Autumn made it through the rest of the night without any more yakking. Of course, that didn't keep me from worrying about her all morning. And she wasn't 100%, that was for sure.
We donned our Toy Story-esque bowling shirts I'd made for our Disney World trip in November 2011. So glad to get to wear them again!!! We headed down to the poolside breakfast area with a loaf of "clean" banana bread I baked at home. We use this recipe here minus the eggs. (Yes, without the eggs. We didn't have any the first time I made it and in the comments I saw someone else enjoyed how it turned out without them. We did too and I've always omitted the eggs from then on.)
After breakfast we were excited to head over to California Adventure and Cars Land!!! The whole point of choosing California over Florida for this trip was to see Cars Land. We were most excited about the Radiator Springs Racers rides. Us, and everybody else. We lined up before the park opened to get in line. We read how to be among the first on the ride. We followed it. We got Rider Switch passes so I could ride later (since Autumn is too short). The boys headed to the ride, Autumn and I headed to the Fast Pass line to get more tickets for later. Even the line for the Fast Passes was insane. We wound all through the park for a good half hour I'd say:
And the boys let us know via text message they were enjoying seeing Radiator Springs but their line was still long.
After Autumn and I got the Fast Passes we waited for the boys near the exit:
We were actually able to see them zoom by on their ride. Fun!
As soon as they got off, Dalton and I headed over with our Rider Switch passes because the ride apparently breaks down a LOT and I didn't want to take it for granted that it'd be open. Guess what? Already broken down! So we moved on to the rest of Radiator Springs. Like, Luigi's Flying Tires which is like sitting on a giant air hockey table:
It was a fun little novelty ride but totally not worth the wait. Mater's Junkyard Jamboree was pretty fun, though.
We explored more of California Adventure. Eastie got to do his very first upside down roller coaster!
Hard to see but that's us there with little E's waving hand! :) He loved it and went again right away with Jason.
The little two filled the time on various short rides with whichever parent while we waited.
Our Fast Pass time for Radiator Springs Racers finally came around and the ride was running again so the boys and I were able to do that ride again. Soooooo cool! Loved it! They did an amazing job. Too bad it's always breaking down. That's lame. Jason and Autumn got to do Mater again.
We had lunch at Flo's V-8 café just like in the movie. They had some vegan "tater bake" and I ordered mac and cheese from the kids menu for myself. The kids ate stuff we brought for them from the grocery store, I think. It's been so long now and you don't really care about what we ate anyway, right?
We did some more California Adventuring:
One of our favorites (that doesn't have Fast Pass): Toy Story Mania:
And more Radiator Springs:
Got to meet Mater! These cars actually roll around and when the park opens, they "escort" you down the road. It's the most!
Dalton texted this to a pal back home whose birthday was that day.
We're in line for "Mike and Sulley to the Rescue!" (the Monsters, Inc. ride). Then we rushed over to take in the Aladdin show which was a favorite on our last trip. Genie's jokes are always unique-ish and relatively current.
We grabbed some random things (from 3 different counter service restaurants!) for our dinner. Jason got some Asian rice bowl, Easton had rice and a "Power Pack" from Disney, plus stuff from the store and Dalton and I got Mexican. Autumn was doing pretty well but her eating wasn't back to normal. She nibbled on whatever.
Finally got some Cars Land pics as a family. The PhotoPass photographer took one with our camera:
And then they took their PhotoPass pics and you can see the sign so much better. :)
We're "driving" in this one:
Eventually we parted ways. Jason, Easton and Autumn met Pluto and did who knows what else since I wasn't with them and it was a long time ago now (3 months!!!):
While Dalton and I headed back with our Rider Switch passes to ride Radiator Springs Racers at night with all the lights on. Way cool! He was being precious in line. So excited and sweet:
"You're the best mom ever!" "You planned everything!" "Thank you for taking us here!" In fact, he was being so adorable that the older couple in line in front of us commented on how precious he is and then asked, "Are you guys planning to go to World of Color tonight?" (World of Color is their cool new show on the water. It opened the month after our last trip so we saw them finishing it but missed the show) I told them we were planning on seeing it. Then they asked if we had Fast Passes for it (they have reserved seating areas). I told them we did not. They told us they needed to get back to their room and pack and they'd already seen the show and did we want their passes for some nice area? Sure we did!!!
How nice to not have to worry about getting down to the water too far in advance for a decent spot. The show didn't start till 9:00...10:00 Colorado time!!! But we made it!
How cool are their glow stick mouse ears??? Bought them for 83 cents a piece here.
Autumn made it until just before the show started and then the sweet thing finally crashed:
We are go-go-go type tourists who rarely stop for rests and never stop for naps. There was only one spot in the stroller....I'm so impressed with how the kids did the whole time! As soon as World of Color was over we headed towards the exit with the masses and were snoozing in our room not too much later. Tune in for Day 4 here.
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