To continue with Day 3 at California Adventure...
We LOVED the PIXAR parade! Mainly because we LOVE every PIXAR movie. The boys weren't that interested in any of the princesses or princes. We've watched most of the Disney Princess movies but their favorites will always be PIXAR!
One of Sam's favorites: The Incredibles!
Finding Nemo
(I can't think of Finding Nemo without instantly thinking about the first time I saw it in the theater...it involved us, meaning me and my two sisters and my parents, wearing hoodies to the Sun Plaza 8. The hoodies were key because we all had 20 oz. cokes, oreos, bags of chips and anything else we could find stuffed in them!! haha Good times, good times!)
This "costume" was so funny because it was actually several people making up the various segments and they would periodically get "lost" and wander around!
Several of the parade floats had trapeze/circus artists
Army men
Eli got to wave at Buzz again!
Another float that had trapeze artists!
After the parade we headed back over to Cars Land because we were told to be there at sunset for the lighting of the town. It was so cool! Right as the sun was setting each place flipped on their lights and they blasted the "Life Would Be a Dream" song just like in the movie Cars where Lightning fixes the road! The boys loved it, but I think Joseph and I loved it more!
Last ride on the Racers...Eli insisted on sitting by himself!
The "canyon"...so pretty!
Here are some characters from the ride...it was so hard to get good pics of the characters on the ride because of the lighting and how fast we moved from scene to scene!
When we got off the ride there was a street party with one of the Cars characters (the D.J.)
After we took this pic the lady asked if we wanted a second one since Eli was making faces...I told her all that mattered was that he was happy and in the pic! haha
(Oh! and Joseph and I are sporting our souvenir sweatshirts....we remembered to bring the boys' jackets because they had them on that morning, but Joseph and I didn't realize just how cool it was going to get that night! So $100+ later and we have some souvenir sweatshirts! haha)
We ended the day watching the World of Color show. The boys fell asleep at least 30 min before the show even started but this is what I wanted to see so we just let them sleep and we enjoyed it!
It was awesome! We could see it every night from our hotel window but it was much more fun in person.
They projected images from dozens of movies onto the walls of water created by the fountains.
It was definitely a memorable show. I think I even got some of it on video!
Day 3 was fun. It was definitely the pinnacle of the trip because it is what Eli wanted to see the most. We were pleased because even though we skipped some of the other rides, he got to see Lightning, Mater and ride the racer cars! Day 4 and 5 were just fun days so I'll blog about them with some pics of the Pacific Ocean and the San Diego Zoo! :)
Enjoy!
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