My most recent trip!

So I took a little trip on down to Disneyland and DCA, on April 13th with my mom, and what a great trip it was! We got to hit our favorite attractions, saw a few familiar shows, and got to check out some of the newer additions to the park!

First off, the new Fantasy Fair that recently opened was amazing! Not as big as I was expecting it to be, but the shows with the princesses and the little land itself was great. If I had to sum up the area in one word I would probably say cute. Every detail, down to the little Figaro robot that would wake up by the chirps of a robotic bird, was adorable and very princess friendly. Seeing all the little girls in their princess dresses going up to their idols and having the hugest smiles on their faces was, sorry to sound cheesy, a very heart warming experience. The absolute cherry on top of the cake for me in the Fair was Rapunzel's Tower. It was a beautifully done sculpture that tied everything together essentially.

                                      

We made our trip with two little missions in mind. First was to celebrate "Mini-Gay Day" which is an event held by a group that run the site "http://www.gaydaysanaheim.com/". We unfortunately missed the photo op with the other gay families, but we did get to join everyone on the train ride. It was a wonderful experience to see gays and straights together just having fun with no negativity being spout out. Plus it was really funny to ride in a train with a sea of people wearing red and confusing the hell out of random bystanders. The looks on their faces when some of the more flamboyant men would "princess wave" to the crowd had me dying from laughter.

(All the red is just some of the hundreds of people who joined us for the train ride)

(The most epic candied apple I've seen Disney do! Very delicious too)

Second part on my mother's and myself's agenda was to get my graduation cap Mickey ears. I know that sounds silly, but it is a big thing in my family for us to get it because right around when my sister was supposed to graduate we got her, her own pair. She didn't finish on time, but we already know I am so as a reward my mom wanted to get me my own hat. We got it, had my name put on it, and the lady who did the embroidery gave me a button that said "I just graduated!" It was really cool because I have never gotten a button for Disney events like birthday, first visit, or other events of that nature. Hearing the "congratulations" from the Disney cast members was cool too.

(This was the style of grad hat I picked, the other one looked small and silly)

(Mah button : D)

Another cool addition they made to the park was a new exhibit in Innoventions. For me, when ever I go to Disneyland I don't make it habit to stop in there because I've seen it so many times before. Never before have I seen such a huge line for that attraction before, and it was all thanks to the new Iron Man exhibits. They have all of the suits, featured in the films, and they have a cool interactive game where people can "suit up" and fight various things as if they were Iron Man. All this was made for the promotion of the newest film soon to be coming out, Iron Man 3.

 (First ever Iron Man suit)

(One of the newer suits) 

(The newest suit featured in the third movie)

We ended our night first with dinner at the Tiki Room, Bangle Tiger chicken skewers (which can be found across the way from the Indiana Jones ride) and a Dole pineapple whip (found right outside the Tiki Room). Probably the best dinner I've had at Disneyland, other than the gumbo served in the sour dough bread bowls. It was filling and not that expensive at all. Then after our little Tiki Room show we hopped on over for the World of Color which was spectacular as usual. We got the blue section which, in my opinion, is the best viewing area for the show. Just don't get to close to the water or you'll be SOAKED! After that we got to see Fantasmic back over in Disneyland. Now for the show they have the ending with a ton of Disney characters riding on the Mark Twain River Boat but it was being refurbished. Instead they had the characters come out onto the main stage where the rest of the show happens. It was still spectacular nonetheless. 

Great trip, amazing new stuff. Couldn't have asked for a better trip!