Showing posts with label california adventure. Show all posts
Showing posts with label california adventure. Show all posts

Sunday, 1 November 2015

Rachel's West Coast Adventure

It's been nearly 2 months since I got home from my trip and I still haven't done a single blog post or video about it. It's been a super busy time at home with work and study and trying to find time for a social life that I've not had the time to sit and do it until now!
So here is my first post which is a link to my video montage of the holiday, I will be reviewing the Disneyland portion of my holiday in a separate blog post, along with our attempt at another 24 hour challenge and I will probably do a post about my other travels too :)

 To view the video click here! (I still can't work out how to embed a video without it messing up my home page on my blog :[, if you know how please help! haha)

Monday, 3 August 2015

Disneyland Trip!!

So with less than a month to go until my trip to Disneyland, I thought I would share with you my Disneyland to do list :)
  • Watch Soundsational


I love Soundsational, I still love it more than Festival of Fantasy, although that could be because I haven't seen it since seeing FOF... so I'm excited to live up to my memories of it.
  • Watch World of Color



Again I love World of Color, and I'm really excited to see what they have done with the show for the Diamond Celebration :)
  • Watch Paint the Night


I'm so excited to see this new parade, it looks so colourful and fun :D
  • Watch Disneyland Forever


Fireworks are my favourite thing about the Disney parks, and a combination between them and projections sounds great, I'm also excited to see it from different points around the park to see how the experience varies.
  • Ride the Matterhorn
Last time I went to Disneyland they were refurbishing Matterhorn so I never got to ride it, so it is a definite must do this time.
  • Watch Aladdin


I love this mini musical, it's so well put together and as I still haven't got around to seeing the actual broadway production (fingers crossed it will make it's way to the West End soon) so this is a pretty good substitute.
  • Ride Big Thunder Mountain
Again this is another ride that was down for refurbishment on my last visit, I want to see how it differs from the versions at WDW and DLP.
  • Go on Soarin'


With the new HD show and the area around being re-themed I'm excited to see all the changes.
  • Ride Radiator Springs Racers


I love this ride, the theming of it is amazing and even though it's slower than it's Epcot counterpart, I think it's much better.
  • Visit Trader Sams
Last time I visited Disneyland I was only 20, so I wasn't old enough to go and experience the cocktails but this time I am and I'm excited to try them :)
  • Character breakfast at Storytellers Cafe
I love a good character breakfast, and from what I can tell this place will offer some rare characters to meet.
  • Walk in Walt's Footsteps
This is by far the thing I'm most excited for, visiting the apartment where Walt stayed during the construction of Disneyland will probably bring a few tears to my eye.

 Oh and of course we will be doing a 24 hour challenge when we're out there with a mix of old challenges with new challenges for Disneyland :)

 Is there anything else you think I need to do when I visit? Any hints or tips for navigating the parks?

Sunday, 29 March 2015

Disneyland Diamond Celebration Merchandise

So this week the Disney Parks blog gave us our first look at some of the merchandise that will be available throughout the celebration. Click here to view the post and video!
Here's what I spotted that I loved while watching the video...

Minnie Ears! I love my pair of sparkly Minnie ears, so I'm super excited to buy there special diamond edition ears, I love the blue bow! Now my big decision is, do I take my original sparkly ears with me too?

To be honest I'm not a huge fan of all this jewellery, however I do really like the little Mickey hat necklace, and depending on the price tag, I may well purchase this for myself :)

Pandora! Last time I visited a Disney Park in America was August, so before they released the Pandora's so I was already excited to get my hands on them, and now with added 60th anniversary charms I'm even more excited, that diamond Mickey hat will look great next to the Sleeping Beauty castle charm on my Pandora.


Autograph books! My old autograph book is full, and although I bought a new one when I visited Disneyland Paris in December, it's not my favourite, it's an odd size, doesn't have the elastic band for my pen, and is really thin. So I'm excited to buy myself a new autograph book and these one's look great :)

What merchandise are you looking forward to seeing/getting?

Friday, 20 February 2015

Goodbye Luigi's Flying Tires





This week we waved goodbye to Luigi's Flying Tires after opening less than 3 years ago.
For me this doesn't come as much of a shock, the ride itself was slow and very difficult to get the hang of.
For those of you who don't know, the ride is a bit like bumper cars, however you use your body weight to direct the vehicles around, I found them very difficult to control and by the time you started to get the hang of it, the ride finished.
I also went on this ride while wearing 
a skirt, oblivious to the air blowing up from the ground, as I assumed this would be off while loading the ride, I was wrong, and resulted in having to walk with my skirt held down and tucked between my legs in order to maintain my modesty!













I don't think this ride will be missed and I'm excited to see what they will put in it's place.
What did you think of Luigi's? Will you miss it now it's gone?
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