Cali Day 2

Today was a fun busy day! We started out our day eating breakfast in our hotel, Paige had a cheese omelet, Matt had Fruit Loops and Yogurt, I had a mini bagel, some bacon and sausage and a mini doughnut. It was a really good breakfast, we were impressed.

We got our tickets to Disney and went to California Adventure. We rode Soaring Over California first then headed over to the Merry-Go-Round. There was no line at the Roller Coaster so Doug took a quick trip on it, while I got on the Carosel......Lucky us no one else was riding so they told us we could stay on. Three rides later we pulled a very sad Paige off the ride.



Next stop was Toy Story Mania and the Mickey Ferris wheel. I really enjoyed both of these. We continued around the circle and hit the Jelly Fish ride and The golden Zephyr where Matt told us he was feeling too dizzy. This is the first time we have ever heard one of our kids complain about motion sickness. After that I took Paige on Mulholland Madness. I thought she would be so scared, but she came off sobbing because she wanted to stay on it. I told her it was a lot like my driving and she got a big kick out of that.

Next stop, Bug's Land. We hit the bumper cars and Heimlich's Chew Chew Train. Again, the line was non-existent so lucky me got to ride three times in a row. We were very lucky with lines today.





We decided we were ready to sit for a few minutes and we to see It's tough to be a bug. All I can say to that is...... What were we thinking. The kids did really good until we put on the 3-D glasses and they started throwing things at us and spraying water that they called acid at us. Then the spiders with red eyes came down from the ceiling and Matt's )who had been crying the whole time) screamed bloody murder, and I got up with him and left. (Paige was about 30 seconds behind with Doug) Hmmmm, maybe next time they will see the fun in that.

We spent a little more time in California Adventure, then headed over to Disneyland where you'll never guess....we rode the Merry-go-round with the horses, then the Jungle Cruise. We stopped into a magic store where they showed us a really cool trick that Doug is going to buy, hopefully he can master that trick, it will be a great one for the kids.

Lunch at the Rain Forest Cafe came next. By this time Matt was ready for bed, but we wanted to feed him first. Yet another big mistake. The thunder and lightening in the cafe freaked him out. We ended up taking the food to go and eating in our hotel room. Then it was nap time (blessed nap time)

Doug and Paige took off a few hours later and I woke up Matt and told him we could go to Toon Town when he was ready. We had some fun walking around there, but I forgot my camera so we will have to go back to get pictures another day. We hit it's a small world, rode the train, Pooh's Ride and tried Pirates (although Matt didn't want to go into "Davey Jones Locker" and so we sat that one out. Paige had freaked out on this ride last year, but this year she sang the whole ride through Yo Ho Yo Ho a pirates life for me. Matt and I got a Dole Whip while we waited. For how much I had heard about them, they weren't that great.

We decided to call it a night then, picked up so glowing things that the kids had to have, and now have settled into the hotel room for the night. Will blog more tomorrow.



I am so beat, I am going to need a vacation from the vacation when these 4 days are over, but it's lots of fun and the memories we are making are awesome!