Cali Part 3- California Adventure!

The next day we wore our matching Yellowstone T-shirts 

that Anders got me from his recent trip there.

Yep, we were that couple. 

But I think it is necessary to be cheesy every once in a while.

We quickly ran straight to Carsland once California Adventure opened up...

Us and everyone else in the park!

I stood in line for the Racers ride while Anders stood in line for a fast pass.

Best decision ever.

When we went back to redeem our fast pass,

it only took us 5 minutes to get on the ride (when there was a 2 hour wait).

Anyways, that ride was a blast!

And Carsland is fantastic.

I felt like I stepped into the movie.

Very well done.

We continued to ride as many rides as we could before the rush hit.

It usually hit around 11am.

We rode Tower of Terror about 3 times in a row.

NO line. It was awesome.

By lunch time we were starving and filled up with a burrito 

at a delicious Mexican restaurant in California Adventure. 

We also went to the sourdough bread factory

and tried to go to the Mission tortilla factory 

but they changed it to a Ghirardelli chocolate shop.

Soooo naturally we had to get ice cream!

If you know Anders and I at all, you know how much we love our ice cream.

 

When we saw Chip and Dale walking across the street
I got really excited and started running towards them screaming,
"Chip n' Dale! Chip n' Dale!"
Now, being the Vegas native I am I heard the words coming out of my mouth
and immediately thought of the strip show Chippendales.
I suddenly felt like a pervert and just walked away.

As mentioned in Part 2, we found this hilariously awesome Disney club.

We made it a priority to go again the next day.

^^The step sisters loved Anders!^^

^^Cat fight^^

^^Walked by Vince Vaughn and quickly turned around 

to stalk him like the weirdo I am.^^

Our second day at the parks we went to Disneyland for the second half of the day.

We saw everyone walking around with sweet celebratory pins so we thought we

would check to see if they had any just engaged pins.

Well, a nice Disneyland employee snuck us the last couple pins they had.

Apparently they are discontinued because too many people get engaged at Disneyland.

We promised to never tell anyone that he gave them to us.

So for the rest of the trip whenever anyone asked us about them,

especially the employees, 

we just made up a lame story.

HOWEVER, we got the best treatment having these cutesy pins plastered on our shirts.

For example: We got our own boat on the Small World ride.

See picture below. 

Everywhere we walked someone was shouting "congratulations!"

We didn't mind it at all!

That night we explored every inch left of Disneyland that there was to explore.

Being thoroughly exhausted, we called it a night.

On Sunday we went to church in Mission Viejo and hit the road!

 

We made it to Vegas just in time to eat dinner with my family.

This last New Years Eve when Anders came to visit me for the first time
we wrote each other letters that we weren't supposed to open for 6 months.
8 months later we remembered to grab them.

That night we sat alone and read our letters to each other out loud.

It was so sweet.

I'm so glad we made it this far.

I couldn't have asked for a better person to spend the rest of forever with.

Monday morning we hit the road again.

This was our final stretch to Utah!

It was sad to come back from such a perfect vacation.
It's always hard to come home after a vacation.
But we had some wedding planning to do!

Till next time.