On our way to live in Washington DC for awhile we had to transit through Los Angeles and we thought...why not?
What an amazing place! We arrived in LA and had about two days to recover in Anaheim. It was hot hot hot! Those first days we stayed around the pool and did a couple of walks around the place.
The first night in our hotel was awful. Master 1 cried for about 2 hours as his poor little body clock was all out of whack after our 14 hour flight from Melbourne to LA and I am sure he thought it was daytime. I thought we might be in for it every night but he was fine after that.
We stayed in a nice family friendly hotel about a 15 min walk from Disneyland. It has a separate bedroom for the kids so we could shut the door at night and watch a bit of telly.
We had a three day pass to Disneyland and Disney California Adventure Park. There is SO much to do an see. Especially with little kids. They need lots of breaks and food stops. Also, there can be bit queues for things so it is good to have the time to not have to rush around.
It is just such a fairytale. Everything is so well put together and organised. Its clean and the people are lovely. Master 3 and Master 1 were able to go on most of the rides. They went on the Teacups, the Dumbo ride, Finding Nemo Submarine, the Astro Orbiter, the Carousel, Trains, had a ride on a fire engine, met Mickey, went into Mickey's house, Goofy's house, Donald's boat, Tarzan's Jungle Treehouse, a Jungle Cruise in Adventureland, Pinocchio's Daring Adventure (which scared the absolute s*** out of Master 3 - whoops!) and the Winnie the Pooh ride. We met and had our photo with Mickey, Winnie the Pooh, Eeyore, Tigger, Lightening McQueen and Red (from Cars).
Mr Jones and I managed to go on a couple of rides each just for adults. I went on Space Mountain and the Matterhorn and Mr Jones went on the Star Wars ride and the Matterhorn (Mr Jones is not one for the roller coaster rides so I am surprised he went on the Matterhorn). They were awesome! We also all spent the evening watching the Disney Parade, the World of Colour show and the fireworks which was really fantastic and well worth it.
We got there early each morning and then came back for lunch to get out of the heat, let Master 1 have a sleep and have a swim in the pool. Surprisingly I thought it was busier at night than it was in the daytime.
It was hard to tell whether Master 3 really enjoyed himself - I think he found everything really overwhelming and got really apprehensive on the rides as he didn't know what is coming next - especially the ones where you go through big double doors into the unknown! It was hard to crack a smile from him at times and there was quite a bit of "I'm hot, I'm hungry, I'm tired, I don't want to go back to Disneyland (what the?)" met with "You will have fun, you will be happy, you will enjoy it, it will be magical, you will be grateful" from us hahahaha! He is only little and I can imagine how overwhelming it was for all his senses.
On the last day we went over to Disney California Adventure Park and went to Cars Land which was awesome and looked exactly like "Radiator Springs" in the movie. Everything was so incredibly well done and there was so much attention to detail. No wonder Disney is put up there on a pinnacle for the delivery of customer service and the customer experience.
The happiest place on earth has lived up to its name....we love love loved it!
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