Today was our penultimate day in the US. Another beautiful day, with the temperature reaching 81 deg F - that's 27 deg C. We decided earlier in the week that two days' spent at Disneyland and Disney California Adventure Park (DCAP) just wasn't enough to do them full justice, so we went back for a third day today.
We caught the ART (Anaheim Resort Transport) bus again today. Its a great public transport service that allows you to travel into the major resorts - in our case Disneyland - as often as you like every day for only $4 per day. It's fantastic value, and keeps a lot of tourists off the roads. We headed in earlier than usual and grabbed some breakfast at Downtown Disney - that's a retail and restaurant area near Disneyland. Then it was back to DCAP for a re-run at a couple of our favourite experiences - Toy Story Midway Mania & Grizzly River Run. Mid-morning we crossed over to Disneyland where we tried some new things we hadn't covered in previous visits - the Enchanted Tiki Room, the Jungle Cruise, the Indiana Jones Adventure, the Mark Twain Riverboat, Buzzlightyear Astro Blasters, Captain EO, the Disneyland Monorail, the Sleeping Beauty Castle Walkthrough, Snow Whites Scary Adventures and Space Mountain:Ghost Galaxy. We also repeated the Splash Mountain Log Ride and the Teacups - two favourites from our last visit. The underlined attractions are our personal favourites.
After we had finished with Splash Mountain - wait till you see the photo - it was time for a spot of shopping for various family and friends, back to the Holiday Inn for dinner and we finished the day with a soak in the spa at the Holiday Inn. We finished packing our bags tonight, wrote the blog (obviously) and planned tomorrow. We are having a lie-in then checking out and heading to Universal Studios where we will do a number of things we ran out of time for yesterday. Then its off to LAX where we need to check-in by 8.00pm. We fly out just on midnight Friday LA time and head to Brisbane for a brief stopover then back on a flight to Christchurch arriving mid-afternoon Sunday NZ time. Then its a brief three hour drive back to Oamaru to see the kids and catch up on some hugs.
The next blog will cover off the last day and the flight home. I think we will both write that one.
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