Throughout the meal various characters would come over and let us take as many photos as we would like. Of course, this was between going to the breakfast buffet of pastries, waffles, fruits and made to order omelettes.
Cheyenne whispered to me after the breakfast that Captain Hook should have been leaving gifts for Audrey in our hotel room like Mickey and Minnie were leaving for her. I told her she should have said something to him while he was at our table.
Captain Hook noticed that John had not shaved during the trip and offered to give him a shave!!
After getting our fill of breakfast and seeing all the characters, we headed next door to upgrade our photo to a Disney Photo Pass. This is something that would have been great to have the first day. Basically you pay one fee and they take as many pictures as you want keeping them on a digital file for you. This includes the photo rides and all the photographers that are stationed throughout the parks. It basically costs you what you would pay for 3 ride photos, so well worth your money. (And if you buy before you go to the park there are usually promo codes available. We did not know about it, but will use it next time for sure.)
We went and rode all our favorite rides again and caught many of the rides we missed the first two days. Cheyenne really wanted to ride Space Mountain, so that was the first one we rode after breakfast. Then we tried the Matterhorn (it was closed) and rode the dark ride Alice in Wonderland.
We had never done this before either, so rode the trolley pulled by a horse down main street. The name of our horse was Holly - she even had a Cast Member name tag.
Then we grabbed the Disneyland Railroad and rode the train around the park.
Tried to ride Splash Mountain, but it was temporarily closed. We vowed to check back later.
About this time we met up with Susan, Heather and Nancy and went on the Haunted Mansion. It was cute because Cheyenne was encouraging Heather to ride this ride - she did not know what to expect as she had not been on it before. So Cheyenne was letting her know how fun it would be. After that we rode Pirates with Susan and then Big Thunder with Susan. We let Susan hitch back up with Nancy and we then headed over to DCA.
The Cars fastpass was sold out for the day so we decided to do a few different rides. John and Cheyenne did the other Cars Land rides that were not done such as Mater's Junkyard Jamboree and Luigi's Flying Tires. In the meantime Audrey and I did Pacific Wharf items such as the Boudin Bakery Tour and checked out the Ghirardelli chocolate shop. We met back up together and did The Little Mermaid - Ariel's Undersea Adventure. That was new for all of us.
We went to do a few more rides on Paradise Pier. Cheyenne was willing to go on California Screamin' but was too short (had to be 48" tall). So John and Cheyenne went on Toy Story Mania while Audrey and I went on Screamin'. (I did not trust my tummy on a 3D ride after yesterday...)
We were off the ride and John and Cheyenne were still in line, so Audrey & I started our souvenir shopping and grabbed some snacks to beat the heat. In Car's Land they had these "Cozy Cone" shacks that looked like giant orange road cones. We had ice cream and lemonade. And I got some chocolate ice cream on my white shirt. Whoops!
I don't remember the exact timing, but by this time Audrey had lost her sunglasses too. Now we were down to #1 pair between the four of us - my sunglasses. So Audrey first ran back to the hotel (with our souvenirs) and then went to the Lost and Found to report the # 3 missing sunglasses. The remaining three of us rode Soarin' over California again.
Cheyenne, John and I caught part of the Pixar Play Parade while we were waiting for Audrey to get back. Evidently it took awhile at the Lost & Found, but she was able to get her sunglasses back. Now we were back to #2 sunglasses.
On the way back from a bathroom break, Cheyenne told me that since today we were riding all our favorite rides, "We'd better ride the Tower ride again for Audrey". I questioned her - did she really want to ride it again (since yesterday she had not liked it). She reiterated that we "needed to do it for Audrey". So ALL of us rode the Tower of Terror again. You will have to look extremely close to see Cheyenne's head. She is between John and I on the left side of the picture. John describes it as a "boa constrictor wrapped around your arm". But she was a total trooper and rode Tower twice! When she got off she said "I'm braver than Kota (her brother Dakota)" because she had gone on it twice and when we had gone to Disneyland before with Mariska and Dakota, he had only gone on it once.
For dinner we grabbed different cuisine in the Pacific Wharf area. John and Cheyenne went with Cucina (Mexican) and Audrey and I split something from Lucky Fortune (Oriental).
Then we went and stood in the Radiator Springs Racers line and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves once we were on the ride. Awesome!!
We went back over to Disneyland for our final rides before calling our Disneyland trip over: Splash Mountain and Pirates.
