Chapter 4
I Recognize That Tree

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(Originally posted September 20, 2012)

Grauman’s Chinese Theatre looks exactly like The Great Movie Ride except grander.

It’s so funny seeing the original after the replica. Obviously, our number one reason for going to the theatre was to check out the hand/footprints outside. One of the first ones we stumbled across was Ducky Nash (aka Donald Duck).

Some of the other coolest ones included Meryl Streep.

Julie Andrews

Jimmy Stewart

Tom Hanks

Tracy put her feet next to those of Judy Garland. Tracy is short, but her feet still dwarfed Judy’s.

Such cool detailing on this theatre. Like the El Capitan, I’d love to see a movie here.

I liked how Roy Rogers’ footprints included those of his horse Trigger.

After doing one big loop around the whole forecourt, we were sad that we hadn’t found the foot/wand-prints of the Harry Potter actors. We Googled and pulled up a map that plotted out all of the footprints and found where they were supposed to be. Finally, we found it.

Having briefly seen all that we came to see, we took a final look at the majestic theatre.

Next we moved along toward the Kodak Theatre, marveling at how dense this street was and how thoroughly they must have to shut it down when playing host to the Oscars.

Having seen several Hollywood landmarks—while only scratching the surface of everything L.A. has to offer—we decided that it was getting to be time to move along. Anaheim was calling our name, so we loaded back into the car, hopped on “the 5,” and started driving south toward the home of the happiest place on earth.

Of course, we hit plenty of traffic on the way there, and the sun started to set as we got close.

I wasn’t prepared to see this sign because I had no idea where we were, but apparently we had almost made it there!

Despite not having as definitive of property as WDW, when we saw this sign, we knew we had basically arrived.

We followed the signs toward Paradise Pier.

And there it was, welcoming us to our new home for the next five nights.

It was just getting dark when we pulled in.

We had made it to Disneyland!

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