Day One

Our original plan was to spend our first day in California at the beach. After all, we were only like 30 minutes away from the Pacific Ocean. But we got to our hotel, directly across the street from Disneyland and the excitement and anticipation started to build. I love Disneyland. I didn't want to go to the beach--I wanted to go to Disneyland. I could see it, I could smell it, I could taste it in the air! So on Monday morning, we woke up and trotted on over there and upgraded our tickets to four day park hoppers instead of three. I'm glad we did, too--now that are kids are all tall enough to ride most of the rides (besides Lincoln, obviously), we barely had time to fit it all in!! Next time we are going all the way--FIVE DAYS, BABY!

Here are the girls wearing their 3-D bug glasses before we went into the "It's Tough to be a Bug" show. I had heard that it was somewhat frightening for young children, so I guess I should have been prepared...the girls ran screaming from the theater just when it started to get really fun. I guess we will have to try that again next time. Although, I'm not sure the girls will--they were truly terrorized. It was hilarious!



Here is the rest of the family on one of my all-time favorites--Grizzly River Run. SO FUN! Lincoln is still too small so we had to do it in shifts. We probably rode it at least eight times while we were there.
You can get pretty wet--luckily it was hot!
Lincoln loved the carousel! He had an awesome first day at Disneyland!

I'll continue with more tomorrow so as to spare your eyes from all the reading.