Disney California Adventure

When they say adventure, they mean adventure! After spending a day at the main Disneyland Park we hopped over to DCA the following morning for more Disney fun! This was probably the Disneyland park I was most excited for due to the immersive Cars Land I had seen in photographs! We rope dropped, because is there really any other way to do it? We had the intention of rope dropping the new(ish) Web Slingers ride after watching some YouTube videos about it. It is also one of the Individual Lightning Lane passes, meaning we would have had to pay an additional fee outside of what we had already paid for Genie+. We definitely didn’t want to do that so rope dropping was the answer. While waiting at rope drop we were told that it wasn’t working, and then that it was working, and once we were waiting very close to the front of the ride line we were told again that it wasn’t working. Thankfully we only waiting about 20 minutes before they were able to get the ride up and running and we were loaded on pretty quickly.

This has to be one of my top “shooting rides” because you simply use your arms like you are shooting spider webs. It was very cool, very innovative, and was honestly an arm workout. I couldn’t stop laughing because my arms were getting so tired!

DCA is really set up in three main sections: Marvel Campus, Cars Land, and Pixar Pier. We wondered around a little bit before figuring out where to go next. Be prepared to do a lot of walking at this park, as it felt everything was pretty spread out. We ended up at one of the photo spots in front of cars Land where we took some cute pictures together before the sun would be in our eyes too much. There didn’t seem to be many Photo Spots at DCA, and this was probably the most popular.

We explored Pixar Pier quite a bit while getting in our first ride of three on the Incredicoaster! What a ride and so perfectly themed to the Incredibles movie! We had to experience the Pixar Pal-a-Round since it seems so iconic to the park despite the fact that I am not a fan of Ferris wheels, but this one was cute. I just wouldn’t recommend the swinging cars if you get motion sick. Trust me 🙂

We explored Cars Land during our lunch break at Flo’s V8 Diner. They have good burgers and sandwiches that we enjoyed outside while watching some of the Cars characters go down the street. It was hard to get a picture of those as they gathered quite the following of park guests.

Cars Land was probably one of the most immersive theme parks areas outside of Pandora at Disney’s Animal Kingdom. I truly felt like I was in the animated movie as we walked the streets of Radiator Springs.

We rode some of the rides in Cars Land, explored the area and decided we needed an afternoon treat to cool down as the day had become pretty warm. The Pixar Parfait at the Adorable Snowman Frosted Treats was and is a MUST! Not only is it super Instagrammable, but we loved the flavors! It’s a non-dairy lemon soft serve with a blue raspberry slush swirl and topped with a red cherry. It perfectly represents Pixar and we enjoyed it while looking out among the pier.

The day seemed to disappear from this point. We knocked out a lot of the smaller, family friendly rides, rode Incredicoaster two more times because we couldn’t get enough of it, and explored Cars Land at night when it was all lit up!