Cali Day 5

Today we slept in! It was nice. We hit the continental breakfast had omelets, Belgian waffles, yogurt, sausage, and cereal. MMMMM, I will miss not being able to eat such good breakfast when we get home.

We headed over to California Adventure again and each took turns picking the rides we wanted to ride. We hit Soarin, then Turtle Talk with Crush again and the Playhouse Disney Live on Stage. It was a good morning.





Headed back to Disney, met some characters, ate some lunch, and rode a few rides. Joy of Joys we talked Matt into riding Pirates and Paige into riding Haunted Mansion. I am proud of how my kids handled their fears this time. Now they think they are sooo brave.

After a trip back to the hotel where only Doug took a nap we headed back to the park, each of us got to choose one more ride to go on. Matt chose The Haunted Mansion, Paige chose Mulholland Madness, Doug chose Space Mountain, and I chose It's a Small World to end the trip.

While Doug and Paige were riding Mulholland Madness, Matt decided he wanted to try the Tower of Terror. He walked in, the smallest little guy in line, brave as can be. WE went through the boiler room line, where there was a 27 year old woman freaking out. He just walked on by, where the woman's boyfriend pointed to Matt, asked how old he was, and then told his girlfriend "Three--Twenty Seven. Three--Twenty Seven." When we got on the ride, I tried to explain what was going to happen. He just sat there all serious and didn't say a word. Throughout the ride, he did move or yell, or even look scared. As we walked out of the elevator, he quietly said, "I never want to do that again." When Paige saw us after the ride, she asked me, "Mom? Did you pee your pants?" I had to answer honestly, "Just a little." I never want to go on that ride again either.

We tried some new treats at the park. We tried the Cheshire Cat Tail, The Dole Whip, The Apple Pie Carmel Apple, and the bacon Wrapped Asparagus. The Carmel Apple won hands down, and opinions were mixed on the other things. I liked the Dole whip, Doug didn't, he thought the tail was okay, I didn't like it at all.

We had a group of kids check into our hotel for choir tour or something. There were only about 35 or so of them, and they were not fun to have around. Just crowed things up here at the hotel. they were well behaved and it got me thinking about how crazy we were in Florida for choir Tour and there were about 100 of us. Holy crap, I feel sorry for the people who were around us.






This has been a great trip and has been good for our family to spend so much time together doing different things. We fly home tomorrow and hopefully we will all sleep the whole way home. I don't want this vacation to end especially because it means that Doug takes off for San Fran next week. Oh well, as always it will always be good to be back home in a familiar place with familiar people.