Another great day - our first visit to cal adventures

Its Isabel's birthday. I braided and curled her hair. We had a special day planned for her at California adventures.

She was up bright and early so we got there by 845am to be ready for the park which opens at 9am.

We were able to do many things again since we split our day into two visits and returning to the Hotel to rest and eat in between

Morning until 5pm
- soaring over California
- swinging gondola Ferris wheel scarier than we thought
- meeting Jessie
- goofys sky school. Fun although jaime didn't like it.
- jumping jellyfish
- lunch at Ariel's grotto and visits from five princesses. My college roomie linda and her daughter addy was able to join us. Lunch was pricey but very worth it for isabel
- radiator springs racer - AWESOME ride. Fastpass line was so great
- toy story midway mania. A really fun shooting game. Linda and addy stood in line for us while we did the car ride first.
- Aladdin show - spectacular. High quality and genie was so funny
- animation academy - we learned to draw piglet and did turtle talk with crush
- photo with goofy

Whew. That was a lot. We were exhausted when we got back. We ate and napped for two hours and was back out at 9pm.

We thought the world of colors show was like the water show at the bellagio. Boy were we wrong. It was fantastic!!!!

Then isabel and I did more at Disneyland while daddy went home to sleep
- astro blaster
- captain EO
- star tours - isabel love the ride. I had to get her a light saber as a result.

When did we go to bed ? Close to 1am!!!! It was a great birthday.

Awesome first day at Disneyland.

This is isabel first day at Disneyland and we had a wonderful time. With some planning we were able to do many things in one days

- Frozen royal reception
- Matterhorn bobsled
- dumbo the elephant
- star tours twice - fastpass
- big mountain railroad - fastpass
- astro blaster
- mad tea party
- picture with Pluto
- Disney parade
- mr toads wild ride
- Minnie's house
- mickeys house

All in all, a great tiring day. Lessons learned
- magic morning on a weekday is best
- if you want to wait less than 4 hours for frozen reception, you need to go to magic morning early. Be at front of gate and sprint to the line. Even with that our weight was 1 hour 45 min as it doesn't open until regular hours
- daddy was awesome to wait in frozen line while I took isabel to he Matterhorn bobsled - 45 min wait
- fastpass are the best.
- when too hot duck into an indoor ride like astro blaster
- come home mid afternoon and then go back early evening. Makes one day into two days. ;-). And we all gotta nap and rest
- sit by the front gate at the sidewalk to watch parade as they turn to exit. Front row seats.

That's all for now.