Well, we finally made it to Disneyland in November after last year's illness fiasco in which we went to California and spent a few days indoor due to rain and then spent the second half of the week with illness and came home without doing a thing, it was such a downer!
Well, this year we made it and it was fun (besides the major coughs we were each experiencing). We left Mikey with my sister-in-law (thanks Andrea!) and just took Tim and Allie, we highly recommend not taking a baby :)
We drove to Vegas on Monday and stayed at the Excalibur for so cheap and the kids loved staying a castle :) We walked around a bit but we got there late and the kiddos were tired. Then we drove to California and went to the beach on Tuesday. Very cold water but we went in up to our calves and still had a grand time, especially at the rocks looking for critters at low tide!
We went to Disneyland on Wednesday and hit California Adventure first. We saw some friends from Utah (Chris Fidler and Richard Sieger and wives etc) and went on a few fun rides. Then we headed to Disneyland and partied. I insisted we stay late the first night and see the parade since I knew we would be worn out at the end of day 2. We loved the parade (Allie loved seeing the princesses and Tinkerbell waved at her, it was great!)
We went to Disneyland again Thursday and met up with a buddy of Justin's from work and we went around Fantasyland with them but then we split up. Timmy was my buddy on Splash Mountain and Allie and Timmy both loved Thunder Mountain and we went 3 times. Allie was barely tall enough with her taller shoes. We went back to CA Adventure and I'm so glad we went on the flight ride, it was awesome and Justin's favorite. I even got to go on the Tower of Terror ride :) Justin was so nice to let me go on my favorite rides by myself. We left around 5:30 and ate dinner at Denny's. On Friday we packed up and stopped at the Calico Ghost town on the way home and I thought it was great! I had mentioned on the way there that I would like to see a recreated ghost town so Justin found one on the way home and took me :) He even let me go shopping for 45 minutes at a factory outlet too. He said this was my trip and indulged my whims :)
On Friday we stayed with Justin's sister Maureen and bro in law Christian for the night. We went hiking with them on Saturday morning and then drove to Wales, UT to pick up Mikey (since Jer and Andrea were there visiting my Mom and Dennis). It was so fun to get the baby back and he even said Mama several times to Andrea during the week (although he does not say it so much to me yet.)
All in all, the trip was a resounding success. The only thing that would've made it more perfect is warmer weather at the beach (but then bigger crowds at Disney, hmmm). Fun times!
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What a fun trip! So glad you weren't so sick this go around. On your next visit you'll have to come stay with us in Vegas...that is if we ever find a house!? We usually head to Cali a couple times a year and I'm sure we'll go more often now that we'll be in Vegas. We'll have to meet up and do some stuff together. One or our favorites is going to my Grandma's house (she lives right on a cliff in Malibu and her little subdivision has a private beach) to soak in the sun.
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