Disneyland

I can't believe how long it's taken me to get around to writing this post. It's quite embarrassing, really. 

Regardless, back at the end of February, we took the girls to Disneyland for the first time. My sister and her family decided that they wanted to take JP to see the new Cars Land and so we ALL decided to go. By all, I'm talking my sister's family, my brother's family, my family, and of course, Grandma!

Before we went, we decided to purchase season passes and make the best of the fact that we live less than an hour away. My brother and his family have passes as well and Grandma decided to buy one while we were there. This took away a lot of urgency to see and do for our first trip with the girls and I think this help tremendously. I wasn't so caught up in making sure we made it to certain things or saw specific characters cause I knew we'd be back again soon. I tried to let my sister and her family do what they wanted to do so that they could see as much of the parks as they wanted in one day. 

We started off heading straight to Cars Land at California Adventure, but came across Pluto right from the start and were able to get a few pictures with him.

I thought for sure J was going to freak when we tried to get her to take pictures with the characters, but she wasn't even the slightest bit hesitant. After we saw Pluto and I saw the excitement in her eyes, I had to keep myself from crying. I could have left the park at that point and still felt like the day was tremendously successful. I feel so blessed to be able to take my girls to such an amazing place and blow their minds with so much wonderment. It truly is so rewarding and special for me as their mom. 

While JP waited to go on the main ride there, the rest of us wandered around a bit and hit up a couple rides in Bugs Land.

When we met back up with Brian (my brother in law) and JP, we made our way over to Disneyland and were headed to meet my brother and his family for lunch. We ran into Minnie on the way and then had a wonderful lunch at a Mexican restaurant (where B tried her first taste of real food - a piece of cooked carrot), and then we were off to Toon Town.

On our way, we made a pit stop at Pirates of the Carribean.  J wasn't a fan of that experience, but B sat quietly strapped to me in the Moby with her eyes wide open taking it all in.

Once we made it to Toon Town, we let the kids play for a bit, went on the Roger Rabbit ride, saw Donald and got to give him a high five, hit up the Tea Cups and then we made our way to grab some dinner before heading back into California Adventure.

On our walk back to CA Adventure, the parade was going on and I think this was probably at least the tenth time I had to fight back tears when I saw J's face light up seeing everything in the parade go right past her.

My brother and his wife, Brenda, recommended that we see the World of Color show and we got so lucky that there was a gentleman wanting to get rid of seven fast passes to see it and there were seven of us that needed them! We snagged them from him and were then able to hit up the Little Mermaid ride before the show started. Oh my, did these girls love the Little Mermaid. J still talks about it and we had to promise to go on it again the next time we went back. B went on the ride with us still strapped into the Ergo and she had her head craned practically upside down trying to see everything!
The light show was very cool, but by this point, J was toast and decided she would rather sit in the stroller and play with Dada's iPhone before she passed out. B slept in the Ergo for most of the show as well. This brought an end to our first Disneyland adventure and I think we all enjoyed ourselves thoroughly!
Till next time Mickey!