The Happiest Place on Earth

Well I know you've all been dying to see how our family trip to Disneyland was, and I have tons to post yet I can't quite seem to find the time to post everything. So I decided I'd just do short tributes to each day. Not really in order but enough so you could get the gist of it all.
First of all we broke the trip up a bit by driving to vegas and staying the night there then moving on to Anaheim. The one thing I gathered from the trip was that driving that long with a two year old boy is torture after 3 hours. But we won't focus on that because there was too much good to focus on. Our first day at Disneyland the kids were so excited to see all of their favorite characters and to ride as many rides as they could. We got to Disneyland just a little after 9 and I was amazed at how many people were there. We went before the busy season hit and still there were a TON of people there. But the lines weren't too long and the temperature was beautiful nothing over 72 and nothing below 65, making the trip just that much more enjoyable.


The first character we saw when we got into the park was Minnie Mouse! The girls were so excited and Will even liked her too!

The one super annoying thing I HATED at Disneyland was the proffessional photographers who took the pictures and then handed you the photopass so you could go buy their 24 dollar pictures that you just took with your own camera. Sometimes the photographers would be in my way and the kids had a hard time focusing on which camera to look at. But the kids were happy to see the characters and to get their autographs in their little books.

Will loved pluto and didn't want to leave him when it was time to go. There were a whole bunch of other characters standing around but we decided we wanted to split to the rides. Which was a good decision we walked right on to the Buzz LightYear ride which was one of Will's favorite rides of the whole trip. The pictures I took of that ride didn't really turn out but Will was enthralled to say the least.

All of the big rides Lizzie, Me and Jeremy were able to go on but Will and Abby only had a selected amount of rides they could ride. But thankfully Disneyland has Fast Pass and Parent Passes so Jeremy or I would take Lizzie on the ride and then as soon as we got off Jeremy or I would take Lizzie again on the ride so Lizzie was able to ride every ride at least twice.

We rode as many rides as we could the first day and packed in a picnic lunch each day. We didn't worry too much about seeing all of the park because we had a three day pass and we tried to pace ourselves as much as possible. When Jeremy and Lizzie would go on a ride there was usually a character close by or a carosel so I would take Will and Abby to see the characters or ride the merry-go-rounds. The first day the longest we waited in line was to ride the Dumbo ride and that was a 30 minute wait. It still amazes me that we would wait in lines for 20,30,40 minutes for a ride that lasted just a couple of minutes. But the kids were pretty good waiting in line.

My favorite line we stood in was for the Who Framed Roger Rabbit ride as we stood there Will was acting up when a Deep Scary Voice came from behind a door with scary monster eyes and Scary furry Monster Feet. Will screamed for a solid 5 seconds and then jumped 3 feet into my arms and would not let go of me. The ride isn't a scary ride just a silly ride but Will was so scared that deep voice would come back he was frozen in place to me. He didn't fidgit, try to run around, or hit anyone or anything. It was incredibley pleasant standing in line and he loosened up once he saw that we would be riding in cars that we could drive.

Well we went and ate dinner at Downtown Disney after nearly a full 12 hours in Disneyland. The kids were a little cranky but we ate at the Rainforest Cafe which is a really entertaining pace to eat.......that is if you're awake enough to enjoy it...