Our 3 Day Disneyland/California Adventure Itinerary!

In case you're wondering- Here is the full list of rides and experiences we did during our 3 days at Disneyland/California Adventures (1/3, 1/5 and 1/6- the week after the holidays and everyone is still on winter break, but before decorations were taken down- it was BUSY!)

(LL indicates that we booked a lightning lane on Genie+)

(Disneyland Holiday decorations are the best!)

I would say, especially considering the circumstances, we did it all! (Or at least everything that our group wanted to!) I was really happy with what we were able to accomplish in our time there, and that the kids all survived 14+ hour days. Our group consisted of 4 kids (7, 8, 11, 11), myself, and my kid's friend's mother, so 6 of us total! I felt that we made really good use of our Genie+ services, booking lightning lanes efficiently and right when they became available again! We were able to book 7-8 lightning lanes each day, mostly for rides that would typically require a longer wait, so that definitely was a bonus, and we didn't pay more for Individual Lightning Lanes for Rise of the Resistance or Cars.

Day 1- Disneyland- purchased Genie+ once we scanned into the parks

Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance

Smugglers Run

Indiana Jones LL

Space Mountain LL

Star Tours LL

Lunch (lunchables/salad brought from home), ate at the tables by Autopia

Autopia LL

Jungle Cruise

Pirates of the Carribean

Tiki room (with Dole Whip of course!)

Big Thunder Mountain Railroad LL

It's a Small World

Mad Hatters Tea Cups

Dumbo (While an adult saved front row spots for the parade by Alice in Wonderland)

Christmas Fantasy Parade

Red Rose Tavern (mobile ordered towards the end of the parade)

Roger Rabbit LL

Chip 'n Dale Gadget Coaster

Minnie and Minnie Runaway Railway 

Finding Nemo Submarine

(Unused Buzz Light Year Astroblasters lightning lane- too tired)

(Unused Matterhorn lightning lane- too late)

Fireworks show canceled due to winds

Day 2- California Adventures- Purchased Genie+ after we scanned into the parks

Radiator Springs Racers

Grizzly river run LL

Incredicoaster LL 

Pixar Pal Around (Boys went on this one)

   Girls went on these rides while boys were at the Ferris Wheel:

Jumping Jellyfish

   Symphony Swings 

   Golden Zephyr

Soarin Over the World LL

Avengers Assemble show (while eating lunch at Pym's Test Kitchen)

Webslingers (caught it right as they reopened- got lucky!)

Mickey’s Philharmagic show

Holiday Toy Drummer Entertainment (sacrificed animation academy, we were in line and everyone decided not to do it and we heard the drumming come from down the street)

Mater Jingle Jamboree 

Guardians of the Galaxy LL

Viva Navidad street party

Goofy Sky School LL

Symphony Swings (Everyone- 2nd time for the girls)

Toy Story Midway Mania

Goofy Sky School LL (Cx Monsters inc LL allowed for Goofy Sky School Trade)

Webslingers (single rider- boys wanted to do it again)

(Little Mermaid unused LL- ate dinner from various places while holding spots for world of color instead)

World of Color- front row spots in the splash zone! But we had ponchos, and actually didn't get wet at all. Don't forget to join the virtual queue right at 12:00!

Day 3- Disneyland- No Genie+ today, we already did everything we wanted to! Everything. was bonus today!

Monorail- we walked from our hotel to Downtown Disney and took the monorail straight into Tomorrowland! It was nice to do security at Downtown Disney where it was much less crowded, and not have to go through the regular ticketing line at the gate!)

Matterhorn 2x (We went once, and they needed to make cart adjustments when we were waiting to get off so they asked if we wanted to do it again after without getting out! Of course we said yes)

Haunted Mansion (the other mom went while I was with the kids on Matterhorn)

Big Thunder Mountain Railroad

Smugglers Run- the kids wanted to try different jobs! 

Indiana Jones- girls

Buzz Light Year Astro Blasters- boys

Space Mountain

Lunch at Hungry Bear

Davey Crocket Canoe Ride (2 in our party went, the rest took an extended lunch)

Tom Sawyer Island- Kids played hide and seek here for like an hour!

Tale of the Lion King Show

Autopia

Dinner at Bengal BBQ

Sleeping Beauty Castle walk through

Sleeping beauty castle light show

Monorail to go back to Downtown Disney (and walk back to the hotel where our car was parked)

Fireworks (as we walked back to hotel- it was a great view!)