Disneyland

On Saturday morning, we loaded up the car and headed south to California. After a stopover for the night, we arrived at the Disneyland Resort, where we checked into the Grand Californian Hotel. Our one bedroom villa had a park view, but it was on the second floor and partly obscured by trees.

We headed into parks, catching a viewing of Fantasmic! at Disneyland then checking out the Electronica stuff in the Hollywood Backlot area of California Adventure.

This morning we headed into California Adventure and picked up some Fastpasses for World of Color, the new nighttime show in Paradise Pier. There's lots of work going on in this park. The revision to the swing ride is pretty nice. It used to be surrounded by a structure, and removing that makes it a lot more fun.

It also makes for better views of the park, including parts that are currently being remodeled. This shot, showing an area near the Grand California being redone, was taken from the Zephyr ride. In the afternoon we headed into Disneyland.

After dinner, we watched World of Color, which uses multicolored fountains along with fire effects and mist screen protections. It was really good.