Disneyland!!! Day 1

Disneyland...Happiest Place on Earth, right? Well, we had a good time, and so did every other school-aged kid from California! We've been trying to go to Disneyland for months and have rescheduled the trip FOUR times. Edward's work scheduled changed a lot, and the last time we had planned to go, we had a death in the family. So, we finally got to go on Veteran's Day. We expcted the park to be crowded for Veteran's Day, but we didn't expect it to be as crowded on Friday...wrong! All of the California schools ended up being off both days, so the park was a zoo. We heard people say it was like the 4th of July. Nonetheless, we had a good time, and the kids LOVED seeing their favorite characters.

We got up and drove over Thursday morning. Disneyland is about 4.5 hrs. from our house.

The very cool thing turned out to be that the park was decorated for Christmas! We also got to see the first Christmas parade of the season.

Madison asked over and over to see Sleeping Beauty's castle, so here it is! She was delighted with it.

Our first ride turned out to be the carousel. All three kids were able to ride.

The line for the teacups was really long, so we decided to ride them first thing on Friday morning. Here, the kids are posing at the entrance to the ride.

So, we spent most of the first day looking for princesses. Madison got an autograph book and waited in line to meet the princesses. She loved it.

She was a little unsure this was Ariel since she wasn't in her tail and swimsuit costume.

We both agreed Tiana had the prettiest dress. It's hard to see from here, but the beading was really good.

Princess show

More princesses...

...and, this was how Alex enjoyed his day...walking under the line markers.

Luke had been begging to go on the "space ship ride" all day.

Alex really didn't care about the rides (or his shoes...as you can see, he kept kicking them off).

Sleeping Beauty's castle at night and decorated for Christmas

A happy boy

Beautiful Chrismas tree!

We headed off to the Embassy Suites and another day of Disneyland. We weren't at the hotel much, but apparently, Luke liked it. His preschool teachers asked him what was his favorite part about the trip, and he kept telling them the hotel. It's funny because the second night he fell asleep before we even got back to the hotel!