We visited Disney California Adventure to see their Christmas decorations. Not as many as Disneyland, but some. We also ate a lot of churros.

No line for the tram from Pixar Pals parking structure; a much more pleasant experience than the Toy Story parking lot:

Tram selfie:

DCA Christmas tree in daylight:

DCA had six special holiday churros around the park, so we decided to sample all of them:

Starting with the carrot cake churro:

Cannoli churro; we ordered one, but they (intentionally) gave us two — a little Disney magic:

Jenn had a craving for Mickey waffles:

Guardians of the Galaxy skit:

Loki:

Captain America:

Strawberry basil churro:

Cars Land Christmas:

We were waiting for another churro when the neon lights came on in Cars Land:

Apple pie churro:

More festival food:

Yet more food:

Fresas con crema churro:

Jenn got a Christmas necklace:

Firefly lights:

Fluffernutter churro:

Christmas tree:

We went back to Disneyland after New Zealand, to see their Christmas decorations.

We accidentally went to the Toy Story parking lot, which we regretted, due to the very long and slowly moving line for the shuttle bus:

An hour later, arriving at the entrance:

Christmas tree:

Main Street and castle with Christmas decorations:

Dinner with holiday stuff:

It’s a Small World:

We wanted to take a train ride, but they announced that it’d be stopping for fireworks, so didn’t:

Dessert:

Fake snow:

Christmas Mickey:

Back to the parking lot:

We popped back into Disneyland a couple of days later, after visiting DCA, just to do the train ride:

Christmas tree from train station:

On the train:

After Disneyland, we crossed over to Disney California Adventure with Halloween decorations.

We hadn’t done the Bakery Tour before, so did it this time:

We also noticed a NPS-style Ornament Valley sign we hadn’t seen before:

Grizzly Peak:

Waterfall:

Watching people on the Grizzy Peak ride:

Halloween decorations:

We went to Magic Key Terrace for dinner:

Cars Land neon:

We visited Disneyland with Halloween and 70th anniversary celebration decorations.

Train station:

Marching band:

Daisy Duck:

Trolly:

Goofy:

A selfie in front of the castle:

We did the Pirates ride:

Lunch:

Jungle Cruise ride:

Falcon:

Chewy:

Castle:

Jenn’s teacup giggles:

Fire engine:

Disneyland had an “interactive park experience” called “Key to Disneyland”, where you buy a big plastic key, go around several locations in the park, and stick the key into keyholes, to unlock lights on the key, and ultimately unlock a secret compartment on the key, with a special collectable pin inside. Jenn loves collecting things, so was keen to do it:

The unlocked special pin:

Disneyland 70th anniversary: