It was up in the air and the day we were going to go kept changing, but we knew we wanted the weather and lack of crowds found in February so we were running out of chances. We were set to head over Friday after school, but due to the weather forcast we decided Wednesday morning we would go that night, stay in a hotel, do Disneyland all day Thursday (9am-11pm) and then just drive home all night Thursday to avoid another hotel stay and get the kids to school Friday(I will tell you how that plan went later). We made blankets for Project Linus for the "give a day, get a day" program that Disney was offereing this year. I have been wanting to go for a while now since I had never even ridden the Indiana Jones ride (due to my pregnant state the last time we went) and this looked like the only chance we would have to go in the near future so we took it! We totally did it on the cheap (ie eating peanut butter sandwiches, bringing our own drinks, not buying souvenirs, etc) but the kids still loved it!
{Imagine that}
Waiting for
Finding Nemo Submarines
Here are the kids on
Autopia
(This was the picture Scott got of his car- Emmy was mad because she just lost paper rock scissors to Macey for who got to drive twice, but Tate sure is loving driving)
The Circus Train
(because Tate insisted we were going to Disneyland for a train ride)
This is Scott irritated we are on the train ride...
It's a Small World
A classic.
They have obviously re-done it-it's much brighter and there are now Disney characters stuck in here and there, but the song has not a changed a bit!
It's a small world after all, it's a small world after all, it's a small small world!
Try and keep that out of your mind!
(now go ahead and sing it while I take you thru the ride in pictures)
It was 12:30 and the bell chimed and these little figures came out. Scott swears they have always been there but I have never seen them. Something fun while you are waiting in line.
Are you still singing?
{the weather was perfect}
TOONTOWN
Mickey was actually in his house!
Buzz Lightyear
Just nevermind the scores:)
We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves even though the Matterhorn was closed and Indiana Jones, Space Mountain and Splash Mountain kept breaking down. We rode eveything we wanted to as many times as we wanted and the most we waited was 20 MINUTES (actually the kids and Scott ended up waiting like 40 minutes for a litte ride in toon town)!
So we were all dead tired after a looong day {14hours} at Disneyland. The kids fell asleep pretty quickly and so did I. I kept waking up making sure Scott was OK. Eventually he was done and I just could not keep my eyes open to keep him awake anymore so we pulled over like the truckers and took a nap and tried to keep going, but after a little while we needed to pull over again and sleep some more.
We were sooo t i r e d.
The sun started coming up so I figured I'd be better and Scott needed to rest so he could go to work for they day. I never dozed off but my eye lids were really heavy. We made it home at about 8am and the kids were wiped out so they stayed home, but Scott still had to go to work-poor guy. I took a long nap and went to bed by 10:30 and I have NEVER fallen asleep that fast-I don't even remember my head hitting the pillow. Now, Saturday, we are feeling the effects of Disneyland jet lag.
[Claire was unable to attend this trip due to her heighth :) We will definately be ready to go back when she is tall enough to enjoy all of the rides though!]
