Our Honeymoon...Part One

Disneyland:

The Sunday after our wedding, we checked into our hotel in Anaheim.  I knew it would be close to Disneyland because the hotel offered a shuttle, but I had no idea that it was walking distance!  Anthony probably hated that I discovered this because he knows how I like to walk everywhere :).  I was slightly bummed about the hotel...the pictures online must have been taken 10 years ago because the place looked a little run down....this also could have been because we just checked out of our waterfront suite at the Shorebreak!  The room was clean and had everything we needed EXCEPT it was the closest distance to the freeway!  Normally, I probably would have gone down to the front desk and let them know that we are honeymooners and we would appreciate a better location, but I knew that we wouldn't spend much time in the room.  Later that night, we discovered (I guess I should say Anthony discovered because I slept through this) that we were right by the Disneyland firework show.  Anth said it was the loudest fireworks he had ever heard!

Nightly beauty regimen

Since we knew we would have 2 days at Disneyland, we didn't get up early, but slept in (that means until 7:30 am).  We knew that there was a Mimi's Cafe on the way to Disneyland, so we took our time getting ready for the day and had a nice big breakfast at Mimi's before heading over to Disneyland.  Anthony can't remember the last time he went to Disneyland and I had just been a few years ago with my girlfriend Abbey, so over breakfast, we mapped out our plan of attack on the rides.  I knew we wouldn't get through all of them the first day, but I at least wanted him to ride some of the better rides. 

Once we got into the park, I was immediately surprised at how busy it was for a Monday.  We were hoping to beat the crowd and although the crowd wasn't terrible, I was still surprised.  We got to ride the Jungle Cruise, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Indiana Jones before we decided that it was time for a cold one!  it was the perfect time to head over to California Adventure and check out a few rides over there...plus they only serve beer on the California Adventure side!

As we entered California Adventure, we kept seeing signs for "World of Color".  I have never heard of this before, so we stopped and asked one of the staff members what it was. He was very excited to tell us about it and said that it was basically like the Bellagio water show in Vegas, but on steroids!  They only do this show at 9:00 and 10:15 and since we wanted to see the firework show in Disneyland at 9, we decided to get the passes for the 10:15 show.

After a cold brew, we went to the Bugs Life show and then decided to ride the Tower of Terror.  I hate this ride!  It makes you feel like you are in an elevator shaft and they keep dropping you several floors, but when they drop you, they open the wall that you are staring at and when we got the ride, the sun was starting to set, so it was an awesome view.  As if that wasn't enough terror for the day, Anthony wanted to ride the California Screamin' roller coaster.  It had been a few years since I had been on a roller coaster like that, so my stomach was in knots!  It didn't help that I could hear all the people screaming on the ride the whole way there.  BUT, once we road it, I was a fan!  Yes, I screamed the whole way and Anthony laughed at me screaming the whole way.  It was so fun, we had to do it again!

After the roller coaster fun, we wanted to ride Mickey's Fun wheel.  This was probably the longest line we stood in the whole time.  We waited about 45 minutes, but again, the view of the sunset was worth it.

It was starting to get a little chilly, so we had some clam chowder bread bowls before heading back to Disneyland to get our hoodies and a spot for the fireworks.  By the time we made it back to the Disneyland side, everyone had already staked out there spot for the fireworks.  There was no room in front of Cinderella's Castle, but that worked out to our advantage because we found a spot to the side and behind and could see all the fireworks perfectly!

After the firework show, we quickly went back to California Adventure to catch the World of Color show.  Again, all the best spots were gone, but when we asked one of the staff members where we would have a good view, she whisked us up front and gave us perfect seats!  This show was awesome!  It is like Bellagio, but WAY better!!!  They use colors, lasers, and using water spray, they project videos onto the water screen.

Wall-E and Eva!

It was a great first day, but our feet were about to fall off from all the walking and we were going to have one more day!  P.S. don't mind the morning face in this video...Ha!!

Day 2 we slept in again, got breakfast and then went to Disneyland first.  We rode Matterhorn, Space Mountain, the Tea Cups, Small World, went to Toon Town, rode the Disneyland Train and then went to California Adventure and did the Soarin' over California ride and the Grizzly River Run.  We were still tired and sore from the first day, so we decided to call it an early day.  Before leaving, we looked around in the gift shops to get something that we would give to our first born.  We found a Jack Skelington stuffed toy and a red beanie with Mickey ears...we can't wait until we have a little one to give it to!