We went back to Disneyland Park around 6pm. After showing our family holiday party tickets at the entrance, we got a wristband.
After you walk through the entrance, Disney people passed out candy canes.
Inside the park, the first thing we did was have ice cream at the Gibson Girl shop. Then after ice cream we had popcorn! 🙂 Since we fed Nathan his dinner back in the hotel (our room has a microwave), Nelson and I just felt like having ice cream and popcorn for our dinner.
Popcorn is something we normally don’t buy at Disneyland because they are expensive. Small popcorn usually sells for $3.25 or $3.75. But since it is a family holiday party, the popcorn only cost $1!
Even after ice cream and popcorn, we had corn dogs. We have been going into Disneyland for years and never tried their corn dog. Nelson heard that the Disney corn dog is the best. But I beg to differ. I am not a hot dog or corn dog person. If I will eat a hot dog, I gotta have some rice with it. 🙂 That is the only way I can eat a hot dog is with rice! After taking a few bites of the corn dog, at first I thought it was good. After a few bites more, I wasn’t liking it because it was so oily! So I had to give my corn dog to Nelson. I didn’t want to eat it anymore. Just felt like I was having vegetable oil for dinner.
Before I ate my corn dog, I gave Nathan some snacks. While eating his snacks, he was dozing off again like what he did earlier at Cafe Orleans.
Since the party didn’t officially begin until 8:30pm, we can still go on the rides. In order to get on the rides, we had to show our wristband. The wait time for the rides were between 5 – 10mins. Space Mountain was 10 mins. Buzz Lightyear ride was pretty much no wait at all as well as Pirates of the Caribbean. When it came close to 8pm or 8:30pm, the longest time for a ride was 30mins which is still isn’t a bad wait time. It could have been worst like 1hr wait.
We took advantage of the complimentary photo pass. We had our picture taken at ‘It’s a Small World.’ We got in line for the photo just in time because after we took our photo, the line got very long.
At the holiday party, they had carolers singing Christmas songs in different areas of the park. They also had a lot of photo locations setup so people can take advantage of the complimentary photo pass. Some photo locations included Disney characters like Jack Skellington from ‘A Nightmare Before Christmas.’ There were some light shows too at ‘It’s a Small World’ and Main Street.
Inside ‘It’s a Small World’, a few new things were added due to the holidays.
Here’s the castle all lit up at night for the holidays
Here is the Christmas tree on Main Street. For some reason, I like taking pics of the moon.
Good thing it stopped raining before the family holiday party started!