Disneyland Days 2 and 3￼

I hesitated to write this post as much of it will be repeats from the first day. That’s kind of the point of coming here multiple days, repeating our favorite attractions.

Day 2 started with this one we missed on our first day.

The line for Peter Pan weaved around the Snow White Grotto.

From there we went to…

And then to…

Where we rode…

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Did I mention day two was my birthday? Mike made me stop and get a button from Town Hall.

Any cast member who saw it said happy birthday to me. It was kind of nice.

We headed over to DCA and went straight to Guardians of the Galaxy ride, formerly Tower of Terror.

This sign by the “gantry” explains the story of this ride. Took us two rides to get it…

From there we the hopped in line for Soarin’ Over the World, formerly Soarin’ Over California. It was our first time on this new version.

It was fun like the old version but the transitions were ham fisted.

Let me pause here for a moment and talk about the lines. Due to the fast pass system being down (likely because there’s no room for fast pass lines since they are keeping the regular lines socially distanced) lines here are looooong. With capacity supposedly capped at 35% we thought we might be able to walk on a lot of rides with no wait. We were sorely mistaken.

FYI. Stand by lines are for suckers. Because they suck.

So we decided to be suckers and wait for 45 minutes to go on Radiator Springs Racers. This part dark ride part outside racer is a blast both inside and out.

After dinner (I had the same for lunch on day 3, see picture later) we decided to sit on Pixar Pier for a while. A long while. Then we rode IncrediCoaster again.

And Little Mermaid. If you are a Don Knots fan you’ll know the old movie The Incredible Mr. Limpet. He was an animated fish in that flick. He’s hidden inside the Mermaid ride this is remarkable since it was a Warner Brothers Movie, not a Disney movie. #DisneyNerd

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And then to Mater’s Junkyard Jamboree.

We might have had an ice cream cone and headed back to the hotel after that.

Day 3

We started in DCA today, going straight to Guardians of the Galaxy. From there we rode Monsters Inc. then headed to Grizzly River Run.

Which is nuts since you get really wet on that ride, it was around 9:45am and a chilly 60 degrees with overcast skies.

We wore plastic parkas.

We then headed to Pixar Pier. We just sat and watched the world go by until the churro stand opened up.

The line dropped to a reasonable 20ish minutes for IncrediCoaster so we hopped on.

Then we found a quiet table across the water from the pier. Comfortable chairs and great views. We hung out here until lunch. Mike had a corn dog and I had this:

Can you guess what it is? If you guessed pepperoni egg roll with red sauce and pesto you would be correct. But you couldn’t have guessed that. It was delicious. I knew it was good since I had it for lunch on day 2 as well.

We sat there for some time then decided to do Toy Story Mania since the line got pretty short.

In this ride the toys from Toy Story have built a carnival for you to enjoy. Here’s a picture of it:

You ride in these vehicles…

And fire hoops, darts and pies at 3D targets.

We both got up to Kitty level. (My score is in blue.)

Having never been on The Emotional Whirlwind (based on the movie Inside Out) we decided to give it a whirl.

Disgust narrated our ride. (A different emotions take turns narrating. Anxiety was hysterical.)

It was time to leave DCA and head over to Disneyland. We rode Pinocchio’s Daring Journey since the line was a short 5 minute wait. And since I’m a puppeteer.

We then walked over to Star Wars Land. Rise of the Resistance has shut down for the day. It’s such a complex ride I’m not surprised it hasn’t been shut town more often. We just hung out in Star Wars Land resting our feet and waiting for the sun to go down a bit. (It went from chilly to blazing hot over the course of an hour.)

We sat forever enjoying ourselves with twenty questions Disney style. (Mike and I take turns choosing something in Disneyland and then the other has to guess it in 20 questions.)

The next object, mineral. Jade elephant.

We then had dinner. These are Ronto Wraps and they’re pretty tasty.

After watching the line for Smugglers Run…

…we decided to try it again since it got short. I’m glad we did. We both took the roll of gunner and had a great time with it. Still, the best part was feeling like we were really in the Falcon.

The ladder you climb up or down to get to the MF turrets.

We thought we’d take the train around the park since it’s one of the things we haven’t done yet but the line was closed. So we headed into Toon Town to ride the Gadget Coaster. (It said 5 minute wait. stand by line is for suckers. It took at least 15 minutes. We had fun waiting.)

I shot a whole selfie video of us on the stupid ride only to realize I never hit record. We cracked up.

Splash Mountain dropped to 15 minutes so we hustled over there. We walked right on. I guess people thought it was too cold to get wet. It was and we didn’t get too wet fortunately.

Here’s a video of the rabbit at the end of the ride. I’m not exactly sure what he’s doing here in the afterglow of the ride but I have a pretty good guess…

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For from there we meandered back to Star Wars Land. We wanted to see what it looked like all lit up. It was pretty. A bunch of Star Wars nerds were playing with their new light sabers. We were a little jealous.

We headed out after one more Smugglers Run ride and just happen to be at Thunder Mountain when the clock struck 9pm, closing time. The line monitor let us in and we rode the last mine train of the night.