasn't exactly a completely relaxing experience, but totally worth it.



This was the best shot I got.  It is lousy, but water - color - lights, you get the idea.