Mickey Mouse's House

We visited Mickey's house on the 4th day of the trip, it was fun to go around Mickeys house and finally after walking for 10mts we reached where Mickey was sitting. Took snaps with the legendary MICKEY MOUSE.

Disney Day 1 - Indiana Jones, Pirates of Carribean and Haunted Mansion

We tried to enter Indiana Jones ride and went all the way in, but there were some problems with the vehicles and had to return again after an hour. If I had any idea of the ride I would have never dared to do that. It was that scary.

We started the Indiana Jones Adventure in jeep like vehicle. I couldn't get my seat belt fixed and Anju helped me with that. It was the worst speedy and bumpy ride I have ever taken in my whole life. The vehicle rumbles, turns left, right, jumps and even drops into dark holes. I thought my back will be broken after the ride as it was that hard to even hang on to the vehicle.

It was a real high speed, jerky ride in a cave where there are snakes and big sculptures. Finally the vehicle will reach a point where Indiana Jones like figure is hanging down from a climber. The vehicle will be halted at this point. All the passengers in the vehicle will be waiting to see this guy to jump on top of the vehicle and this goes on for some time. After sometime, suddenly you see a HUGE ROCK which is 10 times the size of the vehicle you are in rolling towards the vehicle. All the passengers started screaming loud and when the rock was a centimeter away from the vehicle, the earth below the vehicle opens up and the vehicle drops into that hole and the stone goes over the vehicle.

Anju was really excited with the ride even though I was shivering.

Next we went to Pirates of Carribean. It was a fabulous boat ride in which the boat will take you through the Pirate Land. Couldnt take any photos inside except for the one below due to ban on Flash photography.

You could see the pirates fighting and almost all the scenes of the movie is re-created. Finally the boat will drop down with a big splash. This is one of the rides you should not miss. Even Jack Black was present as a wax sculpture.

Next we went to the HAUNTED MANSION which was not scary at all. Here also I couldn't take any photographs due to the ban. But I managed to take one ghost picture with my Blackberry Pearl( quality not good as it was completely dark).The ride was in a two seater and this will take you through various chambers in which ghosts are present all over. The ghosts are created as fumes and it was an excellent treat for the eyes. Finally you enter a long hall in which there are mirrors and when you look at your image and you will find a ghost right between you and your partner. Every time you take this ride , it will be a different ghost.

Disney Day 1 - Jungle Cruise

Reached Disney Land from hotel by taking the Anaheim transit. The transit service picks and drops tourists from DisneyLand to various hotels in and around Anaheim from 8 in the morning till the time park closes. We had an unlimited travel pass. DisneyLand in LA has two parts - Disney Park and the California adventure.

We were fascinated to see the park for the first time. We entered the park and took the Park Map. The park has Adventure Land, Tomorrow Land,Frontier Land,Fantasy Land, Toons Land etc. We first went to Adventure Land.

The first ride we took was the JUNGLE CRUISE.

Jungle Cruise is all about taking the cruise in the boat shown above around a man made Jungle with Tigers, Elephants etc. It was fun and hopefully one of the least scary rides. The boat driver explains everything when he takes the boat through tribal areas and shows the various animals.Seems like a true Jungle cruise

The journey becomes slightly scary when the driver shoots at a Hippo which comes suddenly out of the water near the boat and the gunshot will give you a small shock. Just when you relax and come out the shock, a group of piranhas comes out of the water to attack the boat , but goes back without doing any harm ...

Travel and Hotel

It was a very fast decision to go to DisneyLand. DisneyLand was always in my dreams starting from my childhood when I saw one photo from there. I still remember the photo of a bridge in disney, from somewhere. So during the second week of Jan I talked to Rajiv and sachu whether they are intereseted, they both had different plans during that time and we decided not to depend on anything else and just go by ourselves. I reserved the tickets thro the Disney's official site.

We left Portland on 1st Feb07 and reached LA by 2pm. The express shuttle picked us up and the we started our trip towards DisneyLand. We reached our Marriot Suites , Anaheim by 3 -4 pm. While checking in to the hotel I remembered that I am a Marriot Platinum member and asked the receptionist for an upgrade. She gladly upgraded us to the 14 th Floor with a good view. Below are some pictures from the hotel room and outside.

Our initial plan was to go for an LA trip that night and start the Disney Trip from the next day onwards. Reaching Disney Land we changed the plan to go to Disney Land the same day itself as the whole purpose of the trip was to visit DisneyLand and not for anything else. Our return trip was after 4 days . 3 Days in Disney Land and 1 day at Universal Studios.