How Disney California Adventure Celebrates the Holidays #DisneyHolidays (Video)

We are in the middle of December and the holidays are in full swing! There's still plenty of time to visit the Disneyland Resort and experience the magic of Disney Holidays. It's the most wonderful time of the year to go to any of the Disney Parks. It's definitely a family tradition for us - and we highly recommend it.

Take a few minutes to watch as Disney California Adventure Park has been transformed for the holiday including highlights such as Christmas in Cars Land, Buena Vista Street and Disney's Viva! Navidad. (Interview with Santa coming soon!)

For more holiday magic check out these pixie dusted posts:

A Christmas Fantasy Parade

It's a Small World Holiday

Take at Jingle Cruise at the Disneyland Resort

Disclosure: We were invited to a Media Preview at the Disneyland Resort to experience all things #DisneyHolidays.

Cars Land Insider's Guide with Disney twenty three Magazine

Here's a peek at what Becky's desk looks like this week...

We're still on a Cars Land high around here.
We have only visited once since the rededication of Disney California Adventure Park on June 15th and we can't wait to go back. In addition to the new attractions and food offerings in Cars Land itself, there's just as much to explore on Buena Vista Street! There are all new shops and stores each with their own themes and treasures for sale. Buena Vista Street recreates a 1920s and '30 version of Los Angeles that creates a similar small town feeling you get from Disneyland's Main Street. A replica of the Carthay Circle Theatre is located at the end of Buena Vista Street and is home to the Carthay Circle Restaurant and Lounge. And have you heard about 1901? 1901 is an exclusive area secretly housed inside the restaurant open only to members of Disneyland's Club 33.
Disney Sister Trivia Question: 
Why the name 1901?
1901 honors the year Walt Disney was born.

A quick stop at Carthay Circle to capture our family celebrating our first visit since the park's expansion. This photo was taken by a Disney PhotoPass Cast Member. These nice people are photographers trained in getting just the right shot of your family with the perfect Disney backdrop. More from us on this awesome service coming soon here on the blog.
Finally, a way that we can all be in our family pictures!

We haven't even scratched the surface of all that's new about Cars Land and Buena Vista Street at Disney California Adventure Park. Luckily, the newest issue of Disney twenty-three magazine has arrived and it features "The Ultimate Insider's Manual To Cars Land".

The Fall 2012 edition has a insider's guide to all things new at Disney California Adventure. The photos in this high quality magazine are truly the next best thing to being there. A huge congratulations goes to our friend Jeffrey Epstein for publishing such fantastic coverage, in fact it's the best we've seen! Welcome to California, is a glorious 8 page spread written by Jeffrey. We especially love his reference to Disney California Adventure as Disneyland's sister theme park. Everyone knows how very fond we are of sisters around here!!! 

So, how do you get this magazine you ask? 
Become a member of D23 and get a subscription
or
Buy it at Barnes & Noble in the magazine section (other bookstore probably carry it as well)

Want another reason to join the world's only
 Official Disney Fan Club D23? 

D23 members always receive discounts and special D23 pricing on EXPO tickets, along with early admission to the expo show floor and will be able to purchase 2013 EXPO tickets at 2011 prices through Dec. 31, 2012

Time Capsule Buried at Disney California Adventure Park

Did you know there is a Time Capsule buried at Disney California Adventure Park in the middle of Buena Vista Street?

A time capsule containing specific items to the park was buried in the middle of Buena Vista Plaza by Walt Disney Imagineers. This was a very special occasion during the construction of the newly redone Disney California Adventure Park. Another special occasion will be on June 15, 2037 when cast members open it. Are you planning on attending the momentous event?

Disney California Adventure

Rededication Time Capsule

June 15, 2012

May the hopes by the collection contained within the time capsule beneath this marker inspire a future generation of dreamers when it is unsealed a quarter of a century from now 

on June 15, 2037

Have you seen it yet? 

If not, make sure to look for it next time you visit DCA.

Hint: Make sure to look close to the entrance.

Walt Disney Studios Presents Wordless Wednesday

 Walt Disney Studios Presents. . . 

W O R D L E S S   W E D N E S D A Y

MICKEY MOUSE

The Nation's Newest Cartoon Star

MINNIE MOUSE

Quite, Petite And Sweetly Demure

PLUTO

Faithful Hound And Best Friend

GOOFY

Sincere, Good-Natured And Loveably Bumbling

DONALD DUCK

Impatient, Irascible And Hard To Understand

These signs are located in Disney California Adventure and can currently be seen where Carthay Circle Theatre is being built. Don't you just love the personality they add to the construction walls? We sure can't wait until the big Buena Vista Street reveal on June 15th. But we will probably miss these guys when they're gone.

Which is your favorite classic character? Leave a comment. We'd love to know!

Happy Wordless Wednesday!