I did tons of research prior to our trip regarding rides, attendance, lines, hours, fast passes, etc etc etc. After compiling all the facts I concluded that Monday was the best day at Disneyland and Tuesday was the best day at California Adventure. 

We made our way through the super long lines at security and arrived at the entrances to the park. The girls quickly decided they didn’t care anything about any old research and they wanted to go to California Adventure first.  Done! I just wanted them to have fun and they were most excited about the California Adventure park. 

We really did our day up right. We started with The Little Mermaid ride. It was Ananbelle’s favorite when she was little and is still a family hit. We took advantage of all the fast passes and were able to ride everything we wanted. Our favorite was the Lightning McQueen racers. It was a 2 hour wait but we stood in line for about 15 minutes with our fast passes. It was a lot of fun! 

We rode the Goofy Sky School ride 9 times and the Little Mermaid ride 11 times! We ate corn dogs and Mickey Mouse shaped pretzels. We were there when the park opened and we were actually on the Little Mermaid ride when the park closed. We watched the parade and enjoyed the fire works from Disneyland on our walk back to the hotel. 

It was really a great day! I couldn’t have asked for better with my little ladies. 

First stop Little Mermaid ride

Corn dog break

We went on just one ride in a bug’s land and quickly realized the girls have outgrown it. We still had fun walking through – it’s a cute part of the park. 

I tell ya, it truly is the most magical place on earth!!

Caught a little parade of Cars through Cars land. 

Found the new Coco exhibit. We are big fans of that movie. 

We took a little self guided tour in the animation studio. They had a fun game that you answered a few questions about your personality and they told you what Disney character you are. We had so, so much fun with it and were cracking up with our results. Annabelle is Tinkerbell, Gwyneth is Belle and I’m Ursula! So very accurate.  ha!

We got back to the hotel and fell right into bed. Full hearts and sore feet!