Living the dream....still

Since I don't want to leave you hanging on the last few days of our vacation...here is some more of what we did while we were living the dream.

Back to Disneyland the day two of our two day pass. We intended to get there as the park opened, but we were to ty-ty to get up with 6 am rolled around. We ended up showing up at Disneyland two hours after it opened at 10am (sorry Charlie, I know this is unacceptable).

While we were driving to the park there were all kinds of signs saying, “Disneyland is very busy, expect delays.” Because we inadvertently planned our vacation over both UEA and Gay Days, we were nervous that it would be crowed, and from the signs, it looked like our fears would be a reality.

When we got into the park, there were defiantly more people there, but the lines were almost non-existent. We only waited 15 minutes to see Tinkerbell where we waited hours on Wednesday to see the princesses.

We went in the haunted mansion, toured Sleeping beauty’s castle, rode Pooh’s ride then headed over to a Bug’s Land and all over California Adventure.



We met up with my brothers families and went on Sorin over California together. That was a highlight for me.

This is what it looked like when we met up. 23 in our group, mostly little kids. Tons of strollers.

We spent some time together and went to the adventure trail and met Brother Bear. Sunny loved seeing them and had tons of fun with them. She asked this one to marry her.

We ate what was left of our snacks and headed over to stake out some prime real estate for parade viewing. We saw the Pixar Play Parade again where we ended up sitting next to a trash can. The guy on the other side of the trash can who heard us bragging about our spot next to the garbage, said I prefer to emphasize the proximity to the waterfall. It was funny.

After the play parade, we headed to the Street Party Parade at Disneyland. We found a really great spot and staked it out. Then we noticed my brothers family’s across the way and in true grass-is-greener form, we moved over there, only to move a third fourth and fifth time, again because the grass seemed so much greener in these other locations. We finally backed our selves literally into a corner and missed the parade completely. Frustrating.

The park got so crowded in the evening. I mean it was litterly packed. Shoulder to shoulder. We tried to get out of the crowd, but we never could shake it after the parade.

We rode a few more things, the Nemo Subs and the tea-cups and Small world. Then we headed over to the lake to watch Fantasmic. It was literally standing room only and our kids were completely off their rockers and this point. We stuck it out for the show though. Steve assured me that it would be worth it.



I held Sunny who was beside herself waiting in a crowd for the show to start. Once the show started she was better and it was one of the most amazing things I have ever seen and I could only see about 40 percent of what was happening. They really should follow the short people in the front rule there. It was still cool though.

After that, we had to get SAM HILL out of there. We were DONE! (Sorry Charlie) Problem though, the streets were packed with people waiting for fireworks. Since we had already seen them, we were so not interested in seeing them again, especially since they made Alyssa cry.

We followed the traffic controllers who were directing people who wanted the SAM HILL OUT to file back stage and out of the park. So we got a tour of what Disneyland looks like backstage. Jealous? Would you like to know what it looks like? It’s disgusting, and smells like trash. It was cool to see the difference. Alyssa started to cry because we told her she could pick out a prize before we left and she could clearly tell she was no longer in Disneyland anymore and did not get her promised prize.

We re-entered what we all know as Disneyland at the front of the park, right by a gift shop where Alyssa got to pick her prize. Do you know what she picked….out of everything in the whole store….a two dollar key chain with princesses on it. Really?!? A keychain? Alrighty then.

With that, we headed back to the car where on the tram back to the parking lot Alyssa told us she was NOT TIRED and had not seen anything and wanted to ride more rides. Crazy kid.

Once in the car she promptly fell asleep and did not wake up till morning. She slept through all the transfers and clothes changes. So she most defiantly was tired and had ridden EVERYTHING, several times.