Alan's writing this short blog for today and Sarah's comments will be in red.
We began the day once again with our free hotel breakfast. We probably shouldn't mention the fact that Sarah had 3 donuts. That's because I only had 2 and a bit.
After breakfast it was time to cross the road into Disneyland. We've been to this Disneyland and Disneyworld in Florida numerous times before, but it's always been during scorching hot weather with massive crowds to deal with. So the fact that today was much cooler than usual was something of a bonus for us. It's not unusual for the waiting time to get on rides at Disneyland to be well over an hour, but today it ranged between no waiting up to about 20 minutes which was just awesome.
We started off by going on the Indiana Jones ride twice in succession, simply because it's such a fun ride and also because it's so far to walk out and back in again. After that, we did the Haunted Mansion followed by Splash Mountain. Splash Mountain is one of our favourites and we would have ridden it once or twice more had it been a slightly warmer day.
I rode the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad while Sarah sat and watched. Unfortunately I was behind a family in the queue with 2 very annoying children who had made up a song about Disneyland and proceeded to sing it over and over and over. Sarah then convinced me to go on It's A Small World with her for the first time. Yes, it's pretty much as sad as I had imagined. When we were here back in 2007, the Finding Nemo submarine ride had only just opened and as such the queues to get on it back then were just ridiculously long. It was only a 20 minute wait today so we went on it. I have to say I'm darn glad we decided not to queue for hours to go on it 3 years ago, because it wasn't an exciting ride by any means. Add screaming kids sitting next to you in an enclosed space and needless to say we were ready to blow a hole in the side of the submarine to escape. Unfortunately the Matterhorn wasn't operational today. We like that ride.
That was about enough Disneyland fun for one day, so we headed over to California Adventure to see if it had added any rides in the last 2 and a half years, because there isn't a huge amount to do there. First up was the Grizzly River Rapids which is one of the best water rides we've ever been on. Once again, being a cool day meant that we only rode it once. I went on the California Screamin rollercoaster next, which is a pretty good coaster compared to some of the ricketty deathtraps I've ridden in years gone by. They have changed some of the scenery, not for the better unfortunately. I wanted to go on the Tower of Terror as I hadn't done it before. Despite trying our hardest to avoid finding our way to the entrance by ending up in dead-ends in the park, we got there eventually. I told Alan he was heading for a deadend but he chose not to listen. We'd done that the last time we were there. Not a bad experience I have to say. It's a 13 storey haunted hotel, with Twilight Zone style theming. You're taken up in the building in an old faulty elevator which then proceeds to drop you from great heights in the darkness, raising up again and again and dropping you. A couple of times the elevator doors actually open while you're way up in the air, giving you a view of the park before you suddenly drop. We'd had enough fun for one day by this time so we returned to our hotel for some rest. Was a good choice actually as it rained after we got back.
We took a drive to Target this evening to pick up a few bits and pieces that we needed, (like a mouse pad as even though Alan packed the laptop bag, he blames me for leaving it at home) after which we returned to our favourite Dennys for dinner at the request of Sarah's dad. Not that our arms needed twisting though; it's next to our hotel and we really love the food there.
So tomorrow morning we leave Anaheim and make our way to our next hotel in Los Angeles. It will probably be a fair few years before we're back here again.
Not sure what the weather holds tomorrow. It is supposed to be rainy and cold. Not sure whether we will go to Magic Mountain or save that until Thursday.
One last thing before signing off, I forgot to mention the large scrape on my arm that I got yesterday. Anyone who has ever followed Alan up or down stairs, knows that he walks funny. (Let's just make sure people realise that it's not my fault. It's a result of a broken ankle years back.) Yesterday I made the mistake of walking next to him. Reaching the bottom step, he seemed to throw his arm out to steady himself, pushing me into a concrete wall. Gummy ankle boy! Whatever! You're just clumsy.
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