CA Part 4 Disney Land Day Two

A good night's sleep, some donuts and fruit in our tummys, some new toys from Day 1 and we're ready for day 2.  Starting out in Adventure Land.

While Aunt Wendy kindly waiting in the long line to get the fast pass tickets for the race car ride (the line was already super long for the fast pass, let along the ride itself, way before the park opened!), we didn't wait at all to go on the fun Mater ride...

 Speed...

 Mater!

The tire ride

 Lunch at Flo's V-8-Cafe

Oh Stanley:)

The race car DJ from the movie came out with his singing / dancing crew.  The kids jumped right up and joined in, it was adorable!

 Red!

THE ride, it really was awesome!

The pictures didn't turn out but there was an adorable Disney Junior with life size puppets.  It included Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Doc McStuffins, Jake and the Neverland Pirates and Sophia- all favorite shows of the kids!

 When there's not place to rest (checked out of the hotel), this is what you do by mid-afternoon!

 Little Mermaid Ride

After a good part of the day at Adventure Land, we headed back to the Disney Land part.

The dreams that you wish will come true.... what an amazing experience!  The kids were the perfect age; big enough to go on just about anything they'd want, but young enough to truly believe:)

CA Part 3 Disney Land Day One

The best part of the trip was 2 days at Disney!  We got up early (which wasn't hard for us being on east coast time) and headed to LA with minimal traffic.  We're just waiting to go in here, little did they know what was in store:)

 First thing we did was a Minnie Character Breakfast.  Aliyah walked in and Minnie was right there, I think we were all almost in tears, the kids were beyond excited and it was just so adorable to see their reaction!

Chip played peek-a-boo with her:)

He wasn't even scared!

Time to head in!

I love this picture of Max, kinda a perfect capture of how he felt the whole day!

We saw Olaf up there.  We could have seen Anna and Elsa if we wanted to wait in line for 3 hours so we nixed that idea and saw some other princesses and a Rapunzel show instead.

The kids' favorite ride was the Star Wars one.  Max loves Star Wars and Aliyah is kind of used to having to like what he likes.  It was pretty cool, and when we had to go back on it the 2nd day it was even a little different so that was neat.

We opted for the 30min wait for Ariel, Jasmine and Mulan.  Playing with their new R2D2's while we waited...

Aliyah love Ariel (though doesn't really watch the movie).  She was so curious to know if she would have her mermaid tail on or real legs:).  Guess she had to play the true princess role!

Headed on the Pirates ride, probably should have thought about that better first...kids were terrified and it is rather life like but the boat ride is neat.

Had some lunch and watched a comedy show.

We headed to the hotel late in the afternoon to rest a little and then came back and met up with mom, Kris and Wendy.  We took the train over to Toon Town to meet the star of the place, Mickey!

You get to tour his house first...

 Then the big moment!  The kids were so excited:)

We just happen to catch the parade on our way back across the park.  It was pretty neat and finally a chance to see the other princesses...

We kept on moving after a little.  The rides were empty because of the parade.  The teacup ride sits right along the route.  It was really a special moment getting to ride the tea cups while watching the parade, very "Disney" (of course it was easier to watch as we were waiting for the ride to start/getting off, than while actually spinning:)).

Before we headed out we hit up the Buz ride.  It was neat to get to shoot the bad guys but they did scare Aliyah a little as you can tell from her face.

 An awesome first day!