Wookey's Return to Disneyland

Disneyland
Pure joy, pure exhilaration and pure fun. These are just some of the emotions when you visit the place that lays claim to being the happiest place on Earth. The Disney Corporation excel themselves in being able to ensure the magic kingdom is just that. From the moment you arrive, the sense of excited anticipation flows through the lucky crowd who arrived for the Magic Morning and are strolling down the magnificently reproduced Main Street USA representing memories of Walt's home town. Everyone is polite in Disneyland as everyone wants to maintain that shared experience of a perfect day. When people do break the rules due to being over excited, not to cheat the system, the staff are professionally firm and polite to ensure the Utopian experience is sustained for all.
And that is what the Disneyland experience is about: the thrill of the rides, the courteous store attendants, and the significantly improved cafes and restaraunts which is now just another reason to keep coming back. The attention to detail is supreme.
The only tears are when you know the mystical adventure must end and the smiles will wane a little, but Disney have once again created wonderful and wondrous memories that have rekindled my love for the little mouse with big ears and his comical pals.
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California Adventure
Day 2 and Disney Theme park take 2. Well not quite. The thrill rides are quite spectacular (California Screamin' lives up to it's name and the the Hollywood Tower of Terror is a literally jaw dropping). There is however,an overall sense that the park is still struggling with trying to define it's identity.
The staff are still professional and extremely courteous and helpful and the park is immaculately clean and runs as smoothly as a Vaseline slide. However, it doesn't have the same magic as Disneyland which is partly to do with the more adolescent to adult appeal of the park (alcohol is sold at the eateries here, but no one appeared to take it to excess). Of course, it would not make sense to put another Disneyland next door to the original; that would be theme park suicide.
I guess the noticeable difference is the 'all for yourself' attitude of the patrons. The politeness and consideration of the previous days guests has been replaced by selfish pushing and indiscriminate '1st world' whining from both adults and kids.
However, it is still a fun day with many enjoyable experiences to be had including the 3D Toy Story arcade ride, Goofy's flying school, the drenching grizzly bear river run; no bears though :-( and the broadway style Aladin production where Geanie steals the show.
To cap the day off, I highly recommend booking dinner at the Wine Country Trattoria which includes priority tickets to the World of Colour' spectacular. This high tech water, light and laser show draws on the Disney movies since The Lion King and showcases them in a visual and aural sensory delight.
Unfortunately, it all came to a grand finale too quickly leaving both of us starry eyed ... or maybe that was the effect of the lights from the Mickey's Paradise Pier Ferris Wheel reflecting of our tears of joy knowing our Disney adventure had come go to an end.