Night Time around the park

If things weren’t amazing enough during the day, when the sun came down and the lights came on around the park things looked spectacular.

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Pixar Parade

Everyone loves a parade, and this was a great one featuring characters from Pixar’s biggest movies. There was Cars, Finding Nemo, A Bugs Life, The Advengers and the crowd favorite Toy Story.

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Around the park

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Pleasure Pier

The centerpiece of Disney California Adventure is Pleasure pier a tribute to the amusement piers that dot its coast like Santa Monica Pier. This are had all the favorites, a huge ferris wheel, great rollercoaster and a lot of seaside like attractions. The big ticket item was the Toy Story arcade ride, here you got […]

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White river rafting

Wet to the bone is probably the best way to explain this experience, but it was pretty fun.

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Radiator Springs

This place is incredible, Disney is reported to have spent 1.1 BILLION dollars (yes billion) on this brand new world and you can see every cent. The details are amazing so accurate to the movie. The highlight of the area is the huge canyon backdrop that spans a few hundred metres wide and would be […]

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Bugs Life

This area was all giant sized so everyone felt as big as bugs. Huge rocks, grass and flowers, the toilets were even made to look like a giant box of cereal.

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Monsters Inc

This was a pretty cool ride although probably tailored to a younger audience without too many bumps or jolts. You journey through the world of Monsters inc, one highlight too dark to take photos with was going through the factory where all the doors zoom around. Outside the attraction Sully was there to greet visitors.

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Its the Muppets 3D

Our first taste of Disney was the fun Muppets 3D, set in a very authentic Muppet theatre it contained all the stupidity you expect, with dump jokes from Fozzie, crazy stunts from Gonzo, Sam the Eagle being outraged and Miss Piggy being her usual diva self. Some of the characters were live including the two […]

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Morro Bay

We finish of our first day of our Californian coastal drive at a small seaside village called Morro Bay. The town had an enormous rock just of the shoreline that you could drive up to it was pretty stunning. There wasn’t too much in the town other than a few seaside dining establishments and plenty […]

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Monterey

We headed down the scenic coast and arrived at Monterey, once a fishing village but now one of the coast’s biggest tourist towns. There was a huge squid port with plenty of attractions and shops selling every conceivable souvineer. There were plenty of seals and even some otters basking in the sun.

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Been busy

Sorry we haven’t had a moment to update things for a few days we have been busy travelling from San Francisco to LA. Will do when we get to the hotel in Long Beach tonight – Cheers!

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