California Trip: Disneyland

We actually got to spend TONS of time at Disneyland and do so much stuff (so much more than we thought we would!). We spent all day, aside from a couple of hours, at the park on Tuesday and Wednesday and then the first half of the day on Thursday.

Our tickets allowed us to go to early openings of the park (which is only an hour earlier) but it made it nice! We had to be up, ready, have eaten breakfast, and on the shuttle by about 7:30 to be there at 8. We got there a little after 8 and headed right to Fantasy Land where we thought no one would be! Wrong! Everyone was there!

Steve and Hadley about to ride Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. She was so cute!
Steve and Jesse ran to get fast passes for some of the other big rides so Becca and I took the kids on some of the other smaller rides in Fantasy Land. This is right before the Tea Cups started- during the ride Luke, Livi, and Max were laughing and having a ball. Hadley looked a bit green and like she was going to be sick :)

We all were able to literally walk right on the Pirates of the Carribean, which was one of Hadley's favorites by far. She couldn't even look away to take a picture!

Look at those gorgeous big blue eyes!

Snack time while we waited for dad and Jesse to get off Indiana Jones! Seriously fast passes and rider switch passes are AMAZING! The longest I waited in 3 days was probably 15 minutes (and that was one time without a fast pass).

Another of Hadley's favorite 'It's a Small World.'

Petting the goats while waiting for our Fast Pass time on Thunder Mountain Railroad.

Each day about 2 or 3 Becca and I took the young kids back to the hotel for a quick nap. We went to dinner early and then back until about 9 or 10 each night. All the kids did great but I was grateful for Hadley to have even a short 1 hour nap :) Please don't ask what Steve is doing in this picture... I was mad when I saw it!

Taking turns watching kids while everyone rode Space Mountain.

This is after a looooooooong day and Hadley was a bit tired...

They didn't offer an early opening on Wednesday so we had to wait with everyone else for the park to open. Ok, this is a bit embarassing for the human race. You'd think people were starving and racing around for food- not for a theme park.

Wednesday we spent most of the day at California Adventure. Hadley got a little tuckered out early and took about an hour nap in her stroller- yay!

Getting ready for the Bug's Life show...

Hadley makes friends everywhere she goes. She was following this little girl all around the cave.

Wednesday night on the Casey Jr. Track train. She loved that one too!

After riding a couple of rides we all headed to Disneyland Main St. for ice cream (which my friends said we HAD to get). Well worth the money!!

Then we all wanted to ride the Monarail around the park to see it all lit up at night. We long story short, we got on the train in Tomorrowland and the train broke down half way through the ride. We had to get pulled back to the Downtown Disney station by some tractor and then walk!! We had left our strollers all the way across the park! Do you know how fun it is to walk all the way across Disneyland with 25 lb. babies at 9 o'clock at night- not my idea of a good time!

Hadley and Max playing while we waited for the train to move.

Terrible family picture (I look pregnant, but I'm not :)). And sadly we didn't get a picture of all of us! Everytime we passed this spot we were either in a hurry to get in or in a hurry to get out because of tired babies...

Thursday morning the kids played with the water ball while we waited for our turn on Space Mountain.

I was really worried about taking a little 1 year-old to Disneyland but it couldn't have turned out any better! She loved every minute and was soooooooooo good! Steve had never been either and he was just like a little kid... so fun to watch both of them enjoy this trip! Can't wait to go back!!