Day 2 - Disneyland

What a day. Disneyland is fantastic. We spent the morning visiting California Disneyland which is the new theme park directly opposite the original site. It has all the newer rides like the big roller coast and all the new Hollywood stuff such as the Pixar and other Disney animations.

Our first place was California Soaring, which is like an IMAX adventure except you are strapped into this chairs that move and swing and you feel the breeze and the smells as you fly over California’s best places. It was amazing. A great start to the day. We went on the Grisly River raft and got quite wet, then visited A Bug's Life, followed by the Hollywood Backlot where we met Mr Incredible and saw Mike & Sully’s adventure at the Monsters Inc building.

We visited the Hollywood Tower hotel which is saw us plummet 13 floors into the Twilight Zone. Talk about a frightening theme ride. You cannot imagine the CGI technology that they have used to create some of these rides. Jeffrey took his first ride on a real Rollercoaster called California Screamin'. It was awesome.

We then headed off over the road to the original Disneyland. This was fantastic. So much to do. We started off by taking the Indiana Jones ride which was very scary. Lots of pretend snakes and spiders all around as well as very bumpy underground ride.

We then did the many other theme rides such as Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, the Haunted House, Star Wars, Space Mountain, Honey I shrunk the Audience, Matterhorn and the Pirates of the Caribbean,


The Team stayed until late and saw the Street Parade of all the Disney Characters and then saw the closing fireworks at 9.30 pm. This was fantastic. Just like the opening credits of the Wonderful World of Disney complete with Tinkerbelle being suspended above Fantasy Castle and waving her wand to start off the fireworks. Amazing stuff