The Office of Homeland Security: Disneyland Trip Report - Day 3: Disney's California Adventure Park

Concept art of Paradise Pier at Disney's California Adventure park on display in the hallways of the Paradise Pier Hotel (formerly the Disney Pacific Hotel) where we had breakfast that morning

Stitch character at Lilo & Stitch's Hula Character Breakfast fiddling with my brother's Gameboy (I swear, he treats that like its a limb)

Goofy statue in the lobby of the Paradise Pier Hotel

Disney's Paradise Pier Hotel

Must be those South Central Deer ... if you saw "Collateral", you would get the joke

A glance at Grizzly Peak, home to Grizzly River Run, as we enter the park through the special entrance for Grand Californian Hotel guests

Wait, I have to get my BEAR-ings ... I know, not funny

Airplane on display in the Condor Flats area of California Adventure

Soarin' Over California (there's a better picture of the building coming right up)

And here it is ... Soarin' Over California (quite possibly the best ride in the entire park)

Scenery of the Condor Flats Airfield in Disney's California Adventure park

Taste Pilot Grill restaurant (counter service) in Condor Flats

Happiest Faces on Earth display in Sunshine Plaza (these were only here to celebrate the arrival of the Block Party Bash parade)

Sunshine Plaza in Disney's California Adventure park

Jim Henson's Muppet Vision 3-D in the Hollywood Pictures Backlot area of Disney's California Adventure park (sadly, not nearly as popular as its Florida cousin, which is beneficially for those searching for a quick attraction before Tower of Terror)

Pigs in Space!!

The remnants of the "Who Wants to be a Millionaire - Play It" attraction ... I don't understand for as long as this has been offline why they have not removed the signs or the Fastpass distribution machines

Hollywood Pictures Backlot

Jim Henson's Muppet Vision 3-D Queue Line

Another successful jump by The Great Gonzo!

The Great Gonzo's Catapult of Doom

Audrie Heartburn and George Peppercorn in Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner at Tiffany's

Department of Making Things Appear Closer in Your Rear-View Mirror

"It's a salute to all nations but mostly America"

Caution: Do Not Store Indoors - In event of emergency ... RUN!

Men In Plaid, Driving Me Crazy, Raging Bullfrog, Frumpy Old Men, Rodent Without a Cause, Go Figure, Scents and Sensibility, Plump Fiction ...

Happiest Faces on Earth display in Sunshine Plaza

In Memory of the Courageous Crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia STS-107

Greetings From California shop at entrance to Disney's California Adventure park

Entrance to Disney's California Adventure park

Soarin' Over California

The Firebird from Fantasia 2000 onscreen in the lobby of the Disney Animation building

Scenes from Atlantis: The Lost Empire in the lobby of the Disney Animation building (I apologize for the fuzziness of the picture)

Mulan onscreen in the lobby of the Disney Animation building

Backgrounds from Hercules in the lobby of the Disney Animation building

Rut and Tuk sculptures on display in the Disney Animation building

Concept art from Disney animated feature films like the upcoming Chicken Little (November 2005) and Pocahontas (including the turkey sidekick which was cut from the final version of the film ... the entire film is a joke, but that's just me ranting)

Dory sculpture from Finding Nemo on display in the Disney Animation building

Concept of the Beast from Beauty & the Beast on display in the Disney Animation building

Concept art of Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story on display in the Disney Animation building

Sorcerer's Workshop in the Disney Animation building

Disney Animation building in the Hollywood Pictures Backlot area of Disney's California Adventure park

The Hyperion Theatre featuring Aladdin - A Musical Spectacular (pictures from that show will be posted tomorrow)

Monsters Inc. themed attraction is replacing the long shutdown Superstar Limo dark ride in the Hollywood Pictures Backlot

Mike & Sulley to the Rescue! opens January 2006

Construction of Mike & Sulley to the Rescue!

The Twilight Zone: Tower of Terror from the waiting area for Aladdin - A Musical Spectacular

The entrance to A Bug's Land

"Oooohh, Candy Corn!"

"Shoo fly, don't bother me"

The Twilight Zone: Tower of Terror from Flik's Fun Fair (which was far from fun in my opinion)

"So that's how my second husband died. Now I'm a widow. Well, I've always been a black widow, so now I'm a black widow widow"

Grizzly River Run (be sure to bring a change of cloths because you WILL get wet ... how much depends on the direction of the vehicle during the ride)

Paradise Pier (one the best pictures I took on this trip)

Paradise Pier in Disney's California Adventure park

Ariel's Grotto (which use to be Avalon Cove and was hosted by Wolfgang Puck before he pulled out some time ago) in Paradise Pier where we went to have dinner (which I would not recommend to anyone)