Public Transportation to the Rose Bowl?

[Morrigoon]

So here's the skinny: I'll be at the NYE party in Long Beach, next morning, I need to make my way up to the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.

I have a couple options:

I can drive up, meet up with my dad somewhere in downtown Burbank, park my car, and ride in with him. (I'm thinking of trying to talk him into the LA Zoo parking lot as a good meeting spot, since Burbank sounds like added difficulty/expense)

or,

I can figure out how to leave my car in Long Beach, take the rail lines up (blue line to gold line, presumably) to either a)the Rose Bowl itself, or b) meeting up with my dad somewhere where he can easily pick me up to make it to the Bowl.

Advice?