We found Mickey !!

We thought we were so smart hitting the beaches on the weekend and then returning to Disney for the weekdays.  On Monday, the sun came out and we hit the park at opening (10am). It was a madhouse.  Our goal had been to get FastPass tickets to the Futureland rides and the new 'Cars' attraction on the California Adventure Land side of the park.  Not happening.

When we arrived at Cars there were already signs up saying that the Fast Pass tickets were booked for the complete day!!  Turns out it was a holiday which we still cannot nail down.   We did make it onto the Screamer which I filmed with the GoPro. Cars is the 'newest' attraction and with so many people waiting to get on it, it took the pressure off most of the other California attractions, however the Disney side was jam packed everywhere.

The 'Soaring Over California' ride reminded us of Expo 86 and the IMax Theatre production of 'Seeing Canada'.  There were lots of 3D shows.  California is really focused on teens and above.  However we could not find Mickey and Kaye wanted Mickey.

We planned to come back for the World of Colour show at 8:15pm which we did do, but mechanical difficulties cancelled the show.  Oh well, we have one more day.
You are allowed a one day early admission on your multi-day hopper passes.  After the insanity of Monday we decided we better take advantage of that for our last day.  So up quickly and off to the shuttle stop.  It was just leaving as we got there...Next one 30 minutes....then sitting in rush hour traffic in a shuttle bus...arrived at Disney 10 minutes before regular opening.  Great plan gone sour but guess what...no people!

We walked main street as the park opened and guess who we found.  Kaye ran, shoulders down again other mothers, young children and strollers.  A place in line was established.  Dave took up position as chief photo guy and then it was the moment worth waiting for.  Smile says it all.

We breezed through Tomorrow Land, did Cars, did the Screamer again (Kaye kept her eyes open for some of it) and had a wonderful 'meat loaf and mashed potatoes' late lunch in a quiet diner.  We clocked over 20K on the pedometer marching back and forth between the two parks to meet our Fast Pass ticket timings.  It was a great day.  We have lots of photos to post but the internet connection we have is so slow that it is not worth the effort.  Stay tuned and we will catch up with more photos, videos and descriptions.

All the best; Kyle says; " Hi Too"