By Nick
Halloween at Disneyland Part 6
Monday, October 31st
We got over to
Disneyland at 7:30a.m. for an 8a.m. extra magic hour. The goal was to ride
Haunted Mansion Holiday, and we did! Twice.
Barbie and I headed over to
Disney's California Adventure for their 9a.m. opening, arriving at about 8:40 a.m. They were admitting people in and there was already a pretty lengthy standby line and a slightly shorter FastPass line being held up for
Guardians of the Galaxy - Mission: Breakout.
While Barbie waited in line, I took some photos of
Halloween decorations.
When 9 rolled around we were walked into a queue where we waited about 20 minutes.
Guardians had a special
Halloween addition which had been going on in the evenings, called
Monsters After Dark, which always seemed to have a 2 hour wait!
For
Halloween Day, they were playing this special edition all day!
It is basically a continuation of the storyline from the original ride, starring
the Collector, Rocket and Groot.
It was okay, nowhere near the original in our opinion, but pretty amazing that this soon after opening they had a variant edition. I wonder if there will be more in the future!
We got
FastPasses to ride again later in the morning and took a short ride on the
Red Car Trolley, followed by a walk over to
Paradise Pier, which we had not visited on this entire trip.
I'm very glad we did, since we got to walk on both
California Screamin' and
Toy Story Midway Mania!
Guardians was swallowing up all the crowds!
It was late morning and we still hadn't eaten, so grabbed a meal at the
Pacific Wharf Cafe. We were both really glad we did as the seasonal Beer Cheddar Bacon Soup and Pumpkin Bread pudding were outstanding. Actually, this may have been my favorite meal of the trip!
We headed over to the entrance area where we sat and people watched for a short while, waiting for
Clarabelle's Ice Cream to open. It was extra entertaining since people were dressed up for
Halloween.
As we were sitting there, several Streetmosphere characters came out and started to interact with guests. We were pulled into a little skit, acting as safety cones for a woman in a scooter to go around. FUN!
Once
Clarabelle's opened, we got another seasonal offering. This was absolutely delicious!
We headed over to
Monster's Inc., Mike and Sulley to the Rescue, which is a cute ride through
Monstropolis.
Earlier in the day we had inquired about what time
Groot would be out. Yes.
Groot. we were told at 2. They had a queue set up, and we got in line at 1:30. By line, I mean we were lucky enough to be second, and I say lucky because by 1:50 there were about 100 people behind us!
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Groot. He is awesome. And he is very talkative! We had a lengthy discussion about Halloween.
We headed back to the
Grand Californian for our 3p.m. pickup, relaxing a short while in the lobby before our town car picked us up to take us to John Wayne Airport, where we continued our vacation at Barbie's dad's for a few days.
Thanks for following our Disneyland adventure, and please check out :
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5
