Twins go to SoCal! (Part 2 of 3)

Friday morning we woke up and walked over to Disney California Adventure!

The Newsies and Mickey Mouse sing "Seize the Day"

Minnie Mouse!

 The first ride we did was Goofy's Sky School.

Me and Hector

 While we were at DCA, the park was remodeling to turn Paradise Pier into Pixar Pier.

In front of the remodeling!

 Next up was Ariel's Undersea Adventure.

Then we left the pier area, walked past Cars Land and into Hollywood Land.

We went to Award Wieners for lunch - it was delicious!

Then we headed over to A Bug's Land and rode Heimlich's Choo Choo Train!

Walking around the park we saw Goofy and the plans for Pixar Pier. 

Then Aimee got to meet Loki, and get his signature for Connor.

Then we tried to get on the water ride, Grizzly River Rapids, but the line was way too long since its was in the mid-90's. So instead we ran through the kiddie waterpark in A Bug's Land.

Then, we met Chip and Dale on the Redwood Challenge Trail!

Then we headed into Cars Land to ride Radiator Racers!

After the ride I finally got to see Donald (but his line was already closed to get my picture taken with him)!

Finally, we rode Soarin' Around the World - it was a neat ride!

After the ride, we bought our ears!

Then we needed to head back to our room for nap so we could make it to the evening parade. On the way back we saw this neat map on the sidewalks in the area.

When we got back to the park, we rode the Monsters, Inc. ride.

We had a great view from our spot for the parade of the soon-to-be-renamed Paradise Pier.

After the parade, we walked back through Cars Land. It looked so great all lit up.

On our way out of the park, we caught Disneyland's fireworks.

After the fireworks, we walked around Downtown Disney a bit and then back to the hotel to get some much needed sleep for the last part of the trip!

Twins go to SoCal! (Part 1 of 3)

Last month, my amazing Pampered Chef consultant sister took me on her annual incentive trip to Coronado. We also decided to take an early side-trip to Hollywood and Anaheim to go to Universal Studios and Disney California Adventure!

We arrived in San Diego on Thursday and drove up Anaheim.

Road trip!

We're not in Alaska anymore!

 After we arrived in Anaheim, we walked over to Downtown Disney, shopped, and had dinner.

Mickey and Minnie hedges at Disneyland Hotel

Me and Donald!

Friday we drove up to Hollywood to go to Universal Studios Hollywood - mainly to go to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter!

After we entered the park, we headed straight to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter!

Flight of the Hippogrif

Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey

Gringotts' ATM

Three Broomsticks and Honeydukes

Inside of Honeydukes

Hogsmeade

 After The Wizarding World, we headed to the home of the Simpsons - Springfield - for lunch.

We had lunch at Krusty Burger - it was really good!

Later in the day we rode The Simpsons Ride

Themsed Simpsons' bathrooms

After lunch, we headed out on the Studio Tour/Ride of the company's studio lots.

Universal "city" 

Picture cars

Flooding of a Mexican village

Flooding of a subway tunnel

Jaws' Amityville

 After the Studio Tour, we needed a frozen butterbeer. It was in the low 90s, and SO.HOT!

Then we headed down to the Lower Lot, to check out the other rides.

View of the studio lots

Jurassic Park had misting fans in the long lines.
We got SOAKED on the ride, but dried off very quickly since it was so hot.

 We checked out some shops in the Lower Lot after the Jurassic Park ride.

Then we headed back up to the Upper Lot and ran into Alex the Lion and King Julian from Madagascar!

Then we rode the Despicable Me/Minion Mayhem ride.

Before we left the park, we headed back to The Wizarding World for some shopping.

Same DNA. Different (Hogwarts) House.

Inside of Three Broomsticks

 On the way out of the park, we hit up some shops for souvenirs.

It's so fluffy!!!!!!

Outside of the park was Universal's CityWalk, which included VooDoo Doughnuts and Margaritaville - we hit up both.

Themed parking garages!

Beautiful drive out of Universal Studios Hollywood

 After dinner, we drove back down to Anaheim, to get some sleep for the next day at Disney!