A last hurrah at Disneyland!

Yes!! With this post I am FINALLY finishing up our summer 2010 adventure!! And as the kids and I fly to the States on Wednesday for the 2011 summer of fun it's not a moment too soon! I have a nifty new app for my iPad that SHOULD allow me to chronicle this summer's adventure as it happens, but don't hold me to that... if I have to use HTML I'm OUT. No sprekenzie if you know what I mean...

We had to fly back to Korea from LA and I thought to myself... "Hmmm.... is there anything fun to do in that part of the world?". Being a Disney FREAK the answer of course was "HEAD TO DISNEYLAND!!" So I made sure we had a 3 night gap between fiddle camp and flying home. Didn't tell the kids. Just said we had to go to LA because that's where our home flight was. Got to the airport. Disney shuttle pulled up and they freaked out! It was such an awesome surprise. They didn't even know there was a Disney park on the west coast! We headed straight to frontier land to ride Big Thunder Mtn. This was their 3rd Disney Castle park so it was cool to watch them get all disoriented because Splash and Big Thunder are in different locations in WDW and Tokyo. In DL they're like way across the Rivers of America from each other so it was a whole new map to get used to.

Then over to Tomorrowland to ride the Astro Orbiter!

we did a bunch of rides and got some fastpasses and then headed to the Grand Californian to meet Alexa and Chris. They are friends/family from OR that now live in CA. It was great to see them and we had an awesome dinner. That hotel is gorgeous!

Then back to the park! 2 goofballs on Main Street:

We totally discovered the best kept secret at DL. When Fantasmic is showing, Splash Mtn gets completely cut off from the rest of the park! No one can get to it back in it's little corner and if you trap yourself back there during the show you can ride it as many times as you want with NO LINE! Here's us on like ride #4....

It's our Fav Disney ride EVER! Can you tell? C'mon, sing it with me: "pretty good sure as you're born...'

Next day we headed over to Disney's California Adventure. It's my lowest ranked park of all parks but they are adding some new things to make it better so I will re-rank it when those things are up and running. Of course Tower of Terror was high on our list. We all thought the WDW one was better...

Had a great lunch, scored some huge Mickey cookies and rode Grizzly River Run a few times. Now that's a ride in DL that's Waaaay better than it's WDW counterpart!

That night we picked up our pre-ordered picnic meals with automatic fastpasses for the newest show at DCA: World Of Color. Oh yeah baby... always have to have the inside edge cuz that's how we roll. We hit the rope drop like the Disney commandos we are, booked ahead of the crowd and scored a spot on the railing right in the middle for the show. It was AMAZING!

On Monday we just kind of decided to park hop. Started the day at DL, rode Dumbo,

Then headed over to Pixie Hollow to meet the Fairies!

First one we met was Terrance. Teddy ran right up and gave him the best bear hug EVER!

Then Tink got the same treatment from Sasha!

Vidia was there too. She was perfect! Looked JUST like her character and was just saucy and bossy and perfect. The kids loved this meet and greet!

Finished out our morning, went home for naps, and re-fueled with some ice cream on our way back to the parks!

Guess what we did during Fantasmic?

Then, just as the crowds left after the first showing, we snuck in on their tail end and got a spot right on the railing in the center for the 2nd Fantasmic show. It was great way to end our mini Disney trip and a perfect grace note to an awesome summer!