Disneyland

Of course Cinderella is all of our favorite!










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OK SO over Christmas vacation we spent almost 2 weeks in Disneyland between traveling and vacationing there.
I have been horrible at taking pictures lately--( does the last 2 years or so mean lately?)
SO I have children armed with cameras during our trip and although I do not have everyone's downloaded I have quite a few.
Bryce was very good about keeping his Camera ..SO was Jeri in fact but hers kept running out of batteries...not sure the problem but none the less an issue.
SO to tell you what we did.....Hmmmm is was so long ago haha.
We spent 3 days in Disneyland. 1 day universal studios. 1 day at the Sandiego zoo, 1 day at Sea world and we spent a couple days shoppinga dn we went to a movie.
SO to start with I would like to say that spending the extra money to go at Christams time is worth every penny! The last time we took our family was spring time and Disneyland at Christmas time is very magical. First off the fireworks are everynight along with Christmas carols, followed by created snow..if that isn't magical enough, they change all of their rides..to christmas themes (well not all of them but alot of them) I love " It's a small world" it was so beautiful inside and all the dolls were decorated for Christmas and they were all singing christmas carols in their native languages and they would have christmas type smells wafting through the air.
There is so much to see and so --and I am so thankful we spent our first 2 days in disneyland earlier in the week because the closer it got to Christmas the busier it was..so we actually got to complete everything in 2 days without long lines.
There is so much to talk about that we loved..First off if anyone goes to California adventures--it is a must to go to "Turtle Talk" with Crush ..it is hilarious! HE actually asked me a question.
We stopped at a show on that side I can't remember what it was called but something about animations and Preston was selected to go up on stage and because of that he got to meet Woody and get a sketched drawing of him and have him sign it.....Also we stopped by The BRother Bear show and once again Preston was called up on stage to help them with the show...so that was a big hit!






We also ate Dinner at Ariel's Grotto when we visited California adventures. It was a themed dinner ..Princess' of course. That was yummy and very expensive however, if you bought the vouchers on-line it saved us over 150$. During our whole dinner many of the princess came by to visit us...so you are really paying for the visits. We didn't do much eating at Disneyland because it is so very expensive there to get anything...so we packed lunches and made that our big meal.


Everything at Disney is really a racket. YOu have to stand in -line to meet princess now in a special location they don't have princess just raoming out and about like the other charachters. When you have a 5 year old girl who has a big part of her life centered around The Princess' ( the other part is Veggie Tales) and she has to stand in a line for 90 minutes to meet them it is a travesty!
Also Clarissa saw all of these little girls with princess hair do's and beautiful face painting...she was harrassing me the whole time to get it done herself. (mind you they have this everywhere , Zoo, universal ect.) I finally waited until the last day when we would meet the princess'.
IF I were to give her the whole treatment it would have been over 300$...I am in shock that parents would pay that for a little girl for one day????
Instead I told her she could get the face painting...and she had to spend under 20$. Good greif!


But all in all --if you go to enjoy all of the attractions and none of the extras..it is very worth it and we know how to get through things pretty easily.
The Christmas parades ..once again Magical..all of my kids were in awe..didn't want to leave afterwards ...if Disneyland was open all night ..I think we would have stayed and forfeited sleep. Rob, Jeri, and Clarissa were the only ones complaining about walking and being tired..the boys and I could go forever.
So this will be installment ONE of our vacation.



I love this ones because until recently (with the help of Speech therapy) SHe always referred to Sleeping Beauty as "Sweeping Doody." awe..How cute.