From a magical day to a magical night!

Well, from a magical day to a magical night. I will say this, old age was nipping at our heels all day. I used to do these parks from sun up to sun down carrying one or two sacks of inanimate cells! Even if they did breathe and spend most of my money all day, I still got them back to the hotel.

Well, by 5 pm, I was lucky if I could carry my on spare tire around the park. We made a final push through Disneyland, doing Mr Toads Wild Ride and Alice in Wonderland. Then, having a fast pass at Buzz Lightyear Astro Blaster…. We passed on it and headed to California Adventure hoping to get one or two rides in. Unfortunately, once there, it was kind of like the Main Street parade during Animal House… a train wreck with everyone jammed into a dead end street. We did make one strategic move, with a 2 hour 20 minute wait for the Cars ride, we did the single rider line - and got through in less than 35 minutes!!! Woohoo!!

From there, we spent some time walking around and enjoying the park, but after riding The Little Mermaid, we bolted for the hotel. We didn’t get out of the park for more than two minutes though before we could hear the whispers of our disappointed children crying out that we had let them down by not staying until midnight. It was probably 8:30 pm, the earliest I’ve left a Disney park since my parents made me leave at 8 because I was having too much fun (just kidding mom and dad!). Anyway, now it’s time to turn our attention east, Tokyo, here we come!Read more