Believe it or not, if you are a Southern California resident and you go to Disneyland on your birthday for free, you also get to go to California Adventure for free.. on a different day of course. The reason for this is extremely complicated, and I have no desire to delve into it.
One of our main philosophies in life is "if it's free, do it" so we did it. Since we didn't have high expectations of California Adventure, we weren't disappointed. However, I was REALLY looking forward to the man-made lake and fake boardwalk and lo and behold, the faux lake was entirely dried up, and three of the boardwalkish rides were closed for construction. The Disney corporation is extremely lucky that I didn't have to pay for my ticket. If I had been cheated out of a huge chunk of change to go to a half-finished theme park with no lake, I would have raised absolute hell and demanded my money back.... maybe I should have demanded my money back anyways.
Oh, but there were a few cool things about the park. I finally got to ride on the tower of terror (alone, since my better half has an extreme fear of heights) I laughed so much in enjoyment of the free-falling sensation that tears started streaming down my face. We saw the Muppets in 3-D... totally awesome. We went on that crazy water ride.
Yes, they are serious when they say "you will get wet" and we had to take a special trip back to the car for a fresh change of clothes. The ride was pretty fun though. It was also really amusing that we waited in line for thirty minutes to go on the "craziest roller coaster in California" and the ride can be summed up as follows: straight, sharp u-turn to the right, straight, sharp u-turn to the left, dooooowwwwn, uuuuuuuuppp, awkward and abrupt stop, end.
