Day 2--California Adventure

Day 2 was spent mostly at California Adventure, although, Disneyland opens earlier so we spent a couple hours there and then went over to California Adventure. We did go on Space Mountain that morning and, let me tell you, it took me half the day to get over the dizziness from that ride. We then got Fast Passes for Soaring Over California (my favorite ride). For those who haven't been, you sit in a seat and then get lifted as if you are kind of hang gliding over all different parts of California. They even have breezes and smells that you would smell (the orange grove is my favorite). It is such a relaxing ride for me. Soon after we went to the Grizzly Bear River run and rode the water ride. It was pretty wild, but fun. Tara found that this was the second ride she didn't like.



We then went to the Brother Bear park and Tara got to climb through tunnels, slide down slides and even do a little rock climbing. It was much more her speed.

Even Tim climbed through the tunnels


Sammy and Alyssa sliding down the slides


Tim and Tara raced down the slides....I wonder who won?


Jenna and Tara actually went down the slide together, but Tara was in front and, somehow, got down a lot faster


Tara rock climbing


All my girls


Alyssa coming down the tree slide


Last year when High School Musical came out on Disney Channel, my girls watched it and it quickly became Tara's favorite ALL TIME movie. We Tivoed (is that really a word?) it the next time it was on and had to watch it almost every day for months. She knew all the words to the songs and even some of the dance moves. It, actually, was not a bad movie and I enjoyed it...to a point (after watching something 27 times, I do get a little tired of it). Anyway, they had a special High School Musical song performance and, even though Tara has moved on to love other movies since then, she was very excited so we had to watch the performance. They even had some of the kids go up and do part of the dance!



Tara and Lilo...okay, Jenna, yes, she is with Stitch


Tara even got to go watch a Playhouse Disney show and got to see little live clips from JoJo's Circus, Stanley, Bear in the Big Blue House and Winnie the Pooh. Later we got this picture...
Tara and JoJo


Who gave Tim the camera?


Tara has a pretty tough life...the stroller and cotton candy


Tim even got to go on some of his favorite rides (the rest of us are waaay to wimpy to go on...Tower of Terror and the Maliboomer. The California Screaming rollercoaster line and Fast Pass were waaaay too long and he decided to bypass this ride.

At the end of the night we went back over to Disneyland for the Parade of Lights. None of the pictures turned out great, but this was the best one. Tara then got to ride the Teacups one more time and then afterwards (about 9:30pm) we all went back to the hotel (we had stayed until 11pm the night before and were exhausted).