Disneyland: Day Three, Part One

The parks opened late today, at 10 am, so we were there for the opening. We raced over to Space Mountain, only to find it closed. We Fastpassed Star Tours and decided to ride Nemo. After Nemo, it was onto Autopia and then Fastpassing Space Mountain. We headed over to Orleans Square to ride Pirates of the Caribbean and the Jungle Cruise. We also reenacted the grumpy Engleman family photo.  That area is now a pirate dress up spot, how things change!  We had some lunch and then took the train around the park to Tomorrowland. We rode Star Tours, which Finley hated, and Space Mountain again. Then it was back over to Critter Country to ride Splash Mountain for Finley's very first time. She loved it! She wanted to go again, too bad there was an hour wait (we had Fastpasses, luckily.) After visiting with Pinocchio, we headed back to the hotel to rest up for fireworks and Fantasmic this evening.

Disneyland: Day Two, Part Two

We headed back to Disney after Finley took a great nap. We got some dinner in Orleans Square, including a coffin dessert for Halloween. We headed over to ride Pooh a few times before Fantasmic. I have never seen the park so crowded, so much so that we decided to skip Fantasmic to use our Big Thunder Mountain Railroad Fastpasses instead and just do the fireworks. Turns out, the fireworks were even crazier than Fantasmic, so we headed to California Adventure. We had some time to kill before our Radiator Springs Racers Fastpasses were ready, so we rode Monsters Inc a few times more. We headed over to Cars Land, met Lightnin McQueen and then headed to the Racers. This turned out to be Finley, Clifton and my favorite ride of the day. It was really awesome and we can't wait to ride it again. I am not sure that it is worth the 3 hour wait times, but it was really neat. We did Mater's Tractor Pull three times before calling it a night at park close. Finley was dancing up a storm in line, she was so excited.