Sunday, October 4, 2009

Disneyland Vacation

Seriously, I took over 150 pictures of our trip to Disneyland, so I've tried to put only a few of my favorites on my blog. It was such a great trip! The boys did awesome on the long drive there and back and the weather was perfect! We started our trip on Friday and drove to Las Vegas to stay with Julie and Craig Clemens for the night. It was so good to see them again. Thanks so much for letting us hang out with your family! Your awesome!
Disneyland
Then it was on to Disneyland. We stayed at a hotel about a block and a half away so we could walk to the park.
My kids are at a really fun age to take to Disneyland. Luckily, Mason is a tall 3 year old and he could ride just about everything, even Space Mountain. This is the picture they take of you while you are on the ride. They put in some scary stuff for Halloween. My boys would only ride it once, and that was enough for them. But look at Mason in the front! He loved it all!
Main street was decorated for Halloween. It was really cute!
They have this really cool thing in Tomorrow Land called "Jedi Training." Max got picked to go up and they teach them how to use a light saber. Then Darth Vader comes out and the kids get to practice their Jedi moves. Max was awesome and totally defeated the Dark Side!
California Adventure Park
We love the California Adventure park. This was the first time my sister had been there and she loved it even more than Disneyland. We ran into Lightning McQueen!
We got soaking wet on the Grizzly River Run!
Love the 3D movie "It's tough to be a bug"
They have emptied out all the water around the big wheel and roller coaster to put in a new light and water show. It should be done by summer of 2010 and looks like it is going to be awesome! They are also building a Little Mermaid ride (2011) and a whole Cars area (2012).
The longest line we had to wait in was for the Toy Story ride (about 45 minutes). It is a 3D interactive ride where you play video games throughout the ride. Pretty clever.
This is my favorite ride of all "The Hollywood Tower of Terror!" This picture says it all of how each of us liked it. Mitchel HATES it, Max isn't so sure, and Mason was smiling away. I could ride this a hundred times! I love it!
The Beach
We ended our vacation with a day and night at Sunset beach. It was perfect until we had been there for a few hours and Mike cut his toe on something in the ocean (or something bit him. We're not quite sure) Then his toe was throbbing in pain and we thought we might have to take him to instacare or something. We ended up just putting Neosporin and a band aid on it and hoped it would get better. But that kind of shortened our beach fun.
So that was our Disneyland vacation in a nutshell. We had a great time and for the most part, everyone got along really well. I'm glad that Aunt Tracy was with us. It's nice to have a 1 to1 ratio with the kids. Thanks to Grandma Miller and Grandma Harker for taking care of Miles for us while we were gone. Our plan is to go again when Miles is old enough to ride everything like Mason did this time (probably 2012 when the Cars land opens). Until then, we'll have 150 pictures to remind us of all the fun we had!

5 comments:

Emily said...

Oh to have gone with you! Disneyland at Halloween is the best! And how lucky to have the grandma's watch little Miles while you non-baby vacation, love the little ones, but trips with them can be tricky. Glad to hear and see that you have a great time...like I every thought you wouldn't!

DottieLou said...

looks like you had a great time ...

Stephanie said...

What great pictures!
The Mickey-o-lantern is so fun! And the Tower of Terror photo really shows just what everyone is feeling!
The ocean photo is beautiful - sorry Mike got hurt, though. So glad you had a wonderful trip. We loved tending Miles, who is just a JOY!
MOM

Tracy said...

Thanks for making memories together! Love you and your family! Your boys are sunshine to me!

Steve & Brenda said...

Great pics you guys...we want to go next time! Tower of Terror made Steve cry worse than a little baby on our honeymoon.