Are you ready for DCA? Because I sure am!
Saturday
After meeting in the hotel lobby very early in the morning, we headed over to Goofy's Kitchen at the Disneyland Hotel. Breakfast was served buffet-style and was very good. Me and some of the other teenagers had a trial with Alice. Ask your Adventure Guide for more details.
So, after breakfast we headed back to the Grand Californian to take the side entrance into Disney's California Adventure. The park was still closed off to the public, so walking over to Condor Flats was cool and creepy in its own way. So, if we're heading to Condor Flats to our first attraction of the day, where are we going? If you said, "A private Soarin' Over California experience and behind-the-scenes look," you'd be right. Once we finished walking the queue and were once again separated into our two teams, we were all shown the preflight briefing and then sent our separate ways.
Team Mickey boarded our hang gliders and were sent Soarin' Over California. I always enjoyed Soarin', and this time was no different, but what was really cool was what happened after our ride. You see, while we were riding, Team Minnie was watching us, from behind the screen. So we switched places, with Team Minnie riding and us seeing how it all worked from behind the screen.
Once we exited Soarin', we met up with one of the CMs from the attraction who brought us some coffee, or so we thought. It was actually the crystals they use for the scents. They passed all of the cups around for all of us to smell.
We then were brought over to The Animation Building. Outside of the building is a giant marquee which read "Welcome Advenures By Disney!" We took some pictures outside and then we went in for a personal Turtle Talk With Crush experience. Turtle Talk was very fun, especially since we all had a chance to ask him anything.
After Turtle Talk we went over to the Animation Academy where we all learned to draw Mickey Mouse. They then gave us cardboard tubes to put our artwork in. They would later be delivered to our room. We then proceeded to the zoatrobe exhibit where they gave us some refreshments, our pin for the day, and our FastPasses.
After my jaunt in the park I showered and changed for the Farewell Dinner. The dinner was held at Stage 7, which is now used as a changing room for Magic Music Days. Dinner was very good, but the highlight was the artist they brought in. She would do any Disney character you would ask her to do. She did Figment for me and even Sam the Eagle from America Sings for Quinn. (Ask him about it. It was really well done.)
After we finished eating we were shown a slide show of the pictures of our trip taken by the Adventure Guides. After the slide show ended we had some very special guests come to meet us. If you said Mickey and Minnie Mouse, then you'd be right! Mickey and Minnie were all decked out in their adventure gear ready for an expedition. They posed for pictures with all of us individually and for many group shots as well.
After we said goodbye to Mickey and Minnie we received our final pins as well as some light up necklaces for the teenagers. Us teenagers then proceeded to ride Buzz Lightyear so many times they eventually stopped asking us for our FastPasses. (We used The Max Ackerman Technique.)
But that's for another day.
I hope you enjoyed my review of Backstage Magic. But soon I'll be posting pictures of the pins, merchandise, and what-not, so stay tuned!
Until next time,
Max Ackerman
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