In case you haven’t heard, Daddy’s Summer vacation has ended last week. He returned to work this week, and life without him in the morning is especially tough! Because, you know, my voice is not being heard in the house when the boys to girls ratio is 1 to 2. I missed seeing Daddy’s face when I open my eyes every morning.
When Mommy told me this morning that we are leaving, and she grabbed that small suitcase, I thought I was never going to see Daddy again! But my only question was… “Do we have to bring Alicia?”
It turned out that Mommy is taking us to meet Daddy at work. I knew something was up when Mommy stayed up late last night packing. I just thought she was just packing up to send Alicia away.
So Mommy put Alicia and Myself in the car, and off we went. Where are we going? The Disneyland Resort!
Noticed that I said ‘Resort’, and not just Disneyland? This is because we got to stay at the brand new expansion of the Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel for a night! How/Why? Well, what we didn’t know was that prior to Daddy taking his Summer vacation, he was busy working on the opening of the Disney’s Vacation Club at the Grand Californian Hotel. The first Vacation Club from Disney on the West Coast! Along with this Vacation Club, it also came with an additional 200 rooms expansion to the Grand Californian Hotel. (You can read more about it here and here.) Now that the hotels are ready to be opened in a week, Daddy received an invitation for a complimentary preview stay!
Here’s a video of the room that we stayed in. This is an upgraded park-view room, overlooking Disney’s California Adventure. Daddy said we are the very first people who stayed in this room. Nobody has ever stayed in this room before us! However, I have to say I wasn’t that impressed by this room at all. Especially when I compared this room against THEhotel and Bellagio that I had previously stayed. The size of the room, the view, the bathroom, TV, etc. are all, in my opinion, sub-par to the aforementioned hotels. Judge it for yourself!
Here’s a day-time view of the room. Listen to the noise coming from the Mulholland Madness ride.
Here’s a night-time view of the room. The machinery noise is still there! Thankfully, the sound insulation is very well-done for our room. All I could hear is Alicia’s crying at night.
But enough on the rooms. Let’s hit the park!
First up, King Arthur Carousel. Unfortunately, the King wasn’t there when I arrived. All I saw were his horses, just like last time.
Next up, the Dumbo the Flying Elephant ride! And if you watch the entire movie clip, you’ll get a glimpse of what Alicia is doing while I’m having so much fun!
Hey, it’s not my fault that Alicia didn’t pass the height requirement! More importantly, it wasn’t me who dragged her along either!
Believe it or not, the Dumbo ride pretty much concluded Day 1 of Disneyland. Because right after this Dumbo video was taken, Daddy realized that my pants is all wet because Mommy and Daddy have totally forgotten to change my diaper. And right after the diaper change, it was time to feed Alicia. Although we did swing by Toontown, we didn’t take any pictures, nor videos. The good news is, we still have tomorrow!
Guess who did I get to meet first thing the following day?
Yup, that’s Daddy’s Boss. You’ll notice that I wasn’t particularly interested in him because if he’s the reason why Daddy had to end his Summer Vacation so soon, I just didn’t want to be near him!
After we met with the rat-head, we walked down Main Street, USA, and I saw horses. Two of them!
My final ride of the day/weekend is the Autopia ride. I was so looking forward to this ride because this is the ride that I would really get to drive a car!
Before I conclude this long post, here are some pictures taken mostly from Day 1. In fact all of them are from Day 1.
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