Day four had us starting in California Adventure Park again. We had no desire to get in line for Web Slingers and instead planned to go to 'Soaring Over California'. Although this is a popular ride during much of the day, it's apparently not one of the rides people run to first thing in the morning. There was no rope blocking us from getting to the ride and instead we were able to walk right into the lineup at 7:30a. Even by 8:00a there was no more than two full 'flights' lined up. If not for the fact that you can't Genie Pass Web Slingers and Cars I think I would pick some less popular rides to run to.
Kerry and Carter headed over to Guardians of the Galaxy while Callie and I wandered around Hollywood Studios. There isn't actually much to do in Hollywood Studios and hopefully they just take the whole thing over for Marvel which I think is what they've started to do. There are a few 'movie sets' set up and each of them is starting to get the Marvel touch including an area dedicated to Stan Lee as well as the Avengers Super Store. As I say this I still don't think there is enough room. Better that Disney dedicates a whole park to Marvel in the future. Could be a whole land just for Wakanda.
Our mission for today was to wrap up the final rides that we hadn't done. This included Emotional Whirlwind, Jesse's Carousel, the Swings and some repeat rides on the Incredicoaster and Goofy's Sky School. Emotional Whirlwind used to be Flicks Flyers from Bugs Land. I'm not typically too nostalgic but now that they've eliminated Bugs Land entirely I miss some of the rides since we often took the kids there when they were little. The most traumatic ride missing is Heimlich's Chew Chew train.
Kerry and Carter were on another ride that Callie and I didn't want to do so we decided to park ourselves in front of Web Slingers hoping we could catch Spiderman. He gets the most 'amazing' entrance for when he comes out for photos. They have developed an animatronic version of the character that they sling into the sky. The actor then crawls down the side of the building for pictures. It looked way more realistic than I was expecting. (If you can accept the premise that a radioactive spider created a man who can fly through the air on spider string.)
We started to head back to the hotel but did our traditional walk through the kids area in front of the Grand Californian before walking through the lobby of the hotel. There are currently only three Disney hotels at Disneyland and the high end one is the Grand Californian. Several years ago we stayed at the Disney Hotel and decided we couldn't afford this one even though at the time the difference was only about $100. We should have taken advantage of that price as it's now a much bigger difference and the price is usually about $800 US. Will have to win the lottery or wait for a really good exchange rate.
Now for a quick travel tip. Take pictures of anything you take on vacation so you have a picture of it in case you lose it. I lost my glasses on the Indiana Jones ride and they called with a possible hit and asked me a bunch of questions about them. I couldn't remember anything, not the brand or any real details of what they looked like. I was lucky enough to have pictures of me wearing them so I could claim them if they do find them. So far no luck but I've taken pictures of my new ones. They had a possible hit but they weren't mine. (And I didn't like them enough to claim them as mine. :))
After the hotel and a trip to the Lost and Found to check on our hats and glasses we went back to Disneyland and went on the Jungle Cruise to see the 'back side of water'. Corny jokes were all the same and I didn't notice if they did anything to work in the movie like that had done with Johnny Depp and Pirates of the Caribbean. I'm not sure what they would do but they could at least get his pet panther in somewhere and perhaps include the Rock in the line up somewhere. Maybe they've done something but it was too subtle for me to find.
We were still marking rides off our list and this included the Train which circles the park. We stopped off at New Orleans Square for some beignets including some sort of 'cookie' version. I didn't notice anything different but it might have been they just had it on the coating and it all fell off. Just tasted like regular beignets. We managed to get right on the train without much of a wait in line and took it to Tomorrowland. We considered getting off at Toon Town but it's closed and almost no one got off at that stop.
All week there had been no Fireworks or significant parades and we just figured they were temporarily on hold to avoid large crowds congregating so when we got in line for the Storybook boat ride we were surprised when the fireworks started. I guess they are just doing Friday/Saturday. Storybook boat ride is a great place to be when they start. They pause the ride and you can be lucky enough to be sitting on one of the boats when the fireworks start. It's a great view and you get to sit down which is a bonus.
My last ride of the evening was Snow White as well as a walk through Cinderella's castle. I then went on a mission to find my last treat for the day. I have a limit of two per day and for some reason I'm not thrilled with the ones they have available. Many are too big and I prefer chocolate items. I'm also quite disappointed that they appear to have eliminated fudge altogether. I used to bring some back to freeze until they changed their supplier and now it's gone altogether. Bring back the fudge Disney!
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