Guess Where We Went?!?!

DISNEYLAND!!!! This past weekend, my wonderful sister and brother-in-law hooked us up with the most fabulous deal. Dave's niece is working at Disneyland for a semester while she attends their business school and was able to get us FREE passes for a day into both Disneyland AND Disney California! Neither Papa Vaughn or I had been in over 12 years and never together so we were almost more excited than the kids. Especially since the kids really had no idea what to expect, they just knew that they were going to get to go to Mickey Mouse's house. So, off we went! Papa's great aunt & uncle put us up for the night, Friday and Saturday. They live 15 minutes from Disneyland and they spoiled us with breakfast!

Disney California had a neat Brother Bear obstacle course the kids enjoyed.

Waiting for the Pixar parade in Disney California.

Hey, look - it's Lightning McQueen!!

I was pleasantly surprised at the food options and loved the cute little Mickey Mouse plates the kids meals came in. Yes, I even brought them home!

Big Boy & Papa rode the rocket in Disney California.

I thought Boopy was too small for the ride. She wasn't impressed and stood there pouting. It was seriously, the funniest thing ever.

She perked up when we found out she could go on the ride, so Guya, Papa, Big Boy and Boopy all rode together.

Trying to pull out the sword in Disneyland.

Meeting the characters was one of the highlights of the day. We found Minnie first.

Then we found Goofy, who was acting rather goofy! The kids managed to get his autograph.

Then, my crazy daughter, the ham and flirt that she is, literally stole Goofy away! She grabbed his hand and pulled him from the crowd! Another little girl grabbed his other hand and off they went! It was so funny. She could care less that she was leaving us behind. She had found Goofy and all was right with the world.

As fun as Mickey was, he couldn't compared to Goofy in Boopy's eyes!

We found Aladdin walking around Main Street.

Later, Minnie had put on her Halloween costume and gave the kids another hug.

Of course, my sweet Big Boy fell in love with this big train in a toy shop. He even asked to have his picture taken with it!

All in all a wonderful day! Next time we'll try for 3 days or so as 1 just wasn't enough to see it all. We did do our best though and made it to Pirates of the Caribbean and the Haunted Mansion, which Boopy wasn't scared of at all and Big Boy was only a little scared, but ended up loving them both. They both made it all day without attitude and no nap. Big Boy did fall asleep for a short while after dinner, but perked up in Tomorrow Land in order to ride Star Tours. Both kids and Papa now all have light sabers! Big Boy even got to build his own! Other than all that, we didn't make it to a lot of rides, just got a great glimpse of everything.

We all loved it and can't wait to go back!