Well, we made a last minute decision last week to go to Disneyland for my birthday! This year Disney is letting you into Disneyland for FREE on your birthday. So, since Brielle is not yet 3, she gets in free too. And of course Stetson is free too. So, with only needing to buy a ticket for Billy and Chandler, we decided it was an opportunity we couldn't pass up. So, we took off Friday morning. We arrived Friday around 3 o'clock at our hotel (courtesy of Mom and Dad...Thanks so Much!). We let the kids go swimming (pics to come) and went to dinner. The next morning we were off to Disneyland just in time for it to open. We all got special pins to wear since it was my birthday! My pin had my name on it, and all the employees wished me Happy Birthday all day long (the most Birthday wishes I've ever had). We were amazed to find that the park wasn't crowded (surprising for a Saturday), but within about 2-3 hours we had already riden about 15 rides. It was great! We had so much fun! The whole park was all decked out for Christmas which was really beautiful. The Haunted Mansion had a whole Christmas theme with much of Nightmare Before Christmas characters...so cool...totally different story than normal. The It's a Small World Ride was also decked out in Christmas and along with singing "It's a Small World", they also sang "Jingle Bells"! It was really cool and exciting to see the park how I'd never seen it before. The kids had so much fun and they were so fun to watch their excitement! Brielle especially loved meeting some of the princesses, and it was priceless to watch her interact with them. I don't know which ride was her favorite, but she did ask to go on Pirates of the Caribbean again! Chandler hated Indiana Jones, but enjoyed Splash Mountain and The Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. He was too scared to ride Space Mountain. Stetson was so good the whole time. We lost his pacifier half way through the day, but he was amazingly good. The lines were short and we were very pleased with the day! We had so much fun and are so glad we went. We were in the park from 8am til almost midnight...so we were dead tired. On Sunday we went to the beach for a couple hours (pics to come) and then got a little lost afterward which made for a late start to get home. We got home just before midnight Sunday night. It was a short trip, but we had so much fun!
Chandler and Brielle in front of Tinkerbell's car!
Chandler on Main Street U.S.A.
Draft Horse on Main Street
Brielle and Chandler in front of Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse Statue!
Brielle and Chandler in front of Sleeping Beauty's Castle
Inside It's a Small World!
It's a Small World
Brielle and Snow White
Our Family and Snow White!
The kids and Snow White!
Brielle and Cinderella!
The kids and Cinderella!
The Family and Cinderella!
Brielle and Minnie Mouse!
Brielle and Chandler with Goofy!
Sleeping Stetson!
Brielle and Chandler with Mickey Mouse!
Brielle, Billy, and Chandler on Dumbo!
One of Santa's Reindeer!
Sleeping Beauty's Castle at Night with Christmas Lights!
7 comments:
Well look at you go! That's awesome. Way to be adventureous!
How fun! Happy Birthday! We went there for our honeymoon right at Christmas time too it was great! I love this time of year!
Looks like you had an awesome B-Day. I miss Disneyland. Glad you could make the trip.
What a perfect way to spend your birthday!! I'm so glad you were able to go and especially that you felt WELL enough to go! Great pictures and Happy belated birthday cousin!
How fun! I can't wait to take Livvy. Happy late Birthday, hun!
Happy late bday! I want to go to Dland so bad.
Love the pictures of Brielle with the princesses! So cute! Glad your B-day was so AWESOME!
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