Halloween Fun at Disneyland

Having some fun at Disneyland and enjoying more of the Halloween deco.

Zoë also said she'd actually ride Nightmare Before Christmas! I sorta convinced her a few days ago by telling her that it's not scary at all and that it's like the movie. She's been on it before, but it was when she was younger and more fearless. Once she got older and started to get scared of the Haunted Mansion, there was no getting her on it or the Nightmare Before Christmas version. So, this made us happy! She finally agreed to ride it.

But first, time for us to try the Pumpkin Spice Mickey Beignets!! And looks like everyone had the same idea because the line was super long. It went from the Mint Julep order area all the to the La Mascarade d'Orleans entrance. So crazy!

The line did move along fast though and gotta say, these beignets were way worth it. That pumpkin spice powder was finger lickin good.

And now it was time to ride Nightmare Before Christmas. But did it happen? Uhhh, nope! Hahaha. She backed out and said she didn't wanna ride it. That's okay baby girl! Hopefully you'll ride it again some day.

We also finally got to take our Giant Mickey Pumpkin photos. Gotta have one of these every year!

And when we finally were all done and made it back to the parking structure, I noticed that the tram now drops you off outside instead of under the structure where the pick you up from. Which allowed us to check out the huge Pixar Ball.

Oogie Boogie Let Down

We went to Disney today since 1) my pass expires on October 3rd and 2) we wanted the Oogie Boogie AP Photo.

The park didn't seem that crowded, which was real nice. But that's probably because it was hot a.f. Anyhow, Iban went with us and we went to find the new AP corner for our Oogie Boogie photo op. Jeric had to meet us up there, so we got in line right when we got there and Jeric would meet us up. That line was crazy long! And it was just to get inside!! Once inside, there was another line, which I thought was for the Oogie Boogie photo. We had to wait for Jeric anyways, so we just hung out inside Launch Bay. At least it was air conditioned.

When Jeric finally met up with us, we got in line, but then, Jeric wanted to see how far the line went and found out it was just a line to get the button and magnet. Lame. He did ask where the photo op was and found out it was upstairs. Iban didn't really want a photo with Oogie Boogie, so just us three went upstairs. And of course, there was another line. We also saw the photo op. And OMG! It wasn't an Oogie Boogie character. Instead it was just a large backdrop that had him in it. Doh! I don't know why, but when I saw Gail's photo, I remembered him being an actual character. Of course, when I looked at it again, it wasn't. I must've confused Gail's photo with the Halloween Time Newsletter that showed Oogie Boogie as a character. Whoopsie!

Well, since we were here already and waited the line just to get inside, we decided we might as well get a photo. The line probably took another half hour though. Ugh. And by the time it was almost our time, Zoë was so over it. She didn't want to take a photo. We tried to convince her, but then she got whiny and threw a fit. She was sitting on the floor and didn't want to move. Jeric had to pick her up when it was our turn and even then she hid her face. We kinda just shrugged at the photopass guy and gave him to go ahead to snap our photos as is.

Luckily, the photographer had an idea. He reached in his pouch for Mickey Sticker and showed it to Zoë and asked her to look at the sticker and keep looking at it as he placed it over where the flash was on his camera. She didn't smile, but at least we got her face!

After we finished the photos, Zoë was still in a bad mood. She continued to throw a fit and channeled most of her anger at Jeric. Jeric ended up putting his foot down and said she couldn't have cotton candy unless she behaved. Eventually she behaved and got he cotton candy. And as we were walking from Launch Bay over to Fantasy Land, we spotted Max, which was a rare character to see out and about. This lifted Zoë's spirits even more since she's always loved A Goofy Movie and even though she wasn't super happy, we got our photo with Max!

Now off to Fantasyland. The first ride Zoë chose was Tea Cups. Since me and Jeric weren't up to getting all dizzy, Iban ended up taking her.

She then wanted to ride Alice in Wonderland, since she saw it right there. She ended up riding with Jeric in the back with me in the front and Iban sat this one out.

By this time we were all hot, miserable and hungry, so we decided to call it quits and go grab food.

Cali Adventure Fun

Heading out to Cali Adventure to see what photo ops they had for Halloween.

We started off with a photo with Daisy the Witch.

Honestly, this photo spot is not really the best. The wall is just so bland. I think they should do something to spruce it up a bit since it's a popular character photo spot all throughout the year.

Anyhow, after the cute photos, we wanted to check out of they had the Oogie Boogie AP Pass spot opened up in the back area over by the Paradise Garden Grill spot. But we were wrong! The AP Photo Opp with Oogie Boogie is actually in Disneyland over at the Star Wars Launch Bay. Whoopsie! Oh well, since we were around the area, we went to check out the updated Toy Story ride, Inside Out - Emotional Whirlwind.

They basically revamped the Flik's Flyers ride that they took out since A Bug's Land was closed out into this ride and they did a good job with it! I personally love the look of it because of all the colors and because Inside Out was a pretty good movie.

Zoë also loved the character statues outside and posed with this one, Disgust.

And here she is about to board her emotional whirlwind balloon carriage!

And after the ride, Zoë had fun touching all the memory balls that lined the walls. The colors and the lights at night are what really draw you to the ride.

The ride itself was nice and smooth, but it was soooo smooth that we all felt dizzy. Hahaha. Yah, not riding that one again. *barf*

After the ride, we walked around the Paradise Garden area since they had all the Coco Halloween deco up. We did see a line at one of the character photo spots too and found out that it was gonna be Miguel so we got in line. Boy were we disappointed though! It wasn't Miguel as a character really. He was puppet attached to a dude so our photo with Miguel included the extra dude. Hahaha. Yah, it was a little weird talking to the puppet and ignoring the dude that controlled him. The photo wasn't too bad though.

We also got a cute Halloween photo with the spider car in front of Flo's Cafe.

And to end the day, Zoë picked Luigi's Rollickin Roadsters to ride. Mommy had to sit this one out though, but I walked through with them and snapped this cute photo of Zoë and Daddy.

After we left California Adventure, we decided to skip the tram since the lines looked like madness. Instead we opted to walk since they had a new walkway that went from the old Downtown Disney parking lot that was behind Rain Forest Cafe all the way to the Pixar structure.

Since walked through Downtown Disney to get there, we got to see all the cute different pumpkin decorations they put up in all the planters.



Super cute! Buuuut, the walk was kinda a bad idea. Zoë ended up falling asleep, so we couldn't keep her in the stroller since all we had was the umbrella one. So Jeric had to carry her from half way through Downtown Disney all the way to the car. Plus my feet were super tired from walking around California Adventure already and with being pregnant and all, it started to hurt pretty badly and I even had to take a few breaks here and there.

Well, we made it to our car all in one piece! Hahaha. Totally not doing that again though.

Happy Halloween!

Zoë's so happy to be a butterfly! Mommy and Daddy wanted her to be Vanellope Von Schweetz, but nope. Baby girl chose her costume this year. She's still a very cute butterfly though!

And how are Mommy and Daddy going to match? See if you can guess.

More Disney Halloween Fun!

Today, we meet Bat Mickey!

While walking around, Zoë wanted to push her own stroller! Hahaha. The cutie just wants to do everything Mommy and Daddy does. LOVE IT!

Had to take a photo with one of the Mummy Cow Tractors.

I've also been dying to take a pic in front of this cutely done Car's Land Cornucopia. I guess Carnucopia would be fitting. Hahaha.

Daughter Disney Date

Had a fun Disney date with the little one. All we really did was take some photos with the characters donned in their Halloween gear. Them lines are no joke. Hahaha.


We did try to ride The Little Mermaid, but it was broken down. Bummer. That was the only ride she wanted to go on. Oh well, time to go home.

Disney Dating w/ the Calderons

Zoë gets to hang with Penny in Disneyland today! When we got there though, we headed to DCA first because I wanted to check out all the cute Halloween Deco. They finally decided to do something for Halloween over at California Adventure! I know Halloweentime was also added to DCA, so they Deco'd it all out.

Once we entered the park, we knew we had to head over to Car's Land since that's where all the deco was at, but as we walked down Buena Vista I spotted an awesome statue of the Headless Horseman and he was holding a pumpkin head in his hand! Totally MUST stay in this line for this picture op.

We were on our way to take a pic with Lightning McQueen who was donning vamp like gear when we saw a cute car dressed up as a witch. Super cute!

Little Zoë even gave the witch car a smooch!

And here's good ol' Lighting McQueen or.. LMQ as his costume points out.

While waiting in line for a pic with LMQ, I noticed the awesome giant scary cone deco!

Now time to head over to Disneyland to meet up with the Calderon's! On the way there, I wanted to snap a quick photo of Zoë clinging to a lamppost with a HalloweenTime banner.

Now off to meet up with the Calderon's. Of course, they both wanted to go on King Arthur's Carousel. Look at these two cuties enjoying the ride!

We had a line return time for the Haunted Mansion, but still had time to kill. We decided to walk over there though and on the way there, Zoë eyed the Dia De Los Muertas display and wanted to go there. We got tons of time, so why not! She wanted me to snap a picture of her in front of one of the displays too.

We still got a ton of time to kill, so we park the strollers out in front of the Haunted Mansion and let the girlies hang out on the curb. I looove that they interact with each other more now.