Disneyland Part 3

Day Two

The new Cars Land is in California Adventures. Charles happened to bump into a coworker on our first day at Disneyland and she told him about getting a Fastpass to the new Cars ride. She said we needed to get there as soon as they open or all the passes will be gone within the first half hour.  She was right.  We went straight to the Fastpass line when the gates opened and waited for 20 minutes.  When our tickets printed they were for 5:45 that night. The rest of the passes were gone 10 minutes later. Since the kids have more fun at Disneyland, we decided to just wait in the line for Cars anyway, so we could finish CA Adventures and get back to Disneyland.

Charles took the big kids to wait in line and bring back a stroller pass while I took the little ones to ride the rides in A Bug's Life.

When Charles and the boys got back, it was mine and Bradley's turn to ride the Cars ride.  It was awesome!  All of Cars Land was really neat.  Bradley kind of chickened out right before we got on the ride and I had to force him on.

He was not happy about that.  But it was worth it... to me. :)

Then we split up again to ride Soarin' Over California.  It will be nice when Brynnlee is big enough to ride so we don't have to spilt up so much.

Probably my favorite thing about taking the kids to Disneyland is that for almost the entire day, the kids do not fight.  Jaden is actually laughing in this picture... I know it might be hard to tell.

Brynnlee had just taken a fall and scraped up her face, but she was just as happy as the rest of them.

Giving Brynnlee lovin'.

"Back off punks!"

We made it back to Disneyland just in time for lunch.

The kids have their favorites so we pretty much just rode those over and over.  We still have not made it to Tom Sawyer's Island.  Maybe next time... again.

On our last day there, we finally talked Kaleb into doing Splash Mountain.  He would ride only if I held on to him really really tight.

But only once.

Hm.  I guess I forgot to hold on to him.  Whoops.  Oh well. He survived. He actually liked the Matterhorn better than Splash Mountain.  I do not.  I won Rock-Paper-Scissors with Charles to sit that one out.

Then back to Tomorrowland...

It was sad that Space Mountain was closed.  Oh well.  The boys LOVE Star Tours.  While we were waiting in line for Star Tours, it broke down and we spent a lot of time on the floor playing "Bubble gum, bubble gum in a dish..."

We were the last ones to get to ride before they closed it up for the night for repairs.

For the last hour, we split up again.  This time Charles went with Bradley to Splash Mountain where they got to stay on the ride and ride it 4 times in a row.  That gave Bradley a grand total of TEN times on Splash Mountain this trip.

I went with Kaleb and Brynnlee and Jaden to ride Mr. Toad's Wild Ride over and over. Kaleb wanted a picture with his new buddy.

Brynnlee wanted a turn to drive.

We ended our fun on the caraousel.

After the park closed we ordered pizza on our way out and had it delivered almost as soon as we got back to the hotel.  Now that's the way to go. :)