Disneyland day 2

Day 2

We had breakfast in our room, and were out of our Hotel in Vegas bright and early. We made it to California by 12:30. After a quick lunch in our hotel in Anaheim, we headed straight for the Park. It was a 20 minute walk and the kids never complaint once! They were all such troopers

We met Handy Manny as soon as we walked into California Adventure. Watching the kid’s reaction about everything around them made the long drive so worth it. It was love at first sight for them. They wanted to try every ride and were so excited when we told them that they could.

Bugs land was definitely the place to be that Sunday, very crowded, but having little ones pull you at the line faster. With the parent swap we only had to make the line once and we all four got to enjoy the attractions. The tricky part was testing the patience of the kid who got to do it second. Julia was great at letting Josh goon the rides first, Josh let’s just say he didn’t do so well at first, but after he realized that he was going to get his turn no matter what the waiting got better.

Rides seemed to be the favorite of everybody, so we spent our afternoon going from ride to ride. Even Andrew got to join us on most of them.

First attraction we went on our trip was The Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. Julia and Josh were in Heaven. They had a little show that had all of their favorite cartoons: Mickey Mouse, Little Einstein’s, Handy Manny. When we had cable Julia and Josh could spend hours watching these shows, but having gotten rid of cable 8 months ago they have been really missing them I guess, because seeing these characters so close really got them excited. The show ended with bubbles falling from the sky, what a great first starter show that was.

Within 1 hour of entering DCA we lost one of Andrew’s sandals. Couldn’t find it anywhere, I guess you are meant to lose things on trips, right?

The only downside of the day was when we approached “it’s tough to be a bug”. Julia has never seen a 3D show before, specially with all the effects that they have on this ride.

The first 5 minutes were great. She loved wearing her silly glasses, but then came the part when a spider starts shooting acorns at you and the air effects are shooting right at your face, well this was the part where we lost Julia. She started screaming, she really though those things were coming at her. She stood up from her chair and dropped to the floor so fast. She army crawled to the exit, yeap! I was laughing, sorry it was just so funny to see my girl getting scare of this silly show. I mean this is Julia we are talking about, the girl who wants to ride the biggest roller coasters and puts her hands up on the air on the scariest rides while older girls are screaming.

Little to say, that ruined our attempts to enjoy other 3D shows at the Park, but got a good laugh with her after wards. She said to me as we were escaping from the theater: “Mommy I don’t like bugs, they are not nice, especially the spider, she was trying to shoot me with those things”.

We had dinner at the house of blues. This was such a great place to eat. The food and fries were humongous and exquisite. The environment was so vibrant and uplifting.

We came back to California Adventure after dinner and finished up going on all the kid’s rides. That night I had planned for us to go see the fireworks.

At 7:30 we headed over to Disneyland. As we are walking in you can see the castle all lighted up and looking so majestic over the Park. I knew this would impress the kids and it really did.

Seeing the castle made them realize that we were in Disneyland. They both started jumping up and down, holding each other’s hands and were just so excited screaming at each other: “The castle, the castle”. It is the Castle, that castle that you see every time you watch a Disney movie. Spencer and I we so moved by their reaction. How thankful we were that night that we could afford this kind of vacation for our kids and create this memory which we will be able to always remember and cherish.

We got a spot to see the fireworks. Josh was half sleep, it was 1 hour past his bed time, but he pulled trough and enjoyed it. The cotton candy helped a lot too.

After the Asian girls stopped harassing Andrew, he was able to enjoy the show as well. Julia loved it!

We battled the crowds and got out of there at 10:15, and then we had to take the long walk back to our Hotel.