Disneyland for a Few Days

After leaving Los Angeles, Kyle and I headed to Anaheim to spend a few days at the happiest place on earth. We finally invested in some annual passes, so we got to experience Disneyland at a slower pace than we're used to. It was such a different feeling to take our time and eat at fancy Disney restaurants and just kind of wander around the parks. Also, it was weird to leave before midnight because it was off-season and the parks closed at 8:00 pm.

It's kinda boring to tell the story of what we did at Disneyland, unless the audience happens to be a bunch of Disneyphiles (which I highly doubt). So, I'm not really going to talk much about what we did, I'm going to share a bunch of photos with captions instead. Makes for a much more interesting post I think. ;-P

So, here goes! Oh, and by the way - they are in no particular order.

Kyle eating his first Starbucks treat from Main Street. We hadn't been to the park since the Starbucks got put in.

Kyle enjoying a beer at Carthay Circle in the early afternoon.

The salad that was served with our meals at Carthay Circle. Just delicious.

We both ate salmon for lunch at Carthay Circle. It was such a great way to fuel the rest of our day until dinner.

Carthay Circle dessert. We're not pigs and can't eat this much, but the meal package we ordered to get good seats for World of Color included a three course meal, hence the appetizer, entree, and now, dessert. It was some sort of chocolate flan BTW.

I took this photo in the Carthay Circle bathroom because it's probably the nicest bathroom in all of California Adventure. It was such a slow day that I had the whole bathroom to myself.

Radiator Springs Racers. My hair is going crazy.

First Tower of Terror ride of the trip. It's funny because you can tell who the Disney regulars are based on if they're posed in the photo or not. 

Kyle's drawing a cartoon in the animation building in CA Adventure. You put the cartoon in the spinner and it shows you the picture in action.

Urusula on the Little Mermaid ride.

"Frozen" is so popular that Disney apparently has to limit the number of items guests can purchase. I found that amusing.

I got a vegan burger at Carnation Cafe on Main Street. It was really good. Plus it's good to know that Disney is taking into account all the diets that people have.

You better believe I had my mid-day Dole Whip. You buy one of these babies and head into the TIki Room when you start to get tired and it gives you a second wind. 

Disney makes "Frozen" everything, even rice crispy treats!

Space Mountain Ghost Galaxy. Again, you can tell the Disneyland people because they pose in their photos.

We had a fancy dinner at the Blue Bayou, which is inside of Pirates of the Caribbean, in case you didn't know. It's pretty romantic in there, especially when you get a seat close to the water…which we did not. Haha.

Kyle ate a steak at Blue Bayou. No surprise there.

Disney has really upped their game when it comes to salads. Every salad I had at the park was delicious and perfectly balanced between sweet, acidic, and savory flavors. 

My dinner at Blue Bayou was some sort of mushroom and spinach thing with couscous underneath. It was very good. I took a gamble ordering it because I had never ordered anything like it before, but I'm glad I tried it.

We got to enjoy the Halloween decorations because we went the day before they took it all down and started putting up the Xmas stuff. It literally happened overnight. Each day we went, there was a bit more Christmas sprouting up at each location.

Toy Story ride. 

He always beats me at the video game interactive rides. Not fair.

Second go-round on Tower of Terror. We ran into our sister-in-law who works security at CA Adventure and she gave us a pass to get to the front of the line because we chatted so long with her that we missed using our fast pass. *wink wink* Not that it mattered much. The park was so slow, the wait time was only like 20 minutes anyways.

Radiator Springs area looks so pretty at night.

Ghostly travelers on our way back to our hotel.

Kyle's caption for this one on Instagram was, "You must be this tall to take a selfie." Haha. I tried to tell him I wasn't tall enough, but he didn't listen.

Kyle had a chocolate parfait, which was also super good. Pretty much everything we ate this trip was delicious. 

Pirate's booty.

Lookit all that treasure!

The treats inside the Starbucks. Yum!

Just looking at this photo makes me want to eat it.

Mickey bat cookies?!? Yes please!

The Mickey ferris wheel at night. Always makes for a great photo.

Our final day before we flew back home, we made a small drive to a restaurant run by ex-Orgy member Ryan Schuck (he's now part of Julien-K, who we saw perform live back in July). He has a few restaurants in the area and we went to the one called Gypsy Den. They had vegan and vegetarian food (mostly) so I was so happy to eat there, never mind the fact that it's owned by Mr. Schuck.

Kyle was taking a picture of the art on the walls, but he captured me looking bored instead. I wasn't bored, just intently trying to figure out what to order since I was able to eat pretty much everything on the menu. It made my choice super hard!

I wound up ordering a vegan chipotle chicken wrap with fries. It was seriously so good. I wish I could make food this good at home.

We also had hummus and pita, which is always a good choice. I don't think I've ever met a hummus I didn't like.

Exterior of the restaurant.

It was a super fun trip, but we were thankful to get home to our kitties.

Until next time!