California, Part 2- Disneyland!

My favorite part of our trip was probably the day that we took our kids to Disney! It was so fun to watch them and it really is an amazing place! Here is the whole crew....my parents, my sister and brother in law included!

Declan really liked this horse drawn fire carriage on Main Street!

Her is Delaney's first successful character meet-and-greet in her life! She has always been terrified of things like the Chick-fil-A cow but she actually liked all of the characters at Disneyland!

One thing that my kids were looking forward to was driving their own cars at Autopia! I may have hyped it up quite a bit because I remember it being one of my favorite things when I was little! Delaney couldn't see over the steering wheel and neither of the kids liked the unavoidable jerking when you didn't stay perfectly on the track but overall they still enjoyed it!

At this point, it was 93° and Declan was already getting restless with some of the lines so here he is riding on top of Gramps' shoulders waiting to ride the Nemo submarine!

I would say that Delaney's favorite ride was the It's a Small World Ride. She loved watching all of the dolls dancing and was smiling ear to ear the whole time. (On the contrary, her least favorite ride as well as Declan's was Pirates of the Caribbean. There is no picture because Jason and I were both using both of our hands to cover ears and eyes for each of the kids the entire time!)

When I see this picture (above) I think of what happened right after we left this spot. My Mom had bought Declan a Dreyers Fruit Bar and I put it in my mouth before I gave it to him and it froze to my tongue and lower lip instantly! I did my best to fight the panic as my Dad poured two water bottles over my face trying to get it unstuck. Finally I was able to PULL it off after the second full water bottle! I can't imagine what would have happened if I had given it to Declan, he probably would have hurt himself really badly when he panicked to get it off! It was so bizarre!

We had to spend some time in Toon Town even though our kids probably had no idea what it is all about! Declan liked exploring more but Delaney was a little freaked out by all the loud noises that came from everywhere on the buildings!

Of course, we also stopped by Minnie's house to say hi.

And Mickey's house too!

And now, for Delaney's absolute favorite part of the day- meeting the princesses! Also another shocking moment....Delaney just let go of Jason's hand and walked right over to them! The 3 that were there at the time were Tiana, Belle and Ariel but Delaney has always been partial to Belle! (And that employee that plays Belle should get paid well because she was really good at her job!)

And now for the most successful part of the trip for Declan! It was late, we had been there for almost 11 hours by now and we still wanted to see the World of Color show, the kids had to be pretty worn out by now. We got into California Adventure right before they closed the park and saw this rapids ride that Declan wanted to go on with my sister and there was no wait. So everyone except me and shorty Delaney went and rode it and Declan absolutely LOVED it! They got off and got right back in line to do it again! The day could not have ended better!