After the long day at Disneyland, we went to California Adventure the very next day.  As soon as we got into the park (shortly after 9am), we went to pick up the Radiator Springs Racers fast passes for later.  By then, Connor was already complaining his legs were hurting, and he also mentioned that his head hurt.  Fortunately Connor was hanging in there, and he wanted to check out the Bugs’ Land.  We rode a bumping car ride there, and waited for another small ride next at Cars Land.  But after 15 minutes we were told that they were shutting down the ride temporarily and we were asked to leave the area.  Being a little discouraged, we headed over to the other end of the park, and rode The Little Mermaid ride which we all liked.  Next Stuart took Logan to ride the Goofy’s sky school mini roll coaster.  Connor and I waited for them, but it was not too long later we saw Logan’s unhappy face coming out with Stuart.  He survived the ride but he did not care for it.  Next, we were hoping to ride the Toy Story Mania but the wait was just too long, so we chose to walk back to watch the Disney Junior Live Show.  The show turned out very cute; we enjoyed it and the boys especially liked the extra special effects of snow or the coin shower.  We had a quick lunch, then we rode the Monster Inc and headed to the Animation Academy.  I had heard about this from Robyn and really wanted to try it.  The character we were learning to draw happened to be Perry the platypus which the boys were quite familiar with.  We all did well following the instruction and drawing it in our unique way.  Logan was a bit shy with his drawing, did not really want to show off while Connor was proud of his Perry.

     By then we went to check on the next showing of the brand new Frozen musical which was scheduled to be in 50 minutes and we learned the brutal truth.  There were fast passes and standby, but they were all full.  We then once again walked back to the other side of the park and waited for the Toy Story Mania this time.  We all loved this ride.  I really wanted to watch Frozen as it was one of the main attractions for us, so I decided to go check out the status for the next and last showing at 5:10pm while Stuart and the boys could hang out a bit longer.  It was a little over two hours before showing at that point and the standby line was starting to form.  I was told that the fast passes were all given out in the morning, but if I stayed in line then, we could actually make it into the theater.  So I decided to go for it.  It was not too bad initially as most of the people were sitting down on the ground in the shade.  It started to get a bit crazy later when the fast passes people started to line up there too.  Stuart took the boys to ride the Radiator Springs Racers with the fast passes which the boys still thought the car was too fast, then they came join me.  It was a bit hectic trying to find them to come join me in line, but once we were reunited, I was relaxed again and continued our wait.  Thanks goodness with the “chopstick game” as it entertained us with this long wait.  We were finally led into the balcony of the theater looking over the beautiful stage.  We know the movie so well that we were familiar with every scene.  The show was terrific with good singing, great stage scenes and cool graphics.  The only problem we had was a crying baby and a noisy toddler right behind us; we tried to ignore their noises out to not let them ruin the show for us.  At the end, we all enjoyed the show very much, and it totally worth the wait time in my opinion. 

     One event worth mentioning.  A scare happened as we were leaving the theater and going down the long escalator.  Logan and I were ahead, and waited for Stuart and Connor at the bottom.  I was waving at Connor and even took a picture of them in the crowd of people, so I did not notice the escalator had come to a jarring stop when the two of them were on the last step.  It turned out that Connor’s shoe had somehow caught on the side.  Stuart gave Connor a yank and fortunately his shoe freed from the gap.  Connor did not scream and actually stayed very quiet.  We came to one side and I picked him up.  He just nodded that his foot hurt and started tearing on my shoulder.  We examined his shoe and foot which were ok.  Connor was probably just got frightened by the scene.  Some people passed by us and asked if he was ok, and we were very glad that he was.

     The musical concluded our two fun days at Disneyland.  We took our final walk back to the tram to return to our parking.  We came back to the grandparents to have a late dinner.  We hung out with them the next morning on Wednesday as well before we drove back home just in time to watch the Warriors game.

Here is our photo album for this trip.