Disney California Adventure

Time to go to Disney California Adventure. Unlike Disneyland park little we knew about what was waiting for us here.

To our pleasure the park was totally different to Disneyland, the themes were more according to recent times and based on Pixar movies (bugs, Toy story etc, etc) The park was also far less crowded but still we use Ridemax, especially for the big thrills where we had to make turns with my wife because Ximena wasn't allowed.

After passing under a mini replica of the Golden bridge we booked in fast pass "Soaring over California" and then to The Paradise Pier section of the park, we rode the Golden Zephyr and Jumping Jelly fish, good rides for Ximena's age and then I jumped in the Orange Stinger.

Moving along Paradise Pier we were a bit skeptical to do the Mailboomer but enjoy the time looking at people screaming. We kept going and pass under the tracks of the main roller coaster, one of us had to give it a go and this time Yovanna was the lucky one, we of course booked in fast pass as the line was quite long.

Lots of people and TV around the area due to the opening of a new section called Toy Story mania or something similar. We didn't miss the TV cameras and then went to the King Triton's carousel.

We had to rushed back for "Soaring over California" we had booked in Fast pass. Ximena was a bit scared when we were lifted off the ground but managed it ok. Overall the ride was not too bad but I expected more........

Time to have some lunch and then to wait for Yovanna to go "California Screamin'.... To kill sometime we went to the Grizzly river run but waiting time was close to two hours, no way............ we just passed the time looking at people in the river rapids.

Time for Yovanna to go for the roller coaster, this must be one of the longest I have ever seen with over 2 minutes, and starts with a really fast acceleration. Unfortunately Yovanna didn't follow the instructions and put her head down at the beginning of the ride so she was unable to lift her head up again and ended up completely dizzy swearing not to get on a roller coaster again.

Okay I wanted to do a bit of Coasting too so I took Ximena to Mulholland Madness, she was tall enough for the ride so off we went.

Time to go to Pixar parade, much better than Disneyland's one. The characters were more recent including Ratatouille, the Incredibles, Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc etc etc.

After the parade we killed the rest of the afternoon at "Bug" section of the park, ideal for little kids like Ximena.

My judgement of this park 8/10, definitely more value for money than Disneyland park.Read more