Anyhow we landed at LA airport at 8o'clock in the morning.Since we had a lot of time in our hand we decided to take public transport to disneyland which was our destination for the day (the 16$ ticket to disneyland from airport seeemed expensive to us considering our flights costed us only 100$ round trip).So equipped with the maps of LA metro transit system and exploratory skills good enough to make even Vasco da Gama shy, we navigated our way and reached Anaheim (where we believed disneyland was) by 10am. But we were in for a shock, when we asked for directions to disneyland at the station.We had reached Anaheim in Long Beach whereas we were supposed to be at Anaheim in orange county.After convincing ourselves that even Vasco da Gama would have made this mistake and cursing who-so-ever names these places, we took another bus to "Anaheim in orange county" and finally managed to reach Disneyland by noon:-).
Being in disneyland was like taking a trip down memory lane and being a kid all over again. Meeting and taking pics with disney characters ( Sally of monsters inc fame, Mini, Alladin) may sound kiddish but we literallly ran after all of them for those pics:-). We saw the making of toy story, went to the haunted house and bugz land and tried out a few roller coaster rides (the kinds I had only seen in TV so far). Fantasyland, true to its name , had rides with special effects based on all time favorite 
stories of Sleeping beauty, Snow white , Pinnochio and Alice in wonderland. The frontierland had adventures of Tarzen, Indiana Jones etc. The disney live show and street parties were exciting. However, the best part of the day was the submarine ride where we were made to sit inside the submarine and the submarine travelled in the water portarying the story of finding nemo in the water around us : it was amazing. In the evening we checked into our hotel, had dinner at Dennys and came back to see the fireworks. The fireworks were were breathtaking .Well after buying a few souvenirs and still enchanted by the days experience ,we finally retired to our room at midnight.The next day
,although we had decided to get up and leave by 8am, we reached the Universal Studios (Hollywood) by noon (after yet another "LA darshan trip" through Beach boulevard, Knotsberry farm, downtown LA, Newalk, Long beach, Westminster, Compton, Artesia, Imperial, Wellington).And the first thing we wanted to do was to see the Shrek 4-D movie, Shrek being one of the favorite animation characters of both of us.We also managed to get a pic with Shrek and the Lion of Madagaskar fame(dont remember its name).We then went for Studio tour. We were shown some of the studios and sets used in making Universal movies. There were automated sets for scenes with floods, rains, earthquakes : one moment there is an earthquake and everything collapses and the next moment its up again and things like that.It was interesting.We then went for Simpson's ride, the best at universal studios.It was not a real ride but they create an illusion where you are speeding up and fallling down , fighting the rivals and coming out alive : Amazing feeling :-).We then went to Jurassic park set, special effects show and the animal show. We were getting late for our flight in the evening so we quickly bought a few souvenirs and rushed back to the the airport. We reached the airport at 745 for 820 flight. Things were not smooth even after that but thats a different story. We were captivated under the spell of fantasyland and we didnot want anyone or anything to pull us out of it......
,although we had decided to get up and leave by 8am, we reached the Universal Studios (Hollywood) by noon (after yet another "LA darshan trip" through Beach boulevard, Knotsberry farm, downtown LA, Newalk, Long beach, Westminster, Compton, Artesia, Imperial, Wellington).And the first thing we wanted to do was to see the Shrek 4-D movie, Shrek being one of the favorite animation characters of both of us.We also managed to get a pic with Shrek and the Lion of Madagaskar fame(dont remember its name).We then went for Studio tour. We were shown some of the studios and sets used in making Universal movies. There were automated sets for scenes with floods, rains, earthquakes : one moment there is an earthquake and everything collapses and the next moment its up again and things like that.It was interesting.We then went for Simpson's ride, the best at universal studios.It was not a real ride but they create an illusion where you are speeding up and fallling down , fighting the rivals and coming out alive : Amazing feeling :-).We then went to Jurassic park set, special effects show and the animal show. We were getting late for our flight in the evening so we quickly bought a few souvenirs and rushed back to the the airport. We reached the airport at 745 for 820 flight. Things were not smooth even after that but thats a different story. We were captivated under the spell of fantasyland and we didnot want anyone or anything to pull us out of it......