Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Disneyland, Baby!

After a long 10 hour drive, complete with an overnight stop in Vegas, we finally arrived at the Happiest Place on Earth. It also felt like the Hottest Place on Earth. It was in the mid nineties the first day we were there.



We headed back to Toontown, caught Minnie outside her house, and quickly learned that Jackson was scared of the characters. Didn't help that Minnie tried to chase him down. He's not in the picture because he was busy having a fit.



Jeremy rode a few rides with us, since he was leaving the next day with Grandpa Bob to go scuba diving at Catalina Island.



While they were gone, my mom and I did a few more days at Disneyland with the kids.



Hayley loved all the characters. She saw Mickey dressed as Steamboat Willie, Aviator Minnie, Goofy, Pluto, Tigger, Winnie the Pooh, Aurora, Rapunzel from Tangled, Tiana, Ariel, Jasmine, Fairies Iridessa and Tinker Bell, Mickey's bear Duffy, Woody and the Green Army Man, Gepetto, and Mary Poppins and Bert. And we saw Snoopy, Charlie, and Lucy at Knott's Berry Farm.



After a few more days, Jackson also warmed up to the whole vacation idea, including the characters. At least, as long as he was sleeping or someone was holding him.



Jeremy and Robert got back from Catalina and joined us for a few more days at the parks. It was so nice to have the grandparents with us and be able to go on a few rides together with Jeremy.



Plus, Jeremy got to see Jackson's change of heart regarding his Disney friends. Goofy was the last one we saw on our last day, and Jackson couldn't get enough. He kept flicking Goofy's whiskers and laughing like it was the funniest thing ever.



As fun as our trip was, it was still so nice to get home and back to our own beds and back to normal life. And for those of you who are wondering if we ended up with annual passes this trip, the answer is sadly no. Because I thought my family would appreciate being able to buy groceries when we got back home. I know. Some people's priorities, right? :) There's always next year!

P.S. There's way more pictures. Scroll down to the bottom of the blog for a slide show of them coming soon!

2 comments:

  1. i am so jealous that you get to go so often... you live the life i dream of! ;)

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