It's another mammoth day at Disneyland post! Wednesday was another day at Disneyland! (We bought 4 days, but not the park hopper style ones, just one park per day. It ended up being cheaper for us to do it that way, rather than buy 3 day park hopper passes for everyone.)
We waltzed into the park and found a Princess right away! I really wanted to see more characters and get pictures, so that was a priority for this day! It would be our last day in Disneyland! :(
While we stood in line to see Minnie, Josh and the boys went to see Pluto! The actual rides hadn't opened yet, so we took our time seeing a couple characters.
Then we were OFF to Hyper Space Mountain! Josh ran to get fast passes for something else, and barely made it in time to go into the building! We really didn't know what to expect with this ride, but we had heard squeals and screams coming from the ride, so we knew it would be cool! There really was barely a line, so it was our turn within minutes!
The ride was INSANE!!!! It basically felt like we were in a Star Wars movie! There were spaceships blowing up around us! Lasers were shooting in the sky! It was amazing! And it's SO dark!
Matterhorn!
Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters
Then we went to visit Tinkerbell! (a setting on my camera was off for about 30 minutes, so these are a little washed out looking...)
We visited Toon Town!
It's really too bad these were washed out - but documented melt down by Bella. The kids really did such a good job at being happy and not complaining, but there were a few good melt downs. :)
This one was a fast, tiny roller coaster in Toon Town - Gadget's Go Coaster.
We got Fast Passes to Hyper Space Mountain so we could do it again!
Ariel! It cracks me up how into character these Princesses are! My girls are *almost* too old for the pretend-ness of the Princesses. Ariel asked if the girls were all sisters, and then she went on and on about her sisters down under the sea. Kaley just kept looking over at me, with her "I think I'm older than I really am" eyes. I could almost hear her saying, "Does this girl not realize she is just playing pretend?" Ha! Pretty cute!
For food this day, we packed out lunch and dinner into the park! I wanted to have the $$ we had for the day to go toward TREATS! We loved this stroller that we borrowed from the Wises! It saved us! I could tote around ANYTHING I wanted, and the kids could ditch their jackets when it got warm!
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad again! We love this one!!!!
We did Splash Mountain a little later in the day because the line was super short, and why not?! We got SOAKED!!! I loved this pic so much that I bought it! I will upload all my other pictures at the end of Disneyland posts, and the real one of this one will be on there!
Shall we take a closer look?
We watched Mickey's Soundsational Parade! We only saw a couple minutes of this one the first day, so I really wanted to watch it! I am a sucker for parades!
Don't worry, I fix the setting problem in a few minutes. These two! They sat just behind me on the fence and chatted and pointed at anything and everything that came in the parade! I just adore that I have these cute twins! Their friendship sure is something special!
Everytime I looked back there, Sophie had her mouth open and was gabbing to Jace about something or another.
And then, I would see Jace tap Soph and point out something funny and then say something funny about it. These two!
Waving to the characters! THIS is what I wanted to see at Disneyland!!! Melted my mother-heart! I wanted to build up our family friendships, make incredible memories and just BE together! This was it!
We got into pressed pennies!
At the Disneyland Forever show that night, I lost it! We watched the same performance/firework show that we saw Monday night, but this time it felt different. AND, during Elsa's song.... IT SNOWED!!!! They made it snow! My mind was blown! It was pure MAGIC!!!! I just started crying! I had teared up during every show since the start of the trip, but this one was special! I think it was the day! We were all just enjoying being with each other, and minus a couple melt downs, we were happy!
We went to Hero HQ before the Paint the Night parade.
We met Thor... Oh what a guy! Kaley, again, just thought this was silly that this guy does this for work. I have to agree with her, but this Thor was good. Accent, beard, - it was crazy! He was no Hemsworth, but good enough.
I saved us a spot for the parade, and Josh took the kids on the teacups! I took a few pictures!
Then Josh sat on the blanket while I took the older 3 and got Mickey Bengiets.
We found some souvenirs before we left and rode the bus back to the hotel! We were quite the sight everytime we got on and off the bus - pack up the stroller and carry everything on the bus!
Exhausted again after a long day of fun!
