Our Summer Road Trip, Part 4

I just realized I'm never going to finish posting about this road trip if I don't speed things up a little!  But as soon as I start looking back through photos from Disney's California Adventure, I remember all the cool things we got to do there and how much fun it was!  Spence just amazes me with all the crazy rides he is willing to do.  And if Allie were a few inches taller, she'd be right there with him!  She was actually tall enough to ride The Hollywood Tower of Terror, so she did!  Brian took Spence and Allie while Coleman and I politely said, "No thank you, we'll be in one of the shops waiting for you."  The Hollywood Tower is set up like an old hotel where some movie stars were electrocuted in an elevator.  I'm pretty sure it was creepy and scary, because brave as they were to go once, Spence and Allie didn't go again.

The coolest part of California Adventure had to be Cars Land.  We had seen it plugged on America's Funniest Videos (if you watch you know they do the end of the season 100,000 show at Disneyland), but didn't realize just how neat it would be.  The scenery was amazing!

We got fast passes for the Radiator Springs Racers, where you basically take a ride through the movie Cars and end by racing another race car.  Super fun!

 

 

In the movie, The Cozy Cones were hotel rooms shaped like traffic cones, but in Cars Land The Cozy Cones were concession stands (with overpriced ice cream and popcorn, but we won't go there).

If you had to stand in line at Luigi's Flying Tires, it would look like you were in his tire store.  Thankfully there was no line, so we stopped and posed for a picture.  Where are the white walls???

Another cool ride was Toy Story Midway Mania, where you put on 3-D glasses and got to shoot at Toy Story themed games.  

Adventurous Spence standing by his favorite roller coaster, California Screamin'.

 A Bug's Land was pretty awesome too.  From walking down into a human-sized ant hill to driving rolly-polly bumper cars, we had a blast!

 

And of course it wouldn't be Disney without a parade.  I think Spence enjoyed Lightening McQueen and Mater as much as Allie liked the princesses!