Araminta18
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Mar 11, 2016
Hello Disneyland folks!
I just returned (well, I guess "just" returned is a bit of a stretch...it's been a little more than a month) from my first Disneyland trip as an adult, and my first California Adventure trip ever, so I wanted to write a trip report to relive it and share the fun!
I'm just gonna jump right into it with all the details:
who: me and my husband Trevor
when: Sunday September 12th through Tuesday September 21st (Disneyland from Sept 12th-Sept 19th; Universal Studios Hollywood Sept 19th-Sept 21st)
where: Fairfield Inn Anaheim; Sheraton Universal
Introductions:
So I'm Tiffany, I'll be your ghost host for this trip report. I'm 34, and while I'm a librarian by education, I currently do federal records management, since records management is where the pay is, and I gotta pay for Disney! Favorite princess is Sleeping Beauty, but I also love Mary Poppins and Beauty and the Beast and Rapunzel. Favorite ride: I can never pick just one -- Haunted Mansion, Rise of the Resistance, Tower of Terror/Mission Breakout...I can't pick! But I also love the food and the theming -- the music and all the attention to detail just makes me happy.
My husband, Trevor. He's 35. He loves Star Wars, but has grown to love Disney--his favorite characters are Boba Fett, Vader and Stormtroopers, and on the non-Star Wars side, Grumpy. His favorite rides used to be Haunted Mansion and Star Tours--he doesn't really like coasters or thrill rides, but I did get him to try Big Thunder Mountain and Space Mountain and I don't know that he'd call them favorites, but he definitely likes them. I think the only rides he won't ride at Disney are Everest and Rockin Roller Coaster and most of the time Tower of Terror. And I don't mind riding solo, and he doesn't have any problem entertaining himself, so it works out really well. Though stay tuned to see how he tackled (or didn't...) Incredicoaster and Mission Breakout. But he also loves Rise of the Resistance and Jungle Cruise and Kilimanjaro Safaris. Again, have to wait and see how he feels about some of the rides only on the West coast!
So...what can you expect from this trip report? A lot (A LOT) of pictures for each day (like literally, probably gonna have to break each day into 3 or 4 posts to get around the picture limit), including terrible selfies. Lots of pictures of our meals (I think I actually managed to take pictures of all of the food, before eating it, which is a definite win), and probably way too much detail. If you want a taste of how my trip reports go, you can check out my old ones (for Disneyworld) in my signature.
ANYWAYS. This trip was originally planned for September 2020, but obviously COVID made that a no-go, so when they announced Oogie Boogie Bash tickets, I decided to revive the trip. That's all documented on my pre-trip report, if you're interested in the machinations of my mind and planning: PTR -- Oogie Boogie Parties, Disneyland, and Universal, Oh my! - Sept 2021 Pre-trip Report!
As the day to leave approached, I was getting more and more excited. I won some Jungle Cruise Swag from Disney Movie Rewards on instagram, which was exciting and definitely came in handy for the trip:
Then, the day before the trip, it was finally time to pack, and so of course I had to plan out all our outfits and my ears and everything...
So with that all planned out, we were ready to get up at zero dark thirty Sunday morning to head out on our big adventure!
I just returned (well, I guess "just" returned is a bit of a stretch...it's been a little more than a month) from my first Disneyland trip as an adult, and my first California Adventure trip ever, so I wanted to write a trip report to relive it and share the fun!
I'm just gonna jump right into it with all the details:
who: me and my husband Trevor
when: Sunday September 12th through Tuesday September 21st (Disneyland from Sept 12th-Sept 19th; Universal Studios Hollywood Sept 19th-Sept 21st)
where: Fairfield Inn Anaheim; Sheraton Universal
Introductions:
So I'm Tiffany, I'll be your ghost host for this trip report. I'm 34, and while I'm a librarian by education, I currently do federal records management, since records management is where the pay is, and I gotta pay for Disney! Favorite princess is Sleeping Beauty, but I also love Mary Poppins and Beauty and the Beast and Rapunzel. Favorite ride: I can never pick just one -- Haunted Mansion, Rise of the Resistance, Tower of Terror/Mission Breakout...I can't pick! But I also love the food and the theming -- the music and all the attention to detail just makes me happy.
My husband, Trevor. He's 35. He loves Star Wars, but has grown to love Disney--his favorite characters are Boba Fett, Vader and Stormtroopers, and on the non-Star Wars side, Grumpy. His favorite rides used to be Haunted Mansion and Star Tours--he doesn't really like coasters or thrill rides, but I did get him to try Big Thunder Mountain and Space Mountain and I don't know that he'd call them favorites, but he definitely likes them. I think the only rides he won't ride at Disney are Everest and Rockin Roller Coaster and most of the time Tower of Terror. And I don't mind riding solo, and he doesn't have any problem entertaining himself, so it works out really well. Though stay tuned to see how he tackled (or didn't...) Incredicoaster and Mission Breakout. But he also loves Rise of the Resistance and Jungle Cruise and Kilimanjaro Safaris. Again, have to wait and see how he feels about some of the rides only on the West coast!
So...what can you expect from this trip report? A lot (A LOT) of pictures for each day (like literally, probably gonna have to break each day into 3 or 4 posts to get around the picture limit), including terrible selfies. Lots of pictures of our meals (I think I actually managed to take pictures of all of the food, before eating it, which is a definite win), and probably way too much detail. If you want a taste of how my trip reports go, you can check out my old ones (for Disneyworld) in my signature.
ANYWAYS. This trip was originally planned for September 2020, but obviously COVID made that a no-go, so when they announced Oogie Boogie Bash tickets, I decided to revive the trip. That's all documented on my pre-trip report, if you're interested in the machinations of my mind and planning: PTR -- Oogie Boogie Parties, Disneyland, and Universal, Oh my! - Sept 2021 Pre-trip Report!
As the day to leave approached, I was getting more and more excited. I won some Jungle Cruise Swag from Disney Movie Rewards on instagram, which was exciting and definitely came in handy for the trip:
Then, the day before the trip, it was finally time to pack, and so of course I had to plan out all our outfits and my ears and everything...
So with that all planned out, we were ready to get up at zero dark thirty Sunday morning to head out on our big adventure!