I chose California Adventure for the egg hunt because I thought it would be less crowded on a Sunday morning than Disneyland. It opened one hour later than Disneyland and I thought being Sunday morning, despite being one of the spring break weeks this month, might be best. I was somewhat right in the fact that the park wasn't too crowded from about 9am-11am, but when we left around 12pm-1pm-ish, it was starting to get pretty crowded.
To do the egg hunt, you need to purchase a egg hunt map from one of the stores in the park that you're hunting in. We went to Elias and Co. and purchased the map for $5.99 (minus a pass holder discount). Normally I think you are supposed to hunt for all the eggs and then return the map back to the store to get your prize (an egg of your choosing), but the lady was nice and asked if we wanted our prize early, so Mason picked out his egg right then (Nemo - you may see it in some of the pictures). We got our map and we were on our way!
I should have taken a better "before" picture, but the map had all the locations of the eggs that you were looking for. Not specific locations, so you still had to look, but general areas. Like one was by Carthay Circle, one was on the boardwalk, one was at the Corn Dog Castle, etc. If they didn't give you some sort of hint, you would literally be searching FOR.EV.ER. The eggs were actually a lot smaller than I thought they would be so we missed the first couple at first since I was expecting huge eggs and we thought they were playing a trick and didn't actually put them out. Then I found the first one and saw how small they were and realized we must just not have been looking hard enough. Ha! We were also given a sticker sheet with 12 character eggs on them which you were supposed to put on the map in the corresponding area that you found your egg. For example, you put the Lightning McQueen sticker egg on the Carsland egg on the map to show you found Lightning in Carsland.
As we hunted for eggs, we stopped to go on a couple rides and take some pictures. Disneyland has AMAZING walls so of course we had to stop for some photo opportunities along the way.
Hollywood Land
Hollywood Land
Hollywood Land
Hollywood Land
big doors between A Bug's Land and Carsland
outside Luigi's Rollickin' Roadsters ride in Carsland
across from Flo's V8 Cafe - between the Cozy Cone Motel and Luigi's Rollickin' Roadsters
across from Flo's V8 Cafe and Luigi's Rollickin' Roadsters
Carsland - Radiator Springs Racers in the background
Carsland - Radiator Springs Racers in the background
walking out of Carsland to the Pacific Wharf
big doors between Carsland and the Pacific Wharf
Minnie egg on the Pacific Wharf
riding the carousel on the Paradise Pier
Paradise Pier
Redwood Creek Challenge Trail
Annnnnnd our egg hunt is complete!!!! We were actually going to skip these last two (Chip and Dale - one not pictured, not sure who is who lol!) because they were inside the Redwood Creek Challenge Trail, but we decided to head over anyway and give it a shot. If we didn't see them, we'd add the stickers and call it a day. THANKFULLY some amazing employees stopped us on the way in and said that the eggs were right up front and we could almost see both from right where we were standing. I guess the trail closes before the park and people do the egg hunt all day long, so they made sure the eggs were easily accessible all hours during the day. SCORE! We found both super easily and added both stickers to our chart and we were done!!
Redwood Creek Challenge Trail
Honestly, the egg hunt was a little harder than I thought it would be (it challenged Seth and I! We really had to look for some of them!) but it was also so much fun!! I'd totally do the Disneyland one next year if we still have passes! Mason had a BLAST and LOVED finding the eggs himself. Sometimes Seth and I would find them first and we'd kind of show him where they were and he'd yell "PLUTO!!!!! Mommy! The Pluto egg is right there!" or we'd go into a store (they hid some in stores - genius Disney move) and he'd even find it before Seth and I would. Seriously it was fun for all ages.
If you live near Disneyland or DisneyWorld or happen to be in the area during an egg hunt time, I would definitely recommend it.
Happy Almost Easter!
