Hi! I am Georgina Monster. My cousin George, works at Monsters Incorporated. Over the next 2 months, I am going to be travelling with my human friend Katherine to 10 different states in the United States of America, visiting Disneyland, Seattle, Denver, Bozeman, Grand Rapids, Huntsville, Baltimore, New York City, Orlando, Atlanta, and Los Angeles. I have borrowed Katherine’s blog to document our adventure together.
Day 1 September 23, 2023
Today my human Katherine and I flew from Sydney Australia, to Los Angeles California, USA. The flight took 14 hours. I slept the whole way, but Katherine was not able to sleep at all so she watched Moana, Cars, and listened to her favourite podcast Attraction Checklist so that she can plan what attractions we were going to visit in Disneyland.
We arrived at 6 oclock in the morning on the same day we left because we flew over the international date line. Once we got to the hotel, which is opposite Disneyland park, Katherine went to visit Downtown Disney district, while I looked after the bags at the hotel. From our hotel room, we can see Space Mountain in Disneyland.
Here is a video of what the Space Mountain attraction is like on the inside. It is a rollercoaster where all you can see are stars. Warning: this ride video has lots of flashing lights.
Day 2 September 24, 2023
Today, we went to Disney’s California Adventure (DCA) which is the Disney theme park opposite to the original Disneyland. Both parks are decorated to celebrate Halloween, and DCA’s entrance has a figure of Oogie Boogie from the movie Nightmare before Christmas.
First thing we did was go on a trip on the Red Car Trolley from the entrance to the park to the end of Hollywood Land. After the trip on the trolley car, we went to the Animation Hall and took a drawing class on how to draw Pluto.
After the class, Katherine and I went on the Monsters Inc ride. I got recognised by the CDA for the sock on my back!
We then went back to the Animation Hall and took another drawing class on how to draw Scar from the Lion King since the park is celebrating all the villains during Halloweentime. In the Animation Hall building is another room called the Sorcerer’s Workshop where you can learn more about how animations are lots of drawings moving very quickly in front of your eyes. They had spinning pictures showing Mickey Mouse, and if you spun it really fast, Mickey would start moving!
Walking out of Hollywood Land, Katherine and I encountered the Headless Horseman statue and when Katherine waved her Magicband near the statue, it started making noise!
Near the Headless Horseman, was the Mickey and Walt statue, so we had to have our picture taken there together.
We kept walking down the main path, and found a fun picture spot at the entrance of Cars Land that had a funny pun on Happy Haul-o-ween. It was late in the afternoon, so it was time to go back to the hotel, but on the way back, we encountered Goofy and had our picture taken with him!
Tomorrow, we are off to Disneyland!
Georgina Monster