Halloween - Disneyland style!

It was time for another visit to Disneyland. Neither of us had ever been during October so we thought we'd see how it is during Halloween season. There's a new, popular attraction called World of Color that has a couple showings at night and the tickets go really fast so we headed to California Adventure first thing so we'd get tickets. On the way back out we stopped for some "breakfast" at one of the candy stores. Check out the size of these brownies...

We headed back over to the Disneyland entrance and started seeing all the festive Halloween decorations. These Disney character jack-o'-lanterns were perched on top of the entry gates.

Once inside the park we took some pictures of more of the decorations.

Time to hit the rides! Jen and I love Buzz Lightyear's Astro Blasters. You ride in a cart and hold laser guns. There's targets everywhere to shoot and the ride keeps track of your score. Below is Jen with her blaster and receiving a medal for doing a great job. I'm standing with my three-eyed alien buddies.

Jen nearly became fish food for the whale on the Storybook Land Canal Boats. Then she stopped by to make a wish at Snow White's Wishing Well.

Here we are taking a ride on our trusty steeds.

This visit we made time to catch the parade. It was great. There's characters riding around in huge, crazy looking vehicles, and dancers in the street and music playing, and they get the kids involved out in the middle of it. It was great times.

Here's a little taste.

Over in California Adventure we caught the Aladdin show. It's just like the movie but the Genie cracks more jokes about current events. It was nice to sit and relax for a bit.

We got a nice shot of Jen with the Tower of Terror in the background. It has the worst elevator ride you'll ever take. You may be able to tell from my screams.

Here we are with the roller coaster and the ferris wheel in the background.

We love this coaster and rode it a bunch. Come along for the night ride...

Finally at night it was time for what we'd been waiting all day for, World of Color. It's a huge fountain that shoots jets of water high into the air and sprays a wall of water that you can see a show on. We've included a short video. It was worth seeing once, but I think we'll skip it from now on.

We hope you enjoyed us sharing it with you. We'll be going again for the Christmas season so we'll show you that soon.

A short while ago in a kitchen just down the hall...

The Flapjacks Flip

It is a time of insatiable hunger. BB and Jenny Bear, home from their

treacherous places of work, wrestle with their rumbling stomachs.

Their feeble lunch sandwiches could not sustain them

the rest of the night. Feeling emboldended they patrol

the kitchen for signs of nourishment. Tired and weakening,

they trudge onward throught the cupboard

until they come upon some Bisquick...

Hello, folks! It's time for some Star Wars pancakes! I geek out over all

things Star Wars so Jen's parents had given me these cool metal

cut outs that help you make pancakes that look like Star Wars characters.
Here's us cooking up some Darth Vader action:

Look out, Jenny! The stormtroopers are storming!

Mmm, we survived for another tasty meal.

I'm grabbing my trusty fork to fight off the Dark Side.

May the syrup be with you.

San Francisco- Sunday

Sunday October 3, 2010

We woke up Sunday ready for our last half day in beautiful and chilly San Francisco!  We wanted to start the day off right with a delicious breakfast.

We decided on Sears' Fine Food, which is famous for little pancakes!

Brian and I each ordered the 18 Swedish Pancakes which came with several slices of bacon (extra crispy of course).  It was a lot of food!

My BB loved the little pancakes!  They were delicious!

We headed to Union Square again and stopped at this heart for a picture together (we found a couple who Brian took a picture for and then they took ours).

It was a little rainy but eventually cleared up.

We went to the other side of Union Square and picked up these.  Don't we look cute??

We got these in order to Ride the Ducks!

This is a little tour bus/boat that traveled around San Francisco and we got to see a different area of San Fran!  Here we are on the bus rocking out to fun songs with our quackers!

Our guide was hilarious!  I laughed the whole tour.  We heard lots of different facts about the city as we drove along.

Here's AT&T Park, home of the San Francisco Giants.

Right by the baseball park we changed from tour bus to tour boat!

We are in the water crusing by the big ships!

Here's the Oakland Bridge.

This is a beautiful view of the city from the East side (Alcatraz is the North side).

Awesome shot of the baseball park again.

So, while we were going along in the water our guide started letting the kids aboard drive the boat.  After the kiddies turn he let me!  Check it out!  Brian came up to take some pictures!

Still driving, but I'm not watching where I'm going...oops!

A kiss with our quackers!

Brian then had to take a video too!  He's so funny!

Brian also got the chance to drive the boat too!  Doesn't he look great?

 

Here we are passing by another tour group.

 

When we got out of the water we drove more by the baseball park.  The Giants were playing the Padres that weekend to determine who was going to win the division.  Sadly the Padres lost and the Giants went on to win the World Series (Just so you know, I was cheering for the Texas Rangers).  Brian did get some good shots outside the park.

 

Oakland Bridge again.

 

This is a really cool bow and arrow statue. Apparently, the city commissioned an artist to do a piece of art and he could do anything he wanted. He talked to lots of San Francisco citizens and decided that everyone was so in love with the city it's like they were shot through the heart with Cupid's arrow. So he created this giant sculpture of an arrow being shot into the city.

 

This is Coit Tower.  We didn't get any closer though to check out. Coit was a wealthy woman that grew up loving the fire dept and she had this tower built to honor them.

 

The top of this picture shows Lombard Street.

 

Fireman statue with a rescued girl. Another tribute from Coit.

 

We drove through the markets of Chinatown.  It's quite the happening place.  The produce was super cheap!

 

We then arrived back at Union Square.  It was a great 90 minute tour of the town.  We got to see some new stuff and had a great time while doing it.  Definitely a fun adventure!

 

So, we returned to our hotel to check out and then we just wandered around a little bit more before heading to the BART station.  This is a really cool mural near where we were staying.

 

We were walking by some of the shops and came across this cute little guy in a clothing store.

 

So we went inside to say hello!  He was so calm and friendly!

 

Goodbye Union Square (love that I have a strand of hair in front of my face).

 

Here's the BART that we rode back to the airport!

 

We had an awesome time in San Francisco.  I'm so glad that we had the chance to go and experience some really great things together!