Day Seven: Disney Land and California Adventure

Today was amusement park day! We got a full day pass to not only Disney Land but California Adventure as well. My favorite of the two parks was Disney Land, it might have had something to do with the awesome rides or maybe it just had to do with my love of Disney movies.

Thankfully we had fast passes so if you planned just right you could skip almost a whole line, which was really nice when it said that it would take 70 minutes wait to get on a certain ride. The really popular rides were Cars in California Adventure, Splash Mountain in the Disney Land park and Indian Jones in Disney Land as well. The group I was in really liked Splash Mountain, even though you got a bit soaked. The reason you got soaked was because you were sitting in a log that was floating on the water, and dropped down a waterfall... Really fun!

When we all got together at the Disney Castle located in the very center of the park we got our dinner vouchers which allowed us to eat anywhere in the park. This was great because we were able to choose exactly what we wanted to eat! We also took a group photo while at the castle! We were told that the castle at Disney Land was smaller than the castle at Disney World in Orlando because this castle was "Snow Whites castle" and the castle at Disney World was "Cinderellas castle". But who knows for sure!

Our group photo was at the perfect timing because shortly after we met the Disney parade began. All the princesses such as Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Belle, Tatiana and Jasmine were in the parade! As well we saw Mary Poppins, Mickey Mouse and his whole gang of friends. They came down the Disney streets singing and dancing!

We continued riding on different rides and at the end of the night the parks offered three different night time shows. The shows that were available for us to watch was Fantasmic, World of Colors and the traditional Firework Display over the Disney castle. My group choose to watch the firework display that I would definitely recommend for people to watch, fantastic! Nobody in the group went to Fantasmic but those who went to the World of Colors also said that it was Amazing. The World of Colors was apparently a laser and water show, sounds interesting.

After the shows were done we had a little bit of time left in order to ride maybe one last ride together if we really wanted! We rode the tram back to the bus,we didn't get back to the hotel around 11 and everybody was really glad for their beds.

Blog Contributor: Lovisa Lidfors, Sweden