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Sunday, March 7, 2010

Disneyland and California Adventure

For Christmas my mom and dad gave us a trip to Disneyland and last week we took it!  We drove down on Sunday.  Between stopping at my parents, for bathroom breaks and lunch and then driving an average of 40 mph between vegas and Anaheim it took us 11.5 hours.  WAY too long.  But once we got there the fun began!

We spent the first day at Disneyland and the second day at California Adventure.  The first week of March is a great time to go I've decided because the longest we waited in line was 30 minutes.  Half the time fast pass wasn't even open because the lines were too short.  Me and Tracen hung out a lot since we're allowed to go on the same rides, except they thought I shouldn't go on the bumper cars and he could....I went anyway (I've been down bumpier dirt roads pregnant before)  My mom and Millie came with us too.  Tracen did a lot of crying....every time the ride ended he would cry and say "RIDE!" "AGAIN!"  Luckily for us we basically walked on to all the rides in the bugs life section over and over again. Josh even took him on the roller coaster in Toon Town.  He was crying when he got off and I thought it had scared him but Josh said he was just mad because the ride was over!


The rest of the big kids went on the big rides with Josh and my dad and Larry.  We were occasionally joined by Brynn or Jesse or Jake depending on scare factor or height issues but for the most part they all rode the big rides.

After California Adventure closed Tuesday we headed back over to Disneyland for the parade and some shopping.  The parade was really cool.  Before the parade started some people had bubble guns and were shooting bubbles everywhere.  Tracen (and all the other little kids in the park) absolutely loved it.  He ran around squealing and trying to catch bubbles.  The parade is definitely worth going to.

Tracen on the roller coaster
 
Meeting Mickey
 
Waving hi to everyone (we were making a big scene for him)
 
  
An example of "RIDE! AGAIN!"
Catching a train out of here
We had to visit Lighting and Mater of course.  "Tars" and "Tachow" are his favorite.  Luckily there was 1 kid in line in front of us
 

We had tons of fun on our trip.  Thanks mom and dad!

2 comments:

Megan Guymon said...

The "magic" of Disneyland!!! I can't believe that you all wore shorts! That makes me a little sad.

Pam from Over the Big Moon said...

Looks like a great trip! I love Disneyland!