It's day two!
Of our parks at least…
I mean I guess it's--I don't know what day of vacation it is.
But day two of us going to parks.
So we did manage to do Web Slingers and Radiator Springs Racers yesterday, so for today and
tomorrow our park reservations are at Disneyland park.
So we'll be here in the morning instead of DCA.
Yesterday, once park hopping hours started, the line for the Jungle Cruise was like pretty
long all day.
So we're gonna go rope drop Jungle Cruise this morning.
Um, hopefully we can get on it without having to wait like 30 plus minutes, because I don't
think that's included in Genie+.
And I am happy to report that this morning we bought Genie+ and we didn't run into any
issues, unlike yesterday. So I don't know, you know…
Disney technology can be like that.
Just plan for things to go wrong, and when they don't hooray.
So here we are again, coming up on the little baby castle.
It's cute though.
When we decided to do Jungle Cruise this morning though, um, we may have neglected to factor
in the part where Star Wars Galaxy's Edge is in Disneyland park, which is so hard for
me to process because this is basically their Magic Kingdom.
So it'd be like if Galaxy's Edge was in their Magic Kingdom, which just doesn't make any
sense to me.
But so I’m guessing rope drop crowds are gonna be pretty ridiculous for people trying
to very fastly walk to Rise of the Resistance, and we will be peeling off in Adventureland
just to go to Jungle Cruise, but have to fight those crowds anyway.
Also weather-wise it's a really nice day.
It's a little chillier, so I am wearing my sparkle pants, which, you know, may come up
in the video later.
So I just wanted to let you know, outfit check, sparkles are in action.
Yep, so here are the crowds trying to go through Adventureland to get back to Galaxy's Edge…
um, it's a lot.
[Jungle Cruise skipper] That apparently is an ancient snake bowling trophy.
Yeah, they say it's pretty heavy, but I think it looks pretty light.
Feel free to take photos.
As you can see they all have their trunks on.
They must have heard that you were coming.
The eighth wonder of the world, that's right it’s the backside of water!
Oh man, drink it in.
Just a head on the left…
yeah, that one takes a while.
[Jacqueline] We did not eat breakfast, so now it's time for dole whip yay!!
Adam also got a loco moco bao, so--and these are all six bucks now.
I guess that's just the going rate for dole whip, which seems a little expensive… but
hey I’ll pay it, so that is what it is.
We were the second party on Jungle Cruise, and then we made a lightning lane reservation
for Big Thunder Mountain, so yeah a good morning so far.
Dole whip is delicious as always.
We are off to a critter country I think it's called…?
We're gonna go to the Winnie the Pooh ride, which I keep mistakenly thinking is going
to be in Fantasyland.
But of course we're not in the Magic Kingdom, so it's not. Other than Star Wars, crowds
really don't seem too bad yet.
Here is the Haunted Mansion.
So it's down for refurb; they are undoing the holiday overlay right now.
Splash Mountain is also down for refurb, so we won't be riding that one either.
But that's fine.
I don't think I’d want to anyway.
It's not cold, but I’m not like hot, you know.
Critter Country!
Okay, on to the Pooh ride.
So cute!
Piglet was out meeting and greeting, so we did that obviously.
And now they have their whole own shop… this whole area is so cute.
These are the vibes, wow.
His face is so happy!
Hip, hip, Poohray!
This is their wishing well, I guess, by the castle; Snow White themed.
Very charming.
I think we're gonna go try to do Matterhorn after this.
Little castle!
Alright, we made a Matterhorn lightning lane, but Matterhorn is down so they gave us a multiple
experience pass instead.
Which I think we're going to go use on Alice, because there is no lightning lane for that
and the wait for that ride seems to always be like 25 minutes or longer.
Off to Snow White's next!
We don't have this at Disney World so I’m excited.
And now we're doing Mr. Toad’s.
We also don't have this at Disney World.
We're really getting through basically everything we want to between yesterday and today.
Snack time!
This is a cheddar garlic bagel twist from Maurice’s Treats.
I like bread, so I’m sure it'll be good.
And Adam’s off getting a churro.
It looks tasty; like look at all that cheese and that seasoning.
Yes, I am ready to eat it.
My first Disneyland churro!
…or I probably had one as a kid, I don't remember, but my first that I remember!
Duck wants some churro action.
On our way back to the monorail and cavalcade's happening!
[record scratch] Future Jacqueline here interjecting.
The powers that be put a copyright claim on the cavalcade music, so I’ll be talking
and we are going to cut this a bit short.
If you want to see the full cavalcade in all of it’s copyrighted glory, let me know in
the comments down below and I can post it separately.
Mickey starts us off of course, followed by Chip and Dale being the absolute cutest, and
Pluto and Goofy too!
In this next vehicle we have Minnie in charge and on our side it’s Anna and Moana!!
The other side I Think has Ariel and Elsa.
Oh Geppetto is out with Pinocchio, which seems rare to me but probably not rare in Disneyland.
Then there’s Genie, Wendy, and Captain Hook.
A bit of a strange lineup of characters there but I will take it!
Then there’s a large and very fun Mickey float.
And wrapping things up we have Donald Duck!
Back to you past Jacqueline. [record scratch]
Alright, we're off to the monorail now.
The monorail here as a form of transportation doesn't make a ton of sense…
it'll just take us out to Downtown Disney.
But that's, you know, I want to ride it.
So it's fine.
We're going to do it.
It'll be fun... great.
Also Disneyland churros are worth the hype; they are so fresh, and so good.
Cheddar garlic bagel twist was good.
It was better than the tiger tail from last night, but nothing crazy.
Get the churro--use your stomach space for the churro.
Monorail time!
Sparkle pants! [Friends] Yeeaahhh!!
Alright, we park hopped over to DCA following the monorail, so just walked back through
Downtown Disney. And now we're in DCA.
We're going to grab some lunch in Avengers Campus.
My best friend got this obscene pretzel from Pym’s Test Kitchen; it is bigger than our face.
And Adam and I are getting the chicken sandwich and the Caesar salad.
Very comical.
Off to Luigi’s Rollickin’ Roadsters, but first!
It’s Lightning McQueen.
Okay, now we're gonna ride the ride.
This looks really cute.
I love the theming of this land.
I don't even like Cars that much, but this land is adorable.
Yeaaahhh!!
Now to finish out Cars Land rides we're gonna do the Tow Mater’s Junkyard Jamboree…
whatever, it's Alien Swirling Saucers but Cars themed.
Walking over towards Pixar Pier, and they're so ready for the lunar new year festival.
And I am very excited for everyone who gets to do it, and very sad that I will not get
to partake. Agh.
This is a great view.
I don't think I’d ever get tired of this.
It's beautiful.
Alright, walk on to Jessie’s Critter Carousel, because why not?
The little critters look very cute, very charming.
The little skunk is backwards!
Okay next up Pixar Pal-A-Round.
We're going on the swinging side, obviously.
We did a lightning lane for Toy Story Mania, and Adam did beat me this time.
But not by a ton!
And now we're going to go walk on to the Ariel ride and see if it's any different from Disney World's.
Ariel I think was more or less exactly the same.
We have a lightning lane for Soarin’, so we're making our way back there, and I found
a Disneyland cat!
He's a good kitty.
Alright, Soarin’ Around the World time.
I think this is also very close to the same as Disney Worlds’, but it'll be fun.
Getting some snacks in Cars Land.
This is the bacon mac and cheese cone from Cozy Cones,
and we also picked up some espresso cocktails.
Pre-dinner snack: very important.
The inside is good.
The bread part is not great, but I would probably get this again.
And the cocktail was surprisingly good!
Sunset, so everything's lighting up here in Cars Land.
I love the neon vibes.
It's really exquisite.
I think we're gonna go single rider Radiator Springs Racers.
We did it sort of in the morning before, so it'll be fun to do it more at dusk this time.
The lit-up sign is so good, wow.
Yeah, that's a great ride.
I really enjoy it.
And we have some time before our dinner reservation, so I think we're gonna go grab a drink in
the Pacific Wharf area.
I have mobile ordered a Japanese mule; Adam went to get a beer.
Now we're just sitting down with our drinks, sort of by the bread bakery area.
It is officially dark now.
We are walking over to dinner.
We have a reservation at Wine Country Trattoria.
I hear this is just basically like Olive Garden, but hey, I like a good Olive Garden.
And I know we can sit outside, so I think this is a good option for us.
We actually had a Blue Bayou reservation, but I ended up canceling it because, uh yeah,
I don't know… dining inside right now, and yeah.
So anyway, Wine Country it is!
Keeping with the mule theme, I got a passion fruit mule.
Adam got a negroni.
My best friend also got a passion fruit mule.
So drinks!
Having a good time.
And we ordered some fried calamari to share for an appetizer.
And then for the main’s Adam ordered spaghetti aglio olio, which I believe is a vegetarian
option, and I ordered the chicken parmesan.
I just got mine standard, so like with red sauce.
My best friend also got this, but asked for alfredo sauce, and they kindly obliged.
There's like a lot… so much sauce.
We once again rode Toy Story Mania; we have these just like multiple experience passes
from Matterhorn being down and us trying to book that lightning lane so many times, so
we did that again.
And now we're using another one of these passes to do the swinging car on the Pixar Pal-A-Round
again, but this time at night.
So it was daytime earlier, now we're gonna do it at night.
Oh! Hey! Oh!
Swing!
This park is so beautiful at night.
Park closes at eight--park is closed.
We're just slowly working our way; out apologies to any cast members if we are holding you
up from going home.
Today was so great though.
We really accomplished a lot.
I mean we did so much yesterday, and we were able to do the few things we weren't able
to do yesterday today--like Soarin’ and like the Winnie the Pooh ride and Jungle Cruise.
Tomorrow we probably won't even buy Genie+ because I think we're just gonna try to soak
in the atmosphere.
We really have accomplished all the rides we wanted to.
Park does closed kind of early; I realize it's like the middle of January, so not a
popular time, but yeah… park's closing at eight [p.m.], it doesn't open until nine [a.m.],
so it's only 11 hours.
But I think we'll go back to the hotel and like hang out in the hot tub or something.
A lot of stuff in Downtown Disney is also closing a little bit on the early side, but
again I understand.
Just saying goodbye for now.
We'll be back over in DCA some point tomorrow, but again we're gonna start in Disneyland
just like we did today.
I know my camera does not do great in the dark, so I’m sure this is not absolutely
beautiful, but I cannot even emphasize how beautiful this park is at night.
And thanks for coming along!
We've got one more park day tomorrow so can't wait to share with you all.
Bye!