Disneyland Adventures Continued

After a day of rest, we were ready to hit Disneyland/California Adventure again!  I knew everyone had to ride as many rides as possible before nap so I was bound and determined to let them ride!  With the 3 day park hopper passes, there is an early morning access.  We asked multiple workers if it worked in California Adventure as well as Disneyland, they all said yes, it's called a Magic Morning.  So we woke up extra early to get in the park around 7:30 because it opens by 8.  Well apparently that didn't work for California Adventure, just Disneyland:(.  Luckily we were still in the front of the lines because we were extra early!    This was good so the fam could go on the Radiator Springs Racers ride, it's he newest, hottest ride.  Joe and Jared stood in line for a good hour or so but got fast passes!  Nana, Hud, and I sat in Starbucks:).  Yes, the happiest place on earth serves Starbucks, it was heavenly!  Pops was still parking the car (he eventually started dropping us off) so we bought breakfast for the boys and delivered it to them in line.  Hudson enjoyed his yogurt parfait and Nana and I sipped our coffees...ah, heaven!

The only problem we ran into was that this particular day was also one of the busiest days of the year (so a worker told me) because it was the season pass holders (all local Californians) early access day too.  So people were everywhere!  The rides still weren't long with waits but people were everywhere.  I encouraged the troop to hit up a few rides and asked Hudson what he wanted to do.  This is what he chose....

Then after their ride, they always want to see what "Hudson" was doing:).  So we rode on the Jumpin Jellyfish again.

Then Pops insisted Hudson go on Soarin Over California.  Here Hudson is waiting in line.  He sure loved the ride.  Again, 3 is so fun and a height of 40 inches:).

After that ride, the troop headed out for more adventure and Hudson asked to visit some characters in Toon Town.  So off we went!  We first went through Mickey's house where walk and explore and then get a picture with Mickey.  Here is Mickey's garden.

Then it was time for autographs and pictures!

After we headed out of Mickey's house, he wanted to visit Minnie:).  

In Minnie's house it's opposite, you get your picture with her first and then tour her house.  Hudson was  enthralled with her "cake" baking in the oven and her dishwasher.

As we were playing for quite a while in Minnie's house, it was time for the troop to hit the Radiator Springs Racers ride so off they went to do that.  Hudson and I opted to hang out in Toon Town instead of hopping back to the other park.  So we climbed Chip N Dales Treehouse:).

Then we found Pluto!

And he was still on the "character" scene so we went back to the "secret spot" and hit the Western Jamboree one last time.  We found Clarabell the Cow!

Notice I'm not in the pic.  He went from me holding him, to standing next to the characters, to standing alone!  I was the only one to take the picture so he had to stand by his lonesome and he loved it!

Then he spotted one last one...

Mickey and Minnie Mouse, again!

We loved our "friends" in Disneyland.  Then we sat down for a hoedown!

The fast pass shot the troop to the front of the line and it took less than 30 minutes to get in line, ride it, and come out.  WOW that was quick.  Especially since the lines were over 4 hours later that day.  Jared and I tried to ride it later (because we had two extra fast passes and everyone said I could ride it) but even the fast pass line was 1 1/2 hours:(.  So we went home.  No worries though, I'll be back!  The troops were tired and hungry so we grabbed a bite and headed back for nap.

That evening Nana and Pops took Uncle Joe to the Blue Bayou so we were on our own!  We hit another fun parade.  Hudson loved spotting Donald and we took some pictures of princesses for baby girl:).

Then it was just easiest to follow the parade, so we are officially parade groupies:).

After some dinner, in our favorite Mary Poppins Cafe, we went on the Small World ride.  I would ask Hudson if he wanted to go on a ride or try something new.  He picked something new and boy did he like this ride!  The dolls, songs, music, it was right up his alley!

After that, we went to Fantasy Land for another carrousel, Mary Poppins!  He seriously loves carrousels!

Here is a pic of the carrousel later that evening.

Then he spotted Dumbo, which I had tried to get him on earlier, and he said he wanted to ride it.  Oh boy was he excited!

He literally giggled the whole time!  He wanted to ride it again but it was getting late so we left with the hopes of riding the Radiator Springs ride, but that didn't work.  It was another busy, fun-filled day!  

I think the family was tired and we all were ready for bed that night:).