After the brief
entertaining show, we went straight to get the fastpass for World of
Color, located right outside the Grizzly River Run. Then, Tiffany and
I took Vinny and Sherin to Tower of Terror, a very much anticipated
ride, at least by Vinny and Sherin. Tiffany and I are not very much
into drop rides. Those rides would make me get queasy easily, so we
both decided to skip it and let Vinny and Sheirn enjoy its thrill.
Anyway, I kinda
wished I could get into the ride though, seeing the ride had the most
exquisite building out of all rides in California Adventure (it looks
like a legit hotel building if seen from the distance). But I got to
say no to any drop rides. Sorry.
The plan was, while
waiting for Sherin and Vinny, Tiffany and I would go to Radiator
Spring Racers to get the fast pass. This would also actually mark my
first time visiting Cars Land since its first opening last week. So I
was pretty excited! Especially I've heard some good reviews about
Radiator Spring Racers and that being the most popular ride in the
park.
Cars Land is unsurprisingly designed to resemble Radiator
Springs in the movie, complete with Flo's Cafe, Casa Della Tires,
Cozy Cone Motels, and Stanley statue in the middle, near the entrance
to Radiator Spring Racers. However, when we reached the entrance to
Radiator Springs Racers, a sign saying that the fastpass of the day
had concluded was displayed, and that was pretty heartbreaking
because that particular ride has been one of a few that I've been
anticipating to get on.
The standby line reaches out until the
entrance tat assured me that it must be one heck of a line. The wait
time shows 75 minutes, which was the longest wait time I've ever seen
in a Disney park that day. We didn't want to risk wasting our time,
especially we got World of Color to catch up on later at night. So
Tiffany and I decided that we should skip Radiator Springs Racers for
our visit this time. But since we live in the area (not sure if
Pasadena counts), we can go here anytime with the help of
complimentary passes, and we would eventually get on that ride. At
least that's what Tiffany told me.
From Cars Land, we
moved towards Paradise Pier, where we found Ariel's Adventure,
another not-so-brand new The Little Mermaid dark ride. Well, still,
I've never been on this ride before. So I'm pretty excited.
Surprisingly, there was BARELY ANY LINE when Tiffany and I got in.
Some people just went straight to the ride vehicle and so did we. I
wondered why it was so quiet, or maybe why the park in general was so
quiet. Tiffany and I assumed that everyone either flocked in
Disneyland or they were inside the attractions right now. But
seriously, The Little Mermaid is one of the sweetest Disney movies,
and anyone barely got into its ride?
The ride was
slow-moving. The way it works resembles to Haunted Mansion, which we
didn't get to hop on that day. Instead of the black doom buggy just
like in Haunted Mansion, The Little Mermaid had cute yellow
shell-shaped vehicle. It's just like another Haunted Mansion ride,
except The Little Mermaid has obviously a more playful vibe, more
colors, and ocean-ish theme. We were brought to each room full of
dancing animatronics. My favorite one would be the Under The Sea
part, because I got to see sea animals partying (watch out for
Sebastian!). It was a good, chill ride and probably one of the rides
that Tiffany and I got to take pictures due to it slow-moving nature.
After we were done
from The Little Mermaid, we went back to Buena Vista Street and sat
down in front of an ice cream restaurant (I guess it was
Clarabelle?). We talked for quite a while before Vinny called.
Tiffany asked her and Sherin, who just got out of Tower of Terror, to
meet up with us outside Clarabelle. They quickly caught up
with us with a huge turkey leg they got from somewhere near Tower of
Terror. Since the turkey leg was so big, we all had to share.
Then we decided to
move inside the restaurant since Vinny wanted to try its ice cream.
We ended up chatting (and munching on the big-*ss turkey leg that was
even more than enough for 4 people). for almost one and a half hour.
I know maybe it sounds like we were wasting time while we could just
do stuff like getting onto other rides. But our legs were sore so bad
after walking and standing in line for almost 10 hours straight (we
walked and stood more than we sat on the ride, which only took up to
3 minutes every ride compared to the much longer line).
Later on, we got
off the restaurant and walked around to see what ride we could get
into. Most rides' wait time were only about 10 minutes. Radiator
Spring Racers had the longest wait time (up to 75 minutes, still) and
Grizzly River Run's wait time was up to 60 minutes. We went to Cars
Land again and it looked more glamorous at night. The scenery looked
just like it was ripped straight out of the movie, especially the
scene where Lightning McQueen went on a date with Sally after he
finished fixing the road, and the town residents basically relived
Radiator Springs hey-day.
We didn't spend
that much time there. We moved to Grizzly River Run and went straight
to the fastpass line. Be prepared to get soaked! It was dark and it
was getting windier. We picked the wrong time to go for this ride. I
know we should've done that when it was still sweltering hot at noon.
But anyway, at least we could still get to feel how this ride was
like. The ride turned out to have two small drops. The first one was
shorter but I could feel more Gforce.
The second one was a bit
higher. When we plunged down, the water splashed from beneath my
seat, soaking my shorts in results. It was fun though. Too be honest,
I'm not a big fan of drops. The rough waters drew my attention the
most. Anyway, all in all, we were soaked all over when we got out of
the ride.
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Apparently, one
ride wasn't enough, and Tiffany was asking for one more. But the
thing is, we already used our fastpass and we could only use it once.
It was 9.30 pm and we were torn whether we should just go to World of
Color venue and saved some spots before the show started in thirty
minutes, or whether we should just get on to Grizzly River Run for
one more ride. For your information, we already missed the first
World of Color show.
The attraction is shown twice a day. One is at
9.00 pm, which already missed, and the last one would start in an
hour, which is exactly at 10. It was then decided that we would get
on to another Grizzly River Run ride, but this time, without a
fastpass. The standby line wasn't that long either, probably because
people started to leave the park as it was closing in half an hour
(or they were going to World of Color venue).
After fifteen to twenty
minutes, we hopped on to our circular boat. Three kids and their
father were sitting right across us, with of the kids only wearing
socks. When the cast members were checking if we already put on our
safety belts, she noticed the girl with only wearing socks. She
kindly asked her and the rest of her family to get off the boat as
she needed to wear appropriate footwear. At first, the father
slightly objected on letting his daughter keep her socks on, but the
cast member insisted due to safety precautions. After a while, the
family got off and we finally had the boat for our own.
While the boat was
climbing up the conveyor belt to the heights, we heard loud explosion
sounds from the distance. It turns out Disneyland park was just
having a fireworks show, which was even seen from as far as we were
in California Adventure. Too bad we missed to see the show closely,
but at least we could still get to see the fireworks clearly from the
distance. Tiffany said that the fireworks was long and huge that it
could be seen from outside Disneyland. Even she said that she often
passed by Disneyland after work just to get a glimpse of the
fireworks.
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