Alvin's California Adventure

My week in California compressed into an awesome 6 minute clip! I had over 2 hours of footage, and it took me forever to make.

Here's what basically happened in California... I was with my grandparents, and brothers Alfred and Jesse.

DAY 1: Disneyland! Checked out a few of the classic rides and shows. The fireworks were incredible!

DAY 2: San Diego Zoo! Saw all the animals (Poor little fellahs locked up all their life. At least they're happy. Just dont' tell them what they're missing out on in the wild!) After the zoo, we caught the AMTRAK train and took a 2-hour ride back to our hotel. The scenery was awesome! I wish my camera hadn't died, I'd definitely have added more to this clip!

DAY 3: Disney's California Adventure! This was an awesome day, full of exciting rides such as the Hollywood Tower of Terror, and the Super Screamer roller coaster! Dude, I'll admit this was my first time on a roller coaster and I kept wanting to go to that one again. At night we watched the Electric Parade, an awesome display of lights and disney characters!

DAY 4: Knott's Berry Farm. This was the first Theme Park in America, used to attract folks to buy berries and other goods from the Knott family's farm. I didn't buy no jelly, but the rides were the greatest by far! The wooden tracked Ghost Rider, 3.5 G-force Silver bullet, The Supreme Scream where they lift you 30 stories up, and drop you! The sweetest was the Xcelerator, which accelerates from 0 to 80 mph in 2.3 seconds, and launches you up for the sheerest, steepest drop I've EVER seen! The rides were the highlights of the day, but there were also some neat shows like a cowboy stunt show and mexican dancing.

DAY 5: No footage of the fifth day. It was a day to relax. We watch Pirates of the Carribean 2 and went shopping at the Block at Orange Shopping Center.

DAY 6: Disneyland (again) where we went to the old and classic rides like Pirates of the Carribean (YOHO Homes!) and the scariest ride ever... I mean, I went Knott's Berry Farm and rode the Xcelerator... but NOTHING compares to this. My bros and I wanted to throw up afterwards... "It's A Small World After All!" Ahhhahaha! Yeah that song was stuck in my head so long, and I dreamed of little puppet children dancing everywhere!
DAY 7 (Final Day): Universal Studios! THIS is what I was waiting for. We went to Hollywood and saw all these famous movie sets, including the airplane crash scene from "War of the Worlds" (Incredible film by the way) On our tour, all sorts of things tried to kill us. Like a giant monkey, a shark, dinosaurs, and flocks of voracious scarrab beetles! Got to watch Fear Factor Live and learned about special effects in movies. It was so much fun, but sadly, we didn't even have time to see HALF the park! That's okay... more inspiration to go again some time!

Hope y'all have fun watching, cuz the video took me HOURS to make, even if it's so short. Like most of my clips, it's fun, fast paced and with many shots.

MUSIC:
Al Jolson's "California, Here I Come!"
J-Kool's "Celebration"
Disney's "It's a Small World"

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[CrazyAbe101]

dude thats sooo cool!!!! i live in california and i havent gone to the san diego zoo! :/ lol

but yeahh ive been to all of those places.

you missed out on the revenge of the mummy the ride!

[Alvinfranco]

Thanks a bunch! The zoo was neat, though we didn't get to visit it in depth... We rode atop buses and gondolas for the most part. Haha, Quantity over Quality in our limited amount of time. I'm sure it's much better up close, and personal.

And actually we DID go to Revenge of the Mummy! I loved it, I just couldn't film it. :)

[CrazyAbe101]

thats sooo cool!! you should come here again!!

yeahh revenge of the mummy is my favorite ride there! and jurrasic park too!

[Alvinfranco]

It's a close one, but I go for Jurassic Park, cuz that gigantic drop at the very end.

The mummy was really fun and fast, but mostly incredible for their special effects and details... I HATED waiting over an hour for both of them, but at least there were things to look around at in the line for Mummy's Revenge! ;)

[tonathaman]

i wanna go to calli XD

[SugarCraveMedia]

Cool vid! I LOVE Cali ! I am moving there next year!!!!

[omgzJENNA]

@fendiwendee people complain about reality. SO GHETTO,

[poofacfac]

tower of terror is probably he greatest ride ever.....not that scary but still AWESOME

[entrailsgalore]

I live in So Cal and I've never seen Dumbo here...ever...wtf?

[fendiwendee]

i don't know why people complain so much about California.

Just look how much fun it is.

[Joshua212th]

good times good times

[youtuye]

nice vid.

[SWApilot94]

i'll be marching in the rose bowl parade next year in 09, im kinda scared, its 5.5 miles long

[emokidX1992]

xcelorator actually ISN'T the steepest coaster IVE seen(maybe that you've seen) but the tallest steepest fastest sheerest coaster i've seen is Kingda Ka

[LezzieC]

the super screamer as your first roller coaster? Man! I wish I'd be that brave when I went on the ring of fire and the zipper! I was flipped upside down but I always held onto it. And all rides were safe why would companies inest millions of $ on rdes that families can sue them the same amount of money back?