Thursday Oct 20 - Return to DCA

 Spectacular weather today! Lots of sun but much cooler.

We started out in Hollywood Land. Janet and Olivia did Guardians of the Galaxy. We did a couple of kiddie rides... Mickey's Magic and Monsters Inc . Fast food for lunch from Pym Tasting Kitchen.

We left DCA by walking through the lobby area of Grand California Hotel .....wow! Reminds us of Yellowstone lodge. Coming out the other side we're in Downtown  Disney.

Back to our hotel for a rest. We'll return for a dinner reservation, then explore Pixar Pier and some light show.

This afternoon we returned to California Adventure and did a few more juvenile rides.  We had dinner at The Lamplighter Lounge on the Pixar Pier. It was a nice looking place but oddly they placed the six of us in the dining room at a table about like a coffee table. And it was extremely noisy. I had a salmon steak which was excellent.

We attempted to do the Web Slingers Spider-Man Adventure but, alas, the ride had technical difficulties so we couldn't. We did go back to Soarin', which all of us think is a wonderful presentation.

We were back to the hotel at about 9:30 just in time to see the Magic Kingdom fireworks show from the parking lot.















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