Farewell to Disney's California Adventure

Day 9, Part 2:

When we got to Paradise Pier we decided to have a go on the Little Mermaid ride again. It kept stopping this time and they kept announcing to stay in our shells: 

 We headed towards Toy Story Mania taking pictures along the way:

 

The wait time for Toy Story Mania was 80 minutes long so we decided not to wait and headed back towards Carsland. As we were wandering back into Radiator Springs we spotted DJ coming out and the CM we had been talking to earlier in the day about the buttons was with him. He came over and gave us a button each saying he never breaks a promise.

 

In Radiator Springs we sat outside Flo’s waiting for the lights to come on. We were expecting a show of some sort but they literally were off one minute and next just flashed on and that was it. We wandered around taking a few pictures with the lights on though:

Next we decided to watch the Pixar Play Parade again

 

After the parade my trip buddy wanted to chill out for a bit so she went to find a bench to sit on and I went to meet some characters. First was Pluto who had his ears covered in socks:

I decided to pop into Trolley treats to grab a quick snack for myself and my trip buddy. So many yummies to choose from:

When I came out of Trolley treats I spotted Mickey Mouse in his festive gear so went over to get photos.

After that I went back to my trip buddy and we sat eating cake pops watching the world go by:

 

Once we were finished our snacks we headed to the Animation Academy:

The first character we learnt to draw was Olaf:

We decided to wait around for the next one as well so the second character we learnt to draw was Baymax:

After that we went to check out the Mad T Party. They were a rock band based on the characters from Alice in Wonderland and there was a lot of young peopled drinking watching them. We took a few pictures but didn’t stay very long:

 

 

We decided to go on the Monsters Inc ride again as it was beside us:

 

After that we were pretty much done in the park. We wandered through some of the shops admiring the decorations and merchandise:

 

As we left one of the shops I spotted Goofy out doing meet and greets so hopped in line to meet him but by the time I got to him he was joined by a friend:

 

They were very funny to watch together. Goofy kept coming up with poses for everyone and would move Pluto into whatever position he wanted for the photos. When I got to them they spotted my first visit button and got super excited so did a big group hug before taking lots of photos. After that we said farewell to Disney’s California Adventure:

 On the way back to the hotel we noticed some of the restaurants had put out some Christmas decorations as well:

 

 Once we got back to the hotel we went straight to bed. Tomorrow would be our final day in Disney and we were not ready to say goodbye yet.