Today my family spent most of the time in California Adventure. We got there right at opening time and the first ride we went on was Soarin' Over California. I heard it was a really good ride, so I probably set my expectations too high, but it was really cool. It's a flight simulator type ride that takes place in front of a huge IMAX sized screen. There were three sections with three rows that...actually, I have no idea how to describe the set up. The screen shows scenes from all over California, except I didn't know exactly where they were except for the last one that went over Disneyland and ended with fireworks. Besides giving the illusion of flying, the ride also pumped some scents into your face (woohoo, chemicals). In the beginning when you fly over a forested area, everything smells....well, foresty. Piney. Mm. Later when flying over an orange grove, you smell oranges. Mm!
After that we went on the Grizzly Bear Run, a river rapids ride. You can potentially get very wet on it, but luckily I didn't get drenched. My legs got pretty soaked but my upper body was okay. The ride was fun, but there weren't any interesting things to look at during the ride besides some climging gear strewn upon the rocks at one point. At least on Big Thunder, there are some animals and junk standing around.
We went to Paradise Pier to go on Maliboomer and the Sun Wheel. Maliboomer reminded me of a ride from Space Camp that shoots you up and drops you back down. It wasn't as scary as I thought it would be, more like a way to get a good view over the area around Disneyland. The Sun Wheel is just a huge ferris wheel, so I thought it would be tame, but it actually made me the most nauseous out of any ride in either of the Disney parks. Or maybe any Disney park. The thing is that two thirds of the carriages aren't stationary and swing a pretty far distance as you go up. I don't really know how to explain it, but if you see a photo you can see the track that the carriages rock back and forth on. They rocked a LOT more than I thought they would and it was pretty scary. And then I got nauseous and that kind of ruined the "Hey, you can see everything from up here!" excitement. Doh. We also watched a pretty good Aladdin stage show with the magic carpet flying around and ...stuff. The theater it was in was really huge.
After lunch we went to Disneyland Park (I forgot that Disneyland Park is just called that and not the Magic Kingdom like in Disney World, which has four parks) to see a Snow White stage show. That was also good, although I'm not as into Snow White. I haven't seen that movie in a pretty long time. We also went on Roger Rabbits Car-Toon Spin in which you're in a cartoony cab and you can make it spin around and around because...well, because! Why not? My mum wanted to go on the Storybook Land ride and the Casey Jr Train, which both center around this area with miniature sets from Disney movies. Very cute little place, but not all that exciting. I guess little kids enjoy it though. And my mum. After we ate dinner we watched a parade featuring a bunch of Disney characters (not that they'd feature anything else). The weather was getting chilly and as I'm prone to feeling cold all the time, I ended up looking for a shirt to buy. Most Disney-clothing isn't stuff you're likely to want to wear out of the park, but I found a nice sweater (for little boys) that just says "Disneyland" on it, kind of like a baseball team's lettering. So I'm happy with that, and I wouldn't mind wearing it back home. WOO!
Gotta go to sleep. Tomorrow we're waking up at 7:30 or something to get to the park at opening time again.