Disneyland Retreat

We spent three fun days at Disneyland in Anaheim - I'm still floored that I've been to two Disney Parks in the same year... It was pretty fun being able to compare everything - We loved that this park was smaller - after being dropped off by Mr. Mean Shuttle Guy we didn't see any cars for three days. It really forced us to relax and just enjoy...

Disneyland Park is very similar to the Magic Kingdom with minor differences - Space Mountain is much better here and Dumbo is flying over water - Splash Mountain has bigger boats and you can actually manage to not get that wet... There were also fewer people it seemed which made lines almost non existent... The castle is Sleeping Beauty's castle and not as impressive - in fact, I'm just now realizing that I didn't even get a picture of it!

California Adventure Park is literally across the way from Disneyland - just exit and walk across to the other entrance... This park is huge and has several areas - although it really had a Hollywood Studios feel to a lot of it - The back side is like a Pier/Coney Island area - very neat. The kids loved the Bugs Life Play area - they got soaked and we loved riding Tuk and Roll's Bumper Cars and Heimlich's Chew Chew Train! For those of you from TN... there's even a Grizzly River Run... very similiar to the Grizzly River Rapids from Opryland Days!

We loved the Downtown Disney area - We walked through it each day to get to the parks. It seemed to have many more stores and restaurants.

Things just seemed to be done on a smaller scale here which was quite refreshing - especially since our brains needed a break!