This trip to Disneyland and California Adventure was the first family vacation we had taken together in nearly a year and a half. Originally, this summer was to be our big vacation to Hawaii to
celebrate both Jordyn and Tyler graduating from college and high school respectively. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic put those plans on hold. Despite this set back we wanted to do something
before Jordyn started work at Amazon and Tyler headed to Cal State Fullerton for college. During the pandemic shut-down Disneyland completed its construction of the Avengers Campus in California
Adventure. We all wanted to visit the new attraction and ride Web Slingers: A Spider-Man Adventure, so when COVID cases appeared to be on the decline and the state of California began to reopen we made
reservations to visit.
July 17, 2021
Disneyland, in an effort to monitor the amount of people in its parks, required all prospective visitors to make reservations. After a reservation was made tickets could then be purchased for those
dates. We found a weekend we could get reservations and bought Park Hopper tickets that allowed us to visit both parks on the same day. Since Rise of the Resistance (Star Wars - Disneyland) and Web
Slingers (Marvel - California Adventure) were the two big rides everyone wanted to ride, Disneyland created virtual queues (only accessible on the Disneyland app) to prevent visitors from having to stand
in endless lines in close proximity to others. Virtual queues opened at 7:00am and again at 12:00pm. Since we had Park Hopper tickets, this gave us the opportunity to ride one of the two big rides in
the morning and the other in the afternoon. On our first day, unfortunately, we didn't have all our tickets on all our Disneyland apps. Each person had their own ticket on their app, but not the other
4. This was a necessity if we wanted to ride together. After realizing our error, Tyler ended up riding Rise of the Resistance in the morning by himself while the rest of us rode it in the afternoon.
After that we were quick to add each other's tickets to our individual apps so we could all ride together in the future.
Walking toward the security checkpoint.
Inside the front gate.
Since it was going to be a little while before Tyler had to go to Rise of the Resistance we got on Space Mountain as soon as we could.
Space Mountain.
Ready to go into Star Tours.
C-3P0.
R2-D2.
It's a Small World.
There aren't any parades at the end of the day anymore, but there was this one Frozen float at 3:00pm on Main Street.
Anna.
Elsa.
Millennium Falcon.
Astromech Droid.
Dejarik table.
Console on the Millennium Falcon.
Because of our screw up on the Disneyland app, Tyler went by himself in the morning. Now, the rest of us got to go on Rise of the Resistance in the afternoon!
Virtual queue.
BB-8.
Rey.
X-Wing.
July 18, 2021
Now that we figured out the Disneyland app, we were ready, bright and early, at 7:00am to get into the virtual queue for Web Slingers: A Spider-Man Adventure in California Adventure and then,
hopefully, get in the virtual queue for Rise of the Resistance at noon. Our hotel had complimentary breakfast so Mom went downstairs and brought food back for everyone to eat in the room. When 7:00am
rolled around everyone was on their phones trying to get into the virtual queue for Web Slingers. It came as a great relief when Tyler got us in for what looked to be about 10:15am.
We're in!
Crowd to get into California Adventure.
Waiting to get into California Adventure.
Hudson Hornet.
Cars Land.
We get to go 20 minutes early!
WEB Suppliers.
Pym Technologies.
In line for Web Slingers.
Peter Parker.
How the ride works.
Peter Parker giving us the low down.
Gotta wear these glasses.
Almost there.
Web Slinger vehicle.
Avengers Campus.
Avengers HQ.
Look! It's Captain America!
Thor.
Vote Loki!
Black Widow and Ant-Man.
Black Panther.
Scaling the building.
Taking out a henchman.
Face to face with Taskmaster.
Avengers vehicle.
Orb of Cagliostro.
Ancient Sanctum.
Spider-Man Stuntronic Show
Spider-Man.
Flipping in the air.
Swinging.
Going down.
In the queue!
It's Woody!
Incredicoaster!
Guardians of the Galaxy!
Since we got into the queue for Rise of the Resistance again we headed over to Disneyland around 4:30pm where we would ride more rides and have dinner at the Red Rose Tavern.
That's a lot of Stormtroopers!
General Hux and Kylo Ren.
Escape!
Our R5 transport driver.
Massive AT-AT's!
AT-AT side view.
Kylo Ren.
July 19, 2021
Our last day at Disneyland started with breakfast at the hotel. This time we ate downstairs with many other guests who were visiting the parks. Just like the previous day we waited anxiously for
7:00am to roll around when we all used our phones to see if we could get into the virtual queue for Rise of the Resistance. Man, we must have been getting good at this because Tyler got us into Group 6!
According to the app we would be one of the first groups on the ride! What was funny was everyone eating downstairs with us was also trying to get into virtual queues. When 7:00am hit everyone
cheered because they all got in too!
Outside the main gate.
Group 6!
Space Mountain!
Our shuttle's X-Wing escort.
First Order Star Destroyer.
Caught in a tractor beam.
Hangar.
In our transport.
Finn.
Millennium Falcon.
Stormtroopers.
Kylo Ren.
Lunch at the Stage Door Cafe.
Maybe 4:00pm.
Incredicoaster!
Cars Land sign.
Pixar's Pal-A-Round.
Clarabelle's Ice Cream Parlor.
Back at it! This time in the afternoon around 3:30pm.
