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Visit Date: 08/24/07
Steps: 17,786
Parks Miles: 8.42
Time in Parks: 8

 
Trip Log:

Started off this great Summer afternoon heading for California Adventure. Walked through Condor Flats, grabbed a Fastpass for Soarin, then continued on to the Redwood Creek area. Spent some time walking around in there before heading out to the Bay Area and the Pier. Walked around the Cove then by Screamin and Toy Story Mania on my way to the Sun Wheel for some better pictures. Once back on the ground finished the loop and walked through the Farm area and Bugsland. Had some time to kill still so wandered down the backlot, around by Monsters and then by the Tower of Terror. On the way toward the parks entrance stopped by the Animation Building and Off the Page. Found a spot to watch the High School Musical 2 show in the Sunshine Plaza. After the show headed across the Esplanade to Disneyland. Strolled down Main Street USA and verred off to Tomorrowland. Grabbed a Fastpass for Buzz then circled Tomorrowland and decided to go for a round trip journey on the Monorail. Once back walked past the Matterhorn and Small World out to Toontown. Circled through the Downtown and residential area then back through Fantasyland and around the Big Thunder trail to Frontierland and then Adventureland. Cut through the Hub to Tomorrowland to grab another Fastpass for Buzz and then headed down Main Street to watch the Flag Retreat. After the ceremony it was back up Main Street and through Adventureland. Took one of the last rafts over to the Island to get some pictures of the work at the fort (was on the Island for no more than 10 minutes) then back to the main land and over to the Mark Twain for a ride around the Rivers of America. Once back in port I walked through Frontierland and over to DCA. Strolled out to the Pier and caught the end of Block Party Bash then walked the grounds of the Grand Californian taking some pictures. Walked out the front door and across the street to the Paradise Pier hotel. Walked through the lobby area and out the back to the area where the Vacation Club preview center is. Then strolled through the Disneyland Hotel and headed back Downtown Disney. Walked through a couple of shops, including the World of Disney before boarding a tram back to my car to grab a sweatshirt. Next up dinner at the Storytellers Cafe and then another stroll through Downtown Disney before heading back to the garage. Caught the fireworks from the stairwell and then headed home.

Other Interesting Stats:
* Actual Walking Time: 3:35:46
* 82 steps per minute average
* 2.34 mph average


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Note: These totals may be skewed because the pedometer is zero'd when we start and then left alone and read when we leave. So attractions, and other things may cause extra "steps" to be counted. The pedometer that we use basically measures up/down motion as a step, so if your standing in line and moving up and down it may be counting steps, etc.. so the total distances traveled and steps may be off.. so use these as rough distance comparisons between trips and they may not be accurate in terms of actual distance traveled.
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Hello all,

Friday was a nice relaxing trip to the Disneyland Resort. The crowds were mild as was the weather. Most wait times at DCA were under 30 minutes throughout the afternoon and at Disneyland most of the long lines were approaching an hour but many closer to the 30 minute mark. Even Nemo seemed to be just over an hour the couple times I walked by.

Jason


Trip logs and mileage reports are in the Park Miles section.

Disneyland & DCA Thoughts and Observations:

  • I caught the High School Musical 2: School's Out!- show that rolls through DCA three times a day right now. The crowd was fairly strong and into the show and a good half hour before the show there was a healthy crowd milling around. The format for this show is very similar to the Pep Rally that was running before. A dozen or so performers come out via the rolling stage, walking, or a golf cart. They then go through abbreviated versions of many of the songs from the popular Disney Channel movie. There were a couple of times throughout the show where they pulled kids out of the audience to participate. I think audience participation is a nice touch but these seemed very rushed and the performers were working hard to corral the kids and then a couple minutes later had to do it again and then again... Overall this is a very high energy show and if you are a fan of the film you will probably enjoy the show. I think the timing/subject matter is a bit odd. The theme song is "School's Out" and the course is about it being summer, this seems like it would have been better timed to have been released back in June and run all summer instead of debuting the middle of August just in time for Back to School.

  • I found it a bit amusing that the Spiel at the Monorail station was still the old one that includes the comments about moving away from the moving ramp (the old speed ramps), which are long gone now with the remodel and had not really been running much before.

  • We ate dinner at Storytellers Cafe and I would call this the worst meal I have had there. I found the service to be slow, they managed to goof up my order (which was a well done hamburger and the one I received was pretty much rare, not even medium well) and to top it off they mis-charged us. For those of you who order the cheeseburger/hamburger watch your bill. Seems the computer thinks its $11.50 but the menu says $10.50. The waiter made it right for us but we had to ask, again. This is the third time its happened over the past few months which seems really poor to me that they cannot either update their menu or their computer. One other random comment, has anyone ever received warm corn muffins? The bread is always warm and fresh but the corn muffins seem to be cool to cold and just not that good and I am curious if anyone has had warm/hot ones and if they are better, seems like they would be? Last observation, it was getting a little ridiculous Friday in terms of birthday celebrations. We think over the course of our dinner every table on our side of the restaurant had a birthday celebration. I understand people celebrating, but this just seemed a bit over the top for us....

  • A guest of the site checked in with this interesting report:
    "I was on the 14th floor of the Paradise Pier hotel last week after the park's closing. We were able to see some of the fountain testing for the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color. They had those main set of fountains on in the middle of the barges and the white rings that you can see in your shots from the sun wheel are the up lights for each of the fountains. They also had 2 Fantasmic-like water screens running (they looked bigger than the ones for Fantasmic) with a white rectangle of light on one of them (projector testing I'm assuming). The one screen was between the fountains and the sun wheel and the other one was to the west of the fountains between the fountains and the orange stinger. "


    Request: If anyone is staying in the Paradise Pier Hotel and able to get any shots of the testing, I have had several requests so anything you would be willing to share I know would be appreciated by other guests of the site.

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