California Adventure (Day 5 continued)

As you will notice, our girls were all decked out in their favorite Princess outfits.  We were under the false notion that we could see the Princesses at Ariels Grotto in Cali Adv. Come to find out, the other way you see THOSE Princesses is if you do a character dining there.  Oh. Great.  The place you see the Princesses is actually in Disneyland! UGH! Thankfully Tianna and Adelia took the news that they had to wait one more day to see their beloved Princesses.

"Look Tianna, see in there, yeah, THAT place.  Yes the Princesses are in there.  NO, no, we do not get to see them. See, it's a cruel, yet tantalizing sales tactic isn't it"  -Adelia 

I really was impressed with how well the girls' handled the disappointment.  What champs!
We made up for it by having a fantastic day though! While on the Paradise Pier we rode the California Screamer (and our stomachs regretted every second of it) , Toy Story Mania, The gigantic Ferris Wheel, and Ariels Under Sea Adventure.

Toy Story Mania was way more fun that I thought it would be! 

Grandpa Neil stood in line with these chicks to see Woody while the rest of us conquered The SCREAMER

 Next we headed off to Bugs Life land.  That "It's Tough to Be a Bug" show is timeless. And so are those glasses!

We grabbed us a TURKEY leg for lunch and chilled out in "Hollywood" so we could be on time for the Aladdin show.  But that darn turkey leg was just so good we missed the show by mere minutes. Oops. Good thing they have multiple showtimes through out the whole day.

We warned Tianna that the Tower of Terror ride would be scary.... but she wanted to come along!

BEFORE: Practicing her scared face:

 DURING: the REAL terrified face

AFTER: the survival face.  She enjoyed it but later swore she would NEVER go on that ride again. 

 Adelia andI went and checked out some other sights while the rest of the crew SOARED OVER CALIFORNIA.   Tianna liked that ride a whole lot more than Tower of Terror.

Meanwhile, we found Mater and Lightning! 

 And pretty waterfalls! 

 And a sign that made us feel like we were at home. (on years when it actually SNOWS!)

We literally RAN to see the Aladdin show and made it just in time for a great show! I felt bad my parent's were still "Soaring" and missed it though.  I think they enjoyed a minute to rest though... we kept running all day long.

Last, but certainly not least we grabbed some pizza for din-din and hurried off to wait. And wait. AND WAIT for the WORLD OF COLOR.  Good thing it was totally worth every agonizing second of standing around waiting for it.

 Gotta love the Pizza Faces they are sporting! 

 This show really was AMAZING!  Tianna wanted to go back the next night.  If you didn't have to just stand for over an hour waiting for the half hour long show which you also stand up for, we just might have... it was THAT GOOD!