Our California Adventure - Disneyland!

Easily my personal favorite day, although I don't think anyone else would agree with me!  We were Disneyland newbies!  We've never been to California as a family.  Wes and I had only visited Disneyland once each when we were kids.  The only time I had been there was when I was 16 and picking up my brother from his mission. Sound familiar??  Kind of ironic.  My brother served in the San Bernardino mission and part of his mission is now part of Colton's.  In fact my brother served in Pomona also.  Anyway, when I went to Disneyland, all of Fantasyland was closed.  All I wanted to do was ride the teacups and I didn't get to.  So it's been on my bucket list ever since to ride the teacups at Disneyland!  And they were open this time!  Hooray!!  Wes has a very hard time with crowds and lines and lots of people.  If he didn't make it to heaven, he thinks Disneyland would pretty much be his version of you-know-where!  But he knew that I was excited so he made every effort to just go along with it and be in a good mood.  He was a very good sport all day long!  The kids had fun and even though they're old kids, they enjoyed riding the rides and seeing the things they have heard about.

Here we are!!

So happy to be standing in our first line.  Not.

But we are excited!!

First stop - Space Mountain!  One of our faves!

Next stop - TEACUPS!  Wes took a bajillion pictures of us.

Still standing in line, but excited!

Yay!  Here we are!  My dream come true!!

We were so squished in that teacup.

But we did get the pretty blue one I had been eyeing.

Whee!  So fun.

Pirates was another family favorite.

This is what Colton looked like most of the time that we were in line.

And this is how Wes looked in line.

Star Tours, we liked this one a lot, except it made Wes a bit queasy.

Clint found a new friend in Frontierland.

Wes liked all the artifacts in the Big Thunder line.

Kori was so excited for Nemo!  It was the longest line we stood in all day, but it was a cute ride.

Inside the sub!

Okay, so this is the start of the silly pictures.  We were waiting for our dinner.  We had been waiting for quite a long time and we were feeling a little punchy by this time.  So that explains this next series of goofy shots.

 

In this photo, our true feelings about Disneyland come out!  Ha ha!!

On the shuttle back to the car.  A little dazed and spent.

Quotes from Disneyland:

1. "We're at Disneyworld, I'm sick of your mouth!"  We heard a mom yell this at her little toddler.  It was at the beginning of the day too!  That poor kid.  But it became a running joke between us all day.

2. Mom: "This is why we didn't bring you when you were little."  See Quote #1

3. Wes:  "Take a picture of me standing in line, heh heh."

4. Kori: "There's Rapunzel, yay!"  We were a little disappointed that there weren't more characters hanging around.  Read: There were hardly any characters all day long.  But Kori did catch  Rapunzel as she was ducking out of Fantasyland.

5. Mom: "Family vacations with adult children are so nice."  See Quote #1