California

I'm a little slow in getting this posted but life has been busy. (When is it not?) Anyway, since we're leaving on a spring break trip in two days, I thought I should try and get my last trip blogged about before I was two trips behind.

My brother, W, got married in February, and since we really wanted to be there and California is a long way from New York and plane tickets are expensive, we decided if we were going to go, we would turn it into a family vacation, so that is what we did. The kids got their Disneyland Tickets for Christmas and on February 9th we headed out. Originally we weren't going to leave until the 10th but we had to change our plans at the last minute so that we didn't get caught in the huge snowstorm that arrived here on the 10th.


We spent three whole days in Disneyland and California Adventure and had a wonderful time. Wednesday and Thursday the park was not very busy so we rarely had to wait more than 5 minutes to ride a ride and many times we just walked right on.


Some of our favorite memories are....

P getting to meet some princesses.



P laughing her head off on her first roller coaster ride (The Go Coaster in Tune Town) and literally jumping and bouncing when she got off of the ride saying "I want to do that again." We road it three times in a row ( and again on other days.)

B and C loved Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, and P was a trooper because she didn't really like it at first but she kept riding it anyway. We road it 7 times over the three days. The highlight was when we got to ride it on it's last ride of the night before the park closed on Thursday. It was dark outside, and with our eyes being adjusted to the dark, we could see inside the tunnels better and see things that we couldn't really see during the day.

R and C road California Screamin and loved it. P wasn't tall enough to ride and B and I didn't want to go upside down, but we had fun watching them ride it.

We all tried to be brave when P wanted to ride the big tall Ferris Wheel. R and I don't really like them but since P wanted to ride it, we all went. We all decided that Ferris Wheels were not our thing so, after arriving safely back on the ground, we chose not to ride that ride a second time.

Autopia was also great fun. I loved driving here when I was a kid so after riding with B one time, the next time I drove. It wasn't that exciting to drive as an adult because, as an experienced driver, you accelerate and decelerate slowly and you steer smooth enough that you don't bump the rail. That takes all of the fun out of the ride. It was much more fun to ride while B or C drove. Their quick accelerating and decelerating and over steering made for an unpredictable and exciting ride so I always rode with one of them after that.

We enjoyed getting to see lots of characters, especially lots of our Pixar favorites while we were in California Adventure.


One of R's favorites were Andy's plastic Toy Soldiers from the Toy Story movie. They were driving around singing a marching cadence.
After three fun days in Disneyland, we got to spend Saturday with family at all of the wedding festivities. I was so busy having a good time that I didn't take very many pictures. I don't even have a good picture of my brother W and his wife C. If you want to see good pictures, you will have to check out Mom's blog.

The reception was tons of fun with some singing
lots of dancing,



Also, yummy food, and a photo booth, complete with dress up accessories. For fun, my sister L and I, dressed up our two brothers. We used to do it all of the time when we were kids.

After the reception we headed off to the beach so we could spend some extra time with my cousin and her husband, and the rest of family that was there.

Between Disneyland and the wedding and reception we have a ton of great memories. It was a wonderful trip.