DISNEYLAND WAS AMAZING!!!

I can't say enough about how great it was. It was so nice to have a small little group and to focus on what the girls were most interested in doing. Since brevity is never my specialty, here's list of memorable events:

pretending to be princesses while spying on the little ones at Princess Faire--where's Miss Sunshine when you need her?
Getting to go on Tower of Terror with my mom
the amazing, amazing trees, flowers and foliage in each different "land" and how they added to that theme
walking past Captain Jack Sparrow (mom swore it was the real Johnny Depp)
feeding ducks at the best spot for dinner by the "river" near twilight
StarGirl driving me in a car on Autotopia (I pressed the gas for her the whole time)
a pirate update to Tom Sawyer's Island
The Sorcerer's workshop
Pirates of the Carribean 4 times
Fantasmic
and Alladin.

Even though we've been to Disneyland several times, theres always some little new gem we discover. This year it was Talking With Crush, Hot Chocolate on Main Street and my favorite, the California Grand Hotel attached to California Adventure.

We went to Talking With Crush twice and he picked StarGirls to talk to BOTH TIMES! In the morning he wanted to talk to StarGirl's mom. . .that's me. . .so through the magic of Disney I have had a real conversation with a live animated character. "So, how many little ones do you have, Becky?" "Five," I said. Crush replied, "DUDE. . .You're just getting STARTED!!" His response was refreshingly different than most people's! Apparently Crush has 65 little ones (he named them all!) and has been married to his girl Shelly (from Hawaii) for 130 years (me only 13) but it feels like the it's still first 75 because they're so in love. And what has he learned about women in 130 years of marriage? NOTHING, dude!" Cha, Crush was way cute and very funny.



When it was cold the second night there but we weren't quite ready to call it a night we left California adventure at 10:00 p.m. to go back to Main Street for Hot Cocoa. The shopping on Main Street is so fun so we relaxed there a bit before going one last time on Pirates of the Carribean (quick! Everyone's still watching Fantastmic so there's no line).


And I totally fell in love with the California Grand Hotel. After the girls took me on California Screaming (Whooaaaa, that was not a fun ride for me people. I was literally trying to hide the tears of pain and waves of nausea after I got off that one. I didn't want the girls to think I was a total dud mom! And I'd even taken 3 tylenol's in line before I got on to prevent my old car accident head aches from coming on. Didn't work.) Anyway, after that they said I'd been such a good sport that I got to pick anything I wanted for us to do next. I said, "Do you see this beautiful hotel right here? I really want to go see its lobby. That will be even more fun than California Screamin for your mom" They were surprised but joined us on our walk to explore the hotel and when we entered the Lobby I thought it was so beautiful my jaw dropped open! I guess I wasn't expecting such a gorgeous high ceiling. So I'm dreamin and scheming of how I can stay there on a "Date Trip" with Handsome sans children. Would I really go to Disneyland and leave my kids at home? I'll consider it. This pic turned out kinda dark and grainy, but I'll show it anyway.


And did I mention that the whole reason we went was for the girls to perform over there? It was a blast! They did great and it was a nice to take a break from walking in the afternoon.


So it was GREAT! I highly recommend using Ride Max to get your day off to a good start. We followed the optimzation softwares plan for the first 3 hours of the day and then worked out our own in the afternoons, but still never stood in line for more than 15 minutes. . .(except to Find Nemo!) Thanks for joining us mom!