Disneyland day 2

Our first day we spent the whole day at Disneyland, minus our swim break, so this day we decided to spend half of the day at California Adventure and half the day at Disneyland since we had park hopper passes. 

Fidget spinners, good for keeping busy while waiting.

Cinderella's castle

We started the day with a Jungle Cruise.

The kids liked the Jungle cruise and everyone wanted to do the teacups again so we did.

Cate had her heart set on doing the carousal. 

 

I believe we did the Haunted Mansion and Thunder Mountain Railroad next. The kids loved Thunder Mountain (Cate was too small to go) and they did not like the Haunted Mansion. At this point Thunder Mountain was their favorite ride.

Disneyland got annoyingly crowded in the afternoon so we had ice cream for lunch and went over to California Adventure. We did every ride in the Bugs Life area. It was much less crowded and crazy.

The best part about California Adventure besides being less crowded was they serve alcohol, and we deserved a beer.

The big Mickey wheel

Jumping Jelly Fish

We did some more rides on Paradise Pier, Goofy's Sky School was a fave, then went shopping at Downtown Disney for special gifts for the kids. Each of the girls made a special build-a-bear and Ben built a custom remote control car. They were happy kids!

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Mater ride in Radiator Springs.

Selfie fail, oh Cate.

Cate got a bubble wand to help keep her busy when she wasn't allowed to go on the rides. She was happy!

We went all day surviving off cotton candy and diet coke, so at dinner time Cate was one tired bear sleep eating.

We decided to do an all day-er and keep going after dinner. Cate was sleeping in her stroller so we went back to Disneyland and did Pirates of the Caribbean and Thunder Mountain again before calling it a day. We headed home for a late night swim before bed.

Another great, busy, went too fast day. We never waited more than about 25 minutes for any ride and used a fast pass as much as possible. We had the normal toddler meltdowns and crowd frustration, but truly stayed in good spirits all day. Only one more day left......