Disneyland and California 2013

Disney's California Adventure

The view from the Golden Zepher

 Cars Land with Radiator Springs Racers in the background

 Fun times on Luigi's Flying Tires. Ask Yosh about it....

 Don't be tipping that tractor.

 A Warm Caramel Sunday from Ghirardelli

 Taking aim...I never did win

 The big winners!! It was tough stuffing all these

in the suitcase!

 Dawn's favorite ride

                     

Tasty food from Flo's V8 Cafe. I love this kind of food. 

 We were all anxious to try out Radiator Springs Racers in the new Cars 

Land. The plan was to run get a fast pass first thing Monday morning.

Turns out you need to get in line for the fast passes. After we got that

figured out we ended up with fast passes for around 11 I think. To pass

the time we decided to head to Soarin'. I was looking forward to this. It's

one of my favorites. A fast pass was available but it was basically a

walk on this early. After enjoying our flight the Twilight Zone 

Tower of Terror was next. This is Dawns favorite ride and one of

mine too. Disney had such good theming on their rides. It was almost

time to use out fast passes for Racers so we headed that way. Disney

really did a nice job on Cars Land. It's just like walking down the

street out of the cartoon. It's even better at night with all the neon. 

Radiator Springs Racers is basically like Test Track from EPCOT

with much better theming and a few twists. Very fun ride. Saturday

before we left we rode it at night....even better. After Racers it was 

time for lunch at Cafe Orleans so we headed to Disneyland.

The menu at Flo's Diner looked really good so that was on 

the schedule for dinner. The food at Flo's turned out to be as 

good as it looked. I had a great roast beef dinner. The milk shakes

were great as was everything else. I think most of the others had 

the turkey dinner. Its typical diner food but well done. After 

Monday, once again, things have blurred together so I shall summarise. 

One evening for dinner I had a sourdough bread bowl of clam chowder

at Pacific Wharf Cafe. It was really good. The bread is baked on site..

we even took a tour of the bakery. Dawn, the kids and I really enjoyed

California Adventure. Maybe even more than Disneyland. The games

are a blast and you actually win decent prizes. Michael and I rode

Grizzly River Rapids 4 times i think....such a fun raft ride. We also 

had a nice time hanging out with Dawn's friend Lisa....she was a

great tour guide. We ended our trip at California Adventure. 

Michael and I hit Grizzly River Rapids as our last ride. My last

Disney meal was a corn dog from Corn Dog Castle :)